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Amerikaanse geschiedenis, Amerikaanse historicus, Geschiedenisboeken, Slavernij

David McNally – Slavery and Capitalism

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

David McNally Slavery and Capitalism review en recensie

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

David McNally Slavery and Capitalism

Slavery and Capitalism

A New Marxist Theory

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

Flaptekst van het boek van David McNally over slavernij en kapitalisme

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

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

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

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

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Amerikaanse historicus, Arabische geschiedenis, Geschiedenisboeken

Michael Cook – A History of the Muslim World

Michael Cook A History of the Muslim World review, recensie en informatie boek over de geschiedenis van de Islam. Op 28 oktober 2025 verschijnt bij Princeton University Press het boek van de Professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Michael Cook A History of the Muslim World review en recensie

  • “Michael Cook has written a masterpiece that will inform and inspire generations of readers. Seldom has the history of the Muslim world been told so well.” (Roy P. Mottahedeh, Harvard University)
  • “Glorious … Necessarily a dense work, it is also delightful in its sheer scope and variety. This is especially true in a writer as witty as Cook, who sustains a breezy, Socratic style throughout … The payoff for writing a book this ambitious and successful is that, for anyone interested in the history of Islam, Cook is now a must-read.” (Andrew Bernard, Washington Examiner)
  • “A fascinating work. It is written in a lucid and witty style that always tempts you to carry on reading to the bottom of the page, and then to turn over to the next one.” (John McHugo, interLib)

Michael Cook A History of the Muslim World

A History of the Muslim World

From Its Origins to the Dawn of Modernity

  • Auteur: Michael Cook (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: geschiedenis van de moslimwereld
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Princeton University Press
  • Verschijnt: 28 oktober 2025
  • Omvang: 960 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 27.95
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van het boek over de geschiedenis van de moslimwereld

This book describes and explains the major events, personalities, conflicts, and convergences that have shaped the history of the Muslim world. The body of the book takes readers from the origins of Islam to the eve of the nineteenth century, and an epilogue continues the story to the present day. Michael Cook thus provides a broad history of a civilization remarkable for both its unity and diversity.

After setting the scene in the Middle East of late antiquity, the book depicts the rise of Islam as one of the great black swan events of history. It continues with the spectacular rise of the Caliphate, an empire that by the time it broke up had nurtured the formation of a new civilization. It then goes on to cover the diverse histories of all the major regions of the Muslim world, providing a wide-ranging account of the key military, political, and cultural developments that accompanied the eastward and westward spread of Islam from the Middle East to the shores of the Atlantic and the Pacific.

At the same time, A History of the Muslim World contains numerous primary-source quotations that expose the reader to a variety of acutely insightful voices from the Muslim past.

Michael Cook is the Class of 1943 University Professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University. His books include Ancient Religions, Modern Politics: The Islamic Case in Comparative Perspective (Princeton), A Brief History of the Human Race, and The Koran: A Very Short Introduction.

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Amerikaanse historicus, Geschiedenisboeken, Joden, Romeinen

Barry Strauss – Jews vs. Rome

Barry Strauss Jews vs. Rome review, recensie en informatie Engelstalig boek over twee eeuwen opstand tegen het machtigste rijk ter wereld. Op 19 augustus 2025 verschijnt bij Simon & Schuster het nieuwe boek van Barry Strauss, de Amerikaanse historicus die is gespecialiseerd in de militaire geschiedenis van de oudheid. Bij Uitgeverij Omniboek zal eind oktober 2025 de Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verschijnen met als titel Opstand in Judea.

Barry Strauss Jews vs. Rome review en recensie

  • “Historian Strauss hits another home run with this thorough account of the tumultuous relations between Rome and its most contentious subjects, the Jews, in ancient times … There is no better history of this important but little-known subject.” (Library Journal)
  • “Judaism as we know it today is not the Judaism of the Bible–it is the Judaism that emerged from the destruction of the Second Jewish Commonwealth at the hands of the Romans. As Barry Strauss illustrates in this riveting account, this pivotal period was defined by conflicting values and visions among Jews, corruption of their religious institutions, infighting when they could least afford it and much more that our own time eerily echoes. This stunning account leaves us with a much deeper understanding of not only the Jews’ past, but their present as well, and perhaps even their future.” (Daniel Gordis)

Jews vs. Rome

Two Centuries of Rebellion Against the World’s Mightiest Empire

  • Auteur: Barry Strauss (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Joodse geschiedenis, Romeinse geschiedenis
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Simon & Schuster
  • Verschijnt: 19 augustus 2025
  • Omvang: 394 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
  • Prijs: $ 29,99 / $ 14,99 / $ 29,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek Barry Strauss over het Joodse verzet tegen de Romeinen

A new history of two centuries of Jewish revolts against the Roman Empire, drawing on recent archeological discoveries and new scholarship by leading historian Barry Strauss.

