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Russell Shorto – De geboorte van New York

Russell Shorto De geboorte van New York recensie en informatie nieuwe geschiedenisboek over Manhattan in New York. Op 6 maart 2025 verschijnt bij Ambo | Anthos de Nederlandse vertaling van Taking Manhattan, het nieuwe boek van historicus Russell Shorto over hoe het Nederlandse Manhattan in Engelse handen kwam. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave.

Russell Shorto De geboorte van New York recensie en informatie

Als er in de media een boekbespreking of recensie verschijnt van De geboorte van New York, Hoe het Nederlandse Manhattan in Engelse handen kwam, geschreven door de Amerikaanse historicus Russel Shorto, dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.

Russell Shorto De geboorte van New York

De geboorte van New York

Hoe het Nederlandse Manhattan in Engelse handen kwam

  • Auteur: Russell Shorto (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: geschiedenisboek
  • Origineel: Take Manhattan (2025)
  • Nederlandse vertaling: Catalien en Willem van Paassen, Jan Willem Reitsma
  • Uitgever: Ambo | Anthos
  • Verschijnt: 6 maart 2025
  • Omvang: 352 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: € 26,99 / € 13,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Boekenwereld / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek over de overname van Manhattan door de Engelsen

In De geboorte van New York beschrijft Russell Shorto met verve hoe Nederland de macht over Nieuw-Amsterdam verloor. Hij laat zien dat dit niet, zoals veel mensen denken, het resultaat was van een militaire overname door de Engelsen, maar dat van een onwaarschijnlijke samenwerking tussen de twee rivaliserende staten.

Zo werd de kiem gelegd voor de wereldstad New York. In 1664 droomde Engeland van een Noord-Amerikaans imperium en maakte het plannen om Nieuw-Amsterdam met geweld in te nemen. Maar vlak voor het tot een confrontatie kwam tussen de Engelsen en gouverneur Peter Stuyvesant, die de leiding had op Manhattan, veranderde de strategie. De overname van de stad kwam tot stand door slimme onderhandelingen, die leidden tot een samensmelting van de Nederlandse pluriforme en kapitalistische samenleving met de macht van het opkomende Engelse rijk.

De ontstaansgeschiedenis van New York is geënt op geweld tegen de inheemse bevolking en het begin van slavernij in Amerika. Tegelijkertijd is het een buitengewoon verhaal over de wijze waarop twee botsende naties samen een nieuwe stad voortbrachten.

Russell Shorto is geboren op 8 februari 1958 in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten. Hij is directeur van het New Amsterdam Project bij The New York Historical en senior onderzoeker bij het New Netherland Institute. Hij heeft onder meer de internationale bestsellers Nieuw-Amsterdam en Pater familias op zijn naam staan.

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Elaine Weiss – Spell Freedom

Elaine Weiss Spell Freedom recensie, review en informatie boek over de ondergrondse scholen die de burgerrechtenbeweging hebben opgebouwd. Op 4 maart 2025 verschijnt bij Atria/One Signal Publishers het nieuwe boek van de Amerikaanse journalist en schrijfster Elaine Weiss . Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling is niet verkrijgbaar.

Elaine Weiss Weiss Spell Freedom recensie, review en informatie

  • “A richly researched and detailed new history of the underground schools that sprang up throughout the South…. Although Civil Rights leaders march through these pages, Weiss prefers the company of the unsung , the members of the irresistible army, the beauticians and bus drivers who risked their lives and their families’ well-being… Weiss is the author of two previous histories that elevated ordinary women doing extraordinary things [and] is highly attuned to the ingrained patriarchy of the era, including in much of the Civil Rights Movement, where women were the boots on the ground while men took leadership roles (and higher salaries).” (Phil Kloer, Atlanta Journal Constitution)
  • “Spell Freedom is a beautifully crafted and dramatic tale that testifies to the resilience of America’s dreamers and freedom fighters. How did so many ordinary people find the courage to stand up for their rights? How did they organize? How did they overcome apathy and disillusion? Elaine Weiss answers these timely questions in a brilliant book that illuminates not only the past but also a path forward.” (Jonathan Eig, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of King: A Life)

