Novedades del último mes en libros de Historia por países

Este libro va más allá del interminable debate sobre el antisemitismo y el antisionismo, y le da nuevas y desafiantes dimensiones. Se remonta a los inicios de la historia de la judeofobia, y desafía la idea de que el cristianismo se construyo despues del judaismo y en oposicion a el. Por el contrario, cree que, a pesar de la presuposicion cronologica, es el judaismo el que se construyo bajo la presion del cristianismo, y al mismo tiempo se acomodo a los terminos del juicio que sus enemigos han llevado a cabo durante siglos. Esta inversion es rica en beneficios intelectuales y politicos. Deja obsoleta la mala disputa que equipara el antisionismo con el antisemitismo (la misma que revive Emmanuel Macron), y alimenta perfectamente las preguntas contemporaneas: ¿Hasta que punto escribe Shlomo Sand el sionismo, nacido como respuesta de angustia a la judeofobia moderna, no ha sido el espejo de esta? ¿Hasta que punto, mediante un complejo proceso dialectico, el sionismo ha heredado los fundamentos ideologicos que siempre han caracterizado a los perseguidores de los judios?.

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A visionary book Philip Pullman Essential and magnificent George Monbiot Deft and wonderfully poetic Grace BlakeleyThe Right have hijacked Englishness Can it be reclaimed Today the only people who dare speak of Englishness are cheerleaders for Brexit exceptionalism and imperial nostalgia But there is another England hiding in plain sight which is dramatically more inclusive and forward looking Here Caroline Lucas delves deep into England s literary history to sketch out alternative stories of who we are ones that we can all embrace to build a greener fairer future Not just an inspiring nuanced and deeply literate book but that rarest of things a necessary one Jonathan Coe author of Bourneville Cleverly deploys Elizabeth Gaskell John Clare and Charles Dickens to demonstrate that a culture can be diverse and coherent innovative and rooted many stories told in one beautiful language Telegraph Reading this warm persuasive book is to be confronted with the idea and reality of a decent saner England One perhaps possible in a fought for future iNews A clarion call to define England and Englishness as our common ground and a grounding for a transformation of politics and society Kate Pickett co author of The Spir

A walking tour of the border region where England and Scotland meet by the award winning writer meditating on a complicated storied relationship through history

La Xina és un altre món. La seva condició d'Estat-continent, la seva demografia o la seva història i cultura li aporten reconegudes singularitats pròpies. Immersa en un llarg procés de modernització,

The First World War from a refreshingly unfamiliar angle masterly Dominic Sandbrook Sunday Times Compelling The Eastern Front is essential reading Margaret Macmillan Financial Times A masterwork This is the history of the Eastern Front I ve waited all my life to read Simon Sebag Montefiore The definitive history of the Eastern Front in the First World War from the acclaimed military historian and author of Passchendaele and The Western Front In the second volume of his landmark First World War trilogy Professor Nick Lloyd tells the story for the first time of what Winston Churchill once called the unknown war the vast conflict in Eastern Europe and the Balkans that brought about the collapse of three empires Much has been written about the fighting in France and Belgium yet the Eastern Front was no less bloody Between 1914 and 1917 huge numbers of people perhaps as many as 16 million soldiers and two million civilians were killed wounded or maimed in enormous battles that sometimes ranged across a front of 100 km in length Through intimate eyewitness reports diary entries and memoirs many of which have never been translated into English before Lloyd reconstructs the full story of a war that began in the Balk

A DAILY MAIL BOOK OF THE WEEK A SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR A DAILY TELEGRAPH BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2023 ASPECTS OF HISTORY BOOKS OF THE YEAR A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 A DAILY MAIL BEST CHRISTMAS BOOK OF 2023 The prequel to Frank McDonough s bestselling Hitler Years series covering the dramatic era of German history that culminated in the rise to power of Adolf Hitler in 1933 Established in the wake of German defeat in the First World War the Weimar Republic held out the hope that democracy stability and prosperity would take root in Germany From the start however it was beset by political and economic upheaval and spasms of violence between left and right Year by year from 1918 to 1933 Frank McDonough describes the major events in both domestic and foreign policy and the personalities who shaped them together with developments in Weimar s flourishing cultural sphere McDonough places particular focus on the parliamentary history of Weimar arguing that it was the failure of parliamentary democracy to bring stability that allowed the power of the elected Reichstag to diminish leading to Hitler s accession to power The Weimar Years is the tragic story of a rise and fall as well as a warning of how under poor leadership economic pressure and unrelent

An essential guide to one of the world s most remarkable and often misunderstood cities by the author of Why the Dutch Are Different When Ben Coates injures his leg and needs to rebuild his strength by walking he finds himself presented with an exciting opportunity to rediscover the city he has been working in for over a decade at a slower pace He devises ten walks each demonstrating a different chapter of Amsterdam s history from its humble beginnings as a small fishing community through two Golden Ages fuelled by the growth of the Dutch colonial empire two world wars and countless reinventions Join Coates as he meanders past beautiful townhouses and glittering canals dances at Pride celebrations witnesses the King s apology at Keti Koti attends a WW2 memorial gets high at a coffee shop walks through the red light district and gazes in awe at Rembrandt paintings all the while illuminating modern Amsterdam by explaining its past Blending travelogue and quirky history The Invention of Amsterdam is an entertaining and sharply observed portrait of a fascinating and complicated city

