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La guerra es un fenómeno con muchas caras. La militar, desde luego, pero también tiene una vertiente geopolítica, así como una dimensión social, e incluso moral. El libro que el lector tiene ante sí surge de la conciencia del caracter poliedrico de la guerra. Las guerras de Ucrania y Gaza subyacen a esas inquietudes, si bien el lector hallara argumentos que van mas alla de esas guerras. De manera que de un modo inusualmente ameno, mediante ensayos cortos, se hara con una percepcion muy completa de las cosas que estan en juego.JOSEP BAQUES QUESADA. Doctor en Ciencias Politicas por la Universidad de Barcelona. Profesor de la Universidad de Barcelona, y del Instituto Universitario "General Gutierrez Mellado", de Madrid, e Investigador asociado de la Universidad Francisco de Vitoria (UFV). Director academico del grado en seguridad de la Universidad de Barcelona& ISPC. Director de la Revista de Estudios de Seguridad Internacional (RESI); subdirector del portal de transferencia de conocimiento Global Strategy. Colaborador habitual del Mando de Adiestramiento y Doctrina del Ejercito de Tierra (MADOC); de la Revista General de Marina y del Instituto Español de Estudios Estrategicos (IEEE). Ha sido profesor visitante de la Universidad Pablo de Olavide, de Sevilla y de la Universidad La Lumiere, de Lyon (Francia), asi como profesor invitado en la Universidad de Granada. Autor de varios libros, los ultimos de los cuales son De las guerras hibridas a la zona gris: la metamorfosis de los conflictos en el siglo XXI (UNED, 2021), La construccion de una Politica exterior y de seguridad en Europa, ¿Por que es tan problematica? (La Catarata, 2023), y¿Como funciona el mundo? Una perspectiva desde la geopolitica (Tirant, 2023); asi como de articulos en revistas indexadas, el ultimo de los cuales es "IsMoroccoOperating a Grey Zone in Ceuta and Melilla" (DefenceStudies, 2023). Esta en posesion de varios premios y reconocimientos, entre ellos el Serge Lazareff/OTAN, otorgado por el Cuartel General de las fuerzas aliadas en Europa (2022); el "Almirante Francisco Moreno", del Estado Mayor de la Armada Española; o la Cruz al Merito Militar (aeronautico) con distintivo blanco, otorgada por el Estado Mayor de la Defensa (2022). Asimismo, es embajador de la marca Ejercito.

The study of historic foodways is as multifaceted and varied as food itself. The changes we see in food habits and choices over history reveal evolving social and political climates and help us envision our ancestors everyday lives and imagined afterlives. Food certainly played a role in funerary rites; it was offered to the dead, of course, but also shared at the grave among the living family members, symbolically bridging between this world and the next. Choosing the food was embedded in a series of traditions and norms; how it relates to what was actually eaten in associated settlements enables an understanding of its meaning. Feasts, whether for the dead or the living, were laden with political and social meaning. Fasting, although requiring abstention from certain foods, also involves the management-from sourcing and storing to cooking and eating-of the permitted foods, a key concern in contexts such as monasteries where fasting occurred. This collective work demonstrates the diversity of possible approaches to food. It presents the current state of research on the foodways of Egypt and Sudan and highlights the importance of further interdisciplinary collaboration for a "big picture" approach. It brings together 16 articles covering archaeology (in the broadest sense), theory, anthropology, language, ethnography, and architecture to illustrate food traditions and history in Egypt and Sudan from as early as the 4th millennium BC to the 20th century.

From the reign of Ptolemy IV Philopator (221-204 BC), an extensive building and decoration programme is attested throughout Egypt, with a specific emphasis on the cult of Osiris and the child gods. The royal legitimation, in which Horus of Edfu and Amun of Thebes played a major role, was a further focal point. With the Theban revolt (206-186 BC), the royal support of the Egyptian temples stopped abruptly and was only resumed under Ptolemy VI Philometor. In the temple of Amun-Ra at Karnak, the Kiosk of Taharqa was a key contribution of the Kushite period (746-655 BC). Under Ptolemy IV, a major restoration campaign took place in the First Courtyard: the gate of the Second Pylon was rebuilt and the Kiosk substantially renovated. Its intercolumnar walls were remodelled and carved with ritual scenes of royal legitimation. The soubassement was decorated with a procession of nomes, received by the goddess Waset, and the column shafts and abaci were engraved with the royal names. In this book, the Kiosks Ptolemaic texts and iconographic decoration are presented and analysed. A global study of Philopators architectural activities places the Kiosk in the larger context of Karnak and beyond. In addition, a palaeographic study of the hieroglyphic texts is published.

