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Engelse schrijfsters, Verhalen

Virginia Woolf – The Life of Violet

Virginia Woolf The Life of Violet review, recensie en informatie boek met drie vroege verhalen van de schrijfster die niet eerder gepubliceerd zijn. Op 8 oktober 2025 verschijnt bij Princeton University Press het boek van Virginia Woolf met drie niet eerder verschenen verhalen. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Virginia Woolf The Life of Violet review en recensie

  • “A whimsically serious trio of stories intended as a mock-biography of Violet Dickinson, and published here for the first time in a standalone volume … The three stories in The Life of Violet are funny. They are also, delightfully, very silly. And perhaps most of all, they are sexy, something Woolf was more than capable of being.” (Oliver Soden, Spectator World)
  • “What an extraordinary volume! Here we meet newly discovered, revised versions of Virginia Woolf’s early stories based on the life of Violet Dickinson. These tales are laugh-out-loud funny. They are also profound early experiments in the fiction/biography blend that later gave rise to Orlando and the feminist musing about women’s education, marriage, and literary history that infuse A Room of One’s Own. An illuminating preface and afterword by Urmila Seshagiri bring Dickinson’s biography and intellectual contributions into view and deftly analyze the stories and their place within Woolf’s oeuvre. Must reading for lovers of Woolf’s fiction.” (Jessica Berman, editor of A Companion to Virginia Woolf)

Virginia Woolf The Life of Violet

The Life of Violet

Three Early Stories

  • Auteur: Virginia Woolf (Engeland)
  • Soort boek: verhalen uit 1907
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Princeton University Press
  • Verschijnt: 8 oktober 2025
  • Omvang: 144 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: £ 16,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst boek met drie vroege verhalen van Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf’s first fully realized work of fiction—published in its final, revised form for the first time.

A beguiling trio of fantastical and farcical anti-fairy tales about a giantess who builds a magical “cottage of one’s own,” battles a silver-scaled sea monster, and defies governesses and gravity alike.

In 1907, eight years before she published her first novel, a twenty-five-year-old Virginia Woolf drafted three interconnected comic stories chronicling the adventures of a giantess named Violet—a teasing tribute to Woolf’s friend Mary Violet Dickinson. But it was only in 2022 that Woolf scholar Urmila Seshagiri discovered a final, revised typescript of the stories. The typescript revealed that Woolf had finished this mock-biography, making it her first fully realized literary experiment and a work that anticipates her later masterpieces. Published here for the first time in its final form, The Life of Violet blends fantasy, fairy tale, and satire as it transports readers into a magical world where the heroine triumphs over sea-monsters as well as stifling social traditions.

In these irresistible and riotously plotted stories, Violet, who has powers “as marvelous as her height,” gleefully flouts aristocratic proprieties, finds joy in building “a cottage of one’s own,” and travels to Japan to help create a radical new social order. Amid flights of fancy such as a snowfall of sugared almonds and bathtubs made of painted ostrich eggs, The Life of Violet upends the marriage plot, rejects the Victorian belief that women must choose between virtue and ambition, and celebrates women’s friendships and laughter.

A major literary discovery that heralds Woolf’s ambitions to revolutionize fiction and sheds new light on her great themes, The Life of Violet is first and foremost a delight to read.

This volume features a preface, afterword, notes, and photographs that provide rich historical, literary, and biographical context.

Virginia Woolf (was born 25 January 1882 in South Kensington,  Londen. She was one of the twentieth century’s most important writers. In addition to writing ten novels, including Mrs. Dalloway  and To the Lighthouse, Woolf was the cofounder of the Hogarth Press and a prolific essayist and critic. Her manifesto A Room of One’s Own is a cornerstone of modern feminist thought. 

Urmila Seshagiri is Distinguished Professor of Humanities and Professor of English at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She is the author of Race and the Modernist Imagination, the editor of the Oxford World’s Classics edition of Virginia Woolf’s Jacob’s Room, and a contributor to the Los Angeles Review of Books.

