Thinking the Twentieth Century

The final book of the brilliant historian and indomitable public critic Tony Judt, Thinking the Twentieth Century maps the issues and concerns of a turbulent age on to a life of intellectual conflict and engagement. The twentieth century comes to life as an age of ...

Timelines

a political history of the modern world

War and revolution, economic crises and political conflict are the very stuff of modern history. This guide to the last 100 years of great power conflict, social rebellion, strikes and protests gives us the essential history of the world in which we live. Based on ...

La República de Weimar

una democracia inacabada

La república de Weimar nació con la necesidad de acabar con los problemas del pasado más reciente alemán. Entre ellas no sólo estaba la deliberación y el acuerdo de paz de Versalles, que incluía excesivas divisiones territoriales, reparaciones económicas, así como discriminaciones en el ámbito ...

Napoleon's swiss troops

Ever since the 15th century Switzerland had been exporting professional soldiers to serve as mercenaries for foreign monarchies. Napoleon, therefore, was not the first to make full use of the martial qualities of the Swiss and obtained Swiss agreement to expand the recruitment of regiments ...

The american culture of war

the history of U.S. Military Force from World War II to operation enduring freedom

The American Culture of War presents a sweeping, critical examination of every major American war of the late 20th century: World War II, Korea, Vietnam, the First and Second Persian Gulf Wars, through to Operation Enduring Freedom. Lewis deftly traces the evolution of US military ...

Five days that shocked the world

eyewitness accounts from Europe at the end of World War II

April 1945. The mutilated bodies of Mussolini and his mistress hang by their heels in Milan while a hostile crowd whistles and jeers. Desperate to avoid the same fate, Adolf Hitler leaves orders for his own body to be burned after his death. With the ...

Georgy Zhukov

leadership, strategy, conflict

Zhukov was the dominant figure in the Red Army during World War II even though his actual job title varied from day to day. Serving as a senior General Staff representative from the Stavka, Zhukov moved from one critical sector to the next, serving as ...

Occupied economies

an economic history of nazi-occupied Europe, 1939-1945

What were the consequences of the German occupation for the economy of occupied Europe? After Germany conquered major parts of the European continent, it was faced with a choice between plundering the suppressed countries and using their economies to supply its needs. The choices made ...

V-2. La venganza de Hitler

l cohete V-2 forma parte del arsenal de «armas milagrosas» que los científicos alemanes concibieron y fabricaron durante el Tercer Reich en bases secretas en el Báltico y en fábricas subterráneas. Se trata de una tecnología que en su momento rayaba la ciencia ficción y ...

The Cambridge History of the Cold War

The Cambridge History of the Cold War is a comprehensive, international history of the conflict that dominated world politics in the twentieth century. The three-volume series, written by leading international experts in the field, elucidates how the Cold War evolved from the geopolitical, ideological, economic ...

Diccionario de términos históricos y afines

El presente diccionario constituye una útil herramienta para el aprendizaje del devenir histórico así como un valioso banco de datos de fácil consulta de términos históricos, económicos, sociales, culturales e institucionales de la historia universal, en el que se concede una especial importancia a la ...

711. Arqueología e historia entre dos mundos

El año 2011 se cumplió el décimo centenario del hecho de armas tradicionalmente conocido como la batalla de Guadalete, ocurrido en las cercanías de la actual Algeciras, en el año 711. A partir de esa fecha la sociedad visigoda, de tradición clásica, comenzó a transformarse ...

A concise history of Australia

Australia is the last continent to be settled by Europeans, but it also sustains a people and a culture tens of thousands years old. For much of the past 200 years the newcomers have sought to replace the old with the new. This book tells ...

La revolución de los Derechos del Hombre

Esta obra propone una lectura de los diecisiete artículos de la Declaración de los derechos del hombre y del ciudadano a partir de los hechos y la presión que éstos ejercieron sobre la Asamblea Nacional Constituyente que los decretó el 26 de agosto de 1789 ...

Europa

a través de la literatura, el cine y los medios de comunicación social

A concise history of Russia

Accessible to students, tourists and general readers alike, this book provides a broad overview of Russian history since the ninth century. Paul Bushkovitch emphasizes the enormous changes in the understanding of Russian history resulting from the end of the Soviet Union in 1991. Since then ...

Historiography

an introductory guide

This is the essential primer on the complexities of history writing, and writing history. "What is historiography?" asked the American historian Carl Becker in 1938 and professional historians continue to argue over the meaning of the term. This book challenges the view of historiography as ...

Writing

theory and history of the technology of civilization

Writing: Theory and History of the Technology of Civilization traces the origins of writing tied to speech from ancient Sumer through the Greek alphabet and beyond. * Examines the earliest evidence for writing in Mesopotamia in the fourth millennium BC, the origins of purely phonographic systems ...

Pacific worlds

a history of seas, peoples, and cultures

Asia, the Pacific Islands and the coasts of the Americas have long been studied separately. This essential single-volume history of the Pacific traces the global interactions and remarkable peoples that have connected these regions with each other and with Europe and the Indian Ocean, for ...

Malta

the Order of St. John

The urban, cultural, and political profile of the Maltese islands is deeply marked by the presence for 268 years of the knights of St John. The Order has left its mark decisively in the collective memory of the Maltese. Malta û The Order of St ...