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Slavernij, Amerikaanse geschiedenis, Psychiatrie

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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Ruimtevaart, Amerikaanse geschiedenis, Fotoboek, Verenigde Staten

J.L. Pickering & John Bisney – Apollo 1 in Photographs

J.L. Pickering & John Bisney Apollo 1 in Photographs review, recensie en informatie nieuw ruimtevaartboek over de tragedie in 1967. Op 28 oktober 2025 verschijnt bij Schiffer Publishing het boek in de reeks The Apollo Photo Archive over de Apollo 1 die 27 januari 1967 door brand werd verwoest en waarbij gezagvoerder Virgil Grissom, senior-piloot Ed White en piloot Roger Chaffee om het leven kwamen.

J.L. Pickering & John Bisney Apollo 1 in Photographs review en recensie

Als er in de media een boekbespreking, recensie of review verschijnt van Apollo 1 in Photographs, het boek van J.L. Pickering en John Bisney en het eerste deel in de Apollo Photo Archive reeks, dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.

J.L. Pickering & John Bisney Apollo 1 in Photographs

Apollo 1 in Photographs

The Apollo Photo Archive 1

  • Auteurs: J.L. Pickering, John Bisney (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: ruimtevaartboek, fotoboek
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Schiffer Publishing
  • Verschijnt: 28 oktober 2025
  • Omvang: 272 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek
  • Prijs: $ 49,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek over ruimtevaartuig Apollo 1

A detailed visual record of the Apollo 1 tragedy, written by J.L. Pickering, John Bisney and with Ed Hengeveld.

The Apollo Photo Archive series comprises the most comprehensive pictorial record of America’s moon-landing program ever published.

In January 1967, the Apollo 1 command module caught fire on the launchpad, claiming the lives of astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee. Apollo 1, expected to be a triumphant first manned mission for the program, thus ended in tragedy and devastation.

With more than 500 photos, this volume includes the arrival and assembly of the rocket and spacecraft, crew selection and training, preflight activities, the launchpad fire, and subsequent investigation.

J.L. Pickering & John Bisney Apollo 7 in Photographs reviewJ.L. Pickering & John Bisney – Apollo 2 in Photographs
The Apollo Photo Archive 2
ruimtevaartboek
Uitgever: Schiffer Publishing
Verschijnt: 28 oktober 2025

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Muziek, Amerikaanse geschiedenis, Jazzmuziek

John Gennari – The Jazz Barn

John Gennari The Jazz Barn review, recensie en informatie boek over de Music Inn, de Berkshires en de plaats van jazz in het Amerikaanse leven. Op 15 oktober 2025 verschijnt bij Brandeis University Press het boek van John Gennari over hoe Lenox een klein stadje in New England een thuishaven voor Amerikaanse jazz werd. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek beschikbaar.

John Gennari The Jazz Barn review en recensie

  • “A brilliant meditation on art, place, and the political imagination as they entwined to the sound of jazz in postwar New England. Dazzling cultural analysis slyly delivered as a lively untold story.” (David Hajdu)

John Gennari The Jazz Barn

The Jazz Barn

Music Inn, the Berkshires, and the Place of Jazz in American Life

  • Auteur: John Gennari (Verenigde Staten)
  • Foto’s: Clemens Kalischer
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Brandeis University Press
  • Verschijnt: 15 oktober 2025
  • Omvang: 254 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek
  • Prijs: $ 35,00
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek over het thuis van de jazz in New England

How a small town in New England became a home for jazz, challenging conventional assumptions about the relationship between culture and landscape, art and geography, town and city, and race and place.

This is a book about what happened in the 1950s in a barn, an icehouse, and a greenhouse in the verdant Berkshire Hills of western Massachusetts. Against the backdrop of McCarthyism, the civil rights movement, the expansion of the Afro-Caribbean diaspora, and postwar cultural tourism, two New Yorkers bought part of a sprawling estate in Lenox, where they converted an old barn and other outbuildings into an inn that could host musical performances and seminars. The Berkshire Music Barn went on to host jazz greats like Duke Ellington, Dave Brubeck, and Billie Holiday, as well as jazz roundtables grounded in folkloric approaches to the music.

The Jazz Barn explores the cultural significance of venues like the Berkshire Music Barn and later the Lenox School of Jazz to tell a surprising story about race, culture, and place. John Gennari explores how a predominantly white New England town became a haven for African American musicians, and reveals the Berkshires as an important incubator not just of American literature and classical music but also of the Modern Jazz Quartet and Ornette Coleman’s “new thing.” The Berkshire Music Barn became a crucial space for the mainstreaming of jazz. By the late 1950s, the School of Jazz was an epicenter of the genre’s avant-garde.

Richly illustrated with the photographs of Clemens Kalischer among others, The Jazz Barn demonstrates that the locations where jazz is played and heard indelibly shape the music and its meanings.

John Gennari is professor of English and critical race and ethnic studies at the University of Vermont. He is the author of Flavor and Soul: Italian America at Its African American Edge and Blowin’ Hot and Cool: Jazz and Its Critics.

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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, 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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Afrikaanse geschiedenis, Afrikaanse politiek, Verenigde Staten

Dennis R. McBride – A City on the Edge

Dennis R. McBride A City on the Edge review, recensie en informatie boek over de Amerikaanse stad in tijden van pandemie, protest en polarisatie. Op 30 september 2025 verschijnt bij Indiana University Press het boek van Dennis R. McBride, burgemeester van Wauwatosa in Wisconsin en voormalig journalist over de situatie in Amerikaanse steden in 2020. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Dennis R. McBride A City on the Edge review en recensie

Als er in de media een boekbespreking, recensie of review verschijnt van A City on the Edge, Pandemic, Protest, and Polarization, het boek geschreven door Dennis R. McBride, dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.

Dennis R. McBride A City on the Edge

A City on the Edge

Pandemic, Protest, and Polarization

  • Auteur: Dennis R. McBride (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: recente Amerikaanse geschiedenis
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Indiana University Press
  • Verschijnt 30 september 2025
  • Omvang: 314 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 35,00 / $ 60,00
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek van Dennis McBride over Amerika in 2020

Some years change the course of history. 2020 was one of those years.

As a pandemic, lockdowns, and an economic downturn convulsed America, police shootings of George Floyd and other African Americans touched off the largest protest movement in U.S. history. At the same time, mass shootings soared; many states saw unprecedented increases in gun-related incidents. Churning in the background were a bitter presidential election campaign and counterprotests opposing public health measures and the election result itself.

Mayors of cities big and small struggled with some of these challenges, but Dennis McBride, the new mayor of a mid-sized, mostly-White suburb bordered by the majority-minority City of Milwaukee—called the “heartland of the heartland”—faced them all. His city, a microcosm of a troubled America, teetered on the verge of anarchy while playing a crucial role in the presidential election. A City on the Edge is the gripping story of how he and other mayors have steered America’s hometowns through a storm of personal and political divisions.

Though the chaos of 2020 has gradually subsided, it is still reverberating in the nation’s economy, politics, and psyche. The changes sparked by the events of that historic year continue to vex mayors and their communities. Americans and their leaders are searching for a new equilibrium. That balance will be found first in our hometowns. A City on the Edge offers a path forward.

Dennis R. McBride is the mayor of Wauwatosa, Wisconsin and co-author of The Luckiest Boy in the World. He holds a journalism degree from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, a master of public administration degree from Princeton University, and a law degree from New York University.

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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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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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