In this work the author selects more than 150 of those he considers to be the most influential and unusual journeys of discovery, setting each firmly in its historical context. This book chronicles the personalities, the conditions that were endured, and the contribution that exploration has made to our knowledge of the world.

An epic, groundbreaking account of the ethnic and state violence that followed the end of World War I--conflicts that would shape the course of the twentieth century. For the Western allies, November 11, 1918 has always been a solemn date--the end of fighting that had destroyed a generation, but also a vindication of a terrible sacrifice with the total collapse of the principal enemies: the German Empire, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire. But for much of the rest of Europe this was a day with no meaning, as a continuing, nightmarish series of conflicts engulfed country after country. In The Vanquished, a highly original and gripping work of history, Robert Gerwarth asks us to think again about the true legacy of the First World War. In large part it was not the fighting on the Western Front that proved so ruinous to Europe's future, but the devastating aftermath, as countries on both sides of the original conflict were savaged by revolutions, pogroms, mass expulsions, and further major military clashes. If the war itself had in most places been a struggle mainly between state-backed soldiers, these new conflicts were predominantly perpetrated by civilians and paramilitaries, and driven by a murderous sense of injustice projected on to enemies real and imaginary. In the years immediately after he armistice, millions would die across Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe before the Soviet Union and a series of rickety and exhausted small new states would come into being. It was here, in the ruins of Europe, that extreme ideologies such as fascism would take shape and ultimately emerge triumphant in Italy, Germany, and elsewhere. As absorbing in its drama as it is unsettling in its analysis, The Vanquished is destined to transform our understanding of not just the First World War but of the twentieth century as a whole

Maatschappelijke veranderingen hebben gezorgd voor een veranderd ik-gevoel. Paul Verhaeghe onderzoekt de effecten van dertig jaar neoliberalisme, vrijemarktwerking, privatisering en de relatie tussen de maakbare samenleving en onze identiteit. Wie wij zijn wordt zoals altijd bepaald door de context waarin wij leven. Die context bepaalt op dit moment: Wie geen succes heeft zal ziek zijn. De dwang tot succes en geluk blijkt een keerzijde te hebben: het leidt tot verlies aan zelfbesef, tot desoriëntatie en vertwijfeling. De mens is eenzamer dan ooit. De liefde is moeilijk te bereiken en betekenisvol leven is diepgaand problematisch geworden. Vanuit zijn klinische ervaring als psychotherapeut laat Verhaeghe zien hoezeer de veranderde maatschappij doorwerkt in de hedendaagse individuele psychische problemen. Mensen komen met andere psychische klachten bij de psychiater dan voorheen.

With new and updated material.

Now, for the first time, Kissinger gives us in a single volume an in-depth, inside view of the Vietnam War, personally collected, annotated, revised, and updated from his bestselling memoirs and his book Diplomacy.

Many other authors have written about what they thought happened—or thought should have happened—in Vietnam, but it was Henry Kissinger who was there at the epicenter, involved in every decision from the long, frustrating negotiations with the North Vietnamese delegation to America's eventual extrication from the war.

Here, Kissinger writes with firm, precise knowledge, supported by meticulous documentation that includes his own memoranda to and replies from President Nixon. He tells about the tragedy of Cambodia, the collateral negotiations with the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China, the disagreements within the Nixon and Ford administrations, the details of all negotiations in which he was involved, the domestic unrest and protest in the States, and the day-to-day military to diplomatic realities of the war as it reached the White House.

As compelling and exciting as Barbara Tuchman's The Guns of August, Ending the Vietnam War also reveals insights about the bigger-than-life personalities—Johnson, Nixon, de Gaulle, Ho Chi Minh, Brezhnev—who were caught up in a war that forever changed international relations. This is history on a grand scale, and a book of overwhelming importance to the public record.

Overzicht van belangrijke wetenschappelijke ontwikkelingen op het gebied van de natuurwetenschappen vanaf de achttiende eeuw.

