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Geschiedenisboeken, Politieke geschiedenis, True-Crime

Simon Ball – Death to Order

Simon Ball Death to Order review, recensie en informatie boek met een moderne geschiedenis van politieke moord in opdracht. Op 26 augustus 2025 verschijnt bij Yale University Press het nieuwe boek van Simon Ball over huurmoord van de hoogleraar internationale geschiedenis en politiek aan de Universiteit van Leeds. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Simon Ball Death to Order review en recensie

  • “Ball cautions against focusing too much on the assassins or even their victims… His thrust is political: to examine how assassination functions as an instrument, and how states’ reactions to assassination shape its use.” (Dan Piepenbring, Harper’s Magazine)
  • “Death to Order is a masterpiece of international history. Simon Ball wears his great learning lightly, but the new research is prodigious and could hardly be more necessary. As contemporary events keep reminding us, this is a story for our times.” (Richard Aldous)

Simon Ball Death to Order

Death to Order

A Modern History of Assassination

  • Auteur: Simon Ball (Engeland)
  • Soort boek: politieke geschiedenis, true crime
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Yale University Press
  • Verschijnt: 26 augustus 2025
  • Omvang: 464 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 35,00
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek van Simon Ball

A deeply researched history of assassination in the modern world, from Franz Ferdinand to Osama bin Laden.

Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Leon Trotsky, Reinhard Heydrich, Mahatma Gandhi, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Indira Gandhi, Benazir Bhutto, Osama bin Laden, Qasem Soleimani: assassination—the murder of a specific individual by an organised conspiracy in pursuit of political ends—has rarely failed to grip the imagination.

In this incisive new history, Simon Ball shows how targeted political murder has become a tool of democratic states but also a key strategy of those who wish to topple them. Ball introduces us to the techniques of assassination and those who wield them, as well as the security regimes that have developed to prevent this violent practice. From the First World War and the age of empire to terrorism and the development of pilotless drones, Death to Order places assassination at the heart of modern political history—and shows how it continues to impact our world.

Simon Ball is professor of international history and politics at the University of Leeds. He is the author of six acclaimed books, including Secret History, The Bitter Sea, and The Guardsmen.

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Engelse historicus, Geschiedenisboeken

Faisal Devji – Waning Crescent

Faisal Devji Waning Crescent review, recensie en informatie boek over de opkomst en ondergang van de wereldwijde islam. Op 26 augustus 2026 verschijnt bij Yale University Press het nieuwe boek van Faisal Devji de in Islam gespecialiseerde historicus en Beit Hoogleraar Wereld- en Imperiale Geschiedenis en fellow van het Balliol College, Oxford. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Faisal Devji Waning Crescent review en recensie

  • “Faisal Devji has emerged as the preeminent historian of global religion in its most surprising, intractable, and understudied aspects. His newest book is no less original in its stunning and disarming approach. Waning Crescent forms essential reading for a wide audience that will appreciate its erudition and for those rare acute political observers rightly concerned with the present spell cast by our more oppressing spiritual pasts but also intrigued by the normative resources that may yet be found there.” (Hent de Vries, Dutch Philospoher and professor at  New York University)
  • “Every book Faisal Devji writes is important. This biography of Islam as an historical actor is daring, learned, occasionally outrageous, invariably revelatory. Here there is no deference to the Western gaze. Devji gives us not only a study of Islam, but a study of modernity that shifts the world on its axis.” (Anne Norton, University of Pennsylvania)

Faisal Devji Waning Crescent

Waning Crescent

The Rise and Fall of Global Islam

  • Auteur: Faisal Devji (Engeland)
  • Soort boek: geschiedenis van de Islam
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Yale University Press
  • Verschijnt: 26 augustus 2025
  • Omvang: 280 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 30,00
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek van Faisal Devji over de opkomst en ondergang van de wereldwijde islam

A compelling examination of the rise of Islam as a global historical actor.

Until the nineteenth century, Islam was variously understood as a set of beliefs and practices. But after Muslims began to see their faith as an historical actor on the world stage, they needed to narrate Islam’s birth anew as well as to imagine its possible death. Faisal Devji argues that this change, sparked by the crisis of Muslim sovereignty in the age of European empire, provided a way of thinking about agency in a global context: an Islam liberated from the authority of kings and clerics had the potential to represent the human race itself as a newly empirical reality.

