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De beheersing van het vuur was de eerste grote ingreep die de mensheid in de natuur teweeg heeft gebracht en een voorwaarde voor de ontwikkeling van landbouw en industrie. Alleen de mens heeft geleerd vuur te beheersen. Maar die beheersing leidde tot een grotere afhankelijkheid - met vaak onvoorziene gevolgen.

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Speurtocht naar de reden waarom tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog zoveel joden uit Nederland zijn omgebracht in de concentratiekampen.

Onderzoek in hoeverre de beeldvorming over het niet weten van de jodenvervolging tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog, bepaald door o.a. L. de Jong en J. Presser, op waarheid berust.

Blauwe zomer' is het romandebuut van geboren verteller Leo Blokhuis, auteur van onder andere 'Grijsgedraaid' en 'Het Plaatjesboek' en presentator van de 'Top 2000 a gogo'. 00Eind jaren vijftig. Terwijl via Radio Luxemburg langzaam de rock-?n-roll ons land binnendruppelt, is Den Haag het centrum van feesten waar Indische jongeren op elektrische gitaren een mengeling van rock-?n-roll en traditionele krontjong spelen. Het is ook de plek waar twee achttienjarige jongens met totaal verschillende achtergronden voor een keuze komen te staan: een burgermansbestaan of het avontuur zoeken in de muziek.0De Nederlandse Johan wil het gelovige milieu van zijn ouders ontvluchten en vindt in zijn Indische vrienden en hun muziek een ongekende vrijheid. De in Indonesië geboren en naar Nederland gevluchte Chris wil het verleden van zich afschudden, maar botst tegen de harde, verzuilde Nederlandse mentaliteit.

The Treasures of Venice will guide you through one of the most beguiling, historic, and architecturally rich cities in the world. Its exquisite and detailed images and accompanying text are the perfect companion on long walks through Saint Marks Square, the Doge's Palace, and along the Grand Canal.
The guide includes nottobemissed highlights from the major art collections and from Venice's many churches. With more than 300 photographs and illustrations, and captions that carefully and intelligently describe each of the objects depicted, this guide is a perfect companion. The many detailed maps and itineraries help you stay on track in a city whose winding streets and canals invite exploration on foot. In addition, comprehensive explanations of Venetian history and culture give visitors the right tools to truly understand the beauty of this remarkable city.

Autobiografische herinneringen van de in 1948 wegens collaboratie met de Duitsers veroordeelde econoom, theoloog en publicist (1910-1988) over de periode van zijn voorarrest.

"From the award-winning novelist and writer of Upstairs Downstairs, the launch of a brilliant new trilogy about what life was really like for masters and servants before the world of Downton Abbey As the Season of 1899 comes to an end, the world is poised on the brink of profound, irrevocable change. The Earl of Dilberne is facing serious financial concerns. The ripple effects spread to everyone in the household: Lord Robert, who has gambled unwisely on the stock market and seeks a place in the Cabinet; his unmarried children, Arthur, who keeps a courtesan, and Rosina, who keeps a parrot in her bedroom; Lord Robert's wife Isobel, who orders the affairs of the household in Belgrave Square; and Grace, the lady's maid who orders the life of her mistress.Lord Robert can see no financial relief to an already mortgaged estate, and, though the Season is over, his thoughts turn to securing a suitable wife (and dowry) for his son. The arrival on the London scene of Minnie, a beautiful Chicago heiress with a reputation to mend, seems the answer to all their prayers. As the writer of the pilot episode of the original Upstairs, Downstairs--Fay Weldon brings a deserved reputation for magnificent storytelling. With wit and sympathy--and no small measure of mischief--Habits of the House plots the interplay of restraint and desire, manners and morals, reason and instinct. "--

Nu standbeelden sneuvelen en ons koloniale verleden opnieuw tegen het licht wordt gehouden, is het hoog tijd om een bezem door de koloniale letteren te halen. Want wat moeten en mogen we nog lezen uit die besmette canon? Wie is het lezen nog waard, wie moeten we van de canonieke sokkel trekken? 0Na 'De nieuwe feministische leeslijst' en 'Jongens waren we' werpt 'De Groene Amsterdammer' een frisse blik op de literatuur over ons koloniale heden en verleden. Met bijdragen van onder anderen Alfred Schaffer, Maaike Meijer. Alfred Birney, Marja Pruis, Warda El-Kaddouri, Manon Uphoff, Gloria Wekker, Joost de Vries en Theodor Holman.

Athletics and politics collide in a critical event for Nazi Germany and the contemporary world. The Olympic festival was a crucial part of the Nazi regime's mobilization of power. The torch relay--that staple of Olympic pageantry--first opened the summer games in 1936 in Berlin. Proposed by the Nazi Propaganda Ministry, the relay was to carry the symbolism of a new Germany across its route through southeastern and central Europe. Soon after, the Wehrmacht would march in jackboots over the same terrain. This book offers a blend of history and sport: it includes an account of the international effort to boycott the games, derailed by the American Olympic Committee. It also recounts the dazzling athletic feats of these Olympics, including Jesse Owens's four gold-medal performances, and the marathon victory of Korean runner Kitei Son, with the Rising Sun of imperial Japan on his bib.--From publisher description.

