“…This volume centers on the eastern United States from the 1750s to the start of the Civil War. An authoritative contribution to the history of the United States' violent path toward building a continental empire, this ambitious and well-researched book deepens our understanding of the seizure of indigenous lands, including the use of treaties to create the appearance of Native consent to dispossession. …”

“…Coverage ranges from biopics (Gandhi), meticulous restagings (Apollo 13), and true crime (Bonnie and Clyde) to documentaries such as the World War II newsreels Why We Fight and Ken Burns's The Civil War. Historic dramas come up big at the Oscars. …”
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“…Presentación del editor: "This book provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary study of the multiple legacies of Francoist violence in contemporary Spain, with a special focus on the exhumations of mass graves from the Civil War and post-war era. The various contributions frame their study within a broader reflection on the nature, function and legacies of state-sanctioned violence in its many forms. …”

“…For the medievals, it was taken as a threat to civil order. Unlike the biblical and medieval discourse, however, this new debate turns on the feelings of the believers themselves. …”

“…Es un laberinto humano donde, al empezar la guerra civil, surgen extrañas habladurías: «rumores sobre puertas que podían llevarlo a uno a otro lugar, concretamente a lugares remotos, alejados de aquella trampa mortal de país». …”

“…El interés central de este estudio está puesto en las antítesis entre sociedad civil y Estado, democracia y dictadura. Bobbio repasa el pensamiento jurídico-político sobre las nociones de gobierno y Estado desde la Grecia clásica y la Edad Media hasta el marxismo, el funcionalismo y la teoría de sistemas…”

“…A medio camino entre la ciencia ficción y la novela histórica, la presente obra se sitúa en la Europa de los años 30 y 40 del pasado siglo, con sus personajes discurriendo por períodos tan dramáticos como la Guerra Civil española y la Segunda Guerra Mundial.La ciencia ficción la aporta un personaje, Sira, y la base extraterrestre Primitia, instalada en el subsuelo de Las Bardenas. …”

“…"At the Edge of Reformation springs from Peter Linehan's continuing interest in the history of Spain and Portugal, on this occasion in the first half of the fourteenth century between the recovery of each kingdom from widespread anarchy and civil war and the onset of the Black Death. Focussing on ecclesiastical aspects of the period in that region (Galicia in particular) and secular attitudes to the privatisation of the church, it raises inter alios the question why developments there did not lead to a permanent sundering of the relationship with Rome (or Avignon) two centuries ahead of that outcome elsewhere in the West. 0 In addressing such issues, as well as of neglected archival material in Spanish and Portuguese archives, Linehan makes use of the also unpublished so-called 'secret' registers of the popes of the period. …”

“…Gramsci and Media Literacy: Critically Thinking about TV and the Movies offers a series of contemporary media analyses that use Antonio Gramsci’s theory of hegemony to explore how dominant ideologies in media delivery, historical storytelling, and gender in today’s mass media environment become the commonsense viewpoints that maintain power structures in civil society. Through a media literacy approach, case studies of ideological delivery through television and film illustrate why Gramscian media theory serves as a valuable tool for revealing the many ways hegemonic thought operates in the media sphere and in everyday life, and they offer hope for counterhegemonic understandings --…”

“…Le rabat de la jaquette indique : "At the end of World War II, France's greatest challenge was to repair a civil society torn asunder by Nazi occupation and total war. …”