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    Day of Empire

    Day of Empire

    In a little over two centuries, America has grown from a regional power to a superpower, and to what is today called a hyperpower. But can America retain its position as the world’s dominant power, or has it already begun to decline?

    Historians have debated the rise and fall of empires for centuries. To date, however, no one has studied the far rarer phenomenon of hyperpowers—those few societies that amassed such extraordinary military and economic might that they essentially dominated the world.
    Now, in this sweeping history of globally dominant empires, bestselling author Amy Chua explains how hyperpowers rise and why they fall. In a series of brilliantly focused chapters, Chua examines history’s hyperpowers—Persia, Rome, Tang China, the Mongols, the Dutch, the British, and the United States—and reveals the reasons behind their success, as well as the roots of their ultimate demise.
    Chua’s unprecedented study reveals a fascinating historical pattern. For all their differences, she argues, every one of these world-dominant powers was, at least by the standards of its time, extraordinarily pluralistic and tolerant. Each one succeeded by harnessing the skills and energies of individuals from very different backgrounds, and by attracting and exploiting highly talented groups that were excluded in other societies. Thus Rome allowed Africans, Spaniards, and Gauls alike to rise to the highest echelons of power, while the “barbarian” Mongols conquered their vast domains only because they practiced an ethnic and religious tolerance unheard of in their time. In contrast,

    Nazi Germany and imperial Japan, while wielding great power, failed to attain global dominance as a direct result of their racial and religious intolerance.
    But Chua also uncovers a great historical irony: in virtually every instance, multicultural tolerance eventually sowed the seeds of decline, and diversity became a liability, triggering conflict, hatred, and violence.
    The United States is the quintessential example of a power that rose to global dominance through tolerance and diversity. The secret to America’s success has always been its unsurpassed ability to attract enterprising immigrants. Today, however, concerns about outsourcing and uncontrolled illegal immigration are producing a backlash against our tradition of cultural openness. Has America finally reached a “tipping point”? Have we gone too far in the direction of diversity and tolerance to maintain cohesion and unity? Will we be overtaken by rising powers like China, the EU or even India?
    Chua shows why American power may have already exceeded its limits and why it may be in our interest to retreat from our go-it-alone approach and promote a new multilateralism in both domestic and foreign affairs.

    Amy Chua ;

    € 14,50

    Een joodse jongen....

    Een joodse jongen. Over de ontmoeting tussen Hitler en Wittgenstein die de loop van de geschiedenis zou veranderen

    Dikke hardback in goede staat. Rug stofomslag verkleurd.

    In EEN JOODSE JONGEN wordt voor het eerst het bewijs geleverd dat Hitlers antisemitisme ontstond uit een ontmoeting in 1904 tussen twee schooljongens in het Oostenrijkse Linz: Adolf Hitler en Ludwig Wittgenstein. Met behulp van vele documenten weet Cornish zijn stelling dat Hitler en Wittgenstein elkaar kenden goed te onderbouwen. Zo lukt het hem om Hitlers obsessie voor kunst en de muziek van Richard Wagner in verband te brengen met de familie Wittgenstein. Ook legt hij een verband met Hitlers belangstelling voor het occulte en de mystieke basis van Wittgensteins filosofie, waarnaar hij grondig onderzoek heeft verricht. In Mein Kampf schreef Hitler hoe zijn antisemitisme werd geïnspireerd door één individu in het bij zonder; de beschrijvingen van dat individu zijn in alle opzichten van toepassing op de jonge Wittgenstein.Cornish weet ook aannemelijk te maken dat Wittgenstein zich aansloot bij de Komintern om Hitler te bestrijden en dat hij voor diezelfde Komintern terugkeerde naar het Trinity College in Cambridge. Daar zou hij de mysterieuze 'vijfde man' zijn geweest die Cambridge-spionnen recruteerde en altijd verborgen is gebleven.EEN JOODSE JONGEN is gebaseerd op minutieus speurwerk met onthullende resultaten en is van essentieel belang voor iedereen die geïnteresseerd is in de geschiedenis van de 20ste eeuw.

    Kimberley Cornish;

    € 6,00

    1491. New Revelations...

    1491. New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

    Dikke hardback met stofomslag in goede staat. Naam op schutblad. Enkele illustraties. Engelstalig.

    A groundbreaking study that radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans in 1492.

    Traditionally, Americans learned in school that the ancestors of the people who inhabited the Western Hemisphere at the time of Columbus’s landing had crossed the Bering Strait twelve thousand years ago; existed mainly in small, nomadic bands; and lived so lightly on the land that the Americas was, for all practical purposes, still a vast wilderness. But as Charles C. Mann now makes clear, archaeologists and anthropologists have spent the last thirty years proving these and many other long-held assumptions wrong.

    In a book that startles and persuades, Mann reveals how a new generation of researchers equipped with novel scientific techniques came to previously unheard-of conclusions. Among them:

    • In 1491 there were probably more people living in the Americas than in Europe.
    • Certain cities–such as Tenochtitlán, the Aztec capital–were far greater in population than any contemporary European city. Furthermore, Tenochtitlán, unlike any capital in Europe at that time, had running water, beautiful botanical gardens, and immaculately clean streets.
    • The earliest cities in the Western Hemisphere were thriving before the Egyptians built the great pyramids.
    • Pre-Columbian Indians in Mexico developed corn by a breeding process so sophisticated that the journal Science recently described it as “man’s first, and perhaps the greatest, feat of genetic engineering.”
    • Amazonian Indians learned how to farm the rain forest without destroying it–a process scientists are studying today in the hope of regaining this lost knowledge.
    • Native Americans transformed their land so completely that Europeans arrived in a hemisphere already massively “landscaped” by human beings.

    Mann sheds clarifying light on the methods used to arrive at these new visions of the pre-Columbian Americas and how they have affected our understanding of our history and our thinking about the environment. His book is an exciting and learned account of scientific inquiry and revelation.

    Charles C. Mann;

    € 17,00
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