Over slavernij in Suriname en (tweede deel) de Nederlandse Antillen

Indiana had the largest and most politically significant state organization in the massive national Ku Klux Klan movement of the 1920s. Using a unique set of Klan membership documents, quantitative analysis, and a variety of other sources, Leonard Moore p

At the turn of the century, the African country closest to Europe geographically was probably the least known. Morocco was a nation yet to emerge from the Middle Aged, violent and primitive, a place ruled by local warlords out of mud castles, and swept by religious fanaticism. To strike out from Tangiers was to enter a time capsule- emperors, slaves, harems, fortified towns, filth, superstition, blood feuds, and barbarism. Yet in the mad scramble for African colonies, backward and poverty-stricken Morocco had one great attraction: it was available. In 1903, with the posting to Africa of one of the oddest of all French military figures, General Hubert Lyautey, France undertook to change this state of affairs, and by the time World War I broke out the conquest was virtually complete. This book tells the story of France's last great colonial adventure.

Feiten die de geschiedenis veranderden.Wie waren onze voorouders? Waren wij niet de enige mensensoort op aarde? Wie heeft Amerika werkelijk ontdekt? Zette Columbus niet als eerste voet aan wal? Wie was de verrader van Anne Frank? Was het een vriend van de familie? Hoe stierf Toetanchamon? Wat was het werkelijke lot van de jongenskoning van Egypte? Wat weten wij werkelijk van de geschiedenis? De geschiedenis wordt geschreven door de mens, maar ieder mens heeft door zijn leefomgeving en persoonlijke eigenschappen een andere kijk op de wereld. Het is dus niet verwonderlijk dat bepaalde historische gebeurtenissen op een andere manier de geschiedenis zijn ingegaan dan ze feitelijk gebeurd zijn. De verhalen uit het verleden zijn doorgegeven van de ene persoon op de andere en zoals elk verhaal dat door meer monden wordt verteld, zal ook het relaas van de geschiedenis telkens een beetje veranderen door vooroordelen en een verkeerde uitleg van de verteller.

Reconstructie van de gebeurtenissen die leidden tot de moord op de graaf van Holland in 1296.

'Notes on a Century' is a great historian's vivid and insightful episodic reflections on his life, from his childhood as a confident, clever little boy to his energetic old age in the present day.

A vivid and original account of warfare in the Middle Ages and the cruelty and atrocity that accompanied it.

Sean McGlynn investigates the reality of medieval warfare. For all the talk of chivalry, medieval warfare routinely involved acts which we would consider war crimes. Lands laid waste, civilians slaughtered, prisoners massacred: this was standard fare justified by tradition and practical military necessity. It was unbelievably barbaric, but seldom uncontrolled.

Such acts of atrocity were calculated, hideous cruelties inflicted in order to achieve a specific end. Sean McGlynn examines the battles of Acre and Agincourt, sieges like Béziers, Lincoln, Jerusalem and Limoges as well as the infamous chevauchées of the Hundred Years War that devastated great swathes of France. He reveals how these grisly affairs form the origin of accepted 'rules of war', codes of conduct that are today being enforced in the International Court of Justice in the Hague.

The author documents the slave trade, from its beginnings on the coast of West Africa in the fifteenth century, following the development of this massive shift of human lives across the centuries until its abolition in the late nineteenth century.

Studie naar de rol die het vrouwelijk deel van de Duitse bevolking heeft gespeeld in het nationaal-socialisme en het Derde Rijk van Hitler.

Met medewerking van I. Moerman, W. Otterspeer en L. Zuyderduin.

This book focuses on the influence of taxation on society and the development of tax law itself. Comprising numerous figures and images, the book provides a mixture of historical facts as well as the incidental anecdotes from history of taxation.

In this work, Robert Payne brings life to the Crusades that founded vast kingdoms in Palestine nearly 1000 years ago. It is a story of battles and valour, greed and piety, folly and baseness that mark the first major clash of Christianity and Islam.

The Victorians called him "Bobby" after Sir Robert Peel, the Home Secretary who created the Metropolitan Police in 1829. The generations that followed came to regard the force in which he served as "the best police in the world." If 21st- century observers sometimes take a more jaundiced view of his efforts, the blue-helmeted, unarmed policeman remains an icon of Britishness, and a symbol of the relatively peaceful nature of our social evolution. In "The Great British Bobby," Clive Emsley traces the development of Britain's forces of law and order from the earliest watchmen and constables of the pre-modern period to the police service of today.

While Galileo suffered under house arrest at the hands of Pope Urban VIII, the Thirty Years War ruined Europe, and the Pilgrims struggled to survive in the New World, work began on what would become one of the Seven Wonders of the World: the Taj Mahal. Built by the Moghul emperor Shah Jahan as a memorial to his beloved wife, Mumtaz Mahal, its flawless symmetry and gleaming presence have for centuries dazzled everyone who has seen it, and the story of its creation is a fascinating blend of cultural and architectural heritage. Yet, as Diana & Michael Preston vividly convey in the first narrative history of the Taj, it also reflects the magnificent history of the Moghul Empire itself, for it turned out to mark the high point of the Empire's glory at the same time as it became a tipping point in Moghul fortunes.

