La guerra de Churchill

la historia ignorada de la Segunda Guerra Mundial

En este libro el eminente historiador militar Max Hastings presenta a Winston Churchill como nunca se había visto antes. Max Hastings, el autor de Armagedón y Némesis, nos ofrece una sorprendente reinterpretación de lo que fue la Segunda Guerra Mundial, vista desde Gran Bretaña y ...

El excursionista del planeta

Escritos de viajes

El excursionista del planeta reúne por primera vez un amplio conjunto de escritos de viaje de Lucio V. Mansilla, en los que este protagonista de la cultura y la política argentinas del siglo XIX narró sus recorridos por el mundo entre 1850 y la primera ...

Historia de Roma

Tomo II: El Imperio Romano

La Historia como reflexión para el conocimiento de la vida

El presente trabajo es una reflexión sobre la Historia a lo largo de los siglos, pero con especial atención a la sociedad y a las gentes de nuestros días en España. La ciencia histórica comprende un conocimiento retrospectivo del pasado, un entendimiento del presente y ...

Writing food history

a global perspective

The vibrant interest in food studies among both academics and amateurs has made food history an exciting field of investigation. Taking stock of three decades of groundbreaking multidisciplinary research, the book examines two broad questions: What has history contributed to the development of food studies ...

Historical redress

must we pay for the past?

This title provides an introduction to the philosophical implications of the recent surge of political and ethical interest in historical redress. Should the British Museum return the Elgin Marbles to Greece? Should settler societies in North America and Australasia compensate the aboriginal people whom they ...

Slaves tell tales

and other episodes in the politics of popular culture in Ancient Greece

Most studies of ancient Greek politics focus on formal institutions such as the political assembly and the law courts, and overlook the role that informal social practices played in the regulation of the political order. Sara Forsdyke argues, by contrast, that various forms of popular ...

Spartan warrior

735-331 B.C.

Immortalized through their exploits at the battle of Thermopylae under the legendary Leonidas, as well as countless other victories throughout the classical period, the Spartans were some of the best trained, organized and most feared warriors of the ancient world. The small state of Sparta ...

L'affirmation de la puissance romaine en judeé

De la conquête de Pompée au temps de Cicéron à l'écrasement de la révolte de Bar Kokhba sous Hadrien, la Judée est restée un sujet de préoccupation pour Rome. Il s'agissait pourtant d'un territoire relativement mineur aux confins de l'empire. II ...

Flavio Josefo

un historiador judío de la época de Jesús y los primeros cristianos

Flavio Josefo es uno de los personajes más fascinantes de la Antigüedad. Nacido en Judea, en el siglo I d.C., recibió una amplia formación tanto judía como grecorromana. Durante los años que precedieron al enfrentamiento con Roma, desplegó una intensa actividad diplomática y política ...

The sword of Rome

a biography of Marcus Claudius Marcellus

Marcellus military exploits were largely unmatched by any other aristocrat of Roman Middle Republic. As a young soldier in the First Punic War, he won a reputation for his skill in single combat. In his first consulship, he earned a triumph for defeating a Gallic ...

Astrology and magic from the medieval latin and islamic world to Renaissance Europe

theories and approaches

"Astrology and Magic from the Medieval Islamic World to Renaissance Europe" brings together ten of Paola Zambelli's papers on the subject, four of which are published in English for the first time. The papers in Part I of this volume deal with theories: the ...

Frederick The Great

a military history

Frederick the Great is one of historys most important leaders. Famed for his military successes and domestic reforms, his campaigns were a watershed in the history of Europe securing Prussias place as a continental power and inaugurating a new pattern of total war that was ...

La apertura de Europa al mundo atlántico

espacios de poder, economía marítima y circulación cultural

En torno a 1500 se inician procesos que provocan una transformación del mundo que desemboca en un desplazamiento del poder y la riqueza hacia Occidente, poniendo fin al mundo con el que las gentes de la época estaban familiarizados. El mundo que cobra cuerpo entonces ...

Contemporary Japan

history, politics, ans social change since the 1980s

The second edition of this comprehensive study of recent Japanese history now includes the author's expert assessment of the effects of the earthquake and tsunami, including the political and environmental consequences of the Fukushima reactor meltdown. * Fully updated to include a detailed assessment of ...

Home before the leaves fall

a new history of the German Invasion of 1914

The German invasion of France and Belgium in August 1914 came close to defeating the French armies, capturing Paris and ending the First World War before the autumn leaves had fallen. But the German armies failed to score the knock-out blow they had planned. The ...

Nazismo y Holocausto

reflexión y memoria

El nazismo representa un auténtico reto para el filósofo que quiere comprender y razonar sobre las acciones humanas. Una sociedad moderna y culta como la alemana es capaz de caer en las garras de un agitador de masas y crear el mayor crimen de la ...

The nazi concentration camps, 1933-1939

a documentary history

Weeks after Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933, the Nazi regime established the first concentration camps in Germany. Initially used for real and suspected political enemies, the camps increasingly came under SS control and became sites for the repression of social outsiders and German ...

Los combates de Krasny Bor

La División Azul fue organizada con voluntarios para combatir, junto con los alemanes, contra el comunismo en el Frente Oriental de la II Guerra Mundial. Esta Gran Unidad militar, mandada por cuadros de mando con experiencia y competentes y contando con tropa voluntaria motivada, escribió ...

Archibald Wavell

leadership, strategy, conflict

Archibald Wavell remains one of the great Allied commanders of the early phases of World War II. In fact, between June 1940 and June 1941, he was the only British theatre commander actively engaging Axis forces. At a time when the British Expeditionary Force had ...