Espacios, climas y aventuras: El Galeón de Filipinas y la fragata de las Marianas en el Pacífico occidental (1680-1700)

The book edited by researchers Thomas Calvo and Paulina Machuca - both members of the project "Proyecto Vencer la distancia" (Overcoming the distance) - comprises the participation of fourteen specialists in the discipline of social sciences. "If the Philippines and Mexico had had very close relationships in the two and a half centuries that the Manila Galleon was sailing (1565-1815), the relations diluted when Mexico chose Independence and the Philippines continued under Spanish domain until 1898. It was precisely these years of disagreement that we were interested in: like all the periods...

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La publicación de El moderno sistema mundial supuso el comienzo de una verdadera revolución en la historiografía y un fuerte impulso al renacimiento de la sociología histórica. Más allá de las discrepancias y las polémicas a las que ha dado origen, esta obra es ya un clásico que constituye un ambicioso intento de reconstruir la historia de la actual sociedad capitalista partiendo de una perspectiva global. Su argumento central es que el moderno sistema mundial toma la forma de una economía-mundo capitalista, que tuvo su génesis en Europa en el siglo XVI e implicó la...

Con ocasión de la polémica feminista que tuvo lugar en las primeras décadas del siglo XX, la periodista madrileña Margarita Nelken (1894-1968) preconizó la reforma de aquellas normas jurídicas y usos sociales que, por su cariz androcéntrico, discriminaban a la mujer española. En aras de mejorar la condición femenina y, por ende, de equilibrar las relaciones de poder entre ambos sexos, promovió la formación intelectual y laboral de la mujer, su incorporación al mer­cado de trabajo, su independencia económica y su emancipación moral y política respecto al va­rón. A pesar de...

As a veteran Israeli guide I realised that there was no concise history book for the amateur historian wanting to understand the complex history of this small piece of land nestled between Egypt and the Fertile Crescent so I wrote and published this book in 1996. An updated edition was published in 2000 and the third edition in 2010. My greatest joy is when people who are not history buffs tell me they enjoyed the book and learnt from it.