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Una introducción rigurosa y accesible a más de tres milenios de civilización egipcia. Todo aquel que quiera conocer el Antiguo Egipto encontrará en esta Historia una introducción amplia, rigurosa y documentada a esta civilizacion milenaria. Marc van de Mieroop no solo presta atencion a los periodos y las dinastias siguiendo el relato cronologico, sino que aporta otros muchos elementos como la contextualizacion de testimonios arqueologicos, la traduccion de fuentes escritas o la discusion de documentos concretos. El texto se complementa con numerosas ilustraciones, mapas, temas especiales y cuestiones de debate, ademas de listas de reyes, glosario, bibliografia e indices. Una herramienta imprescindible para el especialista y una lectura apasionante para el interesado.Marc van de Mieroop ha logrado lo que muchos historiadores del antiguo Egipto no han podido: hacer que las complejidades de la historia egipcia sean comprensibles para un publico amplio sin perder la precision necesaria en el analisis historico. Su obra es una de las mas claras y accesibles sobre Egipto, no solo porque ofrece una narrativa detallada de los hechos, sino porque contextualiza las instituciones, las creencias y las dinamicas sociales dentro de la historia mas amplia del Cercano Oriente.Toby Wilkinson, Egiptologo

La mayoría de los documentos conservados en la Real Academia de la Historia relacionados con el período de la evangelización de Japón por parte de los misioneros europeos se dedican a los martirios que tuvieron lugar en el Japon de la epoca. Gracias a estos registros, el autor ha abordado en profundidad su estudio sobre el martirio y los martires japoneses de los siglos XVI y XVII.La evangelizacion en Japon se inicio a mediados del siglo XVI bajo el liderazgo de Francisco Javier. La pronta aceptacion de la religion procedente de la Peninsula Iberica hizo temer al gobernado Toyotomi Hidyyoshi, que decidio la expulsion de los sacerdotes. Para entonces, el cristianismo habia encontrado ancla en tierra nipona: en pocas decadas, Japon albergaba doscientas iglesias y decenas de miles de cristianos.Esta obra analiza los documentos relativos a los martirios de los fieles japoneses durante los siglos XVI y XVII y permite comprender que el espiritu del cristianismo arraigo profundamente sobre el suelo japones.Bajo la politica prohibicionista hacia el cristianismo, los cristianos japoneses tenian dos alternativas. La primera: profesar el budismo tras apostatar. La segunda, morir en el martirio si no abandonaban publicamente la fe cristiana.En este sentido, los misioneros europeos inculcaron en los fieles japoneses el espiritu del martirio a traves de algunos libros sobre la historia de los santos martires que habian muerto en Europa en la antiguedad. Numerosos cristianos japoneses eligieron, entonces, el camino del martirio. Asi, en lo concerniente al martirio, Japon presento ciertas analogias con la situacion de persecucion y muerte de los primeros cristianos en el Imperio romano.Los martirios iniciados en 1614 movieron a los cristianos japoneses a mantener sus creencias religiosas en la clandestinidad para, sin renunciar a su fe, no perder la vida. Los cristianos ocultos se hacian pasar por budistas para evitar ser detenidos por las autoridades, y lograron establecer organizaciones secretas para la celebracion de misas y el rezo de las oraciones. De este modo, la fe cristiana permanecio viva en Japon pese a su persecucion, hasta 1865, fecha del descubrimiento de los cristianos de Nagasaki en la catedral de Oura.

El libro No regresar al pasado refleja la tradición de la historia oral. En él se escuchan las voces de las mujeres sin ser interrumpidas, interpretadas o analizadas. La autora sólo interviene para ubicar los textos en su tiempo y lugar. Es un libro que le da el espacio a las mujeres campesinas, en sumayoria indigenas, y todas sobrevivientes del Conflicto Armado Interno, para hablar y ser escuchadas.Abarca casi cien años de historia de la mujer. En diez capitulos cronologicos las mujeres hablan de su vida como niñas, adultas y ancianas en los lugares donde nacieron, del trabajo en las fincas, de la colonizacion de Ixcan y Peten, de la llegada de la guerra y la sobrevivencia en la montaña, del refugio en Mexico y del retorno a Guatemala.Al final hacen la cuenta y reflexionan sobre el dicho "no regresar al pasado". Las mujeres no querian regresar a la violencia, a la persecucion, a la guerra, pero tampoco querian regresar a su posicion marginada y aislada de antes, sin tener voz y voto en su familia y sus comunidades, sin tener acceso a la informacion y a la educacion y sin reconocimiento de su trabajo y produccion como madres de familia y mujeres campesinas. Querian decir que ya no eran las mismas mujeres que vivian antes en sus lugares de origen en Guatemala. "Eramos ciegas, pero ya no estamos ciegas", decian.El libro da sentido y reconocimiento a la vida y la valentia de estas y muchas otras campesinas guatemaltecas. En No regresar al pasado las mujeres cuentan su historia.Hablan sobre las migraciones por la pobreza, la busqueda de trabajo y de tierra por la violencia y la guerra. Sobre como se escondieron en la montaña, se refugiaron en Mexico y regresaron a Guatemala despues de años de exilio. Cuentan sobre la vida diaria, sus relaciones con el mundo y los roles de genero, los cuales estan presentes en cada momento.La base del libro son entrevistas literalmente transcritas y luego redactadas en una historia comun. Juntas las mujeres reconstruyen su historia para que sea escuchada y para que no sea tapada por el silencio, el olvido y la marginacion.

