Money, trade and trade routes in pre-islamic North Africa

This book expands upon a conference held at the British Museum in 2008 that brought together scholars from differing fields specialising in ancient North Africa. This multidisciplinary approach allowed a number of subjects to be enriched through comparative evidence. The conference concentrated on the area ...

La historia contemporánea en sus documentos

La historia se construye a partir de fuentes de origen diverso que el historiador analiza e interpreta. Este libro reúne una serie de documentos que permitirán al lector realizar un recorrido por la historia contemporánea a partir de los materiales sobre los que trabaja el ...

Garibaldi

leadership, strategy, conflict

This book looks closely at the life, military experiences and key battlefield exploits of Giuseppe Garibaldi. Born on July 4, 1807 in the city of Nice, the turning point in his life occurred in April 1833 when he met Giovanni Battista Cuneo, a member of ...

Walther Model

leadership, strategy, conflict

This volume details the military career and accomplishments of Walther Model, the youngest Generalfeldmarschall in the Wehrmacht in World War II and Hitler's favorite commander. His role on the Eastern Front saw him involved in most of the key battles of the second half ...

Atatürk

an intellectual biography

When Mustafa Kemal Atatrk became the first president of Turkey in 1923, he set about transforming his country into a secular republic where nationalism sanctified by science - and by the personality cult Atatrk created around himself - would reign supreme as the new religion. This book ...

La geopolitica del Novecento

dai grandi spazi delle dittature alla decolonizzazione

La geopolitica, che si occupa del rapporto tra spazio geografico e potere politico, esiste di fatto da quando esistono gli Stati. Ma fiorì come scienza nella prima metà del XX secolo e divenne uno strumento delle dittature di quegli anni; per questa ragione, dopo la ...

La Révolution française et l'Empire

une France révolutionnée (1787-1815)

Dans une perspective renouvelée par l'historiographie récente, française et étrangère, ce livre restitue les années 1787-1815, celles de la Révolution, du Consulat et de l'Empire, dans leurs dynamiques, leurs enjeux multiples et leurs contradictions.Par une démarche attentive aux faits et aux mots ...

Indochina

an ambiguous colonization, 1858-1954

Combining new approaches with a groundbreaking historical synthesis, this accessible work is the most thorough and up-to-date general history of French Indochina available in English. Unique in its wide-ranging attention to economic, social, intellectual, and cultural dimensions, it is the first book to treat Indochina ...

Aces of the Legion Condor

By the outbreak of World War 2, the Luftwaffe had acquired effective tactical battlefield experience from its involvement in the Spanish Civil War in 1936-1939, centered around the operations conducted by the Legion Condor, a force of some 19,000 'volunteer' German airmen, staff, technicians ...

Behind Valkyrie

german resistance to Hitler (documents)

While the "Valkyrie" plot by Nazi officers to kill Adolf Hitler is the best known instance of German opposition to his dictatorship, there were many other significant acts of resistance. Behind Valkyrie collects documents, letters, and testimonies of Germans who fought Hitler from within, making ...

Bombing, States and peoples in Western Europe

1940-1945

This is the first book to treat bombing during WWII as a European phenomenon and not just the 'Blitz' on Britain and Germany. With Western Europe now at the heart of a united continent, it is even more difficult to explain how only 70 years ...

Exilio alemán en Estados Unidos

la voz de la resistencia

El ascenso del nacionalsocialismo al poder en 1933 produjo una de las mayores migraciones de la vida intelectual alemana que, refugiada en países colindantes como Austria, Checoslovaquia o Francia, continuó su labor de resistencia al régimen, erigiéndose representante de la verdadera Alemania. Tras la invasión ...

The Cambridge history of Nineteenth-Century political thought

This major work of academic reference provides the first comprehensive survey of political thought in Europe, North America and Asia in the century following the French Revolution. Written by a distinguished team of international scholars, this Cambridge History is the latest in a sequence of ...

Bastardos ilustres

Biografías de personajes ilustres de la historia, de Erasmo de Rotterdam a Bocaccio pasando por Lawrence de Arabia, unidos por su condición de bastardos o no reconocidos en su época.  «Por fortuna, hoy en día en nuestra sociedad ha desaparecido el estigma que marcaba a ...

Persia

cuna de civilización y cultura. Historia, literatura, arte, religión

Persia, cuna de civilización y cultura es una obra que aborda los cuatro aspectos fundamentales para entender cualquier nación, en este caso la persa: Historia, Literatura, Arte y Religión, temas desarrollados cada uno de ellos por expertos en la materia. El capítulo «Historia de Persia» ...

Personajes intempestivos de la historia

Con demasiada frecuencia, en Europa nos apresuramos a desprendernos del legado de personajes intempestivos mediante el olvido o simplemente introduciéndoles en ese mundo de brumas que llamamos la fama. La creencia de que nadie es imprescindible ha sido una ley moral en las últimas décadas ...

Doing history

History as an academic discipline has dramatically changed over the last few decades and has become much more exciting and varied as a result of ideas from other disciplines, the influence of postmodernism and historians' incorporation of their own theoretical reflections into their work. The ...

Homínidos

las primeras ocupaciones de los continentes

Todos los especialistas coinciden en señalar que el Paleolítico es un momento clave en la constitución del Homo sapiens. ¿Cuáles son los factores que influyeron en el salto evolutivo? ¿Por qué nuestros antepasados abandonaron el continente africano para poblar toda la Tierra? No se puede ...

Mythology in the Middles Ages

heroic tales of Monsters, magic and might

Myths of gods, legends of battles, and folktales of magic abound in the heroic narratives of the Middle Ages. "Marvels, Magic, and Might: Heroic Tales of the Middle Ages" describes how Medieval heroes were developed from a variety of source materials: Early pagan gods become ...

Witch beliefs and witch trials in the Middle Ages

documentas and readings

This title features new translations of primary documents of a crucial period in the development of attitudes to witchcraft. In 1901, a rich collection of extracts from documents relating to witch beliefs and witch trials in the Middle Ages - "Hexenwahns und der Hexenverfolgung in Mittelalter ...