Antes de Rommel

la guerra italo-británica en Libia

La guerra en el norte de África se asocia tradicionalmente al Africa Korps de Rommel y al 8º Ejército de Monty pero la llegada de Rommel fue motivada por una fulgurante ofensiva británica dirigida por Wavell y O'Connor. La tímida incursión italiana contra Egipto ...

Narvik, 1940

victoria alemana en Noruega

En el mes de abril de 1940 los alemanes lanzaron una arriesgada operación combinada por tierra, mar y aire sin precedentes en la historia, para ganarle la carrera a los aliados y conquistar Noruega, lo que supuso un desequilibrio estratégico decisivo en el frente occidental ...

Historia contemporánea de Alemania (1945-1995)

de la división a la reunificación

"Desde 1945 hasta 1989, Alemania vivió una división tajante del país. Por un lado, las zonas occidentales comenzaron su andadura con una recuperación de la democracia pluripartidista y parlamentaria en una economía de mercado; por otro lado, en la zona oriental, los responsables soviéticos impulsaron ...

European integration

a concise history

A fully revised and updated edition of Surpassing Realism: The Politics of European Integration since 1945, this book remains the standard for concise histories of the European Union. Mark F. Gilbert offers a clear and balanced narrative of European integration since its inception to the ...

As linhas de Torres Vedras

um sistema defensivo a norte de Lisboa

Memórias e outras histórias

'Sirvo-me da memória com todas as suas sobreposições e movimentações. Sei que a memória não representa a verdade porque a verdade é indescritível. Sou uma testemunha que lê o que se entende como o real com a subjetividade da minha mente e da minha consciência ...

Sobre la Ilustración

Sobre la Ilustración es la reunión de los tres fundamentales textos que Michel Foucault dedicó en los últimos años de su vida, entre 1978 y 1983, a la cuestión de la Ilustración. Con el replanteamiento de esa cuestión, y mucho más allá de una mera ...

Late Antiquity

a very short introduction

Late antiquity: decline or transformation, conflict or interaction? Late antiquity is the period (c.300 - c.800) in which barbarian invasions ended Roman Empire in Western Europe by the fifth century and Arab invasions ended Roman rule over the eastern and southern Mediterranean coasts by ...

Humanism

a very short introduction

Religion is currently gaining a much higher profile. The number of faith schools is increasingly, and religious points of view are being aired more frequently in the media. As religion's profile rises, those who reject religion, including humanists, often find themselves misunderstood, and occasionally ...

Warfare in woods and forests

Fighting in woods and forests is a very special form of war. Avoided by military commanders unless such terrain is to their advantage, for soldiers forest battles are a chaotic mix of dread, determination, and, all too often, death. Adversaries remain in constant fear of ...

A social history of knowledge

Vol.II: From the Encyclopédie to Wikipedia

Peter Burke follows up his magisterial "Social History of Knowledge," picking up where the first volume left off around 1750 at the publication of the French Encyclopedie and following the story through to Wikipedia. Like the previous volume, it offers a social history (or a ...

The origins of nationalism

an alternative history from Ancient Rome to Early Modern Germany

In this wide-ranging work, Caspar Hirschi offers new perspectives on the origins of nationalism and the formation of European nations. Based on extensive study of written and visual sources dating from the ancient to the early modern period, the author re-integrates the history of pre-modern ...

Las setenta grandes ciudades de la historia

Este libro relata el devenir de las ciudades a través del tiempo, empezando por las más antiguas, desde Uruk y Tebas hasta Jerusalén y Alejandría. Más adelante aparecen las fabulosas ciudades del primer milenio, Damasco y Bagdad, en los días de los califatos; Teotihuacán y ...

America and the world

culture, commerce, conflict

While the twenty-first century may well be the age of globalization, this book demonstrates that America has actually been at the cutting edge of globalization since Columbus landed here five centuries ago. Lawrence A. Peskin and Edmund F. Wehrle explore America's evolving connections with ...

Legends of Alexander the Great

'How can a man become a god?' So enquired Alexander the Great of the Brahmin sages of India. And how did they reply? 'By doing what it is impossible for a man to do.' And that answer set a keynote for the Conqueror's entire ...

Ancient Greece

a very short introduction

The contribution of the Ancient Greeks to modern western culture is incalculable. In the worlds of art, architecture, myth, literature, and philosophy, the world we live in would be unrecognizably different without the formative influence of Ancient Greek models. Ancient Greek civilization was defined by ...

Roman conquest

Gaul

This latest volume in the Roman Conquests series deals with some of the best known Roman campaigns of all. Indeed, due to the involvement of Julius Caesar and the commentaries he wrote upon them, these are some of the most studied of any ancient campaigns ...

Imperial General

the remarkable career of Petellius Cerialis

Petilius Cerealis is one of the few Imperial Roman officers, below the level of Emperor, whose career it is possible to follow in sufficient detail to write a coherent biography. Fortunately his career was a remarkably eventful and colorful one. With a knack for being ...

Warships of the anglo-dutch wars

1652-74

During the 17th century England and Holland found themselves at war three times, in a clash for economic and naval supremacy, fought out in the cold waters of the North Sea and the English Channel. The First Anglo-Dutch War (1652-54) pitted the Dutch against Oliver ...

Historia de la escenografía en el siglo XVII

creadores y tratadistas

Durante el siglo XVII una serie de artistas como Parigi, Torelli y Sabbattini consolidaron la profesión del escenógrafo, como expresión del artista global y polifacético, a través de una ingente labor especulativa plasmada en una tratadística específica; de la misma forma que lograron articular el ...