The most dramatic, revealing and little-known story in Turkey's history - which illuminates the nation

'Through the spellbinding career of a single, ill-fated leader, Jeremy Seal illuminates a bitterly divided country' Colin Thubron

'Read this book if you're interested in Turkey. Read it if you're interested in power, hubris and redemption. Read it' Christopher de Bellaigue, author of The Islamic Enlightenment

In the spring of 2016 travel writer Jeremy Seal went to Turkey to investigate perhaps the most dramatic, revealing and little-known episode in the country's history - the 'original' coup of 1960, which deposed the traditionalist Prime Minister Adnan Menderes. The story of Menderes - to his adoring supporters the country's founding democrat; to his sworn enemies its most infamous traitor - goes to the heart of the feud that continues to rage between the Western and secular ambitions of a minority elite and the religious and conservative instincts of the small-town majority. A Coup in Turkey is a thrilling account of the events leading up to the coup and the trials and executions that followed, a story of political subterfuge and score-settling, courtroom drama, state execution, authoritarian intolerance and ideological division.

Seal travels through President Erdogan's Turkey, tracking down eye-witness accounts from survivors of the Menderes era in Istanbul, the historic metropolis, and the new capital at Ankara. As he expertly guides us through this extraordinary story, so the compelling parallels between past and present become strikingly clear, and he illuminates this troubled nation with a deep sympathy and love for the people and places he writes about. By focussing on one key event - one which many Turks regard with shame - this evocative, gripping portrait of Turkey recentres our understanding of the past and makes sense of one of Europe's most bewildering yet intriguing neighbours.

'A wonderful writer' Robert Macfarlane

De mens is een beest, zeiden de koningen. Een zondaar, zeiden de priesters. Een egoïst, zeiden de boekhouders. Al eeuwen is de westerse cultuur doordrongen van het geloof in de verdorvenheid van de mens.Maar wat als we het al die tijd mis hadden? In dit boek verweeft Rutger Bregman de jongste inzichten uit de psychologie, de economie, de biologie en de archeologie. Hij neemt ons mee op een reis door de geschiedenis en geeft nieuwe antwoorden op oude vragen. Waarom veroverde juist onze soort de aarde? Hoe verklaren we onze grootste misdaden? En zijn we diep vanbinnen geneigd tot het kwade of het goede?Adembenemend, weids en revolutionair - De meeste mensen deugen herschrijft niet alleen de geschiedenis, maar werpt ook nieuw licht op onze toekomst

Beschrijving van de activiteiten van de Colonne Henneicke, een groep van zo'n 50 Nederlandse jodenjagers.

Wie had gedacht dat het beschamende einde van de LPF definitief een einde zou maken aan het bozige Nederlandse populisme, kwam bedrogen uit. Zowel Rita Verdonk als Geert Wilders heeft gedemonstreerd dat het populistische kiezerspotentieel bepaald niet kleiner is geworden. Voor de objectieve waarnemer blijft dat een verbazingwekkende zaak, gezien de baarlijke nonsens die de populistische voorlieden meestal uitkramen. Rita Verdonk is ondertussen gestruikeld over haar eigen organisatorische onvermogen. Wilders heeft het stokje overgenomen en excelleert vooral in handig geformuleerde borreltafelpolitiek. De enorme attractie van deze politieke kermisgasten is dus verrassend stabiel. Hoofdoorzaak lijkt toch wel de bangmakerij voor de niet-bestaande 'islamisering' van Nederland, en de rest van Europa. Er is echter meer aan de hand. De populistische partijen zijn brede protestpartijen. Een aanzienlijk deel van het electoraat ziet de overheid, het politieke systeem en de maatschappelijke elite kennelijk als de vijand. De vraag is hoe dat komt.

Een pleidooi voor meer empathie in de politiek

For a long time guilds have been condemned as a major obstacle to economic progress in the pre-industrial era. This re-examination of the role of guilds in the early modern European economy challenges that view by taking into account fresh research on innovation, technological change and entrepreneurship. Leading economic historians argue that industry before the Industrial Revolution was much more innovative than previous studies have allowed for and explore the different products and production techniques that were launched and developed in this period. Much of this innovation was fostered by the craft guilds that formed the backbone of industrial production before the rise of the steam engine. The book traces the manifold ways in which guilds in a variety of industries in Italy, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Britain helped to create an institutional environment conducive to technological and marketing innovations.

