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Esta historia general de China y de su civilización es el único libro existente en el mercado que, en sólo 700 páginas, nos ofrece una síntesis global de la evolución de China en todos los campos y en todas las epocas. El profesor Jacques Gernet dibuja en este libro, paso a paso, las transformaciones sucesivas del mundo chino y la interrelacion entre sociedad, formas politicas, economia, tecnicas, religiones y vida intelectual que han ido trenzando la peculiaridad china. Esta obra es un libro unico en su genero porque situa a China en un contexto mundial, en relacion permanente con los otros grandes centros de la civilizacion, para ayudarnos a comprender mejor la trayectoria de nuestro propio mundo occidental.

Through most of eight hundred years, Somerled of Argyll has been variously denounced as an intractable rebel against his rightful king and esteemed as the honoured ancestor of the later medieval Lord of the Isles, but he can be recognised now as a much more complex figure of major prominence in twelfth-century Scotland and of truly landmark significance in the long history of the Gael. In this book individual chapters investigate his emergence in the forefront of the Gaelic-Norse aristocracy of the western seaboard, his part in Gaeldoms challenge to the Canmore kings of Scots, his war on the Manx king of the Isles, his importance for the church on Iona, and his extraordinary invasion of the Clyde which was cut short by his violent death at Renfrew in 1164. Perhaps most impressive is the books demonstration of how almost everything that is known of or has been claimed for Somerled reflects the same characteristic fusion of Norse and Celt which binds the cultural roots of Gaeldom. It is this recognition which has led its author to his proposal of Somerleds wider historical importance as the personality who most represents the first fully-fledged emergence of the medieval Celtic-Scandinavian cultural province from which is directly descended the Gaelic Scotland of today.

For over a century, the Middle East has been riven by conflict driven by Jewish and Arab nationalism. They came about at the same point in history with claims over the same territory. Their encounter has evolved into one of the most enduring and divisive geopolitical issues of the modern era one defined by its complexity and its extremism and unfolding against a backdrop of 24-hour rolling news and social-media outrage. A Forever War: Israel, Palestine and the Struggles for Statehood reflects on the key questions: How did this state of affairs come about? And will it be a forever war?At a time when so much coverage is based on prejudice, fear and ignorance, Colin Shindler, Emeritus Professor of Israel Studies at SOAS, presents an authoritative view of this tragic conflict and dissects the current situation. Tracing the religious, political and historical motivations of both sides throughout many decades of turmoil and upheaval, A Forever War is the concise and non-partisan overview of the conflict that is so sorely needed.

Published ahead of the centenary of the Queens birth, this beautifully illustrated book uncovers the hidden history of the Crown and how it survived a tumultuous era and two world wars. **Features over 100 sumptuous images**From the birth of the house of Windsor in 1917, its leading women - Queen Mary, the Queen Mother, the Duchess of Windsor and Queen Elizabeth II - faced the perils of abdication and assassination, revolution and the rise of fascism, the threat of invasion and all-out war. Their sartorial decisions, alongside those of their royal husbands, projected power and perpetuity, diplomacy and defiance.In this cinematic story of espionage and exquisite couture, Justine Picardie reveals the undercover lives of the creators behind the façade - including Hardy Amies, Cecil Beaton, Norman Hartnell and Edward Molyneux - and traces the ways in which visual iconography safeguarded the monarchy, even when their reign seemed to be hanging by a thread.Drawing on original research in the Royal Archives and her own experiences at Balmoral, Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace, Picardie explores the family feuds and international conflicts that challenged the Crown, and how royal fashion has long been wielded as a weapon.

This nationally important book reveals the untold story of the Irish tricolour: its true origins, a forgotten heroine, and the emblems it replaced. For the first time, a fully referenced history corrects long-standing myths and slurs surrounding Irelands national flag. It also reinterprets iconic Irish symbols from the harp and shamrock to the tri-spiral placing them within the broader journey toward Irish nationhood and national identity. Along Irelands road to a republic, key figures are restored to their rightful place from Owen Roe ONeill and Wolfe Tone to Thomas Meagher and Padraig Pearse.The book explores crucial turning points the rise of green as Irelands colour, the rebellions of 1642, 1798, 1848, and 1916, Catholic Emancipation, and the flags later use and misuse. A bold, insightful retelling of Irelands story through its symbols.

