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  • The A to Z of Afghan Wars, Revolutions and Insurgencies

    de Ludwig W. Adamec ...
    Series series The A to Z Guide Series
    Since its foundation in 1747, Afghanistan has seen seemingly limitless wars waged by the central government to consolidate its control over the country as well as rampant tribal warfare. There have been three Anglo-Afghan Wars (1839-42, 1878-79 and 1919); a Russian-backed Marxist government in Kabul battled a coalition of tribal armies, which was soon followed by the Taliban takeover. Now, in the ... Leer más

    $721 MXN

  • The Making of Modern Irish History

    Revisionism and the Revisionist Controversy

    Edición de D. George Boyce, Alan O'Day ...
    This volume brings together distinguished historians of Ireland, each of whom tackles a key question, issue or event in Irish history since the eighteenth century and:* examines its historiography* assesses the context of new interpretations* considers the strengths and weaknesses of revisionist ideas* offers their own interpretation.Topics covered are not only of historical interest but, in the ... Leer más

    $1,210 MXN

  • Bibliography of the Seven Weeks' War of 1866

    de Stuart Sutherland ...
    Stuart Sutherland’s work is the first modern bibliography in English of the Seven Weeks’ War of 1866. It includes books in English French German and Italian and is subdivided into sections on general histories particular campaigns and battles (Hanoverian Bohemian-Moravian Italian southern German and naval) biographies journals and reminiscences by participants and state organizational and ... Leer más

    $276 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Gallipoli

    The battlefield guide

    de Mat McLachlan ...
    The essential travel companion for anyone visiting Gallipoli.Each year, thousands of Australians visit Gallipoli to pay homage and see where their forebears fought, suffered and died. Anzac Cove, Quinn's Post, Lone Pine - the iconic places where our national legend was forged.In this essential and authoritative guide, practical information is combined with historical detail, alongside revealing ... Leer más

    $250 MXN

  • The International History of Communication Study

    Edición de Peter Simonson, David W. Park ...
    The International History of Communication Study maps the growth of media and communication studies around the world. Drawing out transnational flows of ideas, institutions, publications, and people, it offers the most comprehensive picture to date of the global history of communication research and education.This volume reaches into national and regional areas that have not received much ... Leer más

    $1,262 MXN

  • The A to Z of U.S. Diplomacy from the Civil War to World War I

    de Kenneth J. Blume ...
    Series series The A to Z Guide Series
    The A to Z of U.S. Diplomacy from the Civil War to World War I provides a convenient introduction to a critical period of American diplomacy. The half-century from 1861 to 1914 formed a crucial time in the development of the American approach to the world, for the United States laid the foundations for its 20th century foreign policy. While the famed Monroe Doctrine insisted that no foreign power ... Leer más

    $721 MXN

  • Vietnam & Beyond

    Veteran Reflections

    de Jenny La Sala; Jim Markson ...
    Vietnam and Beyond is a collection of wartime letters written home by Jim Markson from March 1967 to March 1968. Jim carried sadness and boxed-up memories from Vietnam. Perhaps, if it were not for the general divided and oppositional public opinion of the Vietnam War at that time, the soldiers returning home might have been able to open up and begin the healing process. Instead, those soldiers ... Leer más

    $69 MXN

  • What Happened Where

    de Chris Cook ...
    First published in 1997. This work aims to assemble, within a concise volume, a wide-ranging guide to the places and events that have featured in twentieth-century world history. The book also sets out to provide the background information on the places behind the headlines. Thus, conflicts over territory or disputed boundary claims have been at the origin of many modern wars. Hence this volume ... Leer más

    $743 MXN

  • The Uses of the Middle Ages in Modern European States

    History, Nationhood and the Search for Origins

    Edición de R. Evans, G. Marchal ...
    Series series Writing the Nation
    An assessment of the role of the Middle Ages in national historiography and in modern conceptions of national identity, looking at relatively young nations, and regions which claim national traditions but were slow to achieve, or regain, separate statehood. Examples range from Ireland and Iceland through Austria and Italy to Finland and Greece. ... Leer más

