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"Birgitte Soland addresses longstanding questions in the history of women and gender in the industrialized world: What was ''modernity, '' and how did it change the practice of everyday life? Soland spells out her answers through the words of Danish women who forged new styles and new ideals that challenged tradition without overthrowing the hierarchies of gender. The book is carefully researched, clearly argued, and crisply written."--Joanne Meyerowitz, Indiana University ""Becoming Modern" is a most impressive exploration of the large issues of modernity, consumer culture, leisure, the body, and sexuality in the context of a small country. Birgitte Soland deftly reconstructs the revolt of women coming of age in 1920s Denmark. Refusing to privilege either cultural discourse or social experience, Soland''s richly textured analysis explores the complex ways in which discourse constructed the modern girl/woman and young women, in turn, shaped debates around gender. "Becoming Modern" is both essential and enjoyable reading for anyone interested in gender and modernity."--Mary Nolan, New York University

La HISTORIA UNIVERSAL aporta a la bibliografía histórica española una obra de síntesis, actual, de carácter universal, en la que son presentadas las grandes líneas maestras de la evolución histórica, de acuerdo con las tecnicas y metodos actuales de la investigacion. No debe confundirse, pues, con un resumen o un manual de texto. *Otros volumenes de la coleccion: Volumen I: Edad Antigua : Tomo A: Grecia y Oriente Proximo Volumen I. Tomo B: Roma Volumen II: Edad Media Volumen III: Edad Moderna

Más de 150 autores, de 40 universidades o centros de investigación internacionales, reúnen sus contribuciones en un ímprobo esfuerzo editorial para dejar constancia de su gratitud al maestro y dar mayor valor, si cabe, a su fecunda obra y enseñanzas, cruciales para entender no solo nuestra Edad Media sino el influjo que esta epoca y sus condicionamientos han tenido en el desarrollo y actual estructura de España. Homenaje al profesor Jose Angel Garcia de Cortazar y Ruiz de Aguirre Dos volumenes presentados en caja

The third volume in this series returns to November 1942 to explain the background to the first major Anglo-American venture Operation Torch, the invasion of French North Africa. It deals with the fratricidal combats which followed the initial landings in Morocco and Algeria for several days. It then considers the efforts made unsuccessfully in the event to reach northern Tunisia before the Germans and Italians could get there to forestall the possibility of an attack from the west on the rear of the Afrika Korps forces, then beginning their retreat from El Alamein. The six months of hard fighting which followed as the Allies built up the strength of their joint air forces andgradually wrested control of the skies from the Axis, are covered in detail. Then from 1 April 1943 the continuing story of the Western Desert Air Force is told from thepoint at which Volume 2 ended, as it advanced from the east to join hands with the units in the west. Now also described are the arrivals over the front of American pilots and crew, the P-38 Lightning, the Spitfire IX and the B-17 Flying Fortress and of the much-feared Focke-Wulf FW 190.The aerial activities over Tunisia became one of the focal turning points of World War II, yet this is frequently overlooked by historians. As before, the air-sea activities, the reconnaissance flights and the growing day and night bomber offensives form a major part of this volume. The mastery of the whole African coastline of the southern Mediterranean by the Allies prepared the way for the invasions of the European territories on the other side of this critical sea during 1943, which will be dealt with in Volume 4."

La palabra «Egipto» evoca en la mente de cualquier persona un mundo lleno de resonancias mágicas, de aventuras e historias fabulosas, de milenarias dinastías de faraones todopoderosos y extraordinari

Amb el cinquè lliurament, el Diplomatari Borja s’endinsa en la documentació borgiana conservada més enllà de les nostres fronteres. En aquest cas, als protocols del notari romà Camillo Beneimbene (Ar