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Katherine Mansfield In a German Pension
Recovering from a miscarriage and a bad marriage, author Katherine Mansfield, barely 21, wrote these excellent short stories around the time she was staying in a spa town in Germany. With wry humour, she depicts a German upper middle class defined by their rude habits, but she also touches upon the hard life of servants and the oppression of women. The latter distinguishes her writing from that of Jane Austen, but the way in which Mansfield mocks the stiff-upper-lipped ladies and Barons of these...
Engels | 3 uur 35 minuten (163 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Hugo Grotius Annals of the war in the Low Countries
The Annals of the War in the Low Countries is one of Hugo Grotius' lesser-known works. Grotius expresses a contrarian view of the early revolt, which he presents not as a united battle for the true faith and the ancient liberties of the land but as a protracted and painful struggle, not only with the great power of Spain, but also with discord, selfishness and religious fanaticism among the Dutch. To convey this complex and controversial vision of the foundational years of the Dutch Republic, Grotius...
Non-fictie
Engels | PDF, 63 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2023
E-book
Hugo Grotius Annals of the war in the Low Countries
Non-fictie
Engels | 447 pagina's | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2023
Gedrukt boek
Marie Muller | Bas de Gaay Fortman From warfare to welfare
human security in a southern African context
Non-fictie
Engels | 118 pagina's | Royal Van Gorcum, Assen | 2004
Gedrukt boek
Centrum voor Studie en Documentatie van Latijns Amerika Colombia from the inside
perspectives on drugs, war and peace
Non-fictie
Engels | 122 pagina's | Centre for Latin American Research and Documentation, CEDLA, Amsterdam | 2004
Gedrukt boek
George Szamuely Bombs for peace
NATO's humanitarian war on Yugoslavia
Non-fictie
Engels | 611 pagina's | Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam | 2013
Gedrukt boek