Zusammenfassung: De geschiedenis van rechts terreur in Duitsland begon niet met de opkomst van de nationaalsocialisten, maar met een samenzwering tegen de Duitse democratie en een bloedige reeks moorden precies honderd jaar geleden. De daders in de vroege Weimarrepubliek hadden dezelfde motieven, wrok en doelen als de rechtse terroristen van nu. Hun dodelijke vastberadenheid was gebaseerd op sociaal milieu en emotie, op structeren en netwerken die overal mogelijk zijn en nooit helemaal zijn verdwenen. In De wraak van de verliezers legt Florian Huber parallellen tussen rechts terreur in de vroege Weimarrepubliek en het rechts-terrorisme van nu. Een spannend verhaal dat uitmondt in de spectaculaire moord op Walther Rathenau, de Duitse minister van Buitenlandse Zaken, waarmee Huber laat zien dat de geschiedenis zich nu herhaalt - of dat de aantrekkingskracht rechts-terrorisme wellicht nooit echt is afgenomen. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie.

Mark Greengrass's gripping, major, original account of Europe in an era of tumultuous change

SUNDAY TIMES and FINANCIAL TIMES Books of the Year 2014

This addition to the landmark Penguin History of Europe series is a fascinating study of 16th and 17th century Europe and the fundamental changes which led to the collapse of Christendom and established the geographical and political frameworks of Western Europe as we know it.

From peasants to princes, no one was untouched by the spiritual and intellectual upheaval of this era. Martin Luther's challenge to church authority forced Christians to examine their beliefs in ways that shook the foundations of their religion. The subsequent divisions, fed by dynastic rivalries and military changes, fundamentally altered the relations between ruler and ruled. Geographical and scientific discoveries challenged the unity of Christendom as a belief-community. Europe, with all its divisions, emerged instead as a geographical projection. It was reflected in the mirror of America, and refracted by the eclipse of Crusade in ambiguous relationships with the Ottomans and Orthodox Christianity. Chronicling these dramatic changes, Thomas More, Shakespeare, Montaigne and Cervantes created works which continue to resonate with us. Christendom Destroyed is a rich tapestry that fosters a deeper understanding of Europe's identity today.

'The Penguin History of Europe series ... is one of contemporary publishing's great projects' New Statesman

Examines the life of Spanish dictator General Franco

In the early nineteenth century, Britons and Americans renewed their struggle over the legacy of the American Revolution, leading to a second confrontation that redefined North America.  Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Alan Taylor’s vivid narrative tells the riveting story of the soldiers, immigrants, settlers, and Indians who fought to determine the fate of a continent. Would revolutionary republicanism sweep the British from Canada? Or would the British contain, divide, and ruin the shaky republic?
 
In a world of double identities, slippery allegiances, and porous boundaries, the leaders of the republic and of the empire struggled to control their own diverse peoples. The border divided Americans—former Loyalists and Patriots—who fought on both sides in the new war, as did native peoples defending their homelands. And dissident Americans flirted with secession while aiding the British as smugglers and spies.

During the war, both sides struggled to sustain armies in a northern land of immense forests, vast lakes, and stark seasonal swings in the weather. After fighting each other to a standstill, the Americans and the British concluded that they could safely share the continent along a border that favored the United States at the expense of Canadians and Indians.

Moving beyond national histories to examine the lives of common men and women, The Civil War of 1812 reveals an often brutal (sometimes comic) war and illuminates the tangled origins of the United States and Canada.

Moving beyond national histories to examine the lives of common men and women, The Civil War of 1812 reveals an often brutal (sometimes comic) war and illuminates the tangled origins of the United States and Canada.

'The Penguin History of Europe series ... is one of contemporary publishing's great projects' New Statesman

The Pursuit of Glory brings to life one of the most extraordinary periods in European history - from the battered, introvert continent after the Thirty Years War to the dynamic one that experienced the French Revolution and the wars of Napoleon. Tim Blanning depicts the lives of ordinary people and the dominant personalities of the age (Louis XIV, Frederick the Great, Napoleon), and explores an era of almost unprecedented change, growth and cultural, political and technological ferment that shaped the societies and economies of entire countries.

