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China, Geschiedenisboeken, Rusland

Philip Snow – China & Russia

Philip Snow China & Russia review, recensie en informatie boek over vier eeuwen conflict en overeenstemming tussen China en Rusland. Op 3 juni 2025 verschijnt het boek over de relatie tussen China en Rusland van de Britse historicus en schrijver. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het geschiedenisboek, de auteur en over de uitgave. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Philip Snow China & Russia review en recensie

  • “An extensively researched and often compelling account, from which we are free to draw conclusions of our own as to where this most consequential of relationships may be taking us.” (Christopher Harding, The Telegraph)
  • “Philip Snow offers a comprehensive history of the constantly changing, always tumultuous, and ever complicated interactions between these two countries that share the world’s sixth largest border. This is an incredibly timely book.” (Jerry Lenaburg, New York Journal of Books)

Philip Snow China & Russia

China & Russia

Four Centuries of Conflict and Concord

  • Auteur: Philip Snow
  • Soort boek: geschiedenisboek
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Yale University Press
  • Verschijnt: 3 juni 2025
  • Omvang: 656 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 22,00
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek over de historische verhoudingen tussen China en Rusland

A compelling, expansive history of the relationship between China and Russia, from the seventeenth century to the present.

Russia and China, the largest and most populous countries in the world, respectively, have maintained a delicate relationship for four centuries. In addition to a four-thousand-kilometer border, they have periodically shared a common outlook on political and economic affairs. But they are, in essence, profoundly different polities and cultures, and their intermittent alliances have proven difficult and at times even volatile.

Philip Snow provides a full account of the relationship between these two global giants. Looking at politics, religion, economics, and culture, Snow uncovers the deep roots of the two nations’ alignment. We see the shifts in the balance of power, from the wealth and strength of early Qing China to the Tsarist and Soviet ascendancies, and episodes of intense conflict followed by harmony. He looks too at the experiences and opinions of ordinary people, which often vastly differed from those of their governments, and considers how long the countries’ current amicable relationship might endure.

Philip Snow has travelled extensively in Russia and China since the 1960s and has lived in Hong Kong since 1994. An expert in China’s international relations, he is the author of The Star Raft: China’s Encounter with Africa and The Fall of Hong Kong.

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Geschiedenisboeken, Engelse historicus, Populair Wetenschappelijke Boeken

Snezana Lawrence – A Little History of Mathematics

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

Snezana Lawrence A Little History of Mathematics review en recensie

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

Snezana Lawrence A Little History of Mathematics

A Little History of Mathematics

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

Flaptekst boek over de geschiedenis van de wiskunde

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

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

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

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

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Antropologie, Biografie

Noga Arikha – Franz Boas biografie

Noga Arikha Franz Boas biografie recensie, review en informatie boek over de in Duitsland geboren, Amerikaanse antropoloog. Op 13 mei 2025 verschijnt bij Yale University Press in de reeks Jewish Lives de biografie van een van de grondleggers van de antropologie Fraz Boas. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave.

Noga Arikha Franz Boas biografie recensie, review en informatie

  • “Noga Arikha presents a wonderfully three-dimensional portrait of Franz Boas: family man, secular German Jew, cosmopolitan polymath, scientific anti-racist, a model of empathy and tolerance, and a beacon of light in challenging times.” (Adam Kuper, author)
  • “Noga Arikha successfully depicts the life, work, thought, and influence of Franz Boas, the towering figure who shaped the development of modern American anthropology. She perceptively stresses his lifelong battle against racism, ethnocentrism, eugenics, and for freedom of thought.” (Herbert S. Lewis, author)

Noga Arikha Franz Boas biografie

Franz Boas

In Praise of Open Minds

  • Auteur: Noga Arika 
  • Soort boek: biografie
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Yale University Press
  • Reeks: Jewish Lives
  • Verschijnt: 13 mei 2025
  • Omvang: 280 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek
  • Prijs: $  28,00
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van de biografie van antropoloog Franz Boas

A thought-provoking account of the life and work of Franz Boas and his influential role in shaping modern anthropology

Franz Boas born on 9 July 1858 in Minden, Germany en died 21 December 1942 in New York City is widely acknowledged for his pioneering work in the field of cultural anthropology. His rigorous studies of variations across societies were aimed at demonstrating that cultures and peoples were not shaped by biological predispositions. This book traces Boas’s life and intellectual passions from his roots in Germany and his move to the United States in 1884, partly in response to growing antisemitism in Germany, to his work with First Nations communities and his influential role as a teacher, mentor, and engaged activist who inspired an entire generation.

