Geschiedenis

Aan de hand van de correspondentie tussen een diplomaat, de heer van Amerongen, z?n vrouw en hun zoon, officier in het leger, wordt een beeld geschetst van alle facetten van het beruchte rampjaar 1672.

In this gripping account of the boyhood, marriage, and young professional life of Abraham Lincoln, award-winning writer Russell Freedman brings to life the presidential years, scholarly thoughts and reflections of the Civil War president. Winner of the 1988 Newbery Medal.



This 1988 Newbery Medal-winning biography of our Civil War president is warm, appealing, and illustrated with dozens of carefully chosen photographs and prints. Russell Freedman begins with a lively account of Abraham Lincoln's boyhood, his career as a country lawyer, and his courtship and marriage to Mary Todd. Then the author focuses on the presidential years (1861 to 1865), skillfully explaining the many complex issues Lincoln grappled with as he led a deeply divided nation through the Civil War. The book's final chapter is a moving account of that tragic evening in Ford's Theatre on April 14, 1865. Additional content includes a sampling of Lincoln's writings and a detailed list of Lincoln historical sites.

A daring account of the philosophical development of the idea of a rational society and its consequences for the present

In the seventeenth century, a vision arose which was to captivate the Western imagination for the next three hundred years: the vision of Cosmopolis, a society as rationally ordered as the Newtonian view of nature. While fueling extraordinary advances in all fields of human endeavor, this vision perpetuated a hidden yet persistent agenda: the delusion that human nature and society could be fitted into precise and manageable rational categories. Stephen Toulmin confronts that agenda—its illusions and its consequences for our present and future world.

Winner of the Society of American Historians' Francis Parkman Prize
Winner of the PEN / Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography
Best Biography of 2016, True West magazine
Winner of the Western Writers of America 2017 Spur Award, Best Western Biography
Finalist, National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography
Long-listed for the Cundill History Prize
One of the Best Books of 2016, The Boston Globe

The epic life story of the Native American holy man who has inspired millions around the world

Black Elk, the Native American holy man, is known to millions of readers around the world from his 1932 testimonial Black Elk Speaks. Adapted by the poet John G. Neihardt from a series of interviews with Black Elk and other elders at the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, Black Elk Speaks is one of the most widely read and admired works of American Indian literature. Cryptic and deeply personal, it has been read as a spiritual guide, a philosophical manifesto, and a text to be deconstructed—while the historical Black Elk has faded from view.

In this sweeping book, Joe Jackson provides the definitive biographical account of a figure whose dramatic life converged with some of the most momentous events in the history of the American West. Born in an era of rising violence between the Sioux, white settlers, and U.S. government troops, Black Elk killed his first man at the Little Bighorn, witnessed the death of his second cousin Crazy Horse, and traveled to Europe with Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show. Upon his return, he was swept up in the traditionalist Ghost Dance movement and shaken by the Massacre at Wounded Knee. But Black Elk was not a warrior, instead accepting the path of a healer and holy man, motivated by a powerful prophetic vision that he struggled to understand. Although Black Elk embraced Catholicism in his later years, he continued to practice the old ways clandestinely and never refrained from seeking meaning in the visions that both haunted and inspired him.

In Black Elk, Jackson has crafted a true American epic, restoring to its subject the richness of his times and gorgeously portraying a life of heroism and tragedy, adaptation and endurance, in an era of permanent crisis on the Great Plains.

The conversion of the pagan world that began in the obscurity of the Dark Ages was in no way inevitable. England did not embrace Christianity until 627, and while confessing communities existed from Greenland to China by the millennium, the last European conversion occurred late in the Middle Ages, in 1386. How did it all happen--and why? In a work of splid scholarship that often reads like a detective story and that owes as much to keen intuition as to the mastery of difficult sources, Richard Fletcher lays out the story of the Christianization of Europe. It is a very large story, for conversion was not merely a matter of religious belief. Christianity brought with it enormous cultural baggage. With it came Latin literacy--books; Roman notions of law, property, and government--even the concept of town life, and Mediterranean customs, including new tastes in food, drink, and dress. Whether from faith or by force, conversion had an immense impact that is with us even today, and it is Richard Fletcher's achievement to make that impact felt and understood.

Life in Europe was fundamentally changed in the 16th century by the astonishing discoveries of the New World and of direct sea routes to Asia. To start with England was hardly involved and London remained a gloomy, introverted medieval city. But as the century progressed something extraordinary happened.

Stephen Alford's evocative, original and fascinating new book uses the same skills that made his widely praised The Watchers so successful, bringing to life the network of merchants, visionaries, crooks and sailors who changed London forever. In a sudden explosion of energy English ships were suddenly found all over the world - trading with Russia and the Levant, exploring Virginia and the Arctic, and fanning out across the Indian Ocean.

London's Triumph is above all about the people who made this possible - the families, the guild members, the money-men who were willing to risk huge sums and sometimes their own lives in pursuit of the rare, exotic and desirable. Their ambitions fuelled a new view of the world - initiating a long era of trade and empire, the consequences of which we still live with today.

Geschiedenis van Afrika vanaf 1960 tot plm 2001

Tekst en hedendaagse vertaling van het Middelnederlandse reisverhaal. Willem Wilmink heeft De reis van Sint Brandaan prachtig vertaald in eenvoudige verzen die het Middelnederlandse gedicht op de voet volgen. Aantekeningen in de marge bieden een beknopte toelichting bij passages die voor de lezer van deze tijd niet helemaal duidelijk zijn.

