Madrid, 1939

Examine new trends in the writing of new history—and what they mean to information science! History has been devalued, causing a lack of career prospects for historians, a decrease in vocations to the history profession, and historical discontinuity between generations. History Under Debate: International Reflection on the Discipline is a recap of the crucial Second International Historia a Debate conference, held on July 17, 1999 in Santiago de Compostela. This book details the comparative critical perspectives on history, historians, their audiences, and the coming trends that will...

Como historiador ya consagrado por sus estudios acerca del iluminismo, Franco Venturi es invitado a dictar en Cambridge una serie de conferencias a partir de la célebre pregunta kantiana "¿Qué es la Ilustración?". Venturi propone una brillante y documentada introducción a la "circulación de las ideas" en la Europa moderna, fundamental para comprender sus valores y debates. Así, llega al núcleo de su respuesta, el derecho a castigar, que oscila entre la "utopía" igualitaria y la "reforma" de las sociedades, tanto en lo político como en las formas jurídicas, éticas, culturales....

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This powerful book tells the story of Anne Skorecki Levy, a Holocaust survivor who transformed the horrors of her childhood into a passionate mission to defeat the political menace of reputed neo-Nazi and Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke. The first book to connect the prewar and wartime experiences of Jewish survivors to the lives they subsequently made for themselves in the United States, Troubled Memory is also a dramatic testament to how the experiences of survivors as new Americans spurred their willingness to bear witness. Perhaps the only family to survive the liquidation of the Warsaw...