Libros de Historia de los países de Europa, página 28 de 109

30 personajes de la política internacional analizan Europa y sus relaciones con el resto del mundo.

Cuando terminó el mes de julio de 1914, Europa vivía aún inmersa en la engañosa placidez de la belle époque, instalada en la dilatada continuación de casi tres lustros de un siglo XIX, generoso y fructifero, que no acababa de pasar. Treinta y un dias despues habia comenzado el siglo XX, y de la belle epoque no quedaba mas que un monton de ruinas humeantes: habian tronado los cañones de agosto. A partir de un impresionante caudal de informacion historica, Barbara W. Tuchman nos presenta en este libro clasico el panorama dramatico, multicolor, cargado de tensiones psicologicas, abrumador por su incertidumbre, desconcertante por su rapidez, de aquel mes de agosto de 1914 que cambio la faz del mundo. Los hechos que se sucedieron sobre el complicado mosaico de Europa y los personajes que en ellos intervinieron reviven aqui con asombrosa fidelidad, con autentico calor humano. Las pequeñas miserias, las virtudes, el genio, los rasgos mas personales e incluso los defectos fisicos de las figuras que entonces tuvieron en sus manos el destino de millones de seres, saltan ante nuestros ojos con expresivo vigor.

This is the epic story of the brutal occupation of Rome by the Germans after the fall of Mussolini in July 1943 up to the capture of the city by General Mark Clark in June 1944. Swelling to nearly twice its usual size with more than a million refugees from the countryside, Rome became a city of spies, double agents, informers, torturers, escaped Allied war prisoners, hunted Jews and hungry people. The city was the focus for four groups, each anathema to the others: the Allies, trying to capture Rome as their first shining prize of the war; the Germans, trying to throw the intruders back into the sea, holding Rome hostage and using it rapaciously as a supply line to the front; the Pope, trying to bring the West and the Germans to terms and save the world from Communism and the Vatican City from destruction; and the partisans, trying to redeem Italy''s honour by making Rome untenable for the occupiers.

Edited by the leading history of the Republic of Armenia, this is the definitive history of an extraordinary country--from its earliest foundations through the Crusades, the resistance to Ottoman and Tsarist rule, the collapse of the independent state, its brief reemergence after World War I, its subjugation by the Bolsheviks, and the establishment of the new Republic in 1991. Written by the foremost experts on each period in Armenia's history, these volumes are a major contribution to understanding the complexities of Transcaucasia.

Aquest llibre aborda detalladament i minuciosa els successos clau i de més importància de l’etapa final de la Segona Guerra Mundial en la seva fase decisiva (desembre de 1941-agost de 1945): les oper

Ranging from the earliest settlements through the emergence of Minoan civilization to the barbarian world at the end of the Roman Empire, this extraordinary volume provides a fascinating look at how successive cultures adapted to the landscape of Europe. In synthesizing the diverse findings of archeology, Barry Cunliffe and a team of distinguished experts capture the sweeping movements of peoples, the spread of agriculture, the growth of metal working, and the rise and fall of cultures, blending superb detail with ornate illustrations. For centuries, we knew little of the European civilizations that preceded classical Greece or arose outside of the Roman Empire, beyond ancient myths and the writings of Roman observers. Now the most recent discoveries of archeology have been synthesized into one exciting volume. Featuring hundreds of stunning photographs, this book provides the most complete account available of the prehistory of European civilization. `takes the reader on a fascinating journey through the development of Western culture -- a definitive study.'' Oxford Times

Duroselle, Jean-Baptiste

Drawing on diaries, letters, memoirs, histories and novels written from the 6th century AD, this anthology recreates for today''s visitors the vanished glories of Constantinople through to modern day

