"Jaren was Nederland trots op wat zijn ontdekkingsreizigers in de Gouden Eeuw hebben bereikt. Nu wordt steeds duidelijker hoeveel van die rijkdom is verdiend over de ruggen van tot slaaf gemaakte mensen. Waarom deed Nederland mee aan de slavernij? Hoe kon dit lelijke stuk uit de geschiedenis zo lang verborgen blijven? En wie waren de hoofdrolspelers? In dit boek doen Michiel de Ruyter, Jan Pieterszoon Coen en Johan Maurits van Naussau hun verhaal. Maar de echte hoofdpersoon is Syntax Bosselman, die de slavernij aan den lijve ondervond op een plantage in Suriname. In 1883 werd hij met 27 landgenoten naar Amsterdam gehaald voor de Wereldtentoonstelling. Niet als eregast, zoals beloofd, maar om hem tentoon te stellen aan het Nederlandse publiek. Samen met de dertienjarige Kodjo ontdekt hij hoe ingewikkeld het is om zwart te zijn in een land vol witte mensen."--Back cover

Since its creation in 1861, Italy has struggled to develop an effective political system and a secure sense of national identity. This concise history covers the period from the fall of the Roman Empire in the west to the present day, but focuses on the difficulties Italy has faced in forging a nation state during the past two centuries. The opening chapters consider the geographical and cultural obstacles to unity, and survey the long centuries of political fragmentation in the peninsula since the sixth century. It was this legacy of fragmentation that Italy's new rulers had to strive to overcome when the country became united, more by accident than design, in 1859-61.

Historians love to write about rulers - kings, emperors, presidents - or about vast social forces - migration, industrialisation - but what if they are all missing the point? Thinking about our own lives, isn't it clear that what makes the world go round are families, colleagues, teams, associations- in other words, networks?

Many old Italian towns have the same central structure- a large square where people gather and a tower where the town's elite ruled from. Throughout history you can express the battle between the two as a battle of networks - who knows who, who works with who- guilds, families, fellowships, clans, cabals all cooperating to make sometimes huge changes. Sometimes the power lies with those lurking in the tower and sometimes with those in the square. Access to information, to credit, to ideas, to news - all constantly shift. Whether in the Renaissance or in the present day what makes the world work is an astonishing tangle of networks - and this was as true for the effort that went into discovering the New World as it is now for fighting elections or just talking to friends online.

In his enormously enjoyable new book, Niall Ferguson celebrates the myriad ways in which the battle between rival networks makes history happen.

Toelichtingen bij wandkaarten. Het betreft de kaarten: Het tempelplein in Jeruzalem, Straat in Jeruzalem, [en] Jeruzalem, gezien van den olijfberg, resp. 32, 20 en 34 pag, dit alles samengebonden. 

Aan de vooravond van de grote politieke processen in de Sovjetunie in 1934 wordt een jonge student slachtoffer van de stalinistische terreur.

Beschrijving van de beruchte zaak uit de Tachtigjarige oorlog, waarbij in Noord-Holland in 1575 mensen werden gefolterd en ter dood gebracht door de Geuzen wegens een niet-bestaand verraad aan de Spanjaarden.

Studie over het in de Oudheid ontstane idee dat de opeenvolging van de wereldrijken en de voortgang van de beschaving zich in westerse richting voltrokken.

Beschrijving van de veranderingen die zich met name in de periode 1945-1995 voordeden in en rond het Friese dorp Jorwerd.

De geschiedenis verbindt ons en maakt van Nederland hoe dan ook een lotsgemeenschap. Welke collectieve ervaringen hebben bij elkaar het Nederlandse volkskarakter gevormd, onze eigenzinnige manier om over de dijk te kijken naar hemel en aarde? Wat zijn de specifieke Nederlandse kleuren op het Europese palet? Wie zijn onze helden? En wie onze schurken?

Verslagen van zeer diverse gebeurtenissen en situaties uit de geschiedenis van Nederland van ca. 325 v. Chr. tot en met 21 september 2012.

Waarom wordt een intelligente, muzikale, mooie vrouw met een stem van vloeibaar goud geen zangeres? Is ze te zeer gehecht aan haar vrome vader, haar benepen zus? Wordt ze het slachtoffer van haar eigen bedompte Vlaamse katholicisme?

Haar veel jongere, eveneens intelligente, eveneens begaafde neef wil weten wat zijn begaafde tante gemaakt heeft tot de koppige, zure vrouw die hij kent.
Deze roman speelt zich af op het Vlaamse platteland en in Brussel, tussen 1920 en 1970, en is geschreven in de taal van die tijd.

De sociale en culturele geschiedenis van de stad Brussel.

