Colección diplomática del monasterio cisterciense de Valbuena de Duero, S. XI-XV

This study looks at the concepts of society, space, urbanism, expansion and organisation in the transition from Late Antiquity to the medieval period in Castile, Spain. Escalona reviews the evidence for the Iron Age and Roman antecedents in this area and details the history of fragmentation of the different territories within it, especially under the Visigoths and prior to the medieval period. Escalona discusses the development of a series of territories including Juarros, Carazo, Barbadillo and Salas, and focuses in particular on Lara which, by the middle of the 11th century, had become the...

¿Cómo abarcar en una biografía una personalidad y una actividad política tan complejas como las de Winston Churchill? Richard Toye, profesor de la Universidad de Exeter, ha tenido la idea de coordinar para ello a un equipo de especialistas que han investigado diversos aspectos de su vida, entre los cuales figuran historiadores de tanto relieve como Jeremy Black, Richard Overy o Chris Wrigley, para que cada uno se ocupe del período de la vida de Churchill, o del aspecto de su actividad política, que mejor conozca. Tenemos así una sucesión de capítulos que, comenzando con sus primeros...

Con el estilo novelesco y el rigor periodístico ya probados en su best seller «Operación Traviata» -que develó los entretelones del asesinato de Rucci-, Ceferino Reato cuenta la primera acción armada de Montoneros contra un cuartel, el Regimiento de Infantería de Monte 29, en Formosa, desde una perspectiva lúcida y polémica..

Augusto Pinochet was the most important Third World dictator of the Cold War, and perhaps the most ruthless. In The Dictator's Shadow, United Nations Ambassador Heraldo Munoz takes advantage of his unmatched set of perspectives -- as a former revolutionary who fought the Pinochet regime, as a respected scholar, and as a diplomat -- to tell what this extraordinary figure meant to Chile, the United States, and the world. Pinochet's American backers saw his regime as a bulwark against Communism; his nation was a testing ground for U.S.-inspired economic theories. Countries desiring World Bank...