Authority and tradition in ancient historiography

How did Greek and Roman historians claim the authority to narrate the deeds embraced by their histories? In this acclaimed and influential book, John Marincola examines all aspects of their self-presentation, surveying the entire field from Herodotus (fifth century BCE) to Ammianus Marcellinus (fourth century ...

El mito egipcio

Una breve introducción

El complejo mundo de los mitos egipcios se ilumina con claridad en este nuevo y fascinante acercamiento al antiguo Egipto. Geraldine Pinch explora el trasfondo cultural e histórico que se esconde tras una amplia variedad de fuentes y objetos, desde la aguja de Cleopatra y ...

Historias de la Historia del Antiguo Egipto

¿Sabías que los autores de la Biblia copiaron textos de la literatura egipcia?, ¿y que las mujeres de Amarna fueron las primeras en ponerse extensiones para el pelo? ¿A quién se le hubiera ocurrido pensar que el Nilo no era esa calmada corriente de agua ...

Plants, politics and empire in ancient Rome

The book investigates the cultural and political dimension of Roman arboriculture and the associated movement of plants from one corner of the empire to the other. It uses the convergent perspectives offered by textual and archaeological sources to sketch a picture of large-scale arboriculture as ...

Cicero and the people's will

philosophy and power at the end of the Roman Republic

This book tells an overlooked story in the history of ideas, a drama of cut-throat politics and philosophy of mind. For it is Cicero, statesman and philosopher, who gives shape to the notion of will in Western thought, from criminal will to moral willpower and ...

El Emperador Constantino

el legado del César cristiano en textos, monedas e imágenes

El emperador Constantino ha recibido una inmensa atención de la historiografía desde la Antigüedad clásica hasta nuestros días, no tanto por sus méritos, que fueron tantos como sus sombras, sino por su papel en el inicio de la transformación de un imperio romano pagano hacia ...

Maria Theresa, Empress

the making of the Austrian enlightenment

A major new biography of Maria Theresa, the formidable Habsburg Empress Maria Theresa was the single most powerful woman in eighteenth-century Europe. At the age of just twenty-three she succeeded to the Habsburg domains only to find them contested by almost every power in Europe ...

The study

the inner life of Renaissance libraries

A uniquely personal account of the life and enduring legacy of the Renaissance library With the advent of print in the fifteenth century, Europe's cultural elite assembled personal libraries as refuges from persecutions and pandemics. Andrew Hui tells the remarkable story of the Renaissance ...

Empire of influence

the East India Company and the making of indirect rule

Indirect rule is widely considered as a defining feature of the nineteenth and twentieth century British Empire but its divisive earlier history remains largely unexplored. Empire of Influence traces the contentious process whereby the East India Company established a system of indirect rule in India ...

Profits and persecution

German big business in the Nazi economy and the Holocaust

What role did German big business play in the persecution of European Jews during the Holocaust? What were its motivations? And how did it respond to changing social and economic circumstances after the war? Profits and Persecution examines how the leaders of Germany's largest ...

La construcción del conocimiento en la época ilustrada

la mirada científica de Thaddaeus Haenke

Este libro se publica con motivo de la exposición homónima cuyo propósito es difundir la obra de Thaddaeus Haenke (Chribská, 1761-Cochabamba, 1816), un naturalista originario de Bohemia que formó parte de la expedición Malaspina-Bustamante a finales del siglo XVIII y permaneció en la América hispana ...

Grey wars

a contemporary history of U.S. special operations

This original and accessible book is a comprehensive, authoritative analysis of U.S. Special Operations. U.S. Special Operations Command trains and equips units to undertake select military activities, frequently high-risk missions, often for the purposes of counterterrorism and counterinsurgency. Since 9/11, impelled by ...

From masters of slaves to lords of lands

the transformation of ownership in the Western world

Today we think of land as the paradigmatic example of property, while in the past, the paradigmatic example was often a slave. In this seminal work, James Q. Whitman asserts that there is no natural form of ownership. Whitman dives deep into the long Western ...

Estampas neoyorquinas y otras postales desvaídas

Este libro reúne una serie de columnas heterogéneas, churras y merinas, que se corresponden con los destinos diplomáticos que ha tenido su autor en el exterior. Su epicentro es Nueva York, en los años 2013 y 2014. La infancia y juventud se resumen en destellos ...

París

Ahí, con el todo París, se conversa, se canta, se ríe, se realizan paseos en automóvil, se come, se lee, cada cual hace a su modo y sin afectación de imitarlos, lo que hacía la gente de antaño, se vive. Y en esa continuación inconsciente ...

Modern Rwanda

a political history

Rwanda has been the subject of much research following the genocide against the Tutsi ethnic group in 1994. Moving beyond recent histories which examine Rwanda's past predominantly through the lens of this tragic event, Filip Reyntjens utilises a longue durée framework to provide new ...

The idea of the city in late antiquity

a study in resilience

The city was one of the central and defining features of the world of the Greek and Roman Mediterranean. Challenging the idea that the ancient city 'declined and fell', Andrew Wallace-Hadrill argues that memories of the past enabled cities to adapt and remain relevant in ...

Le sexe incertain

Androginia y hermafroditismo en la antigüedad grecorromana

En la antigüedad, la bisexualidad está relacionada con la posesión simultánea o sucesiva de dos sexos por parte de un mismo individuo. Luc Brisson estudia en Le sexe incertain la cuestión de la bisexualidad en el mundo grecorromano, en el terreno del mito y desde ...

Why the ancient Greeks matter

the problematic miracle that was Greece

The ancient Greeks were exceptional and they were consequential. This innovative, engrossingly written book addresses head-on the problematic question of the Greek Miracle. It will appeal to anyone interested in the ancient world and its modern meaning. Reviel Netz boldly argues that the traditional understanding ...

Anábasis

La Anábasis de Jenofonte narra la marcha de diez mil soldados griegos a través de la zona oeste del Imperio persa, soldados que habían sido contratados como mercenarios por Ciro el Joven para enfrentarse a su hermano Artajerjes II con el objetivo de alcanzar el ...