Russian History: A Very Short Introduction
Russian History: A Very Short Introduction is a splendid summary that the author made from another volume of his, which deals with the same subject, albeit in 752 pages (Russia and the Russians...
Historiography
We the Living
Ayn Rand (Russia, 1905 - USA, 1982), known for her atheism and liberalism, which led her to formulate a radical critique of Soviet reality. As she herself states, it is a novel about man against the State,...
The Ottoman Empire, 1700-1922
To understand the history of the Western culture it is necesary to take into account the relationship of this part of the world with the historical development of Central Europe, the Balkans and the Middle...
Patriots. The Vietnam War Remembered from All Sides
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,...
Tales of the Alhambra
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...
The Templars
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...
La Russie des tsars. D'Ivan le Terrible à Vladimir Poutine
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...
La Dittadura del Relativismo
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...
A History of Early Modern Southeast Asia, 1400-1830
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...