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1) Utopia
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This is a fully revised edition of one of the most successful volumes in the Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought series. Incorporating extensive updates to the editorial apparatus, including the introduction, suggestions for further reading, and footnotes, this third edition of More's Utopia has been comprehensively re-worked to take into account scholarship published since the second edition in 2002. The vivid and engaging translation...
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In this brilliantly enjoyable rallying-cry of a book, Kropotkin lays out the heart of his anarchist beliefs, beliefs that surged around the world in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and that have a renewed relevance and poignancy today. Humane and thoughtful, but also a devastating critique of how modern society is organized (with the brutal, narrow few clinging onto their wealth and privileges at the expense of the many), The Conquest of Bread...
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In The War with Hannibal, Livy chronicles the events of the Second Punic War between Rome and Carthage, until the Battle of Zama in 202 BC. He vividly recreates the immense armies of Hannibal, complete with elephants, crossing the Alps; the panic as they approached the gates of Rome; and the decimation of the Roman army at the Battle of Lake Trasimene. Yet it is also the clash of personalities that fascinates Livy, from great debates in the Senate...
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Teresa de Jesús, descendiente de judeo-conversos y monja carmelita, emprendió en pleno corazón de Castilla, un movimiento en pro de la liberación del espíritu, dejando en sus escritos uno de los testimonios más apasionantes de aquel tiempo, en que, entre enormes tensiones, se estaban sentando las bases de la modernidad europea.
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