Libros de Historia de los países de Europa, página 29 de 110

Sinopsis: Calígula, en el ejercicio de su sadismo, llegó realmente muy lejos. Por ejemplo, obligaba a los padres a la terrible crueldad de presenciar el suplicio de sus hijos. En una ocasión, un padre excuso su asistencia alegando que estaba muy mal de sa

Longlisted for the 2024 Cundill History Prize A dozen pages in I realized that I had been waiting for much of my life to read this extraordinary book Annie ProulxA way of life that once encompassed most of humanity is vanishing in one of the greatest transformations of our time the eclipse of the rural world by the urban In this new history of peasantry Patrick Joyce tells the story of this lost world and its people In contrast to the usual insulting stereotypes we discover a rich and complex culture traditions songs celebrations and revolts across Europe from the plains of Poland to the farmsteads and villages of Italy and Ireland through the nineteenth century to the present day Into this passionate history written with exquisite care Joyce weaves remarkable individual stories including those of his own Irish family and looks at how peasant life has been remembered and misremembered in contemporary culture This is a people whose voice is vastly underrepresented in human history Yet for Joyce we are all the children of peasants who must respect the experience of our ancestors This is particularly pressing when our knowledge of the land is being lost to climate crisis and the rise of industrial agriculture Enlightening timely and vital thi

Peter Berresford Ellis, the pre-eminent Celtic scholar, examines the first millennium of Celtic history - up to the time of Christ. The Celts were the first European people north of the Alps to emerge into recorded history. Their civilisation dominated the ancient world - from Ireland in the west to Turkey in the east, from Belgium in the north, south to Spain and Italy, where they sacked Rome itself in 390 BC. This was the 'Celtic Empire', but without an emperor or central government, made up instead of independent tribes who moved across Europe imposing their distinctive culture and social values on other peoples. In a new paperback edition of this lucid and expert account, Peter Berresford Ellis accords the Celts their proper place in the history of ancient Europe.

El fracaso es fascinante, en parte porque es muy común. En este libro, Geoffrey Parker examina diez casos de la historia de Europa durante los siglos XVI y XVII en los que estrepitosos fracasos fueron precedidos por éxitos memorables; todos ellos pueden ser clasificados según el aforismo que acuñó Winston Churchill: 'El éxito nunca es definitivo'- Imperialismo, guerra y religión - los tres hilos conductores de esta obra- sirven para adentrarnos en al pasionante tránsito a la Edad Moderna. Como el resto de las obras de Parket, este libro es lúcido, provocativo y cautivador: una estimulante aportación de uno de los historiadores más importantes del mundo. Geoffrey Parket es titular de la cátedra Andreas Dorpalen en la Universidad de Ohio y antes fue catedrático en Illinois y en Yale.