'A scintillating, encyclopaedic history, rich in detail from the arcane to the familiar... a veritable tour de force' Richard Overy, New Statesman

'Transnational history at its finest ... .. social, political and cultural themes swirl together in one great canvas of immense detail and beauty' Gerard DeGroot, The Times

'Dazzlingly erudite and entertaining' Dominic Sandbrook, The Sunday Times

A masterpiece which brings to life an extraordinarly turbulent and dramatic era of revolutionary change.

The Pursuit of Power draws on a lifetime of thinking about nineteenth-century Europe to create an extraordinarily rich, surprising and entertaining panorama of a continent undergoing drastic transformation. The book aims to reignite the sense of wonder that permeated this remarkable era, as rulers and ruled navigated overwhelming cultural, political and technological changes. It was a time where what was seen as modern with amazing speed appeared old-fashioned, where huge cities sprang up in a generation, new European countries were created and where, for the first time, humans could communicate almost instantly over thousands of miles. In the period bounded by the Battle of Waterloo and the outbreak of World War I, Europe dominated the rest of the world as never before or since: this book breaks new ground by showing how the continent shaped, and was shaped by, its interactions with other parts of the globe.

Richard Evans explores fully the revolutions, empire-building and wars that marked the nineteenth century, but the book is about so much more, whether it is illness, serfdom, religion or philosophy. The Pursuit of Power is a work by a historian at the height of his powers: essential for anyone trying to understand Europe, then or now.

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

Verzameling interviews met bekende Nederlanders.

Tijdens de Spaanse Burgeroorlog gaan vier mannen op weg om een belangrijke tegenstander te doden.

Dagboek van de Nederlandse dichter (1970- ) over de zomer 2001.

Columns en (in keerdruk) toespraken van de Vlaamse auteur (1958- ), veelal over actuele Belgische thema's.

Hij is de kern van de kleurrijke Heineken-geschiedenis, maar tegelijkertijd een grijze vlek: Gerard Adriaan Heineken (1841-1893). Stichter van het gelijknamige bierimperium, grootvader van Freddy Heineken en drijvende kracht achter de economische en culturele wederopbloei van Amsterdam, die bekendstaat als de Tweede Gouden Eeuw. Toch is er maar weinig over hem bekend. Wie was deze man? En waarom werd hij bijna tot de vergetelheid veroordeeld? Annejet van der Zijl kreeg toegang tot de familiearchieven en reconstrueerde het inspirerende en uiteindelijk ook dramatische levensverhaal van een van de grootste industriëlen in de Nederlandse geschiedenis. Zij ontdekte een negentiende-eeuwse success story vol lef, daadkracht en passie, maar ook de schaduwzijde van al die voorspoed: afgunst, chantagepogingen en schandaal.

Auteur tekent de levensgeschiedenis op van haar moeder Hélène Egger (1929), die na jarenlang zwijgen besloot haar levensverhaal te vertellen, eerst aan haar familie, vanaf 2007 ook aan kinderen op scholen via haar gastsprekerschap voor Westerbork. Egger was een vrolijk meisje uit een joods gezin dat tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog haar twee broers en haar vader verloor, in Auschwitz en Sobibor. Egger overleefde de oorlog.

Ooggetuigenverslagen van Britse soldaten van het eerste jaar van de Eerste Wereldoorlog.

Memoirs of ten Jewish men and women (from the Netherlands, France, and Germany) on their experiences as children or adults during the Holocaust period, in hiding or in concentration camps, and on their postwar lives. Many members of their families perished. Some of the children were converted and had serious problems after the war in the attempt to rediscover their Jewish identity. Some adults chose to change their names and assimilate. also relates to postwar experiences of antisemitism in the Netherlands.

This book is a major critical study of the connections between the 'public' character of television and the various ways it works as communication. John Corner asks fundamental questions about the nature of what appears on the screen and how it variously engages, informs and entertains viewers. After setting out some of the distinctive features of the medium, illustrated by examples, the question of the likely and possible social and political consequences of these features is directly addressed. Chapters on the specific but changing forms of news, documentary and advertising provide a vivid and detailed analysis of some of television's most controversial ways of addressing the viewer as citizen and consumer.

