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  • Conflict in Ancient Greece and Rome

    The Definitive Political, Social, and Military Encyclopedia [3 volumes]

    Edición de Sara Elise Phang, Iain Spence Ph.D., Douglas Kelly Ph.D., Peter Londey Ph.D. ...
    The complex role warfare played in ancient Greek and Roman civilizations is examined through coverage of key wars and battles; important leaders, armies, organizations, and weapons; and other noteworthy aspects of conflict.Conflict in Ancient Greece and Rome: The Definitive Political, Social, and Military Encyclopedia is an outstandingly comprehensive reference work on its subject. Covering wars, ... Leer más

    $4,830 MXN

  • Cesare Battisti, da Kraus in poi

    de Italo Michele Battafarano, Italo Michele Battafarano ...
    Series Libro 29 - IRIS
    Cesare Battisti, nato a Trento nel 1875 come cittadino asburgico e lì morto nel 1916, fu geografo, giornalista, socialista e irredentista italiano. Scelse di combattere nell’esercito italiano contro l’Impero austro-ungarico, affinché il Trentino fosse annesso all’Italia. Preso prigioniero sul campo di battaglia, fu processato e impiccato a Trento per alto tradimento, pur essendo ufficiale dell ... Leer más

    $2,670 MXN

  • Did European Construction Contribute to Peace?

    de René Schwok ...
    Series Libro 53 - Cité européenne / European Policy
    Supporters of European integration have always argued that it has brought peace. Yet no scientific study has ever developed a critical approach to such a claim. To remedy this surprising deficiency, the author builds a typology that will help to distinguish the two main opposing approaches to this question: that of the Europeanists and that of the Eurosceptics. The dialectical confrontation ... Leer más

    $712 MXN

  • Nutritional Policies and International Diplomacy

    The impact of Tadasu Saiki and the Imperial State Institute of Nutrition (Tokyo, 1916-1945)

    de Josep Lluis Barona Vilar ...
    Series Libro 16 - L’Europe alimentaire / European Food Issues / Europa alimentaria / L’Europa alimentare
    This book offers a general approach to the importance of nutrition and public health policies in the process of modernisation of Japan during the interwar years. It describes the origins of scientific and technical modernisation during the Edo, Meiji, and Taisho periods, including the demographic and epidemiologic background, and the birth of a public health administration parallel to the ... Leer más

    $771 MXN

  • Truber, Ungnad & Vergerio

    Territorial Churches in the Habsburg/Ottoman Borderlands

    de Benjamin Esswein ...
    Series Libro 72 - Studies in Modern European History
    Truber, Ungnad & Vergerio: Territorial Churches in the Habsburg/Ottoman Borderlands provides a critical study of Lutheran reformers in Krain, formerly a province along what is now the Croatian/Slovenian border, and acts as a case study for the rest of the Habsburg-Ottoman borderlands. Focus is given to the Austrian Habsburgs, benefactors to the reformers, who sought to adopt Johannes Brenz’ ... Leer más

    $1,945 MXN

  • Criminalizing History

    Legal Restrictions on Statements and Interpretations of the Past in Germany, Poland, Rwanda, Turkey and Ukraine

    de Klaus Bachmann ...
    Series Libro 14 - Studies in Political Transition
    Why do states ban certain statements and interpretations of the past, how do they ban them and what are the practical consequences? This book offers an answer to these questions and at the same time examines, whether the respective legislation was supply-or demand-driven and how prosecutors and courts applied it. The comparison between Germany, Poland, Ukraine, Rwanda and Turkey offers several ... Leer más

    $1,014 MXN

  • Technical Automation in Classical Antiquity

    de Dr Maria Gerolemou ...
    Technical automation – the ability of man-made (or god-made) objects to move and act autonomously – is not just the province of engineering or science fiction. In this book, Maria Gerolemou, by taking as her starting point the close semantic and linguistic relevance of technical automation to natural automatism, demonstrates how ancient literature, performance and engineering were often concerned ... Leer más

