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Europe’s India: Words, People, Empires, 1500 - 1800
by Sanjay SubrahmanyamWhen Portuguese explorers first arrived in India, the maritime passage initiated an exchange of goods as well as ideas. European ambassadors, missionaries, soldiers, and scholars who followed produced a body of knowledge that shaped European thought about India. Sanjay Subrahmanyam tracks these changing ideas over the entire early modern period.
Europe’s Infrastructure Transition: Economy, War, Nature (Making Europe)
by Per Högselius Arne Kaijser Erik van der VleutenEurope's infrastructure both united and divided peoples and places via economic systems, crises, and wars. Some used transport, communication, and energy infrastructure to supply food, power, industrial products, credit, and unprecedented wealth; others mobilized infrastructure capacities for waging war on scales hitherto unknown. Europe's natural world was fundamentally transformed; its landscapes, waterscapes, and airscapes turned into infrastructure themselves. Europe's Infrastructure Transition reframes the conflicted story of modern European history by taking material networks as its point of departure. It traces the priorities set and the choices made in constructing transnational infrastructure connections - within and beyond the continent. Moreover, this study introduces an alternative set of historically-key individuals, organizations, and companies in the making of modern Europe and analyzes roads both taken and ignored.
Europe’s Legitimacy Crisis: From Causes to Solutions
by Michael Longo Philomena MurraySharp in focus and succinct in analysis, this Pivot examines the latest developments and scholarly debates surrounding the sources of the European Union's crisis of legitimacy and possible solutions. It examines not only the financial and economic dimensions of the current crisis, but also those crises at the heart of the EU integration project.
Europe’s Next Avoidable War
by Michael Kambeck Sargis GhazaryanAn international and interdisciplinary group of experts shed light upon the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict today, how it evolved and likely scenarios. Taking into account a changed political landscape, including the EU's new foreign policy instruments, they also make concrete policy proposals to make war less likely.
Europäische Desintegration in Zeiten multipler Krisen: Theoretische Ansätze und Perspektiven für die politische Praxis
by Sibylle TreudeDie Nachkriegsgeschichte ist geprägt vom Gedanken des stetigen Zusammenwachsens Europas. Schon die ökonomischen Krisen der vergangenen Jahre ließen jedoch verstärkt Zweifel an dieser Linearität aufkommen, die spätestens durch den Brexit enorm verstärkt werden. Dieses wissenschaftliche Textbuch gibt einen Einblick in den interdisziplinären Diskurs und das mittlerweile vielseitige Angebot an (des-)integrationstheoretischen Ansätzen zur Beschreibung, Erklärung und Prognose von Krisen und von der Desintegration Europas. Im Zentrum der Betrachtung stehen sowohl drei als etabliert geltende Forschungsrichtungen als auch drei jüngere Ansätze, die bis dahin noch nicht fokussierte Fragen, Aspekte und Ursache-Wirkungszusammenhänge aufzeigen und neue Modellierungen europäischer (Des-)Integrationsphänomene und -entwicklungen ermöglichen.Das Buch richtet sich an in dem Themengebiet fortgeschrittene Studierende, Wissenschaftler, Politiker im EU-Kontext, in der Politikberatung Tätige sowie alle, die an der politischen und wirtschaftlichen EU-Integration interessiert sind.
Europäischer Republikanismus: Ein kohärenter Erklärungsansatz für wirtschaftliche und politische Integration in Europa?