El pack incluye dos volúmenes: 1. Triunfo de Adolf Hitler, sueños de conquista; 2. Guerra y derrota.Ésta es la historia brutalmente objetiva de cómo Hitler logró el control político de Alemania y llevo a cabo su plan de dominar el mundo en seis años, para finalmente ver a Alemania perecer bajo las llamas. El repentino colapso del Tercer Reich en la primavera de 1945 trajo consigo la entrega de un vasto volumen de sus documentos secretos y otros materiales de valor incalculable: diarios privados, discursos altamente secretos, informes de conferencias e incluso resumenes de conversaciones telefonicas de los jefes nazis. La combinacion de esa cantidad ingente de documentos historicos y los recuerdos personales de William L. Shirer diferencia a este libro de todos los demas y lo convierte en uno de los grandes trabajos historicos de todas las epocas. Esta lectura sera distinta de todas las demas sobre el mismo tema. Sera una experiencia rica y gratificante para todo el que se haya preguntado como fue posible que alguna vez llegara a existir esta amenaza para la civilizacion, y lo que es peor, como duro tanto tiempo.

Entre la leyenda negra y la leyenda dorada, Lafaye abre camino a una visión balanceada sobre la conquista de América; ese acontecer complejo en que se unieron contradictoriamente descubrimientos geograficos, sangrientas conquistas, evangelizacion apostolica, esclavitud y explotacion del trabajo indigena, administracion por la burocracia imperial y nacimiento de la sociedad criolla.

Bronze needs copper and tinbut these metals were rarely in the same place. The Bronze Mandate shows how this geological accident forced humanity into globalization as early as 4000 years ago. Without tin, there were no weapons, no tools, and no progress.We examine the gigantic trade networks that stretched from the mines of Britain to the palaces of Mesopotamia. It is the story of the first international diplomacy and the emergence of complex supply chains in a world without maps. Why did the entire Mediterranean world collapse when these routes broke down?We analyze the Collapse at the End of the Bronze Age as the first global system failure in history. Learn how the dependence on distant raw materials was already both a curse and a blessing back then. This book documents the archaeological evidence for a networked world that was surprisingly similar to our own today. A fascinating look at the material constraints that drove the progress of civilization.

For 73 years, the Titanic lay hidden in the Atlantic, deeper than any salvage operation could reach. When Robert Ballards cameras finally found the wreck in 1985, they revealed a ghost ship suspended in time, surrounded by shoes and suitcases scattered across the ocean floor. The discovery raised a question nobody had prepared for: what now?This book explores what happened after the cameras arrived. You will learn about the legal battles over salvage rights, the scientific debates over preservation, and the moral arguments about treating a mass grave as a tourist attraction. The Titanic became a test case for underwater heritage, with implications for every shipwreck yet to be found.The Grave Below does not answer the ethics definitively. It presents the competing claims: science, commerce, memory, and the rights of the dead. As technology makes the deep ocean accessible, these questions will only multiply. The Titanic was the first famous wreck we could reach. It will not be the last.

How did an insignificant ape from the African savannah become the ruler of the planet? The secret is not our muscles, but our imagination. "The Story of Us" (inspired by Yuval Noah Harari) traces the history of Homo Sapiens from the Stone Age to Silicon Valley. It is a story of three revolutions: Cognitive, Agricultural, and Scientific.Discover how our unique ability to believe in shared mythsmoney, nations, gods, human rightsallowed us to cooperate in groups of millions. We explore the dark side of progress: Did the Agricultural Revolution actually make our lives worse? Are we happier than our hunter-gatherer ancestors?This book challenges everything you think you know about being human. It looks at the future, where biotechnology and AI might split our species into gods and useless masses. A provocative, mind-expanding look at where we came from and where we are going. Know your history to predict your future.