    $569 MXN

  • Tragic Heroines in Ancient Greek Drama

    de Hanna M. Roisman ...
    The heroines of Greek tragedy presented in the plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides have long captivated audiences and critics. In this volume each of the eleven chapters discusses one of the heroines: Clytemnestra, Hecuba, Medea, Iphigenia, Alcestis, Antigone Electra, Deianeira, Phaedra, Creusa and Helen. The book focuses on characterisation and the motivations of the women, as well as on ... Leer más

    $499 MXN

  • The Hero Cults of Sparta

    Local Religion in a Greek City

    de Dr Nicolette A. Pavlides ...
    This book examines the hero-cults of Sparta on the basis of the archaeological and literary sources. Nicolette Pavlides explores the local idiosyncrasies of a pan-Hellenic phenomenon, which itself can help us understand the place and function of heroes in Greek religion. Although it has long been noted that hero-cult was especially popular in Sparta, there is little known about the cults, both in ... Leer más

    $555 MXN

  • Looking at Ajax

    Edición de David Stuttard ...
    Ajax is perhaps the earliest of Sophocles' tragedies, yet the issues at its heart remain profoundly resonant today. Set in the Greek encampment during the siege of Troy, it traces not just the story of a respected war hero's mental breakdown but (like Sophocles' Antigone) the treatment of an enemy's remains and the management of his memory. Pitting the fate of the individual against not just his ... Leer más

    $597 MXN

  • The Violent Hero

    Heracles in the Greek Imagination

    de Professor Katherine Lu Hsu ...
    This book uses the mythological hero Heracles as a lens for investigating the nature of heroic violence in Archaic and Classical Greek literature, from Homer through to Aristophanes. Heracles was famous for his great victories as much as for his notorious failures. Driving each of these acts is his heroic violence, an ambivalent force that can offer communal protection as well as cause grievous ... Leer más

    $597 MXN

  • Plato and Demosthenes

    Recovering the Old Academy

    de William H. F. Altman ...
    Universally regarded as Plato’s student in antiquity, it is the eloquent and patriotic orator Demosthenes—not the pro-Macedonian Aristotle who tutored Alexander the Great—who returned to the dangerous Cave of political life, and thus makes it possible to recover the Old Academy. In Plato and Demosthenes: Recovering the Old Academy, William H. F. Altman explores how Demosthenes—along with Phocion, ... Leer más

    $576 MXN

  • The Homeric Question Revisited

    An Essay on the History of the Ancient Greeks

    de Dimitris G. Michalopoulos ...
    How did Socrates and Plato know that our planet is shaped like a ball? How were they aware that the earth has twelve tectonic plates? Were the Persians conquered at the naval battle of Salamis thanks to missiles launched from the nearby Thriasion Plain? How can Theocritus’ accurate knowledge of the American continent and Plutarch’s awareness of the Sargasso Sea be explained? Who was the real ... Leer más

    $1,728 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Greek Sanctuaries and Temple Architecture

    An Introduction

    de Mary Emerson ...
    Assuming no prior knowledge, this book introduces the reader to a selection of sites and temples, exploring them in detail and explaining all technical terms along the way. Intended for college-level students and the interested general reader, this book aims to equip the student of Greek architecture for further study, and can also serve as a handbook for visitors to the sanctuaries.The book ... Leer más

    $410 MXN

  • Greek Tragedy in a Global Crisis

    Reading through Pandemic Times

    de Professor Mario Telò ...
    What does it mean to read Greek tragedy in a pandemic, a global crisis? How can Greek tragedy address urgent contemporary troubles? One of the outstanding and most widely read theorists in the discipline, Mario Telò, brings together a deep understanding of Greek tragedy and its most famous icons with contemporary times. In close readings of plays such as Alcestis, Antigone, Bacchae, Hecuba, ... Leer más

    $410 MXN

  • Parmenides’ Vision

    A Study of Parmenides’ Poem

    de Stuart B. Martin ...
    This book intends to establish, against his numerous modern critics, that the ancient philosopher Parmenides was a mystic. Instead of arriving at his conclusions by cold reason, Parmenides found the unity of Being, which he called “the Truth,” by turning to a life of meditation. His use of reason throughout his poem was not intended to discover the Truth, but to undermine those who would disallow ... Leer más

