Libros de Historia y Mitología 3286 resultados

Alfredo Floristán

Desde el Renacimiento hasta la Revolución francesa: treinta y cuatro autores expertos en la materia proporcionan en este libro un esquema general sencillo, cronológico y temático que facilita la visión de conjunto de este periodo histórico. ...

Eugene Rogan

Durante aproximadamente cuatro siglos, el imperio otomano había sido uno de los estados más potentes de Europa, así como jefe de Oriente próximo. Hacia 1914 se había debilitado drásticamente y se había visto rodeado por numerosos depredadores que esperaban terminar con él. Tras la decisión de los otomanos de afiliarse a la primera guerra mundial del bando de las potencias centr...

Ben Macintyre

Kim Philby fue el más grande espía en la historia, un hombre brillante y encantador que encabezó la contrainteligencia británica contrala , Unión Soviétic durante el apogeo de la Guerra Fría a la vez que trabajaba en secreto para el enemigo. Nadie creía conocer mejor a Philby que Nicholas Elliott, su mejor amigo y compañe ro oficial del MI6. Los dos hombres habían ido a las mis...

Eric Frattini

¿Que paso realmente con la muerte de Hitler?El 30 de abril de 2015 se celebran los 70 años del suicidio de Hitler.Pero, ¿murio Hitler realmente en el bunker? Sus restos nunca se encontraronEric Frattini muestra la incertidumbre sobre su muerte y las pistas sobre su supuesta huida junto a su esposa, Eva Braun, poniendolas po r primera vez a la vista de los lectores. ...

David I. Kertzer

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY "SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE""" From National Book Award finalist David I. Kertzer comes the gripping story of Pope Pius XI's secret relations with Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. This groundbreaking work, based on seven years of research in the Vatican and Fascist archives, including reports from Mussolini's spies inside the highest le...

Evan Osnos

Winner of the 2014 National Book Award in nonfiction.An Economist Best Book of 2014.A vibrant, colorful, and revelatory inner history of China during a moment of profound transformationFrom abroad, we often see China as a caricature: a nation of pragmatic plutocrats and ruthlessly dedicated students destined to rule the global economy-or an addled Goliath, riddled with corrupti...

Snyder, Laura

On a summer day in 1674, in the small Dutch city of Delft, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek a cloth salesman, local bureaucrat, and self-taught natural philosopher gazed through a tiny lens set into a brass holder and discovered a never-before imagined world of microscopic life. At the same time, in a nearby attic, the painter Johannes Vermeer was using another optical device, a camera o...

Bill Oreilly

George Frost Kennan

Francis, Richard C.

Without our domesticated plants and animals, human civilization as we know it would not exist.We would still be living at subsistence level as hunter-gatherers if not for domestication. It is no accident that the cradle of civilization?the Middle East?is where sheep, goats, pigs, cattle, and cats commenced their fatefully intimate association with humans.Before the agricultural...

Darnton, Robert

With his uncanny ability to spark life in the past, Robert Darnton re-creates three historical worlds in which censorship shaped literary expression in distinctive ways.In eighteenth-century France, censors, authors, and booksellers collaborated in making literature by navigating the intricate culture of royal privilege. Even as the king's censors outlawed works by Voltaire, Ro...

Alexander Rose

In the grand tradition of John Keegan's enduring classic The Face of Battle comes a searing, unforgettable chronicle of war through the eyes of the American soldiers who fought in three of our most iconic battles: Bunker Hill, Gettysburg, and Iwo Jima. This is not a book about how great generals won their battles, nor is it a study in grand strategy. Men of War is instead a riv...

Robert Kurson

A thrilling new adventure of danger and deep-sea diving, historic mystery and suspense, by the author of the New York Times bestseller Shadow Divers Finding and identifying a pirate ship is the hardest thing to do under the sea. But two men—John Chatterton and John Mattera—are willing to risk everything to find the Golden Fleece, the ship of the infamous pirate Joseph Bannister...

Charles Kaiser

This heroic true story of the three youngest children of a bourgeois Catholic family who worked together in the French Resistance is told by an American writer who has known and admired the family for five decades In the autumn of 1943, André Boulloche became de Gaulle's military delegate in Paris, coordinating all the Resistance movements in the nine northern regions of Franc...

Robert M. Buffington, Lila Caimari

The tenth edition of Keen's Latin American Civilization inaugurates a new era in the history of this classic anthology by dividing it into two volumes. This first volume retains most of the colonial period sources from the ninth edition but with some significant additions, including new sets of images representing Brazilian cannibals and "casta paintings" of mixed race families...

