Categorie archieven: Amerikaanse geschiedenis

Arlie Russell Hochschild – Gestolen trots

Arlie Russell Hochschild Gestolen trots recensie en informatie boek over de verloren droom van rechts Amerika. Op 19 september 2025 verschijnt bij Amsterdam University Press de Nederlandse vertaling van Stolen Pride, het boek van de Amerikaanse socioloog Arlie Russell Hochschild. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave.

Arlie Russell Hochschild Gestolen trots recensie

  • “Wonend in “America under Trump II”, een land waar links en rechts niet meer gelden en de bodem en het plafond vakkundig uit de maatschappelijke orde worden gesloopt, is er behoefte aan een boek dat duidelijk maakt: ‘How on earth we got here?’ Gestolen trots maakt het allemaal duidelijk: met dit boek schreef Arlie Russell Hochschild de ultieme gids voor het land dat in haar woorden duidelijk is “verdeeld geraakt in twee economieën en twee culturen: een rood en een blauw.” Gestolen trots dient aanwezig te zijn in elk bootje van iedere (Europese) verkenner die heeft besloten upriver te varen, deep into real America.” (Michiel Vos, Amerika-correspondent voor RTL)
  • Arlie Russell Hochschild is een nieuwsgierige en bekwame luisteraar. In Gestolen trots haalt ze blanke nationalisten, gekozen functionarissen, veroordeelde criminelen en herstellende drugsverslaafden naar voren. Ze vertellen haar over hun schaamte en vervolgens hun woede over de manier waarop hun regio wordt afgeschilderd als mikpunt van een nationale grap.” (Financial Times)
  • “Gestolen trots heeft een autoriteit verdient door zeven jaar onderzoek. Haar medeleven is tastbaar. Het meest effectieve van haar talloze instrumenten is simpelweg luisteren naar degenen wier levensverhalen niet vaak gehoord worden in het nationale debat.” (The New York Times Book Review)
  • “In de kern een boek over de rechtse wending van het land … Hochschild neemt ons mee naar een gemeenschap die onder grote druk staat en onthult het verhaal van die gemeenschap op een genuanceerde en elegante manier, waarbij ze verhitte retoriek vermijdt en haar onderwerpen toestaat hun wereld met sympathie en begrip te onthullen.” (Boston Globe)

Arlie Russell Hochschild Gestolen trots

Gestolen trots

De verloren droom van rechts Amerika

  • Auteur: Arlie Russell Hochschild (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse geschiedenis en politiek
  • Origineel: Stolen Pride (2024)
  • Nederlandse vertaling: Demir Hilbrands
  • Uitgever: Amsterdam University Press
  • Verschijnt: 19 september 2025
  • Omvang: 384 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek
  • Prijs: € 29,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Bol / Libris 

Flaptekst van het boek van Arlie Russell Hochschild over rechts Amerika

In het veelgeprezen Vreemdelingen in hun eigen land verruilde Arlie Russell Hochschild – in een poging haar conservatieve landgenoten beter te begrijpen – het progressieve Californië voor Louisiana. Nu waagt de beroemde socioloog zich aan de Appalachen en legt ze de ’trotsparadox’ bloot die tot de verbeelding van rechts Amerika spreekt.

Als je de Amerikaanse politiek en de kloof tussen blauwe en rode staten echt wilt doorgronden, moet je rekening houden met de manier waarop economische en culturele neergang iemands trots kunnen aantasten. Wat gebeurt er als mensen in een economisch zwaar getroffen regio geconfronteerd worden met een krachtige politieke oproep die vertelt dat hun trots is ‘gestolen’? Arlie Russell Hochschild vertrok met deze vraag in haar achterhoofd naar Pikeville, Kentucky, naar het witste en op één na armste congresdistrict van de Verenigde Staten. Ooit was deze stad een epicentrum van een welvarende kolenindustrie en stemden de inwoners op Democraten als Franklin D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy en Bill Clinton. De laatste decennia kleurde het congresdistrict rood en in 2016 won Donald Trump de verkiezingen met een ruime meerderheid van de stemmen.

