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John Haywood – Atlas van de middeleeuwen

John Haywood Atlas van de middeleeuwen recensie, review en informatie geschiedenisboek over de ontwikkeling van Europa 476-1000. Op 26 februari 2026 verschijnt bij Uitgeverij Omniboek de Nederlandse vertaling van The Making of the Middle Ages, het boek van John Haywood, de Britse historicus. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave.

John Haywood Atlas van de middeleeuwen recensies en reviews

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John Haywood Atlas van de middeleeuwen

Atlas van de middeleeuwen

De ontwikkeling van Europa 476-1000

  • Auteur: John Haywood (Engeland)
  • Voorwoord: Michael Wood
  • Soort boek: geschiedenisboek, historische atlas
  • Origineel: The Making of the Middle Ages (2026)
  • Nederlandse vertaling: Linda Broeder, Jeske Nelisse
  • Uitgever: Omniboek
  • Verschijnt: 26 februari 2026
  • Omvang: 352 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek
  • Prijs: € 34,99
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Flaptekst van het boek van John Haywood over de Middeleeuwen

Onmisbare gids voor iedereen die inzicht wil krijgen in één van de meest dynamische maar vaak verkeerd begrepen tijdperken uit de geschiedenis.

Middeleeuws Europa werd lange tijd gezien als een tijd van duisternis en verval. Maar achter dit hardnekkige cliché gaat een periode van diepgaande verandering en vernieuwing schuil. Tussen 476 en 1000 n.Chr. voltrok zich een ingrijpende transformatie: oude rijken brokkelden af, nieuwe machten stonden op, religies verspreidden zich en de fundamenten van het moderne Europa werden gelegd.

In Atlas van de middeleeuwen brengt de gerenommeerde historicus John Haywood met behulp van 85 levendige, gedetailleerde kaarten deze fascinerende wereld tot leven.

John Haywood is geboren op 8 maart 1956. Hij is een Britse historicus en schrijver, gespecialiseerd in de vroegmiddeleeuwse geschiedenis van Europa. Bij Uitgeverij Omniboek publiceerde hij onder meer Achter de horizon en Noormannen.

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A.G. Hopkins – The Land Where Nothing Works

A.G. Hopkins The Land Where Nothing Works review and information book about How Britain Lost the Plot. Princeton University Press will publish the book on Britain’s current malaise, written by A.G. Hopkins, the British historian, on April 14, 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

A.G. Hopkins The Land Where Nothing Works reviews

Whenever a review of The Land Where Nothing Works, How Britain Lost the Plot, the book written by A.G. Hopkins, appears in the media, we’ll highlight it on this page.

  • “The Land Where Nothing Works badly needed writing. Drawing on wide-ranging statistical evidence and writing with passion and flashes of (on occasion) laugh-out-loud dark humour, A. G. Hopkins succeeds in making his case that British decline since the end of the 1970s has been dramatic on just about every internationally accepted standard of measurement. This book, the work of one of our most distinguished and experienced modern historians, deserves to be widely read by all those keen to discover how Britain became the dysfunctional society it is today—and how its vertiginous decline might be reversed.” (Scott Newton, Cardiff University)
  • “In The Land where Nothing Works, A. G. Hopkins, one of our most eminent historians of empire, traces a fascinating story of how Britain arrived at its current broken state. He combines a pithy, even racy, writing style with outstanding academic scholarship. He has covered a remarkable breadth of literature, from recent decades of journalism to highly reputable and thorough academic research. He has digested and synthesised this material with new insights into a coherent and fascinating account of Britain’s relative economic and social decline. For a time in the 1970s, Britain was labelled the ‘sick man of Europe.’ The ‘Thatcher revolution’ was meant to be a cure. Hopkins explains in clear and accessible language how and why the cure failed. The book is essential reading for all who worry that this failure could trigger Britain’s slide into a populist dystopia.” (John Muellbauer, University of Oxford)
  • “Long-established as a preeminent scholar of empire, A. G. Hopkins has turned his attention to postwar Britain. In what he asserts will be his last book, he dissects the problems of the last seventy years with characteristic verve and insight. While inescapably controversial, his diagnosis will undoubtedly have a big impact on how we think about the political economy of modern Britain.” (Jim Tomlinson, University of Glasgow)

