Libros de Historia de los países de Europa, página 32 de 114

Peter HofschroerIn this masterly study of 1815, Peter Hofschroer challenges the accepted version of events at the battle of Waterloo. He demonstrates convincingly that Allied victory hinged on the contribution of German soldiers. Drawing on previously unpublished accounts, Hofschroer gives not only the Prussian perspective of their march to Waterloo and decisive attack on Napoleon's flank, but also details of the actions fought by some of the 25,000 Germans in Wellington's 'British' army - more than a third of the Duke's force.

Regardons notre histoire autrement. Ce livre est une promenade dans le temps, une flanerie dans le monde d'hier ou tout est soudainement en couleurs. Retrouvons nos poetes et nos romanciers, Baudelaire, Hugo, Proust ou encore Colette, sans oublier tous les anonymes, eleves, ouvriers, paysans. Parcourons les rues de nos villes et les routes de nos campagnes. Au plus pres de ce qu'ont pu voir nos ancetres, voici une maniere differente de revisiter le passe.Avec les petits et les grands moments qui ont fait notre histoire : la vie quotidienne, les mines, les usines, le metropolitain, le Tour de France, la Commune, les conges payes, et les guerres aussi. Tant d'hommes et de femmes, dans un foisonnement d'images, quand plus d'un siecle d'histoire se devoile sous nos yeux, enfin... en couleurs ! Une experience unique pour toute les generations.

C'est vers 1660 que la France entre dans le grand commerce atlantique et colonial, notamment avec le port de Saint-Malo. Mais l'essor du négoce colonial au siècle suivant, avec la production antillai

The greatness, the very existence of Venice, was bound up with the sea - a scattering of harbours and islands along vital maritime ways. Its prosperity was based in twin enterprises: naval war and marine commerce. And these, in turn, depended, for much of its history, on two very different types of ship.

Ils sont Français, catholiques, protestants, juifs, communistes gaullistes, pétainistes antiallemands, simples citoyens français de la zone libre ou de la zone occupée mais aussi des colonies… Ils so

Out of a liberal, capitalist, genuinely global power of a unique kind, there arose from the 1940s a distinct British nation. This nation was committed to internal change, making it much more like the great continental powers. From the 1970s it became bound up both with the European Union and with foreign capital in new ways.David Edgertons fascinating perspective produces refreshed understanding of everything from the nature of British politics to the performance of British industry. Packed with surprising examples and arguments, The Rise and Fall of the British Nation gives us a grown-up, unsentimental history, one which is crucial at a moment of serious reconsideration for the country and its future.

On entend souvent dire : "C'était mieux avant." Nostalgie ou réalité ? Pour le savoir, Jean-Louis Beaucarnot a une nouvelle fois remonté le temps jusqu'à la vie quotidienne de nos ancêtres en se dema

Dopo aver letto il libro Storia d'Italia. Pagine scelte di Francesco Guicciardini ti invitiamo a lasciarci una Recensione qui sotto: sara utile agli utenti che non abbiano ancora letto questo libro e che vogliano avere delle opinioni altrui. Lopinione su di un libro e molto soggettiva e per questo leggere eventuali recensioni negative non ci dovra frenare dallacquisto, anzi dovra spingerci ad acquistare il libro in fretta per poter dire la nostra ed eventualmente smentire quanto commentato da altri, contribuendo ad arricchire piu possibile i commenti e dare sempre piu spunti di confronto al pubblico online.

El 10 de mayo de 1719, el castillo Eilean Donan saltó por los aires bajo los cañones de una fragata inglesa. Ese día, 41 soldados españoles del Regimiento Galicia, una partida de 318 infantes enviados por Felipe V al corazon de las Highlands, defendieron

