Maria Clara Ospina, con el rigor de una historiadora, con un estilo ameno y propio y con la sensibilidad politica natural de la hija de un expresidente de la Republica y de una de las grandes e importantes politicas de Colombia, protagonistas de muchas de las paginas de nuestro devenir republicano, desgrana con investigacion y compromiso la historia apasionante de como fue posible, frente a toda clase de obstaculos, conseguir lo que hoy nos parece natural: el voto de la mujer colombiana.
Im letzten Jahrzehnt erschienen zahlreiche Beitrage, die den transnationalen Charakter des Faschismus untersuchten, wenige jedoch gingen auf die Verstrickungen und Einflusse zwischen dem Dritten Reich und den rechtsradikalen Bewegungen der deutschen Minderheiten in Sudosteuropa ein.
Con sus dramáticas descripciones de misas negras y festines caníbales, los registros generados por la cacería de brujas vasca de los años 1609-1614 nos proporcionan, posiblemente, los relatos más demonológicamente estereotipados del aquelarre surgidos en la Europa moderna temprana.
Equally skilled in a variety of trades other than in the art of love, the Italian prisoners of war (POWs) who were incarcerated in South Africa during the Second World War are a source of great fascination to this day.
«Garrote y prensa» constituye una expresión atribuida exclusivamente al general Francisco Franco, y surgida en el marco de la Guerra Civil, momento en que la pena de muerte se aplicó de forma cotidiana.
El texto narra las razones y acontecimientos que llevaron a los y las trabajadoras a luchar decididamente por la supervivencia, y resistir el ultraje de la burguesia francesa y las fuerzas alemanas, hasta el violento derrumbamiento de la Comuna en 1871.
Este libro rastrea la articulación de esa nueva identidad profesional: el "nuevo filósofo" o "astrónomo filosófico", dentro del ámbito de la Corte y analiza la relación entre esa identidad y la obra de Galileo.
El autor nos conduce por terrenos variados: los textos literarios y didacticos, los nombres propios, las imagenes y las obras de arte; y en todos esos terrenos, nos descubre el modo en que esta historia simbolica de los animales y los vegetales, de los colores y de las imagenes, de los signos y de la heraldica, lejos de oponerse a la realidad social, economica o politica, es uno de sus componentes esenciales: el imaginario -dice el autor- siempre es parte de la realidad.
The renowned historian Jenny Wormald was a ground-breaking expert on early modern Scottish history, especially Stewart kingship, noble power and wider society.
The Wearing of the Green: The Life of James Napper TandyJames Napper Tandy, ironmonger's son, Dublin municipal agitator, Volunteer artillery commander, co-founder of the Society of United Irishmen, French général de brigade, and the revolutionary immortalised in "e;The Wearing of the Green"e;, was one of the most consequential and most contradictory political figures of the eighteenth-century Atlantic world.
Tauchen Sie ein in die faszinierende Welt von Richard Wagners Oper Der Fliegende Holländer – einem Meisterwerk, das nicht nur musikalisch, sondern auch als Zeitdokument von unschätzbarem Wert ist.
Originally published in 1983, this book discusses an important ideological development: the emergence of a new concept of the state as a substantive entity and the source of the ruler's authority over his subjects.
Coexistence in Medieval Christian and Muslim Societies offers the first comparative study of medieval Iberia and Anatolia, two peninsulas at opposite ends of the Mediterranean, exploring their religiously and ethnically diverse societies and shedding new light on the shared and distinct experiences of Christian and Muslim coexistence.
Coexistence in Medieval Christian and Muslim Societies offers the first comparative study of medieval Iberia and Anatolia, two peninsulas at opposite ends of the Mediterranean, exploring their religiously and ethnically diverse societies and shedding new light on the shared and distinct experiences of Christian and Muslim coexistence.
This book examines the plays Thomas Middleton wrote for the King's Men between 1620 and 1624, arguing that they constitute one of the most sustained and ambitious engagements with contemporary politics in early modern English drama.
A gripping, vividly told journey into a family's wartime past, from the bestselling author of The Ruin of All Witches Endearingly personal, honest and reflective invites you to rethink where memory ends and history begins Dominic Sandbrook, The Times, Books of the Year 'As I finished his book, I began to see my own family s past through his glass mountain' Ian Ellison, Literary Review Malcolm Gaskill knew two things about his great-uncle Ralph s wartime adventures: he d been a prisoner in Italy, and he d cut his way out of a train with a knife and fork.
Lady Charlotte Susan Maria Bury nee Campbell (1775-1861) is one of the most influential and least understood women's rights activists of the nineteenth century.
From the relentless media scrutiny and controversies of their 2022 Caribbean Tour to the shock cancer diagnoses of both the Princess of Wales and the King, this captivating biography by acclaimed royal expert Russell Myers intimately traces the story of William and Catherine s relationship from their earliest meeting at St Andrews University to the present day.
This book examines the plays Thomas Middleton wrote for the King's Men between 1620 and 1624, arguing that they constitute one of the most sustained and ambitious engagements with contemporary politics in early modern English drama.
Lady Charlotte Susan Maria Bury nee Campbell (1775-1861) is one of the most influential and least understood women's rights activists of the nineteenth century.
Richly-layered and packed with insight, this riveting account of terrible events tells us as much about the present as it does the past Patrick Bishop, author of Paris '44From Peter the Great to Putin, a biography of the city Hitler tried - and failed - to wipe off the mapThe siege of Saint Petersburg then known as Leningrad stands as a testament to human endurance.
Scholar, churchman, diplomat and theologian, Gerald of Wales was one of the most fascinating figures of the Middle Ages and The Journey Through Wales describes his eventful tour of the country as a missionary in 1188.
Originally published in 1983, this book discusses an important ideological development: the emergence of a new concept of the state as a substantive entity and the source of the ruler's authority over his subjects.
