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The horrific series of conflicts known as the Thirty Years War (1618-48) tore the heart out of Europe, killing perhaps a quarter of all Germans and laying waste to whole areas of Central Europe to such a degree that many towns and regions never recovered. All the major European powers apart from Russia were heavily involved and, while each country started out with rational war aims, the fighting rapidly spiralled out of control, with great battles giving way to marauding bands of starving soldiers spreading plague and murder. The war was both a religious and a political one and it was this tangle of motives that made it impossible to stop. Whether motivated by idealism or cynicism, everyone drawn into the conflict was destroyed by it. At its end a recognizably modern Europe had been created but at a terrible price.Peter Wilson''s book is a major work, the first new history of the war in a generation, and a fascinating, brilliantly written attempt to explain a compelling series of events. Wilson''s great strength is in allowing the reader to understand the tragedy of mixed motives that allowed rulers to gamble their countries'' future with such horrifying results. The principal actors in the drama (Wallenstein, Ferdinand II, Gustavus Adolphus, Richelieu) are all here, but so is the experience of the ordinary soldiers and civilians, desperately trying to stay alive under impossible circumstances.

n the 1800s, a shepherd's hut or living van would have been an unremarkable sight in many regions of rural Britain. By the 1970s most lay abandoned as farming methods and industry left them behind. Today the humble shepherd's hut is making a comeback and these quirky collectors' items are fast developing a cult status of their own. Original huts and living vans command high sums and replica huts are being built in high numbers to satisfy demand. However, many who see one, have one or want one know little of their origin or the differences between them. This beautifully illustrated book explores the differences and takes a look behind the door at what living and operating in these small mobile spaces was really like.

Los estudios e investigaciones de la doctora Theodora Toleva sobre la zona de los Balcanes, conforman una trilogía (Genocidio y destino del pueblo armenio; La política exterior de Gyula Andrássy y los origenes de la cuestion macedonia; y La influencia del Imperio Austrohungaro en la construccion nacional albanesa, 1896-1908) en la que la autora nos aporta una vision actual y rigurosa sobre la realidad politica y sus origenes en los estados de Armenia, Austria, Azerbayan, Bulgaria, Georgia, Grecia, Hungria, Irak, Iran, Mointenegro, Serbia, Siria y Turquia.El analisis de la doctora Toleva resalta la importancia estrategica de toda esta zona, a la vez que hace un estudio de planes diplomaticos, negociaciones de guerra, estudios economicos y politicos, y sus consecuencias.

«Marie-Antoinette : Reine. Autrichienne. Epouse de Louis XVI. Joua a la bergère. Fut guillotinée». Ces mots résument le savoir le plus commun porté par le nom de Marie-Antoinette : l''évidence de sa culpabilité ne fait qu''un avec celle de sa beauté.Chantal Thomas ne nous présente pas ici une biographie de Marie-Antoinette, mais a partir des innombrables pamphlets, l''étude d''un mythe, celui de la reine scélérate, de l''«architigresse d''Autriche», créé par les courants misogynes et xénophobes, qui transformèrent une jeune princesse en une prostituée, une nymphomane, un monstre...

At crucial moments in modern British history, it has been the actions of pairs of politicians that have changed the course of government. In this original account, acclaimed political biographer Giles Radice shows how combinations of politicians, often with contrasting though complementary talents, have at key 'crossroad moments' worked together to shape events. Despite clashing ambitions, sometimes conflicting, and always strong egos, these leaders were able to overlook their differences in pursuit of a common cause, proving that cooperation can exist between political rivals. As Radice argues, successful pairings usually require an alliance between initiators (such as Churchill, Thatcher, Macmillan and Blair) and facilitators (Attlee, Whitelaw, Butler and Brown). Gordon Brown's eventual inability to accept the power relationship between himself and Tony Blair was the key to the ultimate failure of New Labour and was in contrast to Attlee's loyalty to Churchill or Butler's continuous support for Macmillan. Radice narrates the stories of some of the greatest political players of post-war British politics, showing how their relationships determined the great successes - and sometimes the greatest downfalls - of their careers.

Traducción de Carlos Gardini

Como reacción al expolio de los comunales, diversas plataformas y movimientos políticos cuestionaron la primacía absoluta de los derechos de propiedad individual en el campo. Podríamos denominar como "populismo agrario" a unas sensibilidades que enarbolaron la defensa de la propiedad en común de la tierra y un desarrollo social y económico a partir de bases campesinas. Para muchos de sus contemporáneos las propuestas de los populistas agrarios estaban irremediablemente condenadas al fracaso. Frecuentemente, se reprochaba a este populismo una idealización de las comunidades rurales, cuando en realidad hervían en su seno unas tensiones sociales muy agudas.

En este libro se ha intentado mostrar una visión de conjunto de los títulos nobiliarios durante el Sexenio Revolucionario. La obra se inicia con un resumen histórico del periodo, para luego centrarse en la normativa y proceso administrativo de la creación y sucesión de los títulos nobiliarios, diferenciado claramente la concesión como acto político que inicia el procedimiento administrativo, del desarrollo de éste último, que puede terminar, en algunos casos, cuando la autoridad política que lo concedió ya no está en el poder, o incluso en otro régimen político totalmente distinto

This updated version incorporates changes to reflect current times and comply with the LOMCE. Although we do not know how long it will be in force, the contents of the syllabus are and will be very much the same. The explanation is simple. First, this book is, to a great extent, based on the Common European Framework of Reference. Secondly, the legislation may change in terms of how the Education System is organised, but the contents of what we teach are, essentially, the same.The book has been divided into five parts:- Part I: The Foundations includes key considerations to bear in mind when designing the Syllabus for English.- Part II: Practical Guidelines shows candidates what to include when planning their syllabus.- Part III: A sample. The Syllabus Design for 1st CSE/ESO we include here is just an example for a specific area, a specific school and a specific class.- Part IV: The Oral Presentation provides tips on how to approach the oral presentation and the Didactic Unit, for the exam and for your classes, if you need it.- Part V: Current Legislation includes a list of the current Curricular legislation for each Autonomous Region in Spain and an English version of the key elements from LOE, LOMCE, RD 1015/2014 and ECD/65/2015.

