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Con un prólogo escrito especialmente por el reconocido historiador para esta edición en español, Siglo XXI presenta este nuevo trabajo de Peter Frietzsche - quien escribió el sorprendente De alemanes a nazis- que muestra el complejo dialogo establecido entre la gran Berlin de comienzos del siglo XX y los textos de la epoca que hablan de ella y que organizan la experiencia de los lectores. La hasta entonces tranquila capital del Imperio se transformo en una metropoli densa, abigarrada y agitada. Fabricas, barriadas populares, tranvias y espectaculos deportivos son parte del crecimiento de una ciudad marcada por el movimiento, la agitacion y la sorpresa. Los grandes periodicos populares testimonian la presencia de un nuevo y masivo publico lector, y de un tipo de lectura voraz y fragmentaria. "Peter Fritzsche ha escrito un fascinante estudio sobre los años anteriores a Weimar y el nazismo, que combina la dimension urbana con la textual y explora, de manera original, las interrelaciones entre una sociedad popular en proceso de cambio y la construccion de su imaginario a traves de la prensa"

Siempre es posible vivir como hombres, hacer una experiencia de libertad y verdad, gracias a un encuentro que colma la vida y la vuelve digna de su nombre. En el siglo XX Rusia fue objeto de un trágico experimento de reduccion de la persona a ideologia, pero tambien de un extraordinario proceso de resistencia del yo humano a la violencia y al poder. Las historias recogidas en este volumen, pertenecientes a distintos ambitos sociales y culturales, antes y despues de la caida del regimen sovietico, nos acercan a la historia rusa a traves de personajes que participaron en ella. En la vida de estas personas (la pianista, el sacerdote, la escritora, la madre de familia, el profesor...) palabras como verdad, persona, libertad, exigencias constitutivas del yo, se ven encarnadas

In the middle of Europe in the middle of the twentieth century, the Nazi and Soviet regimes killed fourteen million people in certain borderlands between Berlin and Moscow. In these bloodlands, today's Ukraine, Belarus, Poland and the eastern Baltic coast, an average of more than a million civilians were killed annually by the Nazi and Soviet regimes during twelve years that both Hitler and Stalin were in power, from 1933 to 1944. Together Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union ruled most of the Eurasian landmass, but they killed chiefly, indeed almost entirely, in the bloodlands. Beyond the bloodlands, the regimes of Hitler and Stalin together, in their vast domains from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans, deliberately killed no more than three million civilians in these years. If the compact area of the bloodlands is included, the figure rises to seventeen million souls.The centre of gravity of modern European history is here, in the frontier zones and lands between states advocating European ideologies, who assaulted European peoples, and eradicated an established European order.The center of gravity of modern European history is a black hole.Today Stalin's crimes are associated with Russia, and Hitler's with Germany: these countries were not the main sites of mass killing. People were killed in the lands between, where most of Europe's Jews lived, where Hitler and Stalin's plans overlapped, and where the Wehrmacht and the Red Army fought, and where the Soviet NKVD and the German SS concentrated their forces.

El círculo burgués ofrece una vívida reconstrucción de la historia de la sociabilidad en Francia entre 1810 y 1848, caracterizada por las reuniones de familias para conversar o jugar a las cartas, la asociacion especializada de abogados, periodistas, politicos o escritores, las sociedades eruditas y comerciales y los encuentros amistosos en el cafe y los salones. Ocurre asi el surgimiento del circulo o club como reunion de hombres solos a la que se asiste para cultivar el ocio, para hacer negocios y tambien para hablar de politica. El circulo, que encuentra en paises como el nuestro su equivalente en los clubes, es la expresion mas generalizada de la sociabilidad burguesa en el siglo XIX. Espacio capital de la modernizacion de la sociedad francesa, refleja algunos de los rasgos mas caracteristicos de las practicas y valores de sus burguesias, y conforma, ademas, un ilustrativo modelo de la dinamica de la vida colectiva.

