Colección de relatos, micro-relatos, historias y anécdotas. Introducción de Amparo Carballo Blanco.

"El libro cuenta la evolución histórica en lo que se refiere a tácticas y tecnología (armamento) desde la Edad Moderna " toma de Constantinopla por los turcos en 1453 " hasta el 11-S y el derrocamiento de Sadam Hussein en Irak. La obra se divide en 6 capítulos, muy bien estructurados, y en los que siempre se habla de las armas, tácticas e incluso algunas estrategias de los tiempos estudiados." (Blog Mr. Gorsky) "En cualquier caso, su lectura resulta muy recomendable pues permite comprender y analizar de forma mucho más certera determinadas claves de las relaciones internacionales en las últimas centurias, a la par que es una obra de consulta muy adecuada para el análisis de cualquier conflicto bélico." (Revista de Historia Online, No 24, 2011) Un recorrido de seis siglos, de las primeras armas de fuego a la bomba atómica, que da cuenta de las relaciones entre industria, diplomacia y destrucción. La entrada de los países europeos en la modernidad no es ajena, como ningún proceso histórico, al desarrollo armamentístico y militar: los imperios de españoles, portugueses, británicos u holandeses se consiguieron y se administraron con pólvora. Breve Historia de la Guerra Moderna nos descubrirá la evolución del armamento y de las tácticas bélicas comenzando en la toma de Constantinopla, en 1453, y concluyendo en los atentados del 11-S y en la posterior Guerra de Irak que concluirá con el derrocamiento de Sadam Hussein. Veremos a lo largo de este recorrido, el proceso mediante el cual la guerra y el armamento se van incorporando como herramienta diplomática en las complejas relaciones internacionales del S. XX.

Robert ScheinaÆs latest book, drawn upon years of research, lecturing, and teaching in the field, is a groundbreaking and definitive study of Latin American military history. Despite the pivotal role of wars in U.S. history, few in the United States under.

In a saturated and complex workd of information, how can students be helped to seek, evaluate and verify information? Over the past two decades, the use of the internet and social media has enabled wider and faster access to information around the world. In doing so, however, it has also opened the door to misinformation, manipulation, fake news and political propaganda. Every industry, institution and individual person has had to adapt to this influx of unreliable information, and many organisations have begun to adopt new policies and issue recommendations on how to manage this new way of life. The publication Toolkit for history classes – Debunking fake news and fostering critical thinking is a co-ordinated response by the European Union and Council of Europe to this phenomenon. The toolkit is a resource for history teachers to help their students learn how to deconstruct and question fake news through historical sources and topics that relate the past to the present. The toolkit aligns with the values and priorities of the European Union and Council of Europe, as both institutions have worked for many years to draw attention to the dangers caused by disinformation and the manipulation of history. The toolkit was designed for teachers to show students not only how to recognise fake news when they see it, but also understand why it was created and become aware of the minority communities who are most often the target of this manipulated information.

An account of the fierce repression and economic misery in wartime Spain 1936-45.

The Limits of Liberty chronicles the formation of the U.S.-Mexico border from the perspective of the “mobile peoples” who assisted in determining the international boundary from both sides in the mid-nineteenth century. In this historic and timely study, James David Nichols argues against the many top-down connotations that borders carry, noting that the state cannot entirely dominate the process of boundary marking. Even though there were many efforts on the part of the United States and Mexico to define the new international border as a limit, mobile peoples continued to transgress the border and cross it with impunity. Transborder migrants reimagined the dividing line as a gateway to opportunity rather than as a fence limiting their movement. Runaway slaves, Mexican debt peones, and seminomadic Native Americans saw liberty on the other side of the line and crossed in search of greater opportunity. In doing so they devised their own border epistemology that clashed with official understandings of the boundary. These divergent understandings resulted in violence with the crossing of vigilantes, soldiers, and militias in search of fugitives and runaways. The Limits of Liberty explores how the border attracted migrants from both sides and considers border-crossers together, whereas most treatments thus far have considered discrete social groups along the border. Mining Mexican archival sources, Nichols is one of the first scholars to explore the nuance of negotiation that took place between the state and mobile peoples in the formation of borders.