En sociedades asoladas por epidemias, sequias, hambrunas y terremotos, la esperanza en soluciones provenientes del cielo y la creencia en hechos prodigiosos constituian una necesidad tan apremiante como los hospitales o el reparto de paliativos.
In The Rule of Empires, Timothy Parsons gives a sweeping account of the evolution of empire from its origins in ancient Rome to its most recent twentieth-century embodiment.
In The Rule of Empires, Timothy Parsons gives a sweeping account of the evolution of empire from its origins in ancient Rome to its most recent twentieth-century embodiment.
'Key to understanding Black British history' - The Sunday Times'Sharp and still relevant' - Zadie SmithOne of the great poets of modern times, and a deeply respected political and cultural activist and social critic, Linton Kwesi Johnson is also a prolific writer of non-fiction.
This landmark collection of eighty documents created by the American colonists-and not English officials-is the genesis of American fundamental law and constitutionalism.
Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize, King Leopold's Ghost is the true and haunting account of Leopold's brutal regime and its lasting effect on a ruined nation.
'I cannot help but see the bodies of my near ancestors in the current caravans of desperate souls fleeing from place to place, chased by famine, war and toxins.
El Testamento de Salomón, muy valorado por los practicantes y estudiosos del ocultismo, es un texto compuesto pseudoepigráfico atribuido al rey Salomón, pero no considerado como escritura canónica por los judíos o los grupos cristianos.
A principios de 1925, y a partir de la colaboración entre comunistas mexicanos y estadunidenses, surgió en México la Liga Antimperialista de las Américas (LADLA), una organización impulsada por la Internacional Comunista con la misión de combatir la presencia cada vez más amenazante de Estados Unidos y de otras potencias europeas sobre los países de nuestra región.
Refreshing and educational narrative historyAfter a life-changing diagnosis, Dutch entrepreneur Jacob Gelt Dekker decides to take a step into the unknown.
Vyvyen Brendon's evocative, at times heart-tugging book, runs from the 18th century and the East India Company, through the Afghan wars, the Indian mutiny and the more settled era of the Queen Empress, and culminates in the conflict leading to Britain's hurried exit in 1947.
New Zealand in the 1820s had no government or bureaucratic presence; no newspapers were published; the literate population was probably no more than a couple of dozen people at any one time.
Taking its title from the strangely frozen picture by the surrealist painter Giorgio de Chirico, The Enigma of Arrival tells the story of a young Indian from the Caribbean arriving in post-imperial England and consciously, over many years, finding himself as a writer.
¿Existe la posibilidad de plantear un sistema político que supere las desigualdades e injusticias que genera el capitalismo y que, a su vez, evite caer en los errores de los intentos revolucionarios ocurridos hasta el presente?
In the summer of 1764, Sir William Johnson (Superintendent of Indian Affairs) and over two thousand chiefs representing twenty-four First Nations met on the shores of the Niagara River to negotiate the Treaty of Niagara - an agreement between the British Crown and the Indigenous peoples.
A military history of native sub-Saharan African armies during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, exploring their training, weapons, tactics and more.
When Great Britain took the moral high ground and banned its lucrative export of opium from Imperial India to China, it unleashed a century of criminality.
From the International Booker Prize shortlisted author of The Order of the Day and The War of the Poor comes a searing account of a conflict that dealt a fatal blow to French colonialism.
El atlantico espanol durante el siglo XVIII destaca el juego entre Espana y America mientras el imperio espanol luchaba por sobrevivir en la feroz competencia internacional que domino el siglo dieciocho.
Las doce contribuciones que integran el libro, escritas por un equipo de reconocidos expertos internacionales en la materia, plantea un ambicioso recorrido que tiene la virtud de cubrir gran parte del arco temporal que abarcó la caza de brujas europea, desde los entusiasmos iniciales de los siglos XIV y XV hasta las tardías polémicas de finales del siglo XVII.