Ordinary Muslims, now recognized as the privileged representatives of Islam, were freed from traditional forms of Islamic authority. However, their conception of Islam as an impersonal actor in history meant that it could not be defined in either religious or political terms. Its existence as a civilizational and later ideological subject also deprived figures like God and the Prophet of their theological subjectivities while robbing the Muslim community of its political agency. Devji illuminates this history and explores its ramifications for the contemporary Muslim world.

Faisal Devji was born in 1964 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. He is Beit Professor of Global and Imperial History and Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford. He is the author of The Impossible Indian: Gandhi and the Temptation of Violence and Muslim Zion: Pakistan as a Political Idea.

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Iran

Homa Katouzian – Iran and the Revolution

Homa Katouzian Iran and the Revolution review, recensie en informatie boek over geschiedenis van het land vanaf WOII. Op 24 februari 2025 verschijnt bij Yale University Press het boek van de in Iran geboren historicus Homa Katouzian over de geschiedenis van het revolutionaire Iran, van de jaren 1940 tot heden. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Homa Katouzian Iran and the Revolution review en recensie

Als er in de media een boekbespreking, recensie of review verschijnt van Iran and the Revolution, A History, geschreven door historicus Homa Katouzian, dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.

Homa Katouzian Iran and the Revolution

Iran and the Revolution

A History

  • Auteur: Homa Katouzian
  • Soort boek: Iraanse geschiedenis
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Yale University Press
  • Verschijnt: 24 februari 2026
  • Omvang: 352 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek
  • Prijs: $ 35.00
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van het boek over geschiedenis van Iran na 1940

A major new history of revolutionary Iran, from the 1940s to the present.

Iran’s revolution in 1979 shook the world. The Pahlavi dynasty came crashing down, and the Islamic Republic rose in its place. But what led to this seismic event? How did the revolutionary movement gain such strength? And what has its legacy been for modern Iran?

In this comprehensive history, Homa Katouzian explores Iran from the 1940s to the present, showing how the revolution came into being. From the chaos of oil nationalisation to the overthrow of Mosaddeq in 1953, through the revolutionary moment itself, to the resistance movements of contemporary Iran, the revolution has had long and lasting effects. We see the profound influence of US presidents and the ramifications of Saddam Hussein’s invasion in 1980. Crucially, Katouzian shows how the revolution constituted an uprising of the whole of Iranian society and was not a purely Islamic movement.

This is an engaging account of an epochal event—one which continues to shape Iran to this day.

Homa Katouzian was born on 17 November 1942 in Tehran, Iran. He is a member of the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Oxford, and a visiting scholar at the Department of History, University of Toronto. He is the author of numerous books, including Iran: Politics, History and Literature, Iran: A Beginners’ Guide, and The Persians.

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China, Chinese romans, Chinese schrijfster

Can Xue – The Enchanting Lives of Others

Can Xue The Enchanting Lives of Others review, recensie en informatie van de inhoud van de roman van de Chinese schrijfster. Op 24 februari 2026 verschijnt bij de Engelse vertaling van de roman 激情世界 van Can Xue, de uit China afkomstige schrijfster. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.

Can Xue The Enchanting Lives of Others review en recensie

  • “Can Xue’s novelscape transforms how readers and writers are rearranged through passages and passageways of living, though who are the readers? Who are the writers?—you and I or the novel’s characters, or both? A singular gem!” (Martine Bellen, author of An Anatomy of Curiosity)

Can Xue The Enchanting Lives of Others

The Enchanting Lives of Others

  • Auteur: Can Xue (China)
  • Soort boek: Chinese roman
  • Origineel: 激情世界 (2022)
  • Engelse vertaling: Annelise Finegan
  • Uitgever: Yale University Books
  • Reeks: The Margellos World Republic of Letters
  • Verschijnt: 24 februari 2026
  • Omvang: 448 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 35.00
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de roman van de Chinese schrijfster Can Xue

At the Pigeon Book Club, a circle of readers joins in exhilarating meetings to discuss literature. The only requirements for entry are an all-encompassing love of books and an intuition that to read is to love and to love is to read. Xiao Sang, a department store clerk, wonders if life can ever be as captivating as a novel. Newlyweds Fei and Han Ma struggle to build a marriage as Han Ma discovers a surprising gift for storytelling. Xiao Ma, a hopeful dreamer, explores the possibility of romance with an older man. Bound by a shared passion for fiction, each book club member seeks to understand the relationship between the stories they read and the lives they lead, reveling in both the quotidian details and the ecstasy of aesthetics.

