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Biografie, Engeland, Engelse geschiedenis, Engelse historicus, Middeleeuwen

David Woodman – The First King of England

David Woodman The First King of England review, recensie en informatie boek over koning Æthelstan en de geboorte van een koninkrijk. Op 2 september 2025 verschijnt bij Princeton University Press het boek van de Engelse historicus David Woodman over Æthelstan, de eerste Engelse koning. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

David Woodman The First King of England review en recensie

  • “A fascinating, meticulously researched, and vital new study of the man who has the best claim to be the first true king of England. David Woodman takes us as close as we can ever hope to get to the personality of Æthelstan, and in doing so shines a light on an intriguing and formative period in British history.” (Dan Jones)
  • “England’s founding father deserves this book: at once scholarly and accessible, attentive to every last morsel of detail yet possessed of a thrillingly epic sweep. David Woodman has done Æthelstan proud.” (Tom Holland)
  • “A magisterial account not only of England’s first king, but of the kingdom itself. Beautifully written and filled with insights, it sheds new light on Æthelstan, his life, and his times.” (Peter Frankopan)

David Woodman The First King of England

The First King of England

Æthelstan and the Birth of a Kingdom

  • Auteur: David Woodman (Engeland)
  • Soort boek: Engelse geschiedenis, historische biografie
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Princeton University Press
  • Verschijnt: 2 september 2025
  • Omvang: 344 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 35,00
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek over Æthelstan de eerste koning van Engeland

From one of today’s leading historians of the early medieval period, an enthralling chronicle of Æthelstan, England’s founder king whose achievements of 927 rival the Norman Conquest of 1066 in shaping Britain as we know it.

The First King of England is a foundational biography of Æthelstan (d. 939), the early medieval king whose territorial conquests and shrewd statesmanship united the peoples, languages, and cultures that would come to be known as the “kingdom of the English.” In this panoramic work, David Woodman blends masterful storytelling with the latest scholarship to paint a multifaceted portrait of this immensely important but neglected figure, a man celebrated in his day as much for his benevolence, piety, and love of learning as he was for his ambitious reign.

Set against the backdrop of warring powers in early medieval Europe, the book sheds new light on Æthelstan’s early life, his spectacular military victories and the innovative way he governed his kingdom, his fostering of the church, the deft political alliances he forged with Europe’s royal houses, and his death and enduring legacy. It begins with the reigns of Alfred the Great and Edward the Elder, Æthelstan’s grandfather and father, describing how they consolidated and expanded the “kingdom of the Anglo-Saxons.” But it was Æthelstan who would declare himself the first king of all England when, in 927, he conquered the viking kingdom at York, required the submission of a Scottish king, and secured an annual tribute from the Welsh kings.

Beautifully illustrated and breathtaking in scope, The First King of England is the most comprehensive, up-to-date biography of Æthelstan available, bringing a magisterial richness of detail to the life of a consequential British monarch whose strategic and political sophistication was unprecedented for his time.

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Engelse geschiedenis, Engelse historicus, Oorlog

Dickon Whitewood – Stoke Field 1487

Dickon Whitewood Stoke Field 1487 review, recensie en informatie boek over de laatste slag van de War of the Roses in Engeland. Op 28 augustus 2025 verschijnt bij Osprey Publishing het boek van de Britse historicus Dickon Whitewood over de laatste slag tijdens de Rozenoorlogen. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Dickon Whitewood Stoke Field 1487 review en recensie

Als er in de media een boekbespreking, recensie of review verschijnt van Stoke Field 1487, The Last Battle of the Wars of the Roses, geschreven door Dickon Whitewood, dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.

Dickon Whitewood Stoke Field 1487

Stoke Field 1487

The Last Battle of the Wars of the Roses

  • Auteur: Dickon Whitewood (Engeland)
  • Soort boek: Engelse oorlogsgeschiedenis
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Osprey Publishing
  • Verschijnt: 28 augustus 2025
  • Omvang: 98 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback
  • Prijs: £ 16,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek over de laatste War of the Roses

An in-depth look at a critical battle of the Wars of the Roses, which decisively ended the Yorkist cause and ensured the Tudor dominance that followed.

