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...

Este trabajo pretende arrojar luz sobre un aspecto de nuestra historia tan controvertido como poco estudiado. A través del análisis del caso cántabro, el autor elabora una reflexión del conflicto clerical-anticlerical que, en ningún modo, quiere perder de vista las implicaciones nacionales, e incluso europeas, del mismo.

Atti del Convegno internazionale di studi sul Mediterraneo svoltosi a Genova il 9-10 dicembre 2004. Nell'anno in cui Genova è stata nominata capitale europea della cultura, il convegno discute in tre sezioni – relitti, commerci ed arti figurative – i più recenti risultati degli scavi subacquei e non, riguardanti il triangolo occidentale del Mediterraneo da Populonia alla Spagna. Alcune relazioni presentano scavi giunti all’attenzione del grande pubblico, come quelli delle navi di Pisa-S.Rossore o della metropolitana di Napoli; ma tutti riflettono l’interesse per gli uomini che...

Este libro propone una aproximación a la noción de utopía desde la historia cultural, reinsertando al relato utópico publicado en lengua francesa en el siglo XVII dentro de procesos históricos más amplios, tales como la competencia ultramarina, el nacimiento del escepticismo religioso y el celo en la divulgación del conocimiento del mundo en la modernidad temprana. A partir de estas tres grandes coordenadas de lectura, se plantea que por las características que adquirieron los relatos utópicos publicados en lengua francesa entre 1616 y 1710, además de dar cuenta de la situación...

The Second World War began in August 1939 on the edge of Manchuria and ended there exactly six years later with the Soviet invasion of northern China. The war in Europe appeared completely divorced from the war in the Pacific and China, and yet events on opposite sides of the world had profound effects. Using the most up-to-date scholarship and research, Beevor assembles the whole picture in a gripping narrative that extends from the North Atlantic to the South Pacific and from the snowbound steppe to the North African Desert. Although filling the broadest canvas on a heroic scale, Beevor's...