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De ondergang van een jonge vrouw die getrouwd is met een oudere man, maar zich door een charmante majoor laat verleiden.

Analytische annotatie: Herinneringen van de echtgenote van de Duitse schrijver Thomas Mann, waarin zij veel wetenswaardigheden vertelt over diens werk

Onderzoek op grond van het door Vestdijk ter beschikking gestelde manuscript van zijn eerste ongepubliceerde roman "Kind tussen vier vrouwen", naar de mate waarin zijn jeugd te Harlingen in zijn autobiografische romans terug te vinden is

Oorspronkelijke aantekeningen ten grondslag aan de Anton Wachter-romand. Autobiografisch.

Bibliografie van de literatuurkritieken in dag- en weekbladen van de Nederlandse auteur (1898-1971).

Adrianus van Utrecht was de zoon van een scheepstimmerman uit Utrecht. Hij werd theoloog, rector van de universiteit van Leuven, opvoeder van Karel v en diens stadhouder in Spanje. Hij was een leermeester van Erasmus en botste met Luther. Het was een onwaarschijnlijke levensloop voor iemand van zijn afkomst. Hij bereidde in Spanje een oorlog voor tegen de Fransen toen de kardinalen in Rome hem in januari 1522 na een eindeloos conclaaf onverwacht tot nieuwe paus kozen. Zuchtend aanvaardde hij dit goddelijke lot. De reis naar het Vaticaan was lang en gevaarlijk, en eenmaal aangekomen wachtte hem een bijna bovenmenselijke opdracht. De kerk balanceerde financieel en moreel op de rand van de afgrond. Met zijn radicale hervormingsplannen en karige levensstijl maakte Adrianus zich niet geliefd in het corrupte Rome van de Renaissance. Na een pontificaat van nauwelijks anderhalf jaar overleed hij, moegestreden, onder verdachte omstandigheden. Hij is de geschiedenis in gegaan als een vreemdeling in Rome, een onbeduidende, tragische tussenpaus. Toch effende hij de weg naar een vernieuwing van de katholieke kerk. Reden waarom de huidige paus bij zijn aanstelling zelfs even overwoog de naam van hervormer Adrianus aan te nemen.00Niet eerder verscheen een toegankelijke publieksbiografie van deze enige paus uit de Lage Landen, en dat is zeer opmerkelijk, want het is een man met een bewogen en bijzonder levensverhaal, dat zich afspeelt op het snijvlak tussen middeleeuwen en vroegmoderne tijd, gegoede adel en ontwikkelde burgerij, katholicisme en het allereerste protestantisme.

Immigration is perhaps the most enduring and elemental leitmotif of America. This book is the most powerful study to date of the politics and policies it has inspired, from the founders' earliest efforts to shape American identity to today's revealing struggles over Third World immigration, noncitizen rights, and illegal aliens. Weaving a robust new theoretical approach into a sweeping history, Daniel Tichenor ties together previous studies' idiosyncratic explanations for particular, pivotal twists and turns of immigration policy. He tells the story of lively political battles between immigration defenders and doubters over time and of the transformative policy regimes they built.

Tichenor takes us from vibrant nineteenth-century politics that propelled expansive European admissions and Chinese exclusion to the draconian restrictions that had taken hold by the 1920s, including racist quotas that later hampered the rescue of Jews from the Holocaust. American global leadership and interest group politics in the decades after World War II, he argues, led to a surprising expansion of immigration opportunities. In the 1990s, a surge of restrictionist fervor spurred the political mobilization of recent immigrants. Richly documented, this pathbreaking work shows that a small number of interlocking temporal processes, not least changing institutional opportunities and constraints, underlie the turning tides of immigration sentiments and policy regimes. Complementing a dynamic narrative with a host of helpful tables and timelines, Dividing Lines is the definitive treatment of a phenomenon that has profoundly shaped the character of American nationhood.

Dertien artikelen en vier oraties van de beroemde historicus Johan Huizinga (1872-1945).

Overzicht van de 19e-eeuwse navolgers in Nederland van de 17e-eeuwse filosoof Spinoza.

