Causas sagradas

religión y política en Europa. De la Primera Guerra Mundial al terrorismo islamista

Con la participación de algunos de los personajes más icónicos del siglo, Causas sagradas ofrece un examen brillante de cómo la religión ha moldeado la Europa del siglo XX desde la Primera Guerra Mundial hasta la actual guerra contra el terror. Partiendo del panorama caótico ...

A brief history of the Crimean War

the causes and consequences of a medieval conflict fought in a modern age

In September 1854, the armies of Britain, France and Turkey invaded Russia. In the months that followed over half a million soldiers fell. They died from bullet wounds and shrapnel, cholera and disease, starvation and freezing. The Crimean War was a medieval conflict fought in ...

Un groupe d'hommes considérables

les pairs de France et la Chambre des pairs héréditaire de la Restauration: 1814-1831

En 1814, avec le retour des Bourbons sur le trône et l'avènement de la Restauration, vingt-cinq ans après la Révolution qui instaurait un régime égalitaire en France, quelque cinq cents individus vont détenir la presque totalité des pouvoirs du pays : politique, judiciaire, économique et ...

Victorias frustradas

INDICE: I. LA CAMPAÑA DE POLONIA: Antes del asalto.- la situación operativa.-Las operaciones del Grupo de Ejércitos Sur.- II. LA CAMPAÑA OCCIDENTAL EN 1940: La neutralización del alto mando del Ejército.- La pugna en torno al plan de operaciones.- Comandante en jefe del XXXVIII ...

Diccionario de historia y política del mundo contemporáneo

El Diccionario de historia y política del mundo contemporáneo es por sí solo una obra autosuficiente en las dimensiones espacio-temporales en las que se inscriben sus lemas, y que abarcan desde los inicios del siglo XX hasta la configuración del nuevo orden mundial iniciado en ...

The legacy of the Siege of Leningrad, 1941-1995

myth, memories and monuments

The siege of Leningrad constituted one of the most dramatic episodes of World War II, one that individuals and the state began to commemorate almost immediately. Official representations of 'heroic Leningrad' omitted and distorted a great deal. Nonetheless, survivors struggling to cope with painful memories ...

Le communisme et les élites en Europe centrale

Plus de quinze ans après l'effondrement du bloc soviétique, les nouvelles démocraties d'Europe centrale sont encore hantées par la mémoire de la période communiste, et notamment par la manière dont leurs élites ont traversé ces années : les anciennes élites ont- elles disparu corps ...

Two lives in uncertain times

facing the challenges of the 20th century as scholars and citizens

Wilma and Georg Iggers came from different backgrounds, Wilma from a Jewish farming family from the German-speaking border area of Czechoslovakia, Georg from a Jewish business family from Hamburg. They both escaped with their parents from Nazi persecution to North America where they met as ...

Ends of british imperialism

the scramble for Empire, Suez and decolonization: collected essays

This is a major work of imperial history, by (in the words of A.J.P. Taylor) 'the foremost historian of the British Empire and Commonwealth in his generation'. "Pax Britannica to Pax Americana" is the story of the British Empire from its late-nineteenth century ...

Estudios sobre la construcción de los Estados Unidos

Los Estudios sobre la Construcción de los Estados Unidos, resultado de la traducción de la obra de Edouard Laboulaye, Histoire des États-Unis por parte del escritor románico español Joaquín Guchot, conocido defensor de la política liberal supuso, en 1869, un hito no sólo para el ...

Civil War and World War in Europe

Spain, Yugoslavia, and Greece, 1936-1949

This is a comparative history of the Spanish, Yugoslav, and Greek Civil Wars of 1936-1949 from the standpoints of politics, socioeconomic structures, national questions, international conjunctures, and foreign interventions. Minehan builds a historical typology of the overriding problem in each country: class conflict in Spain ...

Europe in the era of two world wars

from militarism and genocide to civil society, 1900-1950

How and why did Europe spawn dictatorships and violence in the first half of the twentieth century, and then, after 1945 in the west and after 1989 in the east, create successful civilian societies? In this book, Volker Berghahn explains the rise and fall of ...

Transforming America

politics and culture during the Reagan years

By the end of the 1980s, the "malaise" that had once pervaded American society was replaced by a renewed sense of confidence and national purpose. However, beneath this veneer of optimism was a nation confronting the effects of massive federal deficits, a reckless foreign policy ...

Doce de septiembre

la guerra civil occidental

La existencia de una cultura occidental es inseparable de la idea de libertad individual. Y es inseparable también de la existencia de una idea común sobre lo que es real y lo que no lo es. Las teorías conspiratorias sobre los ataques del 11 de ...

The nuclear taboo

the United States and the non-use of nuclear weapons since 1945

Why have nuclear weapons not been used since Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945? Nina Tannenwald disputes the conventional answer of 'deterrence' as incomplete. She argues in favour of a 'nuclear taboo' - a widespread inhibition on using nuclear weapons - which has arisen in global politics. Drawing ...

Nicolás II

el último zar

Nicolás II es una biografía exhaustiva, informativa y poco convencional que asombra, entre otras cosas, porque demuestra que los temas que hoy preocupan a Rusia son los mismos problemas clave que desafiaron el último zar y su nación.

Guerra e pace nell'Italia del Novecento

politica estera, cultura politica e correnti dell'opinione pubblica

Nell'età contemporanea, era delle "guerre totali", il problema guerra-pace presenta caratteri profondamente diversi rispetto al passato. Nel XX secolo la guerra e la pace non sono più solo componenti fondamentali della politica estera di stati e nazioni, né tanto meno elementi "naturali" della vita ...

A history of modern Lybya

Libya is coming in from the cold, but for most of the three decades following the 1969 revolution, the country was labelled a pariah state by the West. Dirk Vandewalle, one of only a handful of western scholars to visit during the time, is intimately ...

The almost impossible Ally

Harold MacMillan and Charles de Gaulle

On 14 January 1963, General de Gaulle (described by the Foreign Office as an 'almost impossible ally') brutally vetoed Britain's first bid to join the Common Market. It was a blow that delayed Britain's entry for a decade and hastened the end of ...

L'odio in rete

siti ultras, nazifascismo online, jihad elettronica

Si guarda ad Internet come a un formidabile diffusore di cosmopolitismo, universalismo e ugualitarismo. Ma che cosa sappiamo del suo lato oscuro? Superato il primo impulso a spegnere il computer di fronte ai linciaggi di "negri" proposti dai siti neonazisti americani, alle volgarità antisemite di ...