A.G. Hopkins The Land Where Nothing Works

The Land Where Nothing Works

How Britain Lost the Plot

  • Author: A.G. Hopkins (Engeland)
  • Book type: book about Britain
  • Publisher: Princeton University Press
  • To be released: April 14, 2026
  • Length: 288 pages
  • Format: hardback / ebook
  • Prize: £ 25.00
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Blurb of the book by A.G. Hopkins on Britain’s current malaise

Tracing the origins of Britain’s current malaise to the abandonment of social democracy.

What has happened to Britain? As drivers on its roads can attest, it is the pothole capital of Europe. Once-beautiful towns now feature peeling paint, weeds, and broken railings. Public services are no longer fit for purpose. A malaise seems to infect every aspect of British life: its economy, polity, social order, sense of well-being, domestic regional relationships, and place in the world.

In The Land Where Nothing Works, the distinguished historian A. G. Hopkins offers an explanation, tracing Britain’s current problems to decisions made in the 1980s that abandoned its postwar experiment in social democracy and mimicked policies of deregulation and privatisation promoted by the United States.

In 1945, the new Labour government’s development programme aimed at creating a social democracy that would benefit all members of society. The counterrevolution launched by Margaret Thatcher’s government in 1979, which remains in force today, promoted individualism and deregulation. The transition from one programme to another was a response to the growth of finance and services centred on the City of London, and to decolonisation, which redirected trade to Europe. The expansion of credit led to the financial crisis of 2008 and the years of austerity that followed, and fuelled the populist movement that culminated in Brexit. Hopkins argues that, instead of following the free-market policies of its mentor, the United States, Britain should draw on its own history of social democracy and borrow from its neighbours in Europe, where communitarian principles continue to be upheld.

Antony Gerald Hopkins was born 21 February 1938. is a British historian specialising in the economic history of Africa, European colonialism, and globalisation. He is Emeritus Smuts Professor of Commonwealth History at the University of Cambridge, an Emeritus Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge and a fellow of the British Academy.

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Elizabeth Drayson – Erfgoed van Europa

Elizabeth Drayson Erfgoed van Europa recensie, review en informatie boek over hoe de islam onze geschiedenis smeedde. Op 12 maart 2026 verschijnt bij Uitgeverij Spectrum de Nederlandse vertaling van Crucible of Light, het geschiedenisboek van de emeritus hoogleraar Spaans aan Cambridge University. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave.

Elizabeth Drayson Erfgoed van Europa recensies en reviews

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  • “Absoluut fascinerend. In een tijd waarin historisch christelijk nationalisme en chauvinisme terrein winnen, is dit boek een essentiële correctie.” (Andrew Copson, Chief Executive van Humanists UK)
  • “Een prachtig boek, dat de vaak verkeerd begrepen, vaak onderbelichte, maar buitengewoon rijke verwevenheid van de islamitische en Europese cultuur gedurende bijna anderhalf millennium onderzoekt.” (Rebecca Wragg Sykes)

Elizabeth Drayson Erfgoed van Europa

Erfgoed van Europa

Hoe de islam onze geschiedenis smeedde

  • Auteur: Elizabeth Drayson (Engeland)
  • Soort boek: Europese geschiedenis
  • Origineel: Crucible of Light (2025)
  • Uitgever: Spectrum
  • Verschijnt: 12 maart 2026
  • Omvang: 624 pagina’s
  • Afmetingen: 15 x 23 cm
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek /  ebook
  • Prijs: € 49,99 / € 19,99
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Flaptekst geschiedenisboek over de invloed van de Islam op Europa van Elizabeth Drayson

Een nieuwe kijk op hoe de islam de Europese geschiedenis beïnvloedde.

