Amador Guallar aterrizó en Afganistán en 2008 con un contrato precario en una productora audiovisual local de dudosa reputación; el peaje necesario para emprender la aventura, sin duda descabellada, de convertirse en corresponsal de guerra y de hacerlo directamente sobre el terreno.
Acabó viviendo casi ...
Amador Guallar aterrizó en Afganistán en 2008 con un contrato precario en una productora audiovisual local de dudosa reputación; el peaje necesario para emprender la aventura, sin duda descabellada, de convertirse en corresponsal de guerra y de hacerlo directamente sobre el terreno.
Acabó viviendo casi ...
Hay innumerables libros sobre París, pero muy pocos como éste. En muchas de sus estupendas páginas el humor acompaña y expande la mirada del flâneur. No es sólo todo París lo que se nos muestra aquí, «el todo» París, sino también, como dijera Sacha Guitry ...
Hay innumerables libros sobre París, pero muy pocos como éste. En muchas de sus estupendas páginas el humor acompaña y expande la mirada del flâneur. No es sólo todo París lo que se nos muestra aquí, «el todo» París, sino también, como dijera Sacha Guitry ...
This book is a comprehensive portrait of the British colony in Egypt, which also takes a fresh look at the examples of colonial cultures memorably enshrined in Edward W. Said's classic Orientalism. Arguing that Said's analysis offered only the dominant discourse in imperial ...
This book is a comprehensive portrait of the British colony in Egypt, which also takes a fresh look at the examples of colonial cultures memorably enshrined in Edward W. Said's classic Orientalism. Arguing that Said's analysis offered only the dominant discourse in imperial ...
In this updated edition of his acclaimed history, Marcus Tanner takes us from the first Croat principalities of the Early Middle Ages through to the country's independence in the modern era
In this updated edition of his acclaimed history, Marcus Tanner takes us from the first Croat principalities of the Early Middle Ages through to the country's independence in the modern era
With more than 25 years since the collapse of communism, the end of the wars and billions of dollars in aid, the Balkans are still characterized by corruption, state capture, and decidedly unmodern states that are often either weak or authoritarian. Taking the contemporary Balkans ...
With more than 25 years since the collapse of communism, the end of the wars and billions of dollars in aid, the Balkans are still characterized by corruption, state capture, and decidedly unmodern states that are often either weak or authoritarian. Taking the contemporary Balkans ...
An accessible survey of the history of European overseas empires in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries based on new scholarship
In this thematic survey, Gabriel Paquette focuses on the evolution of the Spanish, Portuguese, English, French, and Dutch overseas empires in the seventeenth and eighteenth ...
An accessible survey of the history of European overseas empires in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries based on new scholarship
In this thematic survey, Gabriel Paquette focuses on the evolution of the Spanish, Portuguese, English, French, and Dutch overseas empires in the seventeenth and eighteenth ...
John Julius Norwich (at 88) has finally written the book he always wanted to write, the extremely colourful story of the country he loves best. From frowning Roman generals and belligerent Gallic chieftains, to Charlemagne (hated by generations of French children taught that he invented ...
John Julius Norwich (at 88) has finally written the book he always wanted to write, the extremely colourful story of the country he loves best. From frowning Roman generals and belligerent Gallic chieftains, to Charlemagne (hated by generations of French children taught that he invented ...
The victors of the First World War created Hungary from the ruins of the Austro-Hungarian empire, but, in the centuries before, many called for its creation. Norman Stone traces the country's roots from the traditional representative councils of land-owning nobles to the Magyar nationalists ...
The victors of the First World War created Hungary from the ruins of the Austro-Hungarian empire, but, in the centuries before, many called for its creation. Norman Stone traces the country's roots from the traditional representative councils of land-owning nobles to the Magyar nationalists ...
Savage Frontier traces the routes over the mountains taken by monks, soldiers, poets, pilgrims and refugees, examining the lives and events that have shaped the Pyrenees across the centuries. Its cast of characters includes Napoleon, Hannibal and Charlemagne; the eccentric British climber Lord Henry Russell ...
Savage Frontier traces the routes over the mountains taken by monks, soldiers, poets, pilgrims and refugees, examining the lives and events that have shaped the Pyrenees across the centuries. Its cast of characters includes Napoleon, Hannibal and Charlemagne; the eccentric British climber Lord Henry Russell ...
The history of Britain has, at least in part, to be understood in a European context. Amid the ongoing Brexit crisis, mastodons on both sides are roaring about Britain's past relationship with Europe. Much specious history is presented to justify the closeness or distance ...
The history of Britain has, at least in part, to be understood in a European context. Amid the ongoing Brexit crisis, mastodons on both sides are roaring about Britain's past relationship with Europe. Much specious history is presented to justify the closeness or distance ...
The American University in Cairo Press. Cairo, 2019
This cohesive account of Egypt's millennia-long past offers readers a sure guide through the corridors of Egypt's past, from the mysterious predynastic kingdoms to the nation-state of the twenty-first century. The author addresses central issues such as how Egyptian history can be treated ...
