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Peter Lacovara has worked as a curator, archaeologist, teacher, and ceramicist during a long career in the United States and Egypt. He has played a key role in establishing and organizing groundbreaking exhibitions, written a host of popular and academic publications, created an on-line resource for the history of North American Egyptology, and also inspired and nurtured several generations of professional and amateur Egyptologists. This book comprises a series of articles dealing with subjects close to his heart, including ceramic studies, urbanism and urban archaeology, funerary archaeology, artefact studies, and the history of Egyptology, and will appeal to scholars and enthusiasts alike.

La Crónica del Perú, de Cieza, escrita entre 1541 y 1551, compendia noticias de la historia natural y geográfica de una amplia zona indiana, especialmente del Perú, haciendo hincapié en las grandes posibilidades agricolas y economicas o mercantiles de la tierra, e indagando en la historia moral de los indios, describiendo la organizacion de las poblaciones, estructura de las viviendas, vestimentas, ceremonias religiosas y fiestas profanas, costumbres y practicas de guerra... Cieza se propone, ademas, guardar memoria de la historia para el porvenir en el marco de una perspectiva providencialista y de la evangelizacion de la empresa conquistadora, abordando tambien las sombras de una empresa que se configura como ejemplo para el porvenir y cuyas responsabilidades deben ser asumidas. Cronica fundamental, obra de un testigo y protagonista de algunos de los hechos mas relevantes que narra, y en su conjunto optimista, aunque critique las malas actuaciones de los españoles, con aguda atencion a los problemas y obstaculos del camino que se abre en el Nuevo Mundo.

Despite the doubts about the representability of the Holocaust, thousands of works of art and visual artifacts were created by prisoners in Nazi camps and ghettos during and immediately after the Holocaust. Yet, both art historians and historians rarely dealt with them for decades. Because of their mostly figurative language, researchers and memory institutions often reduced such images to the status of spiritual and political resistance, praised their artistic quality, or consulted them as illustrations of "how it was". But these images do not speak for themselves, they require analysis. In this volume, 19 international scholars, curators, and educators explore the potential of analytical approaches to drawings, albums, paintings, and prints created by victims and witnesses of the Nazi regime. They consolidate current approaches to these multifaceted objects and take the images seriously as images.

In the history of the European Communities, a declaration on European identity was adopted for the first time at the Copenhagen Summit in December 1973. Through this document, the heads of state and government set out a programmatic concept for further European integration, stronger internal cohesion and the emergence of a common foreign policy, in order to advance the unification process. After a short introduction, the book examines the background of the declaration, the role played by the founding member states, the states of the Northern enlargement (Denmark, Ireland and the United Kingdom), the Council of Europe, the European Council summit itself, and the European Court of Justice. The volume sheds light on what really lays behind the Copenhagen Declaration.

In the 1920s, Adolf Rosenberger was one of Germanys best known racing car drivers. He was also co-founder and managing director of a design firm that had recently been launched by Ferdinand Porsche, and it was his job to ensure financing for the design firm a firm that provided important impetus during this time for technical innovation and racing car construction. When the firm fell into difficulties during the global business crisis, he ended up stepping away from his management role in the company, but remained active as partner and "foreign representative". The Jewish Rosenberger was however unable to escape the increasing persecution by the Nazis: in 1935 he lost his shares in the company and landed for a time in a concentration camp. After emigrating in 1938 he would go on over the following decades to develop a precarious new existence in the USA. Compensation and restitution proceedings that he initiated against the company would end up severing any remaining ties with the now internationally renowned sports car manufacturer. This book, drawing on documents that have remained unpublished until now, frames and analyses the exceptional and moving biography of Adolf Rosenberger.

