Libros de Historia de los países de Europa, página 4 de 109

Las últimas ampliaciones de la UE han implicado la adhesión de una serie de Estados que habían pertenecido al área de influencia de la antigua URSS. El lanzamiento de la PEV, demuestra el papel clave de la vecindad para una UE ampliada, en una zona donde estan en juego intereses primordiales para la propia Union, pero en la que tambien Rusia esta decidida a jugar a fondo el papel de actor internacional de primer orden, en el marco de unas complejas relaciones con la UE.

Published to coincide with the eponymous blockbuster film, Roberto Saviano's groundbreaking and utterly compelling book is a major international bestseller. Since publishing his searing expose of their criminal activities, the author has received so many death threats from the Camorra that he has been assigned police protection. Known by insiders as 'the System', the Camorra, an organized crime network with a global reach and large stakes in construction, high fashion, illicit drugs and toxic-waste disposal, exerts a malign grip on cities and villages along the Neapolitan coast is the deciding factor in why Campania has the highest murder rate in all of Europe and why cancer levels there have skyrocketed in recent years. In pursuit of his subject, Saviano worked as an assistant at a Chinese textile manufacturer and on a construction site, both controlled by 'the System', and as a waiter at a Camorra wedding. Born in Naples, he recalls seeing his first murder at the age of fourteen, and how his own father, a doctor, suffered a brutal beating for trying to help an eighteen-year-old victim, left for dead in the street."Gomorrah" is both a bold and engrossing piece of investigative writing and one heroic young man's impassioned story of a place under the rule of a murderous organization.

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

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.

The techniques of European warfare were transformed during the 15th and 16th centuries by the use of gunpowder and by substantial progress in the effectiveness and destructive power of artillery. The series of conflicts in the 1640s, known collectively as the English Civil War, was the first in the British Isles that reflected this new reality. Sieges that aimed at isolating and reducing fortified places became the dominant instrument for prosecuting the war and protective fortifications were vital, for both the besieged as well as the besieger. This title describes how both the Parliamentarians and the Royalists made use of new fortification techniques throughout the course of this conflict.

The lives of the tsars and their subjects from 1855 to 1918, told through rare archival photographs The Russian Empire was among the most mysterious of the worlds great powers, profoundly torn between a rural population living almost medieval lives and industrial and social change in the cities. The tsars gigantic realm struggled with the advent of modernity and with its own internal contradictions between Asia and Europe, faith and science, different ethnic groups, and the divergent interests of the aristocracy, the middle classes, the urban workers, and the rural poor: a continent of contradictions from abject poverty to fairy-tale wealth captured by authors from Tolstoy to Chekhov, from Gogol to Gorky. Twilight of the Romanovs opens a door into the world of pre-revolutionary Russia using original photographs taken during the last decades of Romanov rule. They include remarkable color images created using an early three-color-plate technique that brings the remote past to life. Our companions on this journey include the Scottish photographer William Carrick, Americans George Kennan and Murray Howe, the German-Russian Carl Bulla, Sergey Produkin-Gorsky, and the writers Leonid Andreyev and Anton Chekhov, together with many anonymous others. These photographs are snapshots of a vanished world, yet they reveal a surprising continuity: despite the subsequent revolution, faces, buildings, and landscapes still resonate with those who see them a century and more later. 360 illustrations, 114 in color

La mediateca del Instituto Francés de Barcelona ofreció un ciclo de seis sesiones bajo el título "Mémoire et devoir de mémoire" durante los meses de mayo y junio del 2004. En él alternaron presentaciones de ensayos y relatos literarios que fueron seguidas con vivo interes. El "deber de memoria" era el hilo conductor, pero con el proposito de ir mas alla de la necesidad de luchar contra el olvido y preservar una memoria que hiciera lazo con el pasado. Se trataba de reflexionar y discutir sobre la transmision de hechos historicos particularmente criminales en la Europa del siglo XX que son aun sometidos a denegaciones sistematicas. Asi, la destruccion programada del pueblo judio, conocida como la shoah, fue objeto relevante de estas sesiones. Faltaban pocos meses para cumplir el sesenta aniversario de la liberacion de los campos de exterminio nazis.

La historia imperial de España encuentra su origen en el pequeño reino asturleonés de los siglos X y XI del que algunos de sus reyes fueron designados imperatores. El presente libro reconstituye la historia de este fenomeno singular que la historiografia española de mediados del siglo XX erigio en mito identitario hispanico. A traves de una mirada desapasionada sobre las fuentes, se esfuerza por despejar los procedimientos de legitimacion monarquica como lo ilustra el uso del concepto de imperio en el Leon medieval.

La tesis ofrece un análisis sistemático del pensamiento de Díez del Corral (1911-1997) a partir de las ideas de Europa y España. Se presentan las virtudes de LDC como modelo de un pensar histórico que conguja sabiamente categorias filosoficas, politicas, historicas y esteticas. Se analiza su ontologia de Europa y su importancia como "filosofo de la Monarquia de España", asi como maestro de la Hª de las Ideas y del pensamiento politico. La tesis incluye textos ineditos y sus cartas a R. Carande.

Le château de Versailles a depuis ses origines, été le théâtre d'un grand nombre de complots, d'assassinats, de morts suspectes, etc. L'auteur, jardinier en chef des jardins du château, en dévoile qu

El presente libro es el producto de la iniciativa de tres profesores de la Universidad de los Andes quienes creyeron que en las librerías de habla hispana poco había sobre autores alemanes, por lo que sin intencion de llenar dicha brecha, surgio la idea de hacer una compilacion de diversos textos sobre historia, politica y sociedad de Alemania en el siglo XX abordados desde una perspectiva interdisciplinaria y dirigidos no solo a estudiantes sino a un publico general interesado en temas alemanes.

The Kingdom of Portugal was created as a by-product of the Christian Reconquest of Hispania. With no geographical raison d'être and no obvious roots in its Roman, Germanic, or Islamic pasts, it for long remained a small, struggling realm on Europe's outer fringe. Then, in the early fifteenth century, this unlikely springboard for Western expansion suddenly began to accumulate an empire of its own, eventually extending more than halfway around the globe. A History of Portugal and the Portuguese Empire, drawing particularly on historical scholarship postdating the 1974 Portuguese Revolution, offers readers a comprehensive overview and reinterpretation of how all this happened - the first such account to appear in English for more than a generation. Volume 1 concerns the history of Portugal itself from pre-Roman times to the climactic French invasion of 1807, whilst this volume traces the history of the Portuguese overseas empire.

Candeloro Giorgio ha dato vita a un'opera di carattere generale, non rigidamente specialistica, ma costantemente a un alto livello scientifico, che ha acquisito negli anni una funzione di permamente riferimento per la conoscenza del modo con il quale si e formato il nostro paese. Il volume tratta della seconda guerra mondiale; del crollo del fascismo e della Resistenza 1939-1945.