Geeft een uitstekende indruk over hoe het er tijdens de wereldoorlog in Jappenkampen aan toe ging

The 1960s and ’70s were a time of dramatic upheaval in American universities as a new generation of scholar-activists rejected traditional humanism in favor of a radical ideology that denied esthetic merit and objective truth. In The Victims’ Revolution, critic and scholar Bruce Bawer provides the first true history of this radical movement and a sweeping assessment of its intellectual and cultural fruits.

Once, Bawer argues, the purpose of higher education had been to introduce students to the legacy of Western civilization—“the best that has been thought and said.” The new generation of radical educators sought instead to unmask the West as the perpetrator of global injustice. Age-old values of goodness, truth, and beauty were disparaged as mere weapons in an ongoing struggle of the powerful against the powerless. Shifting the focus of the humanities to the purported victims of Western colonialism, imperialism, and capitalism, the new politicized approach to the humanities gave rise to a series of identity-based programs, including Women’s Studies, Black Studies, Queer Studies, and Chicano Studies. As a result, the serious and objective study of human civilization and culture was replaced by “theoretical” approaches emphasizing group identity, victimhood, and lockstep “progressive” politics.

Twenty-five years ago, Allan Bloom warned against the corruption of the humanities in The Closing of the American Mind. Bawer’s book presents compelling evidence that Bloom and other conservative critics were right to be alarmed. The Victims’ Revolution describes how the new identity-based disciplines came into being, examines their major proponents and texts, and trenchantly critiques their underlying premises. Bawer concludes that the influence of these programs has impoverished our thought, confused our politics, and filled the minds of their impressionable students with politically correct mush. Bawer’s book is must-reading for all those concerned not only about the declining quality of American higher education, but also about the fate of our society at large.

In this book, George Gilder asserts that widespread antagonism toward the current state of Israel springs from, like anti-Semitism everywhere, envy of superior accomplishment. Israel's sudden rise as a world capitalist and technological power, he argues, stems in part from the Jewish "culture of mind" and in part from Judaism itself, which, "perhaps more than any other religion, favors capitalist activity and provides a rigorous moral framework for it." Critics of Israel--in the U.S., in the surrounding countries of the Middle East and in Western European nations that are facing socialist decline--have failed the "Israel Test" because they seek to tear down this country's success rather than emulate it. America's ability and desire to defend Israel will define our future survival as a nation: "If Israel is destroyed," he says, "capitalist Europe will likely die as well, and America, as the epitome of productive and creative capitalism spurred by Jews, will be in jeopardy."

A Moment of Anguish captures the dramatic events leading to the historic separation of Singapore from Malaysia. This book is based on research material drawn from the archives in Singapore. Britain, Australia and the United States. It goes beyond other studies to unravel the hidden story behind this traumatic and controversial episode in Singapore's recent history. Unpublished sources have been put together to recreate key events which bring out the tensions and conflicts of the period - the "snap" election in Singapore in 1963, the controversial participation of the PAP in the Federal elections of 1964, the two race riots in Singapore in 1964, the formation of the Malaysian Solidarity Convention and the secret negotiations for disengagement. Written in an engaging style, the book also offers new insights into the principal personalities of the period and the circumstances under which painful and fateful decisions were made.

Born and raised on a small Canadian farm, Galbraith began teaching at Harvard during the Depression. He was FDR"s "price czar" during the war and then a senior editor of Fortune before returning to Harvard and to fame as a bestselling writer. Parker shows how, from his early championing of Keynes to his acerbic analysis of America"s "private wealth and public squalor," Galbraith regularly challenged prevailing theories and policies. And his account of Galbraith"s remarkable friendship with John F. Kennedy, whom he served as a close advisor while ambassador to India, is especially relevant for its analysis of the intense, dynamic debates that economists and politicians can have over how America should manage its wealth and power. This masterful chronicle gives color, depth, and meaning to the record of an extraordinary life.