Drawing from Boas’s numerous but rarely read writings, Noga Arikha brings to life the man and the ideas he developed about the complex interplay of mind and culture, biology and history, language and myth. She provides a comprehensive picture of the cultural contexts in which he worked, of his personal and professional relationships, and of his revolutionary approach to fieldwork. He was celebrated in his lifetime for the cultural relativism he developed and the arguments he marshaled against entrenched racialism. But his was a constant battle, and Arikha shows how urgently relevant his voice and legacy have become again today.

Noga Arikha is a research associate at the European University Institute in Florence. She is the author of The Ceiling Outside: The Science and Experience of the Disrupted Mind and Passions and Tempers: A History of the Humours. She currently lives in Florence, Italy.

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Geschiedenisboeken, Populair Wetenschappelijke Boeken, Wetenschap

William Bynum – A Little History of Science

William Bynum A Little History of Science review, recensie en informatie van de inhoud van het nieuwe boek in de reeks A Little History. Op 13 mei 2025 verschijnt bij Yale University Press het boek over de geschiedenis van de wetenschap, geschreven door de Britse Emeritus Professor of the History of Medicine William Bynum. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave.

William Bynum A Little History of Science review en recensie

  • “One advantage of a brief history is that this impressive roll of modern achievements unfolds while the leaps of prior centuries are still fresh in mind. That juxtaposition of what we know now verses what we knew then is breathtaking to contemplate. In Mr Bynum’s telling, a little history goes a long way.” (Alan Hirshfeld, Wall Street Journal)

William Bynum A Little History of Science

A Little History of Science

  • Auteur: William Bynum (Engeland0
  • Soort boek: geschiedenisboek
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Yale University Press
  • Verschijnt: 13 mei 2025
  • Omvang: 272 pagina’s
  • Prijs: $ 15,00
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek over de geschiedenis van de wetenschap

A lively and engaging introduction to the progress of science over the ages.

Science is key to understanding the infinite distances of space, the tiniest living organisms body and the history of our planet. From Hippocrates and Aristotle to Isaac Newton and Stephen Hawking, men and women have asked how things work, and through experiments have made earth-shattering discoveries.

This inviting Litte History takes readers to the stars. We delve beneath the surface of the planet, chart the evolution of chemistry’s periodic table, and explore the physics that explain electricity, gravity, and the atoms that make up our bodies and everything around us.

William Bynum is Emeritus Professor of the History of Medicine, University College London. He is author or editor of numerous publications, including Great Discoveries in Medicine.

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Klassieke muziek, Muziek

Robert Philip – A Little History of Music

Robert Philip A Little History of Music review, recensie en informatie boek over de muziekgeschiedenis van de wereld. Op 13 mei 2025 verschijnt bij Yale University Press het boek over de geschiedenis van de muziek, geschreven door de voormalige Britse professor aan de Open University, Robert Philip. 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.

Robert Philip A Little History of Music review en recensie

  • “Philip’s deft prose, thoughtful explanations and pacy storytelling make for a compelling and refreshingly open-minded read.” (Katy Hamilton, BBC Music Magazine)
  • “To find a guide as thoughtful, as frank and as readable as Philip’s is good news indeed… It’s a pleasure to make the journey in such wise and perceptive company.” (Richard Bratby, Gramophone)

Robert Philip A Little History of Music

A Little History of Music

  • Auteur: Robert Philip (Engeland)
  • Soort boek: muziekgeschiedenis
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Yale University Press
  • Verschijnt: 13 mei 2025
  • Omvang: 320 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 15,00
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek over de muziekgeschiedenis

A superbly engaging guide to music around the world, from prehistory to the present.

Music excites and moves us perhaps more than any other art form. From a Neanderthal’s bone flute to the festivals of Glastonbury and Coachella, human beings have always made and enjoyed music.

