Categorie archieven: Amerikaanse geschiedenis

Amerikaanse schrijfster, Amerikaanse geschiedenis, Non-Fictie, Verenigde Staten

Toni Morrison – Spelen in het duister

Toni Morrison Spelen in het duister recensie en informatie boek over witheid in de literaire verbeelding. Op 14 oktober 2025 verschijnt bij Uitgeverij Letterwerk de Nederlandse vertaling van Playing in the Dark, het non-fictie boek uit 1993 van Toni Morrison. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave.

Toni Morrison Spelen in het duister recensie

  • “Door de Amerikaanse literaire slagader aan te vallen plaatst ze zich, met argumenten, in het centrum van het hedendaagse publieke debat over wat het betekent om authentiek en oorspronkelijk Amerikaans te zijn. Ze herinterpreteert op gedurfde wijze de mogelijkheden van Amerika.” (Chicago Tribune)
  • “Een diepgaande herdefiniëring van de Amerikaanse culturele identiteit.” (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Toni Morrison Spelen in het duister

Spelen in het duister

Witheid in de literaire verbeelding

  • Auteur: Toni Morrison (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: literaire non-fictie
  • Origineel: Playing in the Dark (1993)
  • Uitgever: Letterwerk
  • Reeks: Filosofische Bibliotheek Diotima
  • Verschijnt: 14 november 2025
  • Omvang: 200 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback
  • Prijs: € 24,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Boekenwereld / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek van Toni Morrison over racisme

Spelen in het duister is een van de weinige non-fictiewerken die Toni Morrison schreef. In dit boek maakt ze een messcherpe analyse van de verborgen, maar cruciale rol die Afro-Amerikanen spelen in de literaire verbeelding van wit Amerika. Ze spreekt over ‘Afrikanisme’: Afrikanen en Afro-Amerikanen vormden de vaak impliciete achtergrond van onvrijheid, waartegen de Amerikaanse idealen van autonomie en zelfredzaamheid konden worden afgezet (door witte schrijvers).

Morrison reflecteert op de impact van raciale aannames op het lezen en interpreteren van literaire werken. Door het ontrafelen van het ‘Afrikanisme’ ontstaat er een fascinerend nieuw perspectief op het werk van canonieke witte Amerikaanse schrijvers zoals E.A. Poe, Herman Melville, Will Cather en Ernest Hemingway.

In Spelen in het duister houdt Morrison ons een spiegel voor. Ze legt haarfijn de subtiele onderstromen van racisme en uitbuiting bloot die de basis vormen van veel Amerikaanse literatuur. Bovendien plaatst ze kritische vraagtekens bij het idee van ‘rasvrije’ literatuur en pleit ze voor de erkenning van de invloedrijke, maar vaak over het hoofd geziene, rol van Afro-Amerikanen hierin.

Geïllustreerd met een nawoord door de inspirerende Sibo Kanobana, levert Spelen in het duister een niet te onderschatten bijdrage aan het hedendaagse debat over racisme in Europa.

Toni Morrison is geboren op 18 februari1931 in Lorain, Ohiao, Verenigde Staten. Ze was een Afro-Amerikaanse schrijfster. In 1993 ontving ze de Nobelprijs voor Literatuur voor haar oeuvre. Een aantal van haar boeken wordt gezien als klassiekers van de Amerikaanse literatuur, waaronder The Bluest Eye, Beloved (dat bekroond werd met de Pulitzerprijs), en Song of Solomon. Door haar unieke stem en onwrikbare toewijding aan het vertellen van de complexe verhalen van Afro-Amerikanen heeft ze een onuitwisbare stempel gedrukt op de wereldliteratuur. Ze overleed op 5 augustus 2019 in The Bronx in New York City en werd 88 jaar oud.

