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Esta historia general de China y de su civilización es el único libro existente en el mercado que, en sólo 700 páginas, nos ofrece una síntesis global de la evolución de China en todos los campos y en todas las epocas. El profesor Jacques Gernet dibuja en este libro, paso a paso, las transformaciones sucesivas del mundo chino y la interrelacion entre sociedad, formas politicas, economia, tecnicas, religiones y vida intelectual que han ido trenzando la peculiaridad china. Esta obra es un libro unico en su genero porque situa a China en un contexto mundial, en relacion permanente con los otros grandes centros de la civilizacion, para ayudarnos a comprender mejor la trayectoria de nuestro propio mundo occidental.

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La historia de África contada con la dignidad que se le ha negado durante siglos.Durante demasiado tiempo, África ha sido contada desde fuera de sus fronteras, reducida a estereotipos o confinada a los margenes de la historia universal. El latir de un continente propone un recorrido distinto: una mirada amplia y documentada que situa a Africa en el centro de su propia narracion.A traves de civilizaciones milenarias, resistencias al colonialismo, liderazgos politicos y espirituales, saberes ancestrales, expresiones culturales y luchas contemporaneas, este libro invita a comprender Africa como un espacio de pensamiento, creacion y accion historica. No como un territorio homogeneo, sino como un mosaico de pueblos, lenguas y experiencias que han dialogado con el mundo mucho antes de la llegada de Europa.Desde los imperios del Sahel hasta las revoluciones anticoloniales, desde la espiritualidad africana hasta el panafricanismo, estas paginas desmontan mitos, cuestionan narrativas heredadas y recuperan voces silenciadas. Sin idealizaciones ni complacencias, pero con la conviccion de que conocer Africa es tambien repensar la historia global.El latir de un continente es una obra para quienes se acercan por primera vez a la historia africana y para quienes buscan profundizar en ella; un libro que no pretende cerrar debates, sino abrir caminos y provocar preguntas. Porque Africa no es solo pasado: es memoria viva, presente activo y horizonte compartido.

Una reflexión sobre el peso del silencio en la Alemania posterior al nazismo.Fascinado desde muy joven por la Segunda Guerra Mundial, Bas von Benda-Beckmann supo con trece años que su tía abuela Luise era la viuda del general mas leal de Hitler, Alfred Jodl, que fue condenado a muerte durante los Juicios de Nuremberg por crimenes de guerra. Mas tarde conocio la historia de Tini, la hermana menor de Luise, que milito en el partido nazi, aunque luego tuvo una relacion con un medico medio judio y entablo amistad con uno de los hombres que conspiraron para asesinar a Hitler.A traves de las cartas, las memorias y los diarios de sus familiares, y en un contexto historico fielmente trazado, el autor reconstruye la historia de Alemania desde los dias del Imperio, la creacion y caida de la Republica de Weimar, el ascenso del nazismo, la Segunda Guerra Mundial y el posterior enjuiciamiento de los principales responsables del Holocausto.Una sensibilidad fuera de lo comun le permite recomponer magistralmente un pasado que nos interpela a todos. Mi familia nazi nos habla de los prejuicios, de la memoria, de la culpa y del sentido de la responsabilidad hacia nuestro propio pasado, un pasado que debemos conocer para comprender y entender el presente, y evitar asi que los errores cometidos vuelvan a repetirse.

La obra clásica de la autora y Premio Pulitzer Barbara W. Tuchman sobre la Independencia americana en su 250 aniversario.En esta obra inédita en español, la historiadora de referencia Barbara W. Tuchman narra el nacimiento de los Estados Unidos a partir de un gesto simbolico y decisivo: la primera salva de honor que una potencia extranjera dirigio a la bandera estadounidense. El episodio, ocurrido en la isla de San Eustaquio en 1776, sirve como punto de partida para un amplio fresco historico que abarca la Guerra de Independencia de Estados Unidos, el papel de Holanda, Francia e Inglaterra, y la compleja red de intereses politicos, comerciales y maritimos que definieron el equilibrio mundial del siglo XVIII.