Een haarscherp overzicht van de laatste dertien eeuwen Europese geschiedenis, waarin Britse historicus Elizabeth Drayson de geschiedenis van de moslim- en christelijke wereld samenbrengt.

Van Mekka tot Cordoba, van Damascus tot Venetie en van Wenen tot Istanbul: belangrijke keerpunten en plaatsen komen in Erfgoed van Europa aan bod. Er zijn nogal wat thema’s die de islam en Europa verenigen: klassieke kennis bewaard in islamitische bibliotheken, de invloed van Moorse architectuur, gedeelde culinaire tradities en de goederen die we verhandelden. Drayson reist langs Spaanse patio’s en paleizen, maar ook langs door het Ottomaanse Rijk geinspireerde koffiehuizen in het 17e-eeuwse Londen. Het resultaat is een uniek beeld van de Europese identiteit, die altijd in beweging is gebleven.

Elizabeth Drayson is emeritus hoogleraar Spaans aan Cambridge University, waar ze gespecialiseerd is in middeleeuwse literatuur en culturele geschiedenis. Eerder publiceerde ze onder andere The Moor’s Last Stand en Lost Paradise: The story of Granada.

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T.P. Wiseman – The Lost History of Roman Theatre

T.P. Wiseman The Lost History of Roman Theatre review, recensie en informatie boek over de vergeten geschiedenis van het Romeinse theater. Op 25 november 2025 verschijnt bij Princeton University Press het boek van T.P. Wiseman, de Britse professor en historicus oude geschiedenis aan de University of Exeter. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

T.P. Wiseman The Lost History of Roman Theatre review en recensie

  • “Peter Wiseman has been writing brilliantly about Roman literary culture for over fifty years, and this latest book is no exception: his views on the history of Roman theatre are challenging and controversial, and this will be a landmark publication in the field.” (Christopher Pelling, University of Oxford)
  • “Peter Wiseman’s book, drawing on a wealth of textual and material evidence, offers a characteristically learned and provocative reimagining of Roman theatrical traditions. This collection of studies will be essential reading for anyone interested in the place of theatre in Roman society.” (Catherine Edwards, author of Death in Ancient Rome)
  • “In this book, Peter Wiseman blends meticulous scholarship with disciplined historical imagination to throw light on different aspects of the history of Roman theatre. The picture that emerges is convincing and illuminating.” (Armand D’Angour, author of How to Innovate: An Ancient Guide to Creative Thinking)

T.P. Wiseman The Lost History of Roman Theatre

The Lost History of Roman Theatre

  • Auteur: T.P. Wiseman (Engeland)
  • Soort boek: Romeinse geschiedenis, theatergeschiedenis
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Princeton University Press
  • Verschijnt: 25 november 2025
  • Omvang: 328 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 45,00
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van het boek over het theater van de Romeinen

Theatre was an integral part of Roman civic, religious and political life for nearly a thousand years, but our understanding of it is skewed by the haphazard survival of usable evidence. The widely accepted date for the beginning of Roman drama is 240 BC, but that is only the date of the first known dramatic works. Theatre as a public spectacle was created in Athens and in Greek Sicily at the end of the sixth century BC, when the culture of Rome, to judge by the archaeological evidence, was itself thoroughly Greek. There is therefore no need to imagine that the Romans knew nothing of drama until centuries after its inception. In The Lost History of Roman Theatre, the distinguished classics scholar T. P. Wiseman reexamines the often-obscured origins of Roman theatre.

In a series of detailed investigations, Wiseman explores material ignored or inadequately treated in the modern literature, including previously overlooked information in Cicero’s letters, speeches and dialogues about what theatre meant to Romans of his era. He further shows that the various styles of drama presented on the Roman stage were listed by grammarians in late antiquity who were using well-informed histories of drama now lost, and brings to light a wide range of evidence, visual as well as textual, from all that thousand-year stretch of time, to offer a new sense of the range and richness of the Romans’ experience of theatre.