This is the most accessible work yet from the celebrated writer Can Xue: a utopian comedy and a work of profound joy, a love song to literary inspiration and the remarkable beauty of the ordinary. The Enchanting Lives of Others explores what it means to know and be known to others through the transformative power of reading.

Can Xue is the pseudonym of the Chinese writer Deng Xiaohua. She is born on 30 May 1953 in Changsha, Hunan, China. Formerly a tailor, she began writing fiction in 1983. Her works include Barefoot Doctor, Five Spice Street, Vertical Motion, Mother River, The Last Lover, Love in the New Millennium, and I Live in the Slums.

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Oezbeekse roman, Oezbeekse schrijfster, Oezbeekse schrijver, Oezbekistan

Hamid Ismailov – We Computers

Hamid Ismailov We Computers review, recensie en informatie over de inhoud van de roman van de schrijver uit Oezbekistan. Op 19 augustus 2025 verschijnt bij Yale University Press de Engelse vertaling van de roman van Hamid Ismailov, de in Kirgizië geboren Oezbeekse schrijver. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van de roman verkrijgbaar.

Hamid Ismailov We Computers review en recensie

  • “A multilayered exploration of poetry, authorship, and digital intelligence by a writer of immense poetic power.” (Guardian)
  • “Ismailov’s best novel yet, We Computers braids together exquisite classical and modern poetry, disorienting autofiction, and Oulipian metaliterary trickery, without ever losing its sense of fun. Fairweather-Vega’s translation handles the multilingual quotations and protean range of pastiche with remarkable deftness.” (Samuel Hodgkin, Yale University)
  • “Many paths cross in Ismailov’s beautiful new work–poetry, history and the infinite imagination. Every path winding into another. Every path worth taking.” (Patti Smith)

Hamid Ismailov We Computers

We Computers

  • Auteur: Hamid Ismailov (Oezbekistan)
  • Soort boek: Oezbeekse roman
  • Origineel: Bizkim – komputerlar 
  • Engelse vertaling: Shelley Fairweather-Vega
  • Uitgever: Yale University Press
  • Verschijnt: 19 augustus 2025
  • Omvang: 296 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 20.00
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon

Flaptekst van de roman van de Oezbeekse schrijver Hamid Ismailov

In the late 1980s, French poet and psychologist Jon‑Perse finds himself in possession of one of the most promising inventions of the century: a computer. Enchanted by snippets of Persian poetry he learns from his Uzbek translation partner, Abdulhamid Ismail, Jon-Perse builds a computer program capable of both analyzing and generating literature. But beyond the text on his screen there are entire worlds—of history, philosophy, and maybe even of love—in the stories and people he and AI conjure.

Hamid Ismailov brings together his work as a poet, translator, and student of literature of both East and West to craft a postmodern ode to poetry across centuries and continents. Crossing the poètes maudits with beloved Sufi classics, blending absurdist dreams with the life of the famed Persian poet Hafez, moving from careful mathematical calculations to lyrical narratives, Ismailov invents an ingenious transnational poetics of love and longing for the digital age. Situated at the crossroads of a multilingual world and mediated by the unreliable sensibilities of digital intelligence, this book is a dazzling celebration of how poetry resonates across time and space.

Hamid Ismailov, was born on 5 May 1954 in Tokmok, Kyrgyzstan and raised in Uzbekistan. He is considered Central Asia’s foremost living author. His books include The Railway, The Dead Lake, Manashi, The Underground, Of Strangers and Bees and The Devil’s Dance. He lives in Hertz, UK.

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Deense schrijvers, Geschiedenisboeken

Sten Rynning – NATO

Sten Rynning NATO review, recensie en informatie boek met een geschiedenis van ’s werelds machtigste alliantie de NAVO. Op 8 juli 2025 verschijnt bij Yale University Press het boek over de NAVO van de Deense professor en schrijver Sten Rynning. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling is niet verkrijgbaar.