Deadwood fue descrita en su día como «la ciudad más diabólica sobre la faz de la tierra», un ombligo de pecado que emergió a comienzos de 1876 en las Black Hills (Dakota del Sur), excrecencia de la f

Violencia colonial en el hemisferio sur: Sudáfrica, Namibia, Argentina y Australia.Un mal salvaje es un acto de memoria, una interpelación ética y una apuesta por nuevas formas de pensar el pasado y sus persistencias en el presente.Por el salvajismo de las muertes planificadas que describe, este libro es doloroso. Pero el punto de vista critico de los autores lo torna soportable y, a la vez, necesario para comenzar a restaurar las heridas que siguen abiertas.Liliana Ancalao Meli (poeta mapuche)La construccion de los Estados del hemisferio sur se sostiene sobre una pregunta urgente: ¿sobre que violencias edificaron su prosperidad? El exterminio, la esclavitud y el silenciamiento de los pueblos originarios atraviesan las tramas nacionales que recorren J. M. Coetzee y F. M. Siccardi, trazando una inedita linea de reflexion Sur-Sur. Entre el ensayo y la literatura, los autores entrecruzan memorias personales y narraciones historicas que impugnan los relatos heroicos de fundacion nacional y restituyen la palabra de las voces borradas.Coetzee examina la violencia ejercida contra los pueblos khoi y san en Sudafrica, el genocidio perpetrado por el Imperio aleman en Namibia a comienzos del siglo XX y la persecucion sistematica de los pueblos aborigenes australianos. Siccardi recorre la historia de la violencia colonial en la Pampa y la Patagonia argentinas, desde mediados del siglo XVIII hasta la llamada Conquista del Desierto, y muestra como el Estado y sus imaginarios se forjaron sobre la exclusion indigena.Un mal salvaje desnuda el pasado colonial del sur global y las violencias que siguen organizando el presenteLa critica dijo:Dos autores nacidos en distintos puntos del planeta escriben desde la misma perspectiva: la de los favorecidos por el genocidio y el despojo territorial; perpetrados, directa o indirectamente, por la administracion de sus respectivos paises. Traen de regreso su mirada asombrada de niños frente a las proezas fisicas de esos hombres, los sobrevivientes de la masacre; que ahora trabajan en las estancias de sus respectivas familias. Asi rompen el "estricto codigo de silencio" impuesto por su grupo de pertenencia: Siccardi se define como "alguien apenas tocado por las esquirlas, cuidado por los gravemente heridos" y Coetzee describe a su familia sin raices en el territorio "tomando te y contando chismes en la galeria de la casa, eran como golondrinas de paso". Por el salvajismo de las muertes planificadas que describe, este libro es doloroso. Pero el punto de vista critico de los autores lo torna soportable y, a la vez, necesario para comenzar a restaurar las heridas que siguen abiertas.Liliana Ancalao MeliDoloroso e imprescindible, Un mal salvaje desafia inapelablemente los imaginarios establecidos. Dos voces, tres continentes y el mismo compromiso en darle nueva luz a un tema oscurecido y distorsionado por las culturas oficiales.Sylvia Iparraguirre

Through most of eight hundred years, Somerled of Argyll has been variously denounced as an intractable rebel against his rightful king and esteemed as the honoured ancestor of the later medieval Lord of the Isles, but he can be recognised now as a much more complex figure of major prominence in twelfth-century Scotland and of truly landmark significance in the long history of the Gael. In this book individual chapters investigate his emergence in the forefront of the Gaelic-Norse aristocracy of the western seaboard, his part in Gaeldoms challenge to the Canmore kings of Scots, his war on the Manx king of the Isles, his importance for the church on Iona, and his extraordinary invasion of the Clyde which was cut short by his violent death at Renfrew in 1164. Perhaps most impressive is the books demonstration of how almost everything that is known of or has been claimed for Somerled reflects the same characteristic fusion of Norse and Celt which binds the cultural roots of Gaeldom. It is this recognition which has led its author to his proposal of Somerleds wider historical importance as the personality who most represents the first fully-fledged emergence of the medieval Celtic-Scandinavian cultural province from which is directly descended the Gaelic Scotland of today.