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Amerikaanse geschiedenis, Amerikaanse politiek, Sociologisch boek

Paul Starr – American Contradiction

Paul Starr American Contradiction review, recensie en informatie boek over revolutie en wraak van de jaren vijftig tot nu in de Verenigde Staten. Op 14 oktober 2025 verschijnt bij Princeton University Press het boek van Paul Starr de Amerikaanse hoogleraar sociologie en public affairs aan de Princeton Universiteit. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Paul Starr American Contradiction review en recensie

  • “Anything Paul Starr writes is important to read, and this book is no exception. American Contradiction is a highly sophisticated history of the United States since the 1950s emphasizing the interplay between social movements, politics, culture, law, and social policy.” (Nelson Lichtenstein)
  • “Paul Starr, one of the great chroniclers of American institutions, provides a brilliant reinterpretation of the modern political era. His book unpacks the fundamental contradictions that have haunted the body politic since the 1960s. A country born in contraction between slavery and freedom has remained at odds with itself even as the issues changed. The bold attack by the progressive project on hierarchical institutions produced an equally fierce counterattack by those who wanted to restore an imagined earlier era. American Contradiction teaches us how, far from being an anomaly, the election of Donald Trump twice to the presidency was a result of deeply-rooted political forces that had been steadily gaining strength within the Republican Party for decades. This is a must-read book for sociologists, historians, political scientists, and any reader interested in our nation’s political history.” (Julian E. Zelizer, Princeton University)
  • “A thoughtful study of the push and pull from right to left and back again in the past 75 years ,,, A useful key to understanding how American politics and the American polity have become so intractably polarized.” (Kirkus Reviews)

Paul Starr American Contradiction

American Contradiction

Revolution and Revenge from the 1950s to Now

  • Auteur: Paul Starr (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse politieke geschiedenis
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Princeton University Press
  • Verschijnt: 14 oktober 2025
  • Omvang; 456 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 35,00
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon 

Flaptekst van het boek van Paul Starr over de Amerikaanse politiek

How did Americans come to elect Barack Obama—and then Donald Trump? Those choices capture what Paul Starr calls the American contradiction.

The whole truth about America, Starr argues in this new history of the United States since the 1950s, has never been contained in one consistent set of values or interests. Our nation was born in the contradiction between freedom and slavery. Today it is beset by a contradiction between a changing people and a resisting nation, a nation with entrenched institutions that have empowered those who fear the changes and look to restore an old America of their imagining.

Starr tells this history from the dual standpoints of the progressive movements that changed the American people and of the movements that emerged in response. Black Americans, he argues, served as a model minority, setting in motion America’s twentieth-century revolutions in gender as well as race and rights. With industry’s decline and the rise of economic inequality, millions of Americans have felt dispossessed and want the old America back. Trump is their revenge. American Contradiction tells the story of how 1950s America became the almost unrecognizable America of the 2020s.

Paul Starr is born 12 May 1949. He is professor of sociology and public affairs at Princeton University and founding coeditor of the American Prospect magazine. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction and Bancroft Prize in American History for The Social Transformation of American Medicine. Over a half-century he has written essays and op‑eds for newspapers and magazines as well as books on America’s institutions, history, and politics.

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Amerikaanse geschiedenis, Amerikaanse historicus

John Fabian Witt – The Radical Fund

John Fabian Witt The Radical Fund review, recensie en informatie boek over hoe een groep visionairs en een miljoen dollar Amerika op zijn kop zette. Op 14 oktober 2025 verschijnt bij Simon & Schuster het nieuwe geschiedenisboek van de Amerikaanse schrijver John Fabian Witt. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

John Fabian Witt The Radical Fund review en recensie

  • “Original and riveting. A remarkable reminder that people who adhere to diverse ideas about how to make this a better society can—indeed must—work together to bring about social change.” (Eric Foner, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Fiery Trial)
  • “Insightful… The engaging writing, paired with Witt’s keen eye for the limitless effects of seemingly small historical events, make this book important for scholars and general readers alike seeking to understand American society.” (Library Journal)
  • “Profoundly human… A reason to hope for our own future, especially if we are willing to take it into our own hands.” (Martha Jones, author of Vanguard)

John Fabian Witt The Radical Fund

The Radical Fund

How a Band of Visionaries and a Million Dollars Upended America

  • Auteur: John Fabian Witt (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse geschiedenis
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Simon & Schuster
  • Verschijnt: 14 oktober 2025
  • Omvang: 736 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
  • Prijs: $ 35.00 / $ 16.99 / $ 34.99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van het boek John Fabian Witt over het Garland Fund

From Pulitzer Prize finalist John Fabian Witt comes the captivating secret history of an epic experiment to remake American democracy. Before the dark money of the Koch Brothers, before the billions of the Ford Foundation, there was the Garland Fund.