I can still feel, as if it were yesterday, the excitement of my first Channel crossing (as a child of nearly 7) in September 1936; the regiment of porters, smelling asphyxiatingly of garlic in their blue-green blousons; the raucous sound all around me of spoken French; the immense fields of Normandy strangely devoid of hedges; then the Gare du Nord at twilight, the policemen with their kepis and their little snow-white batons; and my first sight of the Eiffel Tower...This book is written in the belief that the average English-speaking man or woman has remarkably little knowledge of French history. We may know a bit about Napoleon or Joan of Arc or Louis XIV, but for most of us that's about it. In my own three schools we were taught only about the battles we won: Crecy and Poitiers, Agincourt and Waterloo. The rest was silence. So here is my attempt to fill in the blanks... John Julius Norwich (at 88) has finally written the book he always wanted to write, the extremely colourful story of the country he loves best. From frowning Roman generals and belligerent Gallic chieftains, to Charlemagne (hated by generations of French children taught that he invented schools) through Marie Antoinette and the storming of the Bastille to Vichy, the Resistance and beyond, FRANCE is packed with heroes and villains, adventures and battles, romance and revolution. Full of memorable stories and racy anecdotes, this is the perfect introduction to the country that has inspired the rest of the world to live, dress, eat -- and love better.

Un dictionnaire amoureux qui rend hommage á la richesse culturelle et historique de l'Allemagne, pays aux nombreuses lignes de fracture, á l'heure de l'anniversaire des 30 ans de la chute du Mur de B

Este volumen de homenaje al profesor y academico Luis Agustín García Moreno reúne diferentes contribuciones de una serie de colegas, discípulos y amigos que abarca un amplio espectro de temas dentro de un extenso arco cronologico, que va desde la historia antigua al mundo altomedieval y moderno. Algunas de ellas hacen referencia al estudio de la historia y geografia antiguas, relacionadas con diferentes temas y espacios, desde la India a la peninsula iberica; otras se ajustan, dentro de un molde muy amplio, a cuestiones de tipo historiografico, que afectan a la manera de enfocar la historia de determinados temas; y, finalmente, hay estudios que abordan la historia de la Antiguedad tardia y del mundo visigodo. Esta obra abarca, pues, una historia sin fronteras sobre diversos temas en torno a las raices de Europa, muy acorde a los intereses e investigaciones llevados a cabo a lo largo de la vida academica del homenajeado.

From the Ice Age to the Cold War and beyond, from Reykjavik to Riga, from Archimedes to Einstein, Alexander to Yeltsin, here between the covers of a single volume Norman Davies tells the story of Europe, East and West, from prehistory to the present day. The book's absorbing narrative lays down the chronological and geographical grid on which the dramas of European history have been played out. It zooms in from the distant focus of Chapter One, which explores the first five million years of the continent's evolution, to the close focus of the last two chapters, which cover the twentieth century at roughly one page per year. In between, Norman Davies presents a huge and sweeping canvas packed with fascinating detail, analysis, and anecdote. Alongside Europe's better-known stories - human, national, and continental - he brings into focus areas often ignored or misunderstood, remembering the stateless nation as well as the nation-state. Minority communities, from heretics and lepers to Jews, Romanies, and Muslims have not been forgotten. This masterly history reveals not only the rich variety of Europe's past but also the many and rewarding prisms through which it can be viewed.Each chapter contains a selection of telephoto 'capsules', illustrating narrower themes and topics that cut across the chronological flow. Davies then concludes with a wide-angle 'snapshot' of the whole continent as seen from one particular vantage point. The overall effect is stunning: a kind of historical picture album, with panoramic tableaux interspersed by detailed insets and close-ups. Never before has such an ambitious history of Europe been attempted. In range and ambition, the originality of its structure and glittering style, Norman Davies's Europe represents one of the most important and illuminating history books to be published by Oxford. Time Capsules 201 fascinating articles interspersed throughout the narrative focus on incidents or topics as various as The Iceman of the Alps, Erotic Graffiti at Pompeii, Stradivarius, and Psychoanalysing Hitler. Each capsule can be tasted as a separate self-contained morsel; or can be read in conjunction with the narrative into which it is inserted.Snapshots 12 panoramic overviews across the changing map of Europe freeze the frames of the chronological narrative at moments of symbolic importance, such as Knossos 1628 BC, Constantinople AD 330, and Nuremberg 1945. A

Quando, em 1500, os portugueses chegaram ao nosso litoral, enviaram uma carta ao rei de Portugal descrevendo o que aqui encontraram. Redigida por um escrivão da frota de Pedro Álvares Cabral, Pero Va