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Las conexiones entre distintos procesos históricos desarrollados a uno y otro lado de las fronteras ibéricas nos invitan a insistir en dos cuestiones fundamentales. En primer lugar, la importancia de la mirada conjunta a la hora de estudiar este periodo crucial en dos monarquias que estuvieron unidas cuando se definian algunos de los rasgos mas relevantes de sus imperios; y, en segundo lugar, la necesidad de descentralizar este analisis colocando en primer plano una diversidad de actores y paisajes que en toda America Latina y con independencia de su pertenencia a una y otra monarquia dieron diferentes respuestas a los proyectos reformistas y a la crisis imperial desatada con las invasiones napoleonicas a la Peninsula Iberica.El ocaso del antiguo regimen en los imperios ibericos reune dieciseis articulos que analizan aspectos de caracteristicas similares en los imperios de España y Portugal, incluyendo sus territorios ultramarinos, durante el transito del siglo XVIII al XIX.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe não deve sua fama como gênio universal apenas à sua obra literária. Homem de múltiplos talentos e interesses, dedicou-se também à reflexão sobre a literatura e as artes e a

Their motto was political liberalism and modern culture, Arthur Koestler wrote of the Ullstein family. Enthralling and full of the atmosphere of the period, Hermann Ullstein brings the early years of the Ullstein publishing empire to life. He portrays its impressive rise to become Europes largest publisher, as well as the dramatic upheavals in Germany that led to the companys expropriation by the Nazis.

This book is a narrative history of the Austrian Monarchy from 1790 to its break-up in 1918. Its theme is the hundred year struggle between the venerable dynastic empire which ruled Central Europe, and the new national, political and social forces in conflict with it, an with one another. The author starts with the death of Emperor Joseph 11 in 1790, the event which he takes as marking the turn of the tide in the struggle between autocracy and centralisation on the one side, and the new forces on the other; but he prefixes his narrative with a brief account of Josephs own reign, and with a comprehensive picture of the old monarchy on the threshold of the new age. C. A. Macartney takes his subject as comprising the monarchy as a whole, every people, class and province in it. He thus brings and makes intelligible the diversity within the unity, and the unity synthesising the diversity, which give the history of the Austrian Monarchy its special and unique character. The author was long acquainted with the countries and peoples that were once part of the Habsburg Empire and it was this experience, combined with linguistic accomplishments that enabled him to draw on an exceptionally wide range of sources. The result is a work of monumental scholarship written with unique insight and understanding.

Warum schlossen sich Frauen freiwillig dem 1942 von Reichsfuhrer-SS Himmler aufgestellten SS-Helferinnenkorps an? Die Studie rekonstruiert anhand zahlreicher Quellen die Organisationsgeschichte des SS-Helferinnenkorps, offenbart die Selbstverstandlichkeit, mit der viele Frauen in den Dienststellen der SS tatig waren und sein wollten und auf welche Weise sie damit zur Aufrechterhaltung des NS-Herrschaftssystems in den letzten Kriegsjahren beitrugen.

By far the best study of Britain and the First World War that has yet been written.London Review of BooksThe Myriad Faces of War, first published in 1987, is a unique and compelling study of the First World War from the standpoint of British involvement. It explores the reasons for Britains entry into the war, the nature and course of Britains participation, and the far-reaching repercussions of the war on British society. The result is a rich and comprehensive chronicle of the social, political, diplomatic and military aspects of the Great War.Professor Trevor Wilsons mighty work on the first world war... is a truly significant contribution to our understanding of what the war meant to the British people... a disciplined, unsentimental and thoughtful book - and it also retains strongly the human touch.SpectatorWilson ranges impressively over all major aspects of the conflict... a judicious, readable overview of a monster subject.New York Times