In Gestolen trots beschrijft Hochschild op briljante wijze hoe de stad reageerde op de wit-nationalistische opmars. In kleine kerken, wegrestaurants, trailerparken en bijeenkomsten van Narcotics Anonymous stelt ze ons aan onvergetelijke mensen voor die verstrikt zijn geraakt in een veranderende politieke landschap. Hochschild helpt ons om de wereldwijde opkomst van het rechtspopulisme te doorgronden.

Arlie Russell Hochschild is geboren op 15 januari 1940 in Boston, Massachusetts. Ze is emeritus professor Sociologie en auteur van baanbrekende publicaties, waaronder de New York Times-bestseller Vreemdelingen in hun eigen land.

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Amerikaanse Burgeroorlog boeken

Amerikaanse Burgeroorlog boeken over de American Civil War. Welke nieuwe boeken over de Amerikaanse Burgeroorlog verschijnen er? Wat is het onderwerp en inhoud van deze geschiedenisboeken? Wie is de auteur, schrijfster of schrijver van het boek?

Amerikaanse Burgeroorlog boeken

De Amerikaanse Burgeroorlog duurde van 12 april 1861 – 9 april 1865. Het was de strijd tussen de Noordelijke Staten (de Unie) ofwel de Noorderlingen en de Zuidelijke Staten (de Confederatie) ofwel de Zuiderlingen die bloedig was en vele slachtoffers aan beide kanten eiste. Historici zijn het over eens dat de slavernij, of beter gezegd de wens tot afschaffing ervan in de Noordelijke Staten de aanleiding was tot de oorlog. Met de overgave van de zuidelijke generaal Lee op 9 april 1965 aan de bevelhebber Grant van de Noordelingen in bij Appotomatix Courthouse in Virginia, kwam er een einde aan de bloedige burgeroorlog waarvan de effecten tot op de dag van vandaag voelbaar zijn in de Verenigde Staten. Het is dan ook een onderwerp waarover met regelmaat nieuwe geschiedenisboeken, wetenschappelijke studies en romans worden gepubliceerd.

Welke nieuwe boeken over de Amerikaanse Burgeroorlog verschijnen er?

Onderstaand overzicht bevat nieuwe geschiedenisboeken en romans over de Amerikaanse Burgeroorlog. De indeling is over verschijningsdatum waarbij de nieuwste uitgaven bovenaan staan. Links verwijzen naar uitgebreide informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de schrijfster, schrijver of auteur. Bovendien kun je reviews, recensies en bestelmogelijkheden van de boeken vinden.

F. Gregory Toretta Preeminent Strategist reviewPreeminent Strategist

  • Auteur: F. Gregory Toretta (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: biografie
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Casemate Publishers
  • Verschijnt: 1 februari 2026
  • Omvang: 288 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek
  • Prijs: $ 34,95
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol
  • Inhoud boek: Confederate General Joseph Eggleston Johnston’s brilliance in adapting to the evolving art of war set him apart as one of the Civil War’s most innovative strategists. Johnston keenly understood the revolutionary impact of new technologies—rifled muskets, railroads, telegraphs, and trench warfare-and applied these insights to conserve the South’s most critical resource: its soldiers. His motto, “Let the place go, and save the garrison,” encapsulated his belief in prioritizing manpower over territory; he was convinced of the importance of concentrating force to overcome the advantage in numbers the Union enjoyed…lees verder >

Bud Hannings Every Day of the Civil War reviewEvery Day of the Civil War

A Chronological Encyclopedia

  • Auteur: Bud Hannings (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse Burgeroorlog
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: McFarland
  • Verschijnt: 26 september 2025
  • Omvang: 637 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon 
  • Inhoud boek: From the early seizure of government property during the latter part of 1860 to the final Confederate surrender in 1865, this book provides a day-to-day account of the U.S. Civil War. Although the book provides a daily chronicle of the combat, it is written in narrative form to give readers some continuity as they move from skirmish to skirmish…lees verder >