Jews vs. Rome is a gripping account of one of the most momentous eras in human history: the two hundred years of ancient Israel’s battles against Rome that reshaped Judaism and gave rise to Christianity. Barry Strauss vividly captures the drama of this era, highlighting the courageous yet tragic uprisings, the geopolitical clash between the empires of Rome and Persia, and the internal conflicts among Jews.

Between 63 BCE and 136 CE, the Jewish people launched several revolts driven by deep-seated religious beliefs and resentment towards Roman rule. Judea, a province on Rome’s eastern fringe, became a focal point of tension and rebellion. Jews vs. Rome recounts the three major uprisings: the Great Revolt of 66–70 CE, which led to the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple, culminating in the Siege of Masada, where defenders chose mass suicide over surrender; the Diaspora Revolt, ignited by heavy taxes across the Empire; and the Bar Kokhba Revolt. We meet pivotal figures such as Simon Bar Kokhba but also some of those lesser-known women of the era like Berenice, a Jewish princess who played a major role in the politics of the Great Revolt and was improbably the love of Titus—Rome’s future emperor and the man who destroyed Jerusalem and the Temple.

Today, echoes of those battles resonate as the Jewish nation faces new challenges and conflicts. Jews vs. Rome offers a captivating narrative that connects the past with the present, appealing to anyone interested in Rome, Jewish history, or the compelling true tales of resilience and resistance.

Bij Uitgeverij Omniboek zal eind oktober 2025 de Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verschijnen met als titel Opstand in Judea.

Barry Strauss is born 27 November 1953 in New York City. He is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, the Bryce and Edith M. Bowmar Professor in Humanistic Studies Emeritus at Cornell University, and a leading expert on ancient military history. He has written or edited several books, including The War That Made the Roman Empire, The Battle of Salamis, The Trojan War, The Spartacus War, Masters of Command, The Death of Caesar, and Ten Caesars.

Een aantal van de boeken van Barry Strauss over de Romeinse en Griekse geschiedenis is in Nederlandse vertaling uitgegeven.

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Amerikaanse geschiedenis, Amerikaanse historicus

David McCullough – History Matters

David McCullough History Matters review, recensie en informatie boek met historische essays over de geschiedenis van de Verenigde Staten. Op 16 september 2025 verschijnt bij Simon & Schuster het laatste boek van David McCullough, de in 2022 overleden gezaghebbende Amerikaanse historicus en schrijver. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

David McCullough History Matters review en recensie

Als er in de media een boekbespreking, recensie of review verschijnt van History Matters, het laatste boek van David McCullough, dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.

David McCullough History Matters

History Matters

  • Auteur: David McCullough (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse geschiedenis
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Simon & Schuster
  • Verschijnt: 16 september 2025
  • Omvang: 192 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook /
  • Prijs: $ 27.00 / $ 12,99 / $ 18.99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het laatste boek van de Amerikaanse historicus David McCullough

In this posthumous collection of thought-provoking essays—many never published before—Pulitzer Prize–winning historian and bestselling author David McCullough affirms the value of history, how we can be guided by its lessons, and the enduring legacy of American ideals.

History Matters brings together selected essays by beloved historian David McCullough, some published here for the first time, written at different points over the course of his long career but all focused on the subject of his lifelong passion: the importance of history in understanding our present and future. Edited by McCullough’s daughter, Dorie McCullough Lawson, and his longtime researcher, Michael Hill, History Matters is a tribute to a master historian and offers fresh insights into McCullough’s enduring interests and writing life. The book also features a foreword by Jon Meacham.

McCullough highlights the importance of character in political leaders, with Harry Truman and George Washington serving as exemplars of American values like optimism and determination. He shares his early influences, from the books he cherished in his youth to the people who mentored him. He also pays homage to those who inspired him, such as writer Paul Horgan and painter Thomas Eakins, illustrating the diverse influences on his writing as well as the influence of art.

Rich with McCullough’s signature grace, curiosity, and narrative gifts, these essays offer vital lessons in viewing history through the eyes of its participants, a perspective that McCullough believed was crucial to understanding the present as well as the past. History Matters is testament to McCullough’s legacy as one of the great storytellers of this nation’s history and of the lasting promise of American ideals.

