David Stevenson

El mejor libro sobre la Primera Guerra Mundial. En el verano de 1914, una oleada de violencia masiva se desató en Europa. La guerra que entonces empezaba tuvo repercusiones globales, destruyendo cuatro imperios y cobrandose millones de vidas. Este conflicto marco incluso a los paises victoriosos durante toda una generacion, y todavia hoy seguimos viviendo bajo su sombra. En este riguroso analisis, David Stevenson reexamina las causas, el transcurso y el impacto de esta guerra que acabara con todas las guerras, situandola en el contexto de su epoca y revelando sus conflictos ocultos. Su libro presenta una historia internacional, que incorpora las nuevas perspectivas ofrecidas por las investigaciones mas recientes. Asimismo, aporta respuestas convincentes a la pregunta clave de como de desarrollo esta terrible lucha: respuestas que siguen siendo inquietantemente relevantes en nuestra epoca. Reseñas:Sublime.Ian Kershaw Si solo quieres leer un libro sobre la Primera Guerra Mundial, que sea 1914-1918.The Washington Times El libro de David Stevenson es el bueno.Niall Ferguson Esta historia del conflicto de 1914-1918 supera a todas las demas. Es rigurosa, erudita y completa.The Independent La historia mas completa y accesible que jamas se haya escrito sobre la guerra.The New Yorker Un libro que perdurara.The Daily Telegraph No es solo un libro espectacular sobre historia, tambien es un poderoso mensaje de alarma.History Today Magistral [...] ambicioso [...] aporta nuevas perspectivas para la comprension del conflicto y sus terribles consecuencias.Literary Review El pasado suele ser un pais tan distinto al nuestro que necesitamos la orientacion de alguien que ya lo haya visitado. Stevenson es una guia impecable.London Review of Books

El mejor libro sobre la Primera Guerra Mundial.En el verano de 1914, una oleada de violencia masiva se desató en Europa. La guerra que entonces empezaba tuvo repercusiones globales, destruyendo cuatro imperios y cobrandose millones de vidas. Este conflicto marco incluso a los paises victoriosos durante toda una generacion, y todavia hoy seguimos viviendo bajo su sombra.En este riguroso analisis, David Stevenson reexamina las causas, el transcurso y el impacto de esta guerra que acabara con todas las guerras, situandola en el contexto de su epoca y revelando sus conflictos ocultos. Su libro presenta una historia internacional, que incorpora las nuevas perspectivas ofrecidas por las investigaciones mas recientes. Asimismo, aporta respuestas convincentes a la pregunta clave de como de desarrollo esta terrible lucha: respuestas que siguen siendo inquietantemente relevantes en nuestra epoca.Reseñas: Sublime. Ian KershawSi solo quieres leer un libro sobre la Primera Guerra Mundial, que sea 1914-1918.The Washington TimesEl libro de David Stevenson es el bueno. Niall FergusonEsta historia del conflicto de 1914-1918 supera a todas las demas. Es rigurosa, erudita y completa.The IndependentLa historia mas completa y accesible que jamas se haya escrito sobre la guerra.The New YorkerUn libro que perdurara.The Daily TelegraphNo es solo un libro espectacular sobre historia, tambien es un poderoso mensaje de alarma.History TodayMagistral [...] ambicioso [...] aporta nuevas perspectivas para la comprension del conflicto y sus terribles consecuencias.Literary ReviewEl pasado suele ser un pais tan distinto al nuestro que necesitamos la orientacion de alguien que ya lo haya visitado. Stevenson es una guia impecable.London Review of Books

La masonería constituye, para una gran mayoría, un tema controvertido. Este libro se propone situar la historia temprana de la masonería sobre una base sólida mediante la realización de un estudio exhaustivo de las primeras logias masonicas, las de Escocia, durante el primer siglo de su existencia. La mayoria de estas primeras logias escocesas todavia existen hoy en dia, y muchas de ellas conservan registros que datan del siglo XVII y, de hecho, en dos de dichos casos, fechadas en 1599. Sin embargo y lamentablemente, no se...

Two clubs, dedicated to proclaiming the joys of libertine sex, thrived in mid and late 18th-century Scotland. The Beggars Benison (1732), starting from local roots in Fife, became large and sprawling, with branches in Edinburgh, Glasgow - and St Petersburg. As a toast "The Beggars Benison" was drunk at aristocratic dinners in London as a coded reference to sex, and the Prince of Wales (later George IV) became a member. In Edinburgh, also, the Wig Club (1775) gave the elite of the Scottish Tory establishment a forum in which to dine, gamble and venerate a wig supposedly made of the pubic hairs of the mistresses of Charles II. Both clubs flourished in a great age of raucous clubs in which bawdy often played a prominent part, and both died as changes in sensibility made such behaviour seem gross and unacceptable. As the Victorian age approached, the clubs withered away under its disapproving glare.In this book, the author tells the story of these clubs, analyzes the obscene relics of their rituals which survive, and places the clubs in their social, cultural and political contexts. It is an extensively researched study, but at the same time recognizes the entertainment value of the many anecdotes concerning the clubs, the absurdities inherent in the antics of club rituals, and the appeal of the bawdy.