    $906 MXN

  • Demokratie und Weltkrieg (Kommentiert)

    Erweiterte Ausgabe. Soziologische Deutung von Krieg, Volkssouveränität, sozialer Gerechtigkeit und europäischer Krisenpolitik

    de Gustaf Fredrik Steffen, Eva Tebbens ...
    Traducido por Margarethe Langfeldt ...
    In "Demokratie und Weltkrieg" untersucht Gustaf Fredrik Steffen den Ersten Weltkrieg nicht bloß als militärisches Ereignis, sondern als geschichtliche Bewährungsprobe moderner Gesellschaften. Mit soziologischer Schärfe verbindet er politische Analyse, kulturkritische Diagnose und moralphilosophische Reflexion. Der Stil ist argumentativ, dicht und gelehrt; im Kontext der europäischen Kriegs- und ... Leer más

    $39 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Working People Speak

    Oral Histories of Neoliberal Africa

    Edición de Jörg Wiegratz, Joseph Mujere, Joost Fontein ...
    Series series ThirdWorlds
    This book presents a re-engagement with oral histories as a way of documenting, understanding, and discussing experiences of work and economic life in Africa under neoliberal capitalism. It draws on seven case studies in South Africa, Zimbabwe, Uganda, and South Sudan, from the late 1980s to the present, to offer a critical analysis of neoliberal transformations and realities at the incisive level ... Leer más

    $1,124 MXN

  • Regenerative Politics

    de Emma Planinc ...
    Series Libro 98 - New Directions in Critical Theory
    Critics of liberal democracy from both the left and right view rights not as protectors of freedom but as impediments to self-determination and call for radically regenerative political alternatives. Liberals respond to these challenges by reasserting that universal rights are self-evident, intentionally foreclosing the possibility of remaking the political order. Regenerative Politics makes a ... Leer más

    $545 MXN

  • Ragione di adoprar sicuramente l'arme

    de Andrea Morini, Riccardo Rudilosso ...
    La nuova pubblicazione della Sala d’Arme Achille Marozzo, a cura di Andrea Morini e Riccardo Rudilosso, riguarda l’opera del maestro modenese Giacomo di Grassi (1570), forse il più “moderno” tra gli autori antichi. Di Grassi, a differenza di altri maestri di scherma contemporanei, dedica il suo “Ragione di adoprar sicuramente l’arme” alla spiegazione di ciò che lui definisce “il giudizio”. ovvero ... Leer más

    $189 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Scripting Revolution

    A Historical Approach to the Comparative Study of Revolutions

    Edición de Keith Michael Baker, Dan Edelstein ...
    The "Arab Spring" was heralded and publicly embraced by foreign leaders of many countries that define themselves by their own historic revolutions. The contributors to this volume examine the legitimacy of these comparisons by exploring whether or not all modern revolutions follow a pattern or script. Traditionally, historians have studied revolutions as distinct and separate events. Drawing on ... Leer más

    $545 MXN

  • Discovering Water

    James Watt, Henry Cavendish and the Nineteenth-Century 'Water Controversy'

    de David Philip Miller ...
    Series series Science, Technology and Culture, 1700-1945
    The 'water controversy' concerns one of the central discoveries of modern science, that water is not an element but rather a compound. The allocation of priority in this discovery was contentious in the 1780s and has occupied a number of 20th century historians. The matter is tied up with the larger issues of the so-called chemical revolution of the late eighteenth century. A case can be made for ... Leer más

    $1,349 MXN

  • Nationhood from Below

    Europe in the Long Nineteenth Century

    Edición de M. Beyen ...
    Series series History (R0)
    Nationalism was ubiquitous in nineteenth-century Europe. Yet, we know little about what the nation meant to ordinary people. In this book, both renowned historians and younger scholars try to answer this question. This book will appeal to specialists in the field but also offers helpful reading for any college and university course on nationalism. ... Leer más

