A history of Modern Lebanon

This is the second updated edition of the first comprehensive history of Lebanon in the modern period. Written by a leading Lebanese scholar, and based on previously inaccessible archives, it is a fascinating and beautifully-written account of one of the world's most fabled countries ...

Africa since independence

A genuinely comparative study of the different trajectories and experiences of independent African states. This expanded, revised and updated new edition of an established text now includes the latest scholarship and features more on issues such as AIDS, urbanization, South Sudan, questions of citizenship and ...

Yamamoto Isoroku

leadership, strategy, conflict

Admiral Yamamoto Isoroku was the defining Japanese naval commander of World War II. Yamamoto's career in the Imperial Japanese Navy started in the early years of the 20th century and he saw service in the Russo-Japanese War, being wounded in the battle of Tsushima ...

Under the shadow of Napoleon

french influence on the american way of Warfare from the war of 1812 to the outbreak of WWII

The way an army thinks about and understands warfare has a tremendous impact on its organization, training, and operations. The central ideas of that understanding form a nation's way of warfare that influences decisions on and off the battlefield. From the disasters of the ...

Poverty and sickness in Modern Europe

narratives of the sick poor, 1780-1938

This title explores the experiences of the sick poor in modern Europe via an analysis of pauper narratives. This book provides a genuinely pan-European analysis of pauper narratives, focusing on the experiences of the sick poor in England, France, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg, Scotland, Spain, Sweden ...

The Second War of Italian Unification, 1859-61

The culmination of decades of nationalist aspiration and cynical Realpolitik, the Second War of Italian Unification saw Italy transformed from a patchwork of minor states dominated by the Habsburg Austrians into a unified kingdom under the Piedmontese House of Savoy. Unlike many existing accounts, which ...

Forging Napoleon's Grande Armée

motivation, military culture, and masculinity in the French Army, 1800-1808

The men who fought in Napoleon's Grande Armee built a new empire that changed the world. Remarkably, the same men raised arms during the French Revolution for liberte, egalite, and fraternite. In just over a decade, these freedom fighters, who had once struggled to ...

¿Fascismo o democracia?

campesinado y política en la crisis del liberalismo europeo, 1870-1939

Con el título “¿Fascismo o democracia? Campesinado y política en la crisis del liberalismo europeo, 1870-1939” la Editorial Universidad de Granada ha publicado un libro, obra del profesor de la UGR Francisco Cobo Romero, en el que el autor reflexiona sobre la compleja y sugestiva ...

The pursuit of the nazi mind

Hitler, Hess, and the analysts

The story of how psychoanalysis was used in the war against Nazi Germany - in the crucial quest to understand the Nazi mind. Daniel Pick brings both the skills of the historian and the trained psychoanalyst to weave together the story of clinical encounters with leading ...

A people's history of the Second World War

resistance versus empire

A People's History of the Second World War unearths the fascinating history of the war as fought 'from below'. Until now, the vast majority of historical accounts have focussed on the conflict between the Allied and Axis powers for imperialist mastery. Donny Gluckstein shows ...

Indomitable will

turning defeat into victory from Pearl Harbor to Midway

This is a unique look at how America during World War II gained strengths from early defeats such as Bataan or Corregidor. "Indomitable Will" resurrects the legacy of the first half-year of American combat during World War II - a legacy of pain, but not of ...

El Alamein

the battle that turned the tide of the Second World War

Before the Battle of El Alamein in 1942, the British had never won a major battle on land against the Germans; nor indeed had anyone else. Drawing on a remarkable array of first-hand accounts, this book reveals the personal experiences of those on the frontline ...

The rebirth of history

times of riots and uprisings

In the uprisings of the Arab world, Alain Badiou discerns echoes of the European revolutions of 1848. In both cases, the object was to overthrow despotic regimes maintained by the great powers - regimes designed to impose the will of financial oligarchies. Both events occurred after ...

The journey to Tahrir

revolution, protest, and social change in Egypt

The toppling of Hosni Mubarak marked the beginning of a revolutionary restructuring of Egypt's political and social order. Jeannie Sowers, an editor of Middle East Report - the premier journal covering the region - brings together updated essays that offer unrivalled analysis of the transformation. Starting ...

Politics and power in the Maghreb

Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco from indepedence to the Arab Spring

The overthrow of the regime of President Ben Ali in Tunisia on 14 January 2011 took the world by surprise. The popular revolt in this small Arab country and the effect it had on the wider Arab world prompted questions as to why there had ...

Un regno che è Stato Grande

la storia negata dei Borboni di Napoli e Sicilia

L'inaugurazione della pionieristica Napoli-Portici, la prima linea ferroviaria italiana; la costruzione a Caserta della "Versailles italiana" e a Napoli del teatro San Carlo, tempio della musica di Rossini; l'istituzione della prima cattedra universitaria di economia e commercio; le opere di pensatori illuministi come ...

Relaciones internacionales y mercenariado griego

del final de la Guerra del Peloponeso a la Paz del Rey (404-386 a.C.)

ÍNDICE: Prólogo Presentación 1. Introducción Historia de la investigación.- Fuentes primarias para el estudio del mercenariado griego.- El mundo del mercenario: la guerra en la Antigüedad Clásica. 2. Mercenarios y formas de mercenariado en Grecia El mercenariado, en teoría.- Reclutamiento y motivaciones en tiempos de ...

Los conquistadores del horizonte

una historia global de la exploración

Este libro analiza cómo las sucesivas exploraciones y descubrimientos a lo largo de la historia han ido cambiando la configuración del mundo. Desde las expediciones marítimas de los egipcios bajo el reinado de Hatshepsut hasta el presente, pasando por los mercaderes que recorrían la ruta ...

Diario de Rusia

Justo después de que el Telón de Acero cayera sobre Europa del Este, el ganador del Pulitzer John Steinbeck y el famoso fotógrafo de guerra Robert Capa se aventuraron en la Unión Soviética con el fin de escribir un reportaje para el New York Herald ...

The historian's toolbox

a student's guide to the theory and craft of history

Written in an engaging and entertaining style, this widely-used "how-to" guide introduces readers to the theory, craft, and methods of history and provides a series of "tools" to help them research and understand the past. Part I is a stimulating, philosophical introduction to the key ...