Resultados para "Furia" en Historia

Como culminación de cincuenta años de estudio e investigación sobre la antigua Roma, Mary Beard, profesora de la Universidad de Cambridge, nos ofrece una magistral visión de conjunto de su historia: una historia que, nos dice, «al cabo de dos mil años, sigue siendo la base de nuestra...

Dos destacados historiadores clásicos cuentan la historia del mayor anfiteatro de Roma, un monumento visitado por dos millones de personas al año. La Roma imperial fue un estado guerrero. El Coliseo (inaugurado en el año 80 d.C.) fue el monumento de Roma a la guerra. Como una catedral de la...

Un viaje fascinante por la vida, las ruinas y las controversias del Partenón, de la mano de la gran divulgadora del mundo clásico, Mary Beard. Desde hace más de dos mil años, el Partenón domina la Acrópolis de Atenas como uno de los símbolos universales de la civilización clásica. Pero...

«Vivimos en un mundo en que la mayoría de los estados son democracias parlamentarias basadas en constituciones que garantizan los derechos y las libertades de todos los ciudadanos, pero donde los gobiernos elegidos cuidan sobre todo de favorecer los intereses económicos de las grandes...

Mary Beard nos demuestra que los clásicos siguen impotrando ¿Qué tiene de emocionante un trozo de pan de hace 4.000 años? ¿O unas vasijas de pintura abandonadas durante la erupción de Pompeya? ¿Por qué deberíamos interesarnos por un pasado tan remoto? ¿Qué puede decirnos hoy? La vida...

Sigue el día a día de los ciudadanos romanos, acompañándolos por las calles de la capital, los templos, los palacios, los barrios bajos, hasta las arenas del circo. «El barco en el que viaja Aniceto rumbo a Roma (…) llega por fin a Ostia, puerto de la capital. Desde allí, se dirige...

From the early 19th century, the image of an American empire extending to both coasts became a rallying cry. The Pacific Ocean represented, in Jefferson's mind, the most effective western border. His view was in part inaccurate, as he expected the Rocky Mountains to resemble the gentler Appalachians, not a range of American Alps.

Like many Germans, Berlin schoolboy Erwin Bartmann fell under the spell of the Zeitgeist cultivated by the Nazis. Convinced he was growing up in the best country in the world, he dreamt of joining the Leibstandarte, Hitler's elite Waffen SS unit. Tall, blond, blue-eyed, and just 17-years-old, Erwin fulfilled his dream on Mayday 1941, when he gave up his apprenticeship at the Glaser bakery in Memeler Strasse and walked into the Lichterfelde barracks in Berlin as a raw, volunteer recruit.

From the bestselling author of Leviathan comes this sweeping narrative of one of America’s most historically rich industries. Beginning his epic history in the early 1600s, Eric Jay Dolin traces the dramatic rise and fall of the American fur trade industry, from the first Dutch encounters with the Indians to the rise of the conservation movement in the late nineteenth century.

La vita e le imprese di Geronimo, l'ultimo grande guerriero Apache, vengono narrate da Richard J. Samuelson con straordinaria intensità. Quella di Geronimo è stata una parabola esistenziale leggendaria, una vita spesa a combattere una battaglia purtroppo già persa in partenza contro l'Occidente e contro la modernità, inseguendo un mondo che ormai stava definitivamente sparendo.

Like other major cities and the nation overall, the 20th century portended massive growth for Milwaukee, especially as rail and other forms of transportation helped connect the city to the rest of Wisconsin and beyond. With that growth came the growing pains of an industrial city gripped with all the plights of urban development and expansion, but despite that, the people of Milwaukee entered the new century in high hopes: hopes that survived the harsh realities of a century sundered by war, racism, and poverty.

Few cities epitomize the best and worst of the United States like Detroit, which started as a remote trading post and grew into an industrious town before exploding into a bustling city. That city then fell, leaving a legacy of anger and despair only recently beginning to turn things around. At the same time, the same mighty city that proved capable of arming a nation at war found itself seething with social conflict. The massive labor force fought hard for their rights, as did the African-Americans fleeing Jim Crow in the South.

Peter Skene Ogden was a Canadian fur trader and explorer. As a zealous member of Canada’s North West Fur Company, his vicious campaign against Hudson’s Bay Company members marked him as one of the most dangerous personalities on the continent, unpredictable and capable of the lowest tactics for unseating the great British power.

Though the importance of hats is easy to overlook, it was deadly serious in more ways than one, impacting the beavers and birds used to make fashionable hats, the environment of the region, and the people fighting over the resources. Beaver hats put the Dutch, British, and French in conflict, and later the Americans and Canadians.

The Great Lakes fur trade spanned two centuries and thousands of miles, but the story of one particular family, the Cadottes, illuminates the history of trade and trapping while exploring under-researched stories of French-Ojibwe political, social, and economic relations. Multiple generations of Cadottes were involved in the trade, usually working as interpreters and peacemakers, as the region passed from French to British to American control.