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Hace unos cinco años, dos historiadores, Anaclet Pons y yo mismo, estábamos documentándonos para escribir un textoá sobre la imagen pública del tren en la Valencia del siglo XIX. Pues bien, durante el proceso de busqueda, durante la consulta de fuentes y de bibliografia, durante la fase de acopio de material y de noticias, hallamos una pieza sobresaliente que alguien citaba de pasada y sin darle mayor importancia: el manuscrito de uno de los personajes que asistieron a las primeras inauguraciones ferroviarias.Se trataba de un dietario de viajes, es decir, la anotacion que dicho señor registraba cada vez que emprendia un desplazamiento que le llevaba fuera de Valencia. Es un diario que abarca desde 1842 hasta 1895, contiene casi mil paginas manuscritas y en ellas, el autor, Jose Inocencio de Llano, se relataba las vicisitudes de sus viajes. Indudablemente, sus desplazamientos a lo largo de cincuenta años fueron a destinos muy variados, no solo al Grao o a lugares cercanos, sino tambien y principalmente a Paris y Londres, a Portugal o a Irlanda, por ejemplo.a Hijo de Francisco de Llano (que fue alcalde de Valencia en distintas ocasiones), Jose Inocencio tuvo una vida acomodada y se condujo como correspondia al miembro de una familia de comerciantes, como el vastago de un linaje de mucho rumbo. Era un burgues valenciano que se sabia europeo, que queria vivir y viajar como un cosmopolita, que queria disfrutar honestamente de los placeres que la sociedad le ofrecia. Resultaba un personaje atractivo, desde luego, y mas aun si tenemos en cuenta que contrajo nupcias con Elena Trenor, la hija de una importante dinastia mercantil de origen irlandes afincada en Valencia.

El autor desarrolló siempre un firme compromiso humanista y europeísta. Veintisieteletras es un nuevo sello editorial.

Una exhaustiva y absorbente exposición de la historia cultural de Rusia, desde sus orígenes hasta nuestros días. Un recorrido documentado por un imperio y sus sucesivas transformaciones. Fotografías, esquemas e ilustraciones a todo color.

El historiador Miguel Artola es el autor de esta obra, a cuyo texto original acompañan más de 900 ilustraciones. En su selección y en la redacción de los comentarios que las acompañan han participado veintiseis de los mas importantes historiadores españoles. Una obra singular que ofrece una historia del continente europeo innovadora y rica en matices.

Lucrècia Borja es va publicar en 1874 i immediatament es convertí en una obra de referència sobre el personatge, que ha estat completada però no superada. És la primera biografia de caràcter científi

Dirigido por Miguel ArtolaRigurosa y divulgativa obra en la que se abordan por orden temático todos los aspectos de la formación, evolución, pasado, presente y perspectivas de futuro del continente europeo, elaborada por algunos de los mejores especialistas en cada materia.

Hitler's Empire constituted the largest, most brutal and most ambitious reshaping of the continent ever attempted in Europe's history. Liberalism and democracy were swept aside, as Germany aimed to turn itself into the most powerful state on the continent, and to compel everyone else to recognize its mastery. Europe's future was to lie in a new racial order based on the uprooting, resettlement and extermination of millions of people. Hitler's Empire charts the landscape of the Nazi imperial imagination - from those economists who dreamed of turning Europe into a huge market for German business, to Hitler's own plans for new trans-continental motorways passing over the ethnically cleansed Russian steppe, and earnest in-house SS discussions of political theory, dictatorship and the rule of law. Above all, this chilling account shows too what happened as these ideas met reality. After their early battlefield triumphs, the sheer bankruptcy of the Nazis' political vision for Europe became all too clear: their allies bailed out, their New Order collapsed in military failure, and they left behind a continent corrupted by collaboration, impoverished by looting and exploitation, and grieving the victims of total war and genocide.

La Revolución rusa de 1917, por sus consecuencias nacionales y mundiales, ha sido considerada el suceso político y social más importante del siglo XX. Noventa años después, cuando incluso el ciclo historico que dio comienzo entonces y guio la vida de tres generaciones de sovieticos ha terminado, la Rusia revolucionaria sigue atrayendo poderosamente la atencion de estudiosos, curiosos y diseñadores. En este sentido, los trabajos que dan forma a este libro tienen por objeto analizar y conmemorar el proceso de ruptura cultural que trajo consigo la Revolucion. Cambio extraordinario que, en el campo de las artes, habria de afectar tanto a su transformacion como a su proyeccion social. El estudio es de caracter interdisciplinar a tenor de la rica y variada serie de propuestas que encontraron su medio de expresion en el diseño, el cine, la literatura, la pintura o el teatro. Tambien incluye el testimonio de los viajeros españoles que observaron, de manera privilegiada, el triunfo y consolidacion de la primera revolucion proletaria de la humanidad.

Este ambicioso libro, producto de una larga vida dedicada al estudio de la historia, propone un recorrido por la historia de Europa desde el hundimiento del imperio romano hasta el final de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Por estas paginas rebosantes de erudicion y brillantez expositiva desfilan los grandes acontecimientos historicos, las guerras, las mas relevantes figuras intelectuales y artisticas, los enfrentamientos religiosos, las tensiones politicas... -Una gran historia de Europa que cubre 18 siglos. -Las batallas, la politica, la cultura, la religion... -Una obra de gran magnitud, escrita por un historiador de reconocido prestigio, Luis Suarez. -Centrada en las cinco naciones que forman el nucleo de la cultura europea: Inglaterra, Alemania, Francia, España e Italia.

