Gedetailleerd verslag van de Nederlands-Indonesische betrekkingen in 1948, opgebouwd rond de persoon van oud-premier dr.L.J.M.Beel.

Het zijn ruwe tijden. We zitten in een perfecte storm waarbij crises elkaar aanjagen. In Nederland is te lang gekozen voor polderen en uitstellen van lastige beslissingen. Nu moet de politiek volgens Jan Rotmans eindelijk het eerlijke verhaal vertellen. Dat de komende jaren moeilijk zullen blijven en dat we flink moeten investeren in de toekomst. Maar als we de pijn rechtvaardig verdelen, radicale keuzes durven maken en kiezen voor authentiek leiderschap ziet hij redenen voor optimisme. Want de onderstroom van mensen die werken aan een duurzame samenleving groeit snel. Net als een nieuw bewustzijn. Hoogleraar transitiekunde en duurzaamheid aan de Erasmus Universiteit Jan Rotmans (1961) is een internationale autoriteit in zijn vakgebied en publiceerde honderden wetenschappelijke artikelen en tientallen boeken.

Bundel artikelen en toespraken van de PvdA-politicus.

Analyse van de verhouding in de negentiende en begin twintigste eeuw tussen vorst en (aangetrouwde) leden van het vorstenhuis en de hofhouding aan de hand van brieven van een hofdame en interviews met adellijke nazaten van vroegere hovelingen.

Een Engelsman trekt als vrijwilliger naar het gebied van de Somme in Frankrijk om er tijdens de Eerste Wereldoorlog in de loopgraven te vechten tegen de vijand.

Onderzoek in opdracht van de Vrouwenbond FNV naar de ontwikkeling van de bond in de afgelopen vijftig jaar. Aandacht voor de activiteiten en de visie van de Vrouwenbond, voor de werelden waarin zij zich bewoog en de betekenis die zij daar had. Onderzoek o.a. gebaseerd op interviews met vakbondsvrouwen.

Biografie van de Italiaanse minister-president met speciale aandacht voor de verstrengeling van zijn politieke en zakelijke belangen.

Peter Gomez, Marco Lillo en Marco Travaglio, allen gelauwerde en gelouterde Italiaanse journalisten die voor verschillende kranten verslag doen van grote corruptieschandalen, omkopingen en maffi apraktijken, schetsen in Papi een gedetailleerd en ontluisterend beeld van de handelswijze van minister-president Berlusconi (leider van de politieke partij Popolo della Liberta, eigenaar van het Italiaans media-imperium Mediaset en een van de eigenaren van de voetbalclub AC Milan) en zijn entourage. En dan vooral van de wijze waarop zij over de rug van het Italiaanse electoraat samenzweren en de boel belazeren, waarbij niet alleen actrices en escorts zijn betrokken...

Aan de hand van afgetapte telefoongesprekken, opgenomen door Italiaanse aanklagers en politieofficieren en interviews en artikelen uit kranten en tijdschriften, tonen de auteurs aan hoe Berlusconi Kamerleden, officieren van justitie en mediaspecialisten probeerde om te kopen en hen in allerlei compromitterende situaties trachtte te brengen. Papi gaat ook uitgebreid over Berlusconi en de vrouwen. Veel van de jongedames die in allerlei schandalen rondom Berlusconi verwikkeld raakten, zetelen nu in het Europees Parlement, als dank voor hun aanwezigheid in Berlusconi`s buitenhuis in Sardinie of bij feesten in Rome. Ook wordt dieper ingegaan op de zaak-Noemi Letizia. Berlusconi nam de toen zeventienjarige in november 2008 mee naar een officieel diner in een Romeinse villa met ministers en captains of industry....

At one time the American Dream was the ideal and envy of the world. But today, at the dawn of the new Millennium, Europe is pointing a new way to the future. In this major new book, best-selling author Jeremy Rifkin argues that Europe has a vision of its own and is overtaking America as the world's next superpower. The American Dream was based on economic growth, personal wealth and independence. It was synonymous with love of country and patriotism, frontier mentality and the unbridled exercise of power. Yet what were once considered prime virtues - cherished and idealised not only in America but throughout the world - are increasingly seen by many as drawbacks and even impediments. But while the American Dream tires and languishes in the past, a new European Dream is being born. Today we see a new set of values emerging which are focused on sustainable development, quality of life and multilateralism. More cosmopolitan and less concerned with the brute exercise of power, the European Dream is better positioned to accommodate the many forces that are propelling us into a more interconnected and interdependent world. Where does Britain fit into this story? The British find themselves betwixt and between a fading American Dream and a newly emerging European Dream which is gaining the upper hand in our contemporary global age. Rifkin argues that Britain is uniquely positioned to play a bridge role between Europe and America and has the potential to help create a synergy between the two superpowers of the 21st century. But in order to exercise any real influence in world affairs, Britain must choose to be part of a larger political entity. In a globally connected world, no people can exist any longer as an island unto themselves. The only question for Britain is whether it will make its home with America or with Europe.