by Thilo ZimmermannIn diesem Buch werden die aktuellen Theorien der europäischen Integration, wie Föderalismus, Neofunktionalismus und liberaler Intergouvernementalismus, mit ihren Stärken und Schwächen vorgestellt. Es wird dann argumentiert, dass die Kombination der republikanischen Theorie mit der Theorie des öffentlichen Gutes, der res publica der öffentlichen Güter, die europäische Integration besser erklären könnte. Die Theorie der öffentlichen Güter muss jedoch übernommen werden, um sie auf den europäischen Republikanismus anwendbar zu machen. Schließlich zeigt das Buch, wie dieser neue Rahmen weitere akademische Debatten beeinflussen kann, z. B. über Souveränität und Währungsintegration, externe Effekte eines gemeinsamen europäischen Marktes und die treibende Kraft der europäischen Integration. Da der republikanische Ansatz nicht einer rein wirtschaftlichen Logik folgt, bleibt Raum für politische Überlegungen und Motivationen. In diesem aktuellen und interdisziplinären Buch verbindet der Autor viele wichtige Stränge der europäischen Integrationstheorie, der Geschichte, der Ökonomie und der Politikwissenschaften, die klar zu einem kohärenten analytischen Diskurs zusammengeführt werden. Seine Stärke liegt in der interdisziplinären Interaktion zwischen Politik und Wirtschaft sowie in theoretischen und praktischen Fragen, die für die öffentliche Debatte in Europa von hoher Relevanz sind. Dieses Buch wird für Wissenschaftler und Studenten von Interesse sein, die sich für wirtschaftliche Integration sowie für Geschichte und politische Philosophie interessieren.
Eurovisions: Identity and the International Politics of the Eurovision Song Contest since 1956
by Julie Kalman Ben Wellings Keshia JacotineThis book uses the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC), as an analytical entry point to understand and illuminate post-War Europe and the drive to create an identity that can legitimise the European project in its broadest sense. The ESC presents an idealised vision of Europe, and this has long existed in a strained relationship with reality. While the trajectory of post-war European integration is a high-profile topic, we believe that the ESC offers a unique and innovative way to think about the role of culture in the history of post-War European integration and tensions between the ideal and reality of European unity. Through the series of case studies that make up the chapters in this book, analysis brings these interlinked tensions to light, exploring the roles of culture and identity, alongside and a productive conversation with the political and economic projects of post-war European integration.
Eusebius and Empire: Constructing Church and Rome in the Ecclesiastical History
by James Corke-WebsterEusebius' Ecclesiastical History, written in the early fourth century, continues to serve as our primary gateway to a crucial three hundred year period: the rise of early Christianity under the Roman Empire. In this volume, James Corke-Webster undertakes the first systematic study considering the History in the light of its fourth-century circumstances as well as its author's personal history, intellectual commitments, and literary abilities. He argues that the Ecclesiastical History is not simply an attempt to record the past history of Christianity, but a sophisticated mission statement that uses events and individuals from that past to mould a new vision of Christianity tailored to Eusebius' fourth-century context. He presents elite Graeco-Roman Christians with a picture of their faith that smooths off its rough edges and misrepresents its size, extent, nature, and relationship to Rome. Ultimately, Eusebius suggests that Christianity was - and always had been - the Empire's natural heir.
Eusebius' Ecclesiastical History: The Ten Books of Christian Church History, Complete and Unabridged
by Eusebius PamphilusAll ten books of Eusebius' famous church history are presented here complete in a superb and authoritative translation. Eusebius' Ecclesiastical History is one of the first comprehensive, chronologically arranged histories ever written about the Christian church, and it is consulted by scholars and historians to this day. Eusebius authored his history as the Roman Empire's influence upon the European continent waned amid insurgencies and surrender of Roman lands to other peoples. This also a time in which Christianity's influence upon Europe's peoples burgeoned and grew. As one of the very few learned and scholarly Christians of his era, Eusebius enjoyed a rare privilege: access to the document archives of the early Christian church. Much of these archives have since been lost; Eusebius' use of these long lost texts is the only window which readers of today have to such records. Thus, a sense of mystery is present as events for which scant evidence still exists are told.
Eusebius: A New Translation with Commentary
by Paul L. Maier EusebiusNext to Josephus, Eusebius is the most widely-consulted reference work on the early church. Much of our knowledge of the first three centuries of Christianity--the terrible persecutions, the courageous martyrs, and the theological controversies--come from the writings of this first century historian.
Eusebius: The Church History
by Paul L. Maier EusebiusThis highly affordable paperback edition includes Maier's best-selling translation, historical commentary on each book of The Church History, and numerous maps and illustrations.
