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Dutch New York histories
connecting African, native American and slavery heritage ; verbonden met Afrikaans, inheems Amerikaans en slavernij-erfgoed
Paperback || Dienke Hondius e.a. || LM Publishers
Wist U dat de beroemde zwarte Amerikaanse vrijheidsstrijder Sojourner Truth als slavin van een Nederlandstalige slaveneigenaar werd geboren en tot haar tiende jaar Nederlands sprak? Of dat de Nederlanders tot slaaf gemaakte Afrikanen naar Noord Amerika brachten in schepen van de West Indische Compagnie? Deze verrassende gids toont de sporen van Nederlandse aanwezigheid in New York, de stad en de staat. Het accent ligt op het Nederlands bewind in Nieuw Amsterdam en Nieuw Nederland in zeventien...
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Debts without redemption
cultural differences in First World War finance
Paperback || Aris Gaaff || Aspekt B.V., Uitgeverij
The Caribbean before Columbus / 1st edition
2017 || Paperback || William F. Keegan e.a. || Oxford University Press
The Caribbean before Columbus is a new synthesis of the region's insular history. It combines the results of the authors' 55 years of archaeological research on almost every island in the three archipelagoes with that of their numerous colleagues and collaborators. The presentation operates on multiple scales: temporal, spatial, local, regional, environmental, social, and political.
In addition, individual sites are used to highlight specific issues. For the first time, the complete histories...
A History of the Muslim World to 1750 / 2nd edition
The Making of a Civilization
2017 || Paperback || Vernon O. Egger || Taylor & Francis
A History of the Muslim World to 1750 traces the development of Islamic civilization from the career of the Prophet Muhammad to the mid-eighteenth century. Encompassing a wide range of significant events within the period, its coverage includes the creation of the Dar al-Islam (the territory ruled by Muslims), the fragmentation of society into various religious and political groups including the Shi'ites and Sunnis, the series of catastrophes in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries that threa...
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Ethics of counterterrorism
Paperback || Michael Kowalski || Boom
The terrorist attacks that have been haunting European capitals show us that counterterrorism is necessary and essential in modern day society. The intelligence services and other organisations active in the field of counterterrorism are faced on a daily basis with the question of how extensive and intrusive their actions can be. What are the limits? Which actions are ethical? And most importantly: how do the professionals themselves deal with these - often complex - dilemmas? In Ethics of Co...