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State led conservation transformed Gansu s landscape rural communities bore the costs From the 1940s to the 1960s soil and water conservation measures transformed both the arid erosion prone environment of China s Loess Plateau and the lives of rural people Remaking the Earth Exhausting the People explores how the Chinese state imposed the burden of conservation on rural communities and how the communities navigated those demands Weaving together archival research and oral history interviews Micah S Muscolino demonstrates that for the inhabitants of China s countryside conservation programs became part of an extractive mode of accumulation that intensified labor demands and entailed loss of control over resources Muscolino recounts how changes to the physical environment played out in villages on farms and within households His multitiered investigation uncovers the relationship between the forces of nature Chinese state policies and the embodied experiences of rural men and women The book also highlights the contestations and compromises that the state s environmental interventions triggered in rural society By illustrating how state building and revolution in modern China altered human relationships with the natural world Muscolino shows that examini

The destruction and defiance that swirled around Australia s embrace of the world s nuclear order Though a nonnuclear state Australia was embroiled in the military and civilian nuclear energy programs of numerous global powers across the twentieth century From uranium extraction to nuclear testing Australia s lands became sites of imperial exploitation under the guise of national development The continent was subject to rampant nuclear colonialism However this history is not just one of imposition Aboriginal communities bearing the brunt of these processes have persistently resisted reclaiming their rights to Country and demanding reparations As Jessica Urwin shows extraction weapons testing and nuclear waste disposal have caused incalculable physical spiritual and cultural harm to Aboriginal communities and lands Yet Indigenous peoples all over the world have not only survived nuclear colonialism but challenged it time and time again Tracking the colonial mechanisms Australia used to pursue a nuclear industry Urwin simultaneously highlights how Aboriginal peoples refused and reshaped those same mechanisms over time A groundbreaking book Contaminated Country reveals how Australia s deep nuclear past has been entangled with colonialism locally nati

La historia de los mexicas, desde sus orígenes en Chicomóztoc hasta su estremecedora derrota contra la alianza hispano-tlaxcalteca, fue primero diseminada fuera de México gracias a un elocuente y bello manuscrito de 1587, conocido hoy como Codice Tovar (C. 1587). Primera edicion completa, critica y filologicamente moderna de este codice fundamental, que fue elaborado a partir de las fuentes indigenas e ilustrado por pintores-escritores nahuas.

Rethinking the history of the last thirteen centuries in Crucible of Light Elizabeth Drayson pulls together the epic interwoven history of the Muslim and Christian worlds Focusing on major turning points individual stories and key places from Mecca to Cordoba from Damascus to Venice and from Vienna to Istnbul Drayson tracks the themes that unite us classical learning preserved in Islamic libraries the enduring influence of Moorish architecture and design the food we share the goods we have traded and the continuing dialogue between individuals and cultures that has permeated Europe s history and shaped its borders It is a history that sweeps across cities and continents from Spanish patios and palaces to Ottoman inspired coffee houses in 17th century London to the Mezquita in Cordoba once a mosque now a cathedral the physical embodiment of the ongoing discourse that continues to shape European identity

A new and radically original account of the longest military conflict in European history which challenges the conventional periodisation of the Hundred Years War to consider a much longer period of Anglo French conflict Michael Livingston argues that the English lens through which the war has been viewed has led historians to define it in terms of English interests most famously the claim of the English Plantagenet king Edward III to be the rightful king of France and that the events collectively labelled the Hundred Years War are best seen as a sequence of steps in France s struggle to define itself as a nation For much of the period France s primary rival was indeed England But it was by no means the only combatant Burgundy stood in its way too as did Brittany Flanders Navarre and other rival powers Viewing France as the primary engine driving the war leads Livingston to consider a much longer timespan starting with the Anglo French Pirate War of 1292 which swiftly escalated into a fight over England s feudal possessions in Gascony and ending with the marriage of Charles VIII of France to Anne of Brittany by which Brittany was subsumed into the French realm