Verbeter jezelf, begin bij de wereld. Ontdek de kracht van het wij in jezelf.  Het ik-tijdperk is voorbij, samen op weg naar een nieuwe ethiek

'Community' is one of those words that feels good: it is good 'to have a community', 'to be in a community'. And 'community' feels good because of the meanings which the word conveys, all of them promising pleasures, and more often than not the kind of pleasures which we would like to experience but seem to miss.


'Community' conveys the image of a warm and comfortable place, like a fireplace at which we warm our hands on a frosty day. Out there, in the street, all sorts of dangers lie in ambush; in here, in the community, we can relax and feel safe. 'Community' stands for the kind of world which we long to inhabit but which is not, regrettably, available to us. Today 'community' is another name for paradise lost - but for a paradise which we still hope to find, as we feverishly search for the roads that may lead us there.


But there is a price to be paid for the privilege of being in a community. Community promises security but seems to deprive us of freedom, of the right to be ourselves. Security and freedom are two equally precious and coveted values which could be balanced to some degree, but hardly ever fully reconciled. The tension between security and freedom, and between community and individuality, is unlikely ever to be resolved. We cannot escape the dilemma but we can take stock of the opportunities and the dangers, and at least try to avoid repeating past errors.


In this important new book, Zygmunt Bauman takes stock of these opportunities and dangers and, in his distinctive and brilliant fashion, offers a much-needed reappraisal of a concept that has become central to current debates about the nature and future of our societies.

Beschrijving van de oorlogsgeschiedenis van een welgestelde Nederlands-Duits-Baltische familie in de twintigste eeuw.

Filosofisch verslag van hedendaagse arbeidsprocessen.

De Twents-Achterhoekse textielindustrie kende vele felle en langdurige sociale conflicten. Pas na de Tweede Wereldoorlog dwongen grote personeelstekorten de fabrikanten om hun arbeiders niet langer als kostenpost te behandelen en rekening te houden met de wensen van de vakbonden. In 1948 erkende de Enschedese grootindustrieel H.J. Blijdenstein dat de textiel industrie 'in het verleden de menschelijke factor te veel over het hoofd heeft gezien en dat dit één van de belangrijkste ondergronden is van de tegenzin tegen het textielvak'. In samenspraak met de vakbonden lieten de ondernemers deze 'textielaversie' uitvoerig onderzoeken. Dit boek omvat, naast een uitvoerige inleiding over het ontstaan van de textiel industrie, een achttal nooit gepubliceerde deelstudies naar de sociale verhoudingen en over de stakingen tijdens het inter bellum en de april-mei-stakingen uit 1943.

"In de late negentiende eeuw steeg de materiële welvaart spectaculair, en de mensen gingen anders kijken, ervaren en denken. Zo ontstond de nieuwe cultuur die tot op de dag van vandaag als de moderne wordt gezien. In de oude beschaving stond het streven naar 'het hogere' voorop, de hoogste waarden waren immaterieel, 'geestelijk'. De nieuwe cultuur kwam met andere, heel aardse waarden en normen. Die werden massaal omarmd, het eerst en vooral in de grote steden. Daar waren de spraakmakende winkels, de verbluffende horeca concepten, de eerste bioscopen, daar waren alle nouveautés te zien. In deze nieuwe cultuur werd het concrete, het materiële, belangrijker dan het ideële. Het hebben van spullen en een goede gezondheid werden de bronnen van geluk. Auke van der Woud beschrijft de culturele revolutie zoals die plaatsvond inde etalages, in de cafés, de theaters en de bioscopen, de musea en bij de monumenten, de badplaatsen, de nieuwe modieuze bloemen en planten, in de scholenbouw en de nieuwe stadswijken. Dit machtige panorama toont de bakermat van de nieuwe mens, onze directe voorouders."--Back cover.