Elaine Weiss Spell Freedom

Spell Freedom

The Underground Schools That Built the Civil Rights Movement

  • Auteur Elaine Weiss (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse geschiedenis
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Atria / One Signal Publishers
  • Verschijnt: 4 maart 2025
  • Omvang: 384 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek /  ebook
  • Prijs: $ 29,99 / $ 14,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst boek over de ondergrondse scholen van de burgerrechtenbeweging

In the summer of 1954, educator Septima Clark and small businessman Esau Jenkins travelled to rural Tennessee’s Highlander Folk School, an interracial training center for social change founded by Myles Horton, a white southerner with roots in the labor movement. There, the trio united behind a shared mission: preparing Black southerners to pass the daunting Jim Crow era voter registration literacy tests that were designed to disenfranchise them.

Together with beautician-turned-teacher Bernice Robinson, they launched the underground Citizenship Schools project, which began with a single makeshift classroom hidden in the back of a rural grocery store. By the time the Voting Rights Act was signed into law in 1965, the secretive undertaking had established more than nine hundred citizenship schools across the South, preparing tens of thousands of Black citizens to read and write, demand their rights—and vote. Simultaneously, it nurtured a generation of activists—many of them women—trained in community organizing, political citizenship, and tactics of resistance and struggle who became the grassroots foundation of the Civil Rights Movement. Dr. King called Septima Clark, “Mother of the Movement.”

Elaine Weiss is an award-winning journalist, author, and public speaker. In addition to Spell Freedom, she is the author of Fruits of Victory: The Woman’s Land Army of the Great War; and The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote. Elaine lives with her husband in Baltimore, Maryland. Find out more at ElaineWeiss.com.

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Benjamin Heber Johnson – Texas An American History

Benjamin Heber Johnson Texas An American History recensie, review en informatie boek over de geschiedenis van de Amerikaanse staat. Op 25 februari 2025 verschijnt bij Yale University Books dit geschiedenisboek van Texas geschreven door de Amerikaanse historicus en professor Benjamin Heber Johnson. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek over de geschiedenis van Texas is niet verkrijgbaar.

Benjamin Heber Johnson Texas An American History recensie, review en informatie

  • “Johnson persuasively argues that understanding the history of Texas, a state full of contradictions and surprises, is essential for understanding the ‘history of the United States.’ A compelling account of a complicated, conflicted, and cantankerous state.” (Kirkus Reviews)
  • “Texas is a big place with a complicated history, and Ben Johnson brings to life the stories of Texas in all its diversity. This book is for anyone who believes that an inclusive history of Texas matters.” (Rebecca Sharpless)

Benjamin Heber Johnson Texas An American History

Texas

An American History

  • Auteur: Benjamin Heber Johnson (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse geschiedenis
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Yale University Press
  • Verschijnt: 25 februari 2025
  • Omvang: 392 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 35,00
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van het boek over de geschiedenis van de Amerikaanse  staat Texas

An exploration of the multifaceted characters and complex events that have defined the Lone Star State from its inception through today.

When Americans turn on their laptops, play video games, go to church, vote, eat TexMex, shop for groceries, listen to music, grill steaks, or watch football, they are, knowingly or not, paying tribute to Texas. Tracing the profound and surprising story of the Lone Star State, Benjamin Heber Johnson shines new light on why Texas has had such a powerful influence on U.S. history.

Texas is known to outsiders for mob violence, swaggering self-conception, and conservative politics, but Johnson reveals that the state has also been on the forefront of taming frontier violence, establishing LGBTQ rights, and developing modern businesses such as organic food and personal computing. Neither looking away from the dark chapters of Texas history nor letting them overshadow the achievements of democracy and pluralism that are some of the state’s greatest legacies, Johnson offers a balanced and inclusive history of an often contentious and stereotyped region, covering such topics as the persistence of Native Americans, the frontier story of the Alamo, agrarian populism, racial segregation, the state’s porous border with Mexico, and the way historical memory continues to shape the state’s identity. The reality of Texas, Johnson shows us, is even bigger than we think it is.

Benjamin Heber Johnson is professor of history at Loyola University Chicago. Raised in Houston, Texas, he is the author of numerous publications, including Revolution in Texas: How a Forgotten Rebellion and Its Bloody Suppression Turned Mexicans into Americans. Johnson lives in Chicago, Illinois.

