Mientras en Francia Napoleón III conduce a la restaurada monarquía a la república del Segundo Imperio y Cavour y Garibaldi remodelan el mapa de una Italia unificada, Bismarck, con su Ejército, domina tanto Alemania como el firmamento europeo.
Este magistral estudio, que ahora presentamos en una nueva edición revisada y actualizada, aborda la compleja historia de Palestina, una tierra habitada hoy por dos pueblos con identidades nacionales distintas.
Over sixteen extraordinary days in October and November 1956, the twin crises of Suez and Hungary pushed the world to the brink of a nuclear conflict and what many at the time were calling World War III.
Nicht nur Napoleon Bonaparte prägte die Umbruchszeit um 1800 maßgeblich, auch andere Dichter und Denker versuchten, ihre Ansätze in Bezug auf die Verbesserung der Gesamtsituation umzusetzen.
"En esta obra se analizan los hechos de la península ibérica, donde la derrota de los franceses permitió a Fernando VII volver al trono; la reacción neogranadina mediante los movimientos juntistas y sus dificultades para sostener la República; las estrategias de reconocimiento territorial y ocupación por parte del ejército español y la figura principal de Pablo Morillo.
Aunque no fueron pocos los que trabajaron durante el Trienio Liberal con el fin de redimensionar las relaciones entre los amplios territorios de la monarquía hispana y cimentarlas sobre unas bases de reciprocidad y correspondencia, la delicada cuestión del reconocimiento de la independencia, de fuerte componente simbólico y emocional, lastró las negociaciones, imposibilitó el logro de una salida pactada y convirtió ya en prácticamente irreversible el proceso de separación.
In the sequel to his bestselling JFK in Ireland, the Emerald Isle's favourite son delves into his country's past to celebrate the Irish people who through their skills and endeavours helped make the British Isles great.
This is a disturbing account of the campaign to promote fear and hatred of Muslims in the United States and Europe, from the 'War on Terror' to Trump's travel ban.
In this new book, Liam O Duibhir charts the struggle for independence, both militarily and politically, in Donegal from before the events of Easter 1916 until the truce in 1921.
POLITICIAN * PRISONER * PARENTA portrait of one of the most charismatic, but unknown, world leadersAung San Suu Kyi, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and crusader for democracyin Myanmar, is once again behind bars.
Frantz Fanon (1925-1961) was a Caribbean and African psychiatrist, philosopher and revolutionary whose works, including Black Skin, White Masks and The Wretched of the Earth are hugely influential in the fields of post-colonial studies, critical theory, and post-Marxism.
In this collection of essays on African and Caribbean literature, culture, and politics, Ngugi wa Thiong'o delivers a groundbreaking critique of colonialism and capitalism in postcolonial Africa.
In his short life, the Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney emerged as one of the leading thinkers and activists of the anticolonial revolution, leading movements in North America, South America, the African continent, and the Caribbean.
Dhirendra Jha's deeply researched history places Nathuram Godse's life as the juncture of the dangerous fault lines in contemporary India: the quest for independence and the rise of Hindu nationalism.
For twenty-five years, Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World has been an essential primer on the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century history of women's movements in Asia and the Middle East.
In a series of powerful accounts drawn from diaries, letters, sound archives and interviews recorded during the period of devastation, discovery and transformation that make the blitz such an outstanding event in Britain's recent past, "e;The Blitz"e; brings to life the intense experiences, as they happened all over Britain.
The dramatic and little-known story of how, in the summer of 1920, Lenin came within a hair's breadth of shattering the painstakingly constructed Versailles peace settlement and spreading Bolshevism to western Europe.
Julián Trujillo Largacha, quien inició la Regeneración en Colombia, fue un civil transformado en militar que destacó por sus principios liberales y por la defensa de las instituciones democráticas.
The inside story of the campaign that rocked the United Kingdom to its foundations, and the implications of the Scottish independence movement for the future of British politics.
Lose yourself in this classic prize-winning memoir of life in 1950s Cyprus on the brink of revolution by the legendary king of travel writing and real-life family member of The Durrells in Corfu.
This is the story of Richard Longfield Vowell, an audacious and intrepid young English adventurer who abandoned his studies at Oxford in 1817 to fight against the Spanish Empire that had ruled Latin America for 300 years.
'An essential account of how Tibet became the playground for global geopolitical ambitions and what the future may hold for this precarious region fighting for statehood.