Kenneth Roys panorama of post-war Scottish life begins with the VE night celebrations in the spring of 1945 and ends with the coming onstream of North Sea oil in the autumn of 1975. It was the formative period in the making of modern Scotland, but it is a period little explored in depth and not fully understood until now. Using a wealth of contemporary accounts, the book tells a complex and often disturbing story of a country riven by poverty, struggling for a sense of its own identity, and ill-served by its masters. The Invisible Spirit is unsparing in its examination of the failings of the Scottish establishment. It delivers a stinging indictment of political complacency and judicial incompetence and shows that, too often, the interests of Scotland and its people were betrayed. It exposes how, time and again, the truth was covered up in order to protect the powerful and how the press acquiescently accepted a far from reliable official version of events. The book is also, however, the story of ordinary lives, the aspirations, the hardships and the achievements of the Scots themselves. Richly varied in mood from the controversial to the amusing, The Invisible Spirit is both entertaining and compelling. It provides a unique perspective on Scotland at a turning point in its long history.

A dramatic political, cultural and social historical narrative of the period 60-40 BCE in Egypt and Rome, and the three sister queens each seeking power for themselves during this time: Cleopatra, Berenike (executed by their father) and Arsinoe (murdered at sister Cleopatras request).Fatal Monsters approaches the three sister queens equally, rather than simply privileging Cleopatra, and examines them in the correct historical and archaeological context, not just through Roman eyes but also Greek and Egyptian ones. This story, the story of three sister queens and the sibling rivalry that brought down a 300-year-old dynasty, has yet to be told.

Philip of Spain is known in England primarily as the husband of Mary I, the adversary of Elizabeth I. The Spanish Armada hands about his neck like an albatross. Yet Philips life encompasses most of the major struggles and issues of the sixteenth century, as he battled to control the vast Empires acquired by his father, alongside his crippling debts.A complex and private man, Philip dealt with personal tragedy whilst fighting fires across Europe and presiding over a golden era of art and literature.As the 500th anniversary of Philips birth approaches, its time for a fresh look at the man, the myth and the marriages.

In the 1930s, the airship was viewed as the future of transatlantic travel and a brave new era of global connectedness. Germanys safe, fast and efficient airships brought it back into the international fold after its humiliation in World War I. But on May 6, 1937, the Hindenburg airship caught fire in the sky over New Jersey in a blaze that shocked the world and presaged another era of senseless violence.In Shadow Before the Flame, acclaimed historian Catherine Grace Katz uncovers fresh research that unveils the Hindenburg disaster at a pivotal moment in time, coming as it does at the crossroads of the rising tension between fascist Germany and the United States. Katz traces the experiences of a captivating cast of characters: an heiress, a world-renowned acrobat, a German Jew working to save his family from the clutches of Nazism, a young cabin boy on his first voyage with the crew. Meanwhile, on the ground were two intrepid journalists whose reporting on the Hindenburg would invent breaking news as we now know it. In a gripping, ticking-clock narrative, Shadow Before the Flame is a story that begins with the promise of a future made bright by technological innovation and ends with caskets draped in swastikas in New York City.

Witches in medieval fiction were linked with otherworlds heaven, hell or fairyland. By the later sixteenth century, as witchcraft prosecutions gathered pace, fictional witches were connected more firmly to the Devil and to hell. Writers then began undermining this by treating witchcraft as a topic of ridicule; threatening magic was replaced by harmless folklore. This book analyses fictional and imaginative writings about Scottish witches between about 1450 and 1750. It places literary witches in their historical context, comparing them with real people who were prosecuted and executed for witchcraft in this dark period of Scotlands past. It turns out that literary witches are often very different from historical ones: most are comical characters, and some are not even human. The phrase weird sisters, familiar from Shakespeares Macbeth, originated in Scotland, and there is a detailed discussion of the meaning of the phrase and connections between the Scottish play and Scotland itself. Many of Scotlands famous Renaissance poets and dramatists wrote about witches, including William Dunbar, Sir David Lindsay and Alexander Montgomerie, and their work is also explored. By the end of the book, the discussion turns to Robert Burnss Tam o Shanter (1791) in which literary witches are fantasy fiction as they have remained.

