Autobiografische fragmenten van de Nederlandse schrijver-schilder (1938- ).

Reisbrieven van de Nederlandse vertaler uit de jaren 1967-1984.

Hoe kon de vroegere, relatief rustige kolonie van België, sinds 1960 onafhankelijk, zo veranderen? David Van Reybrouck beschrijft voor het eerst de verbijsterende geschiedenis van Congo, van ruim voor de komst van de ontdekkingsreiziger Stanley tot en met de invloed van China in de laatste tien jaar en de recente economische crisis.

Op de dag van de capitulatie wil de Japanse militaire politie nog een paar voortvluchtige officieren van het Indonesische vrijwilligersleger terechtstellen.

During the last few decades the study of the family has flourished, and in the process many myths about what life was like two or three centuries ago have been debunked. For example, contrary to popular belief, we now know that most women in the preindustrial West did not marry before they were twenty-five. Most households consisted of no more than four or five people, usually including unrelated young people working as servants. And perhaps most surprising of all, multigenerational households were not very common. Pulling together much fascinating information about the family in the preindustrial Western world, Beatrice Gottlieb presents every aspect of this rich subject with clarity and fairness. Her generously illustrated book deals with the households of the wealthy and the poor, courtship and marriage, the care and training of children, and the bonds (and strains) of kinship. The matter of inheritance receives special attention, as it played a substantial role in a world permeated by rank and status, and its importance gave the family a peculiar social and economic significance. With a focus on the ordinary people whose everyday lives strike a responsive chord in all of us, as well as brief appearances by famous people and important events in history--Henry VIII's divorce, Benjamin Franklin's apprenticeship to his brother, and Mary Wollstonecraft's death in childbirth--this remarkable, eminently readable work brings to vivid life the wives and husbands, servants and masters, children and parents of a not too distant past.

In De Braziliaanse affaire reconstructeert Evaldo Cabral de Mello het diplomatieke spel rondom de Vrede van Münster (1648) tussen de Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Provinciën en Portugal, met als medespelers Spanje, Frankrijk en Engeland, en als inzet de rijkdommen van Brazilië. In 1630 veroverde de West-Indische Compagnie het suikerrijke Recife. Onder Johan Maurits van Nassau-Siegen leek de kolonie een stevige bezitting, maar na zijn vertrek in 1644 ging het bergafwaarts. In 1640 werd Portugal onafhankelijk van Spanje en begon het onderhandelen met de Republiek. Na de verdrijving van de Nederlanders in 1654 duurden de onderhandelingen tot 1661, toen Portugal zwaar moest betalen voor de Nederlandse aanspraken op de kolonie. Evaldo Cabral de Mello is een gerenommeerd historicus en auteur, en zijn studie toont aan dat internationale politiek in de 17e eeuw vooral draaide om eigenbelang.

Onderzoek naar en verklaring voor de geografische bodemtekeningen in Peru.

The idea that Britain, the US and other western societies are witnessing the rise of an underclass of people at the bottom of the social heap, structurally and culturally distinct from traditional patterns of `decent' working-class life, has become increasingly popular in the 1990s. Anti-work, anti-social, and welfare dependent cultures are said to typify this new `dangerous class' and `dangerous youth' are taken as the prime subjects of underclass theories. Debates about the family and single-parenthood, about crime and about unemployment and welfare reforms have all become embroiled in underclass theories which, whilst highly controversial, have had remarkable influence on the politics and policies of governments in Britain and the US,
Youth, the `Underclass' and Social Exclusion constitutes the first concerted attempt to grapple with the underclass idea in relation to contemporary youth. It focuses upon unemployment, training, the labour market, crime, homelessness, and parenting and will be essential reading for students of social policy, sociology and criminology.

Imagine waking up one day to find that virtually everything you do has become a paid for experience. It is part of a fundamental change taking place in the nature of business, contends Jeremy Ritkin. After several hundred years as the organising principles of civilisation, the traditional market systems is beginning to break down. On the horizon looms the age of access, where we trade experiences instead of objects.

Biografie waarin onder meer gesteld wordt dat Vestdijks homoseksuele gevoelens vooral bij een depressie sterk naar boven kwamen.