Timothy Peter Wiseman was born on 3 February 1940 in England. He has been professor of classics and ancient history at the University of Exeter for nearly fifty years. He is the author of Catullus and His World, The Roman Audience, The House of Augustus and many other well-known works. In 2022 he was awarded the British Academy’s Kenyon Medal for classical studies.

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Islam, China, Chinese geschiedenis

Rian Thum – Islamic China

Rian Thum Islamic China review, recensie en informatie boek over de geschiedenis van de Islam in China. Op 25 november 2025 verschijnt bij Harvard University Press het boek van Rian Thum, Senior Lecturer in East Asian History aan de University of Manchester, over de geschiedenis van de Islam in China. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Rian Thum Islamic China review en recensie

  • “Beautifully written and on the cutting edge of scholarship, Islamic China is the rare book that is perfect for both those new to the subject and those deeply immersed in it.” (Valerie Hansen, author of The Year 1000: When Globalization Began)

Rian Thum Islamic China

Islamic China

An Asian History

  • Auteur: Rian Thum
  • Soort boek: Chinese geschiedenis, Islamitische geschiedenis
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Harvard University Press
  • Verschijnt: 25 november 2025
  • Omvang: 304 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst boek over de geschiedenis van de islam in China

A deeply learned reassessment of the history of Chinese Muslims, who since the fourteenth century have been subject to a constant program of minoritization.

For more than a millennium, Islam has been a Chinese religion, and native-born Chinese Muslims have played important roles in their homeland—as butchers, merchants, and farmers; diplomats, scholar-officials, and royal astronomers. Yet the Muslims of China have often been understood as inherently foreign, incompatible with Chinese culture. In this reappraisal, Rian Thum recaptures the ordinariness of Chinese Muslims. In doing so, he suggests that these communities, whose classification has so often been seen as problematic, can teach us about the ways social categories are made and maintained in the first place.

Firmly rooted in Chinese and long-neglected Perso-Arabic sources, Islamic China traces the interlinked histories of twenty Chinese Muslims, some famous and some obscure, spread across multiple ethnicities, sects, and centuries. Their stories—emphasizing the diversity of Chinese Muslim communities and their continuous exchanges with other groups both within and beyond China—cut through the flattening narratives that have obscured China’s Muslim heritage. Taken together, the experiences chronicled here offer a fresh view of Islamic China, stretching across Central, Southeast, and South Asia—and of China itself.

While focused on the Ming, Qing, and early Republican eras, Thum also harkens back to earlier centuries and traces the inheritances of this history to the present. Islamic China makes the compelling argument that the abstractions brought to bear on the past have practical implications in today’s People’s Republic of China, where the state enforces an oppressive regime of differentiation and control aimed broadly at Muslims and is routinely exposed for atrocities committed against particular subgroups.

Rian Thum is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Manchester. A contributor to the New York Times, the Washington Post, and The Nation, he is the author of The Sacred Routes of Uyghur History, winner of the Fairbank Prize for East Asian History from the American Historical Association and the Hsu Prize for East Asian Anthropology from the American Anthropological Association.

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Martin Dufferwiel – Northumbria’s Bloody History

Martin Dufferwiel Northumbria’s Bloody History review and information. History Press will publish this book by Martin Dufferwiel, the British historian on November 6 in 2025. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

Martin Dufferwiel Northumbria’s Bloody History review

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Martin Dufferwiel Northumbria's Bloody History

Northumbria’s Bloody History

  • Author: Martin Dufferwiel (United Kingdom)
  • Book type: Northumbria’s history, English history
  • Publisher: The History Press
  • To be released: November 6, 2025
  • Length: 192 pages
  • Format: paperback / ebook
  • Prize: £ 16.99
  • Order book from: Amazon / Bol

Blurb of the book about the history of Northumbria

From the Tees to the Tweed, from Barnard Castle to Berwick and from Hartlepool to Haltwhistle, the North East of England holds a long history and unique heritage. Many have fought and spilled blood on our soil – Roman legions, Dark-Age war lords, Viking raiders, Norman invaders, reivers and rebels; three centuries of cross-border conflict with Scotland changed the course of not just regional but national history.