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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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Diplomatie, Politiek, Politieke Boeken, Politieke geschiedenis

A. Wess Mitchell – Great Power Diplomacy

A. Wess Mitchell Great Power Diplomacy review, recensie en informatie boek over de vaardigheid van staatsmanschap en diplomatie van Attila de Hun tot Kissinger. Op 14 oktober 2025 verschijnt bij Princeton University Press het boek over de rol van diplomatie, geschreven door A. Wess Mitchell, de Amerikaanse historicus en voormalig diplomaat. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

A. Wess Mitchell Great Power Diplomacy review en recensie

  • “Wess Mitchell’s book continues his fine tradition of writing perceptively and realistically about the confluence of history, diplomacy, and geopolitics.” (Robert D. Kaplan)
  • “Great Power Diplomacy is an indictment, understated but devastating, of the utopian foreign policy pursued by the United States and its allies in the post–Cold War world; an eloquent summons to the study of grand strategy and political, cultural, economic, military, and diplomatic history; and a clarion call for a return to old-fashioned diplomacy aimed at securing the survival and prosperity of one’s own political community. This book is a must-read for those in our foreign policy establishment, and it ought to be on the bedside table of the president of every American college or university that gives short shrift to political, cultural, economic, military and diplomatic history.” (Paul A. Rahe, author of The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta: The Persian Challenge)
  • “As powers contend with the consequences of today’s era of geopolitical rivalry and face an increasingly dangerous world, Mitchell offers a thoughtful account of the role diplomacy has played across centuries defined by periods of sharper competition. Those seeking insights into the importance of diplomacy in our new era will find much to appreciate in this timely and well-crafted book.” (Walter Russell Mead, author of Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World)

A. Wess Mitchell Great Power Diplomacy

Great Power Diplomacy

The Skill of Statecraft from Attila the Hun to Kissinger

  • Auteur: A. Wess Mitchell (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: over de diplomatie
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Princeton University Press
  • Verschijnt: 14 oktober 2025
  • Omvang; 352 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 35,00
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst boek over de rol van diplomatie van A. Wess Mitchell

A captivating history of diplomacy—and an urgent reminder of why we need to revive its lost arts to survive in a dangerous era of great power competition.

From the beginning of time, human societies have found themselves confronted by enemies too numerous or ferocious to defeat solely by force of arms. In these dramatic moments, wise leaders have turned to diplomacy to rearrange the gameboard in their favor and stymie seemingly unstoppable foes. In Great Power Diplomacy, American historian and diplomat A. Wess Mitchell recounts the forgotten story of how history’s most legendary empires have used diplomacy as a tool of grand strategy to outwit, outmaneuver, and outlast militarily superior opponents.

Through fifteen centuries of history, Great Power Diplomacy recreates the perilous junctures, colorful personalities, and intricate statecraft that led to some of history’s most stunning diplomatic achievements—and greatest disasters. The protagonists include giants like Richelieu, Metternich, Bismarck, and Kissinger, but also a lesser-known cast of scoundrels, eunuchs, drunkards, and fools. At every turn, fortune favored those great powers with the foresight and dexterity to build winning alliances, splinter enemy coalitions, and, when necessary, make peace with their bitterest foes.

Diplomacy of this kind has become a lost art in recent years as Western elites embraced the illusion that globalization and the spread of democracy would create a borderless world where nations would live in harmony and war would be abolished from the human story. But, as Great Power Diplomacy reveals, we will need to rediscover the secrets of skillful statecraft as the world enters an unstable new era in which continent-sized great powers compete for territory, resources, and prestige. By recalling diplomacy’s rich past, we can equip ourselves for a more dangerous future.

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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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Amerikaanse historicus, Japan, Japanse geschiedenis

Andrew W. Bernstein – Fuji

Andrew W. Bernstein Fuji review, recensie en informatie boek over de beroemdste berg en vulkaan van Japan. Op 23 september 2025 verschijnt bij Princeton University Press het boek van Andrew W. Bernstein over de berg Fuji. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Andrew W. Bernstein Fuji review en recensie

  • “Andrew Bernstein has written an unusually comprehensive history of Mount Fuji. His scholarly engagement is wide-ranging, treating the reader to a remarkable array of approaches—from earth science and economics to poetry, art, and religion. The fruit of many years’ research, Fuji offers penetrating perspectives on a sacred volcano’s convulsive life.” (Kären Wigen, author of A Malleable Map: Geographies of Restoration in Central Japan, 1600–1912)
  • “A historical tour de force, this biography of Japan’s most famous mountain begins in distant geological times, moves across centuries of change in religious, economic, military, ideological, and environmental factors, and ends its admirably transdisciplinary account at the edge of the future. Kaleidoscopic, informative, beguiling, its essay-like chapters are also a pleasure to read.” (Carol Gluck, author of Japan’s Modern Myths: Ideology in the Late Meiji Period)