Covering a remarkable range, including Indian raga, Javanese gamelan, medieval chant, jazz and K-pop, this Little History celebrates the wonder of music, and why it is treasured across the world. Within its pages, readers will find familiar composers and musicians, and will be introduced to a host of exciting new discoveries.

Robert Philip was formerly a senior lecturer in music at the Open University and is a well-known presenter on BBC Radio. He is the author of The Classical Music Lover’s Companion to Orchestral Music and the award-winning Performing Music in the Age of Recording.

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Oorlog, Frankrijk, Tweede Wereldoorlog

Hanna Diamond – Josephine Baker’s Secret War

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

Hanna Diamond Josephine Baker’s Secret War recensie en review

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

Hanna Diamond Josephine Baker's Secret War

Josephine Baker’s Secret War

The African American Star Who Fought for France and Freedom

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

Flaptekst van het boek over de oorlogsjaren van Josephine Baker

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

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

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

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

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

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Eerste Wereldoorlog, Oorlog, Tweede Wereldoorlog

Tim Grady – Burying the Enemy

Tim Grady Burying the Enemy recensie, review en informatie boek met het verhaal van degenen die voor de doden zorgden in twee wereldoorlogen. Op 29 april 2025 verschijnt bij Yale University Press het boek van de Britse historicus Tim Grady over oorlogsgraven uit de Eerste en Tweede Wereldoorlog. Hier lees je informatie van de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Tim Grady Burying the Enemy recensie en review

  • “A beautifully written reminder of the common need to grieve, bury and commemorate the dead of war.  Grady’s carefully researched book tells the story of how German and British societies cared for the ‘enemy dead’ alongside their own after the destruction of the two World Wars.” (Lucy Noakes, author of War and the British)
  • “Illuminates an otherwise hidden history…Grady’s sensitive, moving study provides new insights into how ordinary people on the home fronts, long after the shooting has stopped, recover from the devastating effects of modern war.” (Jason Crouthamel, author of The Great War and German Memory)

Tim Grady Burying the Enemy

Burying the Enemy

The Story of Those who Cared for the Dead in Two World Wars

  • Auteur: Tim Grady (Engeland)
  • Soort boek: oorlogsgeschiedenis
  • Taal; Engels
  • Uitgever: Yale University Press
  • Verschijnt: 29 april 2025
  • Omvang: 384 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 35,00
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek over oorlogsgraven van Tim Grady

A fascinating and moving history of the British and German war dead buried on enemy soil in the two world wars.

Why do societies only remember their own national war dead? Today, the enemy dead might be largely hidden from view, but this wasn’t always the case. During both world wars, Germans and Britons died in their thousands in enemy territory. From Berlin to Bath, London to Leipzig, civilian communities buried the enemy in the closest parish churchyard. Perhaps surprisingly, local people embraced these graves, often caring for them with considerable tenderness.

Tim Grady explores the history of this curious aspect of postwar community. He reveals how, as the two states moved bodies to new military cemeteries, local people protested at the disturbance of the dead, and ties between the bereaved families and those who cared for the graves were severed forever. With the enemy out of sight and mind, the British and Germans concentrated solely on commemorating their own war dead, and their own sacrifices. Today’s insular public memory of the world wars was only made possible by clearing away signs of the enemy—allowing people to tell themselves much simpler narratives of the recent past as a result.

Tim Grady is professor of modern history at the University of Chester. He is the author of A Deadly Legacy, which was shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize and the Cundill Prize, and The German-Jewish Soldiers of the First World War in History and Memory, which was proxime accessit for the RHS Gladstone Book Prize.

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Amerikaanse geschiedenis, Amerikaanse historicus, Indianen

Donald L. Fixico – Chitto Harjo

Donald L. Fixico Chitto Harjo review en recensie boek over Native Patriotism and the Medicine Way. Op 22 april 2025 verschijnt bij Yale Universty Press het nieuwe boek van de Native American professor en historicus Donald L. Fixico in de reeks The Henry Roe Cloud Series on American Indians and Modernity. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave.

Donald L. Fixico Chitto Harjo review en recensie

  • “This may be Donald Fixico’s best book in a long and distinguished career. He tells the dramatic story of Chitto Harjo and the Crazy Snake Rebellion to reveal a larger and longer struggle. Both personal and thoroughly researched, this revealing and quite original history traces how Native communalism and the Medicine Way resisted Christianity and American individualism within the Muscogee Nation.” (Richard White, Stanford University)
  • “Chitto Harjo (Crazy Snake) was a man caught in the grind between two worlds as the ancient one of the Muscogees met the overpowering one of Euro-American newcomers. Was he a troublemaker or patriot? Donald Fixico argues compellingly here for the latter, and by doing that he throws light on global colonization as a clash of spiritual and perceptual power as much as one of outward authority and command.” (Elliot West)

Donald L. Fixico Chitto Harjo

Chitto Harjo

Native Patriotism and the Medicine Way

  • Auteur: Donald L. Fixico (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse geschiedenis
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Yale University Press
  • Verschijnt: 22 april 2025
  • Omvang: 256 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 28,00
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van het boek over Chitto harjo van Donald L. Fixico

How a Mvskoke traditionalist leader forged a movement to resist the division of tribal lands and keep his people on the everlasting Medicine Way.

Chitto Harjo (“Crazy Snake”) had several names—Wilson Jones, Bill Jones, Bill Harjo, Bill Snake—and people called him many things: troublemaker, rebellion leader, uncivilized Indian, martyr, murderer. Many called him crazy for fighting against progress and for his commitment to traditions that they believed were outdated and dying out. Yet in the eyes of many Mvskokes and traditionalists of other nations, he was a hero, a defender of the old ways, a Native patriot, and a leader of the Medicine Way.

These traditionalists believed in the Mvskoke worldview, which has inspired the Mvskokes and other Southeastern peoples to carry on their traditions as they have done for hundreds of years. In this engaging account, historian Donald L. Fixico tells the story of the Mvskoke people and their fight for survival and unity amid enduring tensions between white “civilization” and traditional culture. A personal story that begins with Fixico attending a Green Corn Ceremony with his father and young son, this engrossing narrative integrates traditional knowledge with historical method to present an Indigenous perspective on Mvskoke and Native American history.

Donald L. Fixico (Muscogee, Seminole, Shawnee, and enrolled Sac and Fox), originally from Oklahoma, is Regents and Distinguished Foundation Professor of History at Arizona State University. A former Newberry Fellow, UCLA Postdoctoral Fellow, and Ford Fellow, he is the author and editor of seventeen books.

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Amerikaanse geschiedenis, Amerikaanse Schrijvers, Biografie

Shelley Fisher Fishkin – Jim

Shelley Fisher Fishkin Jim recensie, review en informatie biografie en boek over het leven en het hiernamaals van de kameraad van Huckleberry Finn. Op 15 april 2025 verschijnt in de reeks Black Lives van Yale University Press de biografie van Jim de kameraad van Huckleberry Finn uit de roman van Mark Twain, geschreven door de Amerikaanse professor Shelley Fisher Fishkin. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de biografie is niet verkrijgbaar.

Shelley Fisher Fishkin Jim recensie, review en informatie

  • “Fishkin stands at the pinnacle of Mark Twain studies and criticism. Her astonishing gifts have taken her, and us, far beyond the often-cramped field of enquiries into Mark Twain. She has stood virtually alone in her insistence on race as the thematic foundation of Mark Twain’s literary greatness, producing books, essays, papers and lectures that break open the deceptively bland yet wickedly subtle strategies through which Twain became a defiant truth-teller. …Jim, at the end, is nothing short of a call to hope: hope that even in morally chaotic times such as ours, words—written well, read responsibly, and evaluated with bold sophistication—can save us.” (Ron Powers, author of Mark Twain: a Life)

Shelley Fisher Fishkin Jim

Jim

The Life and Afterlives of Huckleberry Finn’s Comrade

  • Auteur: Shelley Fisher Fishkin (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: biografie
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Yale University Press
  • Reeks: Black Lives
  • Verschijnt: 15 april 2025
  • Omvang: 464 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 28,00
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van het boek over de kameraad van Huckleberry Finn

The origins and influence of Jim, Mark Twain’s beloved yet polarizing literary figure.