Lord Salisbury dominated the late Victorian political scene. He was Prime Minister for much of the time and also Foreign Secretary, very often holding down the two positions concurrently. In achievement and ability he was at least the equal of Disraeli and Gladstone though less well remembered. In part that was the result of his own aloof and laodicean temperament but it was also the fault of there being no faintly adequate modern biography (his daughter, Lady Gwendolen Cecil wrote a magnificent biography early in the twentieth-century but although in four volumes it only got as far as 1892). At last, in 1999 with the publication of Andrew Roberts biography this desideratum was filled. Here was the biography of sufficient stature to do justice to the Victorian Titan. Most aptly it went on to win the Wolfson History Prize and the James Stern Silver Pen Award for Non-Fiction. The uniformly outstanding reviews prove why.Andrew Roberts has filled one of the great gaps in Victorian historiography. This is the first authoritative life of the statesman who dominated politics from 1885 to 1902 . . . A brilliant biography that will long replace anything which has appeared before. Robert Blake, Daily TelegraphThis is a biography of quite unusual quality and insight, tautly organized yet flowing easily, with years of research behind it to reinforce its authority. While not seeking to diminish either Gladstone or Disraeli, it restores Salisbury to the commanding position he rightfully occupied in Victorian politics. Peter Clarke, Sunday TimesAn outstanding achievement . . . seldom has such an important study been such splendid entertainment. Piers Brendon, IndependentThis is a book to put on ones shelf alongside Ehrmans Younger Pitt, Gashs volumes on Peel and Blakes Disraeli . . . Andrew Roberts book has the balance, insight all-roundedness and intellectual elegance of Lord Salisbury himself. A. D. Harvey, Salisbury Review(Salisbury) deserves, and has found, a fine biographer, who has left no stone unturned in his researches, has written cogently and well about his subject, and provided not just a history of Lord Salisbury, but one of the best histories yet of Victorian Britain and her place in the world. Simon Heffer, Daily MailSalisbury is a great biography, magisterially proportioned and fit to take its place with Gash on Peel and Blake on Disraeli, if not with Morleys Gladstone. Moreover, although constructed on a massive scale, it is so beautifully written that one could not want it a page shorter. It is unlikely ever to be superseded. Vernon Bogdanor, Times Higher Educational SupplementRoberts triumphantly retrieves Salisbury from unmerited obscurity with a book as delightful to read as it is informative. Niall Ferguson, Mail on SundayA terrific piece of biography; I really enjoyed it. Jeremy Paxman, Start the WeekAndrew Roberts Salisbury fills a most remarkable gap in British historiography with a study that that is not only learned and comprehensive but startlingly well-written. Michael Howard, Times Literary Supplement Books of the YearIt captures the essence of Salisbury in a way that nothing has has ever done for me before. Roy Jenkins, Financial Times

First published in 1966, Robert Blakes biography of Disraeli is one of the supreme political biographies of the last hundred years.An outsider, a nationalist, a European, a Romantic and a Tory - Disraelis story is an extraordinary one. Born in 1804, the grandson of an immigrant Italian Jew, he became leader of the Conservative Party and was twice Prime Minister. Famous for the 1867 Reform Act, his purchasing of the Suez Canal and his diplomatic triumphs at the Congress of Berlin, he was also the creator of the political novel and, in Sybil, wrote the major Condition of England work of fiction.An outstandingly successful biography . . . Disraeli has never been brought so vividly to life. Sir Philip Magnus, Daily TelegraphA huge, scholarly and remarkably readable work which makes us revise vast tracts of our assumptions about nineteenth-century politics. Sir Michael Howard, Sunday TimesA book that people will still be reading in fifty years time and long after.Times Literary Supplement

Das Haus Romanov regierte Russland mehr als 300 Jahre, von 1613 bis 1917. Mit Petr dem Groen wurde aus dem Moskauer Zarentum das Russische Kaiserreich, das nicht nur zur kontinentalen Gromacht, sondern auch zu einer der glanzvollsten Monarchien Europas avancierte.Doch obwohl an der Spitze der Anschluss an die europaische Kultur gelang, blieb Russland in Sozialstruktur und Politik ein vom Westen Europas in Vielem geschiedenes Land, das seinen Herrschern ganz eigene Herausforderungen stellte. Das Buch beschreibt auf der Grundlage der neueren historischen Forschung die politisch-dynastische Geschichte der Romanovs von der Thronbesteigung Michails in den Wirren des fruhen 17. Jahrhunderts bis zur Abdankung Nikolajs II. und dem Untergang des Kaisertums in der Russischen Revolution.

This book gives an up-to-date account of the life of Palestinians in the West Bank in its fortieth year of occupation by Israel. Based around photographs of, and interviews with, ordinary Palestinian people, it looks at all aspects of daily life ranging from restrictions on movement and imprisonment to the effects of the occupation on business, the practising of religion and the development of democracy. Finding a solution to what is frequently termed the "Israeli-Palestinian conflict" is now widely acknowledged as an important step in reversing the growing gap between main stream Muslim society and the West. By providing the reader with a comprehensive understanding of how Israels policies in the West Bank affect the lives of real people on the ground, it cuts through the smokescreens and political correctness that pervades coverage of the issue and offers the reader a new platform from which to form his or her own opinions.

