Geschiedenis

Tussen de schaduwen van 1943 ontwaakt een verhaal van vindingrijkheid en overleving. Een jonge vrouw ontdekt haar kracht in het maken van kleine glazen wonderen die haar leven zullen redden.

Staat de wereld op de rand van de afgrond?

Een beredeneerde keuze uit de honderden tekeningen die Rembrandt heeft nagelaten

Het verhaal van de ooit belangrijkste en succesvolste zeevaarders en handelaars rond de Middellandse Zee.

De Historische Wateratlas NL laat zien dat de huidige vorm van ons land en de indeling in natte en droge delen eigenlijk nog maar heel jong is.

WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

'A long overdue, revisionist history of art by the brilliant Katy Hessel . . . Never stuffy or supercilious, Hessel's book is a revelation and an important first step towards redressing the balance of an art world in which women have been sidelined, stepped over and trampled upon for far too long.' REFINERY29

'An extraordinary achievement that will have a disruptive cultural legacy and help determine the landscape for years to come.' HARPER'S BAZAAR

'Katy Hessel is a brilliant chronicler of the overlooked. I am so thrilled this book exists as an empowering, enlightening guide to the unforgettable vision of these brilliant artists. Essential reading.' ELIZABETH DAY

'Will change the history of art . . . thank God.' TRACEY EMIN

'I was not aware how hungry I was for this book until I dropped everything and ate it from cover to cover. I was not aware how angry I was that this book did not exist until it existed. It's an urgently needed, un-put-downable, joyful, insightful, glorious, perspective-shifting revision of the Story of Art.' ES DEVLIN
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How many women artists do you know? Who makes art history? Did women even work as artists before the twentieth century? And what is the Baroque anyway?

Have your sense of art history overturned, and your eyes opened to many art forms often overlooked or dismissed. From the Cornish coast to Manhattan, Nigeria to Japan, this is the story of art for our times - one with women at its heart, brought together for the first time by the creator of @thegreatwomenartists.

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'A spirited, inspiring, brilliantly illustrated history of female artistic endeavour . . . The Story of Art Without Men should be on the reading list of every A-level and university art history course and on the front table of every museum and gallery shop.' LAURA FREEMAN, THE TIMES

'Passionate, enthusiastic and witty . . . I wish I had had this book as a teenager' THE I

Meesterverteller Dan Jones schetst een levendig beeld van het middeleeuwse leven in het belangrijkste jaar in de Engelse geschiedenis.

Rusland. Revolutie en burgeroorlog 1917-1921 van de veelgeprezen Antony Beevor biedt een overzicht van deze periode in de Russische geschiedenis en is onbedoeld actueel met de oorlog tegen Oekraïne

De grootste opstand ooit in de Lage Landen

In Donker toerisme brengt Luc Rasson verslag uit van zijn reizen doorheen de roerige Europese twintigste eeuw en stelt hij zich de vraag: is het mogelijk tot een herinnering te komen die recht doet aan iedereen die betrokken was bij een verwoestend verleden?

‘In Europa’ is de neerslag van een reis die Geert Mak maakte door Europa, in het laatste jaar van de twintigste eeuw.

'De zes freules' is een buitengewone familiekroniek over zes opmerkelijke zussen, geboren tussen 1904 en 1920. Eén van hen, Unity, was bevriend met Adolf Hitler.

In dit indrukwekkende geschiedenisboek laat de Zweedse hoogleraar Dick Harrison zien dat De Dertigjarige Oorlog feitelijk de allereerste wereldoorlog was.

In vaardige handen is het verleden een wapen zonder weerga. In De macht van het verleden legt Ivo van de Wijdeven haarfijn uit hoe politici en potentaten de geschiedenis gebruiken.

In 1534 maakte een Nederlandse sekte zich meester van de stad Munster. Panhuysen vertelt op meesterlijke wijze het verhaal van deze ‘wederdopers’ en deze unieke periode uit de Reformatie.