Historical figures such as Ida the Flamebearer, Aethelfrith the Destroyer, William Wallace and Harry Hotspur all feature, but the sound and fury of arms and armour has largely drowned out the voices of ordinary people and individuals whose names have been lost to history. To this end, Northumbria’s Bloody History also includes accounts of random acts of everyday violence, the ravages of the Black Death and the cruelties of religious persecution in the land which once formed the heart of ancient Northumbria.

Martin Dufferwiel, a resident of Durham is the author of a number of magazine articles and four published books about the city and county. He enjoys writing history for non-historians, offering an alternative to most contemporary volumes about historical topics. He is a member of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle-upon-Tyne and of the Society of Authors.

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Tracy Borman – The Stolen Crown

Tracy Borman The Stolen Crown. Grove Atlantic will publish this new book by Tracy Borman about treachery, deceit, and the death of the Tudor dynasty, on November 4 in 2025. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

Tracy Borman The Stolen Crown review

  • “Pacy … makes the case that Elizabeth I played ‘a masterstroke of statecraft’ by not naming her successor … Borman tells the story with panache and urgency.” (The Times)
  • “Reveals sensational new evidence which throws doubt on everything historians thought they knew about the dying days of the Tudors . . . With this bit of dynamite in her toolbox, Borman now casts an eye back over the last decades of Elizabeth’s reign. And what she discovers is far more contorted, contested and downright bloody than previously understood … her interpretation of the latest forensic scholarship on the Elizabethan end days makes this a model work of popular history.” (Daily Mail)
  • “In tracing the history of the rival claimants, secret letters, and palace intrigues that marked the tumultuous end of the Tudor dynasty and start of the Stuart, Borman – thanks to newly uncovered material – lays bare the 400-year lie (zounds!) of Elizabeth I’s supposed deathbed naming of James I as her successor (“I’ll have none but him” she was purported to have declared).” (Globe and Mail)

Tracy Borman The Stolen Crown

The Stolen Crown

Treachery, Deceit, and the Death of the Tudor Dynasty

  • Author: Tracy Borman (England)
  • Book type: British history
  • Publisher: Grove Atlantic
  • To be released: November 4, 2025
  • Length: 448 pages
  • Format: hardback / ebook
  • Prize: £ 30.00
  • Order book from: Amazon / Bol

Blurb of the book by Tracy Borman the end of Tudor and launche of the Stuart Dynasty

In the long and dramatic annals of British history, no transition from one monarch to another has been as fraught and consequential as that which ended the Tudor dynasty and launched the Stuart in March 1603. At her death, Elizabeth I had reigned for 44 turbulent years, facing many threats, whether external from Spain or internal from her cousin Mary, Queen of Scots. But no danger was greater than the uncertainty over who would succeed her, which only intensified as her reign lengthened. Her unwillingness to marry or name a successor gave rise to fierce rivalry between blood claimants to the throne—Mary and her son, James VI of Scotland, Arbella Stuart, Lady Katherine Grey, Henry Hastings, and more—which threatened to destabilize the monarchy.

As acclaimed Tudor historian Tracy Borman reveals in The Stolen Crown, according to Elizabeth’s earliest biographer, William Camden, in his history of her reign, on her deathbed the queen indicated James was her chosen heir, and indeed he did become king soon after she died. That endorsement has been accepted as fact for more than four centuries. However, recent analysis of Camden’s original manuscript shows key passages were pasted over and rewritten to burnish James’ legacy. The newly-uncovered pages make clear not only that Elizabeth’s naming of James never happened, but that James, uncertain he would ever gain the British throne, was even suspected of sending an assassin to London to kill the queen. Had all this been known at the time, the English people—bitter enemies with Scotland for centuries—might well not have accepted James as their king, with unimagined ramifications.

