The edited volume aims to re-contextualize revolts in early modern Central and Southern Europe (Hungary, Croatia, Czech Lands, Austria, Germany, Italy) by adopting the interdisciplinary and comparative methods of social and cultural history. Instead of structural explanations like the model of state-building versus popular resistance, it wishes to put back the peasants themselves to the historical narratives of revolts. Peasants appear in the book as active agents fighting or bargaining for freedom, which was a practical issue for them. Nonetheless, the language of lord-peasant negotiation was that of religion, just as official punishments used Christian symbols. The approach of revolts as the events of collective violence also highlights the experiences and memories of participants. How did individuals and groups use remembering and forgetting as a means of forging an identity for themselves? Instead of the narratives of the powerful that became the normative stories of history, the perspective of the rebels uncovers the everyday faces of revolts more forcibly. Finally, contributors examine how later narrators used the rebels for their own purposes, in other words the subsequent representation of the revolts and their leaders in image, literature and historiography comes to the fore. The volume aims to overcome disciplinary boundaries by bringing together historians and scholars of related disciplines including the history of literature, the visual arts and anthropology. The central contention of the volume - the cultural imprint of peasant revolts - is fully addressed, thereby filling a conspicuous gap in the currently available literature.

La independencia de las Trece Colonias y la Revolución Francesa han ocupado un lugar privilegiado en el estudio de la Era de las revoluciones. Los nueve capítulos de este libro plantean colocar a la revolucion liberal española, al liberalismo hispanico y a las independencias hispanoamericanas en un lugar destacado en el estudio de dicha era. Esto lo hace el autor mediante un analisis de varios aspectos politicos e intelectuales del mundo hispanico del primer cuarto del siglo XIX que muestran su riqueza, su peculiaridad, su complejidad y sus aportaciones a la historia de las ideas en Occidente. En resumen, el libro que el lector tiene en sus manos proporciona argumentos para concluir que no se puede seguir ignorando a las revoluciones hispanicas cuando se escribe historia politica o historia intelectual sobre la Era de las revoluciones.Fuera de algunos especialistas, muy pocas personas saben que el termino "liberal" con una connotacion politica surgio en el mundo hispanico al final de la primera decada del siglo XIX. Concretamente, en las Cortes de Cadiz, una asamblea de representantes españoles e hispanoamericanos que se reunieron en ese puerto español entre 1810 y 1814. Esa asamblea bi-continental y la constitucion que elaboraron (la Constitucion de Cadiz o Constitucion de 1812) consideraron como ciudadanos a los indigenas de America y el documento era el mas abierto que hasta entonces se habia redactado en terminos de participacion electoral. Ademas, tuvo repercusiones sobre varias regiones italianas, Portugal, Rusia y Noruega, asi como, por supuesto, sobre los territorios hispanoamericanos, los cuales pronto extendieron la revolucion hispanica al Nuevo Continente y optaron por una via propia hacia la modernidad politica que surgio en Occidente durante la Era de las revoluciones.

The Industrial Revolution provided the greatest increase in living standards the world has ever known while propelling Britain to dominance on the global stage. In Forging Modernity, Martin Hutchinson looks at how and why Britain gained this prize ahead of its European competitors. After comparing their endowments and political structures as far back as 1600, he then traces how Britain, through better policies primarily from the political Tory party, diverged from other European countries. Hutchinsons Harvard MBA allows a unique perspective on the early industrial enterprises - many successes resulted from marketing, control systems and logistics rather than from production technology alone, while on a national scale the scientific method and commercial competition were as important as physical infrastructure. By 1830, through ever-improving policies, Britain had built a staggering industrial lead, half a century ahead of its rivals. Then the Tories lost power and policy changed forever. In his conclusion, Hutchinson shows how changes welcomed by conventional historians caused the decline of Industrial Britain. Nevertheless, the policies that drove growth, ingenuity and rising living standards are still available for those bold enough to adopt them.

The Industrial Revolution provided the greatest increase in living standards the world has ever known while propelling Britain to dominance on the global stage. In Forging Modernity, Martin Hutchinson looks at how and why Britain gained this prize ahead of its European competitors. After comparing their endowments and political structures as far back as 1600, he then traces how Britain, through better policies primarily from the political Tory party, diverged from other European countries. Hutchinsons Harvard MBA allows a unique perspective on the early industrial enterprises - many successes resulted from marketing, control systems and logistics rather than from production technology alone, while on a national scale the scientific method and commercial competition were as important as physical infrastructure. By 1830, through ever-improving policies, Britain had built a staggering industrial lead, half a century ahead of its rivals. Then the Tories lost power and policy changed forever. In his conclusion, Hutchinson shows how changes welcomed by conventional historians caused the decline of Industrial Britain. Nevertheless, the policies that drove growth, ingenuity and rising living standards are still available for those bold enough to adopt them.