The Battle of Stoke is popularly considered to be the last battle of the Wars of the Roses. Less than two years previously, King Henry VII had been crowned on the battlefield following his victory over Richard III at Bosworth. Henry soon took steps to secure his crown, and made certain to keep control of any potential rivals. Despite these efforts, a plot soon emerged against his rule, which culminated in the crowning of a rival king in Ireland. Launching an invasion of England, the rebels had a number of early successes but failed to secure widespread support for their cause. Moving south, they met the hastily assembled but more numerous army of Henry VII outside the village of East Stoke, four miles south of Newark.

With stunning artwork and detailed maps, this expertly written title offers in-depth coverage of the battle that secured the new Tudor dynasty’s hold on the throne. It is one of the least well documented conflicts of the period, but remains highly interesting and significant, not only as the final decisive action in the bloody Wars of the Roses, but also due to the nature of the soldiers present on the battlefield. This book explores the role these various factions played and how that contributed to the final victory.

Dickon Whitewood has long held a passion for medieval history and the practice of warfare and has an MA in Medieval & Renaissance Studies from University College London. He is currently employed as a Research Assistant on the Norwich Castle: Gateway to Medieval England project and has previously worked at the British Museum, English Heritage and the Museum of the Order of St John.

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Engeland, Engelse geschiedenis, Engelse historicus

Richard Tames – A Short History of Cambridge

Richard Tames A Short History of Cambridge review, recensie en informatie boek over de geschiedenis van de Engelse universiteitsstad. Op 19 augustus 2025 verschijnt bij Haus Publishing het boek van Richard Tames, de Britse historicus, over de geschiedenis van de stad Cambridge. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Richard Tames A Short History of Cambridge review en recensie

Als er in de media een boekbespreking, recensie of review verschijnt van A Short History of Cambridge, het boek van Richard Tames dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.

Richard Tames A Short History of Cambridge

A Short History of Cambridge

  • Auteur: Richard Tames (Engeland)
  • Soort boek: geschiedenis van de stad Cambridge
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Haus Publishing
  • Verschijnt: 19 augustus 2025
  • Omvang: 300 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: £ 10,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek over de geschiedenis van Cambridge

The splendour of Cambridge – to which more than eight million visitors are attracted every year – and its famous university have ensured that the town has long enjoyed international renown. Digging deep into its emergence and evolution, A Short History of Cambridge sheds light on the origins of academia in the area and the fascinating history of one of England’s most famous towns.

From the Middle Ages to the present day, Richard Tames’ digestible and comprehensive history traces Cambridge through the Reformation, the Civil War, the age of Empire, the Great Wars and beyond. Exploring the world-renowned colleges and research facilities of the University, its students and scholars, and their interactions with the townsfolk over the generations, Tames tracks the town’s vast cultural output, from art and literature to theatre and comedy.

This joyful history will delight, in equal measure, readers familiar with the cobbles of Cambridge and those who have seen no further than the stained-glass windows of King’s Chapel.

Richard Tames read history at Pembroke College, Cambridge, and has taught for Syracuse University in London. He is the author of An Armchair Traveller’s History of Oxford and An Armchair Traveller’s History of London and coauthor of An Armchair Traveller’s History of Bath.

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Engelse schrijvers, Historische thriller

Catherine Merridale – Moscow Underground

Catherine Merridale Moscow Underground review, recensie en informatie historische thriller over de metro van Moskou in 1934. Op 14 augustus 2025 verschijnt bij Fontana de historische thriller van de Engelse historicus en schrijfster Catherine Merridale. Een Nederlandse vertaling is niet verkijgbaar.

Catherine Merridale Moscow Underground review en recensie

  • “Gripping, moving and fascinating. A heartbreaking and passionate novel of the cruelty and fragility of love, death and life in Stalinist Russia by a great storyteller who also happens to be an outstanding historian. I loved it.” (Simon Sebag Montefiore)
  • “Both a brilliant thriller and a historical record of the ambition, terror and deviousness of that black era in Russian history.” (Gareth Rubin)

Catherine Merridale Moscow Underground

Moscow Underground

  • Auteur: Catherine Merridale (Engeland)
  • Soort boek: historische Moskou thriller
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Fontana
  • Verschijnt: 14 augustus 2025
  • Omvang: 336 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: £ 16,99 / £ 9,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de historische thriller van Catherine Merridale over Moskou

Moscow, 1934.