    $1,558 MXN

  • Auschwitz im Kontext

    Die ehemaligen Konzentrationslager im gegenwaertigen europaeischen Gedaechtnis

    Edición de Bogusław Dybaś, Irmgard Nöbauer, Ljiljana Radonić ...
    Das Buch ist eine Bestandsaufnahme der KZ-Gedenkstättenlandschaft in Österreich und Polen. Die Autoren gehen der Frage nach, welchen Stellenwert Auschwitz als Pars pro Toto für die nationalsozialistischen Konzentrations- und Vernichtungslager im Diskurs über den Zweiten Weltkrieg einnimmt. Dieser Frage wird vor dem Hintergrund der Erinnerungsarbeit und Museumspädagogik von Gedenkstätten und Museen ... Leer más

    $970 MXN

  • Alcestis

    de Euripides ...
    Euripides was one of the three great tragedians of classical Athens, the other two being Aeschylus and Sophocles. Some ancient scholars attributed ninety-five plays to him, of these, eighteen or nineteen have survived complete. Euripides is identified with theatrical innovations that have profoundly influenced drama down to modern times, especially in the representation of traditional, mythical ... Leer más

    $19 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Famous Men of Greece

    de John H. Haaren ...
    Greeks were history's great men of thought. John Haaren has collected stories from the lives of thirty famous Greek Men, detailing the rise, Golden Age, and fall of Greece. Among these men are Aristotle, Ptolemy, Ulysses, Pericles, and Alexander the Great. Your children will be delighted to read and understand why the scope of Greek accomplishment is still known today as "The Greek Miracle." ... Leer más

    $40 MXN

  • Lysistrata

    de Aristophanes ...
    Lysistrata persuades the women of Greece to withhold sexual privileges from their husbands and lovers as a means of forcing the men to negotiate peace - a strategy, however, that inflames the battle between the sexes. The play is notable for being an early exposé of sexual relations in a male-dominated society. ... Leer más

    $20 MXN

  • Shores of Vespucci

    A historical research of Amerigo Vespucci’s life and contexts in collaboration with Francisco Contente Domingues

    de Angelo Cattaneo, Francisco Contente Domingues ...
    Series Libro 12 - passagem
    This volume aims to advance the analysis about Amerigo Vespucci by considering and connecting several fields of study such as literary history, philology, the history of science and cartography, economic history, and the history of ideas. The multifaceted research frames guide the reader through the complex vicissitudes of Amerigo Vespucci's life. The receptions and implications explore the ... Leer más

    $945 MXN

  • Renaissance Craftsmen and Humanistic Scholars

    Circulation of Knowledge between Portugal and Germany

    de Marília dos Santos Lopes ...
    Series Libro 10 - passagem
    The study of the relations between Portugal and the German-speaking countries in the 15th and 16th centuries is an intriguing topic that has attracted the interest of scholars for some decades. In recent years evidence accumulated has shown that there was still much to be known and even some large areas were still unexplored. In order to better grasp the nature of what was a complex historical ... Leer más

    $1,114 MXN

  • The United States Immigration Policy and Immigrants’ Responses

    Past and Present

    Edición de Agnieszka Malek, Dorota Praszalowicz ...
    Series Libro 4 - Migration – Ethnicity – Nation: Studies in Culture, Society and Politics
    The contributions in this book focus on U.S. migration policies, receiving society, ethnic communities and return migration. The authors analyze various aspects of migratory history ranging from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century. They cover such topics as the times when Eastern European immigrants in the USA encountered hostility and marginalization, the efforts to create American Polonia ... Leer más

    $1,114 MXN

  • The Church Histories" of Theodore Lector and John Diakrinomenos

    de Philip Rance, Rafał Kosiński, Kamilla Twardowska, Aneta Zabrocka, Adrian Szopa ...
    Series Libro 11 - Studies in Classical Literature and Culture
    This book provides the reader with a comprehensive edition of the Church Histories by John Diakrinomenos and Theodore Lector. It contains the original texts along with translations into English and a commentary. We offer a completely new edition, which should be a convenient tool to be used by the researchers. We have made a clear distinction between what is certainly the content that comes from ... Leer más

    $1,167 MXN