Since emerging as a settlement in the seventh century, Dubrovnik has faced Venetian aggressors, Ottoman plotters, a terrible earthquake in 1667 and, finally, the will of Napoleon. In 1991-92 the city survived the besieging Yugoslav army, which heavily damaged but did not destroy its cultural heritage. This book is a comprehensive history of Dubrovniks progress over twelve centuries of European development, encompassing arts, architecture, social and economic changes, politics and the trauma of war.

Pat Spillane is one of the best-known sportspeople in Ireland. Selected for the GAAs Team of the Millennium and winner of eight All-Ireland senior football medals, he is one of the greatest Gaelic footballers ever. Yet that isnt half of the Spillane story.He has also been one of the most controversial GAA pundits of all time, driving the agenda on The Sunday Game and in the Sunday World for thirty years. His analysis and criticism have been headline news everywhere Gaelic football is discussed, and the terms he coined, such as puke football, have entered the Irish lexicon.Here, Pat reveals the sadness of his childhood when his father died; his dazzling football career and encounters with other immortals, from Mick ODwyer onwards; the reality of life as a pundit under pressure from managers; and the huge stress of dealing with the machinery of government in the aftermath of his spell with CEDRA, the state advisory group on rural affairs.Like the man himself, In the Blood is uniquely frank, witty, honest and revealing and a must-read for GAA fans everywhere.

The sea has always been a part of Nuala Moores life: her earliest memory is of jumping off her fathers fishing boat in Dingle harbour and swimming back to shore.But after years of diving and marathon swimming, including a relay swim around the coast of Ireland and a solo swim across Lake Zurich, Nuala struggled to balance sacrifice and achievement. Her life and personal responsibilities, coupled with caring for her father, forced a change in her pathway.Nuala began to push herself even further. Forcing herself into some of the coldest, most dangerous and remote waters in the world offered her freedom and the chance to take back control. Limitless is Nualas breathtaking and awe-inspiring memoir about how pushing herself to her mental and physical limits allowed her to find her true north, face her reflection and achieve the greatness she always knew was within.

Raider. Conqueror. King. Saint. This is the story of Olav Haraldsson, the greatest Viking who ever lived. A ruthless Viking warrior who named his most prized battle weapon after the Norse goddess of death, Olav Haraldsson and his mercenaries wrought terror and destruction from the Baltic to Galicia in the early eleventh century. Thousands were put to the sword, enslaved or ransomed. In England, Canterbury was sacked, its archbishop murdered and London Bridge pulled down. The loot amassed from years of plunder helped Olav win the throne of Norway, and a century after his death he was proclaimed Eternal King and has been a national hero there ever since. Despite his bloodthirsty beginnings, Olav converted to Christianity and, in a personal vendetta against the old Norse gods, made Norway Christian too, thereby changing irrevocably the Viking world he was born into. Told with reference to Norse sagas, early chronicles and the work of modern scholars, Desmond Seward paints an intensely vivid and colourful portrait of the life and times of arguably the greatest Viking of them all.

The story of the Bamburgh Sword one of the finest swords ever forged. In 2000, archaeologist Paul Gething rediscovered a sword. An unprepossessing length of rusty metal, it had been left in a suitcase for thirty years. But Paul had a suspicion that the sword had more to tell than appeared, so he sent it for specialist tests. When the results came back, he realised that what he had in his possession was possibly the finest, and certainly the most complex, sword ever made, which had been forged in seventh-century Northumberland by an anonymous swordsmith. This is the story of the Bamburgh Sword of how and why it was made, who made it and what it meant to the warriors and kings who wielded it over three centuries. It is also the remarkable story of the archaeologists and swordsmiths who found, studied and attempted to recreate the weapon using only the materials and technologies available to the original smith.

