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Europa del Sur y América Latina en el siglo XIX

La historia de la nación es un campo de estudio con amplias resonancias contemporáneas dado el actual florecimiento por todas partes del nacionalismo. Siendo preciso conocer bien tan importante fenómeno, para ese fin puede sacarse mucho en limpio del análisis de la trayectoria histórica como ...

Los imperios ibéricos y la globalización de Europa

(siglos XV a XVII)

La historia de España y Portugal está plagada de estereotipos que, a menudo, se usan tanto para alimentar el triunfalismo como un pesimismo paralizante. Solo los pueblos que conocen los contrastes de su historia pueden entender el pasado para, desde él, construir su futuro. Este ...

Historia global, historia transnacional e historia de los imperios

El Atlántico, América y Europa (siglos XVI-XVIII)

La historia global y la historia trasnacional (con base en la historia entrelazada) están rompiendo los moldes de la historia nacional consolidada a medida que se afianzaban los estados nacionales. Sin rechazar la necesidad de comprender la formación de estos últimos, sino al contrario, esta ...

El motín de la naturaleza

historia de la Pequeña Edad de Hielo (1570-1700), así como del surgimiento del mundo moderno, junto con algunas reflexiones sobre el clima de nuestros días

Hacia finales del siglo XVI, las temperaturas empezaron a caer, hasta tal punto que se helaron las aguas de algunos puertos mediterráneos y las aves se congelaban en pleno vuelo... Sobre el hielo del Támesis se organizaban animadas ferias. A mediados del siglo siguiente, Europa ...

Conversions

gender and religious change in Early Modern Europe

Conversions is the first collection to explicitly address the intersections between sexed identity and religious change in the two centuries following the Reformation. Chapters deal with topics as diverse as convent architecture and missionary enterprise, the replicability of print and the representation of race. Bringing ...

Reformation without end

religion, politics and the past in post-revolutionary England

This study provides a radical reassessment of the English Reformation. No one in eighteenth-century England thought that they were living during 'the Enlightenment'; instead, they saw themselves as facing the religious, intellectual and political problems unleashed by the Reformation, which began in the sixteenth century ...

Les opérations guerrières en essaims

combattre autrement

L'intérêt pour les opérations en essaims s'est accru dans les années 1990 aux Etats-Unis, sous le nom de swarming sans avoir encore, malgré la modernité et la pertinence du concept, de résonance en France. Depuis que les hommes s 'affrontent, les opérations en ...

The hurt (ful) body

performing and beholding pain, 1600-1800

This book offers a cross-disciplinary approach to pain and suffering in the early modern period, based on research in the fields of literary studies, art history, theatre studies, cultural history and the study of emotions. The volume's two-fold approach to the hurt body, defining ...

Florentine political writings from Petrarch to Machiavelli

In the fifteenth-century republic of Florence, political power resided in the hands of middle-class merchants, a few wealthy families, and powerful craftsmen's guilds. The intensity of Florentine factionalism and the frequent alterations in its political institutions gave Renaissance thinkers ample opportunities to inquire into ...

Leonardo Da Vinci and the book of doom

Bianca Sforza, the Sforziada and Artful propaganda in Renaissance Milan

This in-depth investigation into the art, politics and murderous cynicism of Renaissance Milan is is an academic detective story sketched out with erudition and journalistic panache. Debunking the outrageous claim by the notorious Lancashire forger Shaun Greenhalgh that he produced the mesmerizing portrait of a ...

Elizabeth's french wars

1562-1598

The aim of this study is to establish the scale and importance of English intervention during the French Wars of Religion of the late sixteenth century. The author looks at why and how Elizabeth I intervened, and what were the consequences of this intervention. He ...

Imbricaciones

paradigmas, modelos y materialidad de las artes en la Europa habsbúrgica

Durante los dos siglos largos en los que la dinastía Habsbúrgica gobernó en Europa asistimos al nacimiento de la Historia del Arte como disciplina que, en su enfoque vasariano, aspiraba a otorgar a los pintores la primacía de las artes sobre los demás artistas reconociendo ...

English catholic historians and the English Reformation, 1585-1954

In English Catholic Historians and the English Reformation, 15851954, Father John Vidman, OP puts Catholic writers back into the debate on the nature of the Reformation in England. His book shines a spotlight on the central issue of the papacys claim to spiritual authority, from ...

Hacedores de Santos

la fábrica de santidad en la Europa católica (siglos XV-XVIII)

En este libro, el culto a los santos se aborda desde un ángulo original, el de los oficios y actividades relacionados con devoción, su promoción y difusión. Primero es abordado dentro del marco de una vida devocional laica, es decir examinando las redes de sociabilidad ...

Guerre corsare nel Mediterraneo

una storia di incursioni, arrembaggi, razzie

«….Appena avean passata la Corsica, che scuoprano tre legni con Bandiera Francese, ai quali il capitano credendoli amici, s’accosta. Ma, ahimè; qual improvviso cangiamento inaspettato! Fu tutto un punto il calare le insegne francesi, l’innalberare lo stendardo algerino, e il vedersi intorno attorniato ...

Las vidas de los más excelentes arquitectos, pintores y escultores italianos desde Cimabue a nuestros tiempos

Giorgio Vasari (Arezzo, 1511-Florencia, 1574) se cuenta, por su pluma, no por su pincel, entre los máximos exponentes del Cinquecento. "Las vidas", publicadas en Florencia en 1550 por el editor ducal Lorenzo Torrentino, conforman una indiscutible obra maestra y fuente escrita imprescin­dible para quien ...

The hero of Italy

Odoardo Farnese, Duke of Parma, his soldiers, and his subjects in the Thirty Years' War

The Hero of Italy examines a salient episode in Italy's Thirty Years' War with Spain and France, whereby the young duke Odoardo Farnese of Parma embraced the French alliance, only to experience defeat and occupation after two tumultuous years (1635-1637). Gregory Hanlon stresses the ...

Paris savant

capital of Science in the Age of Enlightment

Novelist Honoré de Balzac was the first to use the phrase "Paris savant" to refer to the dynamic Parisian scientific and intellectual community of the late 18th century. The Academy of Sciences was highly active during this time, and was a meeting place for intellectual ...

Recipes and everyday knowledge

Medicine, Science, and the Household in Early Modern England

Across early modern Europe, men and women from all ranks gathered medical, culinary, and food preservation recipes from family and friends, experts and practitioners, and a wide array of printed materials. Recipes were tested, assessed, and modified by teams of householders, including masters and servants ...

By more than providence

grand strategy and american power in the Asia Pacific since 1783

Soon after the American Revolution, certain of the founders began to recognize the strategic significance of Asia and the Pacific and the vast material and cultural resources at stake there. Over the coming generations, the United States continued to ask how best to expand trade ...