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La vida en el campo, las historias de los refugiados, la visión de Kósovo tras la guerra, el retorno a la tierra perdida, la ayuda humanitaria...son los capítulos de una crónica relatada en primera p

Este libro se incluye en la colección Estudios y Ensayos, y recoge las aportaciones hechas a una de las sesiones del "Tenth International Congress on the Enlightenment", celebrado en Dublín entre el 25 y el 31 de Julio de 1999; sesion que bajo la coordinacion de la autora se dedico a La Emigracion Irlandesa del Siglo XVIII.

Al iniciar su libro Mémoire du Mal, Tentation du Bien. Enquête sur le Siécle (2000) Tzvetan Todorov pasa revista a las atroc idades que marcaron la historia del siglo XX: Primera Guerra Mundial: 8 mi

El grau de violència sense parangó que va acompanyar la desintegració de Iugoslàvia només es pot explicar si considerem adequadament tant els factors externs com els interns. Com més mixtes, assimila

Change, sometimes gentle and subtle, more often shocking and violent-shattering ideals and shifting perspectives-is again the dynamic of this, the second volume of Schama''s refreshing and compelling history of Britain. ''The British wars began on the morning of July 23 1637, and the first missiles launched were stools. They flew down the nave of St. Giles'' Cathedral in Edinburgh and their targets were the Dean and Bishop of Edinburgh...'' The first round of the British wars had been fired, and fired on grounds of faith. over the next 200 years, other battles on other battlegrounds would be waged and would rage-both at home and abroad, on sea and on land, up and down the length of burgeoning Britain, and across three continents-Europe,America and India. Most of the British wars would be wars of faith - waged on wide-ranging grounds of political or religious conviction-between Republicans and Royalists, Catholics and Protestants, Tories and Whigs, colonialists and natives. Many of the British battles would be fought on battlefields far from Britain, as far afield as Quebec and Calcutta. Yet the wars of the British remain essentially British wars-fought by the British, for the British and between the British. But who exactly were the British and what were they fighting for ? The answers unravel as the the story of ''The Wars of the British'' unfolds. It is a story of revolution and reaction, of inspiration and disillusion, of progress and catastrophe, of huge gains and massive losses, of battles fought against the odds, as when Robert Clive stood at Plassey, of James Wolfe fell at Quebec. (...)