Cristóbal Colón cree llegar al Paraíso | Cortés funda Veracruz | La triste historia del gigante patagón | Un conquistador se apuesta el sol en Perú | La carta de un migrante en las IndiasLa historia de America ha fascinado siempre. Puede ser por su enormidad o su variada riqueza, por las muchas aventuras y desventuras alli sucedidas, o por esa lejania tan teñida de familiaridad. Ocupados a menudo en esteriles disputas por el pasado, hemos descuidado algo mas importante: la tersa belleza de las primeras cronicas. Si buscamos bien en ellas quizas podamos encontrar algunas claves para entender America, y tambien España, pues por entonces no estaba muy claro donde empezaba una y acababa la otra.En este libro veremos a Cristobal Colon convencido de haber alcanzado el Paraiso, que por entonces era tenido por un lugar ignoto pero no menos real que otro cualquiera. No sera el ultimo, pues America pronto se poblara con todo tipo de utopias y quimeras. Viajaremos con Magallanes al fin del mundo, y alli conoceremos a un gigante de carne y hueso que enriquecera la literatura durante siglos. Hernan Cortes hizo muchas cosas, pero quizas la mas interesante haya pasado un tanto desapercibida: en una maniobra de singular trascendencia, fundo un ayuntamiento. Conoceremos una de las mas disparatadas apuestas de la historia: un hombre en la expedicion de Francisco Pizarro llego a apostarse el sol, y lo perdio. Y leeremos las emocionantes cartas que los primeros migrantes en las Indias enviaron a España, su ya antiguo hogar.Resulta imposible leer las cronicas sin dejarnos llevar por algo de la fascinacion o de la curiosidad con las que fueron escritas. Manuel BuronLa vieja licenciatura de historia, antes de esa debacle intelectual que fue el plan Bolonia, tenia cinco años de America; el gran espejo curvo de España. Muchos alumnos, asi, eran seducidos por el nuevo continente y es evidente que Manuel Buron (Madrid, 1982) fue uno de aquellos. Como celebracion de su especialidad, en ese sentido, lanza ahora estas excelentes 'Cinco cronicas americanas' (Ladera Norte, 2025) donde traslada al lenguaje popular el periplo indiano. Julio Tovar, Vozpopuli, 03-03-2025

En la historia de América Latina hay un lugar común compartido por todos los análisis, con independencia de la ideología desde la que operan, y es que la responsabilidad del subdesarrollo del continente proviene de la epoca colonial y su protagonista, el malvado Imperio español. Pero en historia y geopolitica no hay ni imperios malvados ni benevolentes, solo imperios que ejercen el imperialismo. Este interesado relato, mas que historia, es un mito inventado por las oligarquias para perpetuarse en el poder y que les sirve de pretexto para esconder su culpabilidad en todos los horrores que han provocado desde el momento mismo en que tomaron el poder. Un mito exitoso, debe admitirse, pues fue asumido de forma acritica por las izquierdas, que, de esa forma, se convirtieron en justificadores de las barbaridades de las oligarquias latinoamericanas, desde el siglo xix hasta el presente. De ese modo, las oligarquias han podido mantener inalterable el statu quo nacido de la independencia, es decir, el modelo neocolonial, que facilita el expolio de sus paises por la potencia de turno a cambio de apoyarlas en el control de los paises y en la salvaguarda de su obscena acumulacion de riqueza. De esos mitos y de sus consecuencias trata este Malditos libertadores que, analizando, desde los extremos hasta el centro, la labor de libertadores como Simon Bolivar, pasando por dictadores como Pinochet, hasta dirigentes politicos como Jair Bolsonaro, nos invita a mirar al pasado para desenmascarar la version oficial y pensar el futuro del continente latinoamericano. Augusto Zamora R. reivindica el derecho de la memoria que se le ha negado al pueblo latinoamericano para que este pueda marcar un nuevo rumbo que ayude a corregir esta situacion

Dicen que para entender el peronismo hay que militar en el, es decir, afiliarse al Partido Justicialista, antes Partido Peronista, impulsado por Perón y que desde los años cuarenta del siglo XX sigue condicionando, hasta la actualidad, la politica de Argentina en sus distintas trayectorias. Para muchos el peronismo se siente como una identidad mas que como una teoria y una practica politicas. El autor de este libro ha conseguido explicar con precision a sus congeneres de la Union Europea que se entiende por peronismo y sus dimensiones politicas en la Argentina de los siglos XX y XXI, segun las aportaciones de muchos investigadores argentinos, latinoamericanos, norteamericanos y europeos.