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Kelly A. Spring – Spam

Kelly A. Spring Spam recensie, review en informatie boek over de geschiedenis van het ingeblikte varkensvlees. Op 1 juni 2025 verschijnt bij Reatkion Books het boek van de Engelse historicus Kelly A. Spring over de geschiedenis het ingeblikte varkensvlees dat in Nederland meer bekend is onder de naam Smac. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.

Kelly A. Spring Spam recensie, review en informatie

Als er in de media een boekbespreking, review of recensie verschijnt van Spam, A Global History, geschreven door de Britse voedingshistoricus Kelly A. Spring, dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht.

Kelly A. Spring Spam

Spam

A Global History

  • Auteur: Kelly A. Spring (Engeland)
  • Soort boek: geschiedenisboek
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Reaktion Books, Edible Series
  • Verschijnt: 1 juni 2025
  • Omvang: 152 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: £ 12,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van het boek over de geschiedenis van Spam het ingeblikte varkensvlees

SPAM’s enduring global impact, from wartime necessity to cultural icon and beyond.

The year 2025 marks the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, a conflict that solidified SPAM’s place in global food culture. Created by Hormel Foods in 1937 to utilize surplus pork shoulder during the Great Depression, SPAM became an essential resource during the Second World War, and helped shape perceptions of American culture.

This book explores SPAM’s complex history, from its inception to its resurgence during the COVID-19 pandemic, highlighting its enduring legacy in places like Hawaii, Guam, the Philippines, Okinawa and South Korea. It demonstrates how SPAM, a long-lasting and valuable protein, played a crucial role during wartime and continues to influence dietary practices worldwide.

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Judith Giesberg – Last Seen

Judith Giesberg Last Seen recensie, review en informatie boek van de Amerikaanse historicus over de voortdurende zoektocht van voorheen tot slaaf gemaakte mensen om hun verloren familie te vinden. Op 3 februari 2025 verschijnt bij Simon & Schuster het boek van Judith Giesberg over de zoektocht naar de verloren families van Amerikaanse tot slaaf gemaakten. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het geschiedenisboek, de auteur en over de uitgave.

Judith Giesberg Last Seen recensie, review en informatie

  • “Heartbreaking, and essential.” (Jill Lepore, Amerikaanse historicus en schrijfster)
  • “This unvarnished account reminds us that centuries of suffering have yet to be fully acknowledged or atoned for. Informative and sobering.” (Kirkus Reviews)
  • “Love speaks across miles, decades and centuries in this meticulously excavated tribute to the formerly enslaved mothers, fathers, siblings, and kin who published “last seen” advertisements in search of loved ones stolen from them in bondage. Patience and Clara Bashop, Hagar Outlaw, Tally Miller, and the other seekers featured here may or may not have succeeded in having their beloveds restored to them, but the power of their loving, the spirit of their loved ones, and the immense scope of their courage breathe off the page in this vital work of recovery.” (Ilyon Woo, author of Master, Slave, Husband, Wife)

Judith Giesberg Last Seen

Last Seen

The Enduring Search by Formerly Enslaved People to Find Their Lost Families

  • Auteur: Judith Giesberg (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse geschiedenis, slavernijgeschiedenis
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Simon & Schuster
  • Verschijnt: 4 februari 2025
  • Omvang: 336 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
  • Prijs: $ 29,99 / $ 14,99 / $ 25,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek over de zoektocht van voorheen tot slaaf gemaakte mensen naar hun verloren familie

Drawing from an archive of nearly five thousand letters and advertisements, the riveting, dramatic story of formerly enslaved people who spent years searching for family members stolen away during slavery.

Of all the many horrors of slavery, the cruelest was the separation of families in slave auctions. Spouses and siblings were sold away from one other. Young children were separated from their mothers. Fathers were sent down river and never saw their families again.