**Longlisted for the Mountbatten Maritime Media Awards 2022**A groundbreaking history of the Black Joke, the most famous member of the British Royal Navys anti-slavery squadron, and the long fight to end the transatlantic slave trade.Initially a slaving vessel itself, the Black Joke was captured in 1827 and repurposed by the Royal Navy to catch its former compatriots. Over the next five years, the vessel liberated more enslaved people than any other in Britains West Africa Squadron.As Britain attempted to snuff out the transatlantic slave trade by way of treaty and negotiation, enforcing these policies fell to ships such as the Black Joke as they battled slavers, weather disasters, and interpersonal drama among captains and crew that reverberated across oceans.The Black Joke is a crucial and deeply compelling work of history, both as a reckoning with slavery and abolition and as a lesson about the power of political will - or the lack thereof.

No-one who knew the late Canon Pakenham-Walsh could accuse him of being a starry-eyed dreamer. At ninety he was as active mentally and physically as many a man little more than half his age. Join him on his personal journey across psychic channels to find the real Anne Boleyn; a journey which, beneath its psychic and historical drama, demonstrates religious purpose. The authors deep-rooted fascination for Anne Boleyn first originated in 1917 during a missionary trip in China, yet it was on hisreturn to England in 1919 that Pakenham-Walsh began to see divine confirmation of his desire to uncover the true Anne Boleyn. Following a prayer at Boleyns burial site that she might become Pakenham-Walshs guardian angel, Pakenham-Walsh experienced a series of bizarre coincidences. It was these strange incidents which led Pakenham-Walsh to seek clairvoyants, who helped to channel the spirit of Anne Boleyn. Through sessions with psychic mediums, the reader is presented with transcripts and accounts of psychic messages from Anne Boleyn and significant characters within Anne Boleyns short lifetime. From one of Anne Boleyns maids, put to death for the sake of Anne Boleyn, to an infuriated Henry VIII, Pakenham-Walsh vividly recounts his experiences in a sympathetic and quaint style. Canon Pakenham-Walshs narrative not only relates his experiences of mediumistic contact, it is also a powerful Christian morality tale of redemption transcending death.

Die Autobiographie beginnt mit den Bombenangriffen der Alliierten 1943 und den Leiden des Autors als siebenjahriges Kind, der aus einer uberzeugten Nazi-Familie stammte. Der Vater machte Karriere als SS-Offizier. Nach anfanglichem Stolz auf seinen Vater kam die Ernuchterung nach der Zerbombung des elterlichen Wohnhauses. Den einzigen sittlichen Halt fand der junge Horst Gerlach in seiner Oma aus Ostreuen, die eine entschiedene Christin war und bei der der Junge nach der erfolgten Heimatlosigkeit oftmals sein konnte. Sie lebte nach den ethischen Grundsatzen des Neuen Testamentes, und lehnte dementsprechend den Nationalsozialismus ab, ohne ihren Schwiegersohn, den ordensgeschmuckten Vater des Autors, als Mensch abzulehnen. Der noch kleine Junge vertraute der Oma wegen ihrer christlichen Uberzeugung mehr, als den Uberzeugungen seiner Eltern, vor allen Dingen seines Vaters.In dieser Zeit legte sich der Grundstein fur die Suche nach der Wahrheit des Lebens. Trost und Schutz fand er in den gemeinschaftlichen Gebeten mit seiner Oma. Obwohl die Eltern von dieser Nahe zur Oma nichts hielten, lieen sie die Miterziehung zu, was dann in der Folge zum wichtigen Baustein seines seelischen Uberlebens wurde. Die Frage nach authentischer Wahrheit wurde mit dem Heranwachsen substanzieller. In den letzten Monaten des Krieges, Anfang 1945, kam die Flucht vor den sowjetischen Panzern mit dem Vater, der nur noch seine Frau und den Sohn retten wollte, und dabei riskierte, militarische Fahnenflucht zu begehen. Ohne seinen Dienstgrad als SS-Obersturmfuhrer ware die Familie in die Hande der Sowjets gefallen. Die Flucht in einem Dienstwagen im Winter war grausig und endete nach Monaten im Gefangenenlager in Danemark. Durch falsche Angaben des Vaters durfte die Familie zwei Jahre in den Lagern zusammenbleiben. Trotz Folterung des Vaters durch die Alliierten Verhoroffiziere, da diese denjenigen suchten, der im Krieg mit einem Spezialauftrag in Danemark gewesen war, wurde die Familie 1947 fruhzeitig nach Westdeutschland entlassen. Die Sundenfolgen holen die ganze Familie ein und hinterlassen, wegen der morderischen Vergangenheit seines Vaters, auch beim Autor Traumata. Die Frage nach authentischer Wahrheit wurde zur Therapie fur ihn, weil das Finden der Wahrheit in Jesus Christus Gestalt annahm, und zur Gesundung seiner Seele fuhrte. Nie wieder wollte er eine antichristliche Diktatur und so trat er in den folgenden Jahren fur andere Betroffene innerhalb der sozialistischen Diktatur der DDR ein. Er war auch wahrend der politischen Transformationsphase 1989 in Polen und organisierte Hilfstransporte dorthin.Nach vielen Recherchen unternahm er 1990 eine lange Reise in die Lander, in denen der Vater als Soldat militarisch zu tun hatte. Diese Reise, sowie die darauf folgenden waren oft abenteuerlich und mit etlichen Gefahren verbunden. Ebenso wird von anderen weltweiten Reisen, z.B. auf den amerikanischen Kontinent zu Studien der vorkolumbianischen Blut- und New-Age-Esoterik-Kulten sowie deren Sundenfolgen berichtet. Viele Erfahrungen aus diesen Feldstudien konnte Horst Gerlach sehr hilfreich in der individuellen therapeutischen Seelsorge verwenden.Das Buch bietet fur jeden eine Menge Nachdenkenswertes, vor allem, wenn man auf der Suche nach authentischer Wahrheit ist.