Euskadi país de duelos y quebrantos
by Yves De Mellis«Grande era la miseria en Euskadi» El autor ha buscado lo que fueron aquellos nacionalistas vascos con quienes, en la convulsión de la adolescencia, volvió a construir el mundo centenares de veces. Tres de ellos le marcaron particularmente. Aunque no volvió a verlos, a partir de ciertos acontecimientos reales ha imaginado lo que fueron sus aventuras que los opuso a menudo violentamente o al contrario los condujo a una iglesia siguiendo los pasos de Ignacio de Loyola. Una incursión en el pasado le ha permitido relacionar la lucha actual con las guerras carlistas cuyo recuerdo permanece vivo en Bayona.
Eustace and Hilda
by Anita Brookner L. P. HartleyThe three books gathered together as Eustace and Hilda explore a brother and sister's lifelong relationship. Hilda, the older child, is both self-sacrificing and domineering, as puritanical as she is gorgeous; Eustace is a gentle, dreamy, pleasure-loving boy: the two siblings could hardly be more different, but they are also deeply devoted. And yet as Eustace and Hilda grow up and seek to go their separate ways in a world of power and position, money and love, their relationship is marked by increasing pain. L. P. Hartley's much-loved novel, the magnum opus of one of twentieth-century England's best writers, is a complex and spellbinding work: a comedy of upper-class manners; a study in the subtlest nuances of feeling; a poignant reckoning with the ironies of character and fate. Above all, it is about two people who cannot live together or apart, about the ties that bind--and break.
Eutaw Springs: The Final Battle of the American Revolution's Southern Campaign
by Robert M. Dunkerly Irene B. BolandAn in-depth analysis of one of the War for Independence’s bloodiest and least understood conflicts.The Battle of Eutaw Springs took place on September 8, 1781, and was among the last in the War of Independence. It was brutal in its combat and reprisals, with Continental and Whig militia fighting British regulars and Loyalist regiments. Although its outcome was seemingly inconclusive, the battle, fought near present-day Eutawville, South Carolina, contained all the elements that defined the war in the South. In Eutaw Springs: The Final Battle of the American Revolution’s Southern Campaign, Robert M. Dunkerly and Irene B. Boland tell the story of this lesser known and under-studied battle of the Revolutionary War’s Southern Campaign. Shrouded in myth and misconception, the battle has also been overshadowed by the surrender of Yorktown.Eutaw Springs represented lost opportunities for both armies. The American forces were desperate for a victory in 1781, and Gen. Nathanael Greene finally had the ground of his own choosing. British forces under Col. Alexander Stewart were equally determined to keep a solid grip on the territory they still held in the South Carolina lowcountry.In one of the bloodiest battles of the war, both armies sustained heavy casualties with each side losing nearly twenty percent of its soldiers. Neither side won the hard-fought battle, and controversies plagued both sides in the aftermath. Dunkerly and Boland analyze the engagement and its significance within the context of the war’s closing months, study the area’s geology and setting, and recount the action using primary sources, aided by recent archaeology.“A well put together book that is easy to read, and it makes good use of graphic material. Eutaw Springs is recommended.” —The Journal of America’s Military Past“A long-overdue study of . . . Nathanael Greene’s last main force Southern campaign engagement. Drawing from a wealth of resources including new research, archaeology and pension documents, the authors have created an easy reading account. . . . For students of the Revolutionary War, this is must reading because so much focus has been directed at Yorktown where the British abandoned an army instead of the more mobile war in the South where the war was finally won by wearing down the British.” —Lawrence Babits, George Washington Distinguished Professor of History, East Carolina University“A very good analysis of the political, military, and physical environment, with some profiles of a number of interesting people, most notably Nathanael Greene, after Washington the most important American general of the war, though he never won a battle.” —New York Military Affairs Symposium Review
Euthydemus
by Plato Mary P. Nichols Denise Schaeffer Gregory A. McBrayerFrom the Introduction:"Neglected for ages by Plato scholars, the Euthydemus has in recent years attracted renewed attention. The dialogue, in which Socrates converses with two sophists whose techniques of verbal manipulation utterly disengage language from any grounding in stable meaning or reality, is in many ways a dialogue for our times. Contemporary questions of language and power permeate the speech and action of the dialogue. The two sophists—Euthydemus and his brother Dionysodorus—explicitly question whether speech has any connection to truth and specifically whether anything can be said about justice and nobility that cannot also be said about their opposites."Focus Philosophical Library translations are close to and are non-interpretative of the original text, with the notes and a glossary intending to provide the reader with some sense of the terms and the concepts as they were understood by Plato’s immediate audience.FeaturesNotes, glossary, and an interpretive essay.