De ervaringen van een vriendin van Anne Frank tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog en in de periode daarna.

De geschiedenis van Luxemburg vanaf de vroege middeleeuwen tot het Verdrag van het Verenigd Europa in 1986.

Dramatic story of the 1905 mutiny aboard the Russian Battleship Potemkin.

Drie delen: 1. Oorlogen overzee. Militair optreden door compagnie en staat buiten Europa, 1595-1814. Al voordat Nederland een koninkrijk werd, waren de lage landen meer dan tweehonderd jaar militair actief in Azië, Afrika en Amerika. De soldaten en zeelui streden in de Oost en de West tegen Europese concurrenten en tegen inheemse tegenstanders. Dit monumentale werk beschrijft de complexe activiteiten van de krijgsmacht in de overzeese gebieden. Na het boek over de Tachtigjarige Oorlog, dat al snel werd herdrukt en nu al geldt als een standaardwerk, is dit het tweede deel in de reeks 'Militaire Geschiedenis van Nederland'. 2. De tachtigjarige oorlog. Van opstand tot geregelde oorlog.1568-1648 [en] 3. Krijgsmacht en handelsgeest. Over het machtsevenwicht in Europa 1648-1813

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Bruce Catton's unsurpassed narrative, evoking the sweep and drama of a nation at war, provides the basis for The American Heritage New History of the Civil War, which includes more than 800 important contemporary photographs and sketches and magnificent paintings. The Civil War's battles and campaigns are painstakingly illustrated in three-dimensional maps that guide the reader through the four years of the struggle. With illustrations that range from photographs by Mathew Brady and sketches by soldiers at the front, to famous paintings by Winslow Homer, the book boasts an extraordinary breadth of pictures and artifacts culled from across the nation. This richly textured tapestry is made complete by the words of men and women who actually witnessed the events. From the journal entry of a Confederate soldier departing for battle and the letter an African-American soldier scrawled on the back of his wife's letter to him, to some of the best-known documents written in the very hand of Abraham Lincoln, each page of this book allows the participants to speak for themselves.

[SUMMIER]: met facsimile Japanse kopie verklaring van Keicho uit 1609 (Deshima, VOC)

Criminology, Police History, Laws, Criminal Procedures

Americas beloved and distinguished historian presents, in a book of breathtaking excitement, drama, and narrative force, the stirring story of the year of our nation’s birth, 1776, interweaving, on both sides of the Atlantic, the actions and decisions that led Great Britain to undertake a war against her rebellious colonial subjects and that placed America’s survival in the hands of George Washington.

In this masterful book, David McCullough tells the intensely human story of those who marched with General George Washington in the year of the Declaration of Independence—when the whole American cause was riding on their success, without which all hope for independence would have been dashed and the noble ideals of the Declaration would have amounted to little more than words on paper.

Based on extensive research in both American and British archives, 1776 is a powerful drama written with extraordinary narrative vitality. It is the story of Americans in the ranks, men of every shape, size, and color; farmers, schoolteachers, shoemakers, no-accounts, and mere boys turned soldiers. And it is the story of the Kings men, the British commander, William Howe, and his highly disciplined redcoats who looked on their rebel foes with contempt and fought with a valor too little known.

Written as a companion work to his celebrated biography of John Adams, David McCulloughs 1776 is another landmark in the literature of American history.

Historisch-sociologische studies door de vooraanstaande socioloog (1897-1990).

De geschiedenis van Nederland in de eerste decennia van de twintigste eeuw, toen op economisch, cultureel en sociaal-maatschappelijk terrein een sterke vooruitgang te zien was.

Geschiedenis van de Franse militaire expeditie naar Egypte in 1798, die plaatsvond onder leiding van Napoleon.

"Wie was deze controversiële man, die meer dan vijfentwintig jaar door de mediterrane wereld reisde? Wie was deze man, die wist dat zijn boodschap op verzet zou stuiten, maar dat juist als een stimulans beschouwde om zijn geloof, dat in Israël was ontstaan, te verkondigen tot in het hart van het Romeinse rijk? Fik Meijer volgt Paulus op zijn reizen van Jeruzalem tot in Rome, waar het Nieuwe Testament abrupt over zijn lot zwijgt. Door de informatie uit Paulus' brieven en de Handelingen van de apostelen te combineren met zijn kennis van de oudheid is Meijer in staat leven en werk van Paulus in de context van de Grieks-Romeinse wereld te presenteren."--Cover.

Onderzoek naar de toedracht en achtergronden van een natuurramp in Kameroen in 1986, waarbij alle mensen en dieren in de Nyosvallei door onbekende oorzaak om het leven kwamen.

Geschiedenis van het heelal en van de mensheid vanaf de oerknal tot nu.

Popular consensus says that the US rose over two centuries to Cold War victory and world domination, and is now in slow decline. But is this right? History's great civilisations have always lasted much longer, and for all its colossal power, the US was overshadowed by Europe until recently. What if this isn't the end?Bruno Maçães offers a compelling vision of America's future, both fascinating and unnerving. From the early American Republic, Maçães takes us to the turbulent present, when, he argues, America is finally forging its own path. We can see the birth pangs of this new civilisation in today's debates on guns, religion, foreign policy and the significance of Trump. What will its values be, and what will this new America look like?