Andrew W. Bernstein Fuji

Fuji

A Mountain in the Making

  • Auteur: Andrew W. Berstein (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: geschiedenis van de berg Fuji in Japan
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Princeton University Press
  • Verschijnt: 23 september 2025
  • Omvang: 352 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 35.00
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van het boek over de berg Fuji in Japan

Mount Fuji is everywhere recognized as a wonder of nature and enduring symbol of Japan. Yet behind the picture-postcard image is a history filled with conflict and upheaval. Violent eruptions across the centuries wrought havoc and instilled fear. Long an object of worship, Fuji has been inhabited by deities that changed radically over time. It has been both a totem of national unity and a flashpoint for economic and political disputes. And while its soaring majesty has inspired countless works of literature and art, the foot of the mountain is home to military training grounds and polluting industries. Tracing the history of Fuji from its geological origins in the remote past to its recent inscription as a World Heritage Site, Andrew Bernstein explores these and other contradictions in the story of the mountain, inviting us to reflect on the relationships we share with the nonhuman world and one another.

Beautifully illustrated, Fuji presents a rich portrait of one of the world’s most celebrated sites, revealing a mountain forever in the making and offering a meditation on the ability of landscape both to challenge and inspire.

Andrew W. Bernstein is professor of history at Lewis & Clark College and the author of Modern Passings: Death Rites, Politics, and Social Change in Imperial Japan.

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Eerste Wereldoorlog, Turkije, 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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Antropologie, Antropologisch boek, Gezondheid, Populair Wetenschappelijke Boeken

Michael D. Gurven – Seven Decades

Michael D. Gurven Seven Decades review, recensie en informatie boek over hoe de mens geëvolueerd is om langer te leven. Op 16 september 2025 verschijnt bij Princeton University Press het boek van Michael D. Gurven, de Amerikaanse antropoloog. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Michael D. Gurven Seven Decades review en recensie

  • “Blending scholarly expertise and masterful storytelling, Michael Gurven makes a compelling case that physical, mental, emotional, and social decline are not the inevitable processes we believe them to be. This is a must-read for anyone invested in human longevity.” (Barbara Natterson-Horowitz)
  • “This beautifully written book shows how to get the most good years out of life. In a genre littered with Instagram scientists and antiaging charlatans, Michael Gurven has tapped into a consummately original source of longevity wisdom: an Amazonian tribe with the world’s lowest rate of cardiovascular disease. Here, he harnesses evolutionary biology and his keen anthropology skills to tease out their wisdom to understand the capacity of the human machine. Read it to live longer or just for fun. Either way, you won’t regret it.” (Dan Buettner, National Geographic Fellow and author)
  • “This eye-opening, wise, and entertaining book uniquely combines groundbreaking anthropological and evolutionary insights to explain how and why we age, and how those too often overlooked insights can help all of us age better. Be sure to read this gem of a book!” (Daniel E. Lieberman)

Michael D. Gurven Seven Decades

Seven Decades

How We Evolved to Live Longer

  • Auteur: Michael D. Gurven (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: antropologisch boek
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Princeton University Press
  • Verschijnt: 16 september 2025
  • Omvang: 536 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek
  • Prijs: $ 35,00
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst boek over waarom we ouder worden van Michael D. Gurven

Our ability to live for decades may seem like a modern luxury made possible by clean water and advances in medicine. In fact, human longevity is a legacy of our unique evolutionary path as a species. Seven Decades challenges the belief that life in the past was “nasty, brutish, and short,” tracing how our capacity for long life came to be and transforming how we think about aging.

Blending vivid storytelling with cutting-edge science, anthropologist Michael Gurven weaves tales from his years of field experience among Indigenous societies whose diet and traditional lifeways are closer to how we all lived prior to industrialization, demonstrating how these communities are relatively free of the chronic diseases of aging such as heart disease, dementia, and diabetes. He provides compelling evidence that our longevity first evolved among our hunting and gathering ancestors and shows how the human body was built to last around seven decades. At a time when people are more likely to live to old age than ever before, Gurven discusses how we can harness this amazing evolutionary feat through a shift in societal values, one that balances self-reliance with interdependence, nurtures multigenerational ties, prioritizes women’s health and longevity, and enables us to rediscover the wisdom of our elders.

Sharing bold new perspectives on human aging, Seven Decades draws important lessons from our ancestral history, bridging the past with the present to reveal what healthy, happy, and productive old age could look like for all generations.