What was an Indian prince doing in the retinue of a French envoy at Constantinople in 1796? When Sultan Selim III, struck by the unusual sight of a fellow Muslim in a French cortege, asked how this prince had come to be there, Ahmad Khan began to tell him his extraordinary story.A Passage to Europe traces Ahmad Khans journey from Gujarat to Constantinople, revolutionary France, London and back again. His voyage began with the annexation of Broach by the East India Company. Twenty years later, he reached London to seek redress. The British government paid his expenses, but although his tale was true, Khan was not the man he claimed to be. Branded a spy, he was arrested, and then simply vanished.Following the elusive paper trail, Rahul Markovits brings to life the astonishing odyssey of this unlikely traveller, revealing a story of empire, intrigue and deception at the dawn of the modern age.

A janela sobre a ditadura brasileira que os documentos norte-americanos nos oferecem continua essencialmente inexplorada, com uma quantidade expressiva de material documental inédito, sobretudo em temas de politica domestica. A partir dos arquivos ianques, este estudo de folego nos oferece um acesso privilegiado a realidade contemporanea da ditadura.Se e conhecida a influencia dos Estados Unidos sobre o golpe de 1964, de que forma a interlocuço ocorria ao longo do regime? Sob uma perspectiva privilegiada, os diplomatas ianques tinham acesso livre aqueles que participavam do processo decisorio da ditadura brasileira. Isso envolve de empresarios a membros da classe politica, de intelectuais a jornalistas e ativistas sociais. E, claro, os proprios militares.Felipe Loureiro, por mais de uma decada, dedicou-se a analisar documentos diplomaticos do periodo, entre telegramas, memorandos, relatorios e cartas. Sem desconsiderar as limitaçes dos arquivos, o historiador revela as entranhas do processo de construço e declinio do periodo mais longo de exceço politica da historia brasileira.Olhares ianques reconstroi as contradiçes, complexidades e incertezas vivenciadas por atores centrais do regime. Ao passo que joga luz a informaçes ineditas, Loureiro nos alerta para a profuso de informaçes que ainda segue intocada: "Em meio a tantos trechos cobertos por frias tarjas pretas, persiste a sensaço de que a ditadura se projetava continuamente sobre a atmosfera da redemocratizaço, como um sujeito oculto invisivel, mas palpavel."

Arisiag and Morar, Norse and Gaelic, the river-mouth bay and the great water, part of na garbh Chriochan (The Rough Bounds), an area so rugged and desolate it was itself known as the Highlands of the Highlands. From Borrodale (fort-dale) to Kilmory (Maelrubhas chapel), from Druimindarroch (oak-tree ridge) to Eireagoraidh (shieling-corrie), the place-names echo the story of the landscape. This harsh environment was at the heart of the old Macruari and Clanranald estate; this was where Bonnie Prince Charlie first landed and last departed, where fugitive Jacobites skulked and languished, where the great poet Alexander Macdonald breathed his last lines, and whence the sail-ships Jane, Lucy and British Queen carried so many hopes to the New World. Where, despite clearance and emigration, potato blight and deer forest, poverty and hardship, a new road and railway were eventually driven, a fishing industry flourished, and where communities survived.

How did the State of Israel come into being, and why does it continue to enjoy such unwavering political, financial and military support from Western countries, particularly the United States? Written in the aftermath of the attack on Israel on 7 October 2023 and the devastating escalation that followed, Lines in the Sand brings together three penetrating essays that offer rare spiritual perspectives in the context of an historically grounded examination of the seemingly intractable IsraelPalestine conflict.The opening essay revisits the formation of Israel, focusing on the decisive role played by British and American elites. It studies the democratic legitimacy of international decisions such as the Balfour Declaration and the 1947 UN partition vote, explores contested ideas of a Jewish State and a national home, and traces how imperial strategy, religious ideas and demographic engineering shaped Palestines fate.The second and third essays examine the deeper origins and extraordinary influence of so-called Christian Zionism. Tracing its roots from medieval proto-Protestant movements through the Reformation to modern American fundamentalism, Terry Boardman shows how apocalyptic theology, millenarian expectations and dispensationalist beliefs evolved into a powerful political force. He explains how this movement has shaped US foreign policy, sustained massive military aid to Israel, and helped determine events in the Middle East for more than seven decades.Informed by the work of Rudolf Steiner, these essays offer a challenging account of how theology, empire and power converged to shape one of the most enduring struggles of the modern world.