History of the Vietnam War. The book is composed of brief summaries that explain the essentials, supported in a broad set of interviews with many people who were involved in this conflict, from all sides,...
Washington Irving could be described as the prototype of a romantic historian: cosmopolitan and tireless traveler, embodies the restless and multifaceted personality of nineteenth-century man. American...
Short book about the Order of the Templars. The author is a specialist in medieval subjects, and with this writing she tries to undo some myths about this military order, transmitting its true history, its...
Cet ouvrage de divulgation historique considère que le pouvoir en Russie, qu'il soit tsariste, soviétique ou républicain, se conjugue toujours au singulier et demeure d'essence autocratique. Plusieurs...
Collection of seven lectures by the author on contemporary society. His main postulate is that the debate of ideas and the problems of today's society have a moral and religious root. In this sense, the...
This is a textbook of the area and period mentioned in the title. It is a good introduction to the study area, in spite of the two inherent difficulties to produce such an objective: the difficulty of...
This volume is a summary of the two-volume The Oxford Companion to the Book (2010) for a wider audience. It is an introduction to the history of books and all the aspects related to writing and printing...
The editors have placed together an interesting series of articles by various authors whose common thread is dealing with the British Empire, either to explain it or to promote it, or to criticize or even...
One professor from Iceland and another from Hungary have co-authored a summary of the various schools and applications of Microhistory, a relatively recent historiographical development. The first author...