Libros de Historia de los países de Europa, página 24 de 112

Estudio sucinto y claro de los principales acontecimientos políticos, económicos y sociales de la península italiana, desde la caída del imperio romano hasta nuestros días. Este manual estudia las invasiones de otros pueblos durante la epoca medieval, la creacion de las ciudades-Estado durante el Renacimiento o la consolidacion de una identidad nacional durante el siglo XIX.Desde su creacion en 1861, Italia se ha esforzado por crear un sistema politico eficaz y consolidar un sentimiento de identidad nacional. Este libro, que cubre el periodo transcurrido desde la caida del Imperio Romano de Occidente hasta nuestros dias, pone el enfasis en las dificultades a las que Italia ha tenido que enfrentarse durante los dos ultimos siglos en su intento de forjar una nacion. Los primeros capitulos revisan los largos siglos de fragmentacion politica de la peninsula italica desde el siglo VI, para explicar los obstaculos geograficos y culturales por los que paso la unidad. El libro pretende entrelazar los factores politicos, economicos, sociales y culturales que conforman la historia de Italia, a la vez que enfatizar de manera concreta la alternancia entre los programas materialistas e idealistas a la hora de forjar una nacion.

Movido al principio por un afán memorialista y testimonial, Joachim Fest redacta un diario de sus viajes por Italia. Luego, en la escritura, el viaje adquiere una dimensión que permite al autor comparar la Italia mitica con la real y reflexionar acerca de la historia y la cultura europeas. En ese "contraluz" que aquilata las visiones, surge tambien una imagen de Alemania que el autor desconocia y, asi, el diario acaba convirtiendose en la confrontacion de dos concepciones del mundo tan diferentes como enriquecedoras.

The library of America is dedicated to publishing Americas best and most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts. Hailed as the "finest-looking, longest-lasting editions ever made" (The New Republic), Library of America volumes make a fine gift for any occasion. Now, with exactly one hundred volumes to choose from, there is a perfect gift for everyone.

From the Ice Age to the Cold War and beyond, from Reykjavik to Riga, from Archimedes to Einstein, Alexander to Yeltsin, here between the covers of a single volume Norman Davies tells the story of Europe, East and West, from prehistory to the present day. The book's absorbing narrative lays down the chronological and geographical grid on which the dramas of European history have been played out. It zooms in from the distant focus of Chapter One, which explores the first five million years of the continent's evolution, to the close focus of the last two chapters, which cover the twentieth century at roughly one page per year. In between, Norman Davies presents a huge and sweeping canvas packed with fascinating detail, analysis, and anecdote. Alongside Europe's better-known stories - human, national, and continental - he brings into focus areas often ignored or misunderstood, remembering the stateless nation as well as the nation-state. Minority communities, from heretics and lepers to Jews, Romanies, and Muslims have not been forgotten. This masterly history reveals not only the rich variety of Europe's past but also the many and rewarding prisms through which it can be viewed.Each chapter contains a selection of telephoto 'capsules', illustrating narrower themes and topics that cut across the chronological flow. Davies then concludes with a wide-angle 'snapshot' of the whole continent as seen from one particular vantage point. The overall effect is stunning: a kind of historical picture album, with panoramic tableaux interspersed by detailed insets and close-ups. Never before has such an ambitious history of Europe been attempted. In range and ambition, the originality of its structure and glittering style, Norman Davies's Europe represents one of the most important and illuminating history books to be published by Oxford. Time Capsules 201 fascinating articles interspersed throughout the narrative focus on incidents or topics as various as The Iceman of the Alps, Erotic Graffiti at Pompeii, Stradivarius, and Psychoanalysing Hitler. Each capsule can be tasted as a separate self-contained morsel; or can be read in conjunction with the narrative into which it is inserted.Snapshots 12 panoramic overviews across the changing map of Europe freeze the frames of the chronological narrative at moments of symbolic importance, such as Knossos 1628 BC, Constantinople AD 330, and Nuremberg 1945. A

La Revolución de 1917, que abrió brevemente la posibilidad de un nuevo mundo de igualdad y libertad, terminó, es sabido, adoptando la forma de una dictadura totalitaria, lo que trajo consigo el establecimiento de una nueva clase dirigente. A lo largo de muchas decadas, las causas y la naturaleza de la Revolucion y la Contrarrevolucion en Rusia se han visto sometidas a un intenso debate. Esta apasionante seleccion de documentos ofrece a los lectores la posibilidad de examinar los hechos claves, informandose por si mismos de como vieron los contemporaneos los criticos sucesos acaecidos entre 1917 y 1924.

