HISTORIA ANTIGUA DE LA PENÍNSULA IBÉRICA

En un mundo como el actual los historiadores necesitan un enfoque global; pero eso no se consigue con una simple extensión del campo examinado en las viejas historias de estados y naciones, sino que requiere métodos nuevos, adecuados al estudio de los grandes problemas de nuestro tiempo. Sebastian Conrad examina aquí el desarrollo de las distintas visiones de la historia mundial, desde Herodoto o Ibn Jaldun hasta Toynbee, McNeill o Wallerstein, y las respuestas recientes —historia comparada, transnacional, postcolonial, de la globalización...— para proponernos los fundamentos de un...

From the first crude stone tools used by man two-and-a-half million years ago up to the early medieval period, this eye-opening journey through human innovations draws on modern science and the latest research to explore some of history's most fascinating inventions. Beginning with the basic technologies of stone and fire, bone and wood, the survey moves on to answer such fundamental questions as How and where did agriculture evolve? and How did Romans and others heat and plumb their dwellings? This unique guide to some of humanity's most remarkable inventions is a testimony to the brilliant...

"Si queremos que el Holocausto no se convierta en cualquier cosa o en nada, si no queremos banalizarlo, es preciso definirlo estrictamente. Y, lejos del juicio de intenciones, la mejor forma de hacerlo es señalando sus coordenadas espaciotemporales y su singular carácter político: el Holocausto es una cuestión de Estado."--Casadellibro.

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