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A comprehensive study of a wide range of Andalusian ivory artefacts from the Middle Ages. As well as examining the Late Roman background to Hispano-Muslim ivory working, the book gives weight to the full chronological span of muslim rule in Spain, although it does not ignore the most famous pieces from the 10th and 11th centuries. The corpus which is presented allows new insights on production and its social and political contexts, on chronology, and on iconographic considerations

¿Cómo los indios de los Andes sintieron y vivieron el impacto de la Conquista y las primeras décadas de la colonización? Este estudio pionero del historiador francés Nathan Wachtel, formado en el círculo de la denominada escuela de los Annales, se ha propuesto escribir la historia desde la perspectiva de los vencidos, descolonizando la historiografía misma. Ello no significó solamente registrar la explotación y el atropello del que fueron víctimas los indígenas. Significó también reconstruir el mecanismo que estructuró la civilización de los Andes y explicitar la lógica que...

With this book, C. Wright Mills marked the difference with the elites that decide the future of their country, even when they are a minority in their country. And at the same time, he inspects closely the relation between the powerful groups in the US with the mass society and the equilibrium theory. This new edition contains an epilogue made by Alan Wolfe, in which Wolfe explain the most significant changes that have occur in the structure of the country since the first publication of the book in 1956.

You can confront a stupid individual or a group of stupid people identified as such, but when the way people live and the way they are governed are possessed by stupidity, it seems impossible to reverse the situation. So how do we fight something that drags us down? You can fight fascism, communism, and many «isms» but can you fight stupidity when it is systemic and you yourself are part of the problem and justify totally absurd things? To try to answer these questions, the author ironizes about the misinterpreted welfare state and a single thought that surrounds us more and more.