Materialismo histórico y posmodernidad

la historiografía marxista occidental en la crisis de la modernidad

Aunque la influencia del marxismo en las ciencias sociales del siglo XX ha sido incuestionable, no son pocos quienes han anunciado su declive o incluso su final tras el inicio de la posmodernidad. En este libro se examinan exhaustivamente distintas escuelas y corrientes de economistas ...

Worn

a people's history of clothing

In this ambitious, panoramic social history, Sofi Thanhauser brilliantly tells five stories--Linen, Cotton, Silk, Synthetics, Wool--about the clothes we wear and where they come from, illuminating our world in unexpected ways. She takes us from the opulent court of Louis Quatorze to the labour camps ...

Enigmas de la Historia

la verdad tras los grandes mitos de nuestro pasado

¿Envenenó Salieri a Mozart?¿Fue Elizabeth Báthory la verdadera condesa Drácula?¿Hay algo de verdad en la leyenda negra de la Inquisición española?Como dijo una vez Napoleón: "La historia es una versión de acontecimientos pasados sobre los que la gente ha decidido ponerse de ...

Viaje a Liberland

gloria y desengaños de una aventura libertaria en el corazón de Europa

Hay lugares en el mundo que no pertenecen a ningún país. Son terra nullius, tierras de nadie. En Europa hay una, entre Serbia y Croacia, en la orilla oeste del Danubio. Su nombre es Gornja Siga. Para los pescadores locales no es más que un ...

El sistema africano de derechos humanos

la dignidad humana y la protección de los colectivos vulnerables

En la era de la nueva globalización, tendente al individualismo, a la polarización, al odio al diferente y a la falta de asunción de la responsabilidad colectiva, la filosofía integrada en los principios africanos de ubuntu nos interpela al replanteamiento de las dinámicas de cooperación ...

Historias alucinantes de Rusia

crónicas de un corresponsal en el país más grande del mundo

Un retrato caleidoscópico para entender el país más grande del mundo a través de sus gentes. Manel Alías ha trabajado más de siete años como corresponsal bajo el régimen de Vladímir Putin. Durante este periodo de noticias y reportajes, ha recorrido la inmensidad de Rusia ...

Los Simpson y la Historia

Por fin la Historia y Los Simpson juntos. Aprende. Viaja. Disfruta. Desde la Prehistoria a la actualidad. Homer astronauta de la NASA. Bart en Machu Picchu. Lisa como Juana de Arco. Skinner en Vietnam. Krusty y su padre judío. Y mucho más. La Guerra Fría ...

Relatos de la guerra

Desde Homero hasta nuestros días, la guerra ha sido un tema recurrente del que el ser humano ha dejado constancia a través de diversos medios, ya sean escritos, escultóricos, pictóricos y otros muchos. Este libro reúne una serie de artículos que se caracterizan por la ...

How to fight a war

An indispensable guide to understanding modern warfare, especially the decisions made by politicians and generals-both good and bad. Has any war in history gone according to plan? Monarchs, dictators and elected leaders alike have a dismal record on military decision-making, from over-ambitious goals to disregarding ...

Historia de Inglaterra: una aproximación española

De la Prehistoria a la Revolución Gloriosa

La publicación de una historia de Inglaterra (Historia de Inglaterra: una aproximación española. Desde la Prehistoria a la Revolución Gloriosa), escrita por el profesor doctor Mario Hernández Sánchez-Barba y por el doctor Manuel Hernández Ruigómez, constituye un hito desde el punto de vista de la ...

Understanding the Baltic States

Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania since 1991

This book addresses a crucial question: the contribution of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania to the historic dissolution of the USSR in 1991, which in turn led to regained independence for the Baltic States in that year. This is an important history, relating to the interplay ...

Untied Kingdom

a global history of the end of Britain

How did Britain cease to be global? In Untied Kingdom, Stuart Ward tells the panoramic history of the end of Britain, tracing the ways in which Britishness has been imagined, experienced, disputed and ultimately discarded across the globe since the end of the Second World ...

Power and ceremony in European history

rituals, practices and representative bodies since the Late Middle Ages

From oaths and hand-kissing to coronations and baptisms, Power and Ceremony in European History considers the governing practices, courtly rituals, and expressions of power prevalent in Europe and the Ottoman Empire from the medieval age to the modern era. Bringing together political and art historical ...

The Horn of Africa

state formation and decay

Why is the Horn such a distinctive part of Africa? This book, by one of the foremost scholars of the region, traces this question through its exceptional history and also probes the wildly divergent fates of the Horn's contemporary nation-states, despite the striking regional ...

Military strategy

a global history

A global account of military strategy, which examines the practices, rather than the theories, of the most significant military figures of the past 400 years Strategy has existed as long as there has been organised conflict. In this ground-breaking account, Jeremy Black explores the ever-changing ...

Ignorance

a global history

A rich, wide-ranging history of ignorance in all its forms, from antiquity to the present day "Ignorance: A Global History explores the myriad ways in which 'not-knowing' affects our lives, sometimes for good, sometimes for ill."-Michael Dirda, Washington Post Throughout history, every age has ...

Amongst the ruins

why civilizations collapse and communities disappear

Amongst the Ruins explores the loss of ancient civilizations, the collapse of ruling elites, and the disappearance of more recent communities and their local traditions. Some of these are now sealed under 3,000-year-old peat, others lost to rising seas or sands, and the carcasses ...

The stories old towns tell

a journey through cities at the heart of Europe

Historic quarters in cities and towns across the middle of Europe were devastated during the Second World War-some, like those of Warsaw and Frankfurt, had to be rebuilt almost completely. They are now centers of peace and civility that attract millions of tourists, but the ...

The stories old towns tell

a journey through cities at the heart of Europe

Historic quarters in cities and towns across the middle of Europe were devastated during the Second World War-some, like those of Warsaw and Frankfurt, had to be rebuilt almost completely. They are now centers of peace and civility that attract millions of tourists, but the ...

The rediscovery of America

native peoples and the unmaking of U.S. history

The most enduring feature of U.S. history is the presence of Native Americans, yet most histories focus on Europeans and their descendants. This long practice of ignoring Indigenous history is changing, however, with a new generation of scholars insists that any full American history ...