As soon as slavery ended in 1865, family members began to search for one another, in some cases persisting until as late as the 1920s. They took out “information wanted” advertisements in newspapers and sent letters to the editor. Pastors in churches across the country read these advertisements from the pulpit, expanding the search to those who had never learned to read or who did not have access to newspapers. These documents demonstrate that even as most white Americans—and even some younger Black Americans, too—wanted to put slavery in the past, many former slaves, members of the “Freedom Generation,” continued for years, and even decades, to search for one another. These letters and advertisements are testaments to formerly enslaved people’s enduring love for the families they lost in slavery, yet they spent many years buried in the storage of local historical societies or on microfilm reels that time forgot.

Judith Giesberg draws on the archive that she founded—containing almost five thousand letters and advertisements placed by members of the Freedom Generation—to compile these stories in a narrative form for the first time. Her in-depth research turned up additional information about the writers, their families, and their enslavers. With this critical context, she recounts the moving stories of the people who placed the advertisements, the loved ones they tried to find, and the outcome of their quests to reunite.

This story underscores the cruelest horror of slavery—the forced breakup of families—and the resilience and determination of the formerly enslaved. Thoughtful, heart-wrenching, and illuminating, Last Seen finally gives this lesser-known aspect of slavery the attention it deserves.

Judith Giesberg was born 11 June 1966 in Texas. She is professor of history and Robert M. Birmingham chair in the humanities at Villanova University. She is the founder and director of the Last Seen archive, and the author of several books on Civil War history, including Army at Home, Emilie Davis’s Civil War, and Last Seen.

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Bennett Parten – Somewhere Toward Freedom

Bennett Parten Somewhere Toward Freedom review, recensie en informatie boek over de Amerikaanse Burgeroorlog en General Sherman’s March vanuit het perspectief van zwarte Amerikanen. Op 21 januari 2025 verschijnt bij Simon & Schuster het boek van de Amerikaanse historicus Bennett Parten over Sherman’s March and the Story of America’s Largest Emancipation. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het Amerikaanse geschiedenisboek, de auteur en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.

Bennett Parten Somewhere Toward Freedom, review, recensie en informatie

  • “Somewhere Toward Freedom is one of the most innovative studies of American emancipation in the Civil War we have ever seen, from the March to the Sea in Georgia and well beyond. An epic tale of movement, of collisions with nature, of military history of a new kind in the annals of American warfare, and of the great human drama—full of loss and tragedy and confusion—of an evolving freedom for former slaves across a vast landscape.” (David W. Blight, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Frederick Douglass)
  • “A well-known episode in Civil War history viewed from a fresh, and illuminating, perspective.” (Kirkus Reviews)

Bennett Parten Somewhere Toward Freedom

Somewhere Toward Freedom

Sherman’s March and the Story of America’s Largest Emancipation

  • Auteur: Bennett Parten (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse geschiedenis
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Simon & Schuster
  • Verschijnt: 21 januari 2025
  • Omvang: 272 pagina’s
  • Prijs: $ 29.99 / $ 14.99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek van Bennett Parten over de Amerikaanse Burgeroorlog

A groundbreaking account of Sherman’s March to the Sea—the critical Civil War campaign that destroyed the Confederacy—told for the first time from the perspective of the tens of thousands of enslaved people who fled to the Union lines and transformed Sherman’s march into the biggest liberation event in American history.

In the fall of 1864, Gen. William T. Sherman led his army through Atlanta, Georgia, burning buildings of military significance—and ultimately most of the city—along the way. From Atlanta, they marched across the state to the most important city at the time: Savannah.

Mired in the deep of the South with no reliable supply lines, Sherman’s army had to live off the land and the provisions on the plantations they seized along the way. As the army marched to the east, plantation owners fled, but even before they did so, slaves self-emancipated to Union lines. By the time the army seized Savannah in December, as many as 20,000 enslaved people had attached themselves to Sherman’s army. They endured hardships, marching as much as twenty miles a day—often without food or shelter from the winter weather—and at times Union commanders discouraged and even prevented the self-emancipated from staying with the army. Racism was not confined to the Confederacy.

In Somewhere Toward Freedom, historian Bennett Parten brilliantly reframes this seminal episode in Civil War history. He not only helps us understand how Sherman’s March impacted the war, and what it meant to the enslaved, but also reveals how it laid the foundation for the fledging efforts of Reconstruction. When the war ended, Sherman and various government and private aid agencies seized plantation lands—particularly in the sea islands off the Georgia and South Carolina coasts—in order to resettle the newly emancipated. They were fed, housed, and in some instances, taught to read and write. This first real effort at Reconstruction was short-lived, however. As federal troops withdrew to the north, Confederate sympathizers and Southern landowners eventually brought about the downfall of this program.

