Tierra y silicio

La imponente historia comparada de Cataluña y Escocia de la mano del distinguido historiador John H. Elliott. John H. Elliott explora las raíces de uno de los problemas contemporáneos más acuciantes de Europa. En este esperado y elegante regreso al tema de uno de sus libros clave, La rebelión de los catalanes, explora las llamativas similitudes y los contrastes entre las experiencias escocesa y catalana a lo largo de los últimos quinientos años, comenzando con los matrimonios reales que provocaron la unión con sus vecinos más poderosos, Inglaterra y Castilla respectivamente, y...

This award-winning reporter shows how the threat from Islamic terrorism comes not from a single criminal mastermind, or even from one group. Using hundreds of interviews and thousands of documents, Burke shows how "Al-Qaeda" is a convenient label applied misleadingly to a diverse, disorganized global movement dedicated to fighting a "cosmic battle" with the West. This book retells their story from scratch and challenges many myths that threaten the foundations of the "War on Terror."

This "festschrift" brings together authors from various countries who are specialists in different disciplines within the humanities and who share a common vision of human life. These essays in philosophical speculation, political theory, literary criticism, and historical analysis are rooted in the western cultural heritage and Christian religious tradition. Major figures examined include Aristotle, Aquinas, Thomas More, John of the Cross, Donoso Cortes, and the Spanish Carlists. The interdisciplinary and cosmopolitan nature of this "festschrift" reflects the approach and style of the man...

This bibliography, the most comprehensive yet published, contains over 4,100 citations and offers a wealth of useful information to aid the researcher in locating sources for the study of the foreign policy of the French Second Empire. It includes books, articles, doctoral dissertations, and general studies of major diplomatic history topics relating to the political, economic, social, and cultural aspects of Second Empire foreign policy that have been published between the mid-1880s and the mid 1980s in English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish.