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Dinosaurus, Dieren, Dierenboeken

Bryce Jones – Ornithischians

Bryce Jones Ornithischians review, recensie en informatie nieuw boek in The Princeton Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs. Op 10 februari 2026 verschijnt een deel in de The Princeton Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs, deze keer staan de Ornithischia centraal. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.

Bryce Jones Ornithischians review en recensie

Als er in de media een boekbespreking, review of recensie verschijnt van The Princeton Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs, Ornithischians, geschreven door wetenschapsschrijver Bryce Jones, dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.

Bryce Jones Ornithischians The Princeton Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs

Ornithischians

The Princeton Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs

  • Auteur: Bryce Jones
  • Illustraties: Egidio Viola
  • Soort boek: dinosaurus boek
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Princeton University Press\
  • Verschijnt: 10 februari 2026
  • Omvang: 424 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 49.95
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek over de Ornithischia dinosaurussen

The Princeton Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs: Ornithischians brings together every species of armored and horn-faced dinosaur known to have roamed the prehistoric world, with a dedicated entry for each species describing its key characteristics, taxonomic classification, location, and known remains along with a concise history of its discovery. Each species is beautifully brought to life with vivid illustrations and is supported by meticulously detailed diagrams of all known fossils. These visual aids enable readers to explore how scientists reconstruct these incredible creatures from fossilized remains. Whether you’re curious about Stegosaurus, Triceratops, or the multitude of less familiar ornithischian species, this encyclopedia covers them all.

The Princeton Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs is a comprehensive three-volume resource for anyone who is fascinated by dinosaurs. Packed with engaging dino facts and original, full-color reconstructions, drawings, and graphics, this one-of-a-kind encyclopedia strikes a perfect balance between depth and accessibility—detailed enough to captivate professionals yet clear and exciting enough for beginners eager to dive into the amazing lost world of the dinosaurs. The three volumes, which are available individually or as a set, are Theropods, Sauropods, and Ornithischians. Organized for easy reference, these books are perfect for casual browsing or in-depth study. Together, this encyclopedia invites dinosaur lovers of all ages to walk among the wondrous beasts of the Mesozoic era.

Bryce Jones is a science writer and educator with a lifelong passion for paleontology.

Egidio Viola is a graphic artist and chemistry researcher who specializes in digital illustrations of prehistoric creatures.

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Turkije, Eerste Wereldoorlog, Turkse geschiedenis

Mustafa Aksakal – The War That Made the Middle East

Mustafa Aksakal The War That Made the Middle East review, recensie en informatie boek over de Eerste Wereldoorlog en het einde van het Ottomaanse Rijk. Op 13 januari 2025 verschijnt het boek van Mustafa Aksakal de hoogleraar geschiedenis aan Georgetown University in Washington. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het geschiedenisboek verkrijgbaar.

Mustafa Aksakal The War That Made the Middle East review en recensie

  • “The War That Made the Middle East explores the Ottoman Empire’s struggle to preserve its beleaguered sovereignty and reconstitute itself through the crucible of the First World War. Offering a corrective to Eurocentric diplomatic accounts, deterministic national histories of successor states, and reductionist genocide-centered narratives, Aksakal draws on rare Ottoman archival materials and overlooked German sources to illuminate the complexity of a transformative war.” (Hasan Kayali, author)
  • “This is a landmark new history of the origins of war and dictatorship in the modern Middle East. Mustafa Aksakal deploys an astonishing breadth of research to weave a tragic story about the disastrous choices made by Ottoman rulers confronting existential threats during World War I. He shows how the Ottoman Empire, like so many other states, destroyed its own people in a war against both external imperialists and internal opponents. A must-read for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of the Armenian Genocide, Islamic politics, Middle Eastern dictatorship, and the region’s ongoing trauma.” (Elizabeth F. Thompson, author of How the West Stole Democracy from the Arabs)

Mustafa Aksakal The War That Made the Middle East

The War That Made the Middle East

World War I and the End of the Ottoman Empire

  • Auteur: Mustafa Aksakal (Turkije)
  • Soort boek: geschiedenis van het Ottomaanse Rijk
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Princeton University Press
  • Verschijnt: 16 januari 2025
  • Omvang: 264 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 32,00
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst boek van historicus Mustafa Aksakal

A new history that tells the story of how European imperial ambitions destroyed the Ottoman Empire during the Great War and created a divided and unstable Middle East.

The Ottoman Empire’s collapse at the end of the First World War is often treated as a foregone conclusion. It was only a matter of time, the story goes, before the so-called Sick Man of Europe succumbed to its ailments—incompetent management, nationalism, and ethnic and religious conflict. In The War That Made the Middle East, Mustafa Aksakal overturns this conventional narrative. He describes how European imperial ambitions and the Ottoman commitment to saving its empire at any cost—including the destruction of the Armenian community and the deaths of more than a million Ottoman troops and other civilians—led to the empire’s violent partition and created a politically unstable Middle East.

The War That Made the Middle East shows that, until 1914, the Ottoman Empire was a viable multiethnic, multireligious state, and that relations between the Arabs, Jews, Muslims, and Christians of Palestine were relatively stable. When war broke out, the Ottoman government sought an alliance with the Entente but was rejected because of British and French designs on the Eastern Mediterranean. After the Ottomans entered the fight on the side of Germany and were defeated, Britain and France seized Ottoman lands, and new national elites in former Ottoman territories claimed their own states. The region was renamed “the Middle East,” erasing a robust and modernizing 600-year-old empire.

A sweeping narrative of war, great power politics, and ordinary people caught up in the devastation, The War That Made the Middle East offers new insights about the Great War and its profound and lasting consequences.

Mustafa Aksakal is associate professor of history and the Nesuhi Ertegün Chair of Modern Turkish Studies at Georgetown University. He is the author of The Ottoman Road to War in 1914. 

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Walvis, Dieren, Dierenboeken, Sri Lankaanse schrijfsters, Zee

Asha de Vos – Whale

Asha de Vos Whale review, recensie en informatie van de geïllustreerde biografie van de walvis. Op 6 januari 2026 verschijnt bij Princeton Univerty Press het boek over de walvis van Asha de Vos de marine bioloog uit Sri Lanka. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Asha de Vos Whale review en recensie

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Asha de Vos Whale

Whale

The Illustrated Biography

  • Auteur: Asha de Vos (Sri Lanka)
  • Soort boek: walvis encyclopedie
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Princeton University Press
  • Verschijnt: 6 januari 2026
  • Omvang: 224 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 29.95
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van de encyclopedie over de walvis van Asha de Vos

Whales are the majestic giants of the ocean, yet much of their world remains a mystery to us. The routes of their vast oceanic migrations are largely elusive, as are the intricacies of their behavior and social dynamics. This narrative biography takes you out beyond our shorelines and into the depths, providing an up-close exploration of the life of the whale. It covers everything from conception and childhood to family history, relationships, communication, and life challenges, and explains why studying whales helps us to monitor the health of our planet’s oceans and marine ecosystems.

Written by internationally acclaimed expert Asha de Vos, Whale: The Illustrated Biography blends engaging profiles of the best-known species with stunning illustrations to tell the story of these magnificent creatures in all their diversity and complexity.

  • Features a wealth of specially commissioned illustrations
  • Discusses familiar species such as the humpback whale, blue whale, killer whale, and sperm whale, as well as smaller and more elusive cousins
  • Covers anatomy, hunting and feeding, migration, habitats, whale song, conservation, human interactions with whales, and much more
  • Explains how whales play key roles in nutrient cycling, regulating prey populations, and influencing carbon sequestration
  • A must-have reference for whale watchers everywhere

Asha de Vos was born in 1979 in Sri Lanka. She is a marine biologist, ocean educator, and pioneer of blue whale research in the northern Indian Ocean. An adjunct research fellow at the Oceans Institute of the University of Western Australia, she is also the founder of Oceanswell, Sri Lanka’s first marine conservation research and education organization. Her work has been featured in National Geographic and The New York Times and by the BBC and TED, and in 2024 she was invited to join the UN Secretary General’s Scientific Advisory Board.

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Romeinen, Oorlogsgeschiedenis, Oudheid

Giusto Traina – The Roman World War

Giusto Traina The Roman World War review and information of the content of the book by the Italian historian. Princeton University Press will publish the Giusto Traina history book on the Roman World War, From the Ides of March to Cleopatra’s Suicide, on April 7, 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

Giusto Traina The Roman World War reviews

  • “If you think you know how the Roman Republic came to an end, think again: Traina’s masterful page-turner brings the readers through a riveting, and shockingly timely, odyssey among the many peoples, places, and ideas whose violent collidings reverberate all the way to the present.” (Katherine Blouin, University of Toronto)
  • “Distinguished Sicilian historian Giusto Traina has done it again. Focusing his laser-like intellect on a relatively restricted time range yields insight on a global scale. He has totally persuaded me that the lethal combination of civil war and foreign war that afflicted the Greco-Roman world during the fourteen-year interregnum between the assassination of one Caesar and the triumph of another was indeed a world war.” (Paul Cartledge, author of Thebes: The Forgotten City of Ancient Greece)

Giusto Traina The Roman World War

The Roman World War

From the Ides of March to Cleopatra’s Suicide

  • Author: Giusto Traina (Italy)
  • Book type: Roman history
  • English translation: Malcolm DeBevoise
  • Publisher: Princeton University Press
  • To be released: April 7, 2026
  • Length: 248 pages
  • Format: hardback / ebook
  • Prize: $ 35.00
  • Order book from: Amazon / Bol

Blurb of the history book on the Roman World War

The succession of civil wars that plagued the last years of the Roman Republic has often been portrayed as a settling of scores between Roman factions—Sulla against Marius, Caesar against Pompey, Octavian against Mark Antony—with foreign campaigns serving as a backdrop to the tragic spectacle. The Roman World War recasts the struggle for Rome as a global conflict that engulfed millions of non-Romans across Europe, Asia, and Northern Africa.

Shedding new light on the pivotal years spanning Caesar’s assassination in 44 BCE and the suicides of Mark Antony and Cleopatra in 30 BCE, Giusto Traina introduces readers to lesser-known figures such as the Cilician dynast Tarcondimotus, the king of the Moors Bogud, and the Armenian king Artawazd, men who influenced Rome’s politics and who played consequential roles in battles waged far beyond the borders of the Imperium Romanum. Traina demonstrates how the violence unleashed by Caesar’s death was a direct consequence of his expansionist plans. From Spain to Mesopotamia, peoples such as Berbers, Hispanics, Gauls, Greeks, Thracians, and Armenians were drawn into a global war in which the fate of Rome was tied to their own.

A global, “connected” history that transforms our understanding of the Republic’s final years, The Roman World War demonstrates how foreign nations and peoples were not merely pawns in the Roman civil wars but active protagonists in a great power struggle that shook the ancient world for fourteen intense years.

Giusto Traina was born in 1959 in Palermo, Sicily, Italy. He is Emeritus Professor of Roman History at Sorbonne University in Paris and Professor of Roman History at the University of Salento in Lecce. He is the author of several books on ancient history, including 428 AD: An Ordinary Year at the End of the Roman Empire.

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China, Chinese geschiedenis, Chinese politiek

Minxin Pei – The Broken China Dream

Minxin Pei The Broken China Dream review, recensie en informatie boek over hoe hervorming het totalitarisme nieuw leven inblies. Op 2 december 2025 verschijnt bij Princeton University Press het boek over de Chinees-Amerikaanse politicoloog Minxin Pei over het opkomend totalitarisme in China onder Xi Jinping. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verschenen.

Minxin Pei The Broken China Dream review en recensie

  • “Minxin Pei has authored yet another major statement about China’s post-Mao trajectory. His provocative and lucid analysis of China’s political evolution after Tiananmen concludes with a fascinating account of the rise of Xi Jinping. It will focus discussions of China’s recent past and likely futures for some years to come.” (Andrew G. Walder, Stanford University)
  • “In this outstanding book, today’s leading analyst of modern China reveals why it has been so easy for Xi Jinping to reinstate a totalitarian system. Minxin Pei shows how an unreformed party-state stood behind the economic miracle and how, in the absence of constraining legal or political institutions, Xi Jinping has found it easy to reimpose rule by fear. Anybody interested in modern China should read this book.” (Martin Wolf, chief economics commentator at the Financial Times)

Minxin Pei The Broken China Dream

The Broken China Dream

How Reform Revived Totalitarianism

  • Auteur: Minxin Pei (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Chinese politiek
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Princeton University Press
  • Verschijnt: 2 december 2025
  • Omvang: 324 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 29,95
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van boek over opkomend totalitarisme in China

A provocative book that demystifies China’s great democratic leap backward under Xi Jinping, revealing why the country’s embrace of capitalism has given rise to hard authoritarianism, mass surveillance, and one-man rule instead of democracy as many in the West had hoped.

When China embarked on its transformative journey of modernization in 1979, many believed the country’s turn toward capitalism would put its totalitarian past to rest and mark the birth of a democratic, open society. Instead, China reverted to a neo-totalitarian state, one backed by one of the fastest-growing, most formidable economies on earth. The Broken China Dream pulls back the curtain on the regime of strongman Xi Jinping, revealing why the reforms of the post-Mao era have been reversed on nearly every front—and why the world failed to see it coming.

Exposing the truth behind China’s economic ascendency after the Cultural Revolution, Minxin Pei shows how, following Mao’s death in 1976, Deng Xiaoping strategically deployed the tools of capitalism to preserve the Chinese Communist Party. Deng kept intact the institutional foundations of totalitarianism even as he unleashed private entrepreneurship and courted foreign investment, giving China’s one-party state control of a vast repressive apparatus and the most critical sectors of the economy. Only a fragile balance of power among dueling factions prevented the rise of a totalitarian leader in the two decades after the Tiananmen crackdown in 1989—but this temporary equilibrium collapsed.

