Un baile de máscaras

Thirteen papers from a conference held in Barcelona in 2005 on the subject of 'War and territory in the Roman world: historical and archaeological approaches'. The contributors consider the relationship between the army and society, between the emperor and his army, between warfare and the environment, as well as more specific subjects: the representation of military power; the relationship between local and central power, especially at the frontiers of the empire; imperial administration; changes in imagery on coinage; war and the management of human and material resources. Seven of the...

A retelling in English and Spanish of fifteen traditional tales from a variety of Latin American countries.

The election of Solon to Archon in the early 6th century BC paved the way for a series of political and religious reforms in Athens. This is not an exhaustive history of those reforms, but it is a discussive and analytical essay on the nature of religion, society, politics and institutions before, during and after Solon's legislation.

Pasquino analiza el fen meno revolucionario de la realizaci n y multiplicaci n de la democracia, sus interrogantes y sus problemas; la caracteriza como el m s exigente de los reg menes pol ticos: rigurosa con los ciudadanos de quienes requiere una participaci n consistente, con los gobernantes que deben librarse del peso f sico y psicol gico de sus intereses privados, y consigo misma, porque impone una verificaci n peri dica de su consenso.