Violencia colectiva

estrategias políticas del odio

Sociología, historia y psicología se dan cita en el siguiente volumen con el objetivo de situar el tema de la violencia en un marco interdisciplinar, capaz de subrayar su naturaleza transversal, centrándose en algunos periodos de la historia de países tan diversos como Alemania, España ...

The Balkans as Europe

1821-1914

This collection of essays places the Balkans at the center of European developments, not as a conflict-ridden problem zone, but rather as a full-fledged European region. Contrary to the commonly held perception, contributors to the volume argue, the Balkans did not lag behind the rest ...

'Kill all the gentlemen'

class struggle and change in the english countryside

The modern countryside is the result of centuries of environmental change, but also brutal class struggle. While Wat Tyler's Peasants' Revolt is well known, and Jack Cade and Robert Kett are remembered for their rebellions, there are countless lesser known struggles. Modern agriculture, the ...

English nationalism

a short history

Englishness is an idea, a consciousness and a proto-nationalism. There is no English state within the United Kingdom, no English passport, Parliament or currency, nor any immediate prospect of any. That does not mean that England lacks an identity, although English nationalism, or at least ...

Histories of Nationalism in Ireland and Germany

a comparative study from 1800 to 1932

Focusing on the era in which the modern idea of nationalism emerged as a way of establishing the preferred political, cultural, and social order for society, this book demonstrates that across different European societies the most important constituent of nationalism has been a specific understanding ...

Palestine

a four thousand year history

This rich and magisterial work traces Palestine's millennia-old heritage, uncovering cultures and societies of astounding depth and complexity that stretch back to the very beginnings of recorded history. Starting with the earliest references in Egyptian and Assyrian texts, Nur Masalha explores how Palestine and ...

On Germany

After the Second World War, Germany was an international pariah. Today, it has become a beacon of the Western world. But what makes this extraordinary nation tick? On Germany tells the story of a country reborn, from defeat in 1945 to the fall of the ...

Citizens without Nations

urban citizenship in Europe and the World c.1000-1789

Citizenship is at the heart of our contemporary world but it is a particular vision of national citizenship forged in the French Revolution. In Citizens without Nations, Maarten Prak recovers the much longer tradition of urban citizenship across the medieval and early modern world. Ranging ...

History and Philosophy of the Humanities

an introduction

The humanities include disciplines as diverse as literary theory, linguistics, history, film studies, theology, and philosophy. Do these various fields of study have anything in common, which distinguishes them from e.g. physics or sociology? The tripartite division between the natural sciences, the social sciences ...

El ladrón de recuerdos

viaje por río a través de Colombia

Un encuentro fortuito con Gabriel García Márquez cuando el escritor ya andaba perdido en las regiones oscuras de su memoria, aviva el deseo de atravesar Colombia navegando el río Magdalena, desde su desembocadura en Barranquilla a su nacimiento en los Andes. El río de la ...

Historia contemporánea de Canadá

El conjunto de temas desarrollados en este libro tiene la voluntad de aunar la visión del historiador y del politólogo sobre el conjunto de vicisitudes que tienen lugar durante el proceso que transforma una colonia con dos raíces culturales distintas en un Estado totalmente independiente ...

Syria

With more than 500,000 people killed and at least half the population displaced, Syria's conflict is the most deadly of the 21st century. Russia's decision to join the war has broken the long military and political stalemate but it looks unlikely to ...

La Ciencia histórica

El presente libro recoge las cuatro conferencias que el historiador holandés Johan Huizinga (1872-1945) -autor del famoso libro El Otoño de la Edad Media- pronunció en la Universidad Internacional de Verano de Santander en 1934. Aparecidas en primera y única edición en este mismo año ...

The royal art of poison

filthy palaces, fatal cosmetics, deadly medicine, and murder most foul

The story of poison is the story of power. For centuries, royal families have feared the gut-roiling, vomit-inducing agony of a little something added to their food or wine by an enemy. To avoid poison, they depended on tasters, unicorn horns, and antidotes tested on ...

Decadencia

vida y muerte de Occidente

En este nuevo libro Michel Onfray elabora una vasta y fascinante historia de Occidente vista desde el inexorable declive de la civilización judeocristiana. Después de una época llena de vitalidad con el nacimiento del cristianismo y la conquista del poder político, el momento del colapso ...

Ambassadeur de deux couronnes

Amelot et les Bourbons, entre commerce et diplomatie

La mort de Charles II d'Espagne en 1700 et la guerre de Succession d'Espagne qui s'ensuit bouleversent toute l'Europe dont la carte en ressort transformée en 1714. Les monarchies de France et d'Espagne, longtemps rivales et concurrentes, sont devenues des ...

Return of the Barbarians

confronting non-state actors from Ancient Rome to the present

Barbarians are back. These small, highly mobile, and stateless groups are no longer confined to the pages of history; they are a contemporary reality in groups such as the Taliban, Al-Qaeda, and ISIL. Return of the Barbarians re-examines the threat of violent non-state actors throughout ...

A concise history of Portugal

This concise, illustrated history of Portugal offers an introduction to the people and culture of the country, its empire, and its search for economic modernisation, political stability and international partnership. It remains the standard single-volume work on Portugal, studying the effects of the vast wealth ...

Historia y memoria en Red

una nuevo reto para la historiografía

La Historia y la Memoria colectiva de la Guerra Civil y del franquismo constituyen una cuestión de gran relevancia historiográfica y social que ha sobrepasado las formas y soportes clásicos de la transmisión a otros más novedosos y tecnológicos propios de la sociedad digital. El ...

The travel diaries of Albert Einstein

The far East, Palestine and Spain 1922-1923

Albert Einstein's travel diary to the Far East and Middle East In the fall of 1922, Albert Einstein, along with his then-wife, Elsa Einstein, embarked on a five-and-a-half-month voyage to the Far East and Middle East, regions that the renowned physicist had never visited ...