In 1922, a young idealist named Charles Garland rejected a million-dollar inheritance. In a world of shocking wealth disparities, shameless racism, and political repression, Garland opted instead to invest in a future where radical ideas—like working-class power, free speech, and equality—might flourish. Over the next two decades, the Garland Fund would nurture a new generation of wildly ambi­tious progressive projects.

The men and women around the Fund were rich and poor, white and Black. They cooperated and bickered; they formed rivalries, fell in and out of love, and made mistakes. Yet shared beliefs linked them throughout. They believed that Amer­ican capitalism was broken. They believed that American democracy (if it had ever existed) stole from those who had the least. And they believed that American institutions needed to be radically remade for the modern age.

By the time they spent the last of the Fund’s resources, their outsider ideas had become mass movements battling to transform a nation.

A luminous testament to the power of visionary organizations and a meditation on the vexed role of money in American life, The Radical Fund is a hopeful book for our anxious, angry age—an empowering road map for how people with heretical ideas can bring about audacious change.

John Fabian Witt is the Allen H. Duffy class of 1960 professor of law at Yale Law School and a professor in the Yale history department. He is the author of a number of books, including Lincoln’s Code, which was awarded the Bancroft Prize and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, The Nation, and The New Republic, among other publications. He lives with his family in Connecticut where he tends an orchard, watches baseball, and fishes in the Long Island Sound.

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Amerikaanse geschiedenis, Familiegeschiedenis, Memoir

Dorothy Roberts – The Mixed Marriage Project

Dorothy Roberts The Mixed Marriage Project review and information memoir of Love, Race, and Family. Atria Books will publish the memoir by Dorothy Roberts, the American sociologist and social justice advocate, on February 10, 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

Dorothy Roberts The Mixed Marriage Project reviews

  • “Dorothy Roberts is a bold scholar, always challenging the systems and structures of racial injustice. Here she is a daughter too, who explores her mixed-race lineage through the lives and scholarship of her parents. This tender, rigorous memoir shows how valiantly they worked to dismantle centuries of prejudice against mixed marriage and to create their own loving family.” (Margo Jefferson, author of Negroland)
  • “Few books manage to rewrite both a family’s history and a nation’s moral record, yet The Mixed Marriage Project miraculously does both. Dorothy Roberts transforms personal excavation into social revelation, unearthing how love, race, and law have intertwined across generations. With the precision of a scholar and the passion of a truth-teller, she restores voices long silenced and shows how the intimate and the political are never apart. This memoir is an astonishing act of remembrance and repair.” (Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow)

Dorothy Roberts The Mixed Marriage Project

The Mixed Marriage Project

A Memoir of Love, Race, and Family

  • Author: Dorothy Roberts (United States)
  • Book type: memoir, family history
  • Publisher: Atria Books
  • To be released: February 10, 2026
  • Length: 320 pages
  • Format: hardcover / ebook / audiobook
  • Prize: $ 30.00 / $ 14.99 / $25.99
  • Order book from: Amazon / Bol

Blurb of the Dorothy Roberts memoir

A spirited and riveting memoir of growing up in an interracial family in 1960s Chicago and a daughter’s journey to understand her parents’ marriage—and her own identity.

Dorothy Roberts grew up in a deeply segregated Chicago of the 1960s where relationships barely crossed the “colorline.” Yet inside her own home, where her father was white and her mother a Black Jamaican immigrant, interracial marriage wasn’t just a part of her upbringing, it was a shared mission. Her father, an anthropologist, spent her entire childhood working on a book about Black-white marriages—a project he never finished but shaped every aspect of their family life.