Moscow’s glittering new subway is under construction at last. The first line will run through the centre of the city, cutting deep through Moscow soil. But futures cannot be created without digging up the past. Though Russia’s leaders want to build a glorious Soviet capital, what holds them in a fatal grip is history: old mud and bones.

Anton Belkin is an Investigator at the Procuracy, a sensitive job at a dangerous moment on the road to the Show Trials. He is also someone who needs to keep his head down. His artist father was once the darling of the revolutionary avant-garde, a painter whose work could inspire devotion and great sacrifice. But now his dreams are out of place, too loud and red in Stalin’s world of sterile rules and rubber stamps.

Anton is dragged into a murder case. A prominent archaeologist, working alongside the subway dig, has been killed in a deserted mansion. Though Anton doesn’t want the job, his former lover, Vika, who is now a powerful member of the secret police, browbeats him into paying a visit to the site with her. Against his better judgement he is drawn to follow though, embarking on investigations that will almost certainly get him killed.

Deep underground, he finds a priceless secret that could genuinely unlock the future but links him to a vicious internecine fight for power in the young Soviet state. In the process, he is forced to reconsider the history he shares with Vika and the bonds that bind them both.

Moscow Underground is a sweeping novel of life, death and politics in the quicksand world of Stalin’s tyranny.

Catherine Merridale is an award-winning writer and broadcaster with an internationally acknowledged expertise in Russia and the former Soviet Union. A pioneer of oral history in the region, her first major book, Night of Stone (Granta, 2000), won the Royal Society of Literature’s Heinemann Prize and was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize in 2001. More recently, Red Fortress: The Secret Heart of Russia’s History (Allen Lane, 2013) won both the Wolfson History Prize and the Pushkin House Russian Book Prize in 2014. Ivan’s War (Faber, 2005) tells the stories of ordinary Red Army soldiers in Europe’s last great land-based war, while Lenin on the Train (Allen Lane, 2016) tracks Europe’s collective and bungling responsibility for the Great October Revolution.

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Engelse historicus, Geschiedenisboeken

John Blair – Killing the Dead

John Blair Killing the Dead review, recensie en informatie boek over vampierepidemieën van Mesopotamië tot de Nieuwe Wereld. Op 11 november 2025 verschijnt bij Princeton University Press het nieuwe boek van John Blair, de Britse historicus en mediëvist. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

John Blair Killing the Dead review en recensie

  • “We all think we know about vampires, but John Blair brings his expertise as archaeologist and historian to reveal the disconcertingly wide range of stories and evidence about the undead across an astonishing variety of human cultures, from the ancient world to the present day. With Blair’s sure guidance, we may understand better how other cultures have sought to make sense of the terrors of the world around them.” (Diarmaid MacCulloch, author of Lower than the Angels: A History of Sex and Christianity)
  • “This is the first historical survey of beliefs in dangerous dead humans to take in all time and the whole of the world. It is therefore also the first to identify the way in which such beliefs wax and wane, and travel. As a result, it moves knowledge of the subject up into a whole new register.” (Ronald Hutton, author of The Witch: A History of Fear, from Ancient Times to the Present)

John Blair Killing the Dead

Killing the Dead

Vampire Epidemics from Mesopotamia to the New World

  • Auteur: John Blair (Engeland)
  • Soort boek: geschiedenis van de vampier
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Princeton University Press
  • Verschijnt: 11 november 2025
  • Omvang: 536 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 35,00
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek van John Blair over de geschiedenis van vampiers

Killing the Dead provides the first in-depth, global account of one of the world’s most widespread yet misunderstood forms of mass hysteria—the vampire epidemic. In a spellbinding narrative, John Blair takes readers from ancient Mesopotamia to present-day Haiti to explore a macabre frontier of life and death where corpses are believed to wander or do harm from the grave, and where the vampire is a physical expression of society’s inexplicable terrors and anxieties.

In 1732, the British public opened their morning papers to read of lurid happenings in eastern Europe. Serbian villagers had dug up several corpses and had found them to be undecayed and bloated with blood. Recognizing the marks of vampirism, they mutilated and burned them. Centuries earlier, the English themselves engaged in the same behavior. In fact, vampire epidemics have flared up throughout history—in ancient Assyria, China, and Rome, medieval and early modern Europe, and the Americas. Blair blends the latest findings in archaeology, anthropology, and psychology with vampire lore from literature and popular culture to show how these episodes occur at traumatic moments in societies that upend all sense of security, and how the European vampire is just one species in a larger family of predatory supernatural entities that includes the female flying demons of Southeast Asia and the lustful yoginīs of India.