The conversion of the emperor Constantine to Christianity in 368 AD brought a transformation to Christianity and to western civilization, the effects of which we still feel today. Previously, the Roman empire had absorbed and sustained the Greek intellectual tradition which, in the astronomy of Ptolemy, the medicine of Galen and the philosophy of Plotinus, reached new heights. Constantine turned Rome from the relatively open, tolerant and pluralistic civilisation of the Hellenistic world, towards a culture that was based on the rule of fixed authority. The century after Constantine's conversion saw the development of an alliance between church and state which stifled freedom of thought and the tradition of Greek rationalism which was intrinsic to it. The churches enjoyed enormous patronage and exemptions from tax, and in return allowed the emperors to take on the definition and enforcement of an increasingly narrow religious orthodoxy.

This book explores how the European mind was closed by the revolution of the fourth century. It looks at the rise of the 'divine' monarch, the struggle as Christianity painfully separated itself from Judaism, the conflict between faith and reason, and the problems in finding any kind of rational basis for Christian theology. In these centuries, a turning-point for Western civilisation, we see the development of Christian anti-Semitism, the origins of the opposition of religion and science and the roots of Christianity's discomfort with sex, issues which haunt the Christian churches to this day.

The Closing of the Western Mind is a major work of history. Wide-ranging and ambitious, its central theme is the relationship between the two wellsprings of our civilisation, the Judaeo-Christian and the Greco-Roman, and how the tensions between them have created the culture in which we continue to live, think and believe.

In this book Jane Pettigrew will redress the balance, using the research that she has carried out over the years, and drawing on the incomparable resource of the National Trust's collections and archives. She will delve into many subject areas -- tea gowns, tea dances and social etiquette, for instance -- to satisfy an enthusiastic international audience, waiting, thirsty, for more knowledge.

Vergeleken bij alle aandacht voor koken en eten steekt die voor spijsvertering en poepen schril af. Net alsof al wat naar binnen gaat er nooit meer uit komt. Poep bevindt zich in het verdomhoekje waar eerder de seks huisde. Grootste obstakel bij praten over poep is net als toen bij seks de taal: buiten het vulgaire en medische is er weinig jargon. Maar net zoals seks naast voortplanting vooral het genot dient, is ook de ontlasting een bron van voldoening. Poep is een prachtig, veelzijdig onderwerp dat zowel vanuit de biologie, de geschiedenis, de kunst, het milieu benaderd kan worden. Het vergt alleen wel de blik van Midas Dekkers, die als geen ander in staat is om van het onwaarschijnlijkste materiaal (dood en vergankelijkheid, rood haar, bestialiteit) boeken te maken die aan het denken zetten, en aan het lachen maken. 'De kleine verlossing' is een uniek boek over een zeer alledaags onderwerp: `Met de stoelgang is onze taak volbracht'.

Her story weaves in and out of time and place. She's Frida Kahlo, Lois Mailou Jones and Amrita Sher-Gil en route to Mexico City, Paris or Bombay. She's Suzanne Valadon and Gwen John, craving city lights, the sea and solitude; she's Artemisia Gentileschi striding through the streets of Naples and Paula Modersohn-Becker in Worpswede. She's haunting museums in her paint-stained dress, scrutinising how El Greco or Titian or Van Dyck or Cezanne solved the problems that she too is facing. She's railing against her corsets, her chaperones, her husband and her brothers; she's hammering on doors, dreaming in her bedroom, working day and night in her studio. Despite the immense hurdles that have been placed in her way, she sits at her easel, picks up a mirror and paints a self-portrait because, as a subject, she is always available. Until the twentieth century, art history was, in the main, written by white men who tended to write about other white men. The idea that women in the West have always made art was rarely cited as a possibility. Yet they have - and, of course, continue to do so - often against tremendous odds, from laws and religion to the pressures of family and public disapproval. In THE MIRROR AND THE PALETTE, Jennifer Higgie introduces us to a cross-section of women artists who embody the fact that there is more than one way to understand our planet, more than one way to live in it and more than one way to make art about it. Spanning 500 years, biography and cultural history intertwine in a narrative packed with tales of rebellion, adventure, revolution, travel and tragedy enacted by women who turned their back on convention and lived lives of great resilience, creativity and bravery. This is a dazzlingly original and ambitious book by one of the most well-respected art critics at work today.