As a 21-year-old graduate student, Dorothy’s father dedicated himself to the study of interracial marriage and her mother soon became his full-time partner in that work. Together over the years they interviewed over 500 couples and assembled stunning stories about interracial marriages that took place as early as the 1880s—studying, but also living, championing, and believing in their power to advance social equality.

Decades later, while sorting through her father’s papers, Roberts uncovers a truth that upends everything she thought she knew about her family: her father’s research didn’t begin with her parents’ love story—it came long before it. This discovery forces her to wrestle with her father’s intentions, her own views about interracial relationships, and where she fits in that story. Rather than finish the book her father never published, Roberts immerses herself in their archive of interviews to trace the story of her parents and to better understand her own.

Though grounded in her parents’ research, it’s Roberts’ captivating storytelling that drives this memoir. In following the arc of her parents’ interviews and marriage, The Mixed Marriage Project invites us into the everyday lives of interracial couples in Chicago over four decades. Along the way, Roberts reflects on her own childhood as a Black girl with a white father, and how those experiences shaped her into one of today’s most prominent public thinkers and scholars on race. Blurring the boundaries between the political and the personal, between memoir and history, The Mixed Marriage Project is a deeply moving meditation on family, race, identity, and love.

Dorothy Roberts is born March 8, 1956 in Chicago, Illinois. She is the George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, where she directs the Penn Program on Race, Science, and Society. The author of five books, including Killing the Black Body, a MacArthur Fellow, and member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, she lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Amerikaanse geschiedenis, Biografie, Engelse historicus

Matthew Restall – The Nine Lives of Christopher Columbus

Matthew Restall The Nine Lives of Christopher Columbus review, recensie en informatie van de In Genua geboren ontdekkingsreiziger. Op 8 oktober 2025 verschijnt bij W.W. Norton & Company de biografie van Columbus, geschreven door Matthew Renstall, de Engelse historicus. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Matthew Restall The Nine Lives of Christopher Columbus review en recensie

  • “In this compelling book, Matthew Restall comprehensively dismantles the myths surrounding Christopher Columbus while simultaneously revealing their power and importance for understanding his ever-changing legacy. A fascinating read for anyone seeking to understand how history is made, contested, and remembered.” (Caroline Dodds Pennock, author of On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe)
  • “I found The Nine Lives of Christopher Columbus to be a marvelous fusion of ingenuity and scholarship, a kaleidoscope of the explorer’s provocative legacies.” (Laurence Bergreen, author of Columbus: The Four Voyages)

Matthew Restall The Nine Lives of Christopher Columbus

The Nine Lives of Christopher Columbus

  • Auteur: Matthew Restall (Engeland)
  • Soort boek: biografie
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: W.W. Norton & Company
  • Verschijnt: 8 oktober 2025
  • Omvang: 368 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 35,00
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van de Columbus biografie van Matthew Restall

A gifted historian presents a definitive book on Columbus—his life, his legacies, and the controversies that outlived him.

Christopher Columbus was born Cristoforo Colombo, in the autumn of 1451 in the Mediterranean port city of Genoa, and he died in the Spanish city of Valladolid in May 1506, as don Cristóbal Colón. More than five centuries later, we are still arguing over his life and its significance. Millions if not billions of people have learned his name. Most have some sense of what he did, that it was momentous, a great achievement, an act of primacy. But was his achievement “great” because he “discovered America” and thus made possible the hemisphere’s “great” nations? Or was it an apocalyptic catastrophe for tens of millions of Indigenous and African peoples?

In The Nine Lives of Christopher Columbus, acclaimed historian Matthew Restall, perhaps the leading scholar of the Spanish Empire, presents a new, authoritative biography of Columbus, while at the same time tracing his many afterlives down into our own time. He explores the mysteries, many of them manufactured, that color our understanding of Columbus even in the twenty-first century—mysteries surrounding Columbus’s name, nationality, place of birth, ancestry, education, religion, intellectual vision, moral fiber, sexual proclivities, and current resting place. He shows how Columbus became an iconic American hero in the nineteenth century, and how a parallel hero emerged in the form of the Italian American Columbus.