Richly illustrated, Killing the Dead provocatively argues that corpse-killing, far from being pathological or unhealthy, served as a therapeutic and largely harmless outlet for fear, hatred, and paranoia that would otherwise result in violence against marginalized groups and individuals.

John Blair is an Emeritus Fellow of The Queen’s College, Oxford, and Emeritus Professor of Medieval History and Archaeology at the University of Oxford. His many books include Building Anglo-Saxon England, The Church in Anglo-Saxon Society, and The Anglo-Saxon Age: A Very Short Introduction.

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Engelse historicus, Middeleeuwen

Dan Jones – De middeleeuwen

Dan Jones De middeleeuwen recensie en informatie boek met een nieuwe geschiedenis geschreven door de Britse historicus. Op 1 augustus 2025 verschijnt bij Uitgeverij Omniboek de Nederlandse vertaling van Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages, geschreven door Dan Jones. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het geschiedenisboek, de auteur en over de uitgave.

Dan Jones De middeleeuwen recensie

  • “Gewoon de beste populaire geschiedenis van de Middeleeuwen die er is.” (Sunday Times)
  • “Het is zo leuk om een bekwame historicus met zo’n enorme energie te ontmoeten die nooit bang is om te entertainen.” (The Times)
  • “Een geweldige prestatie, waarbij met verve vele draden zijn samengebracht.” (Peter Frankopan, Spectator)

Dan Jones De middeleeuwen

De middeleeuwen

Een nieuwe geschiedenis

  • Auteur: Dan Jones (Engeland)
  • Soort boek: middeleeuwse geschiedenis
  • Origineel: Powers and Thrones (2021)
  • Nederlandse vertaling: Roelof Posthuma
  • Uitgever: Omniboek
  • Verschijnt: 1 augustus 2025
  • Omvang: 722 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: € 25,00 / € 14,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Boekenwereld / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst boek over de middeleeuwen van Dan Jones

De middeleeuwen is een nieuwe, complete geschiedenis van de duizend jaar die zo vormend waren voor Europa, meeslepend opgeschreven door meesterverteller en bestsellerauteur Dan Jones.

Een duizendjarig avontuur, dat is wat bestsellerauteur Dan Jones maakt van zijn nieuwe geschiedenis van De middeleeuwen. Hij begint in 410 bij de ineenstorting van het Romeinse Rijk en eindigt weer in Rome als keizer Karel V in de zestiende eeuw voor de poorten van de stad staat. In een duizelingwekkend tempo laat Jones zien hoe het Westen de oude wereld herbouwde en de rest van de wereld ging domineren: door te ontdekken, ontwikkelen of domweg te stelen. Hij werpt een nieuw licht op iconische locaties zoals Rome, Parijs, Venetië en Constantinopel, en enkele van de beroemdste en beruchtste mannen en vrouwen uit de geschiedenis betreden het toneel.

De middeleeuwen is een boek over – en voor – een tijd van diepgaande verandering.

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’.

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Afghanistan, Geschiedenisboeken

Warwick Ball – Ancient Civilizations of Afghanistan

Warwick Ball Ancient Civilizations of Afghanistan recensie, review en informatie geschiedenis boek van de vroegste tijden tot de Mongoolse verovering. Op 1 augustus 2025 verschijnt bij Reaktion Books het boek van Warwick Ball over de geschiedenis van Afghanistan. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.

Warwick Ball Ancient Civilizations of Afghanistan recensie en review

Als er in de media een boekbespreking, review of recensie verschijnt van Ancient Civilizations of Afghanistan, geschreven door de Britse archeoloog en schrijver Warwick Ball, dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht.

Warwick Ball Ancient Civilizations of Afghanistan

Ancient Civilizations of Afghanistan

From the Earliest Times to the Mongol Conquest

  • Auteur: Warwick Ball (Engeland)
  • Soort boek: geschiedenis van Afghanistan
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Reaktion Books
  • Verschijnt: 1 augustus 2025
  • Omvang: 304 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek
  • Prijs: £ 29,00
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek over oude beschavingen van Afghanistan

A beautifully illustrated exploration of Afghanistan’s ancient cities, temples and monuments.