The American University in Cairo Press. Cairo, 2019
This cohesive account of Egypt's millennia-long past offers readers a sure guide through the corridors of Egypt's past, from the mysterious predynastic kingdoms to the nation-state of the twenty-first century. The author addresses central issues such as how Egyptian history can be treated ...
The first part of a sweeping two-volume history of the devastation brought to bear on Indian nations by U.S. expansion
In this book, the first part of a sweeping two-volume history, Jeffrey Ostler investigates how American democracy relied on Indian dispossession and the federally ...
The first part of a sweeping two-volume history of the devastation brought to bear on Indian nations by U.S. expansion
In this book, the first part of a sweeping two-volume history, Jeffrey Ostler investigates how American democracy relied on Indian dispossession and the federally ...
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. Cambridge (MSS), 2019
China and Japan have cultural and political connections that stretch back 1,500 years. But today they need to reset their strained relationship. Ezra Vogel underscores the need for Japan to offer a thorough apology for its atrocities during WWII, but he also urges China ...
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. Cambridge (MSS), 2019
China and Japan have cultural and political connections that stretch back 1,500 years. But today they need to reset their strained relationship. Ezra Vogel underscores the need for Japan to offer a thorough apology for its atrocities during WWII, but he also urges China ...
Nusantaria - often referred to as 'Maritime Southeast Asia' - is the world's largest archipelago and has, for centuries, been a vital cultural and trading hub. Nusantara, a Sanskrit, then Malay, word referring to an island realm, is here adapted to become Nusantaria - denoting a slightly ...
Nusantaria - often referred to as 'Maritime Southeast Asia' - is the world's largest archipelago and has, for centuries, been a vital cultural and trading hub. Nusantara, a Sanskrit, then Malay, word referring to an island realm, is here adapted to become Nusantaria - denoting a slightly ...
Standard histories of technology give tired accounts of the usual inventions, inventors, and dates, framing technology as the inevitable march of progress. They split history into ages - electrification, motorisation, and computerisation - and rarely ask whether anyone bothered to use these inventions at the time. Shock ...
Standard histories of technology give tired accounts of the usual inventions, inventors, and dates, framing technology as the inevitable march of progress. They split history into ages - electrification, motorisation, and computerisation - and rarely ask whether anyone bothered to use these inventions at the time. Shock ...
Marcial Pons, Ediciones Jurídicas y Sociales. Madrid, 2019
Una de las tareas fundamentales de la historia y la historiografía es insistir en la recuperación de la conciencia individual, de la conciencia social, de la conciencia humana. Los capítulos que componen este libro, escrito en un estilo directo que busca provocar y generar más ...
Marcial Pons, Ediciones Jurídicas y Sociales. Madrid, 2019
Una de las tareas fundamentales de la historia y la historiografía es insistir en la recuperación de la conciencia individual, de la conciencia social, de la conciencia humana. Los capítulos que componen este libro, escrito en un estilo directo que busca provocar y generar más ...
Are Europeans hard-wired for conflict? Given the enmities that wracked the Greek city-states, or the Valois, Bourbons and Habsburgs, it seems undeniable. The Holy Roman Empire promised peace, but collapsed before it could deliver it, while rival rulers counter-balanced its power by stressing their own ...
Are Europeans hard-wired for conflict? Given the enmities that wracked the Greek city-states, or the Valois, Bourbons and Habsburgs, it seems undeniable. The Holy Roman Empire promised peace, but collapsed before it could deliver it, while rival rulers counter-balanced its power by stressing their own ...
Las narrativas sobre África tienden a ser engañosas debido a la escasez de datos sobre el continente, a percepciones negativas y a visiones simplistas, a menudo ligadas a la falta de estudios comparativos con otras regiones del mundo. Es como si África fuera una entidad ...
Las narrativas sobre África tienden a ser engañosas debido a la escasez de datos sobre el continente, a percepciones negativas y a visiones simplistas, a menudo ligadas a la falta de estudios comparativos con otras regiones del mundo. Es como si África fuera una entidad ...
En la segunda mitad del siglo xix, las potencias occidentales dominaban el mundo a su antojo, mientras las distintas culturas asiáticas vivían su sometimiento al hombre blanco como una catástrofe. Eran muchas las humillaciones que occidente les había infringido, e innumerables los corazones y las ...
En la segunda mitad del siglo xix, las potencias occidentales dominaban el mundo a su antojo, mientras las distintas culturas asiáticas vivían su sometimiento al hombre blanco como una catástrofe. Eran muchas las humillaciones que occidente les había infringido, e innumerables los corazones y las ...
From Johnson's Dictionary to campaigns for liberty, the Enlightenment was an age of endeavours. 'Endeavour' was also the name given to a commonplace, coal-carrying vessel bought by the Royal Navy in 1768 for an expedition to the South Seas. No one could have guessed ...
From Johnson's Dictionary to campaigns for liberty, the Enlightenment was an age of endeavours. 'Endeavour' was also the name given to a commonplace, coal-carrying vessel bought by the Royal Navy in 1768 for an expedition to the South Seas. No one could have guessed ...
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