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Abisinia es uno de los grandes desconocidos de África. Habitualmente relacionado con la hambruna y la sequía, el país del Cuerno de África ofrece un espectacular paisaje montañoso, acompañado de una riqueza cultural llena de historia. Visitar, hablar y escribir sobre Abisinia significa asombrarse a cada paso ante unas situaciones y experiencias que pensabas olvidadas. Su poblacion, tradicional, acogedora y festiva; sus iglesias y monasterios, sus mercados callejeros, donde el ganado, los camellos y los asnos se mezclan en un abanico etnico de color, siguen asombrando. Lo que muy pocos saben o al menos recuerdan es que este pais sufrio como el que mas; su poblacion fue masacrada, sus ciudades y pueblos bombardeados, y su libertad hecha añicos. ¡Infierno! En Abisinia esta para contarlo.

La historia indígena contemporánea no es un objeto de estudio inalterable, traslúcido, inmediatamente evidente. Para entender y visibilizar sus modulaciones temporales y regionales es indispensable tomar en cuenta, por un lado, la diversidad de los grupos indigenas, y al mismo tiempo, por el otro, la propia variabilidad de las realidades mas amplias con las cuales estas sociedades se definen e interactuan. Confiando en que en esta tarea todavia queda camino por recorrer, este libro reune una serie de reflexiones historiograficas sobre el uso de las fuentes orales y escritas, los procesos de territorializacion y estatizacion, las transformaciones de las relaciones interetnicas, elementos indispensables a la hora de proponer una lectura realmente interdisciplinaria. Los estudios compilados en este volumen permiten redireccionar la mirada para construir nuevas claves interpretativas en este campo todavia incierto del conocimiento. Abren, asi, la posibilidad de buscar acuerdos inexplorados en torno de los recortes tematicos, los conceptos y las metodologias necesarias para comprender en toda su dimension la historia indigena contemporanea de America Latina.

A ustedes parecerá mentira lo que aquí sucede, pero es la verdad pura: esto es Cuba libre. Así se expresa Enrique Núñez de Villavicencio, un relevante médico cubano, en su diario redactado desde los campos de Cuba. La guerra es el telon de fondo que incita a tomar la pluma para comunicarse con amigos y familiares, darles noticias de los sucesos y la situacion personal. Este estudio muestra como era el español cubano del siglo XIX a traves de cartas, diarios, poemas y notas personales escritos durante algunas de las guerras de Cuba y rigurosamente editados. Desde la intimidad y privacidad de estos textos, los autores expresan su vision de la independencia, las opiniones sobre los lideres de la insurreccion (Antonio Maceo, Quintin Bandera, Maximo Gomez) y de los politicos y militares españoles en la isla. Y lo hacen con su forma personal de hablar y escribir español, un idioma aclimatado en una isla que, tras 406 años de historia comun, se acerca a la independencia en 1898.

Laudatio a cargo del Profesor Dr. Ramón María Serrera Contreras, Catedrático de Historia de America de la Facultad de Geografía e Historia de la Universidad de Sevilla

En medio de un escenario en que la migración latinoamericana se ha intensificado tanto como la violencia para detenerla, Ana Emilia Felker intenta entender por qué ha decidido habitar por tercera vez el territorio estadounidense: primero en unas vacaciones de verano en su infancia; luego en la adolescencia durante un año de preparatoria; ahora para estudiar un doctorado. Aunque siente una aversion por lo gringo, la autora emprende un viaje por las carreteras, el desierto y la escritura para pensar su propia identidad dentro de esta nacion donde las ideas nativistas y el racismo han alcanzado niveles de violencia nunca vistos. Sin embargo, aunque en Estados Unidos se negocia la guerra y la muerte con la nacionalidad y la deuda, la autora se aventura a ir mas alla de sus prejuicios pues esta tierra es tambien el pais de origen y residencia de la mitad de su familia. Mientras ella investiga sobre los tiroteos masivos recientes, preguntandose como narrarlos sin difundir su odio ni vulnerar la dignidad de las victimas, escucha las historias de su abuelo y le ayuda a ordenarlas, a la vez que en el auto o en la cocina retoma una conversacion con su padre que parece atorada en el pasado, para reconstruir con sus palabras las razones por las que, a pesar de sus convicciones politicas juveniles, el ha decidido vivir sus dias en un suburbio americano atado a la rutina del trabajo. Echando mano de la cronica periodistica, el ensayo y el diario personal, Ana Emilia propone una escritura tan intima como rigurosa para pensar el racismo, la blanquitud, el sueño americano, y develar las fronteras que se han instalado en medio de las familias que han quedado separadas, primero por una aduana, luego por los actos sutiles de la cotidianidad, y que han ido modificando su lengua, su memoria, e incluso, sus formas de soñar y desear.