Sten Rynning NATO review en recensie

  • “Extremely readable. It provides a great overview of what NATO is, why it came about, and how it has evolved. Rynning does an excellent job.” (James Goldgeier)
  • “The history of NATO is one of constant adaptation and evolution – with many twists and turns along the way. Professor Stan Rynning’s book recounts with style and detail a remarkable story. As someone who lived through some of its most momentous moments I can admire the landscape painted here of seventy five years of growth, power and (mixed) achievement. A billion people sleep easy in their beds today because the NATO Alliance protects them. Here they can, and should, see why that has happened.” (Lord Robertson of Port Ellen KT GCMG, 10th Secretary General of NATO, 1999-2003)

Sten Rynning NATO

NATO

From Cold War to Ukraine, a History of the World’s Most Powerful Alliance

  • Auteur: Sten Rynning (Denemarken)
  • Soort boek: geschiedenis van de NAVO
  • Uitgever: Yale University Press
  • Verschijnt: 8 juli 2025
  • Omvang: 400 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback
  • Prijs: $ 22,00
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek over de geschiedenis van de NATO

A wide-ranging new history of NATO, from its origins to the present day—published for the alliance’s seventy-fifth anniversary.

For seven decades, NATO’s stated aim has been the achievement of world peace—but playing great power politics always involves conflict. Russia’s war on Ukraine and on Europe’s security order puts the alliance under threat, but also demonstrates why transatlantic cooperation is so necessary. But how did NATO get to where it is today, and what does its future hold?

In this incisive new account, Sten Rynning traces the full history of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation from its origins to the present. Across its seventy-five years, NATO has navigated the twists and turns of Cold War diplomacy and nuclear deterrence, and has grown its membership. The alliance has become a guarantor of peace, but Rynning explores how its complex inner workings alongside Russian and Chinese opposition are now shaping its direction.

At a time of strategic competition and geopolitical upheaval, Rynning offers us a clear-sighted account of the alliance’s intriguing history—and asks what its ambitions might be for the future.

Sten Rynning has researched and written on NATO for twenty-five years. He is a professor and director of the Danish Institute for Advanced Study, University of Southern Denmark, and the author of NATO in Afghanistan.

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Geschiedenisboeken, Ierland, Ierse schrijvers

John Gibney – A Short History of Ireland

John Gibney A Short History of Ireland review, recensie en informatie over de inhoud van het boek over de geschiedenis van Ierland. Op 24 juni 2025 verschijnt bij Yale University Press het boek over de Ierse geschiedenis geschreven door de Ierse historicus John Gibney. 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.

John Gibney A Short History of Ireland review en recensie

  • “A Short History of Ireland stands out for its brevity, but also for its accessibility. (…) A solid introduction not only to the key events and themes of Irish history, but also to the processes of that history, too.” (Seán Hewitt, Irish Times)
  • “This admirable, succinct account of developments in Irish society from the sixteenth century to the present identifies several unresolved historiographical issues, and offers an especially judicious discussion of controversies concerning the 18th and 19th centuries.” (Nicholas Canny, National University of Ireland)

John Gibney A Short History of Ireland

A Short History of Ireland

1500 – 2000

  • Auteur: John Gibney (Ierland)
  • Soort boek: Ierse geschiedenis
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Yale University Press
  • Verschijnt: 24 juni 2025
  • Omvang: 304 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 20,00
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek over de geschiedenis van Ierland

A brisk, concise, and readable overview of Irish history from the Protestant Reformation to the dawn of the twenty-first century.

Five centuries of Irish history are explored in this informative and accessible volume. Beginning with Ireland’s modern period at the dawn of the sixteenth century, John Gibney continues through to virtually the present day, offering an integrated overview of the island nation’s cultural, political, and socioeconomic evolution.

This succinct, scholarly study covers important historical events, including the Cromwellian conquest and settlement, the Great Famine, and the struggle for Irish independence. Along the way, it explores major themes such as Ireland’s often contentious relationship with Britain, the impact of the Protestant Reformation, the ongoing religious tensions it inspired, and the global reach of the Irish diaspora. This unique, wide-ranging work assimilates the most recent scholarship on a wide range of historical controversies, making it an essential addition to the library of any student of Irish studies.

