Suroeste

relaciones literarias y artísticas entre Portugal y España (1890-1936) = Relaçoes literárias e artísticas entre Portugal y Espanha (1890-1936)

Esta obra aborda las relaciones culturales entre los dos países limítrofes en unas décadas convulsas y agitadas.

War in an Age of Revolution, 1775-1815

Eds. Roger Chickering and Stig Förster. This volume investigates a critical moment in the history of warfare. It assembles historians of the early modern and modern eras to speak to one another across the great historiographical divide that has traditionally separated them. The central questions ...

China and the vocation of history in the Twentieth Century

a personal memoir

Frederick Mote, one of the twentieth century's most prominent Sinologists, has written a historian's memoir that uses observation and personal experiences to understand the intellectual and social transformation of China. Mote's thought-provoking narrative distills his reflections on modern China and details change ...

Guerra y propaganda en el siglo XXI

nuevos mensajes, viejas guerras

Muchas personas tienden a creer que la propaganda es cosa de otros tiempos, cuando en Europa y otras partes del mundo dominaban regímenes totalitarios, con líderes fanáticos que la utilizaron para manipular a las masas y someterlas a sus más espurios objetivos. Sin embargo, nada ...

Oilopoly

Putin, Power and the Rise of the New Russia

A story of oil and gas, corruption and naked power, Oilopoly traces the rise of the Russian oil economy from its origins in the nineteenth century right through to Vladimir Putin#s determined efforts to rein in the oil oligarchs, re-nationalize Russia#s industries, and ...

How We Are Changed by War

a Study of Letters and Diaries from Colonial Conflicts to Operation Iraqi Freedom

The prolonged conflict in Iraq has shown us war#s transformative effect. Civilians rivet themselves to events happening halfway around the world, while young soldiers return home from battlefields, coping with the memories of those events. How We Are Changed by War examines our sense ...

America and a Changed World

a Questions of Leadership

Ed. Robin Niblett. Looking at a range of themes and regions, this book provides a challenging basis for rethinking America#s international leadership. - Chatham House experts assess current US policy and the country#s ability to continue to play an international leading role. - A timely ...

From Arab Nationalism to OPEC

Eisenhower, King Sa´ud, and the Makinf of U.S. Saudi Relations

The Arab-Israeli conflict goes far beyond the wars waged in the Middle East. There is a war of narratives revolving around the two defining traumas of the conflict: the Holocaust and the Nakba. Middle East expert Gilbert Achcar critically assesses Arab attitudes to the Holocaust ...

Militarism and Israeli Society

Eds. Gabriel Sheffer and Oren Barak. Challenging the established view that the civilian sector in Israel has been predominant over its security sector since the state's independence in 1948, this volume critically and systematically reexamines the relationship between these sectors and provides a deeper ...

The Last Century of Sea Power. Vol. 2

from Washington to Tokyo, 1922-1945

In this second volume of his history of naval power in the 20th century, H. P. Willmott follows the fortunes of the established seafaring nations of Europe along with two upstarts#the United States and Japan. Emerging from World War I in command of the ...

"Fredom, Faction, Fame and Blood"

British Soldiers of Conscience in Greece, Spain and Finland

Under the rubric from Lord Byron, this book offers a unique comparison of three sets of British volunteers who left their homes to fight in the Greek War of Independence, the Spanish Civil War and the Russo-Finnish War. From Lord Byron's journey to Greece ...

Robert E. Lee

leadership, strategy, conflict

Il. Adam Hook. Beloved by his soldiers and respected by his enemies, Robert E. Lee is undoubtedly the most popular general in American history to fight on the losing side. This book takes an in-depth look at this southern gentleman as a strategist and a ...

London 1917-18

the bomber blitz

Illustrated by Christa Hook. On a sunny May afternoon in 1917, the peace of an English seaside town was shattered when a flight of German Gotha bombers appeared without warning. Twenty-three Gothas had set out to attack London in this first bomber raid, but heavy ...

Las fotos que hicieron historia 1900-2011

Fernando García de Cortázar y Ruiz de Aguirre, el autor de mayor prestigio y éxito en el campo de la divulgación histórica, ofrece en esta obra una novedosa visión de nuestro siglo, a través de sus acontecimientos y personajes más representativos, inmortalizados en las mejores ...

Historical Atlas of the North American railroads

America's long romance with the train has been the subject of many books, but none has used contemporary maps to comprehensively illustrate the story. Until now. Here the latest of Derek Hayes' historical atlases delves into the history of the railroad in North America ...

Lento presente

sintomatología del nuevo tiempo histórico

Prol. José Luis Villacañas. En Lento presente Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht pincela con su prosa sin par #que huye por igual de la afectación como de la pesantez, muy manidas formas de oscurantismo filosófico, cuando no de mera superficialidad# los trazos de un tiempo, el nuestro ...

Yo tengo un sueño

pensar el siglo XX en 75 frases

Ciertas frases han sabido ilustrar y sintetizar a la perfección los grandes momentos de la humanidad. La Guerra Civil española, los inicios del feminismo y la entrada en escena de los Beatles son algunos de los hitos políticos, sociales y culturales que han dado lugar ...

Las raíces históricas de los conflictos armados actuales

Ed. Enric Prat Carvajal. Las guerras actuales y las de los últimos veinte años presentan unas características especialmente terribles en relación con el periodo de la Guerra Fría. Se ha producido un aumento del número de actores armados (ejércitos, policías, guerrilleros, grupos de insurgentes y ...

Historia contemporánea universal

del surgimiento del Estado contemporáneo a la Primera Guerra Mundial

Coord. Ángeles Lario. Este manual aborda la primera parte de la Historia Contemporánea, que puede considerarse un largo siglo XIX. La historia contemporánea solemos iniciarla con los procesos revolucionarios que cambiaron el modelo político, económico y social que regía las sociedades en Occidente, que denominamos ...

Imperial Japan at its zenith

the wartime celebration of the Empires 2,600th anniversary

"In this deeply researched book Kenneth J. Ruoff offers an intriguing new perspective on wartime Japan. His sweeping survey of the cultural landscape in 1940 demonstrates the many ways, from song contests to colonial tourism, that cultural consumption sustained popular morale and support for the ...