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  • Een laatkoloniaal experiment

    Hollandia, Nieuw-Guinea, 1944-1962

    de Karel Davids ...
    De laatste Nederlandse kolonie in Azië, Nieuw-Guinea, werd door Nederland tussen 1944 en 1962 in recordtempo klaargestoomd voor zelfbeschikking. Hollandia, de hoofdstad, groeide en raakte snel bevolkt door groepen met verschillende achtergronden die elk hun eigen verwachtingen over de toekomst hadden: Papoea's, Indo-Europeanen, Molukkers, Chinezen, Toegoenezen, totoks en nieuwkomers uit Nederland. ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Transformation of Maritime Professions

    Old and New Jobs in European Shipping Industries, 1850–2000

    Edición de Karel Davids, Joost Schokkenbroek ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book deals with the economic impact of technological changes and the rise of passenger shipping on social relations on board and ashore in European shipping industries between c.1850 and 2000. The changes in motive power, communication techniques and positioning technologies and the rise of passenger shipping went together with the creation of new tasks and functions and the marginalization ... Leer más

    $197.99 USD

  • The World and The Netherlands

    A Global History from a Dutch Perspective

    Edición de Karel Davids, Prof. Dr. Marjolein 't Hart, Prof. Dr. Manon van der Heijden, Dr Lex Heerma van Voss, Leo Lucassen, Professor Jeroen Touwen ...
    This is the first book to examine the history of the country in a way that connects global processes to local developments. Taking account of social, political and economic dynamics over the last thousand years, the book addresses key questions that get to the heart of the Netherlands' role in the world, both historically and in more recent times:· Why did the 'West' become such a significant ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Global Ocean of Knowledge, 1660-1860

    Globalization and Maritime Knowledge in the Atlantic World

    de Karel Davids ...
    This book looks to fill the 'blue hole' in Global History by studying the role of the oceans themselves in the creation, development, reproduction and adaptation of knowledge across the Atlantic world. It shows how globalisation and the growth of maritime knowledge served to reinforce one another, and demonstrates how and why maritime history should be put firmly at the heart of global history ... Leer más

    $34.99 USD

  • Innovation and Creativity in Late Medieval and Early Modern European Cities

    Edición de Karel Davids, Bert De Munck ...
    Late medieval and early modern cities are often depicted as cradles of artistic creativity and hotbeds of new material culture. Cities in renaissance Italy and in seventeenth and eighteenth-century northwestern Europe are the most obvious cases in point. But, how did this come about? Why did cities rather than rural environments produce new artistic genres, new products and new techniques? How did ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD

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  • The Island of Seven Cities

    Where the Chinese Settled When They Discovered America

    de Paul Chiasson ...
    The Island of Seven Cities unveils the first tangible proof that the Chinese settled in the New World before Columbus.In the summer of 2003, architect Paul Chiasson decided to climb a mountain he had never explored on Cape Breton Island, where eight generations of his Acadian family had lived. One of the oldest points of exploration and settlement in the Americas, with a written history dating ... Leer más

    $17.29 USD

  • Political Order and Political Decay

    From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy

    de Francis Fukuyama ...
    The second volume of the bestselling landmark work on the history of the modern stateWriting in The Wall Street Journal, David Gress called Francis Fukuyama's Origins of Political Order "magisterial in its learning and admirably immodest in its ambition." In The New York Times Book Review, Michael Lind described the book as "a major achievement by one of the leading public intellectuals of our ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Polar Imperative

    A History of Arctic Sovereignty in North America

    de Shelagh D. Grant ...
    Based on Shelagh Grant’s groundbreaking archival research and drawing on her reputation as a leading historian in the field, Polar Imperative is a compelling overview of the historical claims of sovereignty over this continent’s polar regions. This engaging, timely history examines:the unfolding implications of major climate changesthe impact of resource exploitation on the indigenous peoplesthe ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Nova Scotia Shaped by the Sea: A Living History

    de Lesley Choyce ...
    The history of Nova Scotia is an amazing story of a land and people shaped by the waves, the tides, the wind and the wonder of the North Atlantic. Lesley Choyce weaves the legacy of this unique coastal province, piecing together the stories written in the rocks, the wrecks and the record books of human glory and error. In this true-life adventure, he provides a down-to-earth journey through the ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • Transatlantic Liners

    de J. Kent Layton ...
    Series Libro 660 - Shire Library
    Since the end of the nineteenth century there has been a stunning succession of transatlantic liners, from the White Star Line's Oceanic of 1899 to the Cunard Line's Queen Mary 2 of 2004. These floating palaces often contained luxurious staterooms, ballrooms and lounges for the rich, and noticeably more modest and basic accommodation for poorer travellers. Their designs and powerplants were often ... Leer más

    $9.89 USD

  • The Great Leveler

    Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century

    de Walter Scheidel ...
    Series series The Princeton Economic History of the Western World
    How only violence and catastrophes have consistently reduced inequality throughout world historyAre mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality? To judge by thousands of years of history, the answer is yes. Tracing the global history of inequality from the Stone Age to today, Walter Scheidel shows that inequality never dies peacefully. Inequality ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

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  • Against Elections

    de David Van Reybrouck ...
    A small book with great weight and urgency to it, this is both a history of democracy and a clarion call for change."Without drastic adjustment, this system cannot last much longer," writes Van Reybrouck, regarded today as one of Europe's most astute thinkers. "If you look at the decline in voter turnout and party membership, and at the way politicians are held in contempt, if you look at how ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD