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Aguilar Rivera analiza el papel de Hispanoamérica en la formulación de ideas trascendentes dentro del pensamiento político occidental; en particular las ideas de Vicente Rocafuerte, Simón Bolívar, Lorenzo de Vidaurre y Lucas Alaman que fueron inspiradas en la reflexion sobre el establecimiento del sistema representativo de gobierno y el constitucionalismo liberal decimononico en esta region.

Una épica historia intelectual de América Latina escrita por uno de sus más influyentes pensadores. Las ideas son las protagonistas de este libro, pero no las ideas en abstracto sino las ideas encarnadas en personas con vidas tocadas por la pasion del poder, la historia y la revolucion; y tambien por el amor, la amistad, la familia. Vidas reales, no ideas andantes.Por este libro desfilan profetas de la redencion como el heroico Marti, el idealista Rodo, el educador Vasconcelos o el indigenista Mariategui. Los sigue, como figura central, el poeta y ensayista Octavio Paz, cuya vida abarca el siglo entero y cuyas raices familiares recogen toda la tradicion revolucionaria moderna. A la manera de Plutarco y sus Vidas paralelas, el autor dibuja enseguida los perfiles de Eva Peron y el Che Guevara, pone en contrapunto las actitudes politicas y morales de los novelistas Gabriel Garcia Marquez y Mario Vargas Llosa, y explica la conexion historica entre el teologo Samuel Ruiz y el guerrillero Subcomandante Marcos. Finalmente, conecta a Hugo Chavez con la tradicion caudillista y el culto carlyleano al heroe.A traves de estas doce biografias sutilmente entrelazadas, Enrique Krauze esclarece el dilema central de America Latina, la tension entre el ideal de la democracia y la tentacion, siempre presente, del mesianismo politico.Krauze posee un raro y atractivo talento para advertir las diferentes maneras en que, bajo el brillante sol de la imaginacion, convergen a veces el reino de la politica y el reino de la literatura. Paul Berman, New York Times Book Review.Un ambicioso intento de trazar la interaccion de las ideas y el poder en America Latina. Krauze revive magnificamente las virtudes de los miembros moderados de su elenco, en especial las de Octavio Paz. Mary OGrady, The Wall Street Journal.Redentores es una magistral historia de las ideas, los libros y las acciones politicas que formaron a America Latina. Un libro sabio y erudito que, por momentos, provoca tambien perplejidad. John Paul Rathbone, Financial Times

Jerusalén es, a la vez, la capital de un poder político, objetivo de mil batallas, conquistas y destrucciones a lo largo de los siglos, y la ciudad santa de tres religiones: el lugar destinado a ser el escenario del Juicio Final profetizado por el Apocalipsis. Simon Sebag Montefiore ha logrado el prodigio de evocar en estas paginas sus tres mil años de historia, contados a traves de las vidas de quienes los protagonizaron, en una nomina que incluye reyes, politicos, conquistadores o profetas, de Salomon a Lawrence de Arabia, pasando por Abraham, Jesus o Mahoma, por Saladino, los cruzados, Suleiman el Magnifico o Winston Churchill, sin olvidar a la infinidad de hombres y mujeres comunes que han vivido, amado, sufrido o luchado en sus calles.

Ensayo que el Gobierno de Argentina encargó a Leopoldo Lugones en 1903. El estudio se basa en los viajes de exploración que el autor argentino realizó por la zona de las misiones jesuitas de Latinoamerica y en el analisis historico de la conquista espiritual que la orden llevo a cabo.

In this gripping and concise account, Middle East expert James Snell delves deep into the collapse of the al-Assads dictatorship, tracing their brutal atrocities from 1970 and what it means for the West. Through detailed narratives and eyewitness testimonies, he chronicles the relentless oppression and war crimes that fuelled the oppositions struggle. The fall of Damascus in December 2024 not only marked the end of over 50 years of Assad-family rule but also provided an unexpected development in the international drug trade, terrorism, Russias strategic stronghold in the Mediterranean, highlighting significant geopolitical shifts. James currently writes for the Telegraph and Spectator on Syria.