Afghanistan, at the meeting place of the Indian subcontinent, Middle East and Central Asia, holds a key place in the spread of ancient civilizations. Its remarkable cultural heritage includes the Bronze Age Helmand civilization, the Greek kingdom of Bactria, the Kushan Empire and the Ghaznavid Empire – yet much of its history remains unknown to a general audience. This beautifully illustrated book unveils Afghanistan’s ancient cities, temples, stupas, monasteries and other monuments set against breathtaking landscapes, presenting them to a wider audience. Incorporating the latest research and discoveries, it is a captivating journey through Afghanistan’s rich antiquities, brought to life with the author’s vivid, full-colour photographs.

Warwick Ball is an archaeologist and author who spent over twenty years carrying out excavations, architectural studies and monumental restoration throughout the Middle East. He is the author of many books on the history and archaeology of the region including The Archaeological Gazetteer of Afghanistan (revised edn, 2019).

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Geschiedenisboeken, Middeleeuwen

Eleanor Barraclough – Verborgen levens

Eleanor Barraclough Verborgen levens recensie en informatie geschiedenisboek over wat de nieuwste vondsten ons vertellen over de Vikingtijd. Op 15 mei 2025 verschijnt bij Uitgeverij Omniboek de Nederlandse vertaling van Embers of the Hands, Hidden Histories of the Viking Age, geschreven door de Britse historicus en schrijfster Eleanor Barraclough. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave.

Eleanor Barraclough Verborgen levens recensie

  • “Briljant geschreven… brengt het wonder van een gehele beschaving tot leven.” (Tom Holland)

Eleanor Barraclough Verborgen levens

Verborgen levens

Wat de nieuwste vondsten ons vertellen over de Vikingtijd

  • Auteur: Eleanor Barraclough (Engeland)
  • Soort boek: middeleeuwse geschiedenis
  • Origineel: Embers of the Hands (2024)
  • Nederlandse vertaling: Catalien en Willem van Paassen
  • Uitgever: Omniboek
  • Verschijnt: 15 mei 2025
  • Omvang: 392 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs:  € 29,99 / € 14,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Boekenwereld / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek over de Vikingen van Eleanor Barraclough

In Verborgen levens brengt Eleanor Barraclough het menselijke van de geschiedenis dichtbij. De drassige moerassen van Scandinavië zijn poorten naar andere werelden. Kleding, potten, gereedschappen, spellen, wapens, dieren, mensen; giften voor de goden. Ze verdwenen allemaal in het donker, op zuurstofloze natte plaatsen met verzadigde bodem, het organisch materiaal intact nog lang na degenen die de spullen in het water hadden gegooid.

Aan de hand van alledaagse objecten uit de Vikingtijd (750-1100) vertelt Eleanor Barraclough een ander verhaal van de beruchte Vikingbeschaving. De woeste krijger die het Noordzeegebied veroverde, vandaag de dag het boegbeeld van de Vikingtijd, was namelijk in de minderheid. Het was de normale bevolking – vrouwen, kinderen, slaven, ambachtslieden – die de Noordse wereld bewoonde en vormde. Zij hadden lief, reisden, geloofden, speelden, zij leefden hun leven. Dit is hun verhaal.

Eleanor Barraclough is een Britse cultuurhistoricus, verbonden aan de Bath Spa University, en auteur. Ze werd benoemd tot BBC Nieuwe Generatie Denker en verschijnt geregeld op radio, televisie en in podcasts.

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Engelse historicus, Geschiedenisboeken, Populair Wetenschappelijke Boeken

Snezana Lawrence – A Little History of Mathematics

Snezana Lawrence A Little History of Mathematics review, recensie en informatie van de inhoud van het boek. Op 13 mei 2025 verschijnt bij Yale University Press het boek over de geschiedenis van wiskunde, geschreven door de Britse historicus Snezana Lawrence. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Snezana Lawrence A Little History of Mathematics review en recensie

