Novedades del último mes en eBooks de Historia de los países de Europa

Este volumen de ensayos históricos, editado por Mercedes Montero y Santiago Martínez Sánchez, ofrece una visión completa y multifacética del Opus Dei en España a lo largo de un período crucial: desde el final de la Guerra Civil (1939) hasta las puertas de la consolidacion democratica (1983). La obra se estructura en tres ejes fundamentales que analizan como la institucion moldeo y fue moldeada por su contexto: las percepciones de la Obra por parte de la jerarquia eclesiastica (obispos, parrocos), las elites politicas (Falange, gobiernos de Franco) y la sociedad; el papel de las mujeres dentro de la institucion y los desafios a los que se enfrentaron durante estas decadas de profundos cambios sociales; y los retos internos y externos que la organizacion afronto durante la dictadura franquista y la posterior Transicion, incluyendo su participacion en el poder y su evolucion doctrinal. A traves de una rigurosa investigacion basada en nuevas fuentes documentales, esta obra resulta indispensable para comprender la compleja relacion entre religion, poder y sociedad en la España contemporanea, asi como el impacto de una de las instituciones mas influyentes de la Iglesia catolica en el siglo XX.

How does a mundane structural engineering failure in a beverage warehouse result in a bizarre, multi-colored tsunami that floods an entire city and threatens a regional ecosystem? The 2017 Pepsi fruit juice flood in Lebedyan, Russia, is one of the most surreal and sticky industrial accidents of the modern era.Without warning, the roof of a massive PepsiCo beverage plant collapsed, completely crushing the intricate, multi-level storage racking system inside. The catastrophic structural failure instantly ruptured thousands of massive vats and pallets. The result was a 28-million-liter flash flood of mixed cherry, tomato, and pomegranate juice that blasted through the factory walls. The sticky wave flooded the surrounding city streets, trapped cars, and poured into the nearby Don River, sparking immediate panic over potential aquatic ecological damage from the massive, sudden spike in aquatic sugar levels.This fascinating logistical autopsy explores the vulnerability of liquid warehousing. It documents the physics of the racking collapse, the incredibly difficult, sticky cleanup effort required to unpave the streets, and the bizarre reality of industrial-scale food spills.Witness the sweetest disaster in logistics. The Pepsi fruit juice flood proves that when gravity defeats architecture, even the most harmless consumer goods can instantly become an unstoppable destructive force.

How does a crew of elderly, retired criminalssome in their late 70s with diabetes and knee replacementsmanage to execute the most sophisticated, physically demanding, and lucrative safe deposit burglary in British legal history? The Hatton Garden Heist of 2015 was a spectacular final act by Londons aging analogue underworld against a digital world.Taking advantage of the long, quiet Easter bank holiday, the crew infiltrated the vault of the Hatton Garden Safe Deposit Company in Londons elite diamond district. Using a heavy-duty, industrial Hilti diamond-tipped drill, they painstakingly bored a massive hole through two meters of reinforced concrete to bypass the two-ton vault door. Sweating in the dust for days, they raided 73 safety deposit boxes, vanishing with an estimated 14 million pounds in untraceable diamonds, gold, and cash before anyone even noticed the breach.This meticulous true-crime narrative dissects the logistics of old-school burglary. It documents the crews brilliant defeat of the alarm systems, their ultimate downfall due to a single overlooked CCTV camera and their inability to adapt to modern lip-reading surveillance, and the fascinating history of the London diamond trade.Respect the patience of experience. The Hatton Garden Heist proves that against the most advanced digital security in the world, the brute force of a diamond drill and pure stubbornness can still win.

Seven years before the Hindenburg burst into flames, the British Empire experienced its own apocalyptic airship catastrophe, one driven entirely by political arrogance, rushed engineering, and the highly flammable reality of hydrogen gas. The 1930 crash of the R101 was the death knell for Britains dream of linking its empire via massive floating palaces.The R101 was the largest flying vessel ever constructed at the time, designed to carry elites from London to India in unmatched luxury. However, the ship was plagued by fatal aerodynamic flaws. It was too heavy, its diesel engines were underpowered, and its gasbags frequently leaked. Despite desperate warnings from the chief engineers, Lord Thomson, the Air Minister, demanded the ship depart on schedule for a political summit in India. Flying dangerously low in a brutal storm over France, the heavy ship pitched forward. The fragile outer cover tore, the hydrogen ignited, and the ship crashed in a horrific fireball, killing 48 of the 54 people aboard.This haunting aerospace history deconstructs the danger of prioritizing political optics over physics. It documents the terrifying mechanics of aerostatics, the frantic cover-ups during construction, and the tragic erasure of the dirigible era.Gravity does not negotiate with politicians. The Dirigible Disaster is a brutal reminder of the lethality of ignoring engineering warnings in the pursuit of imperial prestige.

