Dacht u ook dat er in de Eerste Wereldoorlog weinig gebeurde in Nederland en dus ook in Friesland? Niets is minder waar. De invloed van de oorlog is enorm. Mobilisatie van tienduizenden Friezen, de komst van Belgische en Franse vluchtelingen, interneringskampen voor buitenlandse militairen in Gaasterland en Leeuwarden, honderden aangespoelde zeemijnen, honger en distributie. Een groot aantal Friezen wordt ingelijfd in het Amerikaanse leger en sneuvelt aan het front. Duizenden buitenlandse kin...

A compelling and vivid narrative history of one of the founding civilizations of the modern world, the Byzantine empire, evocatively told through the lives of its 92 emperors.

The Byzantine empire was one of the most successful states of the Middle Ages, ruling over a huge terrain straddling Europe and western Asia for an unrivalled eleven hundred years. Yet its history remains largely unfamiliar. This chronicle brings this majestic yet turbulent period to life through the lives of...

Maya peoples have long dominated southern Mesoamerica, an area stretching from the lowland coast of the Yucatán Peninsula to the highland mountains of southern Guatemala. While never a unified people, they gave rise to a great civilization with a dynamic set of beliefs and stories that varied between groups and retellings. To the Maya these have always been more than fireside tales: their myths formed the foundation of their culture, weaving together their ancestral and primordial pasts into...

A new history of Roman art and archaeology, from its very beginnings in Etruscan art to the adoption of Christianity.

Balancing textual and archaeological evidence, this brand-new, single-voiced narrative paints a vivid picture of Ancient Greece from the Bronze Age to the Roman conquest.