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Amerikaanse geschiedenis, Amerikaanse politiek, Sociologisch boek

Paul Starr – American Contradiction

Paul Starr American Contradiction review, recensie en informatie boek over revolutie en wraak van de jaren vijftig tot nu in de Verenigde Staten. Op 14 oktober 2025 verschijnt bij Princeton University Press het boek van Paul Starr de Amerikaanse hoogleraar sociologie en public affairs aan de Princeton Universiteit. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Paul Starr American Contradiction review en recensie

  • “Anything Paul Starr writes is important to read, and this book is no exception. American Contradiction is a highly sophisticated history of the United States since the 1950s emphasizing the interplay between social movements, politics, culture, law, and social policy.” (Nelson Lichtenstein)
  • “Paul Starr, one of the great chroniclers of American institutions, provides a brilliant reinterpretation of the modern political era. His book unpacks the fundamental contradictions that have haunted the body politic since the 1960s. A country born in contraction between slavery and freedom has remained at odds with itself even as the issues changed. The bold attack by the progressive project on hierarchical institutions produced an equally fierce counterattack by those who wanted to restore an imagined earlier era. American Contradiction teaches us how, far from being an anomaly, the election of Donald Trump twice to the presidency was a result of deeply-rooted political forces that had been steadily gaining strength within the Republican Party for decades. This is a must-read book for sociologists, historians, political scientists, and any reader interested in our nation’s political history.” (Julian E. Zelizer, Princeton University)
  • “A thoughtful study of the push and pull from right to left and back again in the past 75 years ,,, A useful key to understanding how American politics and the American polity have become so intractably polarized.” (Kirkus Reviews)

Paul Starr American Contradiction

American Contradiction

Revolution and Revenge from the 1950s to Now

  • Auteur: Paul Starr (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse politieke geschiedenis
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Princeton University Press
  • Verschijnt: 14 oktober 2025
  • Omvang; 456 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 35,00
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon 

Flaptekst van het boek van Paul Starr over de Amerikaanse politiek

How did Americans come to elect Barack Obama—and then Donald Trump? Those choices capture what Paul Starr calls the American contradiction.

The whole truth about America, Starr argues in this new history of the United States since the 1950s, has never been contained in one consistent set of values or interests. Our nation was born in the contradiction between freedom and slavery. Today it is beset by a contradiction between a changing people and a resisting nation, a nation with entrenched institutions that have empowered those who fear the changes and look to restore an old America of their imagining.

Starr tells this history from the dual standpoints of the progressive movements that changed the American people and of the movements that emerged in response. Black Americans, he argues, served as a model minority, setting in motion America’s twentieth-century revolutions in gender as well as race and rights. With industry’s decline and the rise of economic inequality, millions of Americans have felt dispossessed and want the old America back. Trump is their revenge. American Contradiction tells the story of how 1950s America became the almost unrecognizable America of the 2020s.

Paul Starr is born 12 May 1949. He is professor of sociology and public affairs at Princeton University and founding coeditor of the American Prospect magazine. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction and Bancroft Prize in American History for The Social Transformation of American Medicine. Over a half-century he has written essays and op‑eds for newspapers and magazines as well as books on America’s institutions, history, and politics.

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Amerikaanse geschiedenis, Antropologie, Antropologisch boek, Prehistorie

Kenneth L. Feder – Native America

Kenneth L. Feder Native America review, recensie en informatie boek met het verhaal over de eerste volkeren in Amerika. Op 10 september 2025 verschijnt bij Princeton University Press het boek over de eerste bevolking van het continent Amerika, geschreven door Kenneth L. Feder de emeritus professor antropologie van Central Connecticut State University. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Kenneth L. Feder Native America review en recensie

  • “Feder tells the story of North America’s amazing archaeology with passion, humility, and humor. Native America is not just authoritative; it’s a page-turner. I highly recommend it to anyone with even the slightest interest in the continent’s archaeology. You’ll learn a lot and have fun along the way.” (Brad Lepper, curator of archaeology, Ohio History Connection)
  • “Generations of students—including me—can count themselves lucky to have had their first introduction to archaeology through the works of Kenneth Feder. Native America, which introduces cutting-edge findings and conveys the deepest respect for Indigenous peoples and their cultures, continues his tradition of superb writing. His accessible tone and irreverent humor disguise the fact that this book is a master class in American archaeology. This is an essential book for anyone interested in understanding current scientific perspectives on the origins and histories of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas. It sets a new standard to which all anthropology writers should aspire.” (Jennifer Raff, author of Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas)