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Ned Blackhawk De herontdekking van AmerikaDe herontdekking van Amerika

Het inheemse perspectief van de geschiedenis van de Verenigde Staten

  • Auteur: Ned Blackhawk (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse geschiedenis
  • Origineel: The Rediscovery of America (2023)
  • Uitgever: Omniboek
  • Verschijnt: 1 februari 2024
  • Omvang: 640 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: € 49,50 / € 19,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Libris
  • Inhoud boek: In ‘De herontdekking van Amerika’ herschrijft Historicus Ned Blackhawk de ontstaansgeschiedenis van de Verenigde Staten vanuit het inheemse perspectief. Hiermee is hij onderdeel van een nieuwe generatie historici die niet langer naar Amerika en haar geschiedenis kijkt vanuit het eurocentrische perspectief, maar de invloed van de talloze inheemse volken erkent. Van de aankomst van de eerste kolonisten en de bloedige Burgeroorlog tot aan de ingrijpende wetsveranderingen van de twintigste eeuw…lees verder >

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Trevor Burnard & Andrew Jackson O’Shaughnessy – Republic and Empire

Trevor Burnard & Andrew Jackson O’Shaughnessy Republic and Empire review, recensie en informatie boek over de Amerikaanse Revolutie. Op 16 september 2025 verschijnt Yale University Press het boek geschreven door de historici Trevor Burnard en Andrew Jackson O’Shaughnessy over crisis, revolutie en de vroege onafhankelijkheid van Amerika. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het geschiedenisboek verkrijgbaar.

Trevor Burnard & Andrew Jackson O’Shaughnessy Republic and Empire review

  • “In this impressive distillation of a wide range of imperial scholarship, the authors present a compelling case for recognizing both the roots and the course of the American Revolution as profoundly influenced by events in the wider British Empire following its expansion in and immediately after the Seven Years’ War.” (Stephen Conway, University College London)
  • “Timely, critically important contribution to our understanding of the American nation’s origins in a constitutional crisis and civil war that led half of Britain’s American colonies to declare independence. Balancing a welcome emphasis on the uncertain progress of the war with convincing accounts of why so many other colonies remained loyal, Burnard and O’Shaughnessy illuminate the contingent contexts that shaped individual and collective decisions in a revolutionary age.” (Peter S. Onuf, University of Virginia)

Trevor Burnard & Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy Republic and Empire

Republic and Empire

Crisis, Revolution, and America’s Early Independence

  • Auteurs: Trevor Burnard, Andrew Jackson O’Shaughnessy
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse geschiedenis
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Yale University Press
  • Verschijnt: 16 september 2025
  • Omvang: 320 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 35.00
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst boek over de Amerikaanse Revolutie als een mondiale gebeurtenis

A fresh look at the American Revolution as a major global event.

At the time of the American Revolution (1765–83), the British Empire had colonies in India, Africa, the Caribbean, the Pacific, Canada, Ireland, and Gibraltar. The thirteen rebellious American colonies accounted for half of the total number of provinces in the British world in 1776. What of the loyal half? Why did some of Britain’s subjects feel so aggrieved that they wanted to establish a new system of government, while others did not rebel? In this authoritative history, Trevor Burnard and Andrew Jackson O’Shaughnessy show that understanding the long-term causes of the American Revolution requires a global view.

As much as it was an event in the history of the United States, the American Revolution was an imperial event produced by the upheavals of managing a far-flung set of imperial possessions during a turbulent period of reform. By looking beyond the familiar borders of the Revolution and considering colonies that did not rebel—Quebec, Nova Scotia, Bermuda, India, the British Caribbean, Senegal, and Ireland—Burnard and O’Shaughnessy go beyond the republican, liberal, and democratic aspects of the emerging American nation, providing a broader history that transcends what we think we know about the Revolution.