This volume of essays dedicated to Robert McCormick Adams reflects both the breadth of his research and the select themes upon which he focused his attention. These essays written by his students and disciples focus on issues in Near Eastern archaeology but range as far afield as the Indus Valley and Mesoamerica. They are also concentrate on aspects of early complex society, but some refer back to the late Neolithic and others forward to Islamic times. The key foci of Adams work are reflected in this collection: ecology, frontiers, urbanism, trade and technology are all explored. Yet in spite of the breadth of the scope of this volume, the various intellectual threads pioneered by Adams serve to tie the volume together. These include the use of multiple lines of evidence to attack problems, the use of a comparative approach - including the use of ethnographic analogy-as a means of understanding the development of early states, the importance of the continuum of settlement between city dwellers, farmers, marsh dwellers and pastoralists, and an overall appreciation of cultural ecology.

Deserted Medieval Villages combines archaeological and historical expertise to produce a comprehensive and detailed analysis of the studies of deserted medieval villages. Including an extensive historical and archaeological review of the surge in mid-20th century research, J.G. Hursts archaeological gazetteer of 290 sites, and analysis of Scottish, Welsh, and Irish sites, this book is an in-depth reference work. Updating Beresfords classic The Lost Medieval Villages of England, this book refreshes his historical research, considers the economic circumstances of desertion, and includes detailed maps, photographs and tables.

Qiu Guangming, the author of this book, is a researcher on the measuring and weighing systems in China for more thirty years. he has been collecting historical data and examining actual objects, which resulted in in numerous research papers and books. This books examines these systems she has researched.

With eleven new contributions, this second edition of essays on the sources and principles of Dominican values in education offers an extended sample of the many settings in which Dominican education, broadly understood, finds expression. Cherished by all Dominicans, these values are exemplified not only in the lives of well-known foundational Dominicans, but also in some of those many others who, on every continent and across time, have responded in typically Dominican ways at key moments in history. Educators, activists, philosophers, teachers, preachers, artists, healers and theologians at many levels share their analyses and reflections on educating in many different contexts, explicitly and implicitly demonstrating ideals and values common to the goals of Dominican education everywhere. It is hoped that this collection, offered again in this decade of Dominican Jubilee--1206-1216 to 2006- 2016--will inform, inspire and encourage all those engaged in the great work of educating not only youth but people of all ages towards greater life and liberty.

La presente edición de lujo en estuche reúne los siete volúmenes de la colección «La España del siglo XX en siete días».Siete libros para siete fechas clave de nuestra historia.Porque no todos los dí

A flor de cuerpo reúne ensayos sobre las representaciones del género y de las disidencias sexo-genéricas en Latinoamérica en el campo cultural (literatura, cine, cómic, teatro, música, fanzines, artes y artivismos) y los movimientos sociales. Pretende hacerse desde el Sur y para el Sur, a la vez que alimenta los tambien necesarios dialogos Sur-Norte y Norte-Sur. Las investigaciones abordan el trabajo de artistas y activistas latinoamericanxs queer, feministas y/o antirracistas como una comunidad transnacional y heterogenea. El libro, con un enfoque interseccional, pretende visibilizar las condiciones concretas en las que viven las mujeres y la disidencia sexo-generica en Latinoamerica, discutir sus multiples estrategias de resistencia y sus contradiscursos para eludir los mecanismos de opresion especificos de la region, resultantes de una mezcla de fuerzas alli presentes: el efecto prolongado de la colonialidad (del poder, del saber y del genero) y el racismo subyacente, estructuras patriarcales locales, antiguas o inventadas, o aun las diversas mezclas culturales que, a lo largo del tiempo, produjeron dinamicas propias irrepetibles en otras partes del mundo.