Finest years Churchill as Warlord. Pre-eminent military historian Max Hastings presents Winston Churchill as he has never been seen before. Winston Churchill was the greatest war leader Britain ever had. In 1940, the nation rallied behind him in an extraordinary fashion. But thereafter, argues Max Hastings, there was a deep divide between what Churchill wanted from the British people and their army, and what they were capable of delivering. Himself a hero, he expected others to show themselves heroes also, and was often disappointed. It is little understood how low his popularity fell in 1942, amid an unbroken succession of battlefield defeats. Some of his closest colleagues joined a clamour for him to abandon his role directing the war machine. Hastings paints a wonderfully vivid image of the Prime Minister in triumph and tragedy. He describes the second Dunkirk in 1940, when Churchills impulsiveness threatened to lose Britain almost as many troops in north-west France as had been saved from the beaches; his wooing of the Americans, and struggles with the Russians. British wartime unity was increasingly tarnished by workers unrest, with many strikes in mines and key industries. By looking at Churchill from the outside in, through the eyes of British soldiers, civilians and newspapers - and also those of Russians and Americans - Hastings provides new perspectives on the greatest Englishman. He condemns as folly Churchills attempt to promote mass uprisings in occupied Europe, and details Unthinkable - his amazing 1945 plan for an Allied offensive against the Russians to liberate Poland. Here is an intimate and affectionate portrait of Churchill as Britains saviour, but also an unsparing examination of the wartime nation which he led and the performance of its armed forces.

A la simple évocation du terme " île ", l'imagination navigue au gré des flots et des courants. L'île fait rêver, l'île fascine de par sa situation géographique. L'île aimante, elle possède une puissance d'attraction onirique unique, nourrissant l'inconscient humain et faisant ressurgir des images de bateaux fantômes, de trépassés, de naufrages... En Bretagne, les îles sont autant de petites perles, conservatoires de traditions et écrins de légendes : Groix, Belle-Ile-en-Mer, Ouessant, Houat et Hoêdic, Bréhat, Sein, l'archipel des Glénan font partie des plus connues. Mais a côté de ces îles réputées, la Bretagne se trouve parsemée de multiples petits îlots : Batz, Gavrinis, l'île aux Moines, l'île Tudy. Les îles regorgent de surprises, chacune avec son caractère bien trempé, a l'instar des îliens qui les habitent. Les îles bretonnes allient richesse et complexité, et ne se laissent pas si facilement apprivoiser. Qu'il s'agisse des îles dites du Ponant du côté de ce Penn Ar Bed, symbole d'aventure et d'inconnu au coeur de la mer d'Iroise, ouverture sur l'océan, des îles du Morbihan, moins austères mais tout aussi secrètes, des archipels des Côtes-d'Armor ou de l'unique île de Loire-Atlantique, chacune mérite le détour et l'immersion touristique. Pour effleurer du doigt leurs mystères, il faut en pénétrer l'essence. L'île se vit, elle s'expérimente. Embarquement immédiat pour une navigation fabuleuse dans les îles bretonnes, ces édens maritimes.

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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.

Ever since the Ratcliffe Highway Murders caused a nation-wide panic in Regency England, the British have taken an almost ghoulish pleasure in 'a good murder'. This fascination helped create a whole new world of entertainment, inspiring novels, plays and films, puppet shows, paintings and true-crime journalism - as well as an army of fictional detectives who still enthrall us today. A Very British Murder is Lucy Worsley's captivating account of this curious national obsession. It is a tale of dark deeds and guilty pleasures, a riveting investigation into the British soul by one of our finest historians.

Peter Clarke brilliantly challenges the commonly held view of Britain in the twentieth century as a nation in decline. Adopting a wide perspective, he examines the political. social and economic changes that transformed Britain. He looks at how jobs and prices, food and shelter, and education and welfare, shaped society and explores such areas as architecture, sport and popular culture. Embracing a century of national experience, Hope and Glory superbly conveys the diverse aspects of three generations who lived through unparalleled change.

In this thoughtful and engaging book, Feargal Cochrane looks at Northern Ireland's "Troubles" from the late 1960s to the present day. He explains why, a decade and a half after the peace process ended in political agreement in 1998, sectarian attitudes and violence continue to plague Northern Ireland today. Former members of the IRA now sit alongside their unionist adversaries in the Northern Ireland Assembly, but the region's attitudes have been slow to change and recent years have even seen an upsurge in violence on both sides. In this book, Cochrane, who grew up a Catholic in Belfast in the '70s and '80s, explores how divisions between Catholics and Protestants became so entrenched, and reviews the thirty years of political violence in Northern Ireland-which killed over 3,500 people-leading up to the peace agreement. The book asks whether the peace process has actually delivered for the citizens of Northern Ireland, and what more needs to be done to enhance the current reluctant peace.

La ley de Sucesión de 26 de julio de 1947 introdujo el Consejo del Reino dentro del sistema institucional del Estado español, los primeros consejeros tomaron posesión en febrero de 1948, desapareciendo dicha institucion en 1978, tras la aprobacion de la nueva Constitucion española.