In this masterful, stylish, and authoritative book, Michael Burleigh gives us an epic history of the battles over religion in modern Europe, examining the complex and often lethal ways in which politics and religion have interacted and influenced each other over the last two centuries. From the French Revolution to the totalitarian movements of the twentieth century, Earthly Powers is a uniquely powerful portrait of one of the great tensions of modern history—one that continues to be played out on the world stage today.

Claude Marti , Paul Moscovino " ...Le Montaillou de ce jour de janvier est gris sous un grésil qui annonce la neige. Nous allons par la rue courbe depuis l'église neuve jusqu'au chuintement glacé de la fontaine. Pour l'heure, seul nous accompagne un chien desoeuvre, petite ame mouillee de brume qui s'attache a nos pas. Dis-nous, le chien: sais-tu ou se trouvaient les maisons des croyants, les ostalses des Belot, des Riba, des Guilhabat. des Maurs, des Bayle. des Mauri et la demeure de Pons Clergue ou Pierre Authie avait coutume de faire halte? Le village, jadis regroupe autour du chateau, est redescendu a mi-pente. La-haut, les archeologues fouillent a la petite cuillere des souvenirs en pointilles... " Depuis le Languedoc jusqu'aux confins de la Catalogne, Claude Marti-Salazar nous emmene avec lui par les chemins ou les Bons hommes portaient la parole cathare... ...Au long de cette deambulation, tels des eclats de lumiere filtrant a travers une memoire parcourue de nuages, les visions aquarellees de Paul Moscovino saisissent, elles aussi, des verites forgees par le regard.

One of the greatest figures of his age, Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-59) was widely admired throughout his life for his prose, poetry, political acumen and oratorical skills.Among the most successful and enthralling histories ever written, his History of England won instantaneous success following the publication of its first volumes in 1849, and was rapidly translated into most European languages. Beginning with the Glorious Revolution of 1688 and concluding at the end of the reign of William III in 1702, it illuminates a time of deep struggle throughout Britain and Ireland in vivid and compelling prose.But while Macaulay offers a gripping narrative, and draws on a wide range of sources including historical accounts and creative literature, his enduring success also owes a great deal to his astonishing ability to grasp, and explain, the political reality that has always underpinned social change.

In this, the first of two self-standing volumes bringing The New Oxford History of England up to the present, Brian Harrison begins in 1951 with much of the empire intact and Britain enjoying high prestige in Europe. The United Kingdom could still then claim to be a great power whose welfare state exemplified compromise between Soviet planning and the USA''s free market. When the volume ends in 1970, no such claims carried conviction. The empire had gone, central planning was in trouble, and even the British political system had become controversial.In an unusually wide-ranging, yet impressively detailed volume, Harrison approaches the period from unfamiliar directions. He explains how British politicians in the 1950s and 1960s responded to this transition by pursuing successive roles for Britain: worldwide as champion of freedom, and in Europe as exemplar of parliamentary government, the multi-racial society, and economic planning. His main focus, though, rests not on the politicians but on the decisions the British people made largely for themselves: on their environment, social structure and attitudes, race relations, family patterns, economic framework, and cultural opportunities. By 1970 the consumer society had supplanted postwar austerity, the socialist vision was fading, and ''the sixties'' (the theme of his penultimate chapter) had introduced new and even exotic themes and values. Having lost an empire, Britain was still resourcefully seeking a role: it had yet to find it.

The Later Tudors is an authoritative and comprehensive study of England between the accession of Edward VI and the death of Elizabeth I--a turbulent period of conflict amongst European nations, and between warring Catholics and Protestants. These internal and external struggles created anxiety in England, but by the end of Elizabeth''s reign the nation had achieved a remarkable sense of political and religious identity.Penry Williams combines the political, religious and economic history of the nation with a broader analysis of English society, family relations, and culture, in order to explain the workings and development of the English state. The result is an incisive and wide-ranging analysis that culminates in an assessment of England''s part in the shaping of the New World.

The Glorious Revolution was a decisive moment in England''s history; an invading Dutch army forced James II to flee to France, and his son-in-law and daughter, William and Mary, were crowned as joint sovereigns. The wider consequences were no less startling: bloody war in Ireland, Union with Scotland, Jacobite intrigue, deep involvement in two European wars, Britain''s emergence as a great power, a financial revolution, greater religious toleration, a riven church and a startling growth of parliamentary government.Such changes were only a part of the transformation of English society of the time. An enriching torrent of new ideas from the likes of Newton, Defoe, and Addison, spread through newspapers, periodicals, and coffee-houses, provided new views and values that some embraced and others loathed. England''s horizions were also growing, especially in the Caribbean and American colonies, For many however, the benefits were uncertain: the slave trade flourished, inequality widened, and the poor and ''disorderly'' were increasingly subject to strictures and statutes. If it was an age of prospects it was also one of anxieties.