Libros de Historia por países, página 5 de 409

Este volumen recoge los capítulos más significativos de la vasta obra del autor "Crónica de Perú".

La presente colección, que pretende resultar útil tanto a los estudiantes universitarios como al público interesado en el desarrollo del fenómeno histórico- científico, se presenta en conjunto como un panorama general de la Ciencia desde la prehistoria hasta nuestro tiempo, relacionando de manera significativa los avances cientificos y tecnologicos con el desarrollo social, historico y cultural de las civilizaciones en que se produjeron. La obra, profusamente ilustrada y acompañada de textos, graficos, documentos originales, bibliografias y cronologias, ha sido realizada por profesores universitarios, todos ellos destacados investigadores, aunando el imprescindible rigor cientifico con la claridad expositiva y metodologica necesaria para posibilitar su utilizacion por los lectores.

The East and Southeast Asian region is of immense economic, strategic and cultural significance to Australia. It has also been important in defining Australias national identity, and is the origin of many of Australias immigrants. Australians therefore need to have some understanding of their northern neighbours, and to be able to think about them in an informed way. They need to do so not only to be able to understand the region in which they live, but also to better understand themselves. This book facilitates this process by providing comparisons between Asian and Australian societies. The reader is encouraged to think about Australias neighbours across a wide range of social, economic and historical contexts. Written in an accessible and informative way, this is a book for all Australians who seek a better understanding of Australias neighbours in East and Southeast Asia.

The Middle East has changed clearly, substantially, and dramatically during the last decade. Yet scholarly and public understanding lags far behind these events. This book explains why the previous era came to end, giving an historical and political summation of the region. Three interlinked themes are crucial to the book. First, a reinterpretation of the era of upheaval the Middle East has just passed through. During that period, many Arabs believed that some leader, country, or radical movement would unite the region, solving all its problems. Second, an evaluation of how the historical experience of the period between the 1940s and the 1990s undermined the old system, making change necessary. Third, an analysis of the region today that helps explain future developments, in what the author terms the Era of Reluctant Pragmatism, as the Middle Eastern societies decide their relationships to the West.