This fourth of four volumes is believed to be the first in depth treatment of Hospitaller history during the years 1623 to 1688 since Bartolomeo dal Pozzos Historia della Sacra Religione Militare di S. Giovanni completed in 1703. Following the 1623 death of Grand Master Luis Mendes de Vasconcellos and his succession by Antoine de Paule, this fourth volume adheres to an earlier pattern by soon describing 1624s Naval Battle of Cape Zaphran and 1625s Naval Battle of Cape Murro di Porco. These descriptions include locales, tactics, and personalities, both Hospital and enemy, and do not omit critical post mortems. By intention these histories bring to light contributions of lieutenants, allies, and enemies as well as descriptions of events, heroism, agony, and even tedium leading to the headlines. Hence these four histories also deal with the Hospitals long war against bubonic plague, its prolonged suffering from the greed of Papal nepotism, its constant struggle to remain financially viable, its consequential participation in state-sponsored piracy, and its survival only on the backs of slaves. It is important to realize that Hospitallers were agents of a vast Catholic organization blanketing Europe, and while the largest group of Hospitallers were knights, perhaps half were Chaplains or Serving Brothers. These could be found in most of Europe where they populated priories, bailiwicks, and commanderies, the latter profit-centers supporting the entire Hospital. In Europe there were an unknown number of these local concentrations of knights, chaplains, or serving brothers, perhaps a thousand, many with their own medical facility, each with one to thirty Hospitallers operating agricultural and trade enterprises expected to support headquarters with a portion of the profit. And while history focuses on the headquarters, in these volumes at Rhodes, Malta, and in between, by far the majority of Hospitallers rarely or never visited headquarters. Furthermore, the Hospitaller Bailiwick of Brandenburg was a virtually independent organization said by some to be of a size approaching the remaining Hospital, electing or appointing its own priors (herrenmeisters), bailiffs, and commanders, and with the coming of Martin Luther even abandoning Catholicism. But never quite severing ties to and support of the parent organization. Similarly the Hospital itself was a semi-independent arm of the Church at Rome. One might conclude, a long-suffering arm of the Church at Rome. The author hopes the reader finds this history as interesting and stimulating as did he.

Comemorando os 100 anos passados desde a publicação de Os Sonetos a Orfeu (1923), esta publicação dá ainda a conhecer o misterioso ciclo Poemas à Noite (1913-16). Se o primeiro é reconhecidamente uma

The exhibition Manet and the Post-Impressionists was the closest thing, metaphorically, to a bomb in the National Gallery. It was, as one of its organisers, Clive Bell, later remarked, "the Art-Quake of 1910".Cezanne, Picasso, Matisse, Gauguin and Van Gogh all five artists were introduced to the British public in a single exhibition in 1910. Reactions ranged from outrage to disbelief to a sense of ecstatic liberation, as visitors to the Grafton Galleries found themselves face to face with art that seemed to mock five hundred years of tradition. British painters were still working in the shadow of the Old Masters, but here were Continental artists reaching for the new light of Modernism.Vividly evoking the personalities of Roger Fry and the Bloomsbury Group members who staged the exhibition, as well as the artists themselves, David Boyd Haycock captures not just a pivotal moment in British art but a whole society on the brink of cataclysmic upheaval.In or about December 1910, human character changed VIRGINIA WOOLF

An ambitious and meticulously researched family history CONOR OCLERY, Author of The Shoemaker and His DaughterWhen William Kennedy joined the Royal Navy in 1854, he embarked on a decade-long service that took him across the globe, from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea, the Far East and the Pacific. Meanwhile Norry Grady emerged from the hardships of the Famine to become a domestic servant in Trabolgan House, where her skills as a seamstress did not go unnoticed.The couple married in 1859 and eventually settled into life in coastguard stations across Ireland and England. Their lives were marked by joy, sorrow and resilience as they navigated personal losses with an indomitable spirit that has echoed down through the generations, all the way to the author.The Sailor and the Seamstress is a vivid historical narrative that paints a rich portrait of nineteenth-century Ireland, a time of great social and political upheaval, capturing the struggles and triumphs of ordinary people during extraordinary times.

This e-book offers new perspectives on the history of Southeast Europe in the early modern period. It examines the Balkans as a space of imperial entaglements, political practice, and geopolitical negotiation between the Ottoman Empire, the Habsburg Monarchy, and other European powers. Renowned scholars explore diplomacy, warfare, the transfer of knowledge, and memory politics from comparative and trans-imperial viewpoints.Three thematic sections address imperial policy and local responses; European perceptions of the Ottoman Empire; and memory politics and knowledge production in the region. Contributions on the Habsburgs, Russia, and the Ottoman Empire, on travel accounts of Constantinople, and on institutional struggles over memory offer fresh insights and comparative analyses. Published as a Festschrift in honour of Ivan Parvev, the e-book combines innovative research with fundamental questions of Balkan and European history. Scholarly yet accessible, it is essential reading for historians, students, and anyone interested in history of Southeastern Europe.Awarded the 2021 Prize of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, donated by the Peregrinus Foundation (Rudolf Meimberg).

A detailed historical study that examines the complex and formative centuries following the fall of the Roman Empire.In this influential work, Charles Oman explores the early medieval period often referred to as the "Dark Ages," a time of political fragmentation, cultural change, and the gradual rebuilding of European society. Rather than presenting it as a purely chaotic era, the book highlights the processes that shaped new kingdoms, institutions, and social structures.Through careful analysis of historical events, warfare, governance, and cultural development, the author provides a clear and structured understanding of how Europe evolved during this transitional age. The narrative draws on historical records to explain the rise of medieval kingdoms and the foundations of later European civilization.Balanced, informative, and deeply researched, this work is valuable for readers interested in history, medieval studies, and the development of Western societies. It offers both clarity and depth in understanding a period often misunderstood.Written by Charles Oman, this classic remains an important contribution to historical scholarship and medieval European studies.