Es una concepción ampliamente aceptada que, en el seno de las monarquías modernas, las facultades de las reinas consortes se limitaban a ser mera condición de posibilidad para la concepción de un heredero; no obstante, basta con acudir a la mas esencial historiografia para desmentir este presupuesto. Al considerar la monarquia hispanica de los Habsburgos en el siglo XVII, no resulta complicado encontrar reinas que actuaban como consejeras del monarca, reinas que fueron o se concibieron a si mismas como regentes, e incluso alguna que pudo llegar a pensarse como la propia heredera al trono. En definitiva, consortes que, de facto, participaban, en mayor o menor medida, del poder reservado al rey.El ejercicio de este poder requeria la creacion de una persona identificable con la que exhibir una imagen publica rigurosamente planeada. El genero pictorico del retrato real se hallaba precisamente supeditado a la consecucion de este proposito, a moldear la idea que de si mismas deseaban proyectar las reinas consortes tanto en las cortes extranjeras como en la suya propia. Adhiriendose a esta premisa, los articulos que integran este volumen se aproximan a los retratos de estas consortes atendiendo a la dimension politica de los mismos y asumiendo en todo momento que la composicion formal de estos cuadros en ningun caso debe ser concebida como resultado de las decisiones esteticas del pintor que los firma, sino como la concrecion de un meditado sistema simbolico a traves del cual estas monarcas quedaban vinculadas tanto a ideales culturales y politicos el liderazgo dentro del mundo catolico o el poderio del orbe hispanico como a rasgos idiosincraticos laudatorios referidos a la castidad, la obediencia e incluso a una buena disposicion para la gerencia del Imperio.La obra esta profusamente ilustrada con reproducciones pictoricas.

"El hilo conductor de los estudios que contiene este libro es el genérico del oro, la plata y las piedras preciosas, lo que a su vez nos conduce a la consideración de un mundo de contradicciones, en el que se mezclan la riqueza y la pobreza de unas sociedades que para disponer del lujo y el poder economico debian recurrir paralelamente a la explotacion humana, pero tambien al desarrollo cientifico y tecnologico.Bajo el barroco titulo, tomado de una leyenda del nobel guatemalteco Miguel Angel Asturias, late una de las actividades cuyo sueño y posesion han hecho girar al mundo de otro modo."

De Clovis à la Troisième République, en passant par les Capétiens, le siècle de Louis XIV ou la Révolution française, Jacques Bainville, historien à la verve et au style inimitable, raconte à la faço

Mémoires particuliers de Mme Rolland : suivis des notices historiques sur la Révolution... et des derniers écrits et dernières pensées, par la même. Tome 8 / avec avant-propos et notes par M. Fs Barr

From the international bestselling author and notable journalist Aldo Cazzullo comes a brilliantly researched and extremely accessible journey through the history and legacy of the Roman Empire The only way to narrate over a thousand years of history is to understand what it has left us To tell the reasons the things and the stories thanks to which Roman civilization is alive From its mythical foundations and epic construction to its enduring historical and cultural impact the ancient Roman Empire has long fascinated readers across the world In The Neverending Empire esteemed Italian journalist Aldo Cazzullo describes an exciting new historical perspective that the Roman Empire never fell In fact its influence reaches further and deeper than ever Beginning with the origins of Rome and the literary myth of Aeneas and Romulus Cazzullo takes the reader on a page turning voyage through ancient history bringing to life the most captivating moments and characters of a dominant Empire the republican age with heroic men and women willing to die for their country The adventure of coup plotters like Catiline and revolutionaries like Spartacus the slave who inspired rebels of every age The extraordinary stories of Julius Caesar and Octavian Augustus two of the

From one of the world s leading historians comes the first substantial study of environmentalism set in any country outside the Euro American world

There s a sea lover in every Brit The Shipping Forecast on Radio 4 has been keeping people in tune with the gloriously fickle British weather for a century and capturing our hearts and imaginations along the way Celebrating a hundred years since the first broadcast this book takes you to the heart of what the Shipping Forecast means to us as a nation Each of the ten chapters brings you on a fascinating exploration of a different area of our British maritime history from stormy weather up above to the seabed far below and from fishing boats and battleships to the songs and poems inspired by the forecast This joyous book invites you to sail away into the enchanting world of the forecast and is the perfect companion for anyone curious about our great British skies and seas

In eighteenth and nineteenth century Europe everyone lived off the land in one way or another In Ireland however almost everyone lived on the land as well Agriculture was the only economic resource for the vast majority of the population outside the north east of the country Land was vital But most of it was owned by a class of Protestant English and often aristocratic landlords The dream of having more control over their farms even of owning them drove many of the most explosive conflicts in Irish history Rebellions against British rule were rare but savage outbreaks of murder related to resentments over land ownership and draconian state repression were a regular feature of Irish rural life The struggle for the land was also crucial in driving support for Irish nationalist demands for Home Rule and independence In this epic narrative Myles Dungan examines two hundred years of agrarian conflict from the ruinous famine of 1741 to the eve of World War Two It explores the pivotal moments that shaped Irish history the rise of moonlighting the infamous Whiteboys and Rightboys the insurrection of Captain Rock the Tithe War of 1831 36 the Great Famine of 1845 that devastated the country and drastically reduced the Irish population and the Lan

