Auge y caída del Antiguo Egipto

La historia del antiguo Egipto y la extraordinaria civilización que floreció en los bancos del Nilo es una historia increíble repleta de acontecimientos excepcionales. Entre otros, la construcción de las pirámides, la conquista de Nubia, la revolución religiosa de Akenaton, el poder y la belleza ...

La Muerte y el más allá en la Roma antigua

un estudio sobre textos escogidos (ss. III a.C-IV d. C)

¿Qué podría pensar el pueblo romano sobre lo que tenía que venir después de la muerte?; indudablemente partieron de los paisajes del allende de sus antiguos predecesores, los griegos, pero los confirieron un punto de vista propio. Por las líneas de este nuevo trabajo pasan ...

Understanding medieval primary sources

using historical sources to discover medieval Europe

Medieval society created many kinds of records and written material which differ considerably, giving us such sources as last wills, sermons, manorial accounts, or royal biographies. Primary sources are an exciting way for students to engage with the past and draw their own ideas about ...

Heresy in Medieval France

dualism in Aquitaine and the Agenais, 1000-1249

Heresy was a recurrent problem for the established church throughout the middle ages, and it is here examined in the context of the medieval duchy of Aquitaine. The author traces forms of dissent there back to the influence of Balkan dualism, indicating the vast spread ...

Modern Turkey

people, state and foreign policy in a globalized world

This book provides a wide ranging overview of Turkey and its people in the contemporary world. In particular it seeks to place them within the context of a rapidly globalizing work and includes chapters on politics, economics, international relations, the Turkic world, religion and recent ...

Un hispanismo para el siglo XXI

ensayos de crítica cultural

Sometido a las críticas de aquellos que consideran que no ha producido un caudal teórico propio, inmerso en el retroceso que sufren las humanidades en general dentro del ámbito universitario y sujeto a realidades nacionales cambiantes, el hispanismo se encuentra en una encrucijada. Sin embargo ...

Critical turning points in the Middle East

1915-2015

This book takes a novel look at the modern Middle East through the prisms of six cascading negative critical turning points. It identifies the seeds of a potential seventh in the collective dignity deficits generated by poor governance paradigms and exacerbated by geopolitical competition for ...

Antiguos tratados de esgrima (siglo XVII)

El primer tratado de este libro lo constituye la famosa obra de Luis Pacheco de Narváez acerca del Modo fácil de examinarse los maestros en la destreza de las armas (1625). El autor consiguió del rey la merced de ser nombrado examinador de todos los ...

Al-Andalus, de la conquista a la quiebra del Califato

(Revista Desperta Ferro. Antigua y Medieval, Nº 7, año 2011)

Índice de artículos: al-Andalus: orto y ocaso de un estado militarizado, por Francisco García Fitz, Universidad de Extremadura. La batalla de Poitiers, por Philippe Senac, Université Toulouse II-Le Mirail. La supervivencia de los reinos cristianos, por Sánchez-Arcilla, Universidad Complutense de Madrid. El guerrero andalusí, por ...

Los protagonistas de la caída del muro de Berlín

ÍNDICE - Presentación - Introducción al tema - Gorvachov y la caída del muro de Berlín: un protagonista en la sombra - Vaclav Havel: estadista y político checo que colaboró en el proceso democrático europeo con la revolución de terciopelo - La importante labor de Juan Pablo II en la ...

Empires and indigenes

intercultural alliance, imperial expansion, and warfare in the Early Modern World

The early modern period (c. 1500-1800) of world history is characterized by the establishment and aggressive expansion of European empires, and warfare between imperial powers and indigenous peoples was a central component of the quest for global dominance. From the Portuguese in Africa to the ...

Trouver sa place

individus et communautés dans l'Europe moderne

Alors que le discours public analyse de plus en plus les réalités sociales au prisme des « communautés », cette notion fait aujourd'hui pour l'historien, l'objet d'un renouveau. Cet ouvrage traite des communautés qui constituent le tissu social de l'Europe moderne. Plus ...

Contemporary maritime piracy

international Law, strategy, and diplomacy at sea

The threat of maritime piracy has exploded in the last decade, causing insurance costs to skyrocket and incurring losses estimated to be in the billions of dollars each year. Pirates operating off the Horn of Africa repeatedly disrupt the oil supply from the Persian Gulf ...

Why the West rules for now

the patterns of history and what they reveal about the future

Why does the West rule? Eminent Stanford polymath Ian Morris answers this provocative question, drawing uniquely on 15,000 years of history and archaeology, and the methods of social science. In the middle of the eighteenth century, British entrepreneurs unleashed the astounding energies of steam ...

Florida at war

Forts, military camps, and military battles have been part of Florida's history since the earliest times. Through 256 images, relive the days when the state's waterways challenged the defensive capabilities of nations seeking to colonize it, including Spain, France, and England. Visit the ...

Más de 100 ideas para enseñar historia

primaria y secundaria

Si bien es cierto que la formación y la práctica docente no pueden resucirse a un simple listado de recursos más o menos adecuados para enseñar historia, también lo es que disponer de una relación de ideas y experiencias de otros colegas puede facilitar extraordinariamente ...

The heritage of war

The Heritage of War is an interdisciplinary study of the ways in which heritage is mobilized in remembering war, and in reconstructing landscapes, political systems and identities after conflict. It examines the deeply contested nature of war heritage in a series of places and contexts ...

A pocket history of the Civil War

citizen, soldiers, bloody battles, and the fight for America's future

Early roman warrior 753-321 BC

The prototypical 'Roman Legionnaire' often seen on television and in movies is actually the product of nearly a millennium of military development. Far back in the Bronze Age, before the city of Rome existed, a loose collection of independent hamlets eventually formed into a village ...

Alcibiades

athenian playboy, general and traitor

Alcibiades is one of the most famous (or infamous) characters of Classical Greece. A young Athenian aristocrat, he came to prominence during the Peloponnesian War (429-404 BC) between Sparta and Athens. Flamboyant, charismatic (and wealthy), this close associate of Socrates persuaded the Athenians to attempt ...