Essential to understanding today’s China, this meticulously researched book is a sobering account of why the country’s reformers and institutions could not stop a shrewd and ruthless politician like Xi from resurrecting dormant totalitarian practices that, for the foreseeable future, have spelled the end of the dream of a free and prosperous China.

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Romeinen, Theater

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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Geschiedenisboeken, Nederlandse historicus

Arnoud S.Q. Visser – On Pedantry

Arnoud S.Q. Visser On Pedantry review, recensie en informatie boek met een culturele geschiedenis van de betweter. Op 4 november 2025 verschijnt bij Princeton University Press het boek van Arnoud S.Q. Visser, de  hoogleraar vroegmoderne letterkunde aan de Universiteit van Utrecht over de geschiedenis van pedanterie en de betweter. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Arnoud S.Q. Visser On Pedantry review en recensie

  • “With élan and erudition (in just the right measure), Arnoud S. Q. Visser is our genial guide through the gentle groves of snobby academe. The mansplainer has been with us forever (or at least since the first guy who said, “actually….”). Here, in diesem herrlichen kleinen Band (as the Rheinisches Museum für Philologie might have styled it, circa Heft 3¾, 1873), we get the know-it-all from Casaubon’s monstrous bladder (yes, the one mocked in Middlemarch) to the guy who tells a NASA scientist (female, of course) to read her own work, to Marshall McLuhan popping up in Annie Hall (Woody Allen name-dropped in an academic book?!). I laughed, I cringed, I learned. (Srsly.)” (Andrew Hui)
  • “An elegant and witty history of the overbearing schoolmaster through the ages, On Pedantry wears its vast learning with a stylish lightness (though true pedants will revel in the breadth of Visser’s notes).” (Dennis Duncan)

Arnoud S.Q. Visser On Pedantry

On Pedantry

A Cultural History of the Know-it-All

  • Auteur: Arnoud S. Q. Visser (Nederland)
  • Soort boek: geschiedenisboek
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Princeton University Press
  • Verschijnt: 4 november 2025
  • Omvang: 344 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 29,95
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst boek van Arnoud S.Q. Visser over de geschiedenis  van pedanterie

A lively and entertaining cultural history of a supremely annoying intellectual vice.

Intellectuals have long provoked scorn and irritation, even downright aggression. Many learned individuals have cast such hostility as a badge of honor, a sign of envy, or a form of resistance to inconvenient truths. On Pedantry offers an altogether different perspective, revealing how the excessive use of learning has been a vice in Western culture since the days of Socrates.

Taking readers from the academies of ancient Greece to today’s culture wars, Arnoud Visser explains why pretentious and punctilious learning has always annoyed us, painting vibrant portraits of some of the most intensely irritating intellectuals ever known, from devious sophists and bossy savantes to hypercritical theologians, dry-as-dust antiquarians, and know-it-all professors. He shows how criticisms of pedantry have typically been more about conduct than ideas, and he demonstrates how pedantry served as a weapon in the perennial struggle over ideas, social status, political authority, and belief. Shifting attention away from the self-proclaimed virtues of the learned to their less-than-flattering vice, Visser makes a bold and provocative contribution to the history of Western thought.

Drawing on a wealth of sources ranging from satire and comedy to essays, sermons, and film, On Pedantry sheds critical light on why anti-intellectual views have gained renewed prominence today and serves as essential reading in an age of rising populism across the globe.

Arnoud S. Q. Visser is professor of textual culture in the Renaissance at Utrecht University and director of the Huizinga Institute, the Dutch national research school for cultural history. His books include A Cultural History of Fame in the Renaissance, Reading Augustine in the Reformation, and Joannes Sambucus and the Learned Image.