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Septimius Severus was Romes black emperor. Born in the blistering heat of a North African spring in Leptis Magna AD 145, he died in the freezing cold of a northern British winter in York in AD 211. A giant of an emperor, whose career can be counted in superlatives, Severus was in power at the height of Romes might. He led the largest army to ever campaign in Britain, comprising 50,000 men, part of a Roman military establishment which peaked at 33 legions under his rule.Born into the richest family, in the richest part of the Roman Empire, Severus monumentalised his rule across the empire. He visited - and often fought in - every region. Where he did, he left a mighty legacy in the built environment, for example in Rome where much of the Forum Romanum and most of the imperial palaces are Severan. In North Africa, his hometown of Leptis Magna is all Severan, as are the Roman cities at the Atlas mountains. In London, the land walls that still define the Citys Square Mile were delineated under his rule. Visitors to the under croft at York Minster can stand where he died.Septimius Severus was one of the greatest warrior emperors, a hard man who almost died in battle several times and whose attitude is reflected in his deathbed advice to two sons: Be of one mind with your family, enrich the soldiers, and despise the rest.

The courageous pilots of the Royal Air Force who faced the Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain, affectionately known as the Few, are rightly hailed as heroes. Recently, efforts have been made to recognise the thousands who supported RAF operations behind the scenes. And yet one group remains missing from the narrative: the Womens Auxiliary Air Force. WAAFs worked within the Dowding System, the worlds most sophisticated air defence network. Throughout the Blitz, they used radar to aid Fighter and Bomber Commands in protecting Britains civilians. WAAFs were also behind the discovery of the terrifying German V-weapons. Their work was critical ahead of the Normandy landings and they were present in their hundreds at Bletchley Park. In this thrilling book, Sarah-Louise Miller celebrates their wartime contribution to British military intelligence. Hidden behind the Few but vital to their success, WAAFs supplied the RAF with life-saving information. Here, for the first time, is their story.

Born out of the Sankey Commissions identification of the appalling living and working conditions of coal miners, the Miners Welfare Fund was established by the Mining Industry Act 1920 to improve the social conditions of colliery workers. Administered by the Miners Welfare Committee, it was totally depended on a levy on the ton of the national output of coal and, from 1926, the levy on mineral rights for its income. Despite industrial unrest, world economics, Parliamentary legislation, Parliamentary enquiries and world conflict, the Committee and, from 1939, the Commission, in collaboration with the twenty-five District Committees, doggedly pursed their statutory remits of recreation, pit and social welfare, mining education and research into safety in mines. With such a geographically dispersed organisation and a Fund without precedent, there were mistakes and misunderstandings but, despite these, there were great achievements including the Architects Branch winning international recognition for their designs of pithead baths and the Rehabilitation Service for injured miners gaining national recognition for their quality of care.With the passing of the Coal Industry Nationalisation Act and the National Health Service Act in 1946, the rationale for the Miners Welfare Commission became less clear and a decision was taken in June 1951 to terminate the Miners Welfare Commission. The Miners Welfare Act 1952 brought the Fund to an end. During the thirty-one years of the Fund, nearly 30,000,000 had been allocated.

Warfare has been central to European history for millennia; Twenty Battles that Shaped Medieval Europe examines the strategy, military and equipment and battle-tactics of European armies in the Middle Ages. Its fundamental aim is to stimulate the readers interest in the importance of pitched battles in war, and to explain the geo-political gravity of twenty of them from the Battle of Frigidus in AD394 to the Battle of Varna in 1444, taking in such key battles as Hastings in 1066 and Bouvines in 1214.

From their small county in the heart of France, the lords of Anjou - the Angevins - produced dynasties that became kings of Jerusalem, England, Sicily, Hungary and Poland from 900 - 1500. They were described by a contemporary as lords of the greatest part of the world. Here is their extraordinary story, including figures such as Geoffrey Plantagenet, Empress Matilda, Eleanor of Acquitaine, Charles of Anjou, Queen Johanna of Naples, Louis the Great of Hungary and Saint Jadwiga of Poland.

Wie der osteuropaische Menschenrechtsaktivismus das fur Amnesty International so wichtige Prinzip der Unparteilichkeit auf die Probe stellte.Der Menschenrechtsaktivismus von Amnesty International entstand inmitten des Kalten Krieges mit dem ausdrucklichen Ziel, den ideologischen Konflikt zu uberwinden. Zu diesem Zweck entwickelte die Organisation das Prinzip der Unparteilichkeit. Es beruhte darauf, Menschenrechtsverletzungen in Ost und West in gleichem Mae zu kritisieren und eine gewisse Distanz zwischen Aktivisten und Gefangenen zu wahren. Die politisierte ideologische Landschaft, in der Amnesty tatig war, und der Menschenrechtsaktivismus in Osteuropa stellten diese Politik insbesondere in den siebziger Jahren in Frage. Osteuropaische Menschenrechtsaktivisten lieferten dringend benotigte Informationen uber eine Region, die fur Amnestys Politik der Balance wichtig war. Aber je enger die Zusammenarbeit wurde, desto mehr gerieten die Regeln von Amnesty unter Druck, insbesondere das Prinzip der Distanz. Als Aktivisten zunachst in der Sowjetunion und spater in Polen versuchten, Amnesty-Gruppen und -Sektionen in ihren jeweiligen Landern zu etablieren, wurde die Kluft zwischen den nominell universellen Regeln der Organisation und ihrer Praxis in Osteuropa deutlich.