Trevor Burnard was born on 15 October 1960 in Dunedin, New Zealand. He was Wilberforce Professor of Slavery and Emancipation at the University of Hull and director of the Wilberforce Institute. He was the author of numerous books on Caribbean plantation history and imperial history and served as editor of the Oxford Bibliography Online in Atlantic History. Burnard died on 19 July 2024, at the age of 63.

Andrew Jackson O’Shaughnessy was born in in 1959 in Cheshire, Engeland. He is professor of history at the University of Virginia. His books include An Empire Divided: The American Revolution and the British Caribbean and the prizewinning The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution, and the Fate of the Empire.

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Kenneth L. Feder – Native America

Kenneth L. Feder Native America review, recensie en informatie boek met het verhaal over de eerste volkeren in Amerika. Op 10 september 2025 verschijnt bij Princeton University Press het boek over de eerste bevolking van het continent Amerika, geschreven door Kenneth L. Feder de emeritus professor antropologie van Central Connecticut State University. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Kenneth L. Feder Native America review en recensie

  • “Feder tells the story of North America’s amazing archaeology with passion, humility, and humor. Native America is not just authoritative; it’s a page-turner. I highly recommend it to anyone with even the slightest interest in the continent’s archaeology. You’ll learn a lot and have fun along the way.” (Brad Lepper, curator of archaeology, Ohio History Connection)
  • “Generations of students—including me—can count themselves lucky to have had their first introduction to archaeology through the works of Kenneth Feder. Native America, which introduces cutting-edge findings and conveys the deepest respect for Indigenous peoples and their cultures, continues his tradition of superb writing. His accessible tone and irreverent humor disguise the fact that this book is a master class in American archaeology. This is an essential book for anyone interested in understanding current scientific perspectives on the origins and histories of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas. It sets a new standard to which all anthropology writers should aspire.” (Jennifer Raff, author of Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas)

Kenneth L. Feder Native America

Native America

The Story of the First Peoples

  • Auteur: Kenneth L. Feder (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: antropologisch boek over de eerste Amerikanen
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Princeton University Press
  • Verschijnt: 10 september 2025
  • Omvang: 440 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 39.95
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek over de eerste volkeren in van Amerika

Native America presents an infinitely surprising and fascinating deep history of the continent’s Indigenous peoples. Kenneth Feder, a leading expert on Native American history and archaeology, draws on archaeological, historical, and cultural evidence to tell the ongoing story, more than 20,000 years in the making, of an incredibly resilient and diverse mixture of peoples, revealing how they have ingeniously adapted to the many changing environments of the continent, from the Arctic to the desert Southwest.

Richly illustrated, Native America introduces close to a hundred different peoples, each with their own language, economic and social system, and religious beliefs. Here, we meet the Pequot, Tunxis, Iroquois, and Huron of the Northeast; the Navajo, Hopi, Zuni, and Apache of the Southwest; the Hidatsa, Mandan, and Lakota of the Northern Plains; the Haida, Kwakiutl, Nootka, and Salish of the Northwest Coast; the Tule River and Mohave of Southern California; the Cherokee, Creek, and Seminole of the Southeast; and the Inuit and Kalaallit of the Arctic. We learn about hunters of enormous Ice Age beasts; people who raised stone toolmaking to the level of art; a Native American empire ruled by a king and queen, with a huge city at its center and colonies hundreds of miles away; a society that made the desert bloom by designing complex irrigation networks; brilliant architects who built fairy castles in sandstone cliffs; and artists who produced beautiful and moving petroglyphs and pictographs that reflect their deep thinking about history, the sacred, the land, and the sky.

Native America is not about peoples of the past, but vibrant, living ones with an epic history of genius and tenacity—a history that everyone should know.

