Títulos em Europa

A riveting and deeply researched account of King Juan Carlos’s epic fall from grace. Paul Preston, the preeminent historian of modern Spain, here lays bare the complex web of financial and sexual excess that led to the hero’s vertiginous downfall. For decades, King Carlos was immensely...

Often misconceived as a dark 'between-time' between the ancient and modern eras, the Middle Ages was in fact a period of radical transformation. Professor of Medieval History Phyllis G. Jestice gives a fascinating overview of this incredible period across the world, bringing to life the personalities, the technologies, the politics and the culture that defined this period in the development of the world we know today.

Brought to you by Penguin. A vivid and visceral portrayal of the most famous naval battle in history, focusing on the human cost of war, by a brilliant military historian At or about 1.15 in the afternoon of 21 October 1805, Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson was struck by a 22-gramme, 15-millimetre...

Brought to you by Penguin. In the summer of 1940, Britain was under siege. Poland, Belgium, Holland, Norway and France had already fallen, and the British army had been routed on the continent, leading to the chaotic evacuation at Dunkirk. In the rubble of the Allie’s crumbled defence...

Brought to you by Penguin. For centuries, Mount Etna has sent lava to engulf the towns and villages, terraced fields, orchards, vineyards, and citrus groves that nestle across its slopes. But still it remains home to a quarter of Sicily’s population. Why? Because Etna has always rewarded her...

Perché il fascismo? E perché in Italia? Perché proprio nel nostro paese si è imposto un regime dittatoriale che ha proposto una formula politica che è stata presa a modello non solo in Europa e continua a esercitare un suo fascino sinistro? Queste domande ci interrogano da vicino e ne sollecitano molte altre quando proviamo a individuare cause ed effetti per elaborare una risposta. Tutte questioni ancora aperte e che ancora ci sfidano, soprattutto quando vogliamo rispondere alla domanda principe: il fascismo si poteva evitare?

France Fictions désosse vingt-six exemples concrets d'instrumentalisation du passé, du Moyen Âge à nos jours : vingt-six récits pour certains mythifiés, tous adossés à une part de réel, dont il est possible de retracer les origines. Vingt-cinq historiennes et historiens de renom offrent ici un panorama clair et documenté des réécritures de l'histoire de France, exposant les outils des faussaires du passé, d'hier comme d'aujourd'hui, pour mieux leur résister.

رحلة فكرية تعبر الفجوة بين ثقافتين، يسعى فيها أحمد أمين إلى كشف أوجه التشابه والاختلاف بين العالمين. يصف أحمد أمين الشرق بروحه الأصيلة المترعة بالتقاليد والدين، ويتناول الغرب بعقله المبتكر المندفع نحو العلم والتجديد. ويرى أمين أن كلاً من الشرق والغرب يحمل من الخير والشر نصيبًا، وأن التواصل بينهما سبيلٌ لتجاوز الصراعات، هذا الكتاب دعوة للتفاهم، يقدمها أحمد أمين برؤية حكيمة، لجعل القارئ يدرك أهمية الحوار الثقافي وأثره في بناء حضارة إنسانية مشتركة تستند إلى قيم العدل والعلم.

Leading historian Professor Jeremy Black takes a journey through the vast sweep of European history, examining events as diverse as the rise of the Roman Empire, the brutal Viking raids, the cultural explosion of the Renaissance period, the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the rise of consumer culture in the 21st century.

È il 1998 quando Edgardo Sogno chiede ad Aldo Cazzullo di collaborare alla stesura delle sue memorie. Nasce così questo libro, nel quale rivivono le tradizioni di una famiglia risorgimentale, la Torino fascista e quella antifascista, la guerra di Spagna, la Resistenza. Ma soprattutto il progetto di quel "golpe bianco" che, negli anni Settanta, avrebbe dovuto fare dell'Italia una Repubblica presidenziale.

En 2022, tras quince años de investigaciones en siete ciudades de cuatro países diferentes, Manuel Aguilera nos desvela el secreto mejor guardado de la Segunda República. Lo hace con un pulso narrativo propio de la novela, pero con un apoyo documental férreo. Estamos ante el explosivo descubrimiento de un episodio desconocido de la guerra civil.

Why are we still arguing over the Parthenon Marbles? This book offers a fresh take on the history of those famous pieces of ancient sculpture removed from the Acropolis in Athens by Lord Elgin’s men in the early 19th century. It explains how they became the cause célèbre of the larger debates around cultural heritage and restitution now taking place. The subject is one that is currently embroiling museums, governments, universities and the public at large.

Dans ces lettres d’un Espagnol, Armando Palacio Valdés, romancier de l’Académie espagnole, prend la plume face à la guerre injuste. Avec une clarté ferme et une émotion mesurée, il expose son jugement, affirme son attachement aux Alliés et fait entendre sa voix au milieu des polémiques suscitées dans son pays. Entre réflexion morale et regard sur son époque, ces pages interrogent la justice, l’honneur et la responsabilité des nations en temps de conflit. Un témoignage ardent et lucide qui restitue le tumulte d’un moment historique et invite à écouter, réfléchir et prendre position.

The King is dead: long live the King. In 1509, Henry VII was succeeded by his son Henry VIII, second monarch of the house of Tudor. But this is not the familiar Tudor world of Protestantism and playwrights. Decades before the Reformation, ancient traditions persist: boy bishops, pilgrimage, Corpus Christi pageants, the jewel-decked shrine at Canterbury...

Pourchassées, admirées, torturées, fantasmées, les sorcières ont, semble-t-il, tout vécu et s'infiltrent dans toutes les failles, toutes les peurs humaines. Leur histoire, au fil des siècles et des récits, raconte leur persécution autant que la construction d'une figure puissante, intrigante et mystérieuse. Au-delà des sabbats, bûchers, sortilèges et pactes avec le Diable, découvrez tout ce que les sorcières ont inspiré de beau et tragique, pour mieux les comprendre et décrypter tous les secrets qui entourent ces femmes énigmatiques !

Trees are marvels of nature, still-standing giants of extraordinary longevity. In a beautifully sequence of essays, anecdotes and profiles of Britain's best-loved species (from yew to scots pine), Max Adams explores both the amazing biology of trees and humanity's relationship with wood and forest across the centuries.

These are essays on medieval history, and the crusades especially, written from what can broadly be considered a Marxist approach.

Die wahre Geschichte einer wunderbaren Freundschaft zweier Mädchen aus der BRD und der DDR, die keine Mauer trennen konnte. Ein sechsjähriges Mädchen aus der BRD bittet 1977 seinen Vater, ihm einen gelben Luftballon zu kaufen. Am Band befestigen sie eine Karte mit der Adresse. Nach wenigen Tagen bekommt das Mädchen Post von einem gleichaltrigen Mädchen aus der DDR. Es beginnt eine Brieffreundschaft, die unschuldiger nicht sein könnte. Das ändert sich, als die beiden in die Pubertät kommen und ihrer Umgebung unbequeme Fragen zu stellen beginnen.

La Orden del Temple y sus caballeros, su historia y su mitología siguen constituyendo a día de hoy uno de los grandes episodios de nuestra historia. Su vinculación con algunas de las reliquias sagradas, su origen o su abrupto final continúan encandilando a historiadores, buscadores de enigmas y aficionados al misterio, los cuales recorren los antiguos parajes que llevan a los castillos de la Hermandad Blanca buscando las huellas de un saber oculto que, quizás con suerte, el tiempo haya guardado.

Una docena de mitos de la historia de España, definidos y desmontados por el autor, desde el paraíso perdido de Al-Ándalus hasta el supuesto páramo cultural durante el franquismo.