En la última década, el volumen de la población china en España se ha duplicado. El hecho de que haya cada vez más migrantes chinos en el país advierte de la necesidad de conocer un poco más de cerca esta comunidad. Durante los ultimos años la globalizacion acelerada ha llevado consigo dos consecuencias evidentes: por un lado, el flujo frecuente de personas, financiamiento e informacion y, por otro, la coexistencia cada dia mas evidente de diferentes culturas en el ambito local.Merced a los avances tecnologicos, los medios de comunicacion se expanden en la vida cotidiana. Entre los rasgos mas relevantes de esta era destaca el fenomeno de la mediatizacion, que nos lleva a preguntarnos como ha afectado la evolucion de los dispositivos mediaticos a las costumbres y convenciones de uso de los medios y como se integran en la vida cotidiana de sus usuarios. Este atractivo e innovador estudio articula ambos temas: los migrantes chinos y la experiencia mediatizada.Los migrantes chinos, que realizan diversas formas de hibridacion de las culturas de su pais de origen y del pais de acogida, brindan un ejemplo de la relacion entre el uso de los medios y la construccion de la identidad en una poblacion particular. Se estudia aqui como intervienen los medios en la formacion de los estigmas, las fracturas y las emociones que les unen y separan entre si y con "los otros", los españoles, estimulandoles a adoptar diversas estrategias para la construccion de su identidad.

La "mezcla" entre población de ascendencia indígena, africana, europea y asiática ha sido un elemento importante en la formación de las sociedades latinoamericanas. Este proceso histórico se ha denominado comunmente mestizaje. Hay una enorme variedad en la importancia que se le ha asignado en los diversos paises, desde la exaltacion de la "raza cosmica" en Mexico pasando por el silenciamiento de la ascendencia indigena en Argentina y Brasil, y una tendencia general de ocultar la herencia africana en Hispanoamerica. Este libro traza las sendas del mestizaje en una variedad de paises desde el siglo XVI hasta el XIX con enfasis en la epoca colonial. Se centra en la "mezcla" y las relaciones entre personas de diferentes grupos y categorias desde el seno de la familia, acentuando la cuestion del honor e integrando tambien aspectos legales, fiscales, demograficos y economicos. La obra supone un ambicioso esfuerzo de reflexion polifonica de investigadores americanos y europeos, tanto jovenes como experimentados.

El intercambio de cartas entre círculos aristocráticos y principescos durante la Edad moderna no constituye un campo de investigación nuevo. Sin embargo, la correspondencia de mujeres de las élites politicas y sociales ha sido menos estudiada que las de sus coetaneos masculinos. Este desequilibrio ha empezado a corregirse con la aparicion de nuevas aportaciones sobre la manera de escribir de las mujeres. Resulta sorprendente, dado su extraordinario potencial, que los especialistas no hayan prestado aun la debida atencion a la correspondencia personal de los Habsburgo. Este volumen, que se centra en el periodo comprendido entre 1519 y 1700, reune un conjunto de trabajos dedicados al estudio de las cartas y las practicas epistolares de ambas ramas de la Casa de Austria.Se examinan en el tanto cartas intercambiadas entre conyuges y familiares como otras dirigidas o procedentes de oficiales, criados y confidentes que pertenecian o que tenian acceso al circulo mas intimo de la familia real o imperial. La expresion escrita de las emociones, las cartas usadas como medios de educacion y para inculcar valores dinasticos, las descripciones mas personales de la vida cortesana, de las residencias y de los viajes, o las practicas religiosas en las cortes de los Habsburgo son abordadas en los diversos ensayos de este volumen. Este es el resultado de la colaboracion entre varios proyectos de investigacion llevados a cabo en Austria, Alemania, España y Estados Unidos, y responde a los avances de la edicion critica de importantes epistolarios personales en curso de publicacion, entre los que destacan las cartas de embajadoras, infantas, reinas y emperatrices.

Testigos excepcionales de su tiempo, Marx y Engels fueron periodistas natos. Sabían crear un estilo periodístico incisivo, culto y antisolemne, cuyo sarcasmo solía ser prácticamente demoledor para aquello o aquellos que eran objeto de sus criticas. Su realismo politico en el analisis de los hechos es en ambos inflexible; no se permiten concesion alguna frente a la realidad. Reproducimos aqui una apretada seleccion de sus escritos periodisticos, considerando en lo fundamental aquellos que trataron directamente los movimientos revolucionarios de 1848.