The only power otherwise powerless people possess lies in their numbers.Riots and Rebels is an examination of how people have exercised that power in England, Scotland and Wales over the centuries and how governments have reacted to it. From the Middle Ages to the present day, Riots and Rebels discusses and highlights how protests have shaped British history and contributed to the struggle for the vote, labour rights, womens rights, trade unions and climate awareness. Without many of these examples of direct action, modern society would look very different.In 1381, a large army of people marched through the south-east of England to London, demanding an end to unfair taxation and threatening the rule of the boy-king, Richard II. During the eighteenth century, food riots, riots in protest at land enclosure, and riots targeting religious groups and foreigners regularly occurred. In the following century, mass gatherings demanded reform of the electoral system which allowed only a tiny proportion of the population to vote. In the early twentieth century, suffragettes chained themselves to railings, took part in huge demonstrations and endured prison sentences in pursuit of the vote for women. Recent decades have seen tens of thousands of people take to the streets of London and other cities to protest against the Iraq War and, in the last year, the war in Gaza.From the so-called Peasants Revolt to Just Stop Oil, via the anti-Catholic Gordon Riots of 1780, Luddites breaking machinery which threatened their livelihood, the infamous Peterloo Massacre of 1819, the Chartist demonstrations of the 1830s and 1840s, 1887s Bloody Sunday and many other, often violent events, Nick Rennison provides a concise, compelling account of popular protest in Britain. For readers of Unruly by David Mitchell, The Restless Republic by Anna Keay and Revolution by Peter Ackroyd.PRAISE FOR NICK RENNISONEntertaining and thoroughly readable canter through the events of a century ago... Fascinating OBSERVER on 1922Rennison proves a chatty and amiable guide and offers an enjoyable and evocative ramble down memory lane TELEGRAPH on 1974Hugely entertaining... often wryly amusing... plenty of light entertainment and colourful anecdote MAIL ON SUNDAY on 1974

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The Sultanate of Muscat and Oman was a hermit state until 1970, preserving in every detail the poverty, personality and picturesque reality of a medieval kingdom. For forty years, Sultan Said bin Taimur personally controlled everything that happened, deliberately cutting the nation off from the headlong development of the rest of the world. Fortunately for Oman this would change, and fortunately for us, we have a first-hand witness to this complex society before that watershed. Ian Skeet travelled across its vast sand deserts and arid highlands in 19668, preparing the wary inhabitants for the coming of oil, visiting its isolated walled cities, fortified oasis communities and independent-minded Bedouin tribes. The sultans motives may have been pure to preserve his people from the sin of usury and the slavery of foreign debt but Ian Skeets portrait is a devastating study of the dead hand of autocracy.

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This is Gaza a place of humanity and creativity, rich in culture and industry. A place now utterly devastated, its entire population displaced by a seemingly endless onslaught, its heritage destroyed.Daybreak in Gaza is a record of an extraordinary place and people, and of a culture preserved by the people themselves. Vignettes of artists, acrobats, doctors, students, shopkeepers and teachers offer stories of love, life, loss and survival. They display the wealth of Gazas cultural landscape and the breadth of its history.Daybreak in Gaza humanises the people dismissed as statistics. It stands as a mark of resistance to the destruction and as a testament to the people of Gaza.

In this comprehensive history of the Irish Boundary Commission, Paul Murray looks at British attempts from 1886 on to satisfy the Irish Nationalist demand for Home Rule, Ulster and British Unionist resistance to this demand, the 1920 partition of Ireland and the 1921 Anglo-Irish Treaty, where the roots of the establishment of the Commission are to be found. The evidence presented at the Commission and the principles on which it based its decisions are analysed against the background of evolving British views on the dangers posed for British and Unionist interests on both islands by a radical redrawing of the 1920 border. New documentary evidence is brought to bear on the motivation of its Chairman Justice Feetham, his susceptibility to external influences, and the significance of his political background as possible factors in his final decisions. The history of the Irish Boundary Commission is shown to also be part of a larger European narrative. This study is, thus, the first large-scale attempt to consider its significance in its wider international context.