Un intenso recorrido histórico, literario y familiar a través de Ucrania y de su capital, Kiev, convertida en fortaleza para Occidente.A los tres años de la invasión rusa de Ucrania de febrero de 2022, Elena Kostioukovitch nos conduce por los bulevares y plazas, los monumentos y los palacios de su ciudad natal, Kiev, y los convierte en el escenario de una intensa trama narrativa donde se entremezclan historia, literatura, cultura y memoria personal. La historia de Ucrania esta llena de tragedias, que arrancan con las invasiones mongolas en la Edad Media y se extienden hasta las atrocidades cometidas por el terror estalinista en los años treinta y la posterior y devastadora invasion nazi, y llegan a la actual resistencia y resiliencia del pueblo ucraniano frente a la guerra desencadenada por Vladimir Putin. Pero junto a la Historia con mayusculas, Kostioukovitch relata episodios de su propia historia familiar, como el asesinato de sus bisabuelos en la masacre de Babi Yar en 1941 o el arriesgado rescate de pinturas de la destruida pinacoteca de Dresde realizado por su abuelo en los años cuarenta, al tiempo que revive numerosas paginas de la riquisima herencia literaria de su pais, donde sobresalen nombres como Gogol y Bulgakov.

In 1939, when Ian Burumas epic opens, Berlin has been under Nazi rule for six years, and its 4.3 million people have made their accommodations to the regime, more or less. When war broke out with Poland in September, what was most striking at first was how little changed. Unless you were Jewish. Then life, already hard, was soon to get unfathomably worse.By 1943, with the German defeat at Stalingrad, ordinary life in Berlin would acquire an increasingly desperate cast. The last three years of the war in Berlin are truly a descent into hell, with a deranged regime in desperate free fall, an increasingly relentless pounding from Allied bombers, and the mounting dread of the approaching Soviet army. The common greeting of Berliners was now not Auf wiedersehen or Heil Hitler but Bleiben Sie ubrig -Stay alive. And by wars end Berlins population had fallen by almost half.Among the people trying to stay alive in the city was Ian Burumas own father, a prisoner conscripted into forced labour in the war economy along with 400,000 other imported workers. Buruma gives due weight to his and their experiences, which give the book a special added dimension. This is a book full of tenderness and genuine heroism, but it is by no means sentimental: again and again we see that most people do not do the hard thing most of the time. Most people go along. Its a lesson that has not lost its timeliness.

Pasan los siglos y la Ciudad de México aún guarda lugares fascinantes que nos atrapan. Karla Ceceña, cronistaundergroundde esta urbe, nos guía por calles, jardines, librerías y edificios insospechados para disfrutar de inolvidables atmosferas y rincones llenos de historia.Encanto y misterio de la Ciudad de Mexico descubre la inolvidable Fuente del Quijote en el Bosque de Chapultepec y ofrece las claves para rastrear el origen de la Capilla Gotica del Instituto Cultural Helenico, levanta el velo de la Casa de los Mascarones en San Cosme para adentrarnos en su leyenda y nos acompaña a los albores de la Plaza de Santo Domingo, tambien comparte un amanecer inolvidable en Xochimilco y un paseo magico por Los Dinamos.Escrito con sabiduria y añoranza, este libro renueva la mirada sobre la Ciudad de los Palacios y convoca tanto a quienes la aman como a quienes aun no la conocen a dejarse llevar por su historia y misterio para descubrir, entre otras maravillas, la importancia del Canal Nacional en Churubusco, asi como la espectral belleza de la libreria La niña oscura, en Santa Maria la Ribera, y el origen del curioso nombre de la que se encuentra cerca del metro Villa de Cortes: Bajos Pensamientos.Karla Ceceña nos encamina por el bazar de libros de San Fernando, en la colonia Guerrero, comparte la historia de la mujer quecreo lo que hoy es el Colegio Nacional y deslumbra con los secretos del Ex Convento de Culhuacan y del Archivo Historico de Iztapalapa. Su obra cautiva y, al mismo tiempo, reflexiona sobre el hechizo de esta ciudad terrible, bella e imponente en este convulso sigloXXI.

County Wicklows landscape is dotted with pre-Christian sites Baltinglass is known as the Hillfort Capital of Ireland. Saint Patrick landed in Wicklow in 432 AD and the county also boasts ecclesiastical sites, the most impressive being Glendalough. Following the Anglo-Norman invasion of 116970, Normans occupied the lowlands, but native Irish inhabited the uplands, leading to conflict throughout the Middle Ages. Wicklow became the last county to be shired in 1606.Wicklow witnessed more violence through the seventeenth century, and it was only after 1700 that the elite felt safe enough to build great houses such as Powerscourt and Russborough. Wicklow was in turmoil during the 1798 rebellion. Economic recovery was halted by the tragedy of Famine. Later in the nineteenth century, the Parnells led the Home Rule movement, the Land League and the Ladies Land League. The twentieth century saw war, revolution and hardship before better times arrived after 1960.Meticulously researched, this clear, user-friendly book is an invaluable resource which will appeal to everyone interested in the history of County Wicklow.