The aim of this book is to provide missing details of the Syrian revolution in 2011, and to clear up the prevailing misconception about the war in Syria. I offer in this book a different approach to observing the Syrian revolution by dividing it into phases, and using more preciseterms. Thus I have divided the Syrian revolution into three phases:1) Revolution from below, where popular and peaceful uprising was the mainstream character of the Syrian revolution; 2) Internal war, where mutual violence was spread formally and nationally after the formation of the Free Syrian Army (FSA); 3) Holy war (Jihad), where most revolutionaries have turned into national Jihadists accompanied with the arrival of global Jihadists to Syria to fight the Assad regime, and to establish the Islamic State (Caliphate). Furthermore, the rising and elapse of ISIS is investigated comprehensively in this book.I use the term internal war rather than civil war in order to be more specific in analyzing the war in Syria. Also, the international relations of the Syrian revolution occupies considerable part of this book. The behavior of states and sub-state actors regionally and internationally, and the stance of the international organizations towards the Syrian revolution are critically examined. In addition, the massacres and war crimes which have been committed by Bashar Assad, Iran, and their militias against the people in Syria are well documented in this book.

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.

***LIBRO DEL AÑO para The Times, Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph, Financial Times, Sunday Telegraph e History Today***Durante la Revolución francesa las ideas sobre la naturaleza (la naturaleza humana, el mundo natural y la relacion entre ambos) estuvieron en el centro de feroces debates y acontecimientos politicos clave. En este contexto, Napoleon se erigio como un autoproclamado mecenas de las ciencias y el progreso, poniendo fin a la Revolucion y vendando sus heridas. Sin embargo, su gobierno desato una era de destruccion y guerra, que causo millones de muertos en toda Europa. Esta biografia de Napoleon es un revelador retrato para los lectores de nuestro tiempo, donde no solo vemos al Napoleon de la politica del poder o las batallas epicas, sino tambien al amante de la naturaleza y los jardines que dieron luz y sombra a su vida revolucionaria.Los jardines de Napoleon van desde los olivares de su infancia en Corcega hasta los jardines y las casas de fieras de Josephine en Paris, los jardines de El Cairo, Roma y Elba, el jardin amurallado de Hougoumont en la batalla de Waterloo y, en ultima instancia, el ultimo jardin de Napoleon en Santa Elena. Alli los trabajadores chinos le construyeron una casa de verano donde podia sentarse y observar el mar en sus ultimos meses.Napoleon emerge en esta innovadora biografia como una figura gigante que cobra vida a traves de los ojos de quienes mejor lo conocieron personas cercanas, ricos y pobres, famosos y anonimos, a la sombra de sus jardines. El resultado de esta historia cultural viva, multidimensional e inquietante, nos lleva a retroceder en el tiempo para encontrarnos tanto con el Emperador que buscaba la gloria como con el hombre con un viejo sombrero de paja, apoyado en su pala."Glorioso. Ha conseguido algo admirable: escribir un libro muy original sobre un tema que no es nada original Scurr es una escritora brillante, y probablemente una las autoras de no ficcion con mas talento del mundo" -- Simon Schama, The Financial Times"No habra nadie interesado en Napoleon que no pueda encontrar aqui algo nuevo o inesperado" William Doyle, autor de The Oxford History of the French Revolution.

In 1825 the Stockton & Darlington Railway began operations as the worlds first public railway to be operated by steam. The first train, which opened the railway on 27 September, was drawn by the locomotive that became known as LOCOMOTION No.1.It is from this origin that all public railways the world over developed to become the driving force behind economic progress. The brief history that accompanied the locomotives preservation in 1857 was both inadequate and factually incorrect.In anticipation of the railways bicentenary, a major archival and archaeological study was initiated by the National Railway Museum to establish the true history of the locomotive both in service and during retirement.Compiled by experts Michael R. Bailey and Peter H. Davidson, this is the story revealed by the study, correcting and expanding the historical record for future generations of railway enthusiasts and historians.

"Até agora, e por razões particulares, nem a história ambiental nem a história do trabalho esteve muito propensa a ligar os pontos entre os trabalhadores e o ambiente mais amplo, entre a classe e o c

Politics in the Age of Peel, first published in 1953, is concerned with the ordinary working world of politicians in England during the stormy period between 1830 and 1850: the age of the railway, the Chartists, the Anti-Corn Law League and the Irish famine. Even in the wake of the Great Reform Act of 1832 many corrupt aspects of the old unreformed system of democratic election survived; and politicians had to meet national problems in the teeth of newly clamorous public opinion, while remaining hostage to the representative structure that defined (and limited) their powers.Norman Gash made his professional reputation with this brilliant work, hailed in an unsigned TLS review - which was known to have been written by Sir Lewis Namier - as worthy of the warmest acclamation.

