Resultados para "La tempestad" en Europa

The French Revolutionary Wars catapulted Britain into a conflict against a new enemy: Republican France. Britain relied on the Royal Navy to protect its shores and empire, but as radical ideas about rights and liberty spread across the globe, it could not prevent the spirit of revolution from reaching its ships. In this insightful history, James Davey tells the story of Britain's Royal Navy across the turbulent 1790s. As resistance and rebellion swept through the fleets, the navy itself became a political battleground.

In this comprehensive and stimulating biography, Kathryn Tempest delves into contemporary sources to bring to light the personal and political struggles Brutus faced. As the details are revealed - from his own correspondence with Cicero, from the perceptions of his peers, and from the Roman aristocratic values and concepts that held sway in his time - Brutus emerges from legend, revealed to us more surely than ever before.

Voi conoscete i Pirati come gente spietata, predoni del mare, ma non e' l'unica realtà; c'è ben altro che la società per ovvi motivi non vi ha raccontato. Chiaro che chi era dedito a delinquere sulla terra ferma ha sfruttato quella che è stata un'epoca fiorente per il traffico marittimo per insidiarsi, razziare, saccheggiare, delinquere, assaltare ed uccidere... Ma se vi dicessi che tutto questo non è altro che un solo punto di vista di ciò che è stato? Benvenuti dall'altra parte della storia!

The Essay is a BBC Radio series exploring cultural topics. In these five episodes, I Confess: The Power of the Confession looks at the history of confessions, which links the legal world of Cicero to our own. In Episode one, Dr Kathryn Tempest of Roehampton University excavates the roots of one...