    $906 MXN

  • Theatre History and Historiography

    Ethics, Evidence and Truth

    de Claire Cochrane ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This collection of essays explores how historians of theatre apply ethical thinking to the attempt to truthfully represent their subject - whether that be the life of a well-known performer, or the little known history of colonial theatre in India - by exploring the process by which such histories are written, and the challenges they raise. ... Leer más

    $2,176 MXN

  • The Atlantic Region to Confederation

    A History

    Edición de Phillip Buckner, John Reid ...
    Series series Heritage
    Nearly thirty years ago W.S. MacNutt published the first general history of the Atlantic provinces before Confederation. An outstanding scholarly achievement, that history inspired much of the enormous growth of research and writing on Atlantic Canada in the succeeding decades. Now a new effort is required, to convey the state of our knowledge in the 1990s. Many of the themes important to today's ... Leer más

    $697 MXN

  • La supplica degli stampatori

    de Anonimo ...
    Italia 1785, quattro anni prima della Rivoluzione francese, nei tempi in cui la ragione umana cominciò a perfezionarsi, i Letterati, i Sapienti, gli Stampatori italiani trovarono il coraggio di rivolgere al papa la loro Supplica, un inno alla libertà di stampa. L’opera, di autore anonimo, è indirizzata al pontefice romano Pio VI cui è chiesta l’abolizione dell’Indice dei libri proibiti e la ... Leer más

    $19 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The New Politics of Materialism

    History, Philosophy, Science

    Edición de Sarah Ellenzweig, John Zammito ...
    New materialism challenges the mechanistic models characteristic of early modern philosophy that regarded matter as largely passive and inert. Instead it gives weight to topics often overlooked in such accounts: agency, vitalism, complexity, contingency, and self-organization.This collection, which includes an international roster of contributors from philosophy, history, literature, and science, ... Leer más

    $1,124 MXN

  • EL TRIUNVIRATO CTONIO: Las Greas en el Mito Helénico

    DIOSAS EN LA MITOLOGIA

    de Cristina Lobo, Manuel Rodsua ...
    Series series DIOSAS EN LA MITOLOGIA
    EL TRIUNVIRATO CTONIO Filología, Cibernética y Hermenéutica de las Greas en el Mito HelénicoEn el confín occidental del mundo conocido, en las brumas de Cístene, tres hermanas arcaicas comparten la mirada y la voz a través de un único ojo y un único diente. Tradicionalmente relegadas al papel de meras espectadoras o peldaños secundarios en la gesta de Perseo, Penfredo, Enio y Dino esconden en su ... Leer más

    $173 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Eine kurze Geschichte von Weihnachten

    Von Rentiermädchen, Knallbonbons und der Erfindung von Weihnachten

    de Mark Forsyth ...
    Traducido por Dieter Fuchs ...
    Wer hat den Adventskalender erfunden?Und wer verschickte die erste Weihnachtskarte? Der erfolgreiche Autor Mark Forsyth liefert ein launiges Buch über die Ursprünge unserer liebsten Weihnachtsbräuche. Humorvoll und kenntnisreich werden wir mit skurrilen und überraschenden Geschichten rund um das Weihnachtsfest beglückt.Dafür, dass wir jedes Jahr Weihnachten feiern, wissen wir wenig über die ... Leer más

    $352 MXN

  • Civil Rights Movement: A History from Beginning to End

    de Hourly History ...
    The Civil Rights Movement in America is a broad term for the movement in the mid-twentieth century among and for the African American community in pursuit of equal protection and rights under the law. In reality, it began much earlier than the 1950s and continues until this day. What is more, it was about so much more than the extension of universal rights; the Civil Rights Movement is about the ... Leer más

    $52 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Economic crises in history teaching

    Thematic report by the Observatory on History Teaching in Europe 2025

    de Council of Europe ...
    How can history education equip students to understand and confront the economic crises of yesterday and tomorrow? Since the beginning of the 21st century, the economic consequences of the debt crises of 2007 and 2008, of the Covid-19 pandemic and of Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine have continuously challenged the livelihood of many families in Europe and around the world. Understanding ... Leer más

    $299 MXN