Este livro mostra a importância da pomba gira Maria Padilha no imaginário espiritual brasileiro e revela quem é Maria Padilha de fato e a história de María de Padilla (1334-1361), como a mulher se to

More Than Just The Climb covers Martyn Boulds 60 years in the Cayman Islands as he helped it develop the islands time forgot with a population of 10,000 into a thriving financial centre with a population of 80,000 from 130 different countries. He was the youngest developer of town houses as well as developing the Great House luxury condominium on Seven Mile Beach, introduced innovations from squash to cable TV. Life is of course a journey and not a destination, and Martyn Boulds autobiography includes many lessons from the ups and downs of lifes twists of fate. The authors journeys include visiting 120 countries with his wife Vivian, meeting fascinating people along the way and climbing many figurative and literal mountains, including Kilimanjaro and Aconcagua in his 70s. He describes in detail his journey through lifes successes and challenges, closely coupled with his cultural development journey of the talented Cayman society.

The spatial structure of diagrams can be described in algebraic, geometric, cognitive or semiotic terms. Based on the Ur-diagram of the Divided Line in Platos Republic, diagrams can be understood as representations of the visible and the intelligible world. However, the knowledge thus conveyed is subject to the contingency of material and contextual, i.e., period-specific circumstances. How is the spatial organization of diagrams in medieval manuscripts structured under such conditions? The examples dealt with in this essay range from diagrammaric glosses to the late antique Corpus Dionysiacum to visualizations of the powers of perception and cognition by the Renaissance scholar Charles Bovelles. Medieval spaces of knowledge encompassed not only the confines of libraries or the extended social networks within which books were written, exchanged, and read; they also took shape on the page, most persuasively in the form of diagrams.

Alfred Landeckers life illustrates the fate of the vast majority of Jewish people in 20th century Germany at the time.From rural eastern Prussia to an industrial city in Germanys southeast: shortly before the start of the First World War, Alfred Landecker decided to make a considerable leap. Raised in a large Jewish family in the town of Nordenburg, as a young man Alfred left the area for Mannheim. After years on the Western Front, he worked as a business representative in a machine factory, became acquainted with his future Catholic wife Maria Gener, and started a family. In 1928, Maria died. Subsequent Nazi persecution from 1933 would place Alfred and his three children designated half Jews through the Nuremberg Laws in a hopeless situation. In 1942, Landecker was deported to the east and murdered. Times change, and with the times, people change as well he had written four years earlier in a letter to his daughter. This biography describes how changed times intruded into Alfred Landeckers life and destroyed it.

Cuando, a finales del siglo XVIII, las autoridades virreinales de la Nueva España decidieron instalar farolas en las calles del centro de la Ciudad de México, sacaron de la oscuridad nocturna los cuerpos de los citadinos indigenas, afrodescendientes y plebeyos españoles. Los patrulleros urbanos, conocidos como "guardafaroleros", daban mantenimiento a las farolas e intentaban arrancar de las calles novohispanas la sexualidad, la expresion corporal y la vida social de los plebeyos, aplicando politicas raciales que a menudo enfrentaban el violento rechazo de la poblacion. En Centinelas de la Ilustracion, Nicole von Germeten conduce a los lectores a lo largo del arduo camino emprendido en la ciudad de Mexico para definir e imponer valores modernos, tal como los concebian las primeras fuerzas del orden, en un proceso acelerado de racializacion de las poblaciones urbanas y con el surgimiento del concepto moderno de masculinidad. La autora nos lleva a lo largo de la fallida lucha de las elites por controlar las calles de la ciudad y del proceso por el cual, a medida que aumentaba la vigilancia y la poblacion se resistia con violencia, se produjo un impasse en la marcha hacia la modernidad. Centinelas de la Ilustracion ofrece un apasionante e innovador estudio del surgimiento de ese primer cuerpo policial, llevando una nueva luz a la historia de la masculinidad y la raza en Mexico en el siglo XVIII, asi como a los origenes de la policia en el continente americano.