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Biografie van een SS-er die bekend werd door een wereldberoemde foto genomen in het getto van Warschau. Hierop staat een jongetje met beide handen in de lucht, onder schot gehouden door een soldaat. 

Biografie van Josef Stalin (1879-1953) op basis van tot dusver geheime archiefstukken.

Richard M Watt's book unfolds the story of 1918-19, the fateful year that saw the tragedy of Germany, soon to become the tragedy of Europe. In 1918 came the brief moment when the victorious Allies at the Versailles Conference had the opportunity - by means of a peace with justice - to set up democracy in central Europe. The Kings Depart tells of their failure; of the Allies' rapacity which drove a ruined Germany to seek vengeance; of Germany's terrible collapse into anarchy and Red revolution and her even more frightful salvation at the hands of the army and the Freikorps; of the appearance of the swastika banner and right-wing terrorists and adventurers awaiting their Fuhrer.

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.

Klappentext: Ab 1944 werden Tausende deutsche Kinder in Ostpreußen von ihren Familien getrennt - viele für immer. Gegen Hunger, Kälte und sowjetische Willkür führen sie einen Kampf um Leben und Tod. Auf sich allein gestellt, überleben diese sogenannten "Wolfskinder" in den Wäldern des Baltikums. Von litauischen Bauern gerettet, bleiben sie unter falscher Identität hinter dem Eisernen Vorhang zurück. Nach jahrzehntelangem Schweigen erzählen sie erstmals von den Schrecken der Vergangenheit. Aber auch von Menschen, die ihnen den Weg in die Zukunft wiesen.

De Tachtigjarige Oorlog is een van de belangrijkste perioden uit de geschiedenis der Nederlanden. In die woelige tijd werd de basis gelegd voor het Nederland zoals wij dat nu kennen. De strijd die in de loop van de 16de eeuw binnen de Lage Landen uitbrak - tegen het beleid van Filips II en vóór godsdienstvrijheid - leidde uiteindelijk tot de onafhankelijkheid van de Republiek der Verenigde Nederlanden. Met de langverwachte herziening van de standaardwerken "De kogel door de kerk?" en "De bruid in de schuit" biedt deze uitgave voor het eerst een totaaloverzicht van de Tachtigjarige Oorlog (1559-1650). De tekst is volledig aangepast aan de huidige stand van de wetenschap en werd voorzien van een geactualiseerde beredeneerde bibliografie en vele illustraties in kleur. Aan bod komen de staatsrechtelijke, economische, maatschappelijke en godsdienstige aspecten van dit boeiende tijdvak.

A history of the wars of North American natives, from the coming of whites to the end of the nineteenth century, discusses massacres, broken treaties, and the native Americans' struggle to halt white expansion westward.

Biografie van het leven van de enige dochter van Jozef Stalin (1926-2011).

Augustine in the fourth and fifth centuries and Thomas More in the sixteenth were familiar with the deceits and illusions that enabled even the most vile rulers to shore up their dignity and that gave repressive regimes an inviolability of sorts. Both men knew the politics of their times, both were involved in politics, and both were at one time politically ambitious. Augustine needed and made good use of government's powers of coercion and damage control in his struggle against the Donatists. The clear advantages of political protection and correction preoccupied More in his battle against Martin Luther. Both later changed their minds and believed, finally, the political imagination, based as it is on a desire for power, always and inevitably leads to devastation and suffering. Peter Iver Kaufman explains how and why we have failed to appreciate Augustine's and More's profound political pessimism, reintroducing readers to two of the Christian tradition's most enigmatic yet influential figures. Each had been disturbed by the reach of his own political ambitions--as by those of contemporaries. Each knew that government was useful--yet always deceitful. And each wrote a classic--widely read to this day, Augustine's City of God and More's Utopia,as well as abundant correspondence and polemical tracts to explain why government on earth might be used, though never meaningfully improved.