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Boek Emily Dickinson, geschreven door Emily Dickinson, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General

Elizabeth Ingleson explores the roots of bilateral trade between the United States and China. Telling the story of the 1970s US activists and entrepreneurs who pressed for access to China’s vast labor market, Ingleson shows how not just Chinese refor

Renowned historian Anthony Grafton invites us to see the scholars of early modern Europe as laborers. Bookish but hardly divorced from physical tasks, they were artisans of script and print. Drawing new connections between text and craft, publishing

Sarah Bilston unfolds the story of orchid mania, the nineteenth-century craze among European and North American collectors vying to own the world’s most coveted flowers. Focusing the hunt for the so-called lost orchid, an especially vaunted flower na

The Mongol Empire in Global History and Art History includes essays on topics from historical chronicles to contemporary historiography, and case studies from textile production to map-making and historical linguistics. Contributors include specialis

Boek Thucydides, geschreven door John H Finley, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., HISTORY / General

Boek Common Sense, geschreven door Rosenfeld, Sophia, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., HISTORY / Europe / General

Jesse Kauffman explains why Germany's ambitious attempt at nation-building in Poland during WWI failed. The educational and political institutions Germany built for its satellite state could not alleviate Poland's hostility to the plundering of its r

How did Hong Kong, long an affluent and depoliticized hub of global capitalism, become the center of popular anticolonial protest? Ching Kwan Lee provides a reflective history and vivid ethnography of an improbable decolonization movement, exploring

Written in about 1340 by the Benedictine preacher Pierre Bersuire, The Moralized Ovid was a highly influential interpretation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses in the High Middle Ages. It contains descriptions of the gods followed by allegorical interpretation

The Old English Chronicle offer a brief year-by-year summary of important national events such as invasions and the deaths of political and religious figures from the fifth through the twelfth centuries. Volume I includes newly edited texts and exper

In the memoir The Torture Camp on Paradise Street, Ukrainian journalist and writer Stanislav Aseyev details his experience as a prisoner for nearly three years at a modern-day concentration camp overseen by the Federal Security Bureau of the Russian

The rise of webtoons has altered the Korean cultural market due to the growth of transmedia storytelling—the flow of a story from the original text to various other platforms, such as films, television, and games. Understanding Korean Webtoon Culture

In Ukraine, War, Love, award-winning fiction writer Olena Stiazhkina chronicles day-to-day developments in her beloved hometown Donetsk during Russia’s 2014 invasion and occupation of the Ukrainian city with sarcasm, anger, and humor. This is a fierc

In Ukraine, War, Love, award-winning fiction writer Olena Stiazhkina chronicles day-to-day developments in her beloved hometown Donetsk during Russia’s 2014 invasion and occupation of the Ukrainian city with sarcasm, anger, and humor. This is a fierc

In Serhiy Zhadan’s tragicomedy A Harvest Truce, brothers Anton and Tolik reunite at their family home to bury their mother. Isolated without power or running water on the front line of a war ignited by Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine, t

It can seem as though the Cold War division of Europe was inevitable. But Stalin was more open to a settlement on the continent than is assumed. In this powerful reassessment of the postwar order, Norman Naimark returns to the four years after WWII

The Democratic Marketplace argues that democracy has been hollowed out by capitalism. Seeking a path to self-governance, Lisa Herzog theorizes a market compatible with democracy, showing how inequality disables citizenship, why employees need a say i

From 1921 to 1944, the United States removed approximately one million ethnic Mexicans—mostly women and children who were US citizens—across the southern border. Marla A. Ramírez explores the lasting effects of “repatriation” on banished women and th

Love Life follows Yora, an immigrant to the United States from Ukraine, as she becomes enmeshed with the seductive Sebastian. The second novel by the award-winning Ukrainian writer and poet Oksana Lutsyshyna, Love Life is a fascinating story of self-

Boek The Muse Of History: The Ancient Greeks From The Enlightenment To The Present, geschreven door Oswyn Murray, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., HISTORY / Europe / General

Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, Volume 42 includes lectures by Helen Fulton and Gregory Darwin, as well as articles on the Irish language, medieval libraries, the role of music in the Welsh Mabinogi, and the emerging area of animal stud

The Seventy-Five Folios and Other Unpublished Manuscripts contain early versions of six episodes later included in Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time. Discovered in 2018 and presented here for the first time in English, the folios reveal the auto

Why did ordinary Germans vote for Hitler? In this dramatically plotted book, organized around crucial turning points in 1914, 1918, and 1933, Peter Fritzsche explains why the Nazis were so popular and what was behind the political choice made by the

Boek The Triumph Of The Snake Goddess, geschreven door Kaiser Haq, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., LITERARY CRITICISM / General

Boek Ataturk In The Nazi Imagination, geschreven door Stefan Ihrig, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., HISTORY / Europe / General

First of the widely celebrated and sumptuously illustrated series, this book reveals in intimate detail what life was really like in the ancient world.

Boek The Ancient Middle Classes, geschreven door Ernst Emanuel Mayer, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., Geschiedenis algemeen

The Epic of Ram by Tulsidas has become the most beloved retelling of the ancient Ramayana story across northern India and an influential literary masterpiece. This volume presents the poet's grand introduction to Ram, setting the stage for his advent

Therigatha is a poetry anthology in the Pali language by and about the first Buddhist women. The poems they left behind are arguably among the most ancient examples of women's writing in the world and are unmatched for their quality of personal expre

Boek The History Of Akbar, geschreven door Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical

The Story of Manu, by sixteenth-century poet Allasani Peddana, is the definitive literary monument of Telugu civilization and a powerful embodiment of the culture of Vijayanagara, the last of the great premodern south Indian states. It describes king

Boek Hypatia Of Alexandria, geschreven door Maria Dzielska, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., HISTORY / Europe / General

Stanley Fish is one of America's most stimulating literary theorists. In this book, he undertakes a reexamination of some of criticism's most basic assumptions. He penetrates to the core of the modern debate about interpretation, explodes numerous mi

Like its state emblem the double-headed eagle, Russia has always looked to both East and West for secure trade routes, allies, and defensible frontiers. Restless Empire illuminates the epic sweep of Russian history in a full-color atlas depicting the

From antiquity to the Enlightenment, Persian culture has been integral to European history. Interest in all things Persian shaped not just Western views but the self-image of Iranians to the present day. Hamid Dabashi maps the changing geography of t