Nations before the nation-state

between city-state and empire from antiquity to the present

Throughout Antiquity and the Middle Ages, thinkers understood nations as communities defined by common language, culture, and descent, and sharing strong bonds of belonging and solidarity. Even so, they did not assume that nations would also be appropriate units of government. The recovery of this ...

Castle on a hill

the Visegrad Group, regionalism, and the remaking of Europe

This recasting of modern European history offers new insights into the Visegrad Group's significant role in changing political mind-sets and refashioning the continent Rick Fawn has written the first book-length account of the Visegrad Group of states, which consists of the Czech Republic, the ...

Refining the common good

oil, Islam and politics in Gulf monarchies

How has Islam as a set of beliefs and practices shaped the allocation of oil revenues in Arab Gulf monarchies? In turn, how has oil wealth impacted the role of Islamic doctrine in politics? Refining the Common Good explores the relationship between Islamic norms and ...

The Barbarians

Beginning in the Stone Age and continuing through the collapse of the Roman empire, a fascinating exploration of the increasing complexity, technological accomplishments, and distinctive practices of the non-literate peoples known as Barbarians. We often think of the civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome as ...

Three Tracts on City Government and Related Writings

The medieval jurist Bartolus of Sassoferrato (d. 1357) has long been accorded seminal importance by historians of political thought. This volume provides the first complete English translation of his three most celebrated tracts: On Guelfs and Ghibellines, On the Government of a City, and On ...

Merovingian worlds

The Merovingian Kingdoms (c. 450-751) dominated much of what is now France, Belgium, and Germany, and were the most powerful and long-lived of the states that transformed the inheritance of Rome after the Crisis of the Fifth Century. Yet they often remain representative of an ...

Castle on a hill

the Visegrad Group, regionalism, and the remaking of Europe

This recasting of modern European history offers new insights into the Visegrad Group's significant role in changing political mind-sets and refashioning the continent Rick Fawn has written the first book-length account of the Visegrad Group of states, which consists of the Czech Republic, the ...

Three consuls

capitalism, empire, and the rise and fall of America's Mediterranean community, 1776-1840

For two generations after independence, Americans viewed the Mediterranean as the new commercial frontier. From common sailors to wealthy merchants, hundreds of Americans flocked to live and work there. Documenting the eventful lives of three American consuls and their families at the ports of Tangier ...

Converting rulers

global patterns, 1450-1850

Why did so many rulers throughout history risk converting to a new religion brought by outsiders? In his award-winning Unearthly Powers (2019), Alan Strathern set out a theoretical framework for understanding the relation between religion and political authority based on a distinction between two kinds ...

La confesión

En el engranaje del Proceso de Praga

En La confesión Artur London narra su experiencia en el Proceso de Praga. Inicia con el período en que fue perseguido y aislado de sus funciones políticas, continua con lo vivido en las cárceles de Kolodeje, Ruzyn y Pankrac, las torturas a las que se ...

Padua

ciudad materna

El poeta Valeri se sumergió en sus recuerdos para homenajear con estas hermosas memorias de Padua a la ciudad de su infancia y juventud, de juegos y estudios, de primeros amores e ilusiones. ¿Toda Padua? Aquí aparecen las voces de vendedores y vendedoras ambulantes ofreciendo ...

El dilema de África

Ante la nueva geopolítica mundial

El dilema de África es el décimo tercer libro publicado por Muakuku Rondo Igambo y en él señala el camino para el empoderamiento económico, político y social de África en el marco del nuevo orden que se está fraguando en el mundo. Comienza constatando que ...

Un niño afortunado

de prisionero en Auschwitz a juez de la Corte Internacional de Justicia

La vida de Thomas Buergenthal fue un duro camino desde que nació en 1934, de padres judíos alemanes, hasta convertirse en juez de la Corte Internacional de Justicia en el año 2000. Entre estas dos fechas, sobrevivió a los campos nazis, se educó en los ...

Endurance: la prisión blanca

El legendario viaje de Shackleton al Polo Sur

Uno de los grandes clásicos de la narrativa de no ficción. Un libro estremecedor sobre una de las aventuras más épicas del siglo xx.«Una de las mayores historias de supervivencia de todos los tiempos.» The New York Times En diciembre de 1914, sir Ernest ...

Ancient Thrace and the classical world

treasures from Bulgaria, Romania, and Greece

A captivating examination of the profound impact Thracian art and culture had on the Greeks and the entire northern Aegean region. The Thracians-a collection of tribal peoples who inhabited territories north of ancient Greece, an area that comprises present-day Bulgaria, much of Romania, and parts ...

César en Hispania: la batalla de Munda

(Revista Desperta Ferro. Antigua y Medieval, Nº 87, año 2025)

La derrota y posterior muerte de Pompeyo Magno no pusieron fin –ni mucho menos– a la crudelísima guerra civil que asoló la República romana a mediados del siglo I a. C. Algunos de sus simpatizantes hallaron refugio en el norte de África, de dónde pronto ...

Guerra nuclear

Un escenario

¿Qué ocurriría si un misil nuclear se dirigiera a Estados Unidos? «Un thriller geopolítico desde muchas perspectivas y con un cronómetro que te cortará la respiración».Forbes Solo hay un escenario, aparte del impacto de un asteroide, capaz de acabar con el mundo tal como ...

Shipping lords and coolie stokers

class, race, and maritime capitalism in the early 20th century

When eighty-seven passengers and crew died in the shipwreck of the Royal Mail ship Egypt in 1922, the accident gave rise to a racist international press campaign against the employment of Indian seafarers, such as those who made up most of the ship's crew ...

Germany 1923

hyperinflation, Hitler's Putsch, and democracy in crisis

As the great Austrian writer Stefan Zweig confided in his autobiography, written in exile, "I have a pretty thorough knowledge of history, but never, to my recollection, has it produced such madness in such gigantic proportions." He was referring to the situation in Germany in ...

Alemania: Jekyll y Hyde

1939, el nazismo visto desde dentro

Un testimonio de primera mano y una magistral radiografía de las entrañas de la Alemania nazi.Escrito en 1939 y publicado un año después, Alemania: Jekyll y Hyde es un llamado a sus contemporáneos a comprender los peligros del nazismo para el mundo y una ...