Stephen Fisher is one of the best kept secrets in military history With his wealth of knowledge and exacting eye for detail his book on D Day is sure to impress a vast audience Dan Snow Stephen Fisher is a very rare beast a man who can bring stunning research and scholarship hand in glove with the gifts of a fine storyteller James Holland Written with verve and panache I can almost hear the splash of waves against the LCTs the whine of bullets overhead feel the concussive thud of shells and mortars and experience the rush of sweat fear and adrenaline as Fisher describes the opening battle in Normandy on that day of all days D Day on Sword Beach It s a brilliant evocation of one of the greatest days in history and Fisher has done it proud Bravo Robert Lyman author of Victory to Defeat The British Army 1918 1940 6th June 1944 saw the largest seaborne assault in human history D Day The landings on the five Normandy beaches Utah Omaha Gold Juno and Sword will go down in legend as the first footsteps on the journey to end the war in northern Europe While much has been written about the operation as a whole little detailed attention has been paid to the battle for Sword Beach itself the easternmost of the amphibious attack ar

When does war end and slaughter begin That is the question that drives this compelling re examination of the Allied aerial bombing campaign and the suffering of German civilians during World War II During the Second World War American and British air forces dropped nearly two million tons of bombs on Germany destroying some sixty cities killing more than half a million German citizens and leaving eighty thousand aircrew dead For decades observers have minimised the difference between the two campaigns according equal responsibility to the Americans and the British In this controversial study acclaimed historian Randall Hansen shows that painting the American and British campaigns with the same broad brush is both unfair and historically inaccurate The terrible truth is that most of the British bombing was carried out against the expressed demands of Allied military leadership leading to the needless deaths of hundreds of thousands of civilians and prolonging the war By contrast American precision bombing almost brought the Germans to their knees Throughout the war the US campaign was infused with a particularly American fusion of determination optimism and morality and played an integral and largely unrecognised role in securing Allied victory in

Who became Britain s first Prime Minister on 3 April 1721 When was Karl Marx born Where and when was the first battle of the Wars of the Roses When did Big Ben first bong When did the first British woman cast her vote Clue It wasn t 1918 Find the answers to these questions and many more in this landmark political history From the first meeting of an elected English parliament on 20 January 1265 to the tabling of the Bill of Rights on 13 February 1689 from the Peterloo massacre of 16 August 1819 to Britain voting to leave the EU on 23 June 2016 there is a growing thirst for knowledge about the history of our constitutional settlement our party system and how our parliamentary democracy has developed Writing as an observer of political history but also as someone with an opinion acclaimed political broadcaster Iain Dale charts the main events of the last few hundred years with one event per page per day The indefatigable Iain Dale always cuts to the nub of politics Adam Boulton

It should become a standard work on this campaign Telegraph James Holland is now our foremost authority on the Italian campaign John C McManus A heart pounding narrative of the brutal Allied fight to take Rome This is history at its finest James M Scott Pulitzer Prize finalist Holland writes with eloquence and power about the harsh realities of a brutal battle that grabbed the world s attention and helped to decide the future of Italy Professor Michael S Neiberg There are no such thing as an easy victory in war but after triumph in Tunisia the sweeping success of the Sicilian invasion and with the Italian surrender the Allies were confident that they would be in Rome before Christmas 1943 And yet it didn t happen Hitler ordered his forces to dig in and fight for every yard thus setting the stage for one of the grimmest and most attritional campaigns of the Second World War By the start of 1944 the Allies found themselves coming up against the Gustav Line a formidable barrier of wire minefields bunkers and booby traps woven into a giant chain of mountains and river valleys that stretched the width of Italy where at its strongest point perched the Abbey of Monte Cassino It would take five long bitter winter months and the onset of summer

A ridiculously funny history of Britain for adults from the multimillion copy bestselling author of the Horrible Histories perfect for fans of Unruly by David Mitchell Ram packed with mind blowing facts hilarious characters and little known tales Dan Schreiber If you could take just one history book to a desert island this would be it Laugh out loud funny Pure joy Conn IgguldenAh Britain So special The greatest nation on earth some say And we did it all on our own Didn t we As it happens Britannia got its name from the Romans and for the past two centuries we have been ruled by Germans As Horrible Histories author Terry Deary argues nations and their leaders are defined by the enemies they make Elizabeth I would count as a minor royal without the Spanish Armada Without the Nazis Churchill would be remembered as an opposition windbag The surprisingly sadistic Boudica would be forgotten if it weren t for the Roman Ninth LegionAnd after all every nation sometimes needs a bit of unifying Blitz spirit although in an ideal world we wouldn t have accidentally let Corporal Hitler go in the first place The British have a proud history of choosing their enemies from the Romans to the Germans You might even say those enemies made Britain what it