Sherman’s march has remained controversial to this day. But as Parten reveals, it played a significant role in ending the Civil War, due in no small part to the efforts of the tens of thousands of enslaved people who became a part of it. In Somewhere Toward Freedom, this critical moment in American history has finally been given the attention it deserves.

Bennett Parten is an assistant professor of history at Georgia Southern University whose area of expertise is the Civil War period. He is a native of Royston, Georgia, and completed his PhD in history at Yale University. His writing has appeared in The Washington Post, Los Angeles Review of Books, Zocalo Public Square, and The Civil War Monitor, among others. He currently lives in Savannah, Georgia.

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Juan Williams – New Prize for These Eyes

Juan Williams New Prize for These Eyes review, recensie en informatie boek over de Rise of America’s Second Civil Rights Movement. Op 14 januari 2025 verschijnt bij Simon & Schuster het boek van de Amerikaanse historicus en journalist Juan Williams over de opkomst van de tweede burgerrechtenbeweging in de Verenigde Staten. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.

Juan Williams New Prize for These Eyes review, recensie en informatie

  • “Nearly four decades after his Eyes on the Prize heralded the heroes of the Civil Rights era, Juan Williams takes a compelling look at how far America has come in the years since–and how far we have to go.” (David Axelrod, former chief strategist and senior advisor to President Barack Obama)
  • “Williams’ arresting prose and keen insights into this unfolding, volcanic movement are essential reading for those who want to ensure that this nation’s ‘new birth of freedom’ continues unabated and unstoppable. There is no better person to write the book on the new movement to make this a more perfect union than the author who wrote the book on the first one.” (Donna Brazile, New York Times-bestselling author of Hacks)

Juan Williams New Prize for These Eyes

New Prize for These Eyes

The Rise of America’s Second Civil Rights Movement

  • Auteur: Juan Williams (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse geschiedenis
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Simon & Schsuter
  • Verschijnt: 14 januari 2025
  • Omvang: 288 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 28.99 / $ 14.99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek over de tweede civil rights movement in Amerika

In this highly anticipated follow-up to Eyes on the Prize, bestselling author Juan Williams turns his attention to the rise of a new 21st-century civil rights movement.

More than a century of civil rights activism reached a mountaintop with the arrival of a Black man in the Oval Office. But hopes for a unified, post-racial America were deflated when Barack Obama’s presidency met with furious opposition. A white, right-wing backlash was brewing, and a volcanic new movement—a second civil rights movement—began to erupt.

In New Prize for These Eyes, award-winning author Juan Williams shines a light on this historic, new movement. Who are its heroes? Where is it headed? What fires, furies, and frustrations distinguish it from its predecessor?

In the 20th century, Black activists and their white allies called for equal rights and an end to segregation. They appealed to the Declaration of Independence’s defiant assertion that “all men are created equal.” They prioritized legal battles in the courtroom and legislative victories in Congress. Today’s movement is dealing with new realities. Demographic changes have placed progressive whites in a new role among the largest, youngest population of Blacks, Hispanics, and Asians in the nation’s history. The new generation is social media savvy, and they have an agenda fueled by discontent with systemic racism and the persistent scourge of police brutality. Today’s activists are making history in a new economic and cultural landscape, and they are using a new set of tools and strategies to do so.

Williams brilliantly traces the arc of this new civil rights era, from Obama to Charlottesville to January 6th and a Confederate flag in the Capitol. An essential read for activists, historians, and anyone passionate about America’s future, New Prize for These Eyes is more than a recounting of history. It is a forward-looking call to action, urging Americans to get in touch with the progress made and hurdles yet to be overcome.

Juan Williams was born on 10 April 1954 in Colón, Panama. He is a Panamanian-American prizewinning journalist and historian. He is the author of the bestselling civil rights history Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years 1954–1965, which accompanied the PBS series of the same name. He also wrote the landmark biography of the first African American on the Supreme Court, Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary, as well as the New York Times bestsellers Enough and Muzzled: The Assault on Honest Debate. Williams worked for The Washington Post as a celebrated national political correspondent, White House correspondent, and editorial writer. His NPR talk show took ratings to a new high. He has written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and Ebony. He is currently senior political analyst for Fox News Channel and a columnist for The Hill.

