Historia de la guerra en infografías

Una mirada fascinante, clara y visual a la historia de los conflictos humanos desde la Prehistoria hasta la guerra digital. Una historia de la guerra desde sus orígenes hasta nuestros días: ese es el ambicioso objetivo de este excepcional volumen de infografías. Desde las herramientas ...

¿Por qué la guerra?

Para erradicar la tendencia humana a la agresividad, conviene conocer las raíces biológicas, antropológicas, históricas y sociales que confluyen en las guerras. El gran historiador Richard Overy explora en este iluminador ensayo las causas y motivos que se ocultan tras uno de los fenómenos presentes ...

Ocean

a history of the Atlantic before Columbus

Ocean is an ambitious history of the pre-Columbian Atlantic Ocean, a story that begins with the formation of the mid-Atlantic ridge some 200 million years ago and ends with the Castilian conquest of the Canary Islands in the fifteenth century, which provided a template for ...

Central Europe

the death of a civilization and the life of an idea

An absorbing journey through a region caught between history, geography and ideology. What is 'Central Europe'? Where do its borders lie? Does it even exist? Attempts to define it usually yield more questions than answers. But perhaps the wrong questions are being asked. Luka Ivan ...

Unbroken chains

a 5,000-year history of African enslavement

A new, full history of slavery in Africa, from the Pharaohs to the present. Slavery has ravaged African societies since at least 2,500 BCE, from Egypt to the Cape; from Mauritania to Somalia. Most writing covers just one fraction of this history: the horrors ...

The Cameroon war

a history of French neocolonialism in Africa

Legend has it that the end of France's empire in sub-Saharan Africa was a peaceful affair. This book tells a very different story, exposing the shocking violence of a secret war. Its theater was Cameroon in the 1950s and '60s, where a mass movement ...

Earth shapers

how humans mastered geography and remade the world

Mountains, meridians, rivers and borders; these are some of the features that carve up the world on our maps and in our minds. But geography is far less set in stone than we might believe and, over time, we have become experts at reshaping our ...

The secret history of gold

myth, money, politics and power

The Secret History of Gold tells the epic tale of the world’s oldest, and most treasured, currency. From its origins in the formation of the solar system to its pivotal role in both ancient myth and modern finance, Dominic Frisby explores, with wit and ...

Progress

a history of humanity's worst idea

Progress is power. But our modern story of progress is a very dangerous fiction. In the pursuit of progress, of growth and expansion, we have levelled cities, flattened mountains, charted the globe and ushered in a new geological epoch unique in our planet’s 4 ...

Sicilia

Una breve historia desde los griegos hasta la Cosa Nostra

Un viaje fascinante por la historia de la isla más enigmática del Mediterráneo Goethe dijo: «Sicilia es la clave de todo». La isla italiana, la más grande del Mediterráneo, es el puente entre Europa y África, la puerta entre Oriente y Occidente. Su estratégica localización ...

Sicilia

Una breve historia desde los griegos hasta la Cosa Nostra

Un viaje fascinante por la historia de la isla más enigmática del Mediterráneo Goethe dijo: «Sicilia es la clave de todo». La isla italiana, la más grande del Mediterráneo, es el puente entre Europa y África, la puerta entre Oriente y Occidente. Su estratégica localización ...

Las mujeres que empuñaron la espada

Guerreras olvidadas. Heroínas silenciadas. Durante siglos, la historia de la guerra ha sido contada de forma casi exclusiva en masculino. Pero desde los campos de batalla de la Antigüedad hasta las trincheras de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, miles de mujeres empuñaron armas, lideraron ejércitos y ...

Postwar Europe

a very short introduction

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring The Second World War was the most destructive conflict in history. It left Europe in ruins, its economies severely damaged and millions of its people facing malnutrition, its political systems shaken if not destroyed. Yet three decades later its ...

Libya and the West

What Everyone Needs to Know

Libya and the West: What Everyone Needs to Know® is a welcome update to the literature on Western diplomatic relations with Libya. It specifically analyzes the complicated relationships that Italy, Britain, the United States, and France developed with Libya beginning in the 1910s. On the ...

La historia militar y al sociedad

La historia militar y la sociedad es una obra que busca conectar la historia militar con el mundo actual. Reúne a investigadores y divulgadores que analizan cómo acercar el conocimiento histórico al gran público sin perder el rigor académico. El libro parte de una idea ...

Southern Europe in the Age of Revolutions

An examination of revolutions in the Iberian and Italian peninsulas, Sicily and Greece in the 1820s that reveals a popular constitutional culture in the South After the turbulent years of the Napoleonic Wars and the Congress of Vienna's attempt to guarantee peace and stability ...

Lithuania

a history

Lithuania is often portrayed as a small nation- state that has survived against the odds of history: together with Estonia and Latvia, it won independence at the end of the First World War, lost it to the Soviet Union in 1939-40, regained it in 1990-1 ...

Iran's grand strategy

a political history

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Shia Revival A gripping account that overturns simplistic portrayals of Iran as a theocratic pariah state, revealing how its strategic moves on the world stage are driven by two pervasive threats-external aggression and internal dissolution Iran ...

Driven by the monsoons

through the Indian Ocean and the seas of China

The Silk Road may be one origin of globalization, but the Indian Ocean is another. Barry Cunliffe examines the beginning of maritime trade using the evidence of archaeology and the tales of great travellers such as Marco Polo, Ibn Battuta, and the Chinese Admiral, Zheng ...

Días de sol y piedra

De los Alpes a Roma

El nuevo libro del autor de Homo viatorUn apasionante viaje repleto de arte, historia y literatura para todos los enamorados de Italia. Un hombre quiere volver a Roma. Lo hace en bicicleta desde los Alpes, cargado de equipaje. Lleva consigo miedos, ansiedad, problemas familiares: un ...