Enlightening the World

the creation of the Statue of Liberty

Conceived in the aftermath of the American Civil War and the grief that swept France over the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, the Statue of Liberty has been a potent symbol of the nation's highest ideals since it was unveiled in 1886. In Enlightening the ...

The coming of the book

the impact of printing, 1450-1800

The emergence of the book was an event of world historical importance, and heralded the dawning of modernity. In this much praised history of that momentous process, Lucien Febvre and Henri-Jean Martin mesh together economic and technological history, sociology and anthropology, with the study of ...

Caterina Sforza and the art appearances

gender, art and culture in Early Modern Italy

In the first major book in four decades on Caterina Sforza (1463-1509), Joyce de Vries investigates the famous noblewoman's cultural endeavors, and explores the ways in which gender, culture, and consumption practices were central to the invention of the self in early modern Italy ...

La traducción cultural en la Europa moderna

Eds. Peter Burke y R. Po-Chia Hsia; Trads. Jesús Izquierdo Martín y Patricia Arroyo Calderón. Este pionero volumen reúne a un equipo internacional de prestigiosos historiadores con el objetivo de presentar la historia de la práctica de la traducción en la Edad Moderna como una ...

El arte del poder

la Real Armería y el retrato de corte

Ed. Álvaro Soler del Campo. Este catálogo de exposición pretende recoger piezas forjadas por los armeros más importantes de la Edad Moderna.

Cross-cultural scientific exchanges in the Eastern Mediterranean, 1560- 1660

Avner Ben-Zaken reconsiders the fundamental question of how early modern scientific thought traveled between Western and Eastern cultures in the age of the so-called Scientific Revolution. Through five meticulously researched case studies - in which he explores how a single obscure object or text moved in ...

The enlightenment

a genealogy

What was the Enlightenment? Though many scholars have attempted to solve this riddle, none has made as much use of contemporary answers as Dan Edelstein does here. In seeking to recover where, when, and how the concept of 'the Enlightenment' first emerged, Edelstein departs from ...

The Gesualdo Hex

music, myth, and memory

A riveting investigation of one of the most provocative musicians of the Renaissance, who continues to captivate composers, artists, and audiences today.

Catherine de Médicis

1519-1589

Le destin de Catherine de Médicis, reine de France, reine-mère et régente, depuis son enfance jusqu'à son mariage avec François Ier, qui reigna durant les périodes troubles du fanatisme religieux, des assassinats et des massacres entre catholiques et protestants.

Anne Boleyn

Fatal Attractions

In this groundbreaking new biography, G. W. Bernard offers a fresh portrait of one of England#s most captivating queens. Through a wide- ranging forensic examination of sixteenth-century sources, Bernard reconsiders Boleyn#s girlhood, her experience at the French court, the nature of her relationship ...

The Essential Dürer

Albrecht Durer (1471-1528), perhaps the most famous of all German artists, embodies the modern ideal of the Renaissance man-he was a remarkable painter, printmaker, draftsman, designer, theoretician, and even a poet. More is known about his thoughts and his life than about any other Northern ...

Américo Vespucio

la historia de un error histórico

Zweig desentierra en esta obra los motivos por los cuales Américo Vespucio dio su nombre a un continente recién descubierto, una historia de altibajos y errores que se convierten en verdades. Vespucio no era un mentiroso o un estafador; no pretendió ser un gran filósofo ...

El coro mágico

una historia de la cultura rua de Tolstói a Solzhenitsyn

Desde el reinado del zar Nicolás II, pasando por el culto a Stalin y los días inciertos de la perestroika, en Rusia se ha demostrado, más que en ningún otro lugar, la intrínseca relación entre cultura y política. En este primer libro, Solomon Volkov (que ...

Notas al pie de Gaza

Trad. Marc Viaplana. Rafah, una pequeña ciudad de la franja de Gaza, ha sido protagonista en más de una ocasión del amargo conflicto de Oriente Medio. En 1956 se convirtió en el escenario de un incidente muy sangriento: 111 palestinos murieron a manos de soldados ...

La primera familia

extorsión, venganza, muerte y el nacimiento de la mafia americana

Trad. Francisco J. Ramos Mena. Esta es la historia de una familia formada por los criminales más violentos y eficaces de la historia de Estados Unidos y de cómo consiguieron abandonar Sicilia, específicamente Corleone, para establecerse en Nueva York. Un ensayo sobre la primera familia ...

Iran and the CIA

the Fall of Mosaddeq Revisited

In the early 1950s, the frail septuagenarian Iranian prime minister shook the world, challenging superpower Britain by nationalizing the British-run oil industries in Iran. His name was Doctor Mohammad Mosaddeq. His subsequent downfall in August 1953 changed the course of Iranian history, and remains a ...

A Companion to International History 1900-2001

Ed. Gordon Martel. A comprehensive overview of the most important international events, movements, and controversies of the 20th century. - Written by distinguished scholars, each an authority in their field - Explores influential, underlying themes such as imperialism, nationalism, internationalism, technological developments, and changes in diplomatic methods ...

La historia de la libertad en EE.UU.

Trad. Albino Santos Mosquera. EE.UU. es, desde hace más de un siglo, la potencia hegemónica mundial. Sus valores e ideas sobre el mundo forman parte del discurso global. Una parte muy importante de nuestra visión de la realidad proviene de las reflexiones e impulsos ...

The struggle for Arab Independence

Riad el-Solh and the makers of the Modern Middle East

The Middle East, as we know it today, was shaped in the violent and tumultuous years of the first half of the 20th century. The roots of many of the conflicts and crises which afflict the region today can be traced back to this period ...

Barbarie y civilización

una historia de la Europa de nuestro tiempo

Trads. Isabel Ferrer y Carlos Milla. Era 1919 cuando ya Anna Ajmátova expresaba que el siglo xx le parecía 'peor que cualquier otro'. Europa acababa de vivir la gran conmoción de la revolución rusa, el genocidio armenio y la terrible mortandad de la Primera Guerra ...