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Kathryn Lomas The rise of Rome
from the iron age tot the Punic wars (1000 - 264 BC)
Populair wetenschappelijk studie naar de opkomst van de stad Rome en haar rol in het Romeinse Rijk.
Non-fictie
Engels | 405 pagina's | Profile Books, London | 2017
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Damon Dash | Kenyatta Griggs Culture vultures
conversations with Damon Dash
Engels | 311 pagina's | Poppington LLC, U.S.A | 2017
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Philipp Blom Nature's mutiny
how the little ice age transformed the west and shaped the present
Engels | 332 pagina's | Picador, London | 2019
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Max Adams Ælfred's Britain
war and peace in the Viking age
Engels | 509 pagina's | Head of Zeus, London | 2018
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David M/ Gwynn The Goths
lost civilizations
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Engels | 188 pagina's | Reaktion Books, London | 2017
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Laurence Senelick Jacques Offenbach and the making of modern culture
Engels | 354 pagina's | Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom | 2017
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Howard Jones My Lai
Vietnam, 1968, and the descent into darkness
"In this raw, searing new narrative account, Howard Jones reopens the case of My Lai by examining individual accounts of both victims and soldiers through extensive archival and original research. Jones evokes the horror of the event itself, the attempt to suppress it, as well as the response to Calley's sentence and the seemingly unanswerable question of whether he had merely been following orders. My Lai also surveys how news of the slaughter intensified opposition to the Vietnam War by undermining...
Engels | 475 pagina's | Oxford University Press, New York, NY | 2017
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Carol Anderson White rage
the unspoken truth of our racial divide
"As Ferguson, Missouri, erupted in August 2014, with media commentators referring to the angry response of African Americans yet again as 'black rage, ' historian Carol Anderson wrote a remarkable op-ed in the Washington Post showing that this was, instead, 'white rage' at work. 'With so much attention on the flames, ' she writes, 'everyone had ignored the kindling.' Since 1865 and the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment, every time African Americans have made advances toward full participation in...
Engels | 287 pagina's | Bloomsbury, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, New York | 2017
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Henrik Mouritsen Politics in the Roman Republic
The politics of the Roman Republic has in recent decades been the subject of intense debate, covering issues such as the degree of democracy and popular influence, 'parties' and ideology, politics as public ritual, and the character of Rome's political culture. This engaging book examines all these issues afresh, and presents an original synthesis of Rome's political institutions and practices. It begins by explaining the development of the Roman constitution over time before turning to the practical...
Non-fictie
Engels | 202 pagina's | Cambridge University Press, New York | 2017
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Lewis Lockwood Beethoven's symphonies
an artistic vision
Engels | 285 pagina's | W.W. Norton & Company, New York | 2017
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Joseph E. Morgan Experiencing Carl Maria von Weber
a listener's companion
Engels | 213 pagina's | Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham | 2017
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Benjamin R. Levy Metamorphosis in music
the compositions of György Ligeti in the 1950s and 1960s
Engels | 292 pagina's | Oxford University Press, New York, NY | 2017
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Cary Owtram 1000 days on the river Kwai
the secret diary of a British camp commandant
Non-fictie
Engels | 151 pagina's | Pen & Sword Military, Barnsley, South Yorkshire | 2017
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Timothy B. Tyson The blood of Emmett Till
Engels | 291 pagina's | Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, New York | 2017
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Hongci Xu No wall too high
one man's daring escape from Mao's darkest prison
Engels | 314 pagina's | Sarah Crichton Books, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York | 2017
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Jonathan Keates Messiah
the composition and afterlife of Handel's masterpiece
Engels | 165 pagina's | Basic Books, New York | 2017
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Wenzel Johann Tomaschek Wenzel Johann Tomaschek (1774-1850)
an autobiography
Engels | 153 pagina's | Pendragon Press, Hillsdale, NY | 2017
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Peter Hendrikx | Michel DeTrez Burning bridges
pictorial history of the 82nd Airborne Division prior to the invasion of Holland
“Burning Bridges” begins with the introduction, where the decision-making process that led to Operation Market Garden is explained in great detail. The subsequent chapters discuss the preparations in the marshalling areas in England, the activities of the Pathfinders, and the boarding of the aircraft by all paratroop regiments and battalions. The glider lifts are also well covered by many newly discovered photographs."
Engels | 464 pagina's | D-Day Publishing, Saint-Côme-du-Mont | 2017
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Peter Hendrikx | Michel De Trez Bridges are ours
pictorial history of the 82nd Airborne Division in the Holland campaign
"After the entire division was airborne, “Burning Bridges” continues with the actual drops at the drop- and landing zones as well as the first two days of combat. The drop of the 504th Regiment and the capture of the Grave Bridge and the bridges over the Maas-Waal Canal are covered first. Hundreds of photographs, documents and artifacts tell the successful story of the capture of the bridges. The landings of the 505th and 508th Regiments on Drop Zones N and T in Groesbeek, east of Nijmegen are also...
Engels | D-Day Publishing, Saint-Côme-du-Mont | 2017
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Anthony McCarten Darkest hour
Tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog was Winston Churchill premier van Groot-Brittannië. Dit is een historisch verslag van zijn toespraken uit 1940, toen zijn land rechtstreeks werd bedreigd door nazi-Duitsland. Met opdrachten en zwart-witillustraties. Vanaf ca. 17 jaar.
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Engels | 108 pagina's | Penguin Books, UK | 2019
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2017