Es género poco frecuentado el de la literatura técnica romana y menos aún su rama militar, pues sobre ser por propia naturaleza una disciplina especializada y por tanto compleja, constituye además una de las manifestaciones menos prolificas del acervo literario romano. De entre su produccion sobresalen estas Estratagemas de Frontino (s. I-II d. C.) que han permanecido inaccesibles al lector hispanico durante varios siglos.Frontino

Prsten i Vejlby ved Grenaa, Sren Jensen Quist, blev i 1626 henrettet for at have drbt sin kusk med en tinkande 19 r tidligere. Et jenvidne til drabet forklarede, at prsten herefter ikke kunne tle at se mordvbenet, hvorfor han forrede tinkanden til sin sster. Prstefamilien fik med hjlp fra lensmanden og andre adelige p lokale herregrde retsopgret udskudt i de mange r, hvorefter prsten blev dmt ved tre instanser.I 1633-34 fik prstens sn sagen indbragt p ny for domstolene, hvor dommerne ved tre instanser ngtede at ndre dommen over prsten. Siden da har mindst 44 personer og heraf mindst 17 prster skrevet om prstens uskyld uden at g ind i retssagernes indhold.Hvis man vil kende sandheden, s vidt det er muligt, kan man vlge at g i retsprotokollerne p Landsarkivet i Viborg og Rigsarkivet i Kbenhavn, hvor den virkelige historie er beskrevet. Man vil her kunne lse prstens overraskende svar, da han af en dommer blev spurgt, om han ville erklre sig skyldig, hvis det blev bevist, at ssteren havde fet en tinkande af ham.Snnen Peder lovede ved faderens henrettelse hvn, idet han skrev med blodskrift p et trsde p tingstedet: "Det uskyldige Blod vi betaler". Peder fik gennemfrt sin blodhvn, s den kostede livet for de to hovedvidner og mske ogs for det ene hovedvidnes kone samt for delefogeden og dennes svigerdatter.Myter om sagen blev skabt af prstesnnen og viderefrt fra slgt til slgt. Myterne fik ny nring gennem romanen fra 1829 af St. St. Blicher "Prsten i Vejlbye". Blicher solgte romanen p, at skrive, at beretningen "desvrre! er alt for sand" f.s.v. angr "det Vsentligste af Historien". Tanken om det uskyldige offer for justitsmord virkede dragende p lserne, men har Blicher nogensinde set retsakterne?Nr myterne om de lutter gode mennesker i prstens familie skrlles af, er virkeligheden bl.a.:- Broderen Rasmus truede jenvidnet til tavshed.- Konen tilbd bestikkelse til foged, lgdommere og vidner.- Ssteren, fasteren og ftteren forsgte forgves at skaffe prsten et alibi p mordaftenen.- Snnen Peders hvn kostede livet for de to hovedvidner og det samme glder mske ogs for det enes hovedvidnes kone samt delefogeden og dennes svigerdatter.- Snnen Christoffer prdikede p kirkegrden i Albge i protest mod afslag p ansgning om prsteembede og blev sidenhen skudt af svenske soldater p Anholt.