David McCullough was born on 7 July 1933 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He twice received the Pulitzer Prize, for Truman and John Adams, and twice received the National Book Award, for The Path Between the Seas and Mornings on Horseback. His other acclaimed books include The Johnstown Flood, The Great Bridge, Brave Companions, 1776, The Greater Journey, The American Spirit, The Wright Brothers, and The Pioneers. He was the recipient of numerous honors and awards, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian award. He died on 7 August 2022 in Hingham, Massachusetts, at the age of 89.

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Geschiedenisboeken, Rusland, Sovjet-Unie

Tricia Starks – Cigarettes and Soviets

Tricia Starks Cigarettes and Soviets review, recensie en informatie boek over roken in de Sovjet-Unie. Op 15 december 2025 verschijnt bij Cornell University Press het boek van de Amerikaanse historicus Tricia Starks. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Tricia Starks Cigarettes and Soviets review en recensie

  • “Cigarettes and Soviets makes important contributions to recent work on the global history of tobacco use, along with adding to our understanding of socialist consumption and everyday life. Most delightfully, Starks’s book demonstrates a keen understanding of Soviet visual culture in all its unex- pected and paradoxical dimensions, and her beautiful prose evokes the sights and smells of ordinary places in the USSR.” (Russian Review)
  • “Tricia Starks tells the story of tobacco and smoking during the Soviet period. But perhaps it is more accurate to say that she tells part of the history of the Soviet Union through the prism of smoking.” (Moscow Times)

Tricia Starks Cigarettes and Soviets

Cigarettes and Soviets

Smoking in the USSR

  • Auteur: Tricia Starks (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Sovjetgeschiedenis
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Cornell University Press
  • Verschijnt 15 december 2025
  • Omvang: 324 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 32.95
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst boek van Tricia Starks over roken in de Sovjet-Unie

Enriched by color reproductions of tobacco advertisements, packs, and antismoking propaganda, Cigarettes and Soviets provides a comprehensive study of the Soviet tobacco habit. Tricia Starks examines how the Soviets maintained the first mass smoking society in the world while simultaneously fighting it. The book is at once a study of Soviet tobacco deeply enmeshed in its social, political, and cultural context and an exploration of the global experience of the tobacco epidemic.

Starks examines the Soviet antipathy to tobacco yet capitulation to market; the development of innovative cessation techniques and clinics and the late entry into global antitobacco work; the seeming lack of cultural stimuli alongside massive use; and the expansion of smoking without the conventional prompts of capitalist markets. She tells the story of Philip Morris’s “Mission to Moscow” campaign for the Soviet market, the triumph of the quintessential capitalist product—the cigarette—in a communist system, and the successes and failures of the world’s first national antismoking campaign. The interplay of male habits and health against largely female tobacco producers and medical professionals adds a gendered dimension.

Smoking developed, continued, and grew in the Soviet Union without mass production, intensive advertising, seductive industrial design, or product ubiquity. The Soviets were early to condemn tobacco, and yet, by the end of the twentieth century Russians smoked more heavily than most most other nations in the world. Cigarettes and Soviets challenges interpretations of how tobacco use rose in the past and what leads to mass use today.

Tricia Starks is Director of the Humanities Center and Professor of History at the University of Arkansas. She is also the author of  Smoking under the Tsars.

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Amerikaanse historicus, Geneeskunde, Geschiedenisboeken, Gezondheid

Randall M. Packard – Fevered Cities

Randall M. Packard Fevered Cities review, recensie en informatie boek over de geschiedenis van Dengue epidemieën. Op 12 augustus 2025 verschijnt bij Johns Hopkins University Press van Randall M. Packerd, Emeritus Professor of the History of Medicine aan de Johns Hopkins University, over de geschiedenis van de Dengue, ook wel bekend als knokkelkoorts, epidemieën. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Randall M. Packard Fevered Cities review en recensie

  • “This lucid, well-researched book on the history of dengue fever integrates epidemiological, scientific, and phenomenological narratives. Ranging from the late eighteenth century to the present, Packard illuminates the damningly complex nature of the disease and how local conditions in different urban settings shaped the dynamics of dengue outbreaks. Fevered Cities makes a seminal contribution to global health history.” (James L. A. Webb, Jr., auteur van The Guts of the Matter)
  • “Randall Packard provides a thorough historical analysis of the epidemiological, scientific, and phenomenological dimensions of a major global disease, alongside the evolution of public health responses to epidemics. This remarkable book illuminates the natural, social, and economic factors shaping epidemic outbreaks and how these events have been understood and experienced across different contexts.” (Marcos Cueto, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), Rio de Janeiro)

Randall M. Packard Fevered Cities

Fevered Cities

A History of Dengue Epidemics

  • Auteur: Randall M. Packard (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: geschiedenisboek over Dengue
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Johns Hopkins University Press
  • Verschijnt: 12 augustus 2025
  • Omvang: 368 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 39,95
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek over de geschiedenis van de ziekte Dengue

A global history of dengue fever and humanity’s ongoing struggle against this persistent disease.

