Robespierre

The Man Who Divides Us the Most

How Robespierre's career and legacy embody the dangerous contradictions of democracy Maximilien Robespierre (1758-1794) is arguably the most controversial and contradictory figure of the French Revolution, inspiring passionate debate like no other protagonist of those dramatic and violent events. The fervor of those who ...

La pasión de la libertad

Thomas Jefferson y la creación de los Estados Unidos

Thomas Jefferson, autor de la Declaración de Independencia de los Estados Unidos en 1776, es una de las figuras más destacadas e inspiradoras de la historia de la gran nación americana. Los perfiles de su trayectoria y personalidad nos brindan una biografía excepcional, de enorme ...

Bernardo de Gálvez: España y la Independencia de Estado Unidos

(Revista Desperta Ferro. Moderna, Nº 59, año 2022)

La independencia de los Estados Unidos de América habría sido imposible sin la ayuda española a las Trece Colonias. No solo España proporcionó armas, municiones, prendas de vestir, tiendas de campaña, medicamentos y dinero a los rebeldes contra el dominio británico desde los mismos inicios ...

Adam Smith reconsidered

history, liberty, and the foundations of modern politics

A radical reinterpretation of Adam Smith that challenges economists, moral philosophers, political theorists, and intellectual historians to rethink him-and why he matters Adam Smith has long been recognized as the father of modern economics. More recently, scholars have emphasized his standing as a moral philosopher-one ...

London and the 17th century

the making of the world's greatest city

The Gunpowder Plot, the Civil Wars, Charles I's execution, the Plague, the Great Fire, the Restoration, and then the Glorious Revolution: the seventeenth century was one of the most momentous times in the history of Britain, and Londoners took center stage. In this fascinating ...

Inky fingers

the making of books in Early Modern Europe

In this celebration of bookmaking in all its messy and intricate detail, Anthony Grafton captures both the physical and mental labors that went into the golden age of the book-compiling notebooks, copying and correcting proofs, preparing copy-and shows us how scribes and scholars shaped influential ...

Hoax

the Popish Plot that never was

In 1678, a handful of perjurers claimed that the Catholics of England planned to assassinate the king. Men like the "Reverend Doctor" Titus Oates and "Captain" William Bedloe parlayed their fantastical tales of Irish ruffians, medical poisoners, and silver bullets into public adulation and government ...

The New Model Army

agent of revolution

The definitive account of the superior fighting force that powered the English Revolution The New Model Army was one of the most formidable fighting forces ever assembled. Formed in 1645, it was crucial in overthrowing the monarchy and propelling one of its most brilliant generals ...

Imperial paradoxes

training the senses and tasting the eighteenth century

At war for sixty years, eighteenth-century Britain and France experienced demographic, social, and economic exchanges despite their imperial rivalry. Paradoxically, this rivalry spurred their participation in scientific and industrial developments. Their shared interest in standards of living and cultural practices was fuelled by migration and ...

Saint-Simon in Spain 1721-1722

an odyssey

The duc de Saint-Simon's memoirs of the last decades of Louis XIV's reign and the regency of Philippe d'Orléans are considered a masterpiece of the genre and one of the glories of French literature. His accounts of the dramatic events he witnessed ...

Adventurer

the life and times of Giacomo Casanova

The life of the iconic libertine Giacomo Casanova (1725-1798) has never been told in the depth it deserves. An alluring representative of the Enlightenment's shadowy underside, Casanova was an aspiring priest, an army officer, a fortune teller, a con man, a magus, a violinist ...

Thomas Jefferson

a biography of spirit and flesh

Thomas Jefferson was arguably the most brilliant and inspiring political writer in American history. But the ethical realities of his personal life and political career did not live up to his soaring rhetoric. Indeed, three tensions defined Jefferson's moral life: democracy versus slavery, republican ...

La historia contemporánea en perspectiva múltiple

Homenaje a Javier Paredes Alonso

En este libro se reúnen una serie de aportaciones al estudio de la Historia contemporánea con motivo de la jubilación de Francisco Javier Paredes Alonso, catedrático emérito de Historia contemporánea en la Universidad de Alcalá. Los lectores podrán comprobar que los artículos se han escrito ...

Los alumbres españoles y mediterráneos en la Europa del siglo XV e inicios del XVI

producción, uso y distribución de una materia prima

Esta obra recoge los resultados de dos iniciativas: la red internacional de coordinación científica Exploitation of Mediterranean Alums in Europe (emae), que fue auspiciada por el Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique de Francia entre 2014 y 2017; y el seminario internacional Mazarrón en los ...

The Enlightenment

The Pursuit of Happiness, 1680-1790

The Enlightenment is one of the formative periods of Western history, yet more than 300 years after it began, it remains controversial. It is often seen as the fountainhead of modern values such as human rights, religious toleration, freedom of thought, scientific thought as an ...

King of the World

The Life of Louis XIV

Louis XIV dominated his age. He extended France's frontiers into Netherlands and Germany, and established colonies overseas. The stupendous palace he built at Versailles became the envy of monarchs all over Europe. In his palaces, Louis encouraged dancing, hunting, music and gambling. He loved ...

Los bucaneros de las Indias Occidentales en el siglo XVII

Clarence Henry Haring (1885-1960) es un reconocido historiador inglés especializado en el periodo colonial de Iberoamérica. The buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII century, su primer libro, fue publicado en Londres en 1910. En su exigente My Pirate Library, Philip Gosse, el historiador ...

El viaje más largo

proyecciones de la primera vuelta al mundo

Dado el relevante papel que jugó la ciudad de Valladolid en la gestación del proyecto magallánico y la importancia que, como no puede ser de otra forma, siempre le ha concedido el americanismo, la Asociación Española de Americanistas tuvo a bien confiar en el Área ...

Tres coronas para un rey

la empresa de Enrique III y sus misterios

¿Cuál es el auténtico significado del célebre emblema de Enrique III de Valois? ¿Simboliza quizá la subordinación de las dos coronas terrestres—las de Francia y Polonia—a la corona «celeste», o el advenimiento de una tercera corona «terrenal»? Nuccio Ordine emprende en este ensayo ...

Carta al Duque de Norfolk

Newman tiene el don de sugerir planteamientos de valor permanente, al hilo de cuestiones que enriquecieron el debate intelectual y doctrinal de su época.La Carta al Duque de Norfolk, escrita para rebatir las críticas ofensivas el político Gladstone a los católicos, está considerada hoy ...