Italy: A Short History succeeds and replaces the long-established and highly successful Short History of Italy, edited by Professors Hearder and D. P. Waley. It presents a clear and concise account of the principal developments in Italian history from the Ice Age to the present day, intended both for student of Italian history and culture and the general reader with an interest in Italian affairs. Professor Hearder's account centres on the main political developments, placed in their appropriate economic and social context, and shows how these were related to the great moments of artistic and cultural endeavour. Professor Hearder traces the prehistoric and classical history of the peninsula, the growth and decline of the Roman Empire and the expansion in power and authority of the medieval papacy. He shows how the remarkable cultural achievements of the Renaissance emerged from the horror of the Plague, and how the spread of humanism and the development of printing made Italy the cultural heart of Europe. There then followed, however, a long period of domination from without, culminating in the brief episode of Napoleonic rule. This was only ended with the emergence of the great nineteenth-century movement for national renewal, inspired by the contrasting figures of Mazzini, Cavour and Garibaldi. The newly-democratic Italian kingdom survived the First World War, only to be taken over by the Fascist regime of Benito Mussolini. Professor Hearder examines the travails and contradictions of the Fascist period, and concludes his account with an optimistic assessment of the future prospects of the Republic, capable of contributing much to the rejuvenated Europe of 1992 and beyond.

Acclaimed by the Daily Mail as 'definitive and harrowing' , this is the final volume of 'The People's Trilogy', begun by the Samuel Johnson prize-winning Mao's Great Famine.After the economic disaster of the Great Leap Forward that claimed tens of millions of lives between 1958 and 1962, an ageing Mao launched an ambitious scheme to shore up his reputation and eliminate those he viewed as a threat to his legacy. The stated goal of the Cultural Revolution was to purge the country of bourgeois, capitalist elements he claimed were threatening genuine communist ideology. But the Chairman also used the Cultural Revolution to turn on his colleagues, some of them longstanding comrades-in-arms, subjecting them to public humiliation, imprisonment and torture.Young students formed Red Guards, vowing to defend the Chairman to the death, but soon rival factions started fighting each other in the streets with semi-automatic weapons in the name of revolutionary purity. As the country descended into chaos, the military intervened, turning China into a garrison state marked by bloody purges that crushed as many as one in fifty people.When the army itself fell victim to the Cultural Revolution, ordinary people used the political chaos to resurrect the marked and hollow out the party's ideology. In short, they buried Maoism. In-depth interviews and archival research at last give voice to the people and the complex choices they faced, undermining the picture of conformity that is often understood to have characterised the last years of Mao's regime. By demonstrating that decollectivisation from below was an unintended consequence of a decade of violent purges and entrenched fear, Frank Dikotter casts China's most tumultuous era in a wholly new light.Written with unprecedented access to previously classified party documents from secret police reports to unexpurgated versions of leadership speeches, this third chapter in Frank Dikotter's extraordinarily lucid and ground-breaking 'People's Trilogy' is a devastating reassessment of the history of the People's Republic of China.

In 'Rusland in oorlog deel 1 (september 2013 – juli 2014)' hebben we laten zien hoe president Vladimir Poetin binnen een jaar de gijzelaar werd van zijn eigen propagandamachine. De ambities van de president erkenning te zoeken voor de status van Rusland als wereldmacht heeft al vele duizenden doden geëist in wat hij noemt Novorossija, het nieuwe Rusland, en wat de wereld ziet als twee oostelijke provincies van de soevereine staat Oekraïne. De Russische burger leeft verder in een op hol geslagen staatsmachine die dagelijks een lawine van haat uitspuwt tegen het Westen. De Koude Oorlog Poetin-stijl heeft gevaarlijke warme trekjes gekregen kunnen we in dit deel 2 laten zien. Ondertussen wordt onderzocht wie het toestel van MH17 op 17 juli 2014 met 298 passagiers onder wie 196 Nederlanders met een Bukraket heeft neergehaald. Sterke vermoedens wijzen in de richting van de door Rusland gesteunde separatisten.

In September, 1943, Adolf Hitler, furious at the ouster of Mussolini, sent German troops into Rome and ordered SS General Karl Wolff, who had been Heinrich Himmler’s chief aide, to occupy the Vatican and kidnap (and, perhaps, kill) Pope Pius XII. At the same time plans were being made to deport Rome’s Jews to Auschwitz, Wolff began playing a dangerous game: stalling Hitler’s plot against the pope, whom he hoped would save him from the noose in case Germany lost the war. To save Pius, Wolff and fellow conspirators blackmailed him into silence when the Jews were rounded up, hoping that Hitler would rescind his order. This tale of intrigue and betrayal is one of the most important untold stories of World War II. Dan Kurzman was the first journalist to have interviewed General Wolff following his release from prison after the war. And this is the only book to tell the full behind-the-scenes story of the plot against the Vatican and its far-reaching consequences.

Overzicht met schrijversprofielen van de Franstalige literatuur rond 2000.

