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Sexta ediçao de la Historia da Origem e Estabelecimiento da Imquisiçao em Portugal. Obra de A. Herculano.

Nueva edición de este clásico relato de la lucha nacional irlandesa y su avance en el mundo moderno. Desde los primeros momentos de la historia de Irlanda al proceso de paz, su autor arroja luz sobre

Escrito con un ágil estilo periodístico, este relato de no ficción recrea la década en la que tuvo lugar el nacimiento de las Comunidades Europeas (1948-1957), a través de algunos de los principales protagonistas de la construccion europea --Jean Monnet, Robert Schuman, Konrad Adenauer, Alcide De Gasperi y Paul-Henri Spaak, los llamados `Padres de Europa`--, que van cobrando vida en las paginas de este libro. Capitulo a capitulo el lector se va convirtiendo en testigo de su trayectoria vital, sus valores, sus relaciones personales, acuerdos y discusiones, todos ellos elementos claves para comprender como y por que se tomaron en su momento decisiones que hoy afectan a cerca de 500 millones de europeos. Los hechos, datos y conversaciones aqui expuestos son fruto de un exhaustivo trabajo de investigacion basado en las memorias de los Padres de Europa, los articulos de prensa de la epoca, los discursos publicos y los archivos historicos de las diferentes instituciones y, de forma particular, en una serie de entrevistas realizadas por la autora a personas que conocieron y trabajaron estrechamente con los protagonistas del libro.

Pompa y circunstancia nace de una anglofilia serena y ponderada, inmune a la mala nota de lo anglófilo en España, y de un afecto por la cultura inglesa que ha quedado purificado de credulidades y entusiasmos acriticos. Este libro, que desde la erudicion no renuncia a la amenidad, pretende ser desde acompañante en un viaje hasta volumen de consulta en el fondo de la biblioteca.De la galeria de retratos a los ensayos parciales o el mero capricho estilistico, ha adoptado la forma concreta de una enciclopedia por permitir muy distintos tipos de aproximacion, desde la lectura rigurosa hasta la ludica y azarosa, sobre lo que se conoce o no se conoce. Lleno de referencias cruzadas, que pueden leerse de modo autonomo, el libro, en el progreso en la lectura, revelara sus cientos de entradas como teselas de un mosaico mas amplio, para asi afirmar la congruencia y el sentido completo de una obra que busca aportar una cierta idea de lo ingles.En el amor a Inglaterra siempre se ha hecho presente la estima por una civilizacion consagrada al cultivo de la vida interior, hecha de un sentido de la privacidad, un amor por la libertad disciplinada, y el reconocimiento de que la verdad es mas importante que la justicia. Real o elaborada, a lo largo de la historia Inglaterra ha sido admirada hasta el mito, porque en ella la libertad, el humor y el respeto por la ley prevalecen sobre la busqueda radical de la perfeccion humana, sin olvidar sus contradicciones: el pais mas liberal y el mas conservador, Inglaterra, cuna del pragmatismo, nacio con el ciclo arturico. Presa de la globalizacion y la cultura mediatica, al menos todavia alienta nuestra imaginacion.En tiempo de generos miscibles, Ignacio Peyro recupera la curiosidad intelectual del termino enciclopedia ambito tan impuro como hedonico, y no deja de abogar por la glosa, por el encuadre, por la cultura y su critica a modo de gran conversacion, en un elogio de Inglaterra y una reivindicacion de lo mejor de su herencia.

La critique a eu beau, depuis des décennies, faire la part du mélodrame de la vérité historique, le seul nom des Borgia évoque encore l''inceste, l''orgie, le trafic d''indulgences, le poignard et le poison et tout ce qu''ils ont pu posseder de qualites (la hauteur de vues et l''habilete politique d''Alexandre, l''energie et le courage de Cesar, le charme et le raffinement de Lucrece) a ete comme occulte.Connaisseur sans pareil a la fois des choses de l''Italie et de celles de la Renaissance, Marcel Brion s''est attache a replacer l''histoire de cette famille dans son temps : a moins de s''acharner a la juger a l''aune de notre morale du XXe siecle, elle ne merite pas de rester eternellement dans "l''enfer" des historiens. Il nous procure un rare plaisir de lecture dans la pure tradition d''Henri Troyat ou de Stefan Zweig.

Um documento para a história.

Dentro de la apertura de los Cursos de Verano de Laredo se procedió a la lectura de este canto reivindicativo de la heterogeneidad cultural de nuestro país.