Eutopia: A Novel of Terrible Optimism (The Book of the Juke Series #1)
by David NickleThis debut horror novel by the author of acclaimed short story collection Monstrous Affections &“establishes him as a worthy heir to the mantle of Stephen King&” (National Post). Set in 1911, Eutopia &“mixes utopian vision, rustic Americana, and pure creepiness. . . . Nickle blends Little House on the Prairie with distillates of Rosemary&’s Baby and The X-Files to create a chilling survival-of-the-fittest story&” (Publishers Weekly). Situated on the edge of the woods and mountains of northern Idaho, the tiny settlement of Eliada is an industrialist&’s attempt to create heaven on earth. But its secrets are soon to be unveiled, as Jason Thistledown, the sole survivor of a mysterious plague in Montana, and Andrew Waggoner, a black doctor nearly lynched by the KKK, delve beneath the façade of the utopian mill town. What they discover is science warped by ideology—and an unearthly monster that preys on the faith of its own true believers . . . &“A story of piano-wire suspense, grotesque horrors, and, above all, visceral insight into the race politics of American horror, and how they are bound up with the American project itself.&” —Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing Praise for David Nickle &“His stories are dark, wildly imaginative, and deeply compassionate—even when they&’re laced with righteous anger.&” —Nathan Ballingrud, author of Wounds &“David Nickle is Canada&’s answer to Stephen King. His writing charms even as it slices like a blade between the ribs: sharp, subtle, and never less than devastating.&” —Helen Marshall, author of Gifts for the One Who Comes After
Eva
by Ib MelchiorHitler&’s desperate plot to save his longtime mistress . . . Counter Intelligence Corp agent Woody Ward uncovers evidence that it might not have been Eva Braun on Hitler&’s funeral pyre. Indeed, at that very moment, Eva is being escorted along the top-secret route mapped for the escape of the Nazi elite. It is a tortuous path where disaster appears at every turn to thwart their arrival at the Italian port of Bari. Ward persuades his superiors to let him go underground and pursue Eva in an attempt to prevent her escape. The chase that ensues holds constant deadly dangers for both fugitives and pursuer, as they make their way from the eerie caves of the Harz Mountains in Germany to a startling and spectacular climax in Bari. There, a ship is waiting to carry Eva to Argentina, where she will nurture the seed of the Fourth Reich. Only CIC Agent Ward has any chance of stopping the second coming of Hitler&’s Third Reich!