In 1637 Scotland exploded in rebellion against King Charles I. The rebellion sought not only to undo hated anglicising policies in the Church, but to reverse the wholesale transfer of power to London which had followed the 1603 Union of the Crowns. The Covenanters fought for a Scottish parliament free from royal control as well as for a Presbyterian Church. Their success was staggering. When the king refused to make concessions they widened their demands, and when he planned to conquer Scotland with armies from England and Ireland, they occupied the north of England with their own army and even forced the humiliated king to pay for it. The Covenanters had triumphed, but the triumph proved fragile, as their success destabilised Charles Is other two kingdoms. The Scots had proved how brittle the seemingly absolute monarchy really was. First the Irish followed the Scottish army and revolted, then in 1642 England collapsed into civil war. How were the Covenanters to react? In the three-kingdom monarchy, Scotlands fate would depend on the outcomes of the Irish and English wars.It was decided that Scotlands national interests - and doing Gods will - made it necessary to send armies to intervene in both Ireland and England to enforce a settlement on all three kingdoms that would protect Scotlands separate identity and impose Scottish Presbyterianism on all of them. As the Covenanters launched an invasion of England in 1644 their hopes were high. Political realism and religious fanaticism were leading them to launch a bold bid to replace English dominance of Britain with Scottish.

In 1644 a massive Scottish army of Scottish Covenanters moved over the border into England, claiming they were not invading their neighbour but acting to save its liberties, by helping ensure that the absolutist King Charles I did not win the civil war he was fighting with the English parliament. It was a daring move but the Covenanters believed it a necessary for defensive reasons, for if Charles triumphed over parliament in England he would then attempt to overthrow the Covenanters regime. More positive ambitions were also involved. Having won the English civil war, the Scots then planned to impose a settlement that protected Scotlands political position under the union of the crowns, and force on England and Ireland Scotlands Presbyterian church. The Covenanters proved over-ambitious and over-confident, driven by their conviction that God would being them triumph. They did play a decisive role in parliaments victory, but not in the sensational way they had hoped, and the English were reluctant to give them credit - or to accept the Scottish vision of a Scottish-dominated, Presbyterian Britain. Moreover, invading England provoked a major Royalist rebellion in Scotland, led by the Marquis of Montrose. Disillusioned by the English parliament, some sought a compromise with the king, but a new invasion of England in 1648 led to disaster. Extremist covenanters then seized power in Scotland, and sought to impose radical policies, but they were forced by a growing royalist revival to again fall back on monarchy, provoking English invasion led by Oliver Cromwell. This volume continues the story begun in The Scottish Revolution of the Covenanters sudden rise to power, but how their soaring ambitions and religious zeal in the end led Scotland to an unparalleled disaster. Scotland had long boasted of being the never conquered nation. The legacy of the Covenanters was that Scotland could never make that boast again. It is a book that will appeal to scholars and students of the civil wars, as well as to all those with an interest in this fascinating and turbulent period in Scottish - and indeed British - history.

The History of the First World War. In the summer of 1914 Europe exploded into a frenzy of mass violence. The war that followed had global repercussions, destroyed four empires and cost millions of lives. Even the victorious countries were scarred for a generation, and we still today remain within the conflict''s shadow. In this major new analysis, David Stevenson re-examines the causes, course, and impact of this ''war to end war'', placing it in the context of its era and exposing its underlying dynamics. From the stable of Kershaw, Applebaum and Beevor, Stevenson is the next big author to illuminate our history.

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No verão de 1914, a Europa explodiu em um frenesi de violência em massa. A guerra que se seguiu teve repercussões globais, destruindo quatro impérios e custando milhões de vidas. Mesmo os países vito

El mejor libro sobre la Primera Guerra Mundial. En el verano de 1914, una oleada de violencia masiva se desató en Europa. La guerra que entonces empezaba tuvo repercusiones globales, destruyendo cuatro imperios y cobrandose millones de vidas. Este conflicto marco incluso a los paises victoriosos durante toda una generacion, y todavia hoy seguimos viviendo bajo su sombra. En este riguroso analisis, David Stevenson reexamina las causas, el transcurso y el impacto de esta guerra que acabara con todas las guerras, situandola en el contexto de su epoca y revelando sus conflictos ocultos. Su libro presenta una historia internacional, que incorpora las nuevas perspectivas ofrecidas por las investigaciones mas recientes. Asimismo, aporta respuestas convincentes a la pregunta clave de como de desarrollo esta terrible lucha: respuestas que siguen siendo inquietantemente relevantes en nuestra epoca. Reseñas:Sublime.Ian Kershaw Si solo quieres leer un libro sobre la Primera Guerra Mundial, que sea 1914-1918.The Washington Times El libro de David Stevenson es el bueno.Niall Ferguson Esta historia del conflicto de 1914-1918 supera a todas las demas. Es rigurosa, erudita y completa.The Independent La historia mas completa y accesible que jamas se haya escrito sobre la guerra.The New Yorker Un libro que perdurara.The Daily Telegraph No es solo un libro espectacular sobre historia, tambien es un poderoso mensaje de alarma.History Today Magistral [...] ambicioso [...] aporta nuevas perspectivas para la comprension del conflicto y sus terribles consecuencias.Literary Review El pasado suele ser un pais tan distinto al nuestro que necesitamos la orientacion de alguien que ya lo haya visitado. Stevenson es una guia impecable.London Review of Books