Michael Burleigh: 12 books

Book cover of Pequeñas guerras, lugares remotos

Pequeñas guerras, lugares remotos

Insurrección global y la génesis del mundo moderno

by Michael Burleigh
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 19, 2014

La caída de los imperios y las feroces luchas que subyacen a la Guerra Fría, esenciales para entender el mundo de hoy. El final de la Segunda Guerra Mundial no supuso el comienzo de la paz, sino la transición a conflictos con una localización más lejana derivados de un choque de ideologías...
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Poder terrenal

Religión y política en Europa. De la Revolución Francesa a la Primera Guerra Mundial

by Michael Burleigh
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 14, 2013

Religión y política en Europa: de la Revolución Francesa a la Primera Guerra Mundial. Un revelador libro del aclamado autor de El Tercer Reich. En las últimas décadas, Europa se está transformando en una sociedad posreligiosa que ha llegado a excluir de su futura constitución...
Book cover of The Best of Times, The Worst of Times
by Michael Burleigh
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017

In the decades since the end of the Second World War, it has been widely assumed that the western model of liberal democracy and free trade is the way the world should be governed. However, events in the early years of the twenty-first century – first, the 2003 war with Iraq and its chaotic aftermath...
Book cover of Small Wars, Faraway Places

Small Wars, Faraway Places

Global Insurrection and the Making of the Modern World, 1945-1965

by Michael Burleigh
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013

**A sweeping history of the Cold War’s many “hot” wars born in the last gasps of empire ** The Cold War reigns in popular imagination as a period of tension between the two post-World War II superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union, without direct conflict. Drawing from new...
Book cover of Blood and Rage

Blood and Rage

History of Terrorism

by Michael Burleigh
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011

In this sweeping and deeply penetrating work, distinguished historian Michael Burleigh explores the nature of terrorism from its origins in the West to the current global threat fueled by fundamentalists. Burleigh takes us from the roots of terrorism in the Irish Republican Brotherhood, the Russian...
Book cover of Sangre y rabia. Una historia cultural del terrorismo
by Michael Burleigh
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 14, 2013

El terrorismo como profesión, cultura y modo de vida y muerte. Sangre y rabia arroja nueva luz sobre la amenaza mundial del terrorismo, que previsiblemente seguirá atormentándonos durante las próximas décadas. El historiador Michael Burleigh se centra en las acciones y en la historia de...
Book cover of Causas sagradas

Causas sagradas

Religión y política en Europa. De la Primera Guerra Mundial al terrorismo islami

by Michael Burleigh
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 14, 2013

Con la participación de algunos de los personajes más icónicos del siglo, Causas sagradas ofrece un examen brillante de cómo la religión ha moldeado la Europa del siglo XX desde la Primera Guerra Mundial hasta la actual guerra contra el terror. Partiendo del panorama caótico de la Europa...
Book cover of Combate moral. Una historia de la Segunda Guerra Mundial
by Michael Burleigh
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 14, 2013

El bien y el mal en la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Un nuevo enfoque del conflicto. La Segunda Guerra Mundial fue la suma de multitud de decisiones tomadas por líderes políticos y mandos militares, pero también por ciudadanos y soldados anónimos. Estas fueron en muchos casos decisiones...
Book cover of Earthly Powers

Earthly Powers

The Clash of Religion and Politics in Europe, from the French Revolution to the Great War

by Michael Burleigh
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009

In this masterful, stylish, and authoritative book, Michael Burleigh gives us an epic history of the battles over religion in modern Europe, examining the complex and often lethal ways in which politics and religion have interacted and influenced each other over the last two centuries. From the French...
Book cover of Moral Combat

Moral Combat

Good and Evil in World War II

by Michael Burleigh
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2011

"Magnificent. . . . Seldom has a study of the past combined such erudition with such exuberance." —The Guardian "No-one with an interest in the Second World War should be without this book; and indeed nor should anyone who cares about how our world has come about." —The Daily Telegraph Pre-eminent...
Book cover of El Tercer Reich

El Tercer Reich

Una nueva historia

by Michael Burleigh
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 14, 2013

Michael Burleigh nos ofrece una visión radicalmente nueva del Tercer Reich desde su gestación hasta su destrucción final. Antes de la aparición de esta obra, ganadora del prestigioso Premio de Ensayo Samuel Johnson 2001, no existía una historia completa sobre la Alemania nazi, a pesar...
Book cover of Sacred Causes

Sacred Causes

The Clash of Religion and Politics, from the Great War to the War on Terror

by Michael Burleigh
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009

Beginning with the chaotic post-World War I landscape, in which religious belief was one way of reordering a world knocked off its axis, Sacred Causes is a penetrating critique of how religion has often been camouflaged by politics. All the bloody regimes and movements of the twentieth century are...
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