Resultados para "Benjamin" en Europa

Entre 1960 y 1975 más de tres millones de españoles salieron de su patria con destino a Europa impulsados por el atraso económico de la España franquista. El régimen aprovechó una coyuntura europea favorable para deshacerse del excedente de fuerza de trabajo y conseguir una considerable fuente de divisas con la que financiar el desarrollo económico. Los principales países de acogida fueron Francia, Alemania y Suiza, que ya entonces tenían una demografía menguante pero unas necesidades de mano de obra crecientes.

¿España está condenada o simplemente mal contada? Durante décadas nos han repetido que España no tiene remedio. Que somos diferentes, incorregibles, un caso perdido. Pero, ¿y si esa resignación no fuera más que el resultado de una hábil estrategia de ingeniería cultural? ¿Y si el problema no estuviera en los españoles, sino en la forma en que nos han enseñado a vernos, en cómo nos narramos a nosotros mismos como país?

Este libro no solo relata batallas y conquistas, sino que también explora las sutiles maniobras de diplomacia y espionaje que aseguraron el dominio español en territorios remotos y cortes extranjeras. Descubre cómo la lengua y la cultura españolas se entrelazaron con destinos globales, moldeando el futuro de continentes enteros.

¿Quién fue realmente Miguel de Cervantes? ¿Un genio literario o un aventurero con más intereses en el comercio que en las letras? ¿Por qué fue un escritor tardío? Soldado en Lepanto, cautivo en Argel, comerciante y cobrador de impuestos, Cervantes vivió entre aventuras y constantes reinvenciones, con una vida marcada por intrigas, dudas sobre su fe y relaciones tan misteriosas como polémicas.

En algunos de los grandes momentos de nuestra historia, los reyes y reinas encontraban en el amor el sosiego, la pasión y la inspiración necesaria para tomar las decisiones más importantes. Santiago Ogando, divulgador histórico detrás de la popular cuenta de Instagram @historiasporlahistoria, nos sumerge en un magnífico y original recorrido a través de las vidas de los reyes y reinas de España.

La gesta de la nación más antigua de Europa creada, con no pocos sinsabores, a lo largo de treinta siglos de historia. Contar la historia de España desde sus orígenes, en la prehistoria, hasta la actualidad, de un modo conciso y divulgativo puede parecer una tarea titánica, a ratos imposible, pero es la tarea que emprende Luis E. Íñigo en esta Breve Historia de España I.

Cuáles fueron los verdaderos motivos que desataron la Reforma de Lutero? ¿Cómo reaccionaron el Papa y el Imperio frente al desafío luterano? ¿Cuál fue la auténtica primera reforma de la Iglesia? ¿Existieron, realmente, las iglesias reformadas como tal? ¿Llegó tarde el Concilio de Trento? ¿Qué supuso la mal llamada "contrarreforma" en nuestra historia? ¿En qué consistió, en realidad, la tan renombrada Pax Catholica? ¿El movimiento reformista se adueñó del relato que ha llegado a nuestros días?

El relato de los tres últimos siglos en la historia de España: el vertiginoso proceso de la elaboración de un estado que aún hoy no está exento de debate y polémica. La historia de España desde el S. XVIII a la actualidad es un relato vertiginoso que el autor sabe hacernos llegar con toda la tensión de estos tres últimos siglos.

In 1875, Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli purchased 44 percent of the Suez Canal’s stock from the bankrupt Egyptian Khedive. He did not consult Parliament, but rather, acted quickly to obtain relative control over this vital point in British trade routes. Disraeli delivered this speech to the House of Commons in 1876, explaining his decision. This choice was ultimately both popular and profitable, and it has been noted as one of Disraeli’s greatest acts as prime minister.

British statesman Benjamin Disraeli delivered this commanding speech in 1872. His imperialistic ideals informed his Conservative political platform as he advocated for maintaining the British Empire. He asked his audience if they were content to be a “comfortable England,” or if they preferred the glory of remaining “a great country - an imperial country - a country where your sons, when they rise, rise to paramount positions, and obtain not merely the esteem of their countrymen, but command the respect of the world.”

Between 1959 and 1989, Soviet scientists and officials made numerous attempts to network their nation - to construct a nationwide computer network. None of these attempts succeeded, and the enterprise had been abandoned by the time the Soviet Union fell apart. Meanwhile, ARPANET, the American precursor to the Internet, went online in 1969. Why did the Soviet network, with top-level scientists and patriotic incentives, fail while the American network succeeded? Find out.

Anyone who has glimpsed the long, mountainous, island-studded Dalmatian coast would surely agree that its beauty is little short of divine. Croatia, quite simply, is blessed with some of the most spectacular scenery on the planet, and its history is equally captivating. A Traveller's History of Croatia offers tourists and travellers an inside look at how the country's cultural fusion of Mediterranean, Central European and Balkan influences has given it a tumultuous past.

In The First Fleets, Benjamin C. Schaffer reveals how, contrary to widespread beliefs, the American colonies had a long tradition of independent naval defense decades before the Revolution. He demonstrates that Anglo-American governments established and maintained significant provincial naval forces and that the history of provincial navies illuminates broader aspects of colonial history and the colonies' ultimate break with the British Crown. Based on meticulous research, Schaffer recounts the sea-borne threats that American colonies faced from the French, Spanish, pirates, and others.

New York City, the strategic center of the Revolutionary War, was the most important place in North America in 1776. That summer, an unruly rebel army under George Washington repeatedly threatened to burn the city rather than let the British take it. Shortly after the Crown's forces took New York City, much of it mysteriously burned to the ground.

This book has a timely message as the UK attempts to struggle out of the chaos of Brexit. It asks the question, should the majority carry the vote? If the answer to that question is yes then we have a lot to consider. Do our leaders always serve us well? Have they got our interests before their own? Should we just follow like sheep? The author asks some searching questions and finds some disturbing answers. This is a book that needs to be listened to - before it is too late.

As Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch labored to make a place for themselves in a male-dominated world, as they made friendships and families, and as they drifted toward and away from each other, they never stopped insisting that some lives are better than others. Drawing on a cluster of recently opened archives and extensive correspondence and interviews with those who knew them best, Benjamin Lipscomb traces the lives and ideas of four friends who gave us a better way to think about ethics, and ourselves.

We live in an age of unprecedented prosperity, yet everywhere we see signs that our pursuit of happiness has proven fruitless. Dissatisfied, we seek change for the sake of change - even if it means undermining the foundations of our common life. In Why We Are Restless, Benjamin and Jenna Storey offer a profound and beautiful reflection on the roots of this malaise and examine how we might begin to cure ourselves.

One man had a single goal…to eliminate Hitler from the face of the Earth. Living as a carpenter who had spent time working in a watch factory, Georg Elser was just an ordinary member of society living in Munich. That is, however, until he took it upon himself to attempt to assassinate the Fhrer, Adolph Hitler. Being a common man who opposed the Nazi regime, Elser took the skills from his craft and worked to assemble his own bomb detonator.

Alexander Domokos wrote this memoir of his years during and after the Second World War with two purposes in mind. He wanted to allow his daughter a glimpse into his past and to enlighten others about the tragedy of his homeland, Hungary.

The Victorian era was a time of great change and rapid progress. Britain was undergoing the most tremendous development. Scientific discoveries had prompted the Industrial Revolution, which made Britain the world leader in iron and steel production. Science was undergoing a revolution, enabled by the groundbreaking work of Michael Faraday, who led the Royal Institution. Great swathes of Central Africa were mapped by the explorer David Livingstone and the understanding of humankind’s place in the world was being redefined by the theories of the great naturalist Charles Darwin.