ENTRE EL MITO Y LA REALIDAD…Samurái. La mera mención de esta palabra, pronunciada y transcrita de forma casi exacta en cualquier idioma, basta para despertar el imaginario popular: héroes con armadur

& x0201C;Entre las innumerables sorpresas que el Nuevo Mundo deparó a los primeros exploradores españoles, sin duda una de las mayores se produjo en el año 1526 y fue el encuentro de Bartolome Ru

Las causas del fracaso de la modernización de los pueblos árabes.Eugene Rogan, profesor de la Universidad de Oxford, ha escrito la historia de los pueblos árabes que necesitan los lectores occidentales del siglo xxi. Su libro arranca de las conquistas de los turcos, pero se dedica sobre todo a los tiempos contemporaneos. Su proposito es explicarnos las causas del fracaso de la modernizacion de los pueblos arabes y su compleja evolucion en los siglos xx y xxi: la quiebra en los imperios coloniales, el desastre de Palestina, el ascenso y crisis del nacionalismo, la era del petroleo, el surgimiento del islamismo Rashid Khalidi ha calificado esta obra de "magistral" y Sir Alastair Horne ha dicho que es la clase de libro que nos permite entender "los agravios que el mundo islamico estima sufrir de Occidente". A lo que añade: "Pocos estudiosos conocen estas cuestiones como Rogan y son menos aun los capaces de explicarlas de manera tan agradable de leer". Este es, en suma, un libro necesario para comprender mejor el mundo en que vivimos.

What happens when we consider Africa through a feminist lens and feminism through an African one And what does it mean to centre selfhood in this journey

Published to coincide with the 250th anniversary of the start of the Revolutionary War this sweeping narrative details the five turning points that ensured victory For eight gruelling years American and British military forces struggled in a bloody war over colonial independence This conflict also ensnared Native American warriors and the armies and navies of France Spain the Dutch Republic and several German principalities From frozen Canada to tropical Florida and as far west as the Mississippi River the Revolutionary War included hundreds of campaigns battles and skirmishes on land and sea in which soldiers and sailors fought and died for causes crowns and comrades In this masterful yet accessible narrative of America s fight for liberty John R Maass identifies the decisive events that secured independence for the 13 hard pressed but determined colonies Maass details six key turning points that were crucial to eventual Patriot victory These include not only the obvious military victories such as Trenton and Princeton or Yorktown but also the harsh conditions of the winter of 1778 and King Louis XVI s decision to supply Washington s troops with desperately needed soldiers arms money and fleets These turning points without which defeat was l

From the international bestselling author and notable journalist Aldo Cazzullo comes a brilliantly researched and extremely accessible journey through the history and legacy of the Roman Empire The only way to narrate over a thousand years of history is to understand what it has left us To tell the reasons the things and the stories thanks to which Roman civilization is alive From its mythical foundations and epic construction to its enduring historical and cultural impact the ancient Roman Empire has long fascinated readers across the world In The Neverending Empire esteemed Italian journalist Aldo Cazzullo describes an exciting new historical perspective that the Roman Empire never fell In fact its influence reaches further and deeper than ever Beginning with the origins of Rome and the literary myth of Aeneas and Romulus Cazzullo takes the reader on a page turning voyage through ancient history bringing to life the most captivating moments and characters of a dominant Empire the republican age with heroic men and women willing to die for their country The adventure of coup plotters like Catiline and revolutionaries like Spartacus the slave who inspired rebels of every age The extraordinary stories of Julius Caesar and Octavian Augustus two of the

Few cities in the world are as famous as Liverpool the home of the modern world s most celebrated rock group and of a legendary football team The city is equally notorious for its poverty its ethnic and racial divides and above all its decline For Liverpool was once a great port growing rich on slavery on trade with the Americas and the British Empire s outposts in Africa and Asia In the 1980s it was described as obsolete yet the city stubbornly refuses to die This is a brilliant elegantly written history of Liverpool since the Second World War It is a story of vast docklands shrinking and eventually vanishing when corporations discovered they should shift goods in containers and dispense with human workers of industries like car manufacturing mushrooming and disappearing of huge new suburbs being built and neglected It is a moving and horrifying narrative of casual racism Chinese sailors deported en masse in the aftermath of the war systematic discrimination against the city s Black population and of resistance culminating in the Toxteth riots of 1981 The de industrialisation of the city under Margaret Thatcher s government the various attempts to renew and gentrify the devastated waterfront and the bizarre interlude of Militant control of

A groundbreaking new history of the wars of the Ottoman Expansion a truly global conflagration that crisscrossed three continents and ultimately defined the borders and future of a modern Europe The determined attempt to thwart Ottoman dominance was fought across five theaters from the Balkans to the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean from Persia to Russia This intercontinental melee is expertly re told in this fascinating new history by historian Si Sheppard But this is not the story of a clash of civilizations between East and West as you might assume Europe was not united against the Turks the scandal of the age was the alliance between King Francis I of France and Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent Meanwhile the resistance of the Saadi dynasty of Morocco to Ottoman encroachment played a critical role in denying Constantinople direct access to the Atlantic Ocean By the same token though religious imperatives were critical to the motivations of all the key actors involved these in no way fell neatly along the Christian Muslim divide Crescent Dawn expertly shows how the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V desired nothing more than to eradicate the Protestant heresy metastasizing throughout his domains but the threat of Turkish invasion forced him to stay his hand