Historische achtergrond van het Singer Museum te Laren, gevolgd door een keuze uit de collectie van het museum.

The untold story of how Felice della Rovere, the illegitimate daughter of Pope Julius II, became the most powerful woman in Rome. Caroline P. Murphy evokes not only the great turbulence and creativity of Renaissance Italy, but also Felice's daily life, from dealing with squabbles among servants to her advice on the best way to bribe a Pope.

National history is a vital part of national self-definition. Most books on the history of the world try to impose a uniform narrative, written usually from a single writers point of view. Histories of Nations is different: it presents 28 essays written by a leading historian as a self-portrait of his or her native country, defining the characteristics that embody its sense of nationhood. The countries have been selected to represent every continent and every type of state, large and small, and together they make up two-thirds of the worlds population. They range from mature democracies to religious autocracies and one-party states, from countries with a venerable history to those who only came into being in the 20th century. In order to get to grips with the national and cultural differences that both enliven and endanger our world, we need above all to understand different national viewpoints to read the always engaging and often passionate accounts given in this remarkable and unusual book.

De culturen van vóór het Inka-rijk in het centrale Andesgebied en in de Peruaanse kuststreek.

The Mask of Command is about generals: who they are, what they do and how they affect the world we live in. Most studies of generalship have focused on individual character and behaviour. While these are not neglected in this remarkable book, its central argument is that, like warfare itself, generalship is a cultural enterprise, providing a key to understanding a particular era or place, as much as it is an exercise in power or military skill. Through portraits of four generals - archetypal hero Alexander the Great, anti-hero Wellington, the unheroic Ulysses S. Grant and the false heroic of Hitler - John Keegan propounds the view of heroism in warfare as inextricable linked with the political imperative of the age and place. He demonstrates how the role of the general alters with the ethos of the society that creates him and concludes that there is no place for heroism in a nuclear world. The Mask of Command is a companion volume to John Keegan's classic study of the individual soldier, The Face of Battle: together they form a masterpiece of military and human history.

Focus ligt op periode van arrestatie van Van Meegeren in 1945 en daarna.

Geschiedenis van de technische ontwikkelingen eind negentiende eeuw en begin twintigste eeuw.

Het levensverhaal van de Nederlandse schilder (1632-1675) aan de hand van zijn schilderijen.

Het levensverhaal van de Nederlandse schilder (1632-1675) aan de hand van zijn schilderijen.

26 schilderijen (in kleur afgebeeld) zijn samengesteld door Wilks op grond van de beginletter van de afgebeelde objecten en personen.

Published on the occasion of the return of the German drawings (139 drawings and 3 prints) from the Koenigs Collection to The Netherlands and their exhibit at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; with colour en b/w ill.

Met een historisch overzicht van Josef Wodka en een documentatiei van de geschiedenis van de paus door Ludwig Freiherr von Pastor; rijk geill.vnl. in z-w.