Restall takes us beyond polemic, sifting through the evidence across nations, languages, and five centuries to explore the many questions that make up what he calls “Columbiana.” He demonstrates that, far from a uniquely talented individual, Columbus was typical of the Iberian and northern Italian men of his day—a merchant mariner who became an explorer, slave-trader, and conquistador-settler. And Restall challenges the notion, deeply held to this day, that Columbus can be credited or blamed for all that happened after 1492.

Whatever one’s views of Columbus, Restall’s book is the necessary, definitive account. It dispels the myths and gives us Columbus as he was. It shows how he has been distorted in the centuries since his death—and how we might come to understand him, and his legacies, anew.

Matthew Restall is born on 17 March 1964 in London. He is the Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of History and Anthropology, and director of Latin American Studies, at Penn State University. He is the author of Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest and When Montezuma Met Cortés, among other books.

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Amerikaanse geschiedenis, Amerikaanse historicus, Amerikaanse politiek, Midden-Oosten

Daniel E. Zoughbie – Kicking the Hornet’s Nest

Daniel E. Zoughbie Kicking the Hornet’s Nest review, recensie en informatie boek over het Amerikaanse buitenlands beleid in het Midden-Oosten van Truman tot Trump. Op 7 oktober 2025 verschijnt bij Simon & Schuster het boek van Daniel E. Zoughbie, de Amerikaanse historicus en schrijver over het Midden-Oostenbeleid van de presidenten van Amerika. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Daniel E. Zoughbie Kicking the Hornet’s Nest review en recensie

  • “Daniel E. Zoughbie tracks the tensions in foreign policy—the incidentals of urgent personalities and the fundamentals of enduring national interest—between the shallow and the deep. Most importantly, he underscores the need for wisdom and reflection when interfering in the affairs of other nations. I wish I had read his book years ago.” (Mark Allen CMG, former head of MI6 Counter-Terrorism and honorary fellow at St. Antony’s College, Oxford)
  • “This book is a must-read for those wanting to understand the complexities involved in Middle East conflicts and the reasons why our policies have failed.” (General Anthony Zinni, USMC (retired), former commander in chief of CENTCOM, and former US special envoy to Israel and the Palestinian Authority)

Daniel E. Zoughbie Kicking the Hornet's Nest

Kicking the Hornet’s Nest

U.S. Foreign Policy in the Middle East from Truman to Trump

  • Auteur: Daniel E. Zoughbie (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse politiek in het Midden-Oosten
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Simon & Schuster
  • Verschijnt: 7 oktober 2025
  • Omvang: 432 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
  • Prijs: $ 31,00 / $ 16,99 / $ 26,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst boek over buitenlands beleid van Amerikaanse presidenten in het Midden-Oosten

The compelling, groundbreaking investigation of how the choices of twelve US presidents, from Truman to Trump, have fueled turbulence and turmoil in the Middle East. And the one president who chose a better way.

Kicking the Hornet’s Nest is a riveting exploration of how twelve US presidents have shaped the Middle East, often unleashing instability and conflict along the way. It is also the story of one US president who successfully charted a better course. From Truman to Trump, Daniel Zoughbie meticulously unpacks the decisions that have set the stage for today’s unrest. But this book is more than just a history lesson; it’s a sharp analysis of presidential decision-making and its far-reaching consequences.

Today, the Middle East stands as a volatile landscape, more tumultuous than at any time since the fall of the Ottoman Empire. Zoughbie paints a vivid picture of how nearly every major nation-state in the Middle East and North Africa has grappled with existential crises in the recent years, paving the way for terrorist groups to threaten national sovereignty and for local conflicts to destabilize world order.

Drawing on a vast array of primary sources and interviews with world leaders, the narrative explores pressing issues like nuclear proliferation, genocide, and nationalist conflicts fueled by sectarian fervor that have triggered global refugee waves. Kicking the Hornet’s Nest is an eye-opening study of US presidential decision-making and foreign policy. With compassion and insight, Zoughbie reveals the essential information necessary for anyone seeking to understand eight decades of US foreign policy and its profound impact on billions of lives worldwide.