Kenneth L. Feder is professor emeritus of anthropology at Central Connecticut State University. His books include Frauds, Myths, and Mysteries: Science and Pseudoscience in ArchaeologyThe Past in Perspective: An Introduction to Human Prehistory, and Native American Archaeology in the Parks: A Guide to Native Heritage Sites in Our National Parks and Monuments.

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Walter Isaacson – The Greatest Sentence Ever Written

Walter Isaacson The Greatest Sentence Ever Written review, recensie en informatie boek over de Declaration of Independence. Op 18 november 2025 verschijnt bij Simon & Schuster het boek van Walter Isaacson over de Amerikaanse onafhankelijkheidsverklaring. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Walter Isaacson The Greatest Sentence Ever Written review en recensie

Als er in de media een boekbespreking, recensie of review verschijnt van The Greatest Sentence Ever Written, het boek over de Declaration of Independence, geschreven door Walter Isaacson, dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.

Walter Isaacson The Greatest Sentence Ever Written

The Greatest Sentence Ever Written

  • Auteur: Walter Isaacson (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Declaration of Independence boek
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Simon & Schuster
  • Verschijnt: 18 november 2025
  • Omvang: 80 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
  • Prijs: $ 20.00 / $ 10.99 / $ 9.99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon 

Flaptekst van het boek van Walter Isaacson over de Declaration of Independence

America’s bestselling biographer reveals the origins of the most revolutionary sentence in the Declaration of Independence, the one that defines who we are as Americans—and explains how it should shape our politics today.

To celebrate America’s 250th anniversary, Walter Isaacson takes readers on a fascinating deep dive into the creation of one of history’s most powerful sentences: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.”

Drafted by Thomas Jefferson and edited by Benjamin Franklin and John Adams, this line lays the foundation for the American Dream and defines the common ground we share as a nation.

Isaacson unpacks its genius, word by word, illuminating the then-radical concepts behind it. Readers will gain a fresh appreciation for how it was drafted to inspire unity, equality, and the enduring promise of America. With clarity and insight, he reveals not just the power of these words but describes how, in these polarized times, we can use them to restore an appreciation for our common values.

Walter Isaacson is born on 20 May 1952 in New Orleans, Louisiana. He is the bestselling author of biographies of Elon Musk, Jennifer Doudna, Leonardo da Vinci, Steve Jobs, Benjamin Franklin, and Albert Einstein. He is a professor of history at Tulane and was CEO of the Aspen Institute, chair of CNN, and editor of Time. He was awarded the National Humanities Medal in 2023.

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David McNally – Slavery and Capitalism

David McNally Slavery and Capitalism review, recensie en informatie boek met een nieuwe Marxistisch geschiedenis van de slavernij. Op 2 september 2025 verschijnt bij University of California Press het boek van David McNally, Professor of History and Business aan de University of Houston. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

David McNally Slavery and Capitalism review en recensie

  • “What a remarkable book. Grown from the theoretical soil of C.L.R. James, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Sylvia Wynter, Slavery and Capitalism nourishes readers with example after thrilling example of how to think dialectically. McNally’s archival evidence tells stories he uses to make a compelling, cumulative argument about class composition centered on the chattel proletariat. Suggesting critical elements of internationalism, the book invites methodological extension and substantive debate to connect his cases to the vast South Atlantic world where most enslaved people lived, worked, and fought. Fresh historical understanding of past social reality can refocus contemporary political analysis of racial capitalism. McNally sharpens dynamic awareness of highly differentiated sectors and regions of value production and social reproduction—the overlapping and interlocking realities where people self-consciously make freedom by remaking place.” (Ruth Wilson Gilmore, author of Abolition Geography)
  • “David McNally’s deft application of Marx’s theory and method not only unearths the hidden dynamics of slavery’s political economy but radically broadens our understanding of modern capitalism and its class struggles. The result: a new history of slavery that centers the enslaved—the chattel proletariat—not as ‘constant capital’ or fungible cogs in the machine but as its gravediggers.” (Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Race Rebels: Culture, Politics, and the Black Working Class)

David McNally Slavery and Capitalism

Slavery and Capitalism

A New Marxist Theory

  • Auteur: David McNally (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: slavernijgeschiedenis
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: University of California Press
  • Verschijnt: 2 september 2025
  • Omvang: 368 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 32,95
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek van David McNally over slavernij en kapitalisme

The first systematic Marxist account of the capitalist character of Atlantic slavery.

