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By Defeating My Enemies is a military biography of Charles XII of Sweden, the first written in English in over 50 years. It challenges several traditions created by historians of both the old and new schools of Carolean historiography and through a chronological review provides a balanced account (...)

One of the best known and simultaneously most notorious figures from Roman history, Nero (r. AD 54 68) is usually characterised as a tyrannical and ineffectual emperor, a ruler who proverbially fiddled while Rome burnt'. However, as new research demonstrates, this reputation is crudely reductive (...)

La colección atesorada por Juan Alfonso, Juan Gaspar y Juan Tomás Enríquez de Cabrera, los tres últimos almirantes de Castilla, se contaba entre las más sobresalientes de cuantas podían admirarse en el Madrid del siglo XVII, hasta el punto de ser parangonada por el embajador imperial con la célebre (...)