Warfare is a major feature of the history of the middle ages, but its study has often been the province of amateurs; only recently have the technical details of warfare and its organisation been subject to proper scholarly investigation. Professor Verbruggens major work, outstanding in its field, applies rigorous standards in analysing often very obscure surviving evidence, and reaches conclusions very different from earlier generations of military historians.He begins by analysing the sources for our knowledge of the military history of the period, assessing their reliability: some chroniclers exaggerate, others are careful observers or have access to official records. There follows an examination of the constituent parts of the medieval army, knights and footsoldiers, equipment and terms of service, behaviour on the field, and psychology, before the problematic question of medieval tactics is addressed through analysis of accounts of a series of major battles. Strategy is discussed in the context of these battles: whether to seek battle, fight a defensive war, or attempt a war of conquest.Originally published in Dutch in 1954, now translated and updated.

Sus páginas acogen una reflexión sobre por qué Portugal existe como instancia independiente, una consideración general de la historia del país, una aproximación a la literatura portuguesa, una reflexion sobre la relacion de Portugal y Galicia a traves de la lengua y una miscelanea en la que se sopesan elementos varios como las relaciones de Portugal con Brasil, la cocina portuguesa, el fado, el futbol y, en fin, la arquitectura manuelina.

Temps de segona mà: La fi de l’home roig és una obra que parla dels últims vint anys de la història de Rússia i de com el final del règim soviètic ha afectat les persones que creien fermament que aqu

This monumental series, acclaimed as a "masterpiece of comprehensive scholarship" in the New York Times Book Review, reveals the impact of Asia''s high civilizations on the development of modern Western society. The authors examine the ways in which European encounters with Asia have altered the development of Western society, art, literature, science, and religion since the Renaissance.In Volume III: A Century of Advance, the authors have researched seventeenth-century European writings on Asia in an effort to understand how contemporaries saw Asian societies and peoples.

This monumental series, acclaimed as a "masterpiece of comprehensive scholarship" in the New York Times Book Review, reveals the impact of Asia''s high civilizations on the development of modern Western society. The authors examine the ways in which European encounters with Asia have altered the development of Western society, art, literature, science, and religion since the Renaissance.In Volume III: A Century of Advance, the authors have researched seventeenth-century European writings on Asia in an effort to understand how contemporaries saw Asian societies and peoples.

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Praised for its scope and depth, Asia in the Making of Europe is the first comprehensive study of Asian influences on Western culture. For volumes I and II, the author has sifted through virtually every European reference to Asia published in the sixteenth-century; he surveys a vast array of writings describing Asian life and society, the images of Asia that emerge from those writings, and, in turn, the reflections of those images in European literature and art. This monumental achievement reveals profound and pervasive influences of Asian societies on developing Western culture; in doing so, it provides a perspective necessary for a balanced view of world history.Volume I: The Century of Discovery brings together "everything that a European could know of India, Southeast Asia, China, and Japan, from printed books, missionary reports, traders'' accounts and maps" (The New York Review of Books).Volume II: A Century of Wonder examines the influence of that vast new body of information about Asia on the arts, institutions, literatures, and ideas of sixteenth-century Europe.

To the River is the story of the Ouse, the Sussex river in which Virginia Woolf drowned in 1941. One idyllic, midsummer week over sixty years later, Olivia Laing walked Woolf''s river from source to sea.The result is a passionate investigation into how history resides in a landscape - and how ghosts never quite leave the places they love.

'Some battles change nothing. Waterloo changed almost everything.' On the 18th June, 1815 the armies of France, Britain and Prussia descended upon a quiet valley south of Brussels. In the previous three days the French army had beaten the British at Quatre-Bras and the Prussians at Ligny. The Allies were in retreat. The blood-soaked battle of Waterloo would become a landmark in European history, to be examined over and again, not least because until the evening of the 18th, the French army was close to prevailing on the battlefield. Now, brought to life by the celebrated novelist Bernard Cornwell, this is the chronicle of the four days leading up to the actual battle and a thrilling hour-by-hour account of that fateful day. In his first work of non-fiction, Cornwell combines his storytelling skills with a meticulously researched history to give a riveting account of every dramatic moment, from Napoleon's escape from Elba to the smoke and gore of the battlefields. Through letters and diaries he also sheds new light on the private thoughts of Napoleon and the Duke of Wellington, as well as the ordinary officers and soldiers. Published to coincide with the bicentenary in 2015, Waterloo is a tense and gripping story of heroism and tragedy - and of the final battle that determined the fate of Europe.

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.

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.

This concise and fast-paced introduction to English history keeps the reader enthralled through the entire course of the country's political, economic, and cultural landscape, covering the whole sweep of English history from the Stone Age to the present. Its flowing narrative style, character sketches, and lively anecdotes bring the people and places of the past to life. In this newly illustrated edition, John Broadleys unique tableaux-like illustrations capture the landscape, costumes, and characters of the history that Hibbert's text so vividly evokes.