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The Social Life of Books
Reading Together in the Eighteenth-Century Home
2019 || Paperback || Abigail Williams || Yale University Press
The Eighty Years War
From Revolt to Regular War, 1568-1648
2019 || Hardcover || Olaf van Nimwegen e.a. || Leiden University Press
The Eighty Years War explores the military puzzle of the Dutch Republic. When a revolt broke out in the Low Countries against the rule of the King of Spain, no one could foresee that it would ultimately lead to the partition of the provinces.
Only the northern provinces succeeded in holding their own militarily. They formed an independent republic that was increasingly able to withstand the might of Spain. How did they do it? To answer that question this study examines the operations of the in...
The Persianate World
The Frontiers of a Eurasian Lingua Franca
2019 || Paperback || Nile Green || University of California Press
"This is the first volume to examine seriously the notion of a 'Persianate world' extending far beyond the traditional strongholds of Iran and India. By highlighting the uses of Persian across early modern Eurasia in places as diverse as China, Siberia, and even England, the volume represents an exceptionally important contribution to our understanding of what constituted this world."--Andrew Peacock, Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic History, University of St. Andrews "With erudition ...
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
'Truly mind-expanding... Ultra-topical' Guardian
2024 || Paperback || Yuval Noah Harari || Vintage UK
'Fascinating... compelling... [Harari] has teed up a crucial global conversation about how to take on the problems of the 21st century' Bill Gates, New York Times 'Truly mind-expanding... Ultra-topical' Guardian'21 Lessons is, simply put, a crucial book' Adam Kay
Cape Conflict
Protest and Political Alliances in a Dutch Settlement
2019 || Paperback || Teun Baartman || Leiden University Press
In the historiography of the period of Dutch rule in the Cape of Good Hope, from 1652 until 1795, Cape burghers are represented as the perpetual underdogs bristling against the rule of a restrictive Dutch East India Company (VOC). But was this relationship really so antagonistic?
The author places Cape colonial society in the wider context of the Dutch Republic and, in doing so, compares the political structures, institutions and dynamics of the Republic and its overseas settlement. He shows ...
The Battle for Arnhem 1944-1945
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
2022 || Paperback || Anthony Tucker-Jones || Veltman Distributie Import Books
Photographic history of one of the most famous airborne assaults of the Second World War .
British Civilization / 9th edition
An Introduction
2019 || Paperback || John Oakland || Taylor & Francis
Thoroughly updated and revised, the ninth-edition of the highly-regarded British Civilization: An Introduction continues to be the ideal textbook on Britain, its country and people, religion, politics and government, international relations, legal system, economy, education, media and culture for students of British studies.
A History of the Netherlands / 2nd edition
From the Sixteenth Century to the Present Day
2019 || Paperback || Friso (Westphalian Wilhelms-University Wielenga || Bloomsbury Publishing
This is the most comprehensive history of the Netherlands available in the English language. It surveys Dutch history from the 16th century, when the nation took shape as a geographical, administrative and political entity, right through to the Netherlands of today. Examining domestic politics and wider international contexts, as well as economic and cultural history, Friso Wielenga provides a varied and in-depth investigation that will lead to a rich understanding of the country's past.
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Sapiens
A Brief History of Humankind: (Patterns of Life)
2019 || Paperback || Yuval Noah Harari || Vintage Publishing
Yuval Noah Harari's bestselling phenomenon now in a beautifully packaged new special edition. Planet Earth is 4.5 billion years old.
Sublime Light on the Turin Shroud
the true origin of a contraversial medieval relic
2019 || Paperback || Ludo Noens || Aspekt B.V., Uitgeverij
In April 1988, the Vatican authorities provided a small sample of the Turin Shroud for carbon-14 dating of the alleged burial cloth of Jesus Christ. In October of the same year, coordinator Michael S. Tite presented the conclusion of the university labs of Oxford, Zurich and Tucson (Arizona) to the entire world press: the miraculous imprint of Jesus’ resurrected body on the shroud dated to 1260-1390 CE…
Even if we accept that the Turin Shroud indeed is a cloth from the 13th or 14th centur...