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Erik Zürcher Three months in Mao's China
between the great leap forward and the cultural revolution
In the fall of 1964, sinologist Erik Zürcher traveled for the first time to China, a country he had been studying since 1947. A collection of Zürcher's personal writings from his trip, including letters and diary entries, Three Months in Mao's China offers not only new insights about the great scholar, but also a rich picture of communist China, which was in those days still almost completely inaccessible to Westerners. During a tumultuous time in world politics, as Nikita Khrushchev was deposed,...
Non-fictie
Engels | 119 pagina's (ePub2, 8 MB) | Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam | 2017
E-book
Andrea Kettenmann Frida Kahlo, 1907-1954
pain and passion
Leven en werk van de Mexicaanse schilderes, wier surrealistisch werk een zeer autobiografisch karakter draagt.
Non-fictie
Engels | 95 pagina's | Taschen, Köln | 2022
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L.J. Giebels Sukarno
a biography
Sukarno – a biography is the first English language biography on Sukarno (1901-1970) – the founding father and first president of Indonesia. The book is both a biography of Sukarno and an account of the birth and ascent of the state of Indonesia. The author reveals many little-known facts and events. He makes the reader realize that to understand the character of its first president is to understand today’s Indonesia.. Sukarno was born in 1901 as the son of a schoolteacher in a country that had been...
Non-fictie
Engels | 572 pagina's (ePub2, 1,3 MB) | Fosfor, Amsterdam | 2015
E-book
Arend van Dam | Alex de Wolf Exploring the Netherlands
stories about Dutch world heritage sites
Extraordinary Stories about Ten Dutch World Heritage Sites The Netherlands has ten monuments on the UNESCO World Heritage List. Cultural and natural heritage that is considered irreplaceable, unique and owned by the World. In this beautifull book Arend van Dam tells us about the uniqueness of this Cultural Heritage. Stories about the 17th century canals in Amsterdam , about the colourfull city of Willemstad, Curacao or about the former island of Schokland. The atmospheric paintings of Alex de Wolf...
Fictie
Engels | 39 pagina's (ePub2, 14 MB) | Van Holkema & Warendorf, Houten | 2015
E-book
Satoshi Kikuchi From Eckhart to Ruusbroec
a critical inheritance of mystical themes in the fourteenth century
In this thorough textual, historical, and doctrinal study the author seeks to clarify the relationship between two prominent mystics of the fourteenth century: Meister Eckhart, the German Dominican, and Jan van Ruusbroec, the Brabantine Augustinian. Special attention is paid to Ruusbroec's criticism of mystical tenets circulating in Brabant at that time which were both textually and doctrinally related to Eckhart's condemned propositions in the papal bull In agro dominico. This fact implies that...
Non-fictie
Engels | PDF | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2014
E-book
Exempli gratia
Sagalassos, Marc Waelkens and interdisciplinary archaeology
The Sagalassos Archaeological Research Project has made interdisciplinary practices part of its scientific strategy from the very beginning. The project is internationally acknowledged for important achievements in this respect. Aspects of its approach to ancient Sagalassos can be considered ground-breaking for the archaeology of Anatolia and the wider fields of classical and Roman archaeology. Now that its first project director, Professor Marc Waelkens - University of Leuven -, is at the stage...
Non-fictie
Engels | PDF | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2013
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Dries Raeymaekers One foot in the palace
the Habsburg Court of Brussels and the politics of access in the reign of Albert and Isabella, 1598-1621
The splendor and enticement of the Archdukes' Court in Brussels The Habsburg Court of Brussels remains one of the few early modern princely courts that have never been thoroughly studied by historians. Yet it offers a unique case, particularly with regard to the first decades of the seventeenth century. Once home to the Dukes of Burgundy, the ancient palace on the Coudenberg hill in Brussels became the principal residence of the Habsburg governors in the Low Countries and, in the period 1598-1621,...
Non-fictie
Engels | 366 pagina's (PDF, 3,1 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2013
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Herman Van der Wee | Monique Verbreyt A small nation in the turmoil of the Second World War
money, finance and occupation (Belgium, its enemies, its friends, 1939-1945)
Based on intensive research in the archives of six countries, this monograph presents an in-depth analysis of Belgium's monetary and financial history during the Second World War. Exploring Belgium's financial and business links with Germany, France, The Netherlands, Great Britain, the United States, and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, the study focuses on the roles played in this complex wartime network by the Central Bank and private bankers in Brussels, by the Belgian government in exile in London,...
