by Alejandro R.H. Carbonell (2002)
La memoria incómoda es un testimonio personal de uno de los abogados que sobrevivieron a aquella espantosa matanza atribuida a la extrema derecha ocurrida en Madrid en 1977, en un despacho de abogados. En enero de 2017 se cumplen 40 años de aquéllos lamentables hechos que sucedieron en el umbral de la transición a la democracia en España. Cuatro abogados y un administrativo resultaron muertos y otros cuatro abogados heridos de gravedad. El libro (2002) escrito con la pulsión del instante y la serenidad del recuerdo cuenta aquellos hechos y muchos otros, que fueron consecuencia de aquel tiempo que trajo la libertad política a nuestro país. Esta es su tercera edición actualizada. Es un libro atípico, pero un testimonio imprescindible de la transición y por eso está en la calle; para que la historia de Atocha perviva en la memoria colectiva y como homenaje a los que murieron allí el 24 de Enero de 1977.
Esdras Kambale Bahekwa
Que s'est-il réellement passé les 11 et 12 mai 1990 au campus de l'Université de Lubumbashi, au Katanga ? L'auteur rassemble minutieusement toutes les pièces du puzzle pour reconstituer la trame de l'histoire mouvementée de cette province congolaise. Son récit donne un éclairage d'un intérêt historique certain sur le Katanga des années 1990 et permet de comprendre quelque peu le Katanga d'aujourd'hui.
Richard Spilsbury
"This book shows how we know about the marchers and their experiences from primary and othr sources. It includes information on some historical detective work that has taken place, which has enabled historians to piece together they fascinating story of the civil rights marches"--Back cover.
Rob Goodman and Jimmy Soni
This biography of Marcus Cato the Younger -- Rome's bravest statesman, an aristocratic soldier, a Stoic philosopher, and staunch defender of sacred Roman tradition -- is rich with resonances for current politics and contemporary notions of freedom.
[by] Patrick Vinton Kirch
In How Chiefs Became Kings, PKirch addresses a central problem in anthropological archaeology: the emergence of "archaic states" whose distinctive feature was divine kingship. Kirch takes as his focus the Hawaiian archipelago, commonly regarded as the archetype of a complex chiefdom. Integrating anthropology, linguistics, archaeology, traditional history, and theory, and drawing on significant contributions from his own four decades of research, Kirch argues that Hawaiian polities had become states before the time of Captain Cook's voyage (1778-1779). The status of most archaic states is inferred from the archaeological record. But Kirch shows that because Hawai'i's kingdoms were established relatively recently, they could be observed and recorded by Cook and other European voyagers. Substantive and provocative, this book makes a major contribution to the literature of precontact Hawai'i and illuminates Hawai'i's importance in the global theory and literature about divine, kingship, archaic states, and sociopolitical evolution. --Jacket.