In 1914 the Ottoman Empire was depleted of men and resources after years of war against Balkan nationalist and Italian forces. But as the powers of Europe slid inexorably toward war, the Middle East could not escape the vast and enduring consequences of one of the most destructive conflicts in human history. The Great War spelled the end of the Ottomans, unleashing powerful forces that would forever change the face of the Middle East. Here, award-winning historian Eugene Rogan brings the First World War and its immediate aftermath in the Middle East to vivid life, uncovering the often ignored story of the region's crucial role in the conflict. Bolstered by German money, arms, and military advisors, the Ottomans took on the Russian, British, and French forces, and tried to provoke Jihad against the Allies in their Muslim colonies. Unlike the static killing fields of the Western Front, the war in the Middle East was fast-moving and unpredictable, with the Turks inflicting decisive defeats on the Entente in Gallipoli, Mesopotamia, and Gaza before the tide of battle turned in the Allies' favor. The postwar settlement led to the partition of Ottoman lands between the victorious powers, and laid the groundwork for the ongoing conflicts that continue to plague the modern Arab world. This book is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the making of the modern Middle East.--From publisher description.

The protracted, terrible fight for independence pitted the Irish against the British and the Irish against other Irish. It was both a physical battle of shocking violence against a regime increasingly seen as alien and unacceptable and an intellectual battle for a new sort of country. The damage done, the betrayals and grim compromises put the new nation into a state of trauma for at least a generation, but at a nearly unacceptable cost the struggle ended- a new republic was born.
Charles Townshend's Easter 1916 opened up the astonishing events around the Rising for a new generation and in The Republic he deals, with the same unflinchingly wish to get to the truth behind the legend, with the most critical years in Ireland's history. There has been a great temptation to view these years through the prisms of martyrology and good-and-evil. The picture painted by Townshend is far more nuanced and sceptical - but also never loses sight of the ordinary forms of heroism performed by Irish men and women trapped in extraordinary times.

This book, now available in paperback, is a challenging and controversial account of the history of Spain in the eighth century. In it Roger Collins assesses the political and cultural impact on Spain of the first hundred years of Arab rule, focusing upon aspects of continuity and discontinuity with Visigoth Spain.

Tom Buijtendorp geeft in 'Caesar in de Lage Landen' duidelijkheid over Julius Caesars aanwezigheid in de Nederlanden, iets wat lange tijd in nevelen gehuld was. Julius Caesar sloeg een tijdlang met zijn legers kamp op in de Lage Landen en hij vocht veldslagen uit in deze regio, waarvan Caesar zelf dacht dat hij er gedood zou kunnen worden. Op basis van een reeks nieuwe ontdekkingen, zoals vondsten in een Karolingisch handschrift, een gezichtsreconstructie van Caesar in het RMO en rapporten van een Romeinse legerofficier, laat Buijtendorp in 'Caesar in de Lage Landen' zien dat we de plaatsen waar Caesar in Nederland en België verbleef nu ook kunnen aanwijzen.

The volume is divided into three parts, corresponding to the three main phases in Gothic history: their early history down to the fourth century, the revolution in Gothic society set in motion by the arrival of the Huns, and the history of the Gothic successor states to the western Roman Empire. At its heart lies a new vision of Gothic identity, and of the social caste by whom it was defined and transmitted.

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'Brilliant ... a historical masterpiece' The Times Literary Supplement

From one of Britain's most distinguished historians and the bestselling author of Hitler, this is the definitive history of a divided Europe, from the aftermath of the Second World War to the present.

After the overwhelming horrors of the first half of the 20th century, described by Ian Kershaw in his previous book as having gone 'to Hell and back', the years from 1950 to 2017 brought peace and relative prosperity to most of Europe. Enormous economic improvements transformed the continent. The catastrophic era of the world wars receded into an ever more distant past, though its long shadow continued to shape mentalities.

Europe was now a divided continent, living under the nuclear threat in a period intermittently fraught with anxiety. Europeans experienced a 'roller-coaster ride', both in the sense that they were flung through a series of events which threatened disaster, but also in that they were no longer in charge of their own destinies: for much of the period the USA and USSR effectively reduced Europeans to helpless figures whose fates were dictated to them by the Cold War. There were striking successes - the Soviet bloc melted away, dictatorships vanished and Germany was successfully reunited. But accelerating globalization brought new fragilities. The impact of interlocking crises after 2008 was the clearest warning to Europeans that there was no guarantee of peace and stability.

In this remarkable book, Ian Kershaw has created a grand panorama of the world we live in and where it came from. Drawing on examples from all across the continent, Roller-Coaster will make us all rethink Europe and what it means to be European.

The Ecclesiastical History of the English People (731 AD) is Bede's most famous work. As well as providing the authoritative Colgrave translation of the Ecclesiastical History, this edition includes a new translation of the Greater Chronicle, in which Bede examines the Roman Empire and contemporary Europe. His Letter to Egbert gives his final reflections on the English Church just before his death, and all three texts here are further illuminated by a detailed introduction and explanatory notes. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

"This engaging book tackles the contentious issue of categorizing the Christian military campaigns against Muslims in the Iberian Peninsula."—Historian

Das Grundlagenwerk zur Geschichte der Weimarer Republik Die Weimarer Republik gilt als erster Versuch Deutschlands, auf demokratischen Füßen zu stehen. Doch ihre Schöpfer schafftes es aus nationalpolitischen Rücksichten nicht, einen klaren strukturellen und moralischen Trennungsstrich zu den Verfechtern der alten Ordnung zu ziehen. Dem großen Historiker Hans Mommsen gelingt es, die komplizierten innen- und außenpolitischen Geschehnisse zu verdeutlichen und eine pointierte Darstellung zum Thema zu liefern.