The roots of the Moghul Empire lie with the legendary warriors Genghis Khan and Tamburlaine; at its height it contained 100 million people, from Afghanistan in the north and present-day Pakistan in the west, to Bengal in the east and southwards deep into central India.. With the storytelling skills that characterize their previous books, Diana & Michael Preston bring alive both the grand sweep of Moghul history and the details that make it memorable: the battles and dynastic rivalries that forged the Empire alongside an intimate chronicle of daily life within the imperial palace. A tale of overwhelming passion, the story of the Taj has the cadences of Greek tragedy and the ripe emotion of grand opera, and puts a memorable human face on the marble masterpiece.

Garry Wills's Venice: Lion City is a tour de force -- a rich, colorful, and provocative history of the world's most fascinating city in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, when it was at the peak of its glory. This was not the city of decadence, carnival, and nostalgia familiar to us from later centuries. It was a ruthless imperial city, with a shrewd commercial base, like ancient Athens, which it resembled in its combination of art and sea empire.
Venice: Lion City presents a new way of relating the history of the city through its art and, in turn, illuminates the art through the city's history. It is illustrated with more than 130 works of art, 30 in full color. Garry Wills gives us a unique view of Venice's rulers, merchants, clerics, laborers, its Jews, and its women as they created a city that is the greatest art museum in the world, a city whose allure remains undiminished after centuries.
Like Simon Schama's The Embarrassment of Riches, on the Dutch culture in the Golden Age, Venice: Lion City will take its place as a classic work of history and criticism.

When we think of plastic surgery, vending machines, computers and fast food, many of us assume that they are modern inventions. Amazingly, these were all invented hundreds, or even thousands, of years ago.

In What the Past Did for Us, presenter and enthusiast Adam Hart-Davis takes us on a journey into the ancient world, revealing an astonishing array of innovations that occurred long before many of us would ever have thought they had.

The Greeks are well-known for inventing the Olympics, but only a few of us are aware that they were responsible for building the first known computer, around 100 BC. The Romans-famous for their road building-also gave us double glazing and central heating. All in all we owe a huge debt to the ancients-from the Chinese who invented paper money and the wheelbarrow, to the early Britons who developed the first housing estate at Skara Brae, home to the world's oldest known lavatories.

Based on the television series What the Past Did for Us, this book will change the way that we look at the everyday inventions we take for granted and until now thought were from the modern age.

The early years of the 18th-century produced two great monuments: one, Christopher Wren's new cathedral of St Paul's, an enduring testament to principled craft and masterful construction, the other an empty fraud of such magnitude that its collapse threatened to overturn monarchies and governments. Its failure delayed the introduction of modern market economies by two generations. Yet the full scale of this monumental deceit was quietly covered up and hidden, its enduring legacy a poorly understood colloquialism: the South Sea Bubble.

Geïllustreerd overzicht van de geschiedenis van de Lage Landen, van de Romeinse tijd tot aan het einde van de twintigste eeuw.

Historische en cultuurhistorische geschriften van de historicus Huizinga (1872-1945) geplaatst in een breed internationaal kader van Europese cultuurkritiek in de eerste helft van de twintigste eeuw.

Overzicht van de activiteiten van militaire eenheden tijdens veldslagen en veldtochten.

In de overgang van de achttiende naar de negentiende eeuw bestond er onder de nieuwe stedelijke elite een groeiende belangstelling voor het ontginnen van woeste gronden. De wens zich in te zetten voor de ontwikkeling van de landbouw- en veeteelt voor het algemeen welzijn berustte veelal op idealistische motieven en het veronderstelde kennis van de materie. 0Naast een of meerdere boerenhoeven die op een ontginning werden gebouwd, werd in veel gevallen ook een stenen huis opgetrokken voor de pachtheer. Het stenen herenhuis bood de familie gelegenheid tot recreatie in de vrije natuur, weg uit de stedelijke omgeving. Een bescheiden voorbeeld van een dergelijke ontginningsonderneming is het kleine landgoed Sterrebos, onder Oud Herlaer, dat meer dan twee honderd jaar geleden werd aangelegd door Jacob Willem Halfwassenaer van Onsenoort.0Architectuurhistoricus Jan van der Vaart verdiepte zich in de ontginningspraktijk aan het begin van de negentiende eeuw en ontrafelde de twee eeuwen bouw en bewoningsgeschiedenis van het kleine buiten Sterrebos.0Het brede spectrum van zijn onderzoek leidde tot een ongekunsteld inkijkje in de verhoudingen binnen de kringen van de bestuurlijke elite, van de militaire bovenlaag in de stad, de opkomst van de gegoede burgerij in de negentiende eeuw en de rol van de lokale overheid aan het begin van de twintigste eeuw.

The Durrell family are immortalised in Gerald Durrell's My Family and Other Animals and its ITV adaptation, The Durrells. But what of the real life Durrells? Why did they go to Corfu in the first place - and what happened to them after they left?

The real story of the Durrells is as surprising and fascinating as anything in Gerry's books, and Michael Haag, with his first hand knowledge of the family, is the ideal narrator, drawing on diaries, letters and unpublished autobiographical fragments.

The Durrells of Corfu describes the family's upbringing in India and the crisis that brought them to England and then Greece. It recalls the genuine characters they encountered on Corfu - Theodore the biologist, the taxi driver Spiro Halikiopoulos and the prisoner Kosti - as well as the visit of American writer Henry Miller. And Haag has unearthed the story of how the Durrells left Corfu, including Margo's and Larry's last-minute escapes before the War. An extended epilogue looks at the emergence of Larry as a world famous novelist, and Gerry as a naturalist and champion of endangered species, as well as the lives of the rest of the family, their friends and other animals.

The book is illustrated with family photos from the Gerald Durrell Archive, many of them reproduced here for the first time.