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Willem F. Korthals Altes – Nederlandse kolonisten in Amerika en de Liga der Irokezen

Willem F. Korthals Altes Nederlandse kolonisten in Amerika en de Liga der Irokezen recensie en informatie van de inhoud van het geschiedenisboek. Op 4 december 2024 verschijnt bij uitgeverij Walburg Pers het nieuwe boek van advocaat en rechter Willem F. Korthals Altes. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de schrijver en over de uitgave.

Willem F. Korthals Altes Nederlandse kolonisten in Amerika en de Liga der Irokezen recensie en informatie

Als er in de media een boekbespreking of recensie verschijnt van Nederlandse kolonisten in Amerika en de Liga der Irokezen, het boek van Willem F. Korthals Altes, dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.

Willem F. Korthals Altes Nederlandse kolonisten in Amerika en de Liga der Irokezen

Nederlandse kolonisten in Amerika en de Liga der Irokezen

  • Auteur: Willem F. Korthals Altes (Nederland)
  • Soort boek: geschiedenisboek
  • Uitgever: Walburg Pers
  • Verschijnt: 4 december 2024
  • Omvang: 144 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback
  • Prijs: € 20,00
  • Boek bestellen bij: Boekhandel / Bol

Flaptekst van het nieuwe boek van Willem F. Korthals Altes

De Nederlandse kolonisten noemden hen ‘wilden’ of ‘naturellen’, omdat zij naakt liepen en als jager-verzamelaars leefden. Maar zij hadden een samenleving met sterk ontwikkelde intermenselijke, organisatorische en juridische verhoudingen. De Liga der Irokezen of Iroquois of Haudenosaunee Confederacy was een uniek verbond van vijf stammen (naties) van Native Americans in de staat New York, dat van ongeveer 1450 tot de Amerikaanse revolutie heeft bestaan. De Nederlanders hebben vele jaren met Irokezen handelgedreven en samengeleefd. De ‘Five Nations’ hadden kenmerken van het Romeinse Rijk, maar kwamen door de invasie van Europeanen aan de ontwikkeling daarvan niet toe.

Wat zou er zijn gebeurd als de Europeanen het Noord-Amerikaanse continent later hadden ‘ontdekt’, of als de Founding Fathers van de Verenigde Staten elementen van de Iroquois Confederacy hadden overgenomen?

Willem F. Korthals Altes is geboren in 1949. Hij was advocaat, universitair docent en 25 jaar lang rechter. Hij heeft in New York gestudeerd en lesgegeven.

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Jill Lepore – Het beest Amerika

Jill Lepore Het beest Amerika recensie en informatie over het non-fictie boek over de Verenigde Staten van de Amerikaanse historicus. Op 8 oktober 2024 verschijnt bij Uitgeverij De Arbeiderspers de Nederlandse vertaling van The Beast America, de bundel met essays van de Amerikaanse schrijfster en historicus Jill Lepore. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur, de vertalers en over de uitgave.

Jill Lepore Het beest Amerika recensie en informatie

  • “Jill Lepore is niet alleen een van onze belangrijkste denkers, maar ook een van onze beste schrijvers.” (Los Angeles Times)
  • “Meesterlijke anatomie van het Amerika van nu.” (The New York Times)

Jill Lepore Het beest Amerika

Het beest Amerika

  • Auteur: Jill Lepore (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: essays
  • Origineel: The American Beast (2023)
  • Nederlandse vertaling: Rob Kuitenbrouwer, Frank Lekens
  • Uitgever: De Arbeiderspers
  • Verschijnt: 8 oktober 2024
  • Omvang: 304 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback
  • Boek bestellen bij: Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek over de Verenigde Staten van Jill Lepore

Amerika is in het afgelopen decennium ingrijpend veranderd. In twintig briljante beschouwingen ontrafelt Jill Lepore de tumultueuze troebelingen waaraan Amerika ten prooi is – in de politiek en daarbuiten. Culminatiepunt: het presidentschap van Donald Trump. Maar ook andere ontwikkelingen ontwrichten de Amerikaanse samenleving: de cultuurstrijd, het afbrokkelen van de traditionele media, de macht van (en angst voor) Big Tech, de constitutionele crises rond gender, abortus, wapenbezit, rassenhaat en geweld.

