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En Cómo piensa el mundo, Julian Baggini recorre el planeta para ofrecernos un mapa tremendamente extenso del pensamiento humano. Nos muestra cómo distintas ramas de la filosofía florecieron simultáneamente en China, la India y la antigua Grecia, creciendo a partir de mitos e historias locales, y cómo las actitudes culturales contemporáneas, con especial atención a Occidente, Asia Oriental, el mundo musulmán y África, se han desarrollado a partir de las historias filosóficas de sus regiones.

Este volumen recoge tres trabajos de Eric J. Hobsbawm, el primero de los cuales constituye un auténtico clásico de la historiografía. En la actualidad se considera un hecho probado que la economía europea atraviesa en el siglo XVII una larga fase de recesión. Pero esta recesión tiene características y repercusiones notablemente distintas en diferentes áreas de Europa. En términos generales retroceden el Mediterráneo (la península Ibérica, Italia y Turquía) y el Báltico (Polonia, Dinamarca y la Hansa). Suecia es, junto con Inglaterra y los Países Bajos, una de las naciones...

In "Ill Fares The Land," Tony Judt, one of our leading historians and thinkers, reveals how we have arrived at our present dangerously confused moment and offers the language we need to address our common needs, rejecting the nihilistic individualism of the far right and the debunked socialism of the past. To find a way forward, Judt argues that we must look to our not so distant past and to social democracy in action: to re-enshrining fairness over mere efficiency.

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This study surveys the changing urban topography of the Iberian peninsular from the 4th to 7th centuries AD, paying particular attention to the Christianisation of the urban landscape. It compiles a catalogue of episcopal seats and other urban centres, noting changes in terms of ecclesiastical building, the adaptation of public spaces to Christian ritual activity and the chaging funerary landscape.