John Gibney completed his doctorate at Trinity College Dublin. He is the author of a number of books including The Shadow of a Year: The 1641 Rebellion in Irish History and Memory.

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Geschiedenisboeken, Non-Fictie

Bruno J. Strasser & Thomas Schlich – The Mask

Bruno J. Strasser & Thomas Schlich The Mask recensie, review en informatie boek over de geschiedenis van het inademen van slechte lucht. Op 24 juni 2025 verschijnt bij Yale University Press het boek The Mask, A History of Breathing Bad Air, geschreven door Bruno J. Strasser en Thomas Schlich. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteurs en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.

Bruno J. Strasser & Thomas Schlich The Mask recensie en review

  • “This captivating and richly illustrated book offers an ambitious and expansive history of ‘bad air,’ the plague, and approaches to widespread disease. It uses the mask—as both physical object and metaphor—to uncover and reveal, brilliantly charting a course through the intertwined histories of disease, war, the environment, and identity.” (Sharrona Pearl)
  • “A thoroughly documented and well-illustrated accounting of mask wearing over two millennia.” (Kirkus Reviews)

Bruno J. Strasser & Thomas Schlich The Mask

The Mask

A History of Breathing Bad Air

  • Auteur: Bruno J. Strasser, Thomas Schlich
  • Soort boek: geschiedenisboek
  • Taal: Engels
  • Verschijnt: 24 juni 2025
  • Omvang: 288 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 38,00
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek over maskers als bescherming tegen slechte lucht

A history of masks protecting against bad air—in cities, factories, hospitals, and war trenches—exploring how our identities and beliefs shape the decision to wear a mask.

For centuries, humans have sought to protect themselves from harmful air, whether from smoke, dust, vapors, or germs. This book offers the first history of respiratory masks—ranging from simple pieces of cloth to elaborate gas masks—and explores why they have sparked both hope and fear.

Bruno J. Strasser and Thomas Schlich captivate readers with stories of individuals—from renowned doctors and political leaders to forgotten inventors and anonymous factory workers—who passionately debated the value of masks. In Renaissance Italy and Meiji Japan, in Victorian Britain and Cold War America, the way societies have engaged with face coverings reveals their deepest cultural and political fractures. The Mask challenges us to reconsider how we care for one another and the kind of environment we aspire to inhabit.

Bruno J. Strasser is a historian, a full professor at the University of Geneva, and an affiliate of History of Medicine at Yale University.

Thomas Schlich is the James McGill Professor in the History of Medicine at McGill University, and a former practicing physician.

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Tanzania, Tanzaniaanse schrijver

Euphrase Kezilahabi – Rosa Mistika

Euphrase Kezilahabi Rosa Mistika recensie, review en informatie roman uit 1971 van de Swahili schrijver uit Tanzania. Op 17 juni 2025 verschijnt bij Yale University Press de Engelse vertaling van de in Swahili geschreven roman van de Tanzaniaanse schrijver Euphrase Kezilahabi. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van de roman, de auteur en over de uitgave. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Euphrase Kezilahabi Rosa Mistika recensie en review

  • “A tremendously important novel.” (Abdulrazak Gurnah, winnaar van de Nobelprijs voor de Literatuur in 2021)
  • “Carefully and beautifully translated, Rosa Mistika is a profound meditation on how we come to independence as individuals, as women and men steeped in patriarchy, and in societies still wearing neocolonial rags—and then when tasked with freedom, what we do with it.” (Mũkoma wa Ngũgĩ)

Euphrase Kezilahabi Rosa Mistika

Rosa Mistika

The Margellos World Republic of Letters

  • Auteur: Euphrase Kezilahabi (Tanzania)
  • Soort boek: Swahili roman, Tanzaniaanse roman
  • Engelse vertaling: Jay Boss Rubin
  • Uitgever: Yale University Press
  • Verschijnt: 17 juni 2025
  • Omvang:  176 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 18,00
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de Swahili roman van Euphrase Kezilahabi

A controversial Swahili classic by one of Tanzania’s most revered writers, banned on publication and finally translated into English.