Inglaterra es, sin duda, uno de los países con una historia más larga, rica e interesante. DUNCAN TOWNSON ha conseguido resumir en esta BREVE HISTORIA DE INGLATERRA dos milenios de evolución histórica del pais, desde la epoca de los celtas y la conquista romana de Britania hasta nuestros dias. En sus paginas asistimos al fascinante proceso de formacion de Inglaterra, en continua relacion con Escocia y Gales unificando Gran Bretaña desde 1707 y con Irlanda, de donde surgio el Reino Unido a partir de 1801; a las invasiones de anglosajones y normandos, las largas guerras de la Edad Media, la expansion economica y politica del pais, la reforma protestante, la revolucion del siglo xvii, la implantacion del regimen parlamentario y la conversion en la gran potencia mundial que fue Gran Bretaña a partir de la revolucion industrial y la creacion del Imperio britanico. La epoca contemporanea, con la alternancia de gobiernos liberales, conservadores y laboristas, y la sacudida de las dos guerras mundiales, recibe en el libro una atencion preferente.

Gustav Stresemann was the exceptional political figure of his time. His early death in 1929 has long been viewed as the beginning of the end for the Weimar Republic and the opening through which Hitler was able to come to power. His career was marked by many contradictions but also a pervading loyalty to the values of liberalism and nationalism. This enabled him in time both to adjust to defeat and revolution and to recognize in the Republic the only basis on which Germans could unite, and in European cooperation the only way to avoid a new war. His attempt to build a stable Germany as an equal power in a stable Europe throws an important light on German history in a critical time. Hitler was the beneficiary of his failure but, so long as he was alive, Stresemann offered Germans a clear alternative to the Nazis. Jonathan Wright''s fascinating new study is the first modern biography of Stresemann to appear in English or German. This biography is detailed, shows measured judgment, and leaves a sympathetic impression of its subject ... the book presents a powerful image of a deeply patriotic politician. Raffael Scheck, The German Quarterly It is an elegantly-written book that persuasively makes the case for Stresemann''s indispensability to the poor old Weimar Republic. Niall Ferguson, Books of the Year, Sunday Telegraph Scholars will find it the most thorough, up-to-date political study of Stresemann available in English. H-German Wright''s book is monumental in its research. Ron Grant, History Teaching Review ''This meticulously researched, judicious, and carefully written book clearly confirms Wright''s confidence in the usefulness of the biographical approach. He has produced a balanced and reasonable treatment of one of Germany''s most significant statesman. This study will interest not only scholars of German history, but also a much broader audience intrigued by the career of one of Europe''s most influential modern statesman in an era defined by war, revolution, and the troubled search for lasting European stability.'' -- German Studies Review

Joseph Roth, the greatest European newspaper correspondent of his age, left the splintering Weimar Republic for Paris in 1925 and, as an Austrian Jew, was exiled there for the rest of his life. Collected together here for the first time in English, these exhilarating pieces evoke a world of suppleness, beauty and promise. From the port town of Marseilles to the Riviera of Nice and Monte Carlo, to the erotic hill country around Avignon; from the socialist workers and cattlemen with whom Roth ate breakfast, to prostitutes and Sunday bullfighters, White Cities is not only a swan song to a European order that could no longer hold but also a beautifully crafted and revelatory work. Joseph Roth died of an alcohol-related illness in a Paris hospital in 1939.

Jean-Marcel Humbert , Bruno PonsonnetLa mer est la grande oubliée de la légende napoléonienne. Comme si Trafalgar avait tout effacé. Et pourtant. Ajaccio, Toulon, Gênes, Venise, Alexandrie. Bonaparte

Afin de penser l'Europe, Edgar Morin nous invite à abandonner les discours rhétoriques et les idées fragmentaires qui produisent des Europes imaginaires, idéales ou mutilées. Son essai, qui est en même temps un voyage interrogatif dans l'histoire et la culture européennes, conçoit l'Europe comme une unité multiple et complexe, unissant les contraires de façon inséparable. Pour la première fois dans les Temps Modernes, l'Europe vit un destin commun. Il nous faut en prendre conscience si nous voulons élaborer un dessein commun.

Cooper argues that although Europeans may operate on the basis of laws, openness and cooperative security among themselves, but when dealing with a hostile outside world they need to revert to the tougher methods of an earlier era - force, pre-emptive attack and deception.