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Boek Youth In The Fatherless Land, geschreven door Andrew Donson, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., HISTORY / Europe / General

During World War I, Britain and France imported workers from their colonies to labor behind the front lines. The single largest group of support labor came not from imperial colonies, however, but from China. This title tells the story of the 140,000

Boek Faces Of Perfect Ebony, geschreven door Catherine Molineux, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain

Dark, weird, psychologically complex, Hawthorne's short fiction continues to fascinate readers. Brenda Wineapple has made a generous selection of Hawthorne's stories, including some of his best-known tales as well as other, less-often anthologized ge

Boek The Return Of Lucretius To Renaissance Florence, geschreven door Alison Brown, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., HISTORY / Europe / General

Boek Setting Down The Sacred Past, geschreven door Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., LITERARY CRITICISM / General

For the first time in the history of Beowulf scholarship, the poem appears alongside the other four texts from its sole surviving manuscript: the prose Passion of Saint Christopher, The Wonders of the East, The Letter of Alexander the Great to Aristo

This book offers a detailed, comparatist defense of hyperbole in the Baroque period. Focusing on Spanish and Mexican lyric, English drama, and French philosophy, Christopher Johnson reads Baroque hyperbole as a sophisticated, often sublime, frequentl

Offers the first English translations of the complete poems of a 15th-century Greek Renaissance poet, who was heavily influenced by works of ancient Roman Lucretius and, in turn, himself influenced such luminaries as George Eliot and Ronsard

Johannes Fried gives us a Middle Ages full of people encountering the unfamiliar, grappling with new ideas, redefining power, and interacting with different societies--an era characterized by continuities and discontinuities, the vibrant expansion of

Boek Humanist Tragedies, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., DRAMA / General

The slave and gladiator Spartacus has been the subject of myth-making in his own time and of movie-making in ours. Aldo Schiavone brings him squarely into the arena of serious history. Spartacus emerges here as the commander of an army, whose aim was

Boek The History, geschreven door Michael Attaleiates, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., HISTORY / Europe / General

The letters of Bartolomeo Fonzio—a leading literary figure in Florence of the time of Lorenzo de’ Medici and Machiavelli—are a window into the world of Renaissance humanism and classical scholarship. This first English translation includes the famous

Why did the USSR linger so long in Afghanistan? What makes this account of the Soviet-Afghan conflict both timely and important is its focus on the factors that prevented the Soviet leadership from ending a demoralizing and costly war and on the long

The unsolved riddle at the heart of Pudd'nhead Wilson is less the identity of the murderer than the question of whether nature or nurture makes the man. In his introduction, Werner Sollors illuminates the complex web of uncertainty that is the switch

Boek Satires. Eupolemius, geschreven door 11th cent. Amarcius, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., POETRY / General

Boek Histories, Volume I, geschreven door Richer of Saint-Remi, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., HISTORY / Europe / General

Boek The Supreme Court And The American Elite, 1789-2008, geschreven door Lucas A. Powe, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., HISTORY / General

One of the most momentous stories of the last century is China’s rise from a self-satisfied, anti-modern, decaying society into a global power that promises to one day rival the United States. Chiang Kai-shek, an autocratic, larger-than-life figure,

These original essays explore the relationship between culture and the military in Chinese society from early China to the Qing empire, with contributions by eminent scholars aiming to reexamine the relationship between military matters and law, gove

Boek Planning Armageddon, geschreven door Nicholas A. Lambert, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain

Nikos Engonopoulos (1907-1985) was one of the most prominent representatives of Greek

Boek Out Of Athens, geschreven door Page DuBois, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., Oudheid (tot 500)

America is a nation making itself up as it goes along-a story of discovery and invention unfolding in speeches and images, letters and poetry, unprecedented feats of scholarship and imagination. In more than 200 original essays, this history brings t

Humanitarian, philanthropist, and campaigner for Jewish emancipation on a grand scale, Sir Moses Montefiore (1784-1885) was the preeminent Jewish figure of the nineteenth century - and one of the first truly global celebrities. This title presents hi

Historians have long believed that Catholics were late and ambivalent supporters of the German nation. Rebecca Ayako Bennette's bold new interpretation demonstrates definitively that from the beginning in 1871, when Wilhelm I was proclaimed Kaiser of

Boek The World Of Persian Literary Humanism, geschreven door Hamid Dabashi, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., LITERARY CRITICISM / General

Boek Latin Poetry, geschreven door Girolamo Fracastoro, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., POETRY / General

Boek The Black Death And The Transformation Of The West, geschreven door David Herlihy, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., HISTORY / Europe / General

In 1462 Pope Pius II performed the only reverse canonization in history, damning a living man to an afterlife of torment. What had Sigismondo Malatesta, Lord of Rimini and a patron of the arts, done to merit this fate? Anthony D'Elia shows how the re

Boek Fiammetta. Paradise, geschreven door Ugolino Verino, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., POETRY / General

For anyone who has blanched at the uphill prospect of finishing a long piece of writing, this book holds out something more practical than hope: it offers a plan. The Clockwork Muse is designed to help prospective authors develop a workable timetable

Boek Mi-Lou - Harvard Studies In Comparative Literature, geschreven door Stephen Owen, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., LITERARY CRITICISM / General

Boek Diary Of Charles Francis Adams - Diaries, geschreven door Charles Francis Adams, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., HISTORY / General

Yakov Feygin argues that Soviet decline owes much to internal tensions over economic reform. Focused on socioeconomic competition with the West, Khrushchev and his successors sought to build a consumer society but had only Stalinist institutions of m