In Een kennismaking met de geschiedenis van de nieuwe tijd krijgen een aantal onderwerpen meer aandacht, vooral vanwege de nieuw geformuleerde doelstellingen in het middelbaar onderwijs. We noemen hier de immigratie in de Gouden Eeuw, de godsdienstgeschiedenis en de economische en technische ontwikkelingen in de 19e eeuw.

Afro-Surinamers zijn de vrijverklaarde slaafgemaakten en hun nakomelingen. In deze publicatie gaat Chan Choenni na hoe het Afro-Surinamers is vergaan na de afschaffing van de slavernij in 1863 tot en met 1963. Hij geeft een levendig beeld van deze periode op basis van uitgebreid historisch onderzoek naar hun integratie in Suriname. Het heeft honderd jaar geduurd alvorens Afro-Surinamers politiek volwaardige burgers werden in Suriname. Hij stelt vast dat de Afro-Surinaamse groep na de Tweede ...

De prehistorie blijft veel mensen fascineren. Onze kennis over het verste menselijk verleden is er in de laatste decennia sterk op vooruit gegaan, maar we worden nog voortdurend met nieuwe methodologische en inhoudelijke ontwikkelingen geconfronteerd. Dit vierde volume in de reeks Historisch denken biedt op bevattelijke wijze een aantal recente wetenschappelijke inzichten uit de archeologie, antropologie en geschiedenis.

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For sixty years, different groups in Europe have put forth interpretations of World War II and their respective countries' roles in it consistent with their own political and psychological needs. The conflict over the past has played out in diverse arenas, including film, memoirs, court cases, and textbooks. It has had profound implications for democratization and relations between neighboring countries.

This collection provides a comparative case study of how memories of World War II have be...

Ever since the attacks of 11th September, western leaders have described a world engaged in 'a fight for civilization'. But what do we mean by civilization? We believe in a western tradition of openness and freedom that has produced a good life for many millions of people and a culture of enormous depth and creative power. But the history of our civilisation is also filled with unspeakable brutality - for every Leonardo there is a Mussolini, for every Beethoven symphony a concentration camp, ...

There are many stories we can tell about the past, and we are not, perhaps, as free as we might imagine in our choice of which stories to tell, or where those stories end. John Arnold's Very Short Introduction is a stimulating essay about how we study and understand history. The book begins by inviting us to think about various questions provoked by our investigation of history, and explores the ways these questions have been answered in the past.

Concepts such as causation, interpretation, a...

In this classic text, Jane Jacobs set out to produce an attack on current city planning and rebuilding and to introduce new principles by which these should be governed. The result is one of the most stimulating books on cities ever written. Throughout the post-war period, planners temperamentally unsympathetic to cities have been let loose on our urban environment.

Inspired by the ideals of the Garden City or Le Corbusier's Radiant City, they have dreamt up ambitious projects based on self-c...

WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2008'The world's most controversial classicist debunks our movie-style myths about the Roman town with meticulous scholarship and propulsive energy' Laura Silverman, Daily MailThe ruins of Pompeii, buried by an explosion of Vesuvius in 79 CE, offer the best evidence we have of everyday life in the Roman empire. This remarkable book rises to the challenge of making sense of those remains, as well as exploding many myths: the very date of the eruption, probab...

In this fully revised and updated third edition of China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know, Jeffrey Wasserstrom and Maura Elizabeth Cunningham provide cogent answers to the most urgent questions regarding the newest superpower, and offer a framework for understanding China's meteoric rise from developing country to superpower. Focusing their answers through the historical legacies--Confucian thought, Western and Japanese imperialism, the Mao era, and the massacre near Tiananmen...

Half a century after their deaths, the dictatorships of Stalin and Hitler still cast a long and terrible shadow over the modern world. They were the most destructive and lethal regimes in history, murdering millions. They fought the largest and costliest war in all history.