Karl Marx’s writings on enslavement and labor have fallen out of favor among historians, but David McNally injects new life into them. Slavery and Capitalism gives the first systematic Marxist account of the capitalist character of Atlantic slavery—using colonial travel literature, planter records and diaries, and slave narratives—to support the provocative claim for enslaved labor in the plantation system as capitalist commodity production.

Weaving together history, political economy, and radical abolitionism, McNally demonstrates that plantation slaves formed a modern working class. Unlike those scholars who insist that enslaved people were too sensible to set their sights on liberty, he highlights the self-activity of enslaved people fighting for their freedom and reframes their resistance as labor struggles over production and reproduction, with significant implications for US and Atlantic history and for understanding the roots of racial capitalism.

David McNally is Cullen Distinguished Professor of History and Business at the University of Houston, where he directs the Project on Race and Capitalism. He is the author of seven previous books and more than sixty scholarly articles.

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F. Gregory Toretta – Preeminent Strategist

F. Gregory Toretta Preeminent Strategist review, recensie en informatie biografie van General Joseph Eggleston Johnston. Op 1 februari 2026 verschijnt bij Casemate Publishers de biografie van de Confederate States Army General Joseph Eggleston Johnston, geschreven door F. Gregory Toretta. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

F. Gregory Toretta Preeminent Strategist review

Als er in de media een boekbespreking, recensie of review verschijnt van Preeminent Strategist, General Joseph Eggleston Johnston, The Confederacy’s Most Agile General, geschreven door F. Gregory Toretta, dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.

F. Gregory Toretta Preeminent Strategist

Preeminent Strategist

General Joseph Eggleston Johnston, The Confederacy’s Most Agile General

  • Auteur: F. Gregory Toretta (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: biografie
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Casemate Publishers
  • Verschijnt: 1 februari 2026
  • Omvang: 288 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek
  • Prijs: $ 34,95
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst biografie van General Joseph Eggleston Johnston

Explores Confederate General Joseph Johnston’s innovative strategies and leadership during the Civil War.

Confederate General Joseph Eggleston Johnston’s brilliance in adapting to the evolving art of war set him apart as one of the Civil War’s most innovative strategists. Johnston keenly understood the revolutionary impact of new technologies—rifled muskets, railroads, telegraphs, and trench warfare-and applied these insights to conserve the South’s most critical resource: its soldiers. His motto, “Let the place go, and save the garrison,” encapsulated his belief in prioritizing manpower over territory; he was convinced of the importance of concentrating force to overcome the advantage in numbers the Union enjoyed.

Johnston’s reputation as a master tactician was widely recognized, even by his adversaries. Renowned British war correspondent Sir William Howard Russell lauded him in 1861 as the Confederacy’s finest strategist. Years later, Union General Ulysses S. Grant conceded that Johnston caused him more anxiety than any other Southern commander, stating, “Take it all in all, the South, in my opinion, had no better soldier than Joe Johnston—none at least that gave me more trouble.”

Despite his genius, Johnston’s career was marred by his fraught relationship with Confederate President Jefferson Davis. Davis was critical of Johnston and his meddling undermined Johnston’s strategies and weakened the Southern war effort. As noted by his contemporary, General James Longstreet, Johnston’s talents for army command and campaign management were unparalleled, but he was denied the opportunities afforded to others. This book argues that with proper support and alignment of leadership, Johnston’s innovative strategies might have altered the course of the war.

Widely regarded as the first modern war, the Civil War demanded visionary leadership. This new biography of Johnston sheds light on his legacy as a brilliant leader, offering a fresh perspective on a conflict that defined a nation.