Die Beitrage des vorliegenden Bandes gehen aus einer gemeinsamen Tagung des Graduiertenkollegs "Generationengeschichte" der Georg-August-Universitat Gottingen und des Deutschen Historischen Instituts in Washington hervor. Verschiedene Generationenkonzepte standen sich hier gegenuber: die europaische Idee von "Jugendgenerationen" und "politischen Generationen" und die eher pragmatische amerikanische Lesart von den "demographischen Generationen" oder den "Konsumgenerationen". Immer, so scheint es, wird die generationelle Logik uberlagert von nationalen Vorstellungen der Dazugehorigkeit. Sehr deutlich arbeiten die Beitrage aus Europa und den USA heraus, dass die historische Zeit wohl in Generationen gelesen wird, doch wird Geschichte nicht von Generationen gemacht.

After a forty-year gap following the excavations of the 1950s (and even earlier), large archaeological campaigns have been carried out since the 1990s in a quarter (also known as "Spaziergarten", "insula VI"and "Open-Air Museum") of the former "civilian" Roman town of Carnuntum. These new excavations have produced a large quantity of coins. Some of these findings have been published in the monumental volume Numismata Carnuntina - FMRO III.2 together with the rest of the coins found at Carnuntum in older collections. The new excavations were carried out according to new methodologies, as nowadays it is a desideratum to create numismatic corpora that should gather as much information as possible about each coin, not only from a numismatic point of view but also from an archaeological one. The aim is to provide more details about both general and specific patterns of the Roman economy, society and history of a residential quarter in a Roman town. Thus, the style of publication of coins - with a large scale of archaeological units (e.g. Roman streets, dwellings public edifices) and their stratigraphy - was chosen in this book in order to provide as much information as possible about each coin; in doing so we try to provide scholars with material and evidence that may help them to obtain a realistic picture of monetary circulation. Similarly, the coin as seen through an archaeological context may serve for a better understanding of the dating of archaeological phases, especially to illustrate when the coin may be useful within an archaeological context, as well as to highlight the pitfalls that one may come across if this artefact is misunderstood within the archaeological picture. We hope that this book will be a useful tool for numismatists, archaeologists, historians and any reader interested in understanding Roman life through coinage.

Scottish military offensives against England from 1369 were largely the product of government policy, were launched with careful timing and, in the reign of Robert II, involved close co-operation with France. They succeeded militarily, encouraging the Scots to the point where they were willing to engage in attacks on England beyond the ambition of their French allies. However, diplomatic gains fell well short of forcing English recognition of Scottish independence. Hopes of achieving this by military means were ended in the reign of Robert III when the Scots were heavily defeated in 1402. War was not solely fought with political objectives in mind or other rational factors such as the quest for financial gain. The Scots went to war for emotive reasons too, such as hatred of the English, the search for renown and the sheer enjoyment of fighting. All these factors inspired the Scots to launch a series of bloody, brutal and ultimately futile offensives against England.

Reunir pensadores que se dedicam a refletir sobre as Amazonias, mostrando os resultados das suas pesquisas e reflexes, desde a sua entrada no mundo ocidental, o seu presente e perspectivas para o futuro e o grande trunfo da coleço Entre o passado e o futuro.um livro lançado pela Editora Valer.

The 1930s in Ireland is often thought of as a bleak period of economic stagnation and unemployment. But 1932, hailed by the Irish Press as a new era, was an early glimmer of the modernity and success Ireland would later reach: a sequence of events and achievements that included technological advances in travel, agriculture, home appliances and entertainment; Olympic gold medals and the meteoric rise of boxing phenomenon Jack Doyle; a spectacular Eucharistic Congress; sweepstakes and a so called gold rush; as well as the election of Eamon de Valera and transformations in politics and culture.The soundtrack scoring all this change was the jazz craze, which landed in Ireland in the early 1930s and flourished throughout the country, loosening the conservative social and moral order of the time. Jazz brought new forms of dress, lifestyle and behaviour, exciting and exhilarating a younger generation for the future, while leaving an older generation wary of such rapid change.A Year of Glory and Gold is an energetic and exuberant biography of a bright year in Irelands history, combining deep archival research with spirited storytelling by one of Irelands best-loved social historians.