Eva (Serie Falcó)
by Arturo Pérez-ReverteVuelve Arturo Pérez-Reverte con una nueva aventura de Lorenzo Falcó. «No me tengas por una de esas burguesitas perdidas entre las filas obreras. Soy una agente soviética, y tus criminales jefes fascistas podrían pedirte cuentas.» Marzo de 1937. Mientras la Guerra Civil sigue su trágico curso, una nueva misión lleva a Lorenzo Falcó hasta Tánger, turbulenta encrucijada de espías, tráficos ilícitos y conspiraciones, con el encargo de conseguir que el capitán de un barco cargado con oro del Banco de España cambie de bandera. Espías nacionales, republicanos y soviéticos, hombres y mujeres, se enfrentan en una guerra oscura y sucia en la que acabarán regresando peligrosos fantasmas del pasado. Tras el éxito internacional de Falcó, realidad y ficción vuelven a enlazarse magistralmente con el talento literario de Arturo Pérez-Reverte en esta asombrosa novela de lectura fascinante. Críticas:«Una sucesión trepidante de lances y situaciones sorprendentes contadas con firme pulso narrativo.»Ángel Basanta, El Cultural «La combinación Falcó-Tánger resulta irresistible [...]. Eva Neretva es una de las grandes creaciones femeninas de Pérez-Reverte.»Jacinto Antón, El País «La segunda aventura de Falcó supera a la primera. Al primero que seduce es a su creador, que escribe sus aventuras con el entusiasmo con que las leerá su público.»Justo Navarro, Babelia «Pocos escritores europeos saben dotar a sus novelas de un mundo propio [...]. La trama, como siempre en Pérez-Reverte, está soberbiamente narrada.»J. M. Pozuelo Yvancos, ABC Cultural «Arturo Pérez-Reverte eleva a obra maestra el cuento semanal y la novela de quiosco [...]. Sus ojos son una cámara de vídeo; su ritmo, el de las manecillas de un reloj; su limpieza, la del filo de una espada.»Raúl del Pozo, El Mundo «Una novela negra y pulp, frenética y violenta, desarrollada con amor por el lenguaje.»Edu Galán, La Nueva España «No es un libro sobre la Guerra Civil; es una historia de hombres y mujeres contada con los ojos de alguien que vivió 21 años de conflictos bélicos.»Elisabetta Rosaspina, Corriere della Sera «Falcó y Eva habrían sido prohibidos en los años cuarenta.»Jorge Fernández Díaz, La Nación «Pérez-Reverte ha impreso un nuevo e inesperado brillo al hasta ahora más bien adormilado género de espías español.»Sergio Vila-Sanjuán, Cultura/s de La Vanguardia «Magnífica Eva, superior a la ya brillante Falcó.»Juan Gómez Jurado, ABC Cultural «Eva Neretva, una loba valiente, decidida y cruel que caza en territorio hostil. Un verdugo con fe dispuesto a morir matando. La condensación en un único personaje de todas aquellas mujeres de acero que dejaron su sangre y sus nombres grabados en la historia de los frenéticos años treinta.»Victoria R. Ramos, Zenda La crítica ha dicho sobre Falcó:«Bien documentado y perfectamente trazado, Falcó refleja las muchas habilidades narrativas del autor [...]. El lector queda atrapado hasta el final, a la espera de nuevas sorpresas.»Martin Beagles, The Times Literary Supplement «Pérez-Reverte en su mejor momento. Sus novelas trazan lazos de unión unas con otras, hasta formar una urdimbre que es lo que los clásicos llamaban estilo, y los modernos, mundo.»José María Pozuelo Yvancos, ABC Cultural «Un relato vertiginoso que sujeta la atención del lector de la primera a la última página. [...] Unas vidas que representan la compleja sustancia de nuestra especie y hacen bueno el viejo dicho de que el hombre es un lobo para el hombre.»Santos Sanz Villanueva, El Cultural «El trabajo de Reverte en Falcó, una novela trepidant
Eva Braun: Life with Hitler
by Damion Searls Heike B. GortemakerIn this groundbreaking biography of Eva Braun, German historian Heike B. Görtemaker delves into the startlingly neglected historical truth about Adolf Hitler's mistress. More than just the vapid blonde of popular cliché, Eva Braun was a capricious but uncompromising, fiercely loyal companion to Hitler; theirs was a relationship that flew in the face of the Führer's proclamations that Germany was his only bride. Görtemaker paints a portrait of Hitler and Braun's life together with unnerving quotidian detail--Braun chose the movies screened at their mountaintop retreat (propaganda, of course); he dreamed of retiring with her to Linz one day after relinquishing his leadership to a younger man--while weaving their personal relationship throughout the fabric of one of history's most devastating regimes. Though Braun gradually gained an unrivaled power within Hitler's inner circle, her identity was kept a secret during the Third Reich, until the final days of the war. Faithful to the end, Braun committed suicide with Hitler in 1945, two days after their marriage. Through exhaustive research, newly discovered documentation, and anecdotal accounts, Görtemaker has meticulously built a surprising portrait of Hitler's bourgeois existence outside of the public eye. Though Eva Braun had no role in Hitler's policies, she was never as banal as she was previously painted; she was privy to his thoughts, ruled life within his entourage, and held his trust. As horrifying as it is astonishing, Eva Braun will undoubtedly be referenced in all future accounts of this period.