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Ésta es la historia de Mesalina, tercera esposa del emperador Claudio y una de las mujeres más destacadas no sólo del mundo romano, sino de la Historia en general.Según los historiadores romanos Tácito y Suetonio, la emperatriz Mesalina era una mujer tan intrigante politicamente hablando como sexualmente insaciable. Las historias, rumores y maledicencias sobre ella, incluida una competicion sexual de veinticuatro horas con una prostituta, han quedado profundamente arraigadas en el imaginario cultural de Occidente. Pero, sin embargo, la verdadera historia de Mesalina es mucho mas compleja.En esta reevaluacion de una de las figuras femeninas mas difamadas de la historia antigua, Honor Cargill-Martin descubre a una mujer inteligente, apasionada y despiadada, que logro hacerse un hueco e imponer su voluntad en el mundo abrumadoramente masculino de la politica imperial romana. En lugar de proponerse "salvar" la reputacion de Mesalina, la autora analiza su vida en el contexto de su epoca. Por encima de todo, busca recuperar la humanidad de una historia de vida anteriormente circunscrita por las corrientes de la alta politicia y el patriarcado.

La obra que destapa cómo el tráfico de petróleo y otros lubricantes fue determinantes para la victoria franquista.En la guerra civil, como ya sucedió en la gran guerra, la motorización convirtió el combustible en un elemento esencial. El petroleo y sus derivados fueron factor imprescindible para movilizar tropas por tierra, mar y aire, y poner en marcha la maquinaria de guerra.Los sublevados contra la Republica solventaron la carencia inicial de carburantes gracias al aprovechamiento de las preexistentes redes conspirativas monarquicas y a otras de nueva creacion. Densas mallas de espionaje y negocios facilitaron un acceso ilimitado al petroleo americano y generaron grandes fortunas ademas de corrupciones y complicidades. Pero, sobre todo, nuevas evidencias presentadas en este trabajo situan la ayuda internacional en petroleo y sus derivados como uno de los elementos esenciales en la victoria del general Francisco Franco. Angel Viñas suma una nueva pieza, tan documentada como decisiva, a la reconstruccion y funcionamiento de los acuerdos internacionales de los sublevados. Ademas de los regimenes fascistas afines, contaron con la connivencia de representantes del gran capital y de politicos de las naciones democraticas.Escrito a cuatro manos con el ingeniero industrial, investigador y especialista Guillem Martinez Molinos, este nuevo libro demuestra que el oro negro y la implicacion estadounidense resultaron, a todas luces, determinantes para el resultado final de la contienda.

Arabic erotic literature has a long and rich history, which goes back as far as the ninth century. Far from being the pursuit of prurient pornographers, eroticism and sexuality received considerable attention from scholars.Written by Nasir al-Din al-Tusi (1201 - 1274), one of the leading scientists of the age, The Sultans Sex Potions is part of a relatively small group of works devoted to aphrodisiacs, as well as sexual stimulants, sexual practices and positions. Sober and measured in tone, the work was intended to be a manual, which would allow the patient to dispense with the services of a physician. Written at the request of the ruler, its potions, electuaries, syrups and enemas enjoyed a royal warrant of appointment to arouse the lust for coitus and enhance sexual potency.This bilingual volume includes a critical edition of three manuscripts (Berlin, Cairo and Glasgow) and is accompanied by a translation, as well as an introduction to Arabic erotic literature, a biography of the author and extensive indexes.

Un relato épico de la gesta que cimentó el primer Imperio global de la historia.Esta es la historia de los intrépidos españoles que tras el descubrimiento de América se lanzaron a surcar un nuevo océano al que llamaron Pacifico y lograron asentarse en las islas Filipinas, estableciendo un enclave unico: un encuentro entre Oriente y Occidente sin precedentes con culturas como la china o la japonesa.Elcano, Loaysa, Legazpi o Urdaneta son algunos de los nombres que pasaron a la historia, pero junto a ellos tambien navegaron quienes, sin figurar en los libros, buscaron fortuna o simplemente sobrevivir: carpinteros, pilotos, grumetes, soldados, escribanos, religiosos, agricultores, artesanos, comerciantes... A lo largo de estas paginas conoceremos sus aventuras, no exentas de peligros, desafios y desdichas, pero tambien de hazañas sin igual. Viajaremos con ellos a traves del increible proceso sociocultural que supuso establecerse en un lugar tan remoto y diferente, con un analisis exhaustivo que nos ayude a comprender la epopeya que alli se vivio en una epoca historica incomparable.

