Although later than the Portuguese in reaching the coasts of Asia, the Dutch became in the 17th and 18th centuries the most important of the European nations engaged in the Asian trade - in terms both of the quantity and value of the cargoes shipped, and the number of ports involved.
In this valuable resource, over 1,000 annotated sources from Great Britain, France, and Germany offer a historiographical reference for study of the British army at the beginning and in the first battles of World War I.
During the Great War, books and stories for young men were frequently used as unofficial propaganda for recruitment and to sell the war to British youth as a moral crusade.
Jeanne Bommezijn-de Rochemont werd in 1891 geboren in Magelang, voormalig Nederlands-Indië en kwam in oktober 1924 met haar tweede echtgenoot Adri Bommezijn naar Nederland.
Im Jahr 1066 betrat ein Mann die Bühne der Weltgeschichte, dessen Name und Taten das mittelalterliche Europa für immer verändern sollten: Wilhelm der Eroberer.
Discover the untold story of Kaiser Wilhelm I, the man who transformed a fractured col-lection of German states into a unified empire under Prussian leadership.
Executive editor: Ingo Loose; English-language edition prepared by: Elizabeth Harvey, Russell Alt-Haaker, Johannes Gamm, Georg Felix Harsch, Dorothy Mas, and Caroline Pearce By 1941, most of the Jews in the Polish territories annexed to the Reich - Danzig-West Prussia, the Wartheland, District Bialystok, Zichenau (Ciechanow) and eastern Upper Silesia - were incarcerated in ghettos and camps: the largest ghettos were Litzmannstadt and Bialystok.
This volume, grounded in the Diary of a Young Girl and its continued appeal to readers of all ages, sees both promise in the relevance of Anne Frank's story in the twenty first century, and potential for new ways of teaching her story and those of other genocides and human right violations.
This volume, grounded in the Diary of a Young Girl and its continued appeal to readers of all ages, sees both promise in the relevance of Anne Frank's story in the twenty first century, and potential for new ways of teaching her story and those of other genocides and human right violations.
This microhistory of early modern transatlantic migration follows the journey of the Agata, a Dutch frigate hired by Spanish merchants in 1747 to travel between Cadiz and Veracruz.
Tauchen Sie ein in die faszinierende Geschichte Maltas, einer kleinen Insel, die eine zentrale Rolle in der Entwicklung mediterraner Zivilisationen spielte.
Die Edo-Zeit (1603–1868) gilt als eine der stabilsten und prägendsten Epochen in der Geschichte Japans, doch wer stand im Mittelpunkt dieser historischen Transformation?
This second collection of articles by Patricia Crone brings together studies on the development of early Muslim society, above all the army with which it was originally synonymous, from shortly after the Prophet's death until the mid-Abbasid period.
Mit der Deutschen Volksliste (DVL) versuchte die rassistische NS-Politik, eine Trennung von deutscher und »fremdvölkischer« Bevölkerung im besetzten Westpolen 1939-1945 durchzusetzen.
A través de un análisis minucioso y profundamente documentado, "Roma Augusta" de Emmanuel Virdis narra cómo Roma emergió como una fuerza dominante en Occidente tras la Segunda Guerra Púnica.