Teenage Rosa lives with her parents and four younger sisters in a village on Ukerewe Island in Lake Victoria, where she attends the local school and helps out on the family farm. Life would be relatively peaceful if it weren’t for Rosa’s father, who drinks to oblivion and abuses his wife and daughters. Initially relieved to be admitted into a residential school on the mainland, Rosa soon discovers that she’s ill prepared for life outside her village. As she becomes accustomed to the attention—and manipulations—of men, she begins to understand her sexuality as a weapon. But this understanding, born of the need to survive in a world of double standards, comes with a price.

Rosa Mistika is a radical narrative exploration of womanhood, maternal love, agency, and authority—and the first-ever Swahili novel to address issues of domestic violence, sexual coercion, and abortion. Through the story of a young woman and her community it poses the enduring question: To what degree are we responsible for the choices we make, and to what degree are we acted upon by forces outside our control?

Euphrase Kezilahabi is born on 13 April 1944 on Ukerewe Island in Tanzania. He was a Tanzanian novelist, poet, and scholar who wrote in Swahili. On 9 January 2020 he died in Dar-es-Salaam in Tanzania.

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Biografie, Geschiedenisboeken, Haïti

Julia Gaffield – I Have Avanged America Jean-Jacques Dessalines biografie

Julia Gaffield I Have Avanged America Jean-Jacques Dessalines biografie review, recensie en informatie over de inhoud van het boek. Op 17 juni 2025 verschijnt bij Yale University Press I Have Avanged America, Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Haiti’s Fight for Freedom. Het boek is geschreven door de Amerikaanse historicus en schrijfster Julia Gaffield. 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.

Julia Gaffield I Have Avanged America Jean-Jacques Dessalines biografie review en recensie

  •  “At last, a biography of Jean‑Jacques Dessalines, the Haitian par excellence, the only hero of Independence to enter the Vodou pantheon! Julia Gaffield reconstructs the life of the father of the country with exhaustive research and easy‑to‑read prose that avoids value judgments while reflecting a sympathy for her subject that courses through the book.” (Jean Casimir, Université d’État d’Haïti)
  • “Julia Gaffield’s long‑awaited biography of Jean‑Jacques Dessalines paints a compelling portrait of one of Haiti’s most enigmatic leaders, a formerly enslaved man who became the nation’s first head of state. Based on prodigious new research, this fascinating book is also propulsively readable. A stunning achievement.” (Ada Ferrer, Princeton University)

Julia Gaffield I Have Avanged America Jean-Jacques Dessalines

I Have Avanged America

Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Haiti’s Fight for Freedom

  • Auteur: Julia Gaffield (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: biografie, geschiedenisboek
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Yale University Press
  • Verschijnt: 17 juni 2025
  • Omvang: 352 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 35,00
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek over de abolitionistische revolutionair uit Haïti

A moving and humane portrait of the abolitionist revolutionary Jean-Jacques Dessalines, who led Haiti’s fight for independence from French colonial rule.

“My name has become a horror to all those who want slavery,” declared Jean‑Jacques Dessalines as he announced the independence of Haiti, the most radical nation‑state during the Age of Revolution and the first country ever to permanently outlaw slavery. Enslaved for the first thirty years of his life, Dessalines (c. 1758–1806) joined the revolution that abolished slavery within the French colony. Then he became a general in the colonial army of the new French Republic. When it was discovered that France once again supported slavery, Dessalines declared war on his former allies. Fighting under the slogan “Liberty or Death,” his army forced the French to evacuate in late 1803. At the start of the new year, Dessalines declared independence from France and became the leader of a free Haiti.

A hero to Haitians for centuries, Dessalines is portrayed abroad as barbarous and violent. Yet this caricature derives not from facts—as Julia Gaffield demonstrates with extensive new research—but from the fears of contemporary enslavers. Showcasing the man behind the myths, Gaffield reveals Dessalines’s deep suffering, warm friendships, and unwavering commitment to destroying slavery, racism, and colonialism, and his bold insistence on his people’s right to liberty and equality.

Julia Gaffield is associate professor of history at William & Mary. She is the author of Haitian Connections in the Atlantic World: Recognition after Revolution. She lives in Williamsburg, Virginia.

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