In Fevered Cities, Randall M. Packard explores the complex and evolving history of dengue fever, the world’s most widespread mosquito-borne viral disease. From its early manifestations in the eighteenth century to its current prevalence across more than one hundred countries, this book traces how dengue emerged as a global health challenge shaped by ecological, social, and economic conditions.

Packard examines the disease’s spread through urban landscapes, focusing on specific cities like Philadelphia, Manila, Havana, and Rio de Janeiro to illustrate how local contexts have defined outbreaks and responses. He highlights the transformation of dengue from a poorly understood physiological ailment to a vector-borne disease tied to the Aedes aegypti mosquito, and later to more severe conditions like dengue hemorrhagic fever. As climate change expands the geographical range of mosquito habitats and global trade accelerates the movement of people and goods, this book explores the social inequities, unplanned urbanization, and environmental degradation that have made dengue increasingly difficult to control.

From vector control campaigns to cutting-edge biotechnologies like genetically modified mosquitoes and vaccines, Packard charts humanity’s attempts to combat this tenacious disease. Fevered Cities is an essential history for public health experts, historians, and anyone concerned with the intersection of disease, society, and the built environment.

Randall M. Packard is Emeritus Professor of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of White Plague, Black Labor: Tuberculosis and the Political Economy of Health and Disease in South Africa, The Making of a Tropical Disease: A Short History of Malaria, A History of Global Health: Interventions into the Lives of Other Peoples and coeditor of Emerging Illnesses and Society: Negotiating the Public Health Agenda.

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Amerikaanse historicus, Japan, Japanse geschiedenis

Gregory Smits – The Ryukyu Islands

Gregory Smits The Ryukyu Islands review, recensie en informatie boek over de geschiedenis van Okinawa en de Japanse Riukiu-eilanden van de steentijd tot het heden. Op 24 november 2025 verschijnt bij The University of Chicago Press het boek van Gregory Smits de Amerikaanse historicus en professor Aziatische Studies aan de Penn State Universiteit over de geschiedenis van de Riukiu-eilanden. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Gregory Smits The Ryukyu Islands review en recensie

  • “The Ryukyu Islands is well researched, insightful, and informative. With an accessible prose style, it is a perfect book for scholars focused on Okinawan/Ryukyuan history, but it will also be of interest to anyone exploring Japanese history and East Asia.” (Mark McNally, University of Hawaii at Manoa)
  • “The Ryukyu Islands is one of the most outstanding monographs on the history of Okinawa. Smits not only engages with, but also challenges squarely, the canonical texts and established understanding of Ryukyu and Okinawa. Relevant both academically and at the current historical and political juncture, Smits’s book will surely be celebrated as his magnum opus.” “Shinnosuke Takahashi, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)

Gregory Smits The Ryukyu Islands

The Ryukyu Islands

A New History from the Stone Age to the Present

  • Auteur: Gregory Smits (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: geschiedenis van Okinawa en de Japanse Riukiu-eilanden
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: The University of Chicago Press
  • Verschijnt: 24 november 2025
  • Omvang: 464 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 35,00
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek over de geschiedenis van Okinawa en de Riukiu-eilanden

The first comprehensive history of the Ryukyu Islands region in English.

The Ryukyu Islands between Japan and Taiwan consist of around 160 islands and are home to about 1.5 million inhabitants. Across the islands’ history, sea-lanes and trade patterns have connected them to the East China Sea region, giving them a unique vantage point on the region’s changes and making them a useful lens through which to view and understand those transformations.

In this book, Gregory Smits marshals his expertise to canvass the environmental, political, and social history of this fascinating area, emphasizing the diversity of influences from China, Japan, and Korea that have shaped it. Smits begins by tracing the islands’ early history from the time of the oldest extant human remains, through massive inflows of settlers from Japan, until the emergence of a centralized state in the sixteenth century. He then traces the development of the Ryukyu Kingdom from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century, examining its major cultural formations and the interplay of local and external influences driving its evolution. Finally, Smits ushers readers to the modern era, from the end of the Ryukyu Kingdom in 1879 through World War II, the era of American military control, and on to the present. He concludes with their present-day status as a tourist destination affected by ongoing geopolitical, economic, and environmental challenges. Synthesizing decades of research, this book is an indispensable, comprehensive guide to the islands’ history for scholars and nonspecialists alike.