From the bestselling author of Too Big to Fail the definitive history of the 2008 banking crisis comes a spellbinding narrative of the most infamous stock market crash in history With the depth of a classic history and the drama of a thriller 1929 unravels the greed blind optimism and folly that led to an era defining collapse one with ripple effects that still shape our society today In 1929 the world watched in shock as the unstoppable Wall Street bull market went into a freefall wiping out fortunes and igniting a depression that would reshape a generation But behind the flashing ticker tapes and panicked traders another drama unfolded one of visionaries and fraudsters titans and dreamers euphoria and ruin With unparalleled access to historical records and newly uncovered documents New York Times bestselling author Andrew Ross Sorkin takes readers inside the chaos of the crash behind the scenes of a raging battle between Wall Street and Washington and the larger than life characters whose ambition and naivety in an endless boom led to wreckage The dizzying highs and brutal lows of this era eerily mirror today s world where markets soar political tensions mount and the fight over financial influence plays out once again This is not just a story a

Esta obra se adentra en el uso estratégico de la imagen religiosa en el marco de la evangelización colonial, tomando como caso de estudio el pueblo de Caquiaviri (actual Bolivia).

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The bestselling author of The Ruin of All Witches returns with a gripping vividly told journey into his family s wartime past In this rich engrossing book Gaskill succeeds in his aim of writing a story that in good conscience feels real As I finished his book I began to see my own family s past through his glass mountain Ian Ellison Literary Review Gaskill s account is as much about what cannot be known about the past as what can still be reconstructed even as the last witnesses to the Second World War pass from sight his ability to explore the overgrown byways of history almost as a form of travel writing is again winningly on show here James Owen The Sunday Times Malcolm Gaskill knew two things about his great uncle Ralph s wartime adventures he d been a prisoner in Italy and he d cut his way out of a train with a knife and fork Apart from that he d faded into family folklore lost to view Until one hot afternoon in an English country garden a chance conversation set Gaskill on his uncle s trail What Ralph really did in the war was he discovers even more extraordinary than the exaggerations of family myth From last ditch fighting in the Libyan desert and incarceration in a Puglian prisoner of war camp to desperate dramatic escapes an

Democracies are fragile Freedoms that seem secure can be lost Few historical events illustrate this as vividly as the failure of the Weimar Republic

Representing a remarkable achievement in environmental scholarship and drawn from decades of research The Great Experiment in Conservation captures the wisdom born of the last thirty years of the Ad

The destruction and defiance that swirled around Australia s embrace of the world s nuclear order Though a nonnuclear state Australia was embroiled in the military and civilian nuclear energy programs of numerous global powers across the twentieth century From uranium extraction to nuclear testing Australia s lands became sites of imperial exploitation under the guise of national development The continent was subject to rampant nuclear colonialism However this history is not just one of imposition Aboriginal communities bearing the brunt of these processes have persistently resisted reclaiming their rights to Country and demanding reparations As Jessica Urwin shows extraction weapons testing and nuclear waste disposal have caused incalculable physical spiritual and cultural harm to Aboriginal communities and lands Yet Indigenous peoples all over the world have not only survived nuclear colonialism but challenged it time and time again Tracking the colonial mechanisms Australia used to pursue a nuclear industry Urwin simultaneously highlights how Aboriginal peoples refused and reshaped those same mechanisms over time A groundbreaking book Contaminated Country reveals how Australia s deep nuclear past has been entangled with colonialism locally nati

A brilliant history of Britain from 500 million BC to the next election Taking the reader on a time travelling adventure around the spindly sea wracked islands we call home The Discovery of Britain is panoramic and intimate poignant and shocking seriously funny and enlightening in the most surprising way In historian Graham Robb s assured hands and often from the unique vantage point of his bicycle we encounter an entertaining cast of characters foreign and homegrown drop in on places and events and dwell on the successes and catastrophes across British history seeing it all as it s never been seen before Political geographical and social in scope and with intriguing maps and illustrations throughout The Discovery of Britain can be devoured whole or each chapter read in the time it takes to change a bicycle tyre or roll and smoke a cigarette The wonderful choice of how to enjoy this original and sweeping history of Britain from ancient settlements swallowed up by the sea to recent political earthquakes is yours

