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 ...

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 ...