Ga op reis met de cartografen uit het verleden en herbeleef belangrijke historische gebeurtenissen met unieke kaarten van Geographicus Rare Antique Maps.

Meer dan 400 illustraties, waaronder 60 kaarten, brengen de opmars van het Eerste Canadese Leger in beeld, vanaf D-Day tot de operaties in Noord-Duitsland.

Slagers verslaan ridders, Alvas brandstapels en Waterloos leeuw: geschiedenis komt tot leven in deze schitterend geïllustreerde verhalen.

A rich history of Antwerp and Radio 4 Book of the Week, from the author of the acclaimed bestseller The Edge of the World

Even before Amsterdam there was a dazzling North Sea port at the hub of the known world: the city of Antwerp.

Antwerp was sensational like nineteenth-century Paris or twentieth-century New York, somewhere anything could happen or at least be believed: killer bankers, easy kisses, a market in secrets and every kind of heresy. For half the sixteenth century, it was the place for breaking rules - religious, sexual, intellectual.

In Antwerp, things changed. One man cornered all the money in the city and reinvented ideas of what money meant. Another gave Antwerp a new shape purely out of his own ambition. Jews fleeing the Portuguese Inquisition needed Antwerp for their escape, thanks to the remarkable woman at the head of the grandest banking family in Europe.

Thomas More opened Utopia there, Erasmus puzzled over money and exchanges, William Tyndale sheltered there and smuggled out his Bible in English until he was killed. Pieter Bruegel painted the town as The Tower of Babel.

But when Antwerp rebelled with the Dutch against the Spanish and lost, all that glory was buried and its true history rewritten. The city that unsettled so many now became conformist. Mutinous troops burned the city records. Michael Pye sets out to rediscover the city that was lost and bring its wilder days to life using every kind of clue: novels, paintings, songs, schoolbooks, letters and the archives of Venice, London and the Medici. He builds a picture of a city haunted by fire, plague and violence, but learning how to be a power in its own right in the world after feudalism.

This is the Antwerp which was the proud 'exception' to all of Europe.

Two sisters parted. Two women blamed. Two stories reclaimed.

'Required reading for fans of Circe . . . a remarkable, thrilling debut' - Fiona Davis, New York Times bestselling author of The Lions of Fifth Avenue

For millennia, two women have been blamed for the fall of a mighty civilisation - but now it's time to hear their side of the story . . .

As princesses of Sparta, Helen and Klytemnestra have known nothing but luxury and plenty. With their high birth and unrivalled beauty, they are the envy of all of Greece.

Such privilege comes at a high price, though, and their destinies are not theirs to command. While still only girls they are separated and married off to legendary foreign kings Agamemnon and Menelaos, never to meet again. Their duty is now to give birth to the heirs society demands and be the meek, submissive queens their men expect.

But when the weight of their husbands' neglect, cruelty and ambition becomes too heavy to bear, they must push against the constraints of their sex to carve new lives for themselves - and in doing so make waves that will ripple throughout the next three thousand years.

Perfect for readers of Circe and Ariadne, Daughters of Sparta is a vivid and illuminating retelling of the Siege of Troy that tells the story of mythology's most vilified women from their own mouths at long last.

Helen of Troy and her sister Klytemnestra are reimagined in this gorgeous retelling of the classic Greek myth - not as women defined by their husbands and lovers but as battle-weary survivors of a patriarchal society who take control of their own destiny. Absolutely riveting!' - Alka Joshi, New York Times bestselling author of The Henna Artist

De Arabische wereld wordt vaak beschreven in termen van onderdrukking en religieus extremisme, en men negeert dat er vooral gewone mensen in de Arabische landen leven. Dit boek geeft hen juist ruimte.

Aandelen, speculatie en short selling: Petram onthult hoe Amsterdam de bakermat werd van de moderne aandelenhandel.