La historia de Carlemany i la seva nissaga es un dels eixos vertebradors de la identitat d’Europa que ha determinat significativament la memoria historica, religiosa i cultural dels pasos i les regions del continent formats en el si de l’imperi carolingi. El present volum recull un conjunt d’estudis sobre diversos temes reilacionats amb la figura de Carlemany i el seu entorn, que conviden el lector a fer un recorregut cronologic i geografic per l’antiguitat tardana i la Mediterrania altmedieval, partint d’Italia —centre neuralgic—, passant per França i la peninsula Iberica, i fent especial atencio a Catalunya. Capdavanter en aquest tipus d’investigacio en catala, el llibre mostra les tendencies actuals de la recerca internacional i integra Catalunya en el ric painorama de les multiples identitats europees.

The extraordinary true story of the Stasi's poetry club: Stasiland and The Lives of Others crossed with Dead Poets Society

Este libro está formado por tres estudios centrados en Portugal y su Imperio colonial. A partir del amplio conocimiento de la bibliografía existente, de numerosas entrevistas a los protagonistas de aquellos momentos historicos y de la consulta de los archivos portugueses, Josep Sanchez Cervello reflexiona sobre un hecho que cambio el mundo: la Revolucion de los claveles y su consecuente impacto mundial.

The Sunday Times Top 10 bestseller on India's experience of British colonialism, by the internationally-acclaimed author and diplomat Shashi Tharoor'Tharoor's impassioned polemic slices straight to the heart of the darkness that drives all empires ... laying bare the grim, and high, cost of the British Empire for its former subjects. An essential read' Financial TimesIn the eighteenth century, India's share of the world economy was as large as Europe's.

The Danube cuts across and connects central Europe, flowing through and alongside ten countries: Romania, Ukraine, Moldova, Bulgaria, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Slovakia, Austria and Germany. Travelling its full length from east to west, the author embarks on a year-long journey that leads to a new perspective on Europe today.

A DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022'A spirited attempt at uncovering the mystery of how Birmingham has managed for so long to stand at the centre of Britain's history without anyone noticing ... This absorbing book shows us how we did it' Observer'Vinen has written a history of Birmingham, but it is also a theory of Birmingham. And also, perhaps, a theory of England.I buy it' Daily TelegraphFor over a century, Birmingham has been the second largest town in England, and central to modern history. In his richly enjoyable new book Richard Vinen captures the drama of a small village that grew to become the quintessential city of the twentieth century: a place of mass production, full employment and prosperity that began in the 1930s, but which came to a cataclysmic halt in the 1980s. For most of that time, Birmingham has also been a magnet for migration, drawing in people from Wales, Ireland, India, Pakistan and the Caribbean.

El reinado de Carlos III estuvo completamente mediatizado por laherencia recibida de su padre Felipe V, además de por la humillacióna que el propio Carlos se vio sometido frente a la escuadra inglesa cuando era rey de Napoles. Esa animadversion hacia Inglaterra marcaria su vida, sucediendose los enfrentamientos contra esta potencia durante buena parte de su reinado.Los fracasos militares fueron la tonica dominante durante la Guerrade los Siete Años (1756-1763). El Norte de Africa constituiria durante el reinado de Carlos III otro de los escenarios calientes. A la exitosa defensa de Melilla en 1774-1775 frente al Sultan de Marruecos, le siguio el estrepitoso fracaso contra Argel ese ultimo año. No obstante, la diplomacia se encargaria de solucionar aquello que no habian logrado las armas.