Augusto

el primer Emperador

César Augusto fue uno de los hombres más influyentes de la historia y el primer emperador de Roma. Tras una juventud enfermiza, con una marcada tendencia a caer gravemente enfermo en períodos de crisis, Augusto supo sobreponerse con inteligencia, meticulosidad, paciencia y valentía. Luchó y ...

Alejandro Magno

la búsqueda de un pasado desconocido

Alejandro Magno es una de las figuras políticas y militares más fascinantes del mundo clásico. Un guerrero legendario cuya fama ha perdurado durante dos milenios, mitificado por igual en Oriente como en Occidente. Con sólo 30 años y a partir del pequeño territorio heredado de ...

La guerra eterna

partes desde la guerra contra el terrorismo

Este extraordinario libro nos habla de las interminables guerras de nuestro tiempo y «de lo que los seres humanos son capaces de hacerse los unos a los otros». Dexter Filkins presenció las atrocidades de los talibanes, entró en Irak con los primeros soldados norteamericanos y ...

Guerra, fascismo, resistenza

avvenimenti e dibattito storiografico nei manuali di storia

Dopo l’emanazione, da parte del Ministro della Pubblica Istruzione Luigi Berlinguer, del D.M. 4 novembre 1996, n. 682 – Modifiche delle disposizioni relative alla suddivisione annuale del programma di Storia, autori ed editori cominciano a pubblicare «nuovissime edizioni» di manuali «per i nuovi programmi ...

Historiografía y líneas de investigación en historia de las universidades

Europa Mediterránea e Iberoamérica. Miscelánea Alfonso IX, 2011

Resultan indudables los avances experimentados en los últimos cuarenta años en el conocimiento del pasado de nuestras universidades. Hemos asistido, en este período, a una eclosión de publicaciones sobre historia universitaria, con distintas aportaciones en cuanto a teoría, métodos y técnicas historiográficas. Podemos afirmar que ...

Historia de los movimientos sociales

ÍNDICE: Presentación Introducción a la asignatura Unidad de aprendizaje 1. Concepto, marco teórico y desarrollo de los movimientos sociales hasta la Era de la Industrialización Presentación Objetivos/Competencias Esquema de los contenidos Exposición de los contenidos 1. Movimientos sociales, concepto y estructura social 2. Los ...

Iran

politics, history and literature

This book offers a view of Iran through politics, history and literature, showing how the three angles combine. Iran, being a revolutionary society, experienced two great revolutions within the short span of just seventy years, from the 1900s to the 1970s. Both were massive revolts ...

Alexandre Antique et Chrétienne

Clément et origène

Alain Le Boulluec, Directeur d’études (« Patristique et histoire des dogmes ») à l’École Pratique des Hautes Études – Section des sciences religieuses, spécialiste internationalement reconnu de patristique grecque, a pris sa retraite en août 2006. À cette occasion, ses collègues et amis ont pris l ...

A companion to the Medieval World

Drawing on the expertise of 26 distinguished scholars, this important volume covers the major issues in the study of medieval Europe, highlighting the significant impact the time period had on cultural forms and institutions central to European identity. * Examines changing approaches to the study of ...

Juan de Fuca's strait

voyages in the waterway of forgotten dreams

From internationally recognised author and historian Barry Gough, here is another riveting history of intrigue and exploration on the high seas. The tale begins in sixteenth-century Venice, when explorer Juan de Fuca encountered English merchant Michael Lok and relayed a fantastic story of a marine ...

The revenge of History

the battle for the 21st Century

From the outset, Seumas Milne's Guardian essays on the West's war on terror provoked angry denunciations on both sides of the Atlantic. A decade on, the advocates of violent capitalism have been silenced. From class to religion, Blair to Obama, Palestine to Pakistan ...

Transforming the World

global political history since World War II

An ambitious and engaging narrative survey that charts the history of the world from a political perspective, from 1937 to the post-9/11 era. Providing a wide-ranging assessment of global interactions in peace and war since World War II, Robbins connects the crises, conflicts and ...

Winston Churchill

the great man's life in anecdotes

In the welter of popular and well-known stories and reminiscences about Churchill (many of them more legend than fact), it can be easy to forget that he was more than an inspirational leader and figurehead to a nation and its allies. For in spite of ...

Crónica troyana

La ´Crónica Troyana´, realizada a instancias de Juan Fernández de Heredia, es una traducción parcial al aragonés de la ´Historia destructionis Troiae de Guido de la Columna´. Su objetivo es reproducir en un contexto inteligible los discursos de la obra de Guido, en la que ...

Il tiranno e l'eroe

storia e mito nella Grecia antica

Le prime attestazioni di “tiranno” nella Grecia arcaica mostrano che il significato originale del termine è “signore assoluto”. Egli può piegarsi alla massima ammirazione come alla massima esecrazione. Il bifrontismo della parola si riflette nella carriera dei personaggi storici ai quali l’appellativo subito aderisce ...

Reshaping New Spain

government and private interests in the colonial bureaucracy, 1531-1550

Originally published in Mexico as "Gobierno y Sociedad en Nueva Espana", Ethelia Ruiz Medrano's seminal study "Reshaping New Spain" is now available in an updated English edition. Drawing on extensive archival research, Ruiz examines the developing colonial institutions in Mexico and how they changed ...

Dialogues. Volume I: Charon and Antonius

(The I Tatti Renaissance Library)

Giovanni Pontano (1426--1503), whose academic name was Gioviano, was the most important Latin poet of the fifteenth century as well as a leading statesman who served as prime minister to the Aragonese kings of Naples. His Dialogues are our best source for the humanist academy ...

Poems

(The I Tatti Renaissance Library)

Michael Marullus (c. 1453/4--1500), born in Greece, began life as a mercenary soldier but became a prominent Neo-Latin poet and scholar who worked in Florence and Naples. He married the beautiful and learned Alessandra Scala, daughter of the humanist Bartolomeo Scala, chancellor of Florence ...

Torture and state violence in the United States

A short documentary history

The war on terror has brought to light troubling actions by the United States government which many claim amount to torture. But as this book shows, state-sanctioned violence and degrading, cruel, and unusual punishments have a long and contentious history in the nation. Organized around ...

Staying Roma

conquest and identity in Africa and the Mediterranean, 439-700

What did it mean to be Roman once the Roman Empire had collapsed in the West? Staying Roman examines Roman identities in the region of modern Tunisia and Algeria between the fifth-century Vandal conquest and the seventh-century Islamic invasions. Using historical, archaeological and epigraphic evidence ...