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The letters edited in this volume represent the correspondence of various priests and high temple officials in the Assyrian realm during the third through fifth decades of the seventh century BC. They consist chiefly of reports to Esarhaddon and Assurbanipal about cultic concerns and matters connected with the construction and renovation of temple edifices in the major cities of the Assyrian empire, both in the heartland and in the provinces. These fascinating letters throw light on the buildings, refurbishment, and maintenance of temples, the fashioning and installation of statues of the king, the provisioning of the cult, the performance of sacrifices, the rite of sacred marriage, and the processions of divine images.

La trayectoria académica de Bartolomé Clavero, todavía en curso, ha venido fructificando en una obra extensa e influyente. El espíritu renovador de sus aportaciones, la combatividad con la que las defiende, su apertura a campos del conocimiento distintos al suyo de origen, la preocupacion por mantener la conexion con la realidad viva del presente, y tambien su fuerte compromiso profesional y ciudadano, son algunas de las cualidades que le han granjeado el aprecio de sus alumnos, de sus discipulos, de sus colegas, de sus lectores. Este libro recoge una parte necesariamente pequeña de ese reconocimiento, el homenaje de un conjunto de buenos conocedores de su obra, juristas e historiadores cuyas aportaciones inciden en algunas de las areas tematicas predilectas de Bartolome Clavero: la cultura juridica de la modernidad, las constituciones pensadas y las vigentes, la construccion de identidades individuales y colectivas en un espacio de derechos, la trascendencia de la memoria en razon de justicia y de ciudadania. En esos cuatro ambitos, las contribuciones incluidas en este libro han querido participar del caracter renovador, combativo, abierto, vivo y comprometido del autor a quien se dedican.

Este libro tiene la virtud de poner al día la compleja y siempre insuficientemente estudiada historia política de América Latina en sus relaciones con Estados Unidos. Consta de tres partes: México y America central, el Caribe y Sudamerica. Estamos ante un libro bifronte: de un lado un manual comodo, de facil consulta, solidamente informado; de otro, un ensayo consistente, una vision abarcadora, que descubre el contradictorio pero coherente diseño estadunidense hacia America Latina.

"A Companion to the American South "surveys and evaluates the most important and innovative writing on the entire sweep of the history of the southern United States. Twenty-nine essays from leading experts in the field analyze the various interpretive schools, briefly summarize the positions and approaches of the seminal books, and suggest the range of subjects and interpretations for every important era in southern history. The coverage includes topics such as slavery, politics, the Civil War and Reconstruction, race relations, the civil rights movement, southern religion, and women''s history. Each chapter includes a select bibliography as a convenient reference to encourage further reading. Intended for students, scholars, and general readers of U.S. southern history, this timely book is a primer to this exciting body of work and will guide research for years to come.

This authoritative and accessible book charts the history of Japan from c.8000 BC to the present. Conrad Totman conceptualizes the country''s history in terms of four major ages: the age of foragers, dispersed agriculturalists, intensive agriculture, and industrialism. Within this framework, he traces the changing patterns of human-environment relations and examines their interplay with the more familiar realms of political, socio-economic, and cultural history. The book treats the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries in considerable detail and gives fullest coverage to the twentieth century when this island nation became a major player on the stage of world history. In its survey of this recent history, it explores: diplomatic and domestic political affairs; economic development and change; class, gender, and ethnicity; ideology and political punditry; cultural production in the arts; letters, music, and popular entertainment; and the environmental issues. For the second edition, an epilogue has been added looking at Japan today and tomorrow, paying particular attention to environmental and diplomatic issues. This is an updated edition of Conrad Totman''s authoritative history of Japan from c.8000 BC to the present day. The first edition was widely praised for combining sophistication and accessibility. Covers a wide range of subjects, including geology, climate, agriculture, government and politics, culture, literature, media, foreign relations, imperialism, and industrialism. Updated to include an epilogue on Japan today and tomorrow. Now includes more on women in history and more on international relations. Bibliographical listings have been updated and enlarged.

Here is a new, fourth edition of this authoritative introductory survey of world prehistory, spanning the past 3,000,000 years and written by a team of twenty-four expert authors. This edition has been radically updated to be more thematic and accessible: chapters are connected by new key themes boxes (climate change, domestication, migration, social inequality and urbanism), which link global regions and encourage big-picture thinking. The text has been streamlined and the book's design completely revamped: it is now in full colour throughout, with more than 50% more colour images than the previous edition.There is increased coverage of the Americas, with a brand-new chapter, The Origins and Dispersal of the First Americans. Revisions take into account the latest sites and discoveries, including Homo naledi and the new LiDAR surveys of Angkor Wat. Each chapter begins with a newly designed, easier-to-use timeline, and features boxes on key sites, key discoveries, key controversies and, as above, key themes.All of the key methods boxes from the previous edition have been consolidated into the Introduction and now offer an up-front primer of archaeological methods and practices. Tables and maps are simplified and easier to use.

This book considers the close but sometimes contested relationship between Britain and Iberia in the period c.17701870. A broad cultural history which is multi-disciplined in its approach and appeal, it will become essential reading for senior level undergraduates and postgraduates in Hispanic Studies departments.

Obra de 5 tomos en 2 volúmenes.Esta obra es fruto del enorme trabajo de investigación de su autor, conocedor profundo de las fuentes y de los diversos archivos que recogían la información sobre la Orden del Temple dentro y fuera de la Peninsula Iberica. Su animo incansable le llevo a no dejar de viajar para completar adecuadamente la busqueda de material para este libro, que ofrece la historia de una Orden religiosa y militar que evoluciono y crecio en poco tiempo hasta ser oprimida y disuelta a principios del siglo XIV. Estos dos volumenes en cinco tomos incluyen su origen, grandes Maestres, hombres ilustres, empresas e importantisimos acontecimientos en los que se vio involucrada la misteriosa Orden desde el siglo XII. El autor pretende hacer una historia justa de la que fue una de las ordenes monasticas militares mas poderosas de la Edad Media, frente a la realizada por gran parte de los historiadores de la Edad Moderna y muchos otros contemporaneos de Bruguera que formularon imputaciones falsas, dieron por buenas exageraciones y trataron de caracterizar a los caballeros templarios de perversos, violentos y corruptos. No se niegan aqui las faltas (en ocasiones gravisimas) que se cometieron, sino que se trata de distinguir entre la leyenda y la historia, entre lo verosimil y lo inverosimil.

The creation of the European Union and the progressive integration of the European states has raised serious questions about the existence of a distinctive European identity. Do the British share much in common with the French, or the French with the Danes? Will a unified Europe remain an economic and political possibility with no greater cultural or affective foundations? If there is something that distinguishes all Europeans, what is it, and how is it being changed by recent events? This book addresses these questions in essays ranging from ancient Greece to the end of the twentieth century. Their authors come from different intellectual backgrounds and represent differing intellectual traditions. They discuss questions of politics, religion, commerce, law, language, literature and affectivity. Taken together, they provide a powerful insight into the historical origins of the idea of Europe and into the future of the European Union.