Womens literary expressions of war have long been neglected and at times forgotten in Irish scholarship. In Women Writing War: Ireland 1880-1922 many of these forgotten women are revealed through their writings as culturally active and deeply invested in the political and military struggles of their turbulent times. From the Land Wars to the Boer Wars, from the First World War to the Easter Rising, the War of Independence and the Civil War, the fascinating women considered in this volume-grapple with the experiential representation of conflicts. The diverse range of topics explored include: womens eye- witness accounts of 1916, Winifred Lettss First World War poetry, the political rhetoric and experiences of Anna Parnell and Anne Blunt during the Land War, Peggie Kellys fiction and Cumann na mBan activism, the cultural nationalism of northern. Protestant "New Women" of the Glens of Antrim, Una Ni Fhaircheallaighs Irish language activism in and beyond the Gaelic League, Emily Lawlesss Boer War diary as well as the dramatic collaboration of sisters Eva Gore-Booth and Countess Markievicz.The book also includes a preface by historian Margaret Ward and an extract from Lia Millss award-winning historical novel Fallen, set in Dublin during the Easter Rising (selected as the 2016 One City One Book choice for both Dublin and Belfast).Engaging with recent Scholarly debates on sexuality, war writing, and the politics of Irish warfare, the authors of Women Writing War explore the ways in which conflict narratives have been read - and interpreted - as deeply gendered. Radicals, revolutionaries and queer activists, as well as women who remained attached to the domestic sphere, are all represented in this original and provocative volume on the relationship between women and conflict.

In August 1922, at the height of the Civil War, when the Communist Party of Ireland could count on barely 50 activists, two agents of the Communist International held a secret meeting in Dublin with two IRA leaders. The four signed an agreement providing for the transformation of Sinn Fein into a socialist party. In return, Moscow was to assist with the supply of weapons to the IRA. The incident illustrates what made the Comintern a beacon of hope to beleaguered revolutionaries or an object of sometimes hysterical suspicion. From February 1918, when over 10,000 thronged central Dublin to acclaim the Bolshevik revolution, to July 1941, when the Party in Eire was dissolved by the votes of just 20 members, communists were involved with every radical movement, and demonised in every pulpit. Based on former Soviet archives, Reds and the Green shows why Irish Marxists and republicans turned repeatedly to Russia for support and inspiration, what Moscow wanted from Ireland, and how the Comintern was able to direct an Irish political party.

Born in Waterford in 1888 Rosamond Jacob, of Quaker background, was in many cases a crowd member rather than a leader in the campaigns in which she participated - the turn of the century language revival, the suffrage campaign, the campaigns of the revolutionary period. She adopted an anti-Treaty stance in the 1920s, moving towards a fringe involvement in the activities of socialist republicanism in the early 1930s while continuing to vote Fianna Fail. Her commitment to feminist concerns was life long but at no point did she take or was capable of a leadership role. However, it was Jacobs failure to carve out a strong place in history as an activist which makes her interesting as a subject for biography. Her ordinariness offers an alternative lens on the biographical project. By failing to marry, by her inability to find meaningful paid work, by her countless refusals from publishers, by the limited sales of what work was published, Jacob offers a key into lives more ordinary within the urban middle classes of her time, and suggests a new perspective on female lives.Jacobs life, galvanised at all times by political and feminist debate, offers a means of exploring how the central issues which shaped Irish politics and society in the first half of the twentieth century were experienced and digested by those outside the leadership cadre.

This complex, compelling tale is told with simplicity and grace - The TimesA story of courage and adventure, set against the backdrop of the race to exploit Africa by the colonial powers.For millennia the location of the Nile Rivers headwaters was shrouded in mystery. In the mid-19th century, Richard Burton and John Hanning Speke were sent by the Royal Geographical Society to claim the prize for Britain. Burton spoke twenty-nine languages, and was a decorated soldier. He was also mercurial, subtle, and an iconoclastic atheist. Speke was a young aristocrat and Army officer determined to make his mark, Burtons opposite in temperament and beliefs.From the start the two men clashed. They would endure tremendous hardship, illness, and constant setbacks. Two years in, deep in the African interior, Burton became too sick to press on, but Speke did, and claimed he found the source in a great lake that he christened Lake Victoria. When they returned to England, the two became sworn enemies.Yet there was a third man on both expeditions, his name obscured by imperial annals, whose exploits were even more extraordinary. This was Sidi Mubarak Bombay, who was enslaved and shipped from his home village in East Africa to India. When the man who purchased him died, he made his way into the local Sultans army, and eventually travelled back to Africa, where he used his resourcefulness, linguistic prowess and raw courage to forge a living as a guide. Without Bombay and men like him, who led, carried, and protected the expedition, neither Englishman would have come close to the headwaters of the Nile, or perhaps even survived.