Look homeward, angel. Daal neder, engel (1929) van Thomas Wolfe, verschijnt nu voor het eerst in het Nederlands, in een geweldige vertaling van Sjaak Commandeur. Deze grootscheepse autobiografische roman gaat over een kind en zijn familie, een scholier en zijn stad, een student en zijn land. Midden in die drie uitdijende cirkels staat Eugene Gant, een briljante en rusteloze jongen met het brandende verlangen om zijn geboorteplaats en zijn onstuimige familie te verlaten op zoek naar een intenser en intellectueel leven. Wolfes roman over deze elementaire zoektocht heeft generaties lezers en schrijvers, van Jack Kerouac tot Philip Roth, beïnvloed. Het geeft een levendige, lyrische schets van Amerika aan het begin van de twintigste eeuw. Meteen bij verschijning werd Look Homeward, Angel overal geprezen. Thomas Wolfe werd een literaire legende wiens naam in één adem genoemd wordt met James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway en John Steinbeck.

From one of the world's most distinguished historians, a magisterial new reckoning with Hitler's rise to power and the collapse of civilization in Nazi Germany.

In 1900 Germany was the most progressive and dynamic nation in Europe, the only country whose rapid technological and social growth and change challenged that of the United States. Its political culture was less authoritarian than Russia's and less anti-Semitic than France's; representative institutions were thriving, and competing political parties and elections were a central part of life. How then can we explain the fact that in little more than a generation this stable modern country would be in the hands of a violent, racist, extremist political movement that would lead it and all of Europe into utter moral, physical, and cultural ruin? There is no story in twentieth-century history more important to understand, and Richard Evans has written the definitive account for our time. A masterful synthesis of a vast body of scholarly work integrated with important new research and interpretations, Evans's history restores drama and contingency to the rise to power of Hitler and the Nazis, even as he shows how ready Germany was by the early 1930s for such a takeover to occur. With many people angry and embittered by military defeat and economic ruin; a state undermined by a civil service, an army, and a law enforcement system deeply alienated from the democratic order introduced in 1918; beset by the growing extremism of voters prey to panic about the increasing popularity of communism; home to a tiny but quite successful Jewish community subject to widespread suspicion and resentment, Germany proved to be fertile ground in which Nazism's ideology of hatred could take root.

The first book of what will ultimately be a complete three-volume history of Nazi Germany, The Coming of the Third Reichis a masterwork of the historian's art and the book by which all others on this subject will be judged.

Vanuit het perspectief van een 13-jarige jongen, die met zijn vrienden een verhaal rondom de berichten over de Rote Armee Fraktion fantaseert, wordt het leven in de jaren zestig en zeventig in Duitsland beschreven.

Onderzoek naar de rol van de Geheime Staatspolizei (Gestapo) voor en tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog.

'Truth is mysterious, fleeting, always to be won. Freedom is dangerous, as hard to live as it is exalting'

This definitive new collection of Albert Camus' public speeches and lectures gives an unparalleled insight into the thought of one of the twentieth century's most enduring writers. From his pre-war speech on the politics and culture of the Mediterranean - delivered when he was just twenty-two - to his impassioned Nobel Prize acceptance speeches, Speaking Out makes manifest Camus' 'stubborn humanism', his longing for freedom and justice. In a Europe scarred by the horrors of the early twentieth century, these speeches mark a singular artist's commitment to a kinder, truer world.

Liedteksten met toelichtingen van de Nederlandse popzanger (1944- ).

Amsterdam. Een vrouw verdwijnt. Haar echtgenoot wordt verhoord door een begripvolle politieagent en gaat te rade bij zijn schoonouders. De vrouw heeft een oud huis gehuurd, ver weg, in Wales. Om een nieuwe start te maken. Ze wil dingen vergeten, is gevlucht voor lastige situaties en pijnlijk nieuws (...)

Levensbeschrijvingen van de eerste twaalf Romeinse keizers door de Romeinse historicus (ca. 70-ca. 150).

C. Vann Woodward, who died in 1999 at the age of 91, was America's most eminent Southern historian, the winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Mary Chestnut's Civil War and a Bancroft Prize for The Origins of the New South. Now, to honor his long and truly distinguished career, Oxford is pleased to publish this special commemorative edition of Woodward's most influential work, The Strange Career of Jim Crow.

The Strange Career of Jim Crow is one of the great works of Southern history. Indeed, the book actually helped shape that history. Published in 1955, a year after the Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education ordered schools desegregated, Strange Career was cited so often to counter arguments for segregation that Martin Luther King, Jr. called it "the historical Bible of the civil rights movement." The book offers a clear and illuminating analysis of the history of Jim Crow laws, presenting evidence that segregation in the South dated only to the 1890s. Woodward convincingly shows that, even under slavery, the two races had not been divided as they were under the Jim Crow laws of the 1890s. In fact, during Reconstruction, there was considerable economic and political mixing of the races. The segregating of the races was a relative newcomer to the region.

Hailed as one of the top 100 nonfiction works of the twentieth century, The Strange Career of Jim Crow has sold almost a million copies and remains, in the words of David Herbert Donald, "a landmark in the history of American race relations."