Insurgent nations

rebel rule in Angola and South Sudan

Over two separate twelve-year periods, two opposing 'states' governed in parallel in Angola (1979-1991) and Sudan (1990-2002), each with competing conceptions of society, history and national identity. Deeply dividing communities with their counter-nationalist programmes, rebel parties UNITA in Angola and the SPLM/A in Sudan ...

Quijote en el Congo

Un río. Mil realidades. Xavier Aldekoa se adentra en el Congo para inmortalizar las historias de su gente.Esta es la historia de un sueño infantil convertido en obsesión adulta: navegar el río Congo desde su nacimiento hasta el mar para contar la historia, la ...

The Construction of Value in the Ancient World

Recipient of the Jo Anne Stolaroff Cotsen Prize Scholars from Aristotle to Marx and beyond have been fascinated by the question of what constitutes value. The Construction of Value in the Ancient World makes a significant contribution to this ongoing inquiry, bringing together in one ...

Mountains of the pharaohs

the untold story of the pyramid builders

World-renowned archaeologist Zahi Hawass weaves a spellbinding narrative about how the pyramids were built and why, new in paperback Nearly five thousand years ago, the fourth dynasty of Egypt's Old Kingdom reigned over a highly advanced civilization. Believed to be gods, the royal family ...

Luxor illustrated

with Aswan, Abu Simbel, and the Nile

A full-color guide to the monuments and landscape of Upper Egypt, now fully revised and updated by leading Egyptologist Aidan Didson Luxor stands on the site of ancient Thebes, Egypt's opulent New Kingdom capital. It encompasses the spectacular temples of Luxor and Karnak on ...

Sparta

Beyond the Mirage

The study of the Spartans is now pursued more widely and intensively than ever. Indeed, no longer is Sparta the 'second city' of ancient Greece. This volume, the fourth in the established series on which Powell and Hodkinson have collaborated, breaks fresh ground, not least ...

Myths, muses and mortals

the way of life in ancient Greece

A window into the human lives of classical Greece through the words they left behind. Myths, Muses and Mortals gives new insight into a multitude of life experiences in ancient Greece. The book introduces the lives of the ancient Greeks through extracts taken from a ...

Gladiadores

Espectáculos y ocio en la Antigua Roma

Un viaje en el tiempo para descubrir los espectáculos de la antigua Roma.¿Alguna vez te has preguntado si realmente los gladiadores morían en los combates? ¿Si se inundaba la arena del Coliseo para celebrar batallas navales? ¿O si gritaban aquello de «¡Ave César, los ...

Sentirán el aliento de Turquía en la nuca

Secuestros, espionaje y guerra sucia en el país de Erdogan

Una crónica sobre la deriva autoritaria de Turquía bajo el régimen de Erdogan y la resistencia de su pueblo. Desde las calles de Estambul hasta las esferas del poder en Ankara, este libro revela la implacable lucha por el control y la influencia que ha ...

Disputing disaster

a sextet on the Great War

In Disputing Disaster, Perry Anderson picks out from the highly charged historiography on the First World War one leading historian from each of the major powers that survived the conflagration: Fritz Fischer, famous historian of German war guilt; Pierre Renouvin, a disabled serviceman and preeminent ...

Nexus

a brief history of information networks from the Stone Age to AI

The story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world from the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of Sapiens Stories brought us together. Books spread our ideas - and our mythologies. The internet promised infinite knowledge. The algorithm learned our secrets - and then turned ...

Discurso sobre el colonialismo

Este ensayo, escrito por Aimé Césaire, poeta y político martiniqueño, fue publicado por primera vez en 1950 por Éditions Réclame, una pequeña editorial asociada al Partido Comunista Francés. Césaire, junto a Léopold S. Senghor y Léon-Gontran Damas. que se habían conocido en los años treinta ...

El tren

A través de la nueva Ruta de la Seda

De las entrañas de la China industrial nace la línea férrea más larga del mundo. En los veintiún días que la mercancía tarda en llegar a España, los contenedores pasan de tren en tren como en una carrera de relevos, arrastrados por hasta dieciséis locomotoras ...

Iran's Ministry of Intelligence

a concise history

Steven R. Ward provides an accessible overview of Iran's Ministry of Intelligence (MOIS) and its focus on tracking and countering domestic dissent and perceived foreign-inspired sedition. The ministry's checkered record of effective intelligence operations includes a history of assassinations and human rights abuses ...

El tren

A través de la nueva Ruta de la Seda

De las entrañas de la China industrial nace la línea férrea más larga del mundo. En los veintiún días que la mercancía tarda en llegar a España, los contenedores pasan de tren en tren como en una carrera de relevos, arrastrados por hasta dieciséis locomotoras ...

Humans in shackles

an Atlantic history of slavery

A sweeping narrative history of the Atlantic slave trade and slavery in the Americas. During the era of the Atlantic slave trade, more than twelve million enslaved Africans were forcibly transported to the Americas in cramped, inhumane conditions. Many of them died on the way ...

What the Greeks did for us

An enjoyable, accessible exploration of the legacy of ancient Greece today, across our daily lives and all forms of popular culture Our contemporary world is inescapably Greek. Whether in a word like "pandemic," a Freudian state of mind like the "Oedipus complex," or a replica ...

Black knights

Arabic epic and the making of medieval race

A new account of racial logics in premodern Islamic literature. In Black Knights, Rachel Schine reveals how the Arabic-speaking world developed a different form of racial knowledge than their European neighbors during the Middle Ages. Unlike in European vernaculars, Arabic-language ideas about ethnic difference emerged ...

Dinner pieces. Volume I

(The I Tatti Renaissance Library, 97)

An innovative collection of comedic stories by the original "Renaissance man." Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472) was among the most famous figures of the Italian Renaissance. His extraordinary range of abilities as a writer, architect, art theorist, and scientist made him the original model for the ...

Dinner pieces. Volume 2

(The I Tatti Renaissance Library, 98)

An innovative collection of comedic stories by the original "Renaissance man."Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472) was among the most famous figures of the Italian Renaissance. His extraordinary range of abilities as a writer, architect, art theorist, and scientist made him the original model for the ...