Naar de eerste druk (1949) en omgezet naar nieuwe spelling

Baruch de Spinoza (1632-1677)--often recognized as the first modern Jewish thinker--was also a founder of modern liberal political philosophy. This book is the first to connect systematically these two aspects of Spinoza's legacy. Steven B. Smith shows that Spinoza was a politically engaged theorist who both advocated and embodied a new conception of the emancipated individual, a thinker who decisively influenced such diverse movements as the Enlightenment, liberalism, and political Zionism.

Focusing on Spinoza's Theologico-Political Treatise, Smith argues that Spinoza was the first thinker of note to make the civil status of Jews and Judaism (what later became known as the Jewish Question) an essential ingredient of modern political thought. Before Marx or Freud, Smith notes, Spinoza recast Judaism to include the liberal values of autonomy and emancipation from tradition. Smith examines the circumstances of Spinoza's excommunication from the Jewish community of Amsterdam, his skeptical assault on the authority of Scripture, his transformation of Mosaic prophecy into a progressive philosophy of history, his use of the language of natural right and the social contract to defend democratic political institutions, and his comprehensive comparison of the ancient Hebrew commonwealth and the modern commercial republic. According to Smith, Spinoza's Treatise represents a classic defense of religious toleration and intellectual freedom, showing them to be necessary foundations for political stability and liberal regimes. In this study Smith examines Spinoza's solution to the Jewish Question and asks whether a Judaism, so conceived, can long survive.

Harry V. Jaffa (1918-2015), one of the profoundest political thinkers of his time, is known most prominently for his pathbreaking work on Abraham Lincoln. Jaffa, who taught for 50 years at the Claremont Colleges and was a Distinguished Fellow of the Claremont Institute, sought to produce a revolution in political philosophy by applying Strauss’s controversial thinking about natural right, Scripture, and human greatness to American politics.

In these 10 essays, beginning in the 1980s, Jaffa rediscovered the moral and intellectual complexity of statesmanship, in particular that of Lincoln and the American founders. The essays reveal the profundity of the Declaration of Independence, in observations both theoretical (e.g., Aristotle and Aquinas) and practical (e.g., campus radicalism). Jaffa takes aim at the interpretations of America made by some of Leo Strauss’s students, chastising their imputation of radically liberal theorizing to the Declaration and their ignorance of the meaning of “all men are created equal.” The Declaration’s radicalism lies rather in its synthesis of ancient political philosophy and Scriptural authority on the good human life. Jaffa is particularly critical of Allan Bloom and, in previously unpublished essays, Irving Kristol and Harvey Mansfield for their errors about America. Jaffa’s essays recover political philosophy in its political and philosophic dimensions so that it can be a continuing guide for our politics today.

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“A brilliant and stirring epic . . . Ms. Wilkerson does for the Great Migration what John Steinbeck did for the Okies in his fiction masterpiece, The Grapes of Wrath; she humanizes history, giving it emotional and psychological depth.”—John Stauffer, The Wall Street Journal

“What she’s done with these oral histories is stow memory in amber.”—Lynell George, Los Angeles Times

WINNER: The Mark Lynton History Prize • The Anisfield-Wolf Award for Nonfiction • The Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize • The Hurston-Wright Award for Nonfiction • The Hillman Prize for Book Journalism • NAACP Image Award for Best Literary Debut • Stephen Ambrose Oral History Prize

FINALIST: The PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction • Dayton Literary Peace Prize

ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times, USA Today, Publishers Weekly, O: The Oprah Magazine, Salon, Newsday, The Daily Beast

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In this beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Isabel Wilkerson presents a definitive and dramatic account of one of the great untold stories of American history: the Great Migration of six million Black citizens who fled the South for the North and West in search of a better life, from World War I to 1970.

Wilkerson tells this interwoven story through the lives of three unforgettable protagonists: Ida Mae Gladney, a sharecropper’s wife, who in 1937 fled Mississippi for Chicago; sharp and quick-tempered George Starling, who in 1945 fled Florida for Harlem, and Robert Foster, a surgeon who left Louisiana in 1953 in hopes of making it in California.

Wilkerson brilliantly captures their first treacherous cross-country journeys by car and train and their new lives in colonies in the New World. The Warmth of Other Suns is a bold, remarkable, and riveting work, a superb account of an “unrecognized immigration” within our own land. Through the breadth of its narrative, the beauty of the writing, the depth of its research, and the fullness of the people and lives portrayed herein, this book is a modern classic.