Inspired by the revelations over Camden’s manuscript, Borman sheds rare new light on Elizabeth’s historic reign, chronicling it through the lens of the various claimants who, over decades, sought the throne of the only English monarch not to make provision for her successor. The consequences were immense. Not only did James upend Elizabeth’s glittering court, but the illegitimacy of his claim to the throne, which Camden suppressed, found full expression in the catastrophic reign of James’ son and successor, Charles I. His execution in 1649 shocked the world and destroyed the monarchy fewer than 50 years after Elizabeth died, changing the course of British and world history.

Tracy Borman was born on January 1, 1972 in Scothern, Lincolnshire, England. She is Chief Historian of Historic Royal Palaces, Chief Executive of the Heritage Education Trust, and Chancellor and Professor of Tudor History at Lincoln Bishop University. She is the author of many highly acclaimed books, including Anne Boleyn and Elizabeth I; Crown and Sceptre; Henry VIII and the Men Who Made Him; The Private Lives of the Tudors; Thomas Cromwell; Queen of the Conqueror; Elizabeth’s Women; Witches; as well as the trilogy of novels The King’s Witch, The Devil’s Slave, and The Fallen Angel. Borman is also a regular broadcaster and accomplished public speaker. She was awarded an OBE in the King’s Birthday Honours 2024 for services to heritage.

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Dan Jones – Leeuwenharten

Dan Jones Leeuwenharten recensie en informatie historische roman over Engeland tijdens de middeleeuwen rond 1350. Op 30 oktober 2025 verschijnt bij Uitgeverij Omniboek de Nederlandse vertaling van Lion Hearts, de roman van de Dan Jones, de Britse historicus en romanschrijver. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave.

Dan Jones Leeuwenharten recensie

  • “Een passend slot van deze trilogie: een flinke gezouten, saga waarin vol actie oude vrienden de strijd aangaan.” (The Mail on Sunday)
  • “Een bloederig en betoverend verhaal.” (The Times)
  • “Onvergetelijke personages … Zindert van de energie.” (Simon Sebag Montefiore)

Dan Jones Leeuwenharten

Leeuwenharten

  • Auteur: Dan Jones (Engeland)
  • Soort boek: historische roman over de middeleeuwen
  • Origineel: Lion Hearts (2025)
  • Nederlandse vertaling: Wilma Paalman, Willem van Paassen
  • Uitgever: Omniboek
  • Verschijnt: 30 oktober 2025
  • Omvang: 416 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: € 24,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Boekenwereld / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de nieuwe historische roman van Dan Jones

Leeuwenharten is een epische roman over kameraadschap en overleven in een meedogenloze tijd. Met historische precisie en de spanning van een thriller brengt Dan Jones de middeleeuwen ontzettend dichtbij.

Het is 1350. De pest grijpt om zich heen, koninkrijken staan tegenover elkaar en overal dreigt oorlog. Door dit onzekere landschap beweegt zich een groep huurlingen, bekend als de Essex Dogs.

Verspreid over Zuid-Engeland zijn de mannen van de Essex Dogs elkaar uit het oog verloren. De een woont aan het luisterrijke hof van de koning, de ander houdt nauwelijks zijn hoofd boven water, en weer anderen zijn op levensgevaarlijke missie. En dan gebeurt er iets wat de Essex Dogs weer bij elkaar brengt. Ze zullen moeten overleven terwijl de wereld om hen heen in brand staat en hun vriendschap en loyaliteit flink op de proef wordt gesteld. Het gevecht is voor deze mannen nog niet voorbij.

Leeuwenharten is het derde deel van de spannende Crécy trilogie, ook te lezen als standalone.