Eva Braun: Una vida con Hitler
by Heike B. GörtemakerLa biografía definitiva de la amante de Hitler que ofrece un retrato íntimo y paralelo de la vida del dictador nazi y del ascenso y caída del régimen que creó. Él era el Führer solitario, el hombre comprometido con una nación: Alemania. Así lo presentaba la propaganda nacionalsocialista, que no dejaba espacio posible para una relación sentimental en la vida de Hitler. Sin embargo, una mujer lo acompañó durante cerca de quince años, en las reuniones decisivas, en los peores momentos, en el Berlín asediado por los soviéticos, en la hora de su muerte. Adolf Hitler tenía una amante cuya existencia permaneció oculta hasta el final del Tercer Reich: Eva Braun. ¿Quién era la mujer con la que se casó Hitler poco antes de su caída? ¿Qué significó para ella vivir con uno de los mayores criminales de la historia? Heike B. Görtemaker ha buscado las respuestas y ha permitido a Eva Braun salir de las sombras para desvelar la intimidad de un dictador durante la época más catastrófica de la historia de Alemania. Reseñas:«Esta biografía de Frau Hitler, la más rigurosa y documentada, cambiará la idea de la rubia tonta impasible ante los asesinatos en masa.»Klaus Wiegrefe «No es posible estar más cerca de Eva Braun.»Die Welt
Eva Luna: A Novel (Jet;168-3. Bib. Isab Ser. #Vol. 168)
by Isabel Allende&“A remarkable novel&” (The Washington Post) from New York Times bestselling author Isabel Allende&’s introducing her most enchanting creation, Eva Luna: a lover, a writer, a revolutionary, and above all a storyteller.Eva Luna is the daughter of a professor&’s assistant and a snake-bitten gardener—born poor, orphaned at an early age, and working as a servant. Eva is a naturally gifted and imaginative storyteller who meets people from all stations and walks of life. Though she has no wealth, she trades her stories like currency with people who are kind to her. In this novel, she shares the story of her own life and introduces readers to a diverse and eccentric cast of characters including the Lebanese émigré who befriends her and takes her in; her unfortunate godmother, whose brain is addled by rum and who believes in all the Catholic saints and a few of her own invention; a street urchin who grows into a petty criminal and, later, a leader in the guerrilla struggle; a celebrated transsexual entertainer who instructs her in the ways of the adult world; and a young refugee whose flight from postwar Europe will prove crucial to Eva's fate. As Eva tells her story, Isabel Allende conjures up a whole complex South American nation—the rich, the poor, the simple, and the sophisticated—in a novel replete with character and incident, with drama and comedy and history, with battles and passions, rebellions and reunions, a novel that celebrates the power of imagination to create a better world.
Eva Palmer Sikelianos: A Life in Ruins
by Artemis LeontisThe first biography of a visionary twentieth-century American performer who devoted her life to the revival of ancient Greek cultureThis is the first biography to tell the fascinating story of Eva Palmer Sikelianos (1874–1952), an American actor, director, composer, and weaver best known for reviving the Delphic Festivals. Yet, as Artemis Leontis reveals, Palmer’s most spectacular performance was her daily revival of ancient Greek life. For almost half a century, dressed in handmade Greek tunics and sandals, she sought to make modern life freer and more beautiful through a creative engagement with the ancients. Along the way, she crossed paths with other seminal modern artists such as Natalie Clifford Barney, Renée Vivien, Isadora Duncan, Susan Glaspell, George Cram Cook, Richard Strauss, Dimitri Mitropoulos, Nikos Kazantzakis, George Seferis, Henry Miller, Paul Robeson, and Ted Shawn.Brilliant and gorgeous, with floor-length auburn hair, Palmer was a wealthy New York debutante who studied Greek at Bryn Mawr College before turning her back on conventional society to live a lesbian life in Paris. She later followed Raymond Duncan (brother of Isadora) and his wife to Greece and married the Greek poet Angelos Sikelianos in 1907. With single-minded purpose, Palmer re-created ancient art forms, staging Greek tragedy with her own choreography, costumes, and even music. Having exhausted her inheritance, she returned to the United States in 1933, was blacklisted for criticizing American imperialism during the Cold War, and was barred from returning to Greece until just before her death.Drawing on hundreds of newly discovered letters and featuring many previously unpublished photographs, this biography vividly re-creates the unforgettable story of a remarkable nonconformist whom one contemporary described as “the only ancient Greek I ever knew.”
