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The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Ritual and Religion provides a comprehensive overview by period and region of the relevant archaeological material in relation to theory, methodology, definition, and practice. Although, as the title indicates, the focus is upon archaeological investigations of ritual and religion, by necessity ideas and evidence from other disciplines are also included, among them anthropology, ethnography, religious studies, and history. The Handbook covers a global span-Africa, Asia, Australasia, Europe, and the Americas-and reaches from the earliest prehistory (the Lower and Middle Palaeolithic) to modern times. In addition, chapters focus upon relevant themes, ranging from landscape to death, from taboo to water, from gender to rites of passage, from ritual to fasting and feasting. Written by over sixty specialists, renowned in their respective fields, the Handbook presents the very best in current scholarship, and will serve both as a comprehensive introduction to its subject and as a stimulus to further research.

Les memories de Jordi Pujol, iniciades lany 2007, han suposat un impacte important en la societat catalana. Aquest darrer volum, que estalona lestricta actualitat, neix amb el suport de CiU a un govern del PSOE assetjat per la corrupcio, continua amb el famos i mal publicitat Pacte del Majestic amb el PP que Jordi Pujol contextualitza amb revelacions impagables, i abraça tambe la seva retirada de la primera linia i laposta aleshores molt discutida per Artur Mas.

At crucial moments in modern British history, it has been the actions of pairs of politicians that have changed the course of government. In this original account, acclaimed political biographer Giles Radice shows how combinations of politicians, often with contrasting though complementary talents, have at key 'crossroad moments' worked together to shape events. Despite clashing ambitions, sometimes conflicting, and always strong egos, these leaders were able to overlook their differences in pursuit of a common cause, proving that cooperation can exist between political rivals. As Radice argues, successful pairings usually require an alliance between initiators (such as Churchill, Thatcher, Macmillan and Blair) and facilitators (Attlee, Whitelaw, Butler and Brown). Gordon Brown's eventual inability to accept the power relationship between himself and Tony Blair was the key to the ultimate failure of New Labour and was in contrast to Attlee's loyalty to Churchill or Butler's continuous support for Macmillan. Radice narrates the stories of some of the greatest political players of post-war British politics, showing how their relationships determined the great successes - and sometimes the greatest downfalls - of their careers.

On August 20, 1968, tens of thousands of Soviet and East European ground and air forces moved into Czechoslovakia and occupied the country in an attempt to end the 'Prague Spring' reforms and restore an orthodox Communist regime. The leader of the Soviet Communist Party, Leonid Brezhnev, was initially reluctant to use military force and tried to pressure his counterpart in Czechoslovakia, Alexander Dubcek, to crack down. But during the summer of 1968, after several months of careful deliberations, the Soviet Politburo finally decide that military force was the only option left. A large invading force of Soviet, Polish, Hungarian, and Bulgarian troops received final orders to move into Czechoslovakia; within 24 hours they had established complete military control of Czechoslovakia, bringing an end to hopes for 'socialism with a human face.' Dubcek and most of the other Czechoslovak reformers were temporarily restored to power, but their role from late August 1968 through April 1969 was to reverse many of the reforms that had been adopted. In April 1969, Dubchek was forced to step down for good, bringing a final end to the Prague Spring. Soviet leaders justified the invasion of Czechoslovakia by claiming that 'the fate of any socialist country is the common affair of all socialist countries' and that the Soviet Union had both a 'right' and a 'sacred duty' to 'defend socialism' in Czechoslovakia. The invasion caused some divisions within the Communist world, but overall the use of large-scale force proved remarkably successful in achieving Soviet goals. The United States and its NATO allies protested but refrained from direct military action and covert operations to counter the Soviet-led incursion into Czechoslovakia. The essays of a dozen leading European and American Cold War historians analyze this turning point in the Cold War in light of new documentary evidence from the archives of two dozen countries and explain what happened behind the scenes. They also reassess the weak response of the United States and consider whether Washington might have given a 'green light,' if only inadvertently, to the Soviet Union prior to the invasion.

The terrorist outrages perpetrated against the United States demonstrate the need for a different, more rigorous study of modern terrorism. In "Tapestry of Terror", Richard J. Chasdi offers fresh insight into the complexities of state-sponsored and nonstate terrorism. Building on the research methods and findings discussed in his previous work, "Serenade of Suffering" (which covers Middle East terrorism in the period 1968 to 1993), Chasdi presents a detailed statistical and quantitative analysis of four Middle East terrorist organizations, in Algeria, Turkey, Egypt and Israel. He pinpoints the socioeconomic conditions that breed and sustain terrorism, the political factors that ignite terrorist attacks, and those individuals or groups most frequently targeted by terrorists. "Tapestry of Terror" charts the increasing frequency and intensity of intrastate terrorism in the 1990s, the growing threat posed to Western nations by international terrorism, and the counter-terrorist stratagems and policy decisions needed - now more than ever - to defend against the weapon of the weak.

This fascinating new interpretation of Dutch society in the Golden Age is a major contribution to early modern history.Dutch society in this period was to a significant extent different from that of the rest of Europe. A high proportion of the population lived in the numerous towns and market forces had penetrated the whole economy and transformed every level of society. The heart of this book is a discussion of the processes by which this unique society was produced and an analysis of its character.These social changes are set against the late sixteenth century background and in the context of international, political and economic circumstances of the seventeenth century. In the final chapters the effects of the strains of war and a stagnant and faltering economy on Dutch society are outlined.

Bajo la dirección de Mª Nieves Sánchez, este Diccionario es una recopilación léxica de tipo histórico, basada en una colección de 656 documentos castellanos originales emitidos por la Cancillería de Alfonso X el Sabio. En ella se recogen cada una de las acepciones de todas las palabras que aparecen en dichos documentos. Todos los terminos recogidos van acompañados por el contexto correspondiente en el que se insertan, lo que permite a los investigadores comprobar la mayor o menor exactitud de la definicion que acompaña al articulo correspondiente. La obra formara parte del Diccionario Historico del Español, proyectado por el Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Language, que se ocupa de las obras de Alfonso X y del que ya se ha publicado, el DETEMA, Diccionario español de Textos Medicos Antiguos. Su importancia para el estudio de la lengua española, que aun carece de un diccionario historico, es obvia, sobre todo para el conocimiento del lexico castellano de los siglos XIII y XIV.

Tomo I.

Segundo tomo de esta “historia política, social y cultural” del franquismo del que ya se publicó el primero. Redactado a partir de archivos personales inéditos de algunos de los protagonistas princip

El Diccionario temático (vol. V) reúne en más de 1.700 voces todos aquellos aspectos de nuestra historia que no son tratados en el tomo anterior: instituciones, acontecimientos, épocas, partidos y sindicatos, tratados, ciudades, textos juridicos, impuestos, guerras y batallas, ordenes religiosas, prensa, empresas, finanzas, movimientos sociales, etcetera.