A captivating portrait of Yanis Varoufakis s political awakening told through the history of his family from 1924 to the present A new book by Yanis Varoufakis one of the most important political figures of our times is always momentous KEN LOACHWhen Yanis Varoufakis was eight years old his uncle made him a model airplane out of matchsticks and cigarette papers all he could find in his cell Yet to his dismay his mother Eleni broke open the fragile gift revealing a hidden message instructions for fellow dissidents ahead of their forthcoming court martial It was 1969 and Uncle Panayis was a political prisoner captured and tortured for resisting the military dictatorship Dramatic in scope and deep in feeling Raise Your Soul is an intimate portrait of three generations caught up in the whirlwind of history It is also a remarkable narrative spanning one hundred years beginning in post colonial Egypt in the 1920s and then tracing Greece s tumultuous century through Nazi occupation communist resistance civil war Cold War fracture fascist dictatorship socialist revival and present day economic crisis At its heart are the women whose resilience defiance and courage inspired the visionary economist most Eleni Anna Trisevgeni Georgia and Danae Thr

«Gentes de dispares procedencias y diversas costumbres generalmente designan la India como la tierra que más admiran». Xuanzang, monje budista, estudioso y viajero chino, siglo VII d. C. Desde el es

Moore is wickedly charming the naughty uncle you want to be sat beside at the dinner table Daily Telegraph Too often history focuses on the tales of kings or those often men who were given the credit for shaping our stories Yet what fascinates most are the figures who have passed through the cracks of history people like The fourteen year old boy who lived undetected in the chimneys of Buckingham Palace Archie Lee the re inventor of Santa Claus The women at Playtex who helped put the first man on the moon Unknown war hero Tommy Brown whose extraordinary bravery helped the code breakers of Bletchley But it s not just forgotten heroes that you ll meet this compendium also reveals the curious back stories behind everyday objects the humble fork the china cup the real history of tea and Queen Victoria s underwear to name but a few The Stuff of History is a thoughtful entertaining and carefully curated miscellany of fascinating forgotten histories from Antiques Roadshow stalwart and popular historian with a huge Instagram following Steven Moore

La historia de la constitución argentina de 1949 ha ido de la mano de la del peronismo, el movimiento inaugurado por Juan Domingo Perón que marcó para siempre la historia argentina. Fue, entonces, un proceso constituyente impulsado por este movimiento, permitio la reeleccion de su lider en 1952 y su constitucion fue derogada por el gobierno de facto que derroco a Peron en 1955. Asi, lo que genera el peronismo en propios y adversarios, lo replica esta constitucion: la constitucion "maldita", relegada por la historia constitucional a las ambiciones politicas del general argentino. Este volumen, sin embargo, propone una mirada distinta. Recupera su legado como una constitucion obrera, y pone el foco no en los grandes nombres del derecho, sino en sus verdaderos protagonistas y destinatarios: los trabajadores. Desde esa perspectiva, las fuentes aqui reunidas -discursos clave de la Asamblea Constituyente, analisis doctrinarios sobre los derechos laborales incorporados por primera vez a la constitucion, y peticiones de trabajadores y trabajadoras que vieron en ese proceso una oportunidad para ser escuchados- permiten repensar criticamente la relacion entre derecho, poder y pueblo. Este volumen invita a mirar a la historia constitucional argentina, y latinoamericana,

Como primer intérprete occidental de la sociedad japonesa, Lafcadio Hearn no tuvo parangón en su época. Sus numerosos libros sobre el país del Sol Naciente despertaron la fascinación de los lectores, que se rindieron ante su agudo poder de observacion y ante la viveza de sus descripciones. Hoy en dia, mas de un siglo despues, los textos de Hearn conservan su validez porque supieron capturar la esencia de un pais, una esencia que ha cambiado mucho menos de lo que sugieren las apariencias de vanguardia, tecnologia y neones. El caracter y la tradicion japoneses son en esencia los mismos que Hearn plasmo, y por esta razon sus libros siguen siendo extremadamente reveladores para los lectores de Occidente.

Yanis Varoufakis recounts his political awakening through the history of his family and modern Greece, focusing on resilience and resistance.