Las historias de la Revolución francesa constituyen, por sí mismas, una verdadera Historia Contemporánea de Occidente. Analizar los hechos que fundaron el mundo de hoy alejándonos progresivamente de la sociedad del Antiguo Regimen ha servido a lo largo del tiempo para escribir la historia de cada presente desde sus multiples perspectivas politicas, vitales e intelectuales. Esto ha hecho que el estudio de la Revolucion francesa haya sido una lucha por sus interpretaciones porque contenia la disputa por los fundamentos del mundo actual. La Revolucion francesa. Doscientos años de combates por la historia de Antonino De Francesco ofrece la apasionante reconstruccion de esta batalla intelectual sostenida durante dos largos siglos por dotar de significado al hito fundacional de la contemporaneidad. Por sus paginas desfilan de Mme de Stael a Tocqueville, de Thiers a Lamartine, de Michelet a Carlyle, de Mathiez a Furet, sin olvidar a Cobban, Lefebvre, Soboul, Hunt, Vovelle, y otros muchos historiadores fundamentales de la historiografia contemporanea.

Un análisis profundo y crítico del movimiento zapatista en México que destaca su dimensión social, política e ideológica. Refleja la realidad indígena-campesina y su lucha contra el sistema capitalista, aportando claves para entender las transformaciones sociales en Latinoamerica.

História Agrária da Revolução Cubana: dilemas do socialismo na periferia" é um estudo sobre a saga da reforma agrárianuma sociedade de origem colonial presa ao círculo vicioso do subdesenvolvimento.F

Sheffields story is one of fierce independence and a revolutionary spirit, its industrial origins having their roots in the same forests as the legends of Robin Hood. From Huntsmans crucible steel in the eighteenth century, to Brearleys stainless steel in the twentieth, Sheffield forged the very fabric of the modern world.As the industrial age drew to a close the citys reputation for rebelliousness spawned its popular reputation as capital of the Peoples Republic of South Yorkshire. Yet in the wake of the Miners Strike and the Hillsborough Disaster, the early twenty-first century has seen Sheffield retain its unique character while reinventing itself as a centre of education, creativity and innovation.

This book covers not only the three major events on the Eastern Front, the battle of Tannenburg and the March and October Revolutions, it also dispels some of the myths that have grown up around the Tsars army: their often-cited inability to adapt to modern warfare being one. The nationalist formations and the Revolutionary units of the Provisional Goverment are also described, something difficult if not impossible to find in other publications. 140 photographs and six maps bring the Eastern Front into sharp focus.

Granite is the most unyielding of building materials. The great granite quarries of the North East are silent now, as are virtually all of the 100 granite yards that existed in Aberdeen around the year 1900. Yet in its time, the granite industry of north-east Scotland was the engine that built civilisations. As early as the sixteenth century, granite from Aberdeen and its vicinities was building castles. In the heyday of the mid-nineteenth century, the granite men of the North East hewed this material from the bowels of the earth and used it to fashion the iconic structures that defined the age. It paved the streets and embankments of London. It was used to build bridges over the Thames. It was carved into monuments for kings and commoners not only in Britain but all over the world. None of it possible without the men that toiled in those quarries and yards. This is the story of those granite men and their industry.

On Easter Monday, between 1,000 and 1,500 Irish Volunteers and members of the Irish Citizen Army seized the General Post Office and other key locations in Dublin. The intention of their leaders, including Patrick Pearse and James Connolly, was to end British rule in Ireland and establish an independent thirty-two county Irish republic. For a week battle raged in the Irish capital until the Rising collapsed. The rebel leaders were executed soon afterwards, though in death their ideals quickly triumphed.lluminating every aspect of that fateful Easter week, The Easter Rising is based on an impressive range of original sources. It has been fully revised, expanded and updated in the light of a wealth of new material and extensive use has been made of almost 2,000 witness statements that the Bureau of Military History in Dublin gathered from participants in the Rising. The result is a vivid depiction of the personalities and actions not just of the leaders on both sides but the rank and file and civilians as well. The book brings the reader closer to the events of 1916 than has previously been possible and provides an exceptional account of a city at war.

From poverty to immense wealth, from humble beginnings to international celebrity, George and Robert Stephensons was an extraordinary joint career. Together they overshadow all other engineers, with the possible exception of Roberts friend Isambard Kingdom Brunel, for one vital reason: they were winners. For them it was not enough to follow the progress made by others. They had to be the best. Colossal in confidence, ability, energy and ambition, George Stephenson was also a man of huge rages and jealousies, determined to create his own legend. Brought up from infancy by his father, Robert was a very different person. Driven by the need to be the super-successful son his father wanted, he struggled with self-distrust and morbid depression. More than once his career and reputation teetered on the edge of disaster. But by being flawed, he emerges as a far more appealing and sympathetic figure than the conventional picture of the eminent engineer. David Rosss new biography of George and Robert Stephenson sheds new light on these two giants of British engineering.

When the "Railway Magazine" of January 2000 published the results of its Millennium Poll, Sir Vincent Raven gained a 42nd place, along with Thomas Newcomen and Arthur Peppercorn. This is the biography of this engineer, illustrated with contemporary archive photographs, portraits and ephemera.

Un clásico indispensable para entender la historia de Europa y la formación de las identidades nacionales.«Un libro magistral sobre un tema esencial: la formación de los sentimientos y las preocupaci