Daniel E. Zoughbie is a complex-systems scientist, a historian, and an expert on presidential decision-making. He is associate project scientist at the Institute of International Studies at UC Berkeley; a faculty affiliate of the UCSF/UCB Center for Global Health Delivery, Diplomacy, and Economics; and a faculty affiliate at the New England Complex Systems Institute in Cambridge. He is also principal investigator of the Middle East and North Africa Diplomacy, Development, and Defense Initiative and author of Indecision Points: George W. Bush and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (MIT Press, 2014). His award-winning research has been published in journals such as PLOS Medicine, PLOS Complex Systems, Mayo Clinic Proceedings, JAIDS, and Social Science and Medicine. Zoughbie has been appointed to positions at Georgetown University, Stanford University, Harvard University, University of Bologna, University College Dublin, University of Athens, and Campus Bio Medico University of Rome. Zoughbie graduated Phi Beta Kappa from UC Berkeley. He studied at Oxford on a Marshall Scholarship and completed his doctorate, also at Oxford, as a Weidenfeld Scholar.

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Amerikaanse geschiedenis, Oorlogsgeschiedenis

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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Amerikaanse politiek, Amerikaanse geschiedenis, Memoir, Verenigde Staten

Kamala Harris – 107 Days

Kamala Harris 107 Days review, recensie en informatie boek over de Amerikaanse presidentsverkiezingen in 2024. Op 23 september 2025 verschijnt bij Simon & Schuster het nieuwe boek van Kamala Harris de voormalige presidentskandidaat voor de Democraten in 2024. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.

Kamala Harris 107 Days review en recensie

  • “The brilliant, charismatic woman who came close to breaking the ultimate glass ceiling has given us an essential portrait of an unforgettable turning point in her journey…a taut, eye-opening account.” (Los Angeles Times)
  • “Political junkies will dig the play by play…candid, salty, incoming f-bombs!, and even a little dishy.” (San Francisco Chronicle)
  • “The book isn’t a winding memoir or a political treatise, and Harris doesn’t disclose any future plans. Instead, it reads like a ticking time bomb, with each chapter counting down to Election Day….Although Harris earned a reputation as guarded and circumspect, the book has the tone of someone who is finished biting her tongue. She concedes mistakes, reveals frustrations and details some of the stranger moments from her race.” (Associated Press)

Kamala Harris 107 Days

107 Days

  • Auteur: Kamala Harris (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse politiek boek
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Simon & Schuster
  • Verschijnt: 23 september 2025
  • Omvang: 320 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
  • Prijs: $ 30,00 / $ 14,99 / $ 26,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst nieuw boek van Kamala Harris over de Amerikaanse verkiezingen van 2024

For the first time, and with surprising and revealing insights, Kamala Harris tells the story of one of the wildest and most consequential presidential campaigns in American history.

Your Secret Service code name is Pioneer.
You are the first woman in history to be elected vice president of the United States.
On July 21, 2024, your running mate, Joe Biden, announces that he will not be seeking reelection.
The presidential election will occur on November 5, 2024.
You have 107 days.

Written with candor, a unique perspective, and the pace of a page-turning novel, 107 Days takes you inside the race for the presidency as no one has ever done before.

Kamala D. Harris was born on 20 October 1964 in Oakland, California. She served as the forty-ninth vice president of the United States from 2021 to 2025—the first woman in American history to hold the office. She began her career in the Alameda County district attorney’s office before being elected district attorney of San Francisco, where her Back on Track program became a national model for reducing recidivism. As California’s attorney general, Harris prosecuted transnational gangs, big banks that defrauded homeowners, and for-profit colleges that targeted students and veterans. She defended the Affordable Care Act, fought for marriage equality, and pioneered the nation’s first open-data initiative in the criminal justice system. In the United States Senate, Harris fought for civil, immigrant, and voting rights, and gained national recognition for her incisive questioning in committee hearings. As vice president, she led efforts to strengthen global alliances and address child poverty, gun violence, student debt, maternal health, economic opportunity, and reproductive rights—casting more tiebreaking votes than any vice president in history, including for pandemic relief and the largest climate investment ever. Throughout her career, she has always fought for the only client she has ever had: the people.

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Amerikaanse geschiedenis, Amerikaanse politiek

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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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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