F. Gregory Toretta is a writer and historian with a passion for the American Civil War, accumulating an extensive library and undertaking copious research.

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Stanley Sandler – Segregated Skies

Stanley Sandler Segregated Skies review, recensie en informatie boek over Tuskegee All-Black Combat Squadrons uit de Tweede Wereldoorlog. Op 1 september 2025 verschijnt bij Grécy Publishing het boek Segregated Skies, Tuskegee All-Black Combat Squadrons of World War 2. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek over segregatie in het Amerikaanse leger tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog, de auteur en over de uitgave.

Stanley Sandler Segregated Skies review en recensie

Als er in de media een boekbespreking, recensie of review verschijnt van Segregated Skies, Tuskegee All-Black Combat Squadrons of World War 2, het boek geschreven door Stanley Sandler, dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.

Stanley Sandler Segregated Skies

Segregated Skies

Tuskegee All-Black Combat Squadrons of World War 2

  • Auteur: Stanley Sandler (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: oorlogsgeschiedenis
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Grécy Publishing
  • Verschijnt: 1 september 2025
  • Omvang: 296 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek
  • Prijs: £ 34,95
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst Tuskegee All-Black Combat Squadrons of World War 2 boek

A definitive account of the formation and operation of the segregated all black US squadrons which served in the Second World War.

The Tuskegee airmen as they came to be called took their name from Tuskegee Institute (now University) where they were educated, which was located near Tuskegee Alabama. Many of these first African-American military aviators in the United States Armed Forces came from states where blacks were still subject to the Jim Crow Laws. The American military was racially segregated, as was much of the federal government and the Tuskegee Airmen were frequently subjected to discrimination, both within and outside of the army.

The book goes into much detail on decisions made and not made at the highest military and civilian levels in wartime Washington as to the founding, use and value of a racially-segregated all-Black fighter squadrons. In the end, a decision had to be between a Black squadron or no Black squadron at all. The resultant 99th Fighter Squadron and the follow-on 100th, 201st and 203rd squadrons were decisive in opening the way for full US military integration a full decade before America’s civilian society began to go the same way.

This account of these squadrons examines the background to their formation, their training and operations in theatre. The book is based on interviews with many of the Tuskegee Airmen themselves. This is supported by research in USAF archives. The work deals not just with the pilots and their warplanes in battle but also with their everyday life on air bases in the segregated Deep South and in the field in wartime Italy.

Stanley Sandler is a retired military historian who has taught at the college and university level in the U.S. and Canada. He has published numerous peer-reviewed books and articles on military, naval and air power history. His last active history position was as Assistant Command Historian at the U.S. Army Special Warfare Center and School, Fort Bragg, North Carolina. He holds the B.A. (Houghton College) the M.A. (Columbia University) and the Ph. D. (Kings College, London University) where he studied under Sir Michael Howard.

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Diana Martha Louis – Colored Insane

Diana Martha Louis Colored Insane review, recensie en informatie boek over Slavernij, opvang en psychische aandoeningen in de negentiende eeuw. Op 28 oktober 2025 verschijnt bij Columbia University Press het boek van Diana Martha Louis, de assistent hoogleraar vrouwen- en genderstudies aan de Universiteit van Michigan. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Diana Martha Louis Colored Insane review en recensie

  • “Bringing together an impressive array of primary sources ranging from medical case studies and asylum records to literary fiction and nonfiction, Colored Insane offers a unique narrative that centers the perspectives of marginalized patients that have largely been absent from the established discourse on asylums.” (Michael Ra-shon Hall, author of Freedom Beyond Confinement)
  • “I couldn’t stop reading this book. Writing in a thrilling voice and centering Black knowledge-makers, Diana Louis uncovers countless surprises as she explores histories of Black mental disability. Her archival research and astute analysis respond to critical questions about “mental illness” and “disability” in the context of enslavement, freedom, and human experience itself. Colored Insane is necessary reading for anyone teaching, writing, and thinking about disability and Black histories.” (Margaret Price, author of Crip Spacetime)