Written by John Buxton and Don Heath, two experienced rail professionals, Lines of Power delivers a comprehensive record of the stuttering progress of electrification and modernisation of Britains railway network, exposing the furtive manoeuvring by competing factions within the railway industry during the 1950s. The book is highly critical of the excessive scepticism of the Department of Transport (DoT later DfT) and the frequent disproportionate, and often imprudent, interventions by politicians that have collectively thwarted the opportunity to progress a more comprehensive and cost effective rolling programme of electrification.

The Ghurids have their origins in the mountainous region of modern central Afghanistan, from where they established the first Islamic state in India. Some of their ghulams, primarily nomadic Turks from Central Asia, were to become independent rulers, leading to the foundation of the Delhi Sultanate. At its height, in the late-twelfth and early-thirteenth centuries, their domain extended from the shores of the Caspian Sea to the Bay of Bengal and from the Straits of Hormuz to the River Oxus. Mamluks, Conquest and Culture covers both the military and political history of the dynasty and the Persianate cultural world they inhabited and propagated on the subcontinent. The collapse of the Great Seljuk Empire allowed them to expand westwards into Iran. Extensive use of ghulams played a crucial role in their success, and this cavalry was to prove decisive in the campaigns against the Indian dynasties. Their conquests reunited territories to create a transregional empire for the first time in a millennium.

Sumption is that rare and precious thing: a serious, decent, honest thinker . . . and one of our finest historians. Dan Jones, Sunday TimesGripping and eminently readable . . . a compelling justification for the enduring value of historical narrative.The TimesUnsurpassed, and probably unsurpassable.Daily Telegraph In this final volume of his epic history of the Hundred Years War, Jonathan Sumption tells the story of the collapse of the English dream of conquest, from the opening years of the reign of Henry VI until the loss of all of Englands continental dominions except Calais thirty years later. This sudden reversal of fortune was a seminal event in the history of the two principal nation-states of western Europe, ending four centuries of the English dynastys presence in France and separating two countries whose fortunes had once been closely intertwined, creating a new sense of national identity in both. The legacy of these events would influence their divergent fortunes for centuries to come.Behind the clash of arms stood some of the most remarkable personalities of the age: the Duke of Bedford, the English Regent who ruled much of France; Charles VII of France, who patiently rebuilt his kingdom after the disasters of his early years; the captains populating the pages of Shakespeare - Fastolf, Montagu, Talbot, Dunois and, above all, the extraordinary figure of Joan of Arc who changed the course of the war in a few weeks at the age of seventeen.The Hundred Years War ends in Englands agonising defeat - but triumph for Jonathan Sumption . . . There is no doubting his achievement. It is, as everyone says, a "monumental" work.Spectator

"Masterly A fascinating tour dhorizon of the Edwardian political scene. This must be a definitive account." Professor Jane Ridley, author of George V: Never a Dull Moment"A tour de force, sympathetic in its treatment of the subject, eminently wise in its judgement and invariably fair in its verdicts. It purrs along like a Rolls-Royce engine." Professor T. G. Otte, author of Statesman of Europe: A Life of Sir Edward Grey"This brilliant book from Britains most important constitutional historian upends the orthodoxy about the decadent Edwardians. A masterpiece of intelligent history, both forceful and subtle, which transforms how we view not just those most complex Edwardians but also our own equally complex times." Professor Richard Aldous, author of The Lion and the Unicorn: Gladstone vs Disraeli"Brilliant. Instantly the leading history of this turbulent and critical period in Britains transition towards a modern democracy." Professor Robert Blackburn, Kings College London"Vernon Bogdanor has the habit of unearthing gems that have been missed by others. He does it again in this magisterial work on post-Gladstonian Britain by challenging some of the long-established myths about this period that deserve to be cast aside." Professor Malcolm Murfett, Kings College London"Professor Bogdanor argues with conviction and sometimes passion but always with judiciousness and in the light of deep reflection. The result is a masterly work which speaks to the politics of our own time." Alvin Jackson, Richard Lodge Professor of History, University of Edinburgh"An extraordinary exploration of a political world whose dynamics continue to shape the future of liberal constitutionalism." Bruce Ackerman, Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science, Yale University"Crisp, authoritative and lucid." Nicholas Owen, associate professor of politics, University of OxfordThe turbulent years of 1895 to 1914 changed Britains political landscape for ever. They saw a transition from aristocratic rule to mass politics and heralded a new agenda which still dominates today. The issues of the period economic modernisation, social welfare and equality, secondary and technical education, a new role for Britain in the world were complex and difficult. Indeed, they proved so thorny that despite the efforts of the Edwardians they remain among the most pressing problems we face in the twenty-first century.The period has often been seen as one of decadence, of the strange death of liberal Britain. In contrast, Vernon Bogdanor believes that the robustness of Britains parliamentary and political institutions and her liberal political culture, with the commitment to rational debate and argument, were powerful enough to carry her through one of the most trying periods of her history and so make possible the remarkable survival of liberal Britain.In this wide-ranging and sometimes controversial survey, one of our pre-eminent political historians dispels the popular myths that have grown up about this critical period in Britains story and argues that it set the scene for much that is laudable about our nation today.

