The Second World War

The Second World War began in August 1939 on the edge of Manchuria and ended there exactly six years later with the Soviet invasion of northern China. The war in Europe appeared completely divorced from the war in the Pacific and China, and yet events ...

Stalin el gran organizador de derrotas

la III Internacional después de Lenin

Este libro reune los documentos que presento la Oposicion de Izquierda previa y posteriormente al VI Congreso de una Internacional Comunista ya burocratizada bajo la direccion de Stalin. Aunque no pudo ser discutido debido a la censura de la burocracia logro llegar e impactar a ...

Alla corte del governatore

feste, riti e cerimonie a Milano tra XVI e XVIII secolo

Partendo dalla trascrizione di un manoscritto conservato presso la Biblioteca Ambrosiana (Diario storico del 1716, 1717, 1718 del governo di Sua Altezza il signor principe di Lewenstein di don Carlo Celidonio ceremoniere di corte), il volume, mette in evidenza la rilevanza delle fonti cerimoniali per ...

La Francmasonería

descubierta y explicada

A history of Libya

John Wright's concise history of Libya begins in the prehistoric Sahara and concludes with the bloody overthrow of the Gadafi regime and the emergence of a 'new' Libya in 2011. After surveying the story of the central Sahara's early hunter-gatherers and its Garamantian ...

El arte de la prudencia

La Tregua de los Doce Años en la Europa de los pacificadores

El 9 de abril de 1609 se firmó en Amberes la Tregua de los Doce Años (1609-1621) que supuso un largo paréntesis en la guerra en los Países Bajos (1566-1648). Constituirá un paso decisivo en el desarrollo de un compromiso efectivo por la paz y ...

Homo Ludens

Como pone de manifiesto El otoño de la Edad Media, Johan Huizinga (1872-1945) llevó a la perfección la tarea de reconstruir las formas de vida y las pautas culturales del pasado. Con “Homo ludens”, el gran historiador holandés se propuso mostrar la insuficiencia de las ...

The Emperor and the world

exotic elements and the imaging of Middle Byzantine Imperial power, Ninth to Thirteenth Centuries C.E.

Byzantine imperial imagery is commonly perceived as a static system. In contrast to this common portrayal, this book draws attention to its openness and responsiveness to other artistic traditions. Through a close examination of significant objects and monuments created over a 350-year period, from the ...

La batalla de Muret 1213

A comienzos del siglo XIII prendió con fuerza en el sur de Francia la herejía de los cátaros albigenses, encabezada por el Conde de Tolosa, que, aunque no consta que se hubiese convertido a la herejía, sí que simpatizaba abiertamente con ellos. La expansión de ...

The Acts of the Council of Constantinople of 553

The Council of Constantinople of 553 (often called Constantinople II or the Fifth Ecumenical Council) has been described as 'by far the most problematic of all the councils', because it condemned two of the greatest biblical scholars and commentators of the patristic era - Origen and ...

El asedio de Haarlem 1572/73

Guerra de los Ochenta Años

En agosto de 1566, después de años de tensión entre Felipe II y sus súbditos neerlandeses, estalla en la práctica totalidad de los Países Bajos una virulenta revuelta iconoclasta. El movimiento comienza el 10 de agosto con el asalto al Monasterio de San Lorenzo en ...

The case of Galileo

a closed question?

The “Galileo Affair” has been the locus of various and opposing appraisals for centuries: some view it as an historical event emblematic of the obscurantism of the Catholic Church, opposed a priori to the progress of science; others consider it a tragic reciprocal misunderstanding between ...

The case of Galileo

a closed question?

The “Galileo Affair” has been the locus of various and opposing appraisals for centuries: some view it as an historical event emblematic of the obscurantism of the Catholic Church, opposed a priori to the progress of science; others consider it a tragic reciprocal misunderstanding between ...

Death and exile

the ethnic cleansing of Ottoman muslims, 1821-1922

This is the dramatic history of the deportation and death of millions of Muslims in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries from areas that have remained centres of conflict -- the Balkans, the Middle East, and what was the Soviet Union -- and shows how these conflicts ...

The lost german east

forced migration and the politics of memory, 1945-1970

A fifth of West Germany's post-1945 population consisted of ethnic German refugees expelled from Eastern Europe, a quarter of whom came from Silesia. As the richest territory lost inside Germany's interwar borders, Silesia was a leading objective for territorial revisionists, many of whom ...

The unknown eastern front

the Wehrmacht and Hitler's foreign soldiers

When Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa with his attack on the Soviet Union in June 1941, the Wehrmacht deployed 600,000 troops to the Eastern Front. Their numbers were later swelled by a range of foreign volunteers so that, at the height of World War II ...

Berlin 1961

Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the most dangerous place of earth

"A mind-shaking work of investigative history". ("Wall Street Journal"). Checkpoint Charlie, 27 October 1961. At 9pm on a damp night, the "Cold War" reaches crisis point, US and Soviet tanks face off across the East-West divide, only yards apart. One mistake, one nervous soldier, could ...

Economía política desde Estambul a Potosí

ciudades Estado, imperio y mercados en el Mediterráneo y en el Atlántico Ibérico, c. 1200-1800

En la actualidad, los economistas y los historiadores debaten sobre el papel desempeñado por las instituciones y los estados en el desarrollo económico a largo plazo durante la Época Moderna. Por lo general, se asume que únicamente en los países del Atlántico norte, el estado ...

Diccionario histórico y crítico

Tomo 1. A-AFRO

La voluminosa producción escrita de PIERRE BAYLE, parte de la cual vio la luz póstumamente, está integrada por obras de polémica –La catoliquísima Francia; Pensamientos sobre el cometa; Comentario a las palabras del Evangelio: “Obligadlos a entrar”; La cabala quimérica; Respuestas a las preguntas de ...

A history of the low countries

Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg are three relatively small countries whose contribution to Europe's economic, spiritual and artistic heritage has been immense. Their histories cannot be written in isolation from one another, or from their neighbours. In the first full historical survey of the ...