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First published in 1978, this book rapidly established itself as a classic of modern Marxism. Cohen's masterful application of advanced philosophical techniques in an uncompromising defense of historical materialism commanded widespread admiration. In the ensuing twenty years, the book has served as a flagship of a powerful intellectual movement--analytical Marxism. In this expanded edition, Cohen offers his own account of the history, and the further promise, of analytical Marxism. He also expresses reservations about traditional historical materialism, in the light of which he reconstructs the theory, and he studies the implications for historical materialism of the demise of the Soviet Union.

This history presents an authoritative and comprehensive introduction to the experiences of Pacific islanders from their first settlement of the islands to the present day. It addresses the question of insularity and explores islanders experiences thematically, covering such topics as early settlement, contact with Europeans, colonialism, politics, commerce, nuclear testing, tradition, ideology, and the role of women. It incorporates material on the Maori, the Irianese in western New Guinea, the settled immigrant communities in Fiji, New Caledonia and the Hawaiian monarchy and follows migrants to New Zealand, Australia and North America.

Quest'opera va letta come un'impresa di sintesi che implica il giudizio su tutta un'epoca e si scosta dalle prospettive correnti quando il libro apparve nel 1929. Si pensi al capitolo sulla "decadenza" italiana nel Seicento e a quello sulla Controriforma. Lo stesso giudizio sul barocco va considerato non tanto nella sua specificita estetica quanto come tentativo di giungere, attraverso l'estetico, a un giudizio complessivo su un momento della civilta. Il primo obiettivo dell'indagine di Croce e quello di individuare con precisione l'origine di alcune croniche debolezze morali e politiche che affliggono la storia d'Italia in quell'epoca.

Este libro ofrece los resultados de un proyecto de investigación ministerial en el que se han analizado, como puentes de enlace entre Navarra y la Monarquía hispánica, la institución virreinal, la actividad del Consejo Real de Navarra, las relaciones con el Consejo de Castilla, las naturalizaciones, el ejercicio del Real Patronato, el patrimonio material, asi como la figura del jurista Antonio Morales, ya en pleno siglo XIX.

An important study that establishes what Victorian writers said about Greek culture and how their interpretations both molded and reflected the attitudes and values of the Victorian age.

Distinguir entre filosofía especulativa de la historia, filosofía crítica de la historia y filosofía analítica de la historia es el objetivo que pretende abordar esta obra. Distinguir esas tres tendencias a fin de clarificarlas es siempre una buena forma de abordar un genero tan complejo como es de la filosofia de la historia.

La historia de las canteras antiguas de la Península Ibérica es muy reciente y casi siempre ha tenido como punto de partida el uso de tal o cual material para la construcción de un monumento o conjunto monumental determinados. Sin embargo, numerosas investigaciones de ambito local o regional y con diferentes perspectivas y metodologias, proporcionan hoy una vision mas completa y coherente de la antigua industria de la piedra. Este libro esta dedicado principalmente a la Hispania antigua, pero tambien presenta estudios realizados en Grecia (Thasos) y Francia (Marsella, Nimes, Val d'Oise) que permiten comparar estrategias de analisis, criterios de datacion e identificacion, asi como el lugar que ocupaban distintas actividades en el seno de las canteras o en sus cercanias; con el objetivo, por tanto, de presentar toda la cadena operativa.

La Rerum Novarum (1891) introdujo a la Iglesia en la cuestión social y el Congreso Nacional Católico, celebrado en Burgos (1899), dirigió las inquietudes sociales hacia el mundo rural. Desde entonces

El Diccionario biográfico (vol. IV) ofrece a lo largo de más de 1.600 voces, información objetiva acerca de los personajes, sus carreras y los acontecimientos en los que tomaron parte, evitando los debates historiograficos propios de otro tipo de obras.

England 1783-1846Boyd HiltonThis was a transformative period in English history. In 1783 the country was at one of the lowest points in its fortunes, having just lost its American colonies in warfare. By 1846 it was once more a great imperial nation, as well as the world''s strongest power and dominant economy, having benefited from what has sometimes (if misleadingly) been called the ''first industrial revolution''. In the meantime it survived a decade of invasion fears, and emerged victorious from more than twenty years of ''war to the death'' against Napoleonic France. But if Britain''s external fortunes were in the ascendant, the situation at home remained fraught with peril. The country''s population was growing at a rate not experienced by any comparable former society, and its manufacturing towns especially were mushrooming into filthy, disease-ridden, gin-sodden hell-holes, in turn provoking the phantasmagoria of a mad, bad, and dangerous people. It is no wonder that these years should have experienced the most prolonged period of social unrest since the seventeenth century, or that the elite should have been in constant fear of a French-style revolution in England.The governing classes responded to these new challenges and by the mid-nineteenth century the seeds of a settled two-party system and of a more socially interventionist state were both in evidence, though it would have been far too soon to say at that stage whether those seeds would take permanent root. Another consequence of these tensions was the intellectual engagement with society, as for example in the Romantic Movement, a literary phenomenon that brought English culture to the forefront of European attention for the first time. At the same time the country experienced the great religious revival, loosely described under the heading ''evangelicalism''. Slowly but surely, the raffish and rakish style of eighteenth-century society, having reached a peak in the Regency, then succumbed to the new norms of respectability popularly known as ''Victorianism''.