Persoonlijke familiegeschiedenis van de Britse historicus Mazower; de levens van veel van zijn familieleden werden getekend door de Russische revolutie en de Shoah.

Bestaat er een verband tussen ras en IQ? Welk ras is het beste? Deze vragen zijn allerminst gedateerd. De rassentheorie beleeft een zorgwekkende comeback, in wetenschap en in politiek. Angela Saini onderzoekt in Superieur pseudowetenschappelijke beweringen en theorieën over ras, en toont aan waarom ze onhoudbaar zijn.Superieur is een broodnodig onderzoek naar de verraderlijke geschiedenis en consequenties van de rassentheorie. Dit boek geeft onweerlegbare argumenten om die theorie en racisme te bestrijden.

A three-thousand year history of the world that examines the causes of war and the search for peace

In three thousand years of history, China has spent at least eleven centuries at war. The Roman Empire was in conflict during at least 50 per cent of its lifetime. Since 1776, the United States has spent over one hundred years at war. The dream of peace has been universal in the history of humanity. So why have we so rarely been able to achieve it?

In A Political History of the World, Jonathan Holslag has produced a sweeping history of the world, from the Iron Age to the present, that investigates the causes of conflict between empires, nations and peoples and the attempts at diplomacy and cosmopolitanism. A birds-eye view of three thousand years of history, the book illuminates the forces shaping world politics from Ancient Egypt to the Han Dynasty, the Pax Romana to the rise of Islam, the Peace of Westphalia to the creation of the United Nations.

This truly global approach enables Holslag to search for patterns across different eras and regions, and explore larger questions about war, diplomacy, and power. Has trade fostered peace? What are the limits of diplomacy? How does environmental change affect stability? Is war a universal sin of power? At a time when the threat of nuclear war looms again, this is a much-needed history intended for students of international politics, and anyone looking for a background on current events.

A New York Times Bestseller
A Wall Street Journal Bestseller
A New York Times Notable Book of 2020
A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
Shortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year
A New Statesman Book to Read

From economist Anne Case and Nobel Prize winner Angus Deaton, a groundbreaking account of how the flaws in capitalism are fatal for America's working class

Deaths of despair from suicide, drug overdose, and alcoholism are rising dramatically in the United States, claiming hundreds of thousands of American lives. Anne Case and Angus Deaton explain the overwhelming surge in these deaths and shed light on the social and economic forces that are making life harder for the working class. As the college educated become healthier and wealthier, adults without a degree are literally dying from pain and despair. Case and Deaton tie the crisis to the weakening position of labor, the growing power of corporations, and a rapacious health-care sector that redistributes working-class wages into the pockets of the wealthy. This critically important book paints a troubling portrait of the American dream in decline, and provides solutions that can rein in capitalism's excesses and make it work for everyone.

A Nobel Prize–winning economist tells the remarkable story of how the world has grown healthier, wealthier, but also more unequal over the past two and half centuries

The world is a better place than it used to be. People are healthier, wealthier, and live longer. Yet the escapes from destitution by so many has left gaping inequalities between people and nations. In The Great Escape, Nobel Prize–winning economist Angus Deaton—one of the foremost experts on economic development and on poverty—tells the remarkable story of how, beginning 250 years ago, some parts of the world experienced sustained progress, opening up gaps and setting the stage for today's disproportionately unequal world. Deaton takes an in-depth look at the historical and ongoing patterns behind the health and wealth of nations, and addresses what needs to be done to help those left behind.

Deaton describes vast innovations and wrenching setbacks: the successes of antibiotics, pest control, vaccinations, and clean water on the one hand, and disastrous famines and the HIV/AIDS epidemic on the other. He examines the United States, a nation that has prospered but is today experiencing slower growth and increasing inequality. He also considers how economic growth in India and China has improved the lives of more than a billion people. Deaton argues that international aid has been ineffective and even harmful. He suggests alternative efforts—including reforming incentives to drug companies and lifting trade restrictions—that will allow the developing world to bring about its own Great Escape.

Demonstrating how changes in health and living standards have transformed our lives, The Great Escape is a powerful guide to addressing the well-being of all nations.

