Conscience nationale

état et religions

La religion est l#un des critères qui permettent de définir une nation, définition problématique, on le sait. Les auteurs du présent ouvrage, chercheurs français et polonais, historiens, sociologues, littéraires, philosophes, ont tenté de mieux comprendre son rôle dans la nation moderne. La religion a-t-elle ...

Atlas du monde global

Le monde global, si complexe, est fait de risques mais aussi d'opportunités. Pascal Boniface et Hubert Védrine le décryptent pour nous. Ils alertent sans alarmer, avec le souci constant d'informer, d'expliquer, d'éclairer. Sans surcharger, saturer ou embrouiller, ils montrent les multiples ...

Les Villes multiculturelles en Europe centrale

L'Europe centrale est un ensemble de pays et de cultures enchevêtrées, caractérisé par une " histoire partagée ". Les villes multiculturelles en sont l'une des spécificités. Vienne, Prague, Budapest, Berlin, Varsovie, Odessa, Czernowitz, Lvov, Dantzig, Sibiu : de ces lieux où s'entrecroisent deux, trois ou ...

Atlas historique des États-Unis

de 1783 à nos jours

La Constitution américaine de 1787 réclamait de dénombrer la population pour décider de la représentation des Etats au Congrès. L'exécutif organisa le premier dénombrement en 1790. Systématiquement renouvelé tous les dix ans, devenu recensement en 1850, il allait s'enrichir par la suite d ...

A history of Nigeria

Nigeria is Africa's most populous country and the world's eighth largest oil producer, but its success has been undermined in recent decades by ethnic and religious conflict, political instability, rampant official corruption and an ailing economy. Toyin Falola, a leading historian intimately acquainted ...

Haciendo frente a la historia

una autobiografía

Dos semanas antes de su muerte en enero de 1999, George L. Mosse, uno de los grandes historiadores del siglo XX, terminó de escribir estas memorias: un relato fascinante de una vida extraordinaria que transcurrió a lo largo de los grandes acontecimientos del siglo pasado ...

The Ottomans Empire of faith

The Ottoman Empire was remarkably long-lived and successful. It emerged in the late 13th century as the Ottoman Turkish state on the frontier between the Islamic and Christian worlds, ending with the abolition of its caliphate after the empire#s disastrous part in the First ...

Atlas de los pueblos de Europa occidental

Un viaje apasionante por la historia del amor en la época de los trovadores que muestra cómo vivían las personas este sentimiento. Tristán e Isolda, Eloísa y Abelardo# El amor fue una inspiración divina para los autores de la Edad Media. Los trovadores proponían un ...

How to do biography

a primer

It is not surprising that biography is one of the most popular literary genres of our day. What is remarkable is that there is no accessible guide for how to write one. Now, following his recent "Biography: A Brief History" (from Harvard), award-winning biographer and ...

Oral history and public memories

"Oral History and Public Memories" is the first book to explore the relationship between the well-established practice of oral history and the burgeoning field of memory studies. In the past, oral historians have generally privileged the individual narrator, frequently fetishizing the interview process without fully ...

The Darfur sultane

a history

"Darfur: a History" presents an analytical narrative of Darfur, from the beginnings of its recorded history to the present. Three themes dominate: Darfur's complex history and its equally complex ethnic and ecological issues. The various phases of Darfur's history are given appropriate weight ...

The history of Armenia

from de origins to the present

This book offers a timely and concise overview of Armenian history.Payaslian is a well respected and well connected member of the vast Armenian-American community. It is smaller than competing books, yet manages to cover all essential events and periods in Armenian history. The style ...

Storia del matrimonio

dal Medioevo a oggi

Matrimoni come esito di relazioni d'amore e matrimoni frutto di complicate trattative familiari. Matrimoni osteggiati e matrimoni forzati. Matrimoni regolati dalle consuetudini locali, dalla Chiesa e dallo Stato e matrimoni del tutto secolarizzati dopo la Rivoluzione francese. Matrimoni come controllo della sessualità femminile e ...

La historia como hazaña de la libertad

Benedetto Croce presenta una serie de ensayos acerca de los métodos, fines y alcances de la historia. El autor hace hincapié en la relación entre historia escrita y acción práctica, no como defensa contra los ataques que hoy suelen lanzarse contra el historicismo en nombre ...

Las tres puertas del Mediterráneo

Ciudades cosmopolitas, bisagras entre Oriente y Occidente, densas de Historia y en historias. El periodista Daniel Rondeau, un extraordinario conocedor de la realidad urbana de estas tres capitales, nos presenta en su estilo cercano y vibrante el mejor de los paseos posibles. Tánger, recreo melancólico ...

Periodization & sovereignty

how ideas of feudalism and secularization govern the politics of time

Despite all recent challenges to stage-oriented histories, the idea of a division between a "medieval" and a "modern" period has survived, even flourished, in academia. "Periodization and Sovereignty" demonstrates that this survival is no innocent affair. By examining periodization together with the two controversial categories ...

Making history now and then

discoveries, controversies and explorations

This title includes previously unpublished essays on various key topics by one of Britain's most eminent historians, including his inaugural and valedictory lectures at the Institute of Historical Research. It offers a unique perspective on the study of key topics in History and includes ...

Evil incarnate

rumors of demonic conspiracy and satanic abuse in history

In the 1980s, America was gripped by widespread panics about Satanic cults. Conspiracy theories abounded about groups who were allegedly abusing children in day-care centers, impregnating girls for infant sacrifice, brainwashing adults, and even controlling the highest levels of government.As historian of religions David ...

Historia de China

Historia de China abarca todo el marco temporal de la civilización más antigua del mundo, desde la prehistoria --comienza con una discusión de los últimos descubrimientos arqueológicos y cómo han alterado nuestra concepción de la historia temprana de China-- y el imperio, hasta la revolución ...

Slavery and politics in the Early American Republic

This title discusses about the partisan and political uses of slavery. Giving close consideration to previously neglected debates, Matthew Mason challenges the common contention that slavery held little political significance in America until the Missouri Crisis of 1819. Mason demonstrates that slavery and politics were ...