Eva Perón: Una biografía política
by Loris ZanattaEl prestigioso historiador italiano, especialista en historia de Américalatina y fundamentalmente en peronismo e iglesia argentina, analiza conlucidez y valentía la herencia política que la figura de Eva Perón tuvopara el movimiento justicialista y las encrucijadas que, tras su muerte,debió enfrentar su líder, Juan Domingo Perón. Lejos de la imagen glamorosa y romántica que muchos estudios históricoscolaboraron a construir, Zanatta sostiene, por ejemplo, que la relaciónde Eva con Perón -no era de subordinación ni de dependencia, como muchosse obstinan en afirmar, sino de inevitable y creciente competencia-.Lejos también de la versión canónica sobre la caída de Perón, el autorafirma que -de ninguna manera se trató de que el régimen perdiera fuerzapor no contar ya con la presencia de ella, sino que más bien Perón cayóporque había terminado siendo el prisionero de la herencia política queella le había dejado-. Zanatta analiza un aspecto poco abordado, como esla relación de Evita con la Iglesia Católica, que, según él, funcionócomo una barrera de contención para conciliar a la clase obrera con elcristianismo y neutralizar al comunismo en la Argentina. Según él, elperonismo de Evita fue «una religión secular, con sus dogmas y susdevotos», que cuestionó en sus fundamentos más profundos las relacionesentre modernidad y tradición, política y religión, legitimidad popular ydemocracia.
Eva Picardi on Language, Analysis and History
by Annalisa Coliva Paolo Leonardi Sebastiano MoruzziThe volume honours Eva Picardi – her philosophical views and interests, as well as her teaching – collecting eighteen essays, some by former students of hers, some by colleagues with whom she discussed and interacted. The themes of the volume encompass topics ranging from foundational and historical issues in the philosophy of language and the philosophy of logic and mathematics, as well as issues related to the recent debates on rationality, naturalism and the contextual aspects of meaning. The volume is split into three sections: one on Gottlob Frege’s work – in philosophy of language and logic –, taking into account also its historical dimension; one on Donald’s Davidson’s work; and one on the contextualism-literalism dispute about meaning and on naturalist research programmes such as Chomsky’s.
Eva Sleeps
by Francesca MelandriNamed Book of the Year by Elle magazine, this “Italian love story [is] destined to become a classic” (The Gazette).Eva, a forty-year-old public relations professional living in Northern Italy, receives an unexpected message from Southern Italy. Vito, a man she briefly knew as a child as a friend of her mother’s, is very ill and would like to see her one last time. He is a retired police officer who was stationed in the north during the late sixties, a period rife with tension, protest, and violence surrounding disputed land near the border with Austria. These troubles, however, did not stop a hapless young policeman from falling in love with the “wrong” woman, a girl named Gerda from Austrian Tyrol, an inventive and accomplished cook, a northerner, the sister of a terrorist—and Eva’s mother.Vito’s affair with Gerda was a passionate one, but what was the nature of their love? And if he loved her so passionately, why did he return to Calabria? What scars did those years leave on Vito, and on Gerda? It’s time for Eva to find out, in this sweeping literary page-turner about family, forgiveness, and conflict, a bestseller in Italy now translated in English.