On the eve of June 30, Hong Kong was officially passed back to China. This event will mark what Willem van Kemenade sees as the start of an increasingly problematic -- and even dangerous -- reintegration of the old Chinese empire into a new world superpower. Since the early 1980s, investment money has been pouring into China from Hong Kong and trade has escalated at a rocket's pace. A few years later, the same pattern began between China and Taiwan. The combination of Hong Kong/Taiwan management, financial and export know-how with China's inexhaustible pool of cheap labor and land has enabled China in one decade to leap from an impoverished revolutionary state to a major international trading power. This economic boom, in conjunction with the violation of intellectual property rights, systematic tax fraud, and the corruption of the police force, has helped shape the "socialist market economy," China's third way -- and a new mix of old-fashioned Soviet Communism and East Asian capitalism.

The formal addition of Hong Kong will add to this mixture the democratic structures set in place by the British. And, as China moves to reclaim Taiwan (the process has already begun), it will be incorporating a rival Chinese sub-nation with a fully election-based political system and a powerful independence movement. Can such a reunified China resist the "spiritual pollution" of democratic values, human rights, and political freedom? Will it become the first depoliticized "corporatist superpower"? What are the prospects that reunification will be peaceful?

Van Kemenade's portrait of the true internal power structures of the three Chinas provides our clearest look yet at the fastest-rising new empire in the world today.

Beschouwingen over de Meestergraad

Graven en grafmonumenten van bekende personen uit heden en verleden. Met alfabetisch register.

To some, England has long represented tolerance, reason, and political moderation. To others, it is a moribund bastion of snobbery and outdated tradition. In this lively and diverting social history, noted author Ian Buruma, himself the son of Dutch immigrants to England, provides an incisive look at anglophilia--and anglophobia--over the last two centuries.

From passionate enthusiasts like Voltaire and Goethe, to exiles like Garibaldi and Herzen, to colorful England-bashers like Napoleon, Marx, and Kaiser Wilhelm II, Anglomania gives a sharply satirical account of Europe's sometimes comical, sometimes deadly prejudices, and explains why England's individuality and her relationship with Europe is still vitally important as we enter the twenty-first century.

This is a masterly narrative history of the Seven Years War, in which the British decisively eliminated French power north of the Caribbean, and yet also managed to ignite the slow-burning fuse of the American Revolution.Fred Anderson observes how the war displaced native peoples from their previously central role in an American diplomatic system; how it gave American colonists their first encounters with real live Englishmen; and how Americans were consequently emboldened to rally against the men who were once their masters. Anderson offers a wholly engrossing account of the conflict, interweaving the stories of kings and officers with those of traders, Native Americans, and colonial peoples.

From Abraham to Saul Bellow, from Moses Maimonides to Woody Allen, from the Baal Shem Tov to Albert Einstein, this comprehensive dictionary of Jewish biographies provides a first point of entry into the fascinating richness of the Jewish heritage. Compiled with the assistance of a distinguished group of scholars, theDictionary of Jewish Biographyprovides a rapid reference to the biographies of almost 4000 Jewish men and women who, over the past four millennia, have contributed to the life, history, and study of Judaism in all its facets. Those profiled represent every walk of life and every area of accomplishment. Included are rabbinic scholars, key religious figures, spiritual leaders, founders of modern movements, major writers, Enlightenment figures, novelists, journalists, scientists, mystics, Israeli politicians, musicians, actors and actresses, film stars, famous rabbis, distinguished cantors, biblical figures, economists, architects, athletes, and radicals and heretics. Each entry is followed by a short bibliography. The book includes an extended Introduction, which explains the criteria for inclusion, and outlines the history of Israel and the Jewish diaspora. This dictionary will prove essential for general readers interested in the evolution of Judaism from ancient times to the present day, a perfect study aid for students and teachers. This panoramic bibliographic survey provides a unique guide to the leading figures of the past and present.

A tremendously engaging account of the turbulent relationships between the Pre-Raphaelite painters and the models who seemed to embody their dreams. Two photo inserts.

Het Brexit-referendum heeft het Verenigd Koninkrijk in een existentiële crisis gestort. Noord staat tegenover Zuid, jong tegenover oud, arm tegenover rijk. 'FD'-correspondent Mathijs Schiffers was erbij toen de Britten tot hun verrassende besluit kwamen om de Europese Unie te verlaten. Hoe kan het dat de gevestigde orde zo op het verkeerde been werd gezet? Is de afstand tussen politici en het volk te groot geworden? Is de Brexit de wraak van de achterblijvers? Of heeft de landenunie simpelweg zijn beste tijd gehad en moet de EU voor meer afvallers vrezen? Schiffers ging op zoek naar antwoorden. Hij sprak met mensen uit alle uithoeken van het eilandenrijk, voor en na het referendum, en maakte een studie van 's lands excentrieke politici. Het resultaat is een informatief maar lichtvoetig relaas, met een kritische maar liefdevolle analyse van de Britse samenleving.