La Puebla del Río

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Los últimos veinte años han supuesto un giro radical respecto al siglo de las grandes guerras. Todo empezó con los atentados del 11-S, que desencadenaron la invasión de Afganistán, y se cierran irónicamente con los talibanes recuperando Kabul mientras Occidente se halla sumido en una pandemia inesperada. Dos décadas en que el mundo ha cambiado a una velocidad de vértigo. Solo la mano experta de un historiador como José Enrique Ruiz-Domènec puede guiarnos en lo más disruptivo de este siglo XXI, desde la inteligencia artificial hasta el peso de la propaganda o los populismos,...

Given P. Naster's numismatic, art historical, and archaeological background, and his expertise in Classical and Ancient Near Eastern subjects, the presentations to his 'Festschrift' cover a broad thematic and temporal span. The papers of volume II may be divided into the following general categories: philology (including general, Greek/Latin, Egyptian, South Arabian, Hebrew, Persian), Assyriology, Art History, Egyptology, and Anthropology, History, Hittite/Anatolian studies, Persian religion, and historical geography. Obviously, some studies will cover more than one definitive area.

"Porfirio Díaz, president of Mexico (1876-1880, 1884-1911), dominated his country during a crucial phase in its development as a modern nation. This profile places the regime in its appropriate nineteenth-century context, highlighting the difficulty of implementing liberal policies in societies with strong colonial traditions, and of balancing material development with order and stability"--Back cover.