Libros de Historia y Mitología 3286 resultados

Eric Hobsbawm

El libro, que comienza con un estudio sobre «Marx hoy» y acaba con otro sobre la relación, a lo largo del tiempo, entre Marx y el movimiento obrero organizado, cuya conclusión es que, ante los problemas de la economía en el siglo XXI, «ha llegado de nuevo el tiempo de tomar a Marx en serio», nos ofrece una primera parte con una serie de trabajos sobre Marx y Engels, sobre sus o...

Melvyn P.leffler

This volume examines the origins and early years of the Cold War. In the first comprehensive reexamination of the period, a team of leading scholars shows how the conflict evolved from the geopolitical, ideological, economic and sociopolitical environments of the two world wars and interwar period, and discusses how markets, ideas and cultural interactions affected political di...

Melvyn P.leffler

Volume II of The Cambridge History of the Cold War examines the developments that made the Cold War a long-lasting international system during the 1960s and 1970s. A team of leading scholars explains how the Cold War seemed to stabilize after the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 and how this sense of increased stability evolved into the détente era of the early 1970s. The authors o...

Melvyn P.leffler

This volume examines the evolution of the Cold War from the Helsinki Conference of 1975 until the Soviet collapse in 1991. Leading scholars analyze the economic, social, cultural, religious, technological, and geopolitical factors that shaped the policies that ended the Cold War, looking at the personalities and policies of Carter and Reagan, Brezhnev and Gorbachev, Thatcher, K...

Simon Jenkins

Which battle was fought 'For England, Harry and St George'? Who demanded to be painted 'warts and all'? What - and when - was the Battle of the Bulge? In A Short History of England, bestselling author Simon Jenkins answers all these questions - and many more - as he tells the tumultuous story of a fascinating nation. From the invaders of the dark ages to today's coalition, via ...

Marcus Sidonius Falx / Jerry Toner

At last a clear manual for managing slaves the Roman way. How to Manage your Slaves offers practical answers to every question you're likely to have and guidance on every problem you're likely to encounter. Marcus Sidonius Falx shows where and how to buy the slaves for the purposes you have in mind and how to get the best out of them once you've got them. He explains how to tel...

Svetlana Alexiévich

«Ganadora del premio Nobel 2015 por su obra polifónica, un monumento al sufrimiento y al coraje en nuestro tiempo».Academia SuecaCasi un millón de mujeres combatió en las filas del Ejército Rojo durante la segunda guerra mundial, pero su historia nunca ha sido contada. Este libro reúne los recuerdos de cientos de ellas, mujeres que fueron francotiradoras, condujeron tanques o t...

Fernando Rueda

El Estado de derecho tambien se defiende en las alcantarillas. Esta frase, del que fuera presidente del Gobierno, Felipe Gonzalez, abre un libro apasionante y sorprendente que introduce al lector en los vericuetos del Estado desde el inicio de la Transicion. El objetivo es hacer un retrato lo mas fiel posible del comportamiento -agentes, operaciones secretas y actividades- de l...

Ginzburg, Carlo

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Snyder, Timothy J.

En esta historia épica de exterminio y supervivencia, Timothy Snyder presenta una nueva explicación de la gran atrocidad del siglo xx, y revela los riesgos a los que nos enfrentamos en el siglo xxi. En Tierras de sangre (Galaxia Gutenberg, 2011) Timothy Snyder exploraba lo que ocurrió en Europa del Este entre 1933 y 1945 cuando las políticas nazi y soviética provocaron la muert...

Hernán Horna

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Woodward, Bob

As cyber-attacks dominate front-page news, as hackers displace terrorists on the list of global threats, and as top generals warn of a coming cyber war, few books are more timely and enlightening than "Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War," by "Slate" columnist and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Fred Kaplan. Kaplan probes the inner corridors of the National Securi...

Laura E. Matthew & Michael R. Oudijk

Indigenous allies helped the Spanish gain a foothold in the Americas. What did these Indian conquistadors expect from the partnership, and what were the implications of their involvement in Spain's New World empire? Laura Matthew's study of Ciudad Vieja, Guatemala-the first study to focus on a single allied colony over the entire colonial period-places the Nahua, Zapotec, and M...

Darnton, Robert

Erik Larson

Mark Riebling

Al revelar el plan secreto del Vaticano para asesinar a Hitler, Iglesia de espías echa abajo las acusaciones de que la Iglesia católica permaneció impasible ante el Holocausto nazi. Nada más lejos de la pasividad que la arriesgada actuación del papa Pío XII, que gracias al apoyo de católicos alemanes como Josef Müller y miembros del ejército alemán como Wilhelm Canaris y Hans O...

Larry Sabato

John F. Kennedy died almost half a century ago, yet because of his extraordinary promise and untimely death, his star still resonates strongly. On the anniversary of his assassination, celebrated political scientist and analyst Larry J. Sabato-himself a teenager in the early 1960s and inspired by JFK and his presidency-explores the fascinating and powerful influence he has had ...

Bill Oreilly

The year was 1981. Just two months into his presidency, Ronald Reagan was shot after leaving a speaking engagement in Washington, D. C. The quick action of the Secret Service and medical professionals saved the president's life. Mere days after his near-death experience, Reagan's personal strength propelled him back into his presidential duties. Adapted from Bill O'Reilly's his...

Kinzer, Stephen

A joint biography of John Foster Dulles and Allen Dulles, who led the United States into an unseen war that decisively shaped today's worldDuring the 1950s, when the Cold War was at its peak, two immensely powerful brothers led the United States into a series of foreign adventures whose effects are still shaking the world.John Foster Dulles was secretary of state while his brot...

Neal Ascherson

Siguiendo un itinerario que va rodeando este extraño mar interior, El mar Negro abarca cronológicamente desde la época de Heródoto hasta Yeltsin, desde la expedición de los argonautas en busca del vellocino de oro hasta la última década del siglo XX y la caída de los estados comunistas. Ascherson, en su recorrido, revela así al lector, con la amenidad de un libro de viajes, los...

Juan Eslava Galan

Jerry Toner

This introduction to the ancient world, part of the Ideas in Profile series, covers all its different cultures, from the million people crammed into Rome to the Jews and Syrians who refused to be Romanised. Jerry Toner shows what can be learnt from new approaches to ancient history, from analysing the bones of the dead in Pompeii or assessing the impact of environmental change,...

Adams, Charles

The first edition of Adams' study of the history of taxation had heads turning across the nation, with excited reviews appearing in dozens of national newspapers and magazines in addition to local papers in almost every state. Adams makes a convincing case for taxes being the cause of many of the landmark events in civilization's history. Starting in ancient Egypt, Adams survey...

Julio A. Sierra

Airey Neave

On a hot afternoon in August 1941, a 24-year-old Belgian woman walks into the British consulate in Bilbao, neutral Spain, and demands to see the consul. She presents him with a British soldier she has smuggled all the way from Brussels, through occupied France and over the Pyrenees. It is a journey she will make countless times thereafter, at unthinkable danger to her own life....

Dower, John

World War II marked the apogee of industrialized "total war." Great powers savaged one another. Hostilities engulfed the globe. Mobilization extended to virtually every sector of every nation. Air war, including the terror bombing of civilians, emerged as a central strategy of the victorious Anglo-American powers. The devastation was catastrophic almost everywhere, with the not...

Michael Weiss

Lucy Worsley