¿Cómo narrar la historia de aquellas mujeres cuyas manos hicieron todo menos escribir, escribirse? El rastro se ha perdido, ha quedado enterrado. ¿Cómo saber, entonces, cuáles fueron sus vidas, cuáles sus deseos? Joanna Kuciel-Frydryszak escarba en la memoria soterrada de varias generaciones de mujeres polacas que se vieron sometidas al trabajo duro, constante e invisible del campo durante la primera mitad del siglo xx. Busca en albumes y correspondencias familiares, en archivos y en recortes de prensa y escucha los relatos recogidos por sus hijas y sus nietas. Un pañuelo para anudarse en la cabeza o un par de zapatos remendados una y otra vez; un acta escolar incompleta o los papeles de un matrimonio forzado. Cada hallazgo va hilvanando la historia de esas campesinas en un retrato polifonico, que revela el contorno de todas las facetas de la vida rural y se articula con la crudeza y la precision que requiere repensar los legados que heredamos en silencio. Campesinas. La historia de nuestras abuelas es el recorrido por la vida de unas mujeres que se afanaron en dar un futuro mejor a las que las siguieron y que, a pesar de las adversidades, supieron encontrar siempre un camino de hermandad, refugio y animo. Esta edicion, ademas, cuenta con las ilustraciones llenas de fuerza y belleza que han realizado once artistas del taller La madriguera, al cuidado de Paula Bonet.

Were the Huns, Goths, Vandals, Franks and Saxons as mindlessly violent as popular belief suggests? Or were they only too human, struggling for freedom and survival?Society was in turmoil political instability and economic uncertainty divided loyalties in Europe. Entrepreneurs and opportunists were prepared to risk all in bids for power. Men such as Attila the Hun, Gaiseric the Vandal and Alaric the Goth pitted their wits against the leaders of the rapidly mutating Roman establishment in the fourth to sixth centuries.Studded with painstakingly researched anecdotes of scandal, court gossip, superstition and fanatical religious beliefs, Warriors of the Dark Ages takes a refreshing look at a complex story of pawns and manipulators, saints and sinners, which was resolved when people with very different values and outlooks learned to accept each other. The finale was uplifting a tale of human conflict painfully moulded into a brilliant new future as modern Europe and its component states. Through the writings of ancient commentators, glimpse the love, hate, treachery and, at times, humour as prevalent in the European Dark Ages as they are today.

Entre a conquista de Ceuta em 1415 e a entrega da administraço de Macau a China em 1999, Portugal dominou diversas partes do Mundo que no faziam parte da sociedade portuguesa. Este livro analisa esse processo de projeço externa de Portugal. Mais do que factos novos, nesta obra o autor procura apresentar uma perspetiva nova e integradora.

Benny the Bear awakens to a golden morning in his peaceful forest home, where sunlight sparkles through the trees and the river sings a cheerful tune. Though he loves his cozy den and the familiar woods, a restless curiosity begins to stir within hima longing to see what lies beyond the river and the hills he has always known. As he listens to the forests symphony of birds, bees, and rustling leaves, Benny feels the call of adventure growing stronger. Packing his favorite treats and a few keepsakes, he steps into the sunlight with courage and excitement, ready to explore the unknown. With each pawstep, the world feels larger and more alive, and Bennys heart swells with the promise of discovery, friendship, and the thrill of a journey that has only just begun.