Diana Martha Louis Colored Insane

Colored Insane

Slavery, Asylums, and Mental Illness in the Nineteenth Century

  • Auteur: Diana Martha Louis (Verenigde Staten0
  • Soort boek: geschiedenisboek
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Columbia University Press
  • Verschijnt:28 oktober 2025
  • Omvang: 320 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 35,00 / € 140,00
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek over slavernij, opvang en psychische aandoeningen in de 19de eeuw

The nineteenth century in the United States witnessed the end of slavery and the expansion of another form of confinement: the asylum. How did enslaved and free Black people encounter psychiatric institutions? How were notions of mental disability used to reinforce slavery and Jim Crow? And how did Black people express alternative ideas about individual and communal mental health?

Diana Martha Louis explores Black experiences and views of mental disability in the nineteenth century, shedding light on the lives and struggles of the “colored insane.” She demonstrates how psychiatric discourses made Blacks “mad” both by inflicting real psychological harm within asylums, plantations, jails, and society writ large and by constructing mental disorders according to prevailing notions of race, class, gender, and sanity. Yet even as white medical professionals pathologized the enslaved as suffering from “drapetomania” (runaway slave syndrome), portrayed slavery as beneficial to Black mental health, or cast African-derived spiritual beliefs and practices as signs of madness, Black people developed their own complex perspectives on mental disability.

Louis considers the lives and writings of Black intellectuals and cultural figures including James McCune Smith, Harriet Jacobs, Harriet Tubman, and Charles Chesnutt, as well as a group of Black women who were incarcerated in Georgia Lunatic Asylum, showing how mental disability was entangled with questions of freedom, spirituality, and self-determination. Combining literary and historical analysis, Colored Insane is a rich account of nineteenth-century Black Americans’ experiences of mental illness and wellness.

Diana Martha Louis is an assistant professor of women’s and gender studies and American culture at the University of Michigan.

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Bud Hannings – Every Day of the Civil War

Bud Hannings Every Day of the Civil War review, recensie en informatie boek en een chronologische encyclopedie van de Amerikaanse Burgeroorlog. Op 26 september 2025 verschijnt bij McFarland het boek van Bud Hannings over de geschiedenis van de Amerikaanse Burgeroorlog. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Bud Hannings Every Day of the Civil War review en recensie

  • “Exhaustive…recommended for a general audience with a significant interest in the Civil War.” (Library Journal)
  • “This book provides a unique, chronological perspective of every day in the War between the North and the South. The author is uniquely qualified to compile this tome. It is obvious that the author is an expert and scholar of the USA and its major historical wars…a detailed account…a labor of love for the author, and his expertise and knowledge of the American Civil War clearly shine through in this book. This is an essential research volume.” (Reference Reviews)
  • “Fascinating and informative…readers will gain considerable knowledge about the Civil War from this book…highly recommended.” (Choice)

Bud Hannings Every Day of the Civil War

Every Day of the Civil War

A Chronological Encyclopedia

  • Auteur: Bud Hannings (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse Burgeroorlog
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: McFarland
  • Verschijnt: 26 september 2025
  • Omvang: 637 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon 

Flaptekst encyclopedisch boek over de Amerikaanse Burgeroorlog

From the early seizure of government property during the latter part of 1860 to the final Confederate surrender in 1865, this book provides a day-to-day account of the U.S. Civil War. Although the book provides a daily chronicle of the combat, it is written in narrative form to give readers some continuity as they move from skirmish to skirmish.

During the course of the saga, the book also chronicles the life spans of more than 600 Union and Confederate vessels, documenting when possible the time of each vessel’s acquisition, commissioning, major engagements, and decommissioning. Seven appendices provide lists of prominent Union and Confederate officers, primary naval actions, and Medal of Honor recipients from 1863 to 1865.

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