Europese geschiedenis

Danseres Lin Jaldati, de artiestennaam van Rebekka (Lien) Brilleslijper (1912-1988), groeit op in de vooroorlogse Amsterdamse Jodenbuurt met zijn armo

In 1739 Bordeaux’s Royal Academy of Sciences held an essay contest seeking answers to a pressing question: What was the cause of Africans’ black skin?

A farewell to Eastern Europe and its vanishing culture.

A DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022'No one interested in the history of Europe can afford not to read this stupendous book' Simon Heffer, Daily Te

A lively, page-turning history of Italy and its wines, from the Roman Empire to climate change.

**Winner of the Lionel Gelber Prize 2024****A Financial Times Best Book of 2023**'A moving love letter to Europe' Lea Ypi, author of FreeDrawing from

A sweeping account of how small wars shaped global order in the age of empiresImperial conquest and colonization depended on pervasive raiding, slavin

Al een miljoen jaar reizen mensen door Europa. Van de raadselachtige homo antecessor die zijn voetafdrukken achterliet op de kust van Engeland tot de

De Gouden Eeuw, volgens velen de roemrijkste periode in de Nederlandse geschiedenis, roept vandaag de dag ook weerstand op. Sommigen pleiten er daarom

Een volmaaktere unie vertelt het verhaal van de wordingsgeschiedenis van het concept ‘federale unie’, vanaf de vroege zestiende eeuw tot aan de sticht

Twee ‘bloedbroeders’ in de Poolse ondergrondse strijd tegen het communistische regime gaan na de ineenstorting van het communisme hun eigen weg. De en

De complete geschiedenis van een van de machtigste dynastieën aller tijden 'Definitief standaardwerk.' ●●●●● NRC Handelsblad 'Een boeiend "rise and

A man of towering intellectual accomplishment and extraordinary tenacity, Emmanuel Ringelblum devoted his life to recording the fate of his people at

This title was Burckhardt's major contribution to cultural history and was first published in 1860. The work covers the period from the birth of Dante

It is impossible to understand the history of modern Europe without some knowledge of the Weimar Republic. The brief fourteen-year period of democracy

A King Travels examines the scripting and performance of festivals in Spain between 1327 and 1620, offering an unprecedented look at the different typ

This fascinating book offers the first sustained investigation of the complex relationship between the middling sort and their domestic space in the t

An ambitious study of the historical roots, development and role of citizenship during the period from the late Middle Ages to the French Revolution.

“This book is a true tour de force in the scholarship of the late ancient world. Canepa has bridged the traditional divide between Classical and Irani