“…Ruthlessly partisan during campaign season, Baker governed as the avatar of pragmatism over purity and deal-making over division, a lost art in today's fractured nation. His story is a case study in the acquisition, exercise, and preservation of power in late twentieth-century America and the story of Washington and the world in the modern era--how it once worked and how it has transformed into an era of gridlock and polarization. …”

“…Trop française, cette culture, à l’heure de la globalisation du monde ? Trop national, l’esprit qui en émane ? L’interrogation traverse de part en part le récit." -- 4e de couverture…”

“…Cet ouvrage entend réfuter les thèses de l’impossibilité de la tragédie dans l’Espagne du Siècle d’or, de son extinction après une série d’expérimentations à la fin du XVIe siècle, ou encore de la singularité du théâtre espagnol comme expression d’un génie national rétif au tragique. En plaçant le théâtre espagnol dans son contexte européen, les études ici rassemblées permettent aussi d’interroger à nouveaux frais tout un pan de l’histoire du théâtre occidental antérieur au néoclassicisme à la française, passablement tardif, auquel on continue de rapporter trop vite toute la tragédie moderne. …”

“…Less than four decades after the controversial Act of Union between Scotland and England, arrogance and incompetence on the part of government ministers had allowed the small danger Charles and his Jacobite army had initially posed to escalate into a full-scale civil war: part of the on-going dynastic, political and ideological struggle for the heart and soul of this new nation. Yet the reality of the '45 continues to be obscured by fiction and myth, as personified by the heroic, gallant but doomed 'Bonnie Prince Charlie' versus the heartless victor, 'Butcher' Cumberland. …”

“…With America's tech sector dependent on Asian talent and politicians praising Asia's glittering cities and efficient governments, Asia is permanently in our nation's consciousness. We know this will be the Asian century. …”

“…An award-winning author, he has written for the New York Review of Books, the New York Times Book Review, the Nation, the New York Times, and the Los Angeles Times…”
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Acceso a las primeras páginas

“…La recepción de la tesis desarrollada por Michael Billig en su libro Banal Nationalism (1995) se ha encontrado con bastantes obstáculos en España, muchos de los cuales tienen que ver con el marco nacionalista dominante, que es precisamente lo que centra la atención del estudioso británico. …”

“…These stimulating pieces of research were presented by 30 international contributors, from almost 10 different nationalities…”

“…Al margen de las formas reporteriles y estereotipadas que ofrece la televisión, y más allá de las temáticas relativas a las maravillas de la ciencia y la naturaleza o a las series de índole divulgativa producidas por National Geographic, BBC, Discovery Channel o nuestra TVE, el documental ha encontrado la manera de evolucionar y expandirse hacia nuevos horizontes. …”

“…Cette riche synthèse – qui mêle l’étude historique, politique, économique à celles des sociétés et des cultures et s’appuie sur des sources vietnamiennes –, nous fait redécouvrir une puissance émergente, une nation dynamique au centre des enjeux stratégiques contemporains en Asie, tout en insistant sur la nouvelle identité asiatique d’un pays que l’on a longtemps cru si bien connaître…”

“…The strong academic perspective of the authors is well complemented by an equally strong practitioner perspective, provided by legal scholars in the highest positions in International and national judicial institutions, resulting in a well-informed and critical appraisal of the most recent developments overall in the international criminal justice system. …”

“…Nearly a century after Hitler's rise, the leading nations of the west are once again being torn apart by an untamed will to power. …”