Kenneth L. Feder Native America

Native America

The Story of the First Peoples

  • Auteur: Kenneth L. Feder (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: antropologisch boek over de eerste Amerikanen
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Princeton University Press
  • Verschijnt: 10 september 2025
  • Omvang: 440 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 39.95
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek over de eerste volkeren in van Amerika

Native America presents an infinitely surprising and fascinating deep history of the continent’s Indigenous peoples. Kenneth Feder, a leading expert on Native American history and archaeology, draws on archaeological, historical, and cultural evidence to tell the ongoing story, more than 20,000 years in the making, of an incredibly resilient and diverse mixture of peoples, revealing how they have ingeniously adapted to the many changing environments of the continent, from the Arctic to the desert Southwest.

Richly illustrated, Native America introduces close to a hundred different peoples, each with their own language, economic and social system, and religious beliefs. Here, we meet the Pequot, Tunxis, Iroquois, and Huron of the Northeast; the Navajo, Hopi, Zuni, and Apache of the Southwest; the Hidatsa, Mandan, and Lakota of the Northern Plains; the Haida, Kwakiutl, Nootka, and Salish of the Northwest Coast; the Tule River and Mohave of Southern California; the Cherokee, Creek, and Seminole of the Southeast; and the Inuit and Kalaallit of the Arctic. We learn about hunters of enormous Ice Age beasts; people who raised stone toolmaking to the level of art; a Native American empire ruled by a king and queen, with a huge city at its center and colonies hundreds of miles away; a society that made the desert bloom by designing complex irrigation networks; brilliant architects who built fairy castles in sandstone cliffs; and artists who produced beautiful and moving petroglyphs and pictographs that reflect their deep thinking about history, the sacred, the land, and the sky.

Native America is not about peoples of the past, but vibrant, living ones with an epic history of genius and tenacity—a history that everyone should know.

Kenneth L. Feder is professor emeritus of anthropology at Central Connecticut State University. His books include Frauds, Myths, and Mysteries: Science and Pseudoscience in Archaeology, The Past in Perspective: An Introduction to Human Prehistory, and Native American Archaeology in the Parks: A Guide to Native Heritage Sites in Our National Parks and Monuments.

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Tom Jackson Insect Architecture review, recensie en informatie boek over hoe insecten hun wereld bouwen, ontwerpen en vormgeven. Op 9 november 2025 verschijnt bij Princeton University Press het boek van Tom Jackson, de Amerikaanse schrijver over de bouwwerken die insecten maken. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Tom Jackson Insect Architecture review en recensie

  • “This book is about as fascinating a read as you will ever have, even if you never gave a thought to the lives of insects before … You simply cannot fail to be impressed with it all and not a little gobsmacked along the way.” (David Gascoigne, writer of Travels with Birds)

Tom Jackson Insect Architecture

Insect Architecture

How Insects Build, Engineer, and Shape Their World

  • Auteur: Tom Jackson
  • Soort boek: insecten boek
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Princeton University Press
  • Verschijnt: 9 september 2025
  • Omvang: 176 pagina’s (150 afbeeldingen)
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 29,95
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek over de bouwwerken van insecten

Insect Architecture takes you inside the amazing structures that insects build, from the paper galleries of yellowjacket wasps to elaborate termite mounds complete with royal chambers and air-conditioning systems. Each chapter focuses on a group of insect architects, describing the materials and methods they use while exploring the structures themselves in detail. Blending spectacular illustrations with illuminating case studies of representative species from around the world, this is the ultimate guide to insect artistry and innovation.

  • Features a wealth of color photos, explanatory diagrams and blueprints, step-by-step sequences, and visual spreads
  • Covers all major groups of insect architects and the broad array of structures they build
  • Explains how anatomy, life cycle, and habitat are the ingredients to extraordinary creations
  • Profiles the insect world’s most accomplished builders—from beetles, bees, and cicadas to moths, wasps, ants, and termites
  • Discusses the ecological impacts of insect architecture
  • Reveals how insect builders have inspired human design innovations

Tom Jackson is an acclaimed science writer and conservationist. His books include Biology: An Illustrated History of Life Science, The Magnificent Book of Dangerous Animals, Micro Monsters, and Genetics in Minutes: 200 Key Ideas of Evolution and Biology in an Instant. He was the chief editor of Insects and Spiders of the World.

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