Dan Jones is geboren op 27 juli 1981 in Reading, Engeland. Hij is een Britse historicus, bestsellerauteur en televisie- en podcastmaker. Hij brak internationaal door met zijn boek over de Tempeliers. Hij is schrijver en presentator van de Netflix-serie Secrets of great British Castles. Zijn populaire podcast heet This is history.

Dan Jones De middeleeuwen recensieDan Jones (Engeland) – De middeleeuwen
Een nieuwe geschiedenis
middeleeuwse geschiedenis
Uitgever: Omniboek
Verschijnt: 1 augustus 2025

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Laurence Rees – In de geest van de nazi’s

Laurence Rees In de geest van de nazi’s recensie en informatie over de inhoud van het boek met 12 waarschuwingen uit de geschiedenis. Op 9 oktober 2025 verschijnt bij Uitgeverij Ambo | Anthos de Nederlandse vertaling van The Nazi Mind, het boek van de Britse historicus Laurence Rees over de opkomst en uiteindelijke
ondergang van de nazi’s. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave.

Laurence Rees In de geest van de nazi’s recensie

  • “Rees wil zijn lezers expliciet waarschuwen dat alles een stuk fragieler is dan we geneigd zijn te denken.” (Bas Heijne, NRC ●●●●)
  • “De wereldberoemde historicus Laurence Rees schetst een verleden dat tegelijkertijd een griezelig waarschuwend verhaal is voor onze toekomst als we niet voorzichtig zijn.” (Anthony Scaramucci)

Laurence Rees In de geest van de nazi's

In de geest van de nazi’s

12 waarschuwingen uit de geschiedenis

  • Auteur: Laurence Rees (Engeland)
  • Soort boek: oorlogsgeschiedenis
  • Origineel: The Nazi Mind (2025)
  • Nederlandse vertaling: Catalien en Willem van Paassen
  • Uitgever: Ambo | Anthos
  • Verschijnt: 9 oktober 2025
  • Omvang: 488 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: € 34,99 / € 18,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Boekwereld / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek van Laurence Rees over de gevaren van het nazisme

Hoe konden de nazi’s hun misdaden begaan? Waarom tolereerden gewone burgers de uitroeiing van de Joden? In In de geest van de nazi’s combineert Laurence Rees indringende beschrijvingen
van de geschiedenis met nieuwe inzichten uit de (gedrags)psychologie om enkele van de meest verbijsterende vraagstukken over de Tweede Wereldoorlog te ontleden.

Rees baseert zich op niet eerder gepubliceerde getuigenissen van voormalige nazi’s en gewone burgers. Hij volgt de opkomst en uiteindelijke ondergang van de nazi’s door de lens van ‘twaalf waarschuwingen’, waaronder het verspreiden van complottheorieën, ‘wij-zij’-denken, uitbuiten van racisme en gebruik van religie om legitimiteit te verschaffen aan het autoritaire staatsapparaat.

Laurence Rees is geboren in 1957. Hij was directeur van BBC History Programmes. Hij maakte verschillende bekroonde documentaires over de Tweede Wereldoorlog. Zijn documentaire The Nazis: A Warning from History werd bekroond met onder andere een BAFTA en een International Documentary Award. Voor Auschwitz: The Nazis & the Final Solution ontving hij in 2006 de History Book of the Year Award. Van Rees verschenen in vertaling eerder Een tijd van duisternis en Achter gesloten deuren. In Het charisma van Adolf Hitler gaat Laurence Rees in op het thema dat vele historici genegeerd hebben: Hitlers karakter en persoonlijkheid.

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Matthew Restall – The Nine Lives of Christopher Columbus

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

Matthew Restall The Nine Lives of Christopher Columbus review en recensie

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

Matthew Restall The Nine Lives of Christopher Columbus

The Nine Lives of Christopher Columbus

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

Flaptekst van de Columbus biografie van Matthew Restall

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

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

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

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

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

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

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