In the early 1970s, Sir Maurice Oldfield of the British Secret Service, MI6, embarked upon a decade-long campaign to derail the political career of Charles Haughey. The English spymaster believed Haughey was a Provisional IRA godfather, therefore, a threat to Britain. Oldfield was assisted by unscrupulous British agents and by a shadowy group of conspirators inside the Irish states security apparatus, all sharing his distrust of Haughey. Escaping scrutiny for their actions until now, Enemy of the Crown examines more than a dozen instances of their activities.Oldfield was conspiratorial by nature and lacked a moral compass. Involved in regime change plots and torture in the Middle East, in the Republic of Ireland he engaged with convicted criminals as agent provocateurs as well as the exploitation of pedophile rings in Northern Ireland. He and his spies engaged in dirty tricks as they ran vicious smear campaigns in Ireland, Britain and the US. MI6 and IRD intrigues were deployed to impede Haugheys bid to secure a position on Fianna Fails front bench and any return to respectability.Londons hateful drive against Haughey saw no let-up after Fianna Fails triumphal return to power in 1977 which saw them win a large majority of seats in the Dail. When Haughey sought a place at Cabinet, Oldfield and his spies devised more dirty tricks to impede him. While Haughey was suspicious of MI6 interference, he had no inkling of the full extent of Londons clandestine efforts to destroy him. By circulating lurid stories about him, they played a major part in trying to prevent him succeed Jack Lynch as Taoiseach in 1979. This book attempts to shed light on some of the anti-Haughey conspiracies which took place during the period of the late 1960s right through to the early 1980s.

Napoleão inspira visões apaixonadas e, muitas vezes, conflitantes. Seria ele um gênio divino, um monstro megalomaníaco, um guerreiro compulsivo ou apenas um pequeno ditador desagradável? Embora exibi

The peatlands of the Outer Hebrides are half land, half water. Their surface is a glorious tweed woven from tiny, living sphagnums rich in wildlife, but underneath is layer upon layer of dead mosses transforming into the peat. One can, with care, walk out onto them, but stop and you begin to sink into them. For time immemorial the peatlands have been places for humans at least of seasonal habitation but not of constant residence. In this book Robin A. Crawford explores the peatlands over the course of the year, explaining how they have come to be and examining how peat has been used from the Bronze Age onwards. In describing the seasonal processes of cutting, drying, stacking, storing and burning he reveals one of the key rhythms of island life, but his study goes well beyond this to include many other aspects, including the wildlife and folklore associated with these lonely, watery places. Widening his gaze to other peatlands in the country, he also reflects on the historical and cultural importance that peat has played, and continues to play it is still used for fuel in many rural areas and plays an essential role in whisky-making in the story of Scotland.

On 8 July 1921 a Truce between the IRA and British forces in Ireland was announced, to begin three days later. However, in those three days at least sixty people from both sides of the conflict were killed. In Truce, Padraig Og O Ruairc goes back to the facts to reveal what actually happened in those three bloody days, and why.tWhat sparked Belfasts Bloody Sunday in 1921, the worst bout of sectarian violence in Northern Irelands troubled history? Why were four unarmed British soldiers kidnapped and killed by the IRA in Cork just hours before the ceasefire began?tWho murdered Margaret Keogh, a young Dublin rebel, in cold blood on her own doorstep?tWere the last spies shot by the IRA really working for British intelligence or just the victims of anti-Protestant bigotry?This book answers these questions for the first time and separates fact from fiction to find out what really happened in the final battles between the IRA and the British forces.