  • “This is a triumph: a fascinating, fast-paced, vivid introduction to the ongoing story of how we came up with mathematics, the most under-appreciated success of human civilisation. Lawrence illuminates the lives and contributions of our cleverest and most creative minds with a deft touch that pulls the reader deep into their experience: it might be a little history, but it is a huge achievement.” (Michael Brooks)
  • “If you want a readable whistle-stop tour of the past 32,000 years of mathematics, I can think of nothing better. This ‘little history’ is a great book. I particularly liked being shown the human side of the subject as well as its technical content. Buy it, read it, enjoy it!” (Ian Stewart)

Snezana Lawrence A Little History of Mathematics

A Little History of Mathematics

  • Auteur: Snezana Lawrence (Engeland)
  • Soort boek: wetenschapsgeschiedenis
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Yale University Press
  • Verschijnt: 13 mei 2025
  • Omvang: 304 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 26,00
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst boek over de geschiedenis van de wiskunde

A lively, accessible history of mathematics throughout the ages and across the globe.

Mathematics is fundamental to our daily lives. Science, computing, economics—all aspects of modern life rely on some kind of maths. But how did our ancestors think about numbers? How did they use mathematics to explain and understand the world around them? Where do numbers even come from?

In this Little History, Snezana Lawrence traces the fascinating history of mathematics, from the Egyptians and Babylonians to Renaissance masters and enigma codebreakers. Like literature, music, or philosophy, mathematics has a rich history of breakthroughs, creativity and experimentation. And its story is a global one. We see Chinese Mathematical Art from 200 BCE, the invention of algebra in Baghdad’s House of Wisdom, and sangaku geometrical theorems at Japanese shrines. Lawrence goes beyond the familiar names of Newton and Pascal, exploring the prominent role women have played in the history of maths, including Emmy Noether and Maryam Mirzakhani.

Snezana Lawrence works as a senior lecturer at Middlesex University, London, and was the chair of the History and Pedagogy of Mathematics International Study Group between 2020 and 2024. She is the author of The New Year’s Present from a Mathematician and editor of Mathematicians and Their Gods. She is on X as @snezanalawrence and @mathshistory.

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Frankrijk, Oorlog, Tweede Wereldoorlog

Hanna Diamond – Josephine Baker’s Secret War

Hanna Diamond Josephine Baker’s Secret War recensie, review en informatie boek over de Afro-Amerikaanse ster die vocht Frankrijk en vrijheid. Op 6 mei 2025 verschijnt bij Yale Universty Press het boek van Hanna Diamond over Josephine Baker tijdens de oorlogsjaren. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Hanna Diamond Josephine Baker’s Secret War recensie en review

  • “Josephine Baker for too long has been a fashion accessory in world history. She was an exotic and sad example of prewar Europe that othered her. Now Hanna Diamond seeks to set the record straight . . . [and] reveals why Baker is a hero of the twentieth century.” (Onyeka Nubia)
  • “Hanna Diamond meticulously documents Baker’s clandestine war work for the Free French using previously unseen sources.”—Lucy Moore,” (Literary Review)

Hanna Diamond Josephine Baker's Secret War

Josephine Baker’s Secret War

The African American Star Who Fought for France and Freedom

  • Auteur: Hanna Diamond (Engeland)
  • Soort boek: oorlogsgeschiedenis
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Yale University Press
  • Verschijnt: 6 mei 2025
  • Omvang: 352 pagina’s
  • Uitgever: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 35,00
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek over de oorlogsjaren van Josephine Baker

The full story of Josephine Baker’s wartime and intelligence work in France and North Africa.

Before the Second World War, Josephine Baker (1906–1975) was one of the most famous performers in the world. She made her name dancing on the Parisian stage, but when war broke out she decided not to return to America. Instead, Baker turned spy for the French Secret Services.

In this engaging, deeply researched study, Hanna Diamond tells the full story of Baker’s actions for the French and Allied powers in World War Two. Drawing on previously unseen material, Diamond reveals the vital role Baker played throughout the war, from counterintelligence work for the Allied landings in North Africa to serving in the French Air Force in 1944–45. A woman of colour operating in a white male environment, Baker exploited her celebrity to enable her war work across France, Spain, Portugal, North Africa, and the Middle East.

This groundbreaking account is the first to reveal the full significance of Baker’s wartime contribution.

Hanna Diamond is professor of French history at Cardiff University. An expert on the social and cultural history of France during the Second World War, she is the author of Fleeing Hitler: France 1940 and Women and the Second World War in France, 1939–48.

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