Non-fictie
Engels | 494 pagina's (PDF, 5,9 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2013
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Angela Y. Davis Women, race and class
Non-fictie
Engels | 247 pagina's | Penguin Books, London | 2019
Gedrukt boek
H.E. Lamur Familienaam & verwantschap van geëmancipeerde slaven in Suriname
zoeken naar voorouders; tracing ancestors
Non-fictie
Engels | Nederlands | 1459 pagina's | KIT Publishers, Amsterdam | 2004
Gedrukt boek
Carol Ann Lee Anne Frank's story
The life story of Anne Frank, from her early happy childhood in Frankfurt, growing up in Amsterdam, her two years in hiding and the last few months of her life in the concentration camps. Narrated in six clearly written chapters, this biography for children answers the many detailed questions about Anne that readers of the Diary often have, and includes interesting anecdotes from friends who survived her. There is an Historical Note at the beginning of the book and a map of Europe, so that children...
Engels | 96 pagina's (ePub, 2,3 MB) | Penguin Books, [Nederland] | 2018
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Primo Levi Auschwitz-rapportage
Rapport van de Italiaanse schrijver (1919-1987) over de medische omstandigheden in concentratiekamp Auschwitz.
Non-fictie
Engels | 95 pagina's | Meulenhoff, Amsterdam | 2008
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Dienke Hondius | Nancy Jouwe | Dineke Stam | Jennifer Tosch | Bert Brouwenstijn Dutch New York histories
connecting African, native American and slavery heritage; verbonden met Afrikaans, inheems Amerikaans en slavernij-erfgoed
Historische gids over vooral het slavernijverleden van New York.
Non-fictie
Engels | Nederlands | 170 pagina's | LM Publishers, Volendam | 2017
Gedrukt boek
Jan Banning Red utopia
Fotoboek over overblijfselen van de communistische ideologie in India, Italië, Nepal, Portugal en Rusland, 100 jaar na de Russische Revolutie.
Non-fictie
Engels | Nederlands | 141 pagina's | Ipso Facto Publishers, Utrecht | 2017
Gedrukt boek
Angela Saini The patriarchs
how men came to rule
Verkenning van de oorsprong en ontwikkeling van het patriarchaat, met een pleidooi voor het bestrijden van genderongelijkheid.
Non-fictie
Engels | 305 pagina's | 4th Estate, London | 2024
Gedrukt boek
Yuval Noah Harari Nexus: a brief history of information networks from the Stone Age to AI
Beschouwing over de relatie tussen informatie en macht in de menselijke geschiedenis, met aandacht voor hoe samenlevingen en politieke systemen in het verleden informatie gebruikten om hun doel te bereiken, en de rol van kunstmatige intelligentie bij het verspreiden van waanideeën en onwaarheden.
Non-fictie
Engels | 492 pagina's | Fern Press, [ London] | 2024
Gedrukt boek
Bob Woodward War
Journalistiek verslag van de oorlogen tussen Rusland en Oekraïne. Israël en Hamas en de alom aanwezige Donald Trump achter de schermen.
Non-fictie
Engels | 435 pagina's | Simon & Schuster, London | 2024
Gedrukt boek
David Petraeus | Andrew Roberts Conflict
the evolution of warfare from 1945 to Gaza
Overzicht van de ontwikkeling van de moderne oorlogsvoering sinds de Tweede Wereldoorlog.
Non-fictie
Engels | 586 pagina's | William Collins, London | 2024
Gedrukt boek
Simon Sebag Montefiore The world
a family history
Met als uitgangspunt dat families de basis vormen van het bestaan, wordt de geschiedenis van de wereld verteld, van het ontstaan van de mensheid tot het begin van de 21e eeuw.
Non-fictie
Engels | 1302 pagina's | Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London | 2023
Gedrukt boek
Egon Schiele
the paintings
Een vrijwel volledig overzicht van schilderijen en tekeningen uit de laatste tien jaar van het korte leven van de Oostenrijkse schilder Egon Schiele (1890-1918).
Non-fictie
Engels | 512 pagina's | 2020
Gedrukt boek
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