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Romeinen, Amerikaanse historicus, Geschiedenisboeken

Kim Bowes – Surviving Rome

Kim Bowes Surviving Rome review, recensie en informatie boek over het economische leven van negentig procent van de Romeinen. Op 4 november 2025 verschijnt bij Princeton University Press het boek van Kim Bowes, hoogleraar archeologie en oude geschiedenis aan de Universiteit van Pennsylvania, over de gewone Romein. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Kim Bowes Surviving Rome review en recensie

  • “Finally, someone has written an economic history of Rome for the twenty-first century! In Surviving Rome, Kim Bowes does no less than challenge the whole field of ancient economic history, presenting us with a summons to think more empathetically about how ordinary Romans hustled, borrowed, and scraped to get by. She answers her own call with a radically new but highly current account of the Roman economy. This is a firecracker of a book, deeply researched and marvelously written, and I could not recommend it more.” (Seth Bernard, author of Building Mid-Republican Rome: Labor, Architecture, and the Urban Economy)
  • “Surviving Rome explores the stress and strains, precarities and strategies of the people—the ordinary men, women, and children, enslaved and free—who shaped the world’s first ‘global’ economy. This is a brilliantly insightful microeconomic history that brings working people and their practices back into the Roman economy. Everyone interested in premodern economies should read this deeply perceptive and engagingly written book.” (Claire Taylor, author of Poverty, Wealth, and Well-Being)

Kim Bowes Surviving Rome

Surviving Rome

The Economic Lives of the Ninety Percent

  • Auteur: Kim Bowes (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse geschiedenis
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Princeton University Press
  • Verschijnt: 4 november 2025
  • Omvang: 512 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 39,95
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek van Kim Bowes over de gewone Romein

A radical revision—and worker’s-eye view—of everything we thought we knew about the ancient Roman economy.

The story of ancient Rome is predominantly one of great men with great fortunes. Surviving Rome unearths another history, one of ordinary Romans, who worked with their hands and survived through a combination of grit and grinding labor.

Focusing on the working majority, Kim Bowes tells the stories of people like the tenant farmer Epimachus, Faustilla the moneylender, and the pimp Philokles. She reveals how the economic changes of the period created a set of bitter challenges and opportunistic hustles for everyone from farmers and craftspeople to day laborers and slaves. She finds working people producing a consumer revolution, making and buying all manner of goods from fine pottery to children’s toys. Many of the poorest working people probably pieced together a living from multiple sources of income, including wages. And she suggests that Romans’ most daunting challenge was the struggle to save. Like many modern people, saving enough to buy land or start a business was a slow, precarious slog. Bowes shows how these economies of survival were shared by a wide swath of the populace, blurring the lines between genders, ages, and legal status.

Drawing on new archaeological and textual evidence, Surviving Rome presents a radical new perspective on the economy of ancient Rome while speaking to the challenges of today’s laborers and gig workers surviving in an unforgiving global world.

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Amerikaanse politiek, Amerikaanse geschiedenis, Verenigde Staten

Laura K. Field – Furious Minds

Laura K. Field Furious Minds review, recensie en informatie boek over MAGA nieuw rechts en Donald Trump in Amerika. Op 6 november 2025 verschijnt bij Princeton University Press boek van Laura K. Field, de Amerikaanse politieke theoreticus en schrijfster over de Make America Great Again. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Laura K. Field Furious Minds review en recensie

Als er in de media een boekbespreking, review en recensie verschijnt van Furious Minds, The Making of the MAGA New Right, geschreven door Laura K. Field, dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.

Laura K. Field Furious Minds

Furious Minds

The Making of the MAGA New Right

  • Auteur: Laura K. Field (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse politiek
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Princeton University Press
  • Verschijnt: 4 november 2025
  • Omvang: 432 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: $ 35,00
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst boek over MAGA nieuw rechts in Amerika

The story of the radical conservative intellectual movement shaping Donald Trump’s agenda—and how it threatens American freedoms, values, and democracy.

Donald Trump is not a big thinker, but his 2016 presidential victory presented a grand opportunity for people who are, and it set off a radicalization and reconfiguration of the American conservative intellectual world. In Furious Minds, Laura Field, who spent close to a decade in conservative academic circles, chronicles the rise of the New Right—the network of academics, public intellectuals, and influencers who provide ideological fuel to Trumpism. This movement includes figures such as Patrick Deneen, Christopher Rufo, Peter Thiel, and JD Vance. Their agenda is built to last, and it has dire long-term implications for liberal democracy.

The New Right has precedents in American history, but it is distinct for its youthfulness, misogyny, and extraordinary successes—most notably the elevation of Vance to the vice presidency. The movement—which draws together associates of the right-wing Claremont Institute, National Conservatives, Postliberals, and the Hard Right—advocates nationalist economics, tight borders, isolationism, and reactionary social values. It helped to strategize January 6th and created Project 2025. But above all, the New Right is engaged in a vast culture war against modern liberal pluralism. It is determined to harness state power and use it in new, illiberal ways, from college campuses to the international scene—all driven by the fantasy of restoring a pure America.

Incisive and urgent, Furious Minds tells the story of the thinkers of the New Right—and their powerful assault on American freedoms, values, and ideals.

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Arabische geschiedenis, Amerikaanse historicus, 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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