Gregory Smits is professor of history and Asian Studies at Penn State University. He is the author of several books, including, most recently, Early Ryukyuan History: A New Model.

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Culinaire boeken, Japan, Japanse geschiedenis

Eric C. Rath – Kampai The History of Sake

Eric C. Rath Kampai The History of Sake recensie, review en informatie boek over de geschiedenis Japanse drank en de betekenis voor het land. Op 1 oktober 2025 verschijnt bij Reaktion Books het boek van de Amerikaanse professor Eric C. Rath over de geschiedenis van de sterke drank uit Japan. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.

Eric C. Rath Kampai The History of Sake recensie en review

  • “Japan’s national beverage has achieved global renown, but its origins and practices are still shrouded in mystery. For those who want to learn more about sake, there can be no better guide than Eric C. Rath. This authoritative and entertaining book leads us from the drinking games of medieval samurai to the rope curtains of modern izakaya.” (Jeffrey M. Pilcher, University of Toronto)

Eric C. Rath Kampai The History of Sake

Kampai

The History of Sake

  • Auteur: Eric C. Rath (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: culinaire geschiedenis, Japanse geschiedenis
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Reaktion Books
  • Verschijnt: 1 oktober 2025
  • Omvang: 352 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: £ 17,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek over de geschiedenis van Sake, de drank uit Japan

Explores the evolution, history, cultural significance and global rise of Japan’s national drink.

Sake, Japan’s iconic rice-based alcoholic drink, has been central to Japanese culture for over 1,300 years. Traditionally made with rice, water and kōji mould, it was consumed in early brewpubs and was vital to samurai rituals and festivals. Sake’s story includes homebrewers like clan matriarchs, ancient princes and modern political activists who defied laws to keep homebrewing alive. Temples refined sake-making techniques, laying the foundation for a thriving industry that became a major economic force for shoguns and the modern state.

Kanpai is the first history of sake in English, exploring its evolution from homebrew to flavoured varieties, its cultural significance and global rise, including its growing popularity and production in North America and Europe. The book also shows how sake has shaped Japanese food, society and traditions.

Eric C. Rath is Professor of History at the University of Kansas. His books include Oishii: The History of Sushi (Reaktion Books, 2021).

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Amerikaanse historicus, Geschiedenisboeken, Middeleeuwen

Kirsten Wolf – 24 uur bij de Vikingen

Kirsten Wolf 24 uur bij de Vikingen recensie en informatie geschiedenisboek over het leven in het Middeleeuwse Noorden. Op 6 maart 2025 verschijnt bij Uitgeverij Noordboek het nieuwe boek over de Vikingen, geschreven door de Amerikaanse historicus Kirsten Wolf. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave.

Kirsten Wolf 24 uur bij de Vikingen recensie en informatie

Als er in de media een boekbespreking of recensie verschijnt van 24 uur bij de Vikingen, geschreven door de Amerikaanse historicus Kirsten Wolf, dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.

Kirsten Wolf 24 uur bij de Vikingen

24 Uur bij de Vikingen

Het leven in het Middeleeuwse Noorden

  • Auteur: Kirsten Wolf (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: geschiedenisboek
  • Origineel: 24 Hours in the Viking World (2024)
  • Nederlandse vertaling: Joost Mulder
  • Uitgever: Noordboek
  • Verschijnt: 6 maart 2025
  • Omvang: 256 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback
  • Prijs: € 21,90
  • Boek bestellen bij: Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek over hoe de Vikingen leefden

In dit deel van de 24 uur-serie bekijken we het dagelijks leven van de Vikingen. Deze zeelieden staan bekend als gewelddadige plunderaars, maar dat is maar een deel van het verhaal. In het middeleeuwse Scandinavië vonden enorme politieke, technologische en religieuze veranderingen plaats.

Vikingexpert Kirsten Wolf laat ons kennismaken met 24 verschillende personages, van koningen, krijgers en scheepsbouwers – hoe werden de gevreesde Vikingschepen gebouwd – tot boeren, bakkers, vrouwelijke strijders, dichters en runensnijders. Door hen een dag te volgen krijgen we een goed beeld van het leven in deze complexe en zeer invloedrijke samenleving die we eigenlijk niet echt goed kennen.

Kirsten Wolf doceert Oudnoorse/ IJslandse taal en letterkunde en Scandinavische taalwetenschap aan de University of Wisconsin-Madison en heeft haar doctoraat behaald aan het University College London. Ze heeft al een aantal boeken over de Vikingen op haar naam staan.

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Amerikaans historicus, Geschiedenisboeken, Nederlandse geschiedenis, New York

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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