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Boris Yeltsin: The Decade that Shook the World

2015 || Paperback || Boris Minaev || Vrije Uitgevers, De

The literature on Boris Yeltsin is vast. Memoirs have been produced not only by politicians - first-hand participants in the events, Yeltsin himself penned three volumes of recollections - but also assistants, press secretaries, political analysts, journalists, MPs, retired members of Gorbachev's Politburo, public figures now long forgotten, generals of special services and security service staff.Boris Minaev started working on Boris Yeltsin's biography when the politician was still alive. In...

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Political Exile in the Twentieth Century

Christian Democrats in Europe and the Americas

2021 || Hardcover || Wolfram Kaiser e.a. || Leuven University Press

This book focuses on the political exile of Catholic Christian Democrats during the global twentieth century, from the end of the First World War to the end of the Cold War. Transcending the common national approach, the present volume puts transnational perspectives at center stage and in doing so aspires to be a genuinely global and longitudinal study. Political Exile in the Global Twentieth Century includes chapters on continental European exile in the United Kingdom and North America thro...

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The Dutch Sherlock

Forty Years of Detective Work by the Famous Dutch Forensic Pioneer Co van Ledden Hulsebosch

2024 || Paperback || Maurice Aalders e.a. || Amsterdam University Press

In 1945, Co van Ledden Hulsebosch, the famous Dutch forensic pioneer published his memoires ‘Forty Years of Detective Work’. He quickly became a well-known figure, a forensic celebrity even. His nickname, ‘the Magician of the North’ illustrated his popularity. Now, almost eighty years later, forensic scientists and experts from the Netherlands embrace the latest AI technology to disclose the unique tales of the first use of forensic science in the Netherlands to a broad audience. Be a...

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Debates on Islam & Society: Jihad and Islam in World War I

studies on the ottoman jihad on the centenary of snouck hurgronje’s “holy war made in germany”

|| Paperback || Erik-Jan Zürcher || Leiden University Press

The proclamation of Jihad by the Sultan-Caliph in Constantinople, after the Ottoman Empire's entry into World War I, made the headlines. This book investigates the background and nature of the Ottoman Jihad proclamation in addition to its effects in the wider Middle East - both among the Arabs and the Turks, and among Sunni Muslims as well as Shi'ites. It brings to light the German hopes for and British fears of a worldwide uprising of Muslims in the colonial empires at that time. Moreover, i...

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Plumb Bob

The western efforts in building and supporting the Iraqi State

2023 || Hardcover || Mohsin Shawkat || Brave New Books

This book

The subtitle of the book summarizes its content (Western efforts in building and supporting the Iraqi state).

The book is surveying the time period (1914-1958) in Iraq, highlighting the first steps in building the institutions of the Iraqi state, including education, health, transportation, agriculture, irrigation, survey, internal security, and others. The book follows the process of transferring administration from the hands of the British to the Iraqis, and from the military to ...

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Colonial Voices

The Anglo-African High Romance of Empire

2021 || Paperback || Gerald Monsman || Monbeaulivre.fr

Ever since the nineteenth-century the imperial romance has been understood, on some level, not merely as a self-evident genre of adventure capable of producing an aesthetic experience but as a political construction of ideological identifications and exclusions. There is a serious dearth of critical work on late-imperial writers of popular romances written about the Anglo-African colonies and the regions beyond their imperial frontiers. A growing interest in Africa now means that even the Ang...

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The Invasion of the South

Army Air Force Operations, and the Invasion of Northern and Central Sumatra

2021 || Hardcover || Willem Remmelink || Leiden University Press || met inkijkexemplaar

Between 1966 and 1980, the War History Office of the National Defense College of Japan (now the Center for Military History of the National Institute for Defense Studies) published the 102-volume Senshi Sōsho (War History Series). The present book completes the trilogy of English translations of the sections in the Senshi Sōsho series on the Japanese operations against the former Dutch East Indies (Indonesia). The first volume (The Invasion of the Dutch East Indies, 2015) details the army o...

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Revisualizing Slavery

Visual sources on slavery in the Indonesian Archipelago & Indian Ocean

2021 || Paperback || Wim Manuhutu e.a. || Ef & Ef Media

Revisualizing slavery explores the history of slavery in Asia by focusing on visual sources. The traditional image of slavery in Asia is shaped and dominated by words such as ‘mild’, ‘guilt’ and ‘domestic’. But this is shifting by new historical research that points precisely to the tougher sides and to similarities with the Atlantic slavery past

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Georgia

A story of encounters

2023 || Hardcover || Nino Simonishvili e.a. || Hannibal Books

First catalogue to offer an overview of Georgia’s rich cultural history

Thanks to its location between two continents, Georgia has traditionally formed a bridge between East and West. A Story of Encounters reflects the exceptional art, culture, and history of the country from the Neolithic to the eighteenth century. Especially in the “golden age” of united Georgia, between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries, the country experienced an unprecedented cultural and economic boom.

This bo...

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Rain of Ruin

Tokyo, Hiroshima and the Surrender of Japan

2025 || Hardcover || Richard Overy || Penguin Books Ltd