Citizen and soldier

a sourcebook on military service and national defense from colonial America to the present

Eds. Henry C. Dethloff, Gerlad E. Shenk. Americans grow up expecting that in a time of need, their country can depend on its people for volunteer service to the military. Indeed, this has been a social and at times legal expectation for the citizenship of ...

A short history of celebrity

Love it or hate it, celebrity is one of the dominant features of modern life - and one of the least understood. Fred Inglis sets out to correct this problem in this entertaining and enlightening social history of modern celebrity, from eighteenth-century London to today's ...

China's rise in historical perspective

Ed. Brantly Womack. "China and the United States are bound to have issues and confrontation. We will also have synergies, collaboration, and cooperation. In China's Rise, Brantly Womack has compiled the most useful set of perspectives in the last decade on how to think ...

Memoria histórica

Desde su mismo nacimiento la Historia, como ciencia social, ha consistido en un relato selectivo de los hechos del pasado, y ese proceso de selección ha estado acompañado, necesariamente, de un componente ideológico y cultural, explícito o tácito. Es obvio que la Historia no puede ...

Thinking historically

educating students for the Twenty-First Century

Two simple but profound questions have preoccupied scholars since the establishment of history education over a century ago: what is historical thinking, and how do educators go about teaching it? In Thinking Historically, Stephane Levesque examines these questions, focusing on what it means to think ...

A history of the Baltic States

Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have been the battleground for neighbouring powers and the site of intense rivalry, but also interaction, between East and West. A History of the Baltic States masterfully traces the development of these three Baltic countries, from the northern crusades against Europe ...

The Russia reader

history, culture, politics

Eds. Adele Barker, Bruce Grant. This title includes an account of the day-to-day scramble to make ends meet after the end of the Soviet Union, letters recording ordinary Russians' reactions to the Revolution as events unfolded in 1917, and excerpts from a sixteenth-century manual instructing ...

The future of history

The first stop for anyone thinking about history's current state'-Keith Jenkins, Emeritus Professor of Historical Theory, University of Chichester, UK This is daring and will, or at least should impact the practice of history, giving aid and hope to those who wish to ...

Peor que la guerra

genocidio, eliminacionismo y la continua agresión contra la humanidad

Hasta ahora el mundo no ha sido capaz de prevenir o detener los asesinatos en masa. La evidencia de ese fracaso es abrumadora: el genocidio ha persistido siempre que los líderes políticos lo han considerado útil para sus propósitos, de Europa al sur de África ...

Islas y sistemas de navegación durante las edades media y moderna

Ed. Adela Fábregas García. En 2005 se propuso la celebración de un III Coloquio Internacional sobre la Navegación. En esta ocasión nuestra atención giraría alrededor de las islas y a los sistemas de navegación que se construyen en torno a las mismas durante las épocas ...

Africa and the West

a documentary history.Vol.1: from the slave trade to conquest, 1441-1905

This is a new and expanded edition of the volume one Africa and the West: A Documentary History from the Slave Trade to Independence. It covers the era of the slave trade through abolition and then conquest as the European scramble for Africa began. This ...

100 documentales para explicar la historia

de Flaherty a Michael Moore

Al margen de las formas reporteriles y estereotipadas que ofrece la televisión,y más allá de las temáticas relativas a las maravillas de la ciencia y la naturaleza o a las series de índole divulgativa producidas por National Geographic, BBC, Discovery Channel, o nuestra TVE ...

A history of Europe

from the invasions to the XVI century

First published in 1939, this is a reissue of Henri Pirenne's extremely popular and influential history of Europe in the Middle Ages. It begins with the Barbarian and Musulman invasions in the fifth century AD, which signalled the end of the Roman world in ...

Utopia/dystopia

conditions of historical possibility

Eds. Michael D. Gordin, Helen Tilley, Gyan Prakash. The concepts of utopia and dystopia have received much historical attention. Utopias have traditionally signified the ideal future: large- scale social, political, ethical, and religious spaces that have yet to be realized. "Utopia/Dystopia" offers a fresh ...

Genios con huella

9 mentes maravillosas. Nueve retratos de personas decisivas: Ramón y Cajal, Darwin, Chaplin, Einstein, Chanel, Marx, Lennon, Colón y Beethoven

Coords. Pablo Gutiérrez, Juan Orellana. Genios con huella nos aproxima a la apasionante vida y a la creación de nueve talentos asombrosos, de muy distintas ramas del saber y el arte: Ramón y Cajal, Darwin, Chaplin, Einstein, Chanel, Marx, Lennon, Colón y Beethoven. Sus influencias ...

Samurai women 1184-1877

Il. Giuseppe Rava. From when the Empress Jingo-kogo led an invasion of Korea while pregnant with the future Emperor Ojin, tales of female Japanese warriors have emerged from Japan's rich history. Using material that has never been translated into English before, this book presents ...

The Persians

ancient, mediaeval and modern Iran

In recent years, Iran has gained attention mostly for negative reasons - for its authoritarian religious government, disputed nuclear programme, and controversial role in the Middle East - but there is much more to the story of this ancient land than can be gleaned from the news ...

Elemental, queridos humanos

vida y andanzas del ingenioso planeta tierra

Dibujos de Forges. La Tierra es un planeta con una larga historia al que le ocurrió, hace miles de millones de años, algo excepcional: le nació la vida. Desde entonces, la actividad de los distintos organismos ha ido creando las condiciones ambientales en las que ...

The Routledge encyclopedia of missions and missionaries

Ed. Jonathan J. Bonk. "The Encyclopedia of Missions and Missionaries" examines the nature and effects of missionary work around the world and throughout history, analyzing how secular and clerical people from major religions (especially Christianity, Buddhism and Islam) have brought social changes along with words ...

Mitos, emblemas, indicios

morfología e historia

Como para San Agustín, que comparó la belleza de la historia humana con una melodía, la sucesión de los siglos también es para Ginzburg un canto que nadie puede escuchar en su totalidad. Siguiendo huellas, recurriendo a metáforas, empleando perspectivas que acercan lo extraño o ...