This book introduces several observer-based methods, including: the sliding-mode observer the adaptive observer the unknown-input observer and the descriptor observer methodfor the problem of fault detection, isolation and estimation, allowing readers to compare and contrast the different approaches. The authors present basic material on Lyapunov stability theory, H control theory, sliding-mode control theory and linear matrix inequality problems in a self-contained and step-by-step manner. Detailed and rigorous mathematical proofs are provided for all the results developed in the text so that readers can quickly gain a good understanding of the material. MATLAB and Simulink codes for all the examples, which can be downloaded from http://extras.springer.com, enable students to follow the methods and illustrative examples easily. The systems used in the examples make the book highly relevant to real-world problems in industrial control engineering and include a seventh-order aircraft model, a single-link flexible joint robot arm and a satellite controller. To help readers quickly find the information they need and to improve readability, the individual chapters are written so as to be semi-independent of each other.Robust Oberserver-Based Fault Diagnosis for Nonlinear Systems Using MATLAB is of interest to process, aerospace, robotics and control engineers, engineering students and researchers with a control engineering background.

España e Italia en la Edad Moderna: el encuentro de dos historiografías, no solo es el título del libro que recogió en 2009 el resultado de una iniciativa científico-institucional [Fundación Española de Historia Moderna (FEHM) y Societa per lStudio dell

In the eighteenth century, the palace's most elegant assembly room was in fact a bloody battlefield. This was a world of skulduggery, politicking, wigs and beauty-spots, where fans whistled open like flick-knives...Ambitious and talented people flocked to court of George II and Queen Caroline in search of power and prestige, but Kensington Palace was also a gilded cage. Successful courtiers needed level heads and cold hearts; their secrets were never safe. Among them, a Vice Chamberlain with many vices, a Maid of Honour with a secret marriage, a pushy painter, an alcoholic equerry, a Wild Boy, a penniless poet, a dwarf comedian, two mysterious turbaned Turks and any number of discarded royal mistresses.

In this brilliant new work, Amanda Vickery unlocks the homes of Georgian England to examine the lives of the people who lived there. Writing with her customary wit and verve, she introduces us to men and women from all walks of life: gentlewoman Anne Dormer in her stately Oxfordshire mansion, bachelor clerk and future novelist Anthony Trollope in his dreary London lodgings, genteel spinsters keeping up appearances in two rooms with yellow wallpaper, servants with only a locking box to call their own.Vickery makes ingenious use of upholsterers ledgers, burglary trials, and other unusual sources to reveal the roles of house and home in economic survival, social success, and political representation during the long eighteenth century. Through the spread of formal visiting, the proliferation of affordable ornamental furnishings, the commercial celebration of feminine artistry at home, and the currency of the language of taste, even modest homes turned into arenas of social campaign and exhibition.

Por sus consecuencias mundiales, la Revolución Rusa de 1917 es el acontecimiento político más importante del siglo XX. Como la Revolución Francesa de 1789, cierra una era, destruyendo definitivamente la monarquia absoluta como tipo de Estado, y creando uno nuevo: el Estado Socialista de economia planificada. Este libro, mas alla de la mera narracion cronologica de los hechos, examina las raices de la Revolucion al hilo de los acontecimientos que hicieron posible el triunfo bolchevique.

Cuando Fabio Morábito se mudó a Berlín acaso no adivinaba que la ciudad terminaría por convertirse en su material literario. El autor divaga por los resquicios de la ciudad como si tratara de descifrar un enigma, retratandola en estas narraciones que nos acercan a su vida cotidiana. Morabito discurre sobre si el rio que atraviesa Berlin es o no un rio, para concluir que El rio de Berlin, en realidad, es su cielo. O se detiene a observar como interactuan los alemanes en un accidente automovilistico. O fantasea con el tren elevado de la ciudad, conocido como S-Bahn. O imagina la abolicion de los signos de puntuacion tras la caida del Muro, lo que explicaria el dominio de la poesia sobre la prosa en la literatura alemana de la epoca. Berlin es un maravilloso pretexto literario en Morabito.

Frente a la suma de historias nacionales que intentan explicar el pasado común de Europa, una historia del continente como nunca te la habían contado; una obra de madurez para aprender (mucha) historia.La trayectoria de nuestro continente es la de la pluralidad y el conflicto entre Estados que, a traves de las instituciones, han creado una identidad que hace que un viajero por el continente descubra pautas comunes en la estructura de los edificios, los sentimientos de la literatura y las instituciones politicas y sociales.Ademas, la posterior expansion europea, a partir del siglo XVI, llevo esas instituciones y valores a los ultimos rincones de la tierra, convirtiendo lo local en universal. Todo ello ha creado un legado unico del que se ocupa este libro.En definitiva, estamos ante una obra que nos ofrece una magistral sintesis de miles de años en pocos cientos de paginas, una tarea que solo esta al alcance de aquellos que, como Miguel Artola, han sabido destilar su conocimiento tras decadas de estudio y analisis.

Este libro contiene una investigación personal sobre los orígenes de Europa en sus ámbitos todavía poco o nada estudiados. Más en concreto, es una exploración interdisciplinar con respecto al todavía bastante oscuro periodo de la Protohistoria mediterráneo-atlántica europea, centrándose en la península Ibérica, y más exactamente, en las tierra de Andalucía.