Mark Twain’s Jim, introduced in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), is a shrewd, self‑aware, and enormously admirable enslaved man, one of the first fully drawn Black fathers in American fiction. Haunted by the family he has left behind, Jim acts as father figure to Huck, the white boy who is his companion as they raft the Mississippi toward freedom. Jim is also a highly polarizing figure: he is viewed as an emblem both of Twain’s alleged racism and of his opposition to racism; a diminished character inflected by minstrelsy and a powerful challenge to minstrel stereotypes; a reason for banning Huckleberry Finn and a reason for teaching it; an embarrassment and a source of pride for Black readers.

Eminent Twain scholar Shelley Fisher Fishkin probes these controversies, exploring who Jim was, how Twain portrayed him, and how the world has responded to him. Fishkin also follows Jim’s many afterlives: in film, from Hollywood to the Soviet Union; in translation around the world; and in American high school classrooms today. The result is Jim as we have never seen him before—a fresh and compelling portrait of one of the most memorable Black characters in American fiction.

Shelley Fisher Fishkin was born 9 may 1950. She is the Joseph S. Atha Professor of Humanities, professor of English, and professor (by courtesy) of African and African American Studies at Stanford University. She is the author or editor of many books, including Writing America: Literary Landmarks from Walden Pond to Wounded Knee and Was Huck Black? Mark Twain and African American Voices, and editor of the twenty-nine-volume Oxford Mark Twain. She lives in Stanford, California.

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Amerikaanse Schrijvers, Biografie

Magdalena J. Zaborowska – James Baldwin biografie

Magdalena J. Zaborowska James Baldwin biografie recensie, review en informatie over de inhoud. Op 25 maart 2025 verschijnt in de reeks Black Lives van Yale University Press de biografie van de Amerikaanse schrijver James Baldwin geschreven door de Amerikaanse professor Magdalena J. Zaborowska. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de biografie is niet verkrijgbaar.

Magdalena J. Zaborowska James Baldwin biografie recensie, review en informatie

  • “Baldwin authority Zaborowska’s gracefully impassioned biography of the queer author and activist’s life and legacy. … A creatively conceived appreciation for a decorated life and its far-flung influences on race, queer culture, and art.” (Kirkus Reviews)
  • “Zaborowska not only produces one of the richest pictures of James Baldwin’s personal and professional lives ever written, but also, she boldly dives into the debates surrounding the ways that images of James (Jimmy) continue to be both used-and abused.” (Robert F. Reid-Pharr, New York University)

Magdalena J. Zaborowska James Baldwin biografie

James Baldwin

The Life Album

  • Auteur: Magdalena J. Zaborowska (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: biografie
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Yale University Press
  • Reeks: Black Lives
  • Verschijnt: 25 maart 2025
  • Omvang: 320 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 28,00
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van de nieuw biografie van James Baldwin

An intimate portrait of James Baldwin, offering a new understanding of his life and works as seen through his close relationships and private life.

James Baldwin (1924–1987) was a pivotal figure of the twentieth century, an influential author, intellectual, and activist who led a celebrated public life—and whose words and image and persona remain current in our culture. Baldwin’s many incarnations—“son of Harlem,” “Black icon,” “great twentieth-century writer,” “race man,” “prophet,” “witness”—have reemerged in the digital age as Baldwin’s work becomes a touchstone for a new generation. It is the private, vulnerable, and messier Baldwin—the man behind the prophet and the online meme—who is the focus of this book.

Magdalena J. Zaborowska draws on Baldwin’s archives and material legacy—from his unpublished papers to his books to his house in France—to offer a fresh look at the writer’s understated and obscured private life. Taking a cue from Baldwin’s own love of the blues, Zaborowska presents his biography as a series of tracks on a vinyl record, introducing, developing, and remixing the themes and relationships from his life. She recounts episodes from Baldwin’s troubled childhood, his struggles with sexuality and gender, his intimate relationships, and the overlooked influence of women, Jews, and queers on his writing. This Life Album revolves around Baldwin’s development of a unique worldview, “Black queer humanism,” premised on African diaspora aesthetics, resilience, joy, community, internationalism, activism, and justice.

Magdalena J. Zaborowska is professor and chair of the Department of American Culture and professor in the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. She is the author of several books, including Me and My House: James Baldwin’s Last Decade in France.

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