This special issue of the journal "zeitgeschichte" presents the results of the doctoral theses written within the framework of the "Doctoral College European Historical Dictatorship and Transformation Research" (20092012) as selected scholarly essays. The contributions are devoted to authoritarian regimes of the 20th century in Austria, Belarus, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, and the Soviet Union. Using various methods from the humanities and social sciences, diff erent aspects of mainly "small" dictatorships are examined: conditions of emergence, structures, continuities, as well as preceding and subsequent processes of political and social transformation.Das vorliegende Sonderheft der Zeitschrift zeitgeschichte stellt die Ergebnisse der im Rahmen des Initiativkollegs (IK) Europaische historische Diktatur- und Transformationsforschung (20092012) verfassten Promotionsarbeiten in Form ausgewahlter wissenschaftlicher Essays vor. Die Beitrage widmen sich autoritaren Regimes des 20. Jahrhunderts in Belarus, Griechenland, Italien, Lettland, Litauen, Osterreich, Polen, Portugal, Rumanien, Spanien, Ungarn und der Sowjetunion. Mittels verschiedener geistes- und sozialwissenschaftlicher Methoden werden unterschiedliche Aspekte vor allem kleiner Diktaturen untersucht: Entstehungsbedingungen, Strukturen, Kontinuitaten sowie vor- und nachgelagerte Prozesse politischer und gesellschaftlicher Transformation.

As an archaeologist, Steven Mithen has worked on the Hebridean island of Islay over a period of many years. In this book he introduces the sites and monuments and tells the story of the islands people from the earliest stone age hunter-gatherers to those who lived in townships and in the grandeur of Islay House. He visits the tombs of Neolithic farmers, forts of Iron Age chiefs and castles of medieval warlords, discovers where Bronze Age gold was found, treacherous plots were made against the Scottish crown, and explores the island of today, which was forged more recently by those who mined for lead, grew flax, fished for herring and distilled whisky the industry for which the island is best known today. Although an island history, this is far from an insular story: Islay has always been at a cultural crossroads, receiving a constant influx of new people and new ideas, making it a microcosm for the story of Scotland, Britain and beyond.

Migration ist Gegenstand Sozialer Arbeit, wenn Migrant(inn)en marginalisiert sind und die Gesellschaft auf Anforderungen neuer Vielfalt reagieren muss. Sie findet nicht allein in migrationsspezifischen Sozialen Diensten statt, wie beispielsweise Fluchtlingsdiensten - der Umgang mit Vielfalt und Ausgrenzung ist in allen Bereichen Sozialer Arbeit Thema. Ausgehend von der Darstellung von Migration und Flucht und ihren entsprechenden sozialen Herausforderungen erortert das Buch migrationsspezifische Handlungsfelder der Sozialen Arbeit und erlautert entsprechende Konzepte und Methoden. Debatten zu Integration, interkultureller Kompetenz und verwandte Ansatze werden in ihrer Relevanz fur ein handlungsleitendes Konzept Sozialer Arbeit befragt. Als Querschnittsthemen werden u. a. behandelt: kulturelle Vielfalt in der Gesellschaft, Diskriminierung, interkulturelle und antirassistische Bildungsarbeit, der interkulturelle und interreligiose Dialog.