Tag archieven: Cornell University Press

Egypte, Egyptische geschiedenis, Franse historicus, Geschiedenisboeken, Oudheid

Claude Traunecker – The Gods of Egypt

Claude Traunecker The Gods of Egypt review, recensie en informatie boek over de goden van het oude Egypte. Op 15 september 2025 verschijnt bij Cornell University Press de Engelse vertaling van het boek van de Franse Egyptoloog Claude Traunecker over de Goden van de Egyptenaren. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.

Claude Traunecker The Gods of Egypt review en recensie

  • “Although aiming to elucidate the confusing profusion of Egyptian gods and goddesses for a general reader, the book offers much that will be useful to more advanced students and scholars. The author is an expert on the subject and presents both historical scholarship and new interpretations.” (Denise Doxy, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Religious Studies Review)

Claude Traunecker The Gods of Egypt

The Gods of Egypt

  • Auteur: Claude Traunecker (Frankrijk)
  • Soort boek: boek over de goden van het oude Egypte
  • Origineel: Les dieux de l’Égypte (1992)
  • Engelse vertaling: David Lorton
  • Uitgever: Cornell University Press
  • Verschijnt: 15 september 2025
  • Omvang: 144 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / gebonden boek
  • Prijs: $ 29.95 / $ 19.95
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek van Claude Tranecker over de goden van Egypte

The Gods of Egypt, first published in France in 1992 and now in its third French edition, is a short, elegant, and highly accessible survey of ancient Egyptian religion. The clarity and brevity of Claude Traunecker’s book make it especially valuable to readers seeking an authoritative introduction to this complex topic.

The Cornell edition, the first English translation, is enhanced by 23 illustrations. Traunecker begins with an overview of the source materials and a discussion of the historiography of Egyptian religion, a subject relatively neglected by scholars. He then describes the actual and metaphysical worlds inhabited by the Egyptian deities and the role that humans played in the Egyptian universe. Focusing especially on the diversity and number of approaches used by Egyptians to explain their world, The Gods of Egypt offers a succinct and highly readable presentation of recent interpretations of Egyptian religion.

Claude Traunecker was born in 1943 in Mulhouse, France. He is one of the world’s foremost authorities on ancient Egyptian religion, is Professor Emeritus of Egyptology at the University of Strasbourg. He is the author of Coptos and coauthor of Karnak.

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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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Finland, Finse geschiedenis, Geschiedenisboeken, Sovjet-Unie

Gordon F. Sander – The Finnish Front Line

Gordon F. Sander The Finnish Front Line review, recensie en informatie boek over Kekkonen, Kennedy en Chroesjtsjovs in de Koude Oorlog. Op 15 december 2025 verschijnt bij Cornell University Press het boek van Gordon F. Sander over de geschiedenis van Finland in de Koude Oorlog. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Gordon F. Sander The Finnish Front Line review en recensie

  • “The Finnish Front Line adds a vital piece to our understanding of modern world history. It also provides a gripping account of the the greatest crisis in Finnish post-war history, the 1961 Note Crisis.” (Stephen Kinzer, author of Poisoner in Chief)
  • “With Finland on the minds of many observers of international politics, Sander’s thorough account of Finnish strategy during the Cold War is a timely contribution. Well-conceived, useful, and engaging.” (Simon Miles, author of Engaging the Evil Empire)

Gordon F. Sander The Finnish Front Line

The Finnish Front Line

Kekkonen, Kennedy, and Krushchev’s Cold War Showdown

  • Auteur: Gordon F. Sander
  • Soort boek: Finse geschiedenis, Koude Oorlog
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Cornell University Press
  • Verschijnt: 15 december 2025
  • Omvang: 416 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 34.95
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek over de geschiedenis van Finland in de Koude Oorlog

The Finnish Front Line is a historical biography of Urho Kekkonen, the eighth and longest-serving president of Finland. The most controversial as well as the most misunderstood figure in Finnish history, Kekkonen governed Finland for twenty-five years from 1956 to 1981.

Gordon F. Sander focuses on Kekkonen’s pivotal first term as president, which was bracketed by two crises that together formed the template for both Finland’s relationship with the Soviet Union from 1956 through the fall of the USSR, and Kekkonen’s own “special” relationship with Moscow: the Night Frost crisis of 1957, which derived from the Kremlin’s desire to exert greater influence on Finnish politics, and the Note Crisis of 1961, which coincided with the great Berlin crisis of 1961, and occurred when Moscow suddenly invoked the clause in the 1948 Finnish-Soviet treaty that entitled the Kremlin to call for mutual discussions between the Finnish and Soviet militaries and was perceived as a threat to Finnish independence. Thinking this might presage a Soviet invasion of Finland, a distressed Kekkonen was able to resolve the crisis by flying to Siberia to meet with his erstwhile friend Nikita Khrushchev—who may well have precipitated the crisis in order to insure Kekkonen’s reelection.

The Finnish Front Line centers an overlooked chapter of the Cold War as well as a revealing if forgotten chapter of the presidency of John Kennedy and his secret offer to help Kekkonen, which the latter rejected, ultimately to avoid making Finland into next front of the Cold War.

Gordon F. Sander is a journalist and historian and the author of several books about Finland and the Baltic region, including The Hundred Day Winter War and Off The Map. In 2017 he was knighted by President Sauli Niinisto for his contribution to international journalism and Finnish historiography. He is based in Riga.

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