Service, Robert

The Cold War had seemed like a permanent fixture in global politics, and until its denouement, no Western or Soviet politician had foreseen that an epoch defined by games of irreconcilable one-upmanship between the world's most heavily armed superpowers would end in their lifetimes. Under the long, forbidding shadow of the Cold War, even the smallest miscalculation from either ...

Bulfinch, Thomas

"Stories of Gods and Heroes, " originally published in 1855, is the first of three works that make up "Bulfinch's Mythology," by Thomas Bulfinch. A useful and concise guide to the gods and goddesses of Greek and Roman mythology, this text was used in history classrooms for over a century. Bulfinch s writing is an attempt to expand the enjoyment of classic literature for the com...

James West Davidson

Trotski / Buajrin / Zinoviev

El Gran Debate (1924-1926) recoge los principales textos de la discusión política que se desarrolla en el seno del partido bolchevique desde el periodo inmediato a la muerte de Lenin (1924) hasta el XIV Congreso del partido, en el que Stalin vio definitivamente reforzadas sus posiciones (1926). Se trata, sin duda, de una de las polémicas más importantes previas a la iniciación ...

Zinóviev, Griogori / Stalin, Iósif

El Gran Debate (1924-1926) recoge los principales textos de la discusión política que se desarrolla en el seno del partido bolchevique desde el periodo inmediato a la muerte de Lenin (1924) hasta el XIV Congreso del partido, en el que Stalin vio definitivamente reforzadas sus posiciones (1926). Se trata, sin duda, de una de las polémicas más importantes previas a la iniciación ...

Cruz , Manuel

Peter Watson

Cuando Colón llegó a América en 1492 encontró un Nuevo Mundo muy distinto del Viejo, del cual había partido. ¿Por qué habían evolucionado de manera tan distinta? Para averiguarlo Watson emprende una experiencia de arqueología cognitiva, basada en la interacción que existe entre las ideas de los seres humanos y las realidades naturales de su entorno, con el fin de ofrecernos una...

Vincenzo Ferrone

In this concise and powerful book, one of the world's leading historians of the Enlightenment provides a bracing and clarifying new interpretation of this watershed period. Arguing that philosophical and historical views of the era have long been hopelessly confused, Vincenzo Ferrone makes the case that it is only by separating these views and taking an approach grounded in soc...

George M. Fredrickson

Are antisemitism and white supremacy manifestations of a general phenomenon? Why didn't racism appear in Europe before the fourteenth century, and why did it flourish as never before in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries? Why did the twentieth century see institutionalized racism in its most extreme forms? Why are egalitarian societies particularly susceptible to virulent ...

Gregory Clark

How much of our fate is tied to the status of our parents and grandparents? How much does it influence our children? More than we wish to believe. While it has been argued that rigid class structures have eroded in favor of greater social equality, The Son Also Rises proves that movement on the social ladder has changed little over eight centuries. Using a novel technique—track...

Eric H. Cline

In 1177 B.C., marauding groups known only as the "Sea Peoples" invaded Egypt. The pharaoh's army and navy managed to defeat them, but the victory so weakened Egypt that it soon slid into decline, as did most of the surrounding civilizations. After centuries of brilliance, the civilized world of the Bronze Age came to an abrupt and cataclysmic end. Kingdoms fell like dominoes ov...

Georges Lefebvre

The Coming of the French Revolution remains essential reading for anyone interested in the origins of this great turning point in the formation of the modern world. First published in 1939, on the eve of the Second World War, and suppressed by the Vichy government, this classic work explains what happened in France in 1789, the first year of the French Revolution. Georges Lefeb...

William B. Helmreich

As a child growing up in Manhattan, William Helmreich played a game with his father called "Last Stop." They would pick a subway line, ride it to its final destination, and explore the neighborhood. Decades later, his love for exploring the city is as strong as ever.Putting his feet to the test, he decided that the only way to truly understand New York was to walk virtually eve...

Andy Beckett

El 16 de octubre de 1998, el general Augusto Pinochet fue detenido en Londres, acusado de crímenes contra la humanidad por el juez español Baltasar Garzón. Durante los dieciséis meses que duró su arresto, el caso se convirtió en la cause célèbre más importante de finales del siglo XX, conocía mil peripecias judiciales y provocaba encendidos debates en España, Chile, el Reino Un...

Lorenzo Fernandez Bueno

La exitosa serie de Conversaciones con Dios ha alcanzado los corazones de millones de jóvenes y adultos en todo el mundo. Ahora, Neale Donald Walsch invita a experimentar de manera interactiva la sabiduría que se encuentra en sus libros.Esta obra cercana y práctica es el acompañamiento definitivo para alcanzar la iluminación más profunda: ejercicios, tareas y experimentos que p...