Met een scherp oog en een sensitieve pen laat Lepore zien waarom het Amerikaanse politieke landschap voorgoed is veranderd.

Jill Lepore (27 augustus 1966, West Boylston, Massachusetts) is hoogleraar Amerikaanse geschiedenis aan Harvard University en staff writer van The New Yorker. Ze publiceerde onder meer het bejubelde Deze waarheden. Een geschiedenis van de Verenigde Staten. Ze ontving de Hannah Ahrend Prize for Political Thought. Voor New York in brand werd ze genomineerd voor de Pulitzer Prijs.

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David Greenberg – John Lewis biografie

David Greenberg John Lewis biografie recensie, review en informatie boek over de Amerikaanse burgerrechtenactivist. Op 8 oktober 2024 verschijnt bij Simon & Schuster het boek over John Lewis, geschreven door David Greenberg. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van de biografie, de schrijver en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.

David Greenberg John Lewis biografie recensie, review en informatie

  • “John Lewis was my friend, steadfast ally, and personal hero. I loved him and miss him very much. Every page of David Greenberg’s biography brings him back to life with rich details that reveal not only his legendary moral compass, but the pressures and practical realities he maneuvered in both protest and politics.” (President Bill Clinton)
  • “Greenberg captures Lewis’ life, achievements, and times with heartstopping precision….a passionately researched and defining portrait of an American hero.” (Booklist)

David Greenberg John Lewis biografie

John Lewis

A Life

  • Auteur: David Greenberg (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: biografie
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Simon & Schuster
  • Verschijnt: 8 oktober 2024
  • Omvang: 704 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de biografie van John Lewis

A comprehensive, authoritative biography of Civil Rights icon John Lewis, “the conscience of the Congress,” drawing on interviews with Lewis and approximately 275 others who knew him at various stages of his life, as well as never-before-used FBI files and documents.

Born into poverty in rural Alabama, Lewis would become second only to Martin Luther King, Jr. in his contributions to the Civil Rights Movement. He was a Freedom Rider who helped to integrate bus stations in the South, a leader of the Nashville sit-in movement, the youngest speaker at the 1963 March on Washington, and the chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), which he made into one of the major civil rights organizations. He may be best remembered as the victim of a vicious beating by Alabama state troopers at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, where he nearly died.

Greenberg’s biography traces Lewis’s life through the post-Civil Rights years, when he headed the Voter Education Project, which enrolled millions of African American voters across the South. The book reveals the little-known story of his political ascent first locally in Atlanta, and then as a member of Congress. Tapped to be a part of the Democratic leadership in Congress, he earned respect on both sides of the aisle for the sacrifices he had made on behalf of nonviolent integration in the South and came to be known as the “conscience of the Congress.”

Thoroughly researched and dramatically told, Greenberg’s biography captures John Lewis’s influential career through documents from dozens of archives, interviews with hundreds of people who knew Lewis, and long-lost footage of Lewis himself speaking to reporters from his hospital bed following his severe beating on “Bloody Sunday” in Selma. With new details about his personal and professional relationships, John Lewis: A Life is the definitive biography of a man whose heroism during the Civil Rights movement helped to bring America a new birth of freedom.

David Greenberg is a professor of history and of journalism and media studies at Rutgers University and a frequent commentator on historical and political affairs. He is the author or editor of several books on American history and politics including Nixon’s Shadow: The History of an Image and Republic of Spin: An Inside History of the American Presidency. Formerly acting editor of The New Republic and then a columnist for Slate, Greenberg now writes regularly for Politico, Liberties, The New York Times, and The Washington Post. His work has also been featured in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Foreign Affairs, The Wall Street Journal, and numerous academic journals. In support of this book Greenberg won awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Cullman Center of the New York Public Library, and the Leon Levy Center for Biography. He holds a PhD in history from Columbia University and a BA from Yale and lives with his family in Manhattan.

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