Meest populaire boeken in Nederland●Noord- en Zuid-Amerika
Bekijk de nieuwste lijst met boeken die mensen in Nederland op dit moment het leukst vinden. De lijst is gerangschikt op populariteit en het genre van de lijst is Geschiedenis > Noord- en Zuid-Amerika.
1. Patronen van bedrog - Willem Middelkoop & Tim Dollee
In 'Patronen van bedrog' ontrafelt Willem Middelkoop, samen met researcher Tim Dollee, op een meeslepende manier de macht achter de Amerikaanse politiek. Niet de president in het Witte Huis, maar een elite uit het militair-industrieel complex blijkt al meer dan honderd jaar de feitelijke macht in handen te hebben. In de VS wordt deze internationaal opererende groep steeds vaker omschreven als The Deep State. Volgens opiniepeilingen gelooft de helft van de Amerikanen dat er inderdaad een Deep Sta...
Releasedatum: 2018-05-30 € 14,99
2. O Canada - Mart Smeets
Geschiedenis, reizen, muziek, sport, culinair, politiek en nog veel meer, en dat alles verhalend en op de bekende enthousiaste Smeets-toon geschreven, vol persoonlijke ervaringen. In de zomer van 1974 reisde Mart Smeets, voor de NOS, voor het eerst naar Canada. Daar begon de liefde voor een land dat wellicht op de USA líjkt, maar qua cultuur, politiek en temperament van de bevolking heel anders is. Via Montréal leerde hij Québec City, Toronto, Ottawa, Calgary, Edmonton, Hamilton, Vancouver en...
Releasedatum: 2021-05-20 € 10,99
3. 1493 - Charles C. Mann. Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A deeply engaging history of how European settlements in the post-Colombian Americas shaped the world—from the highly acclaimed author of 1491 . • "Fascinating...Lively...A convincing explanation of why our world is the way it is." — The New York Times Book Review Presenting the latest research by biologists, anthropologists, archaeologists, and historians, Mann shows how the post-Columbian network of ecological and economic exchange fostered the rise of Europe...
Releasedatum: 2011-08-09 € 7,99
4. A People's History of the United States - Howard Zinn
As seen in the award-winning feature film, Lady Bird. A classic since its original landmark publication in 1980, Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States is the first scholarly work to tell America's story from the bottom up the point of view. There is an underside to every age about which history does not often speak, because history is written from records left by the privileged. Historian and social activist Howard Zinn relays history in the words of America's women, factory work...
Releasedatum: 2014-10-23 Genre:Geschiedenis € 3,99
5. The Devil In The White City - Erik Larson
'An irresistible page-turner that reads like the most compelling, sleep defying fiction' TIME OUT One was an architect. The other a serial killer. This is the incredible story of these two men and their realization of the Chicago World's Fair of 1893, and its amazing 'White City'; one of the wonders of the world. The architect was Daniel H. Burnham, the driving force behind the White City, the massive, visionary landscape of white buildings set in a wonderland of canals and gardens. The killer w...
Releasedatum: 2010-09-30 € 9,49
6. 1491 (Second Edition) - Charles C. Mann. New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A groundbreaking work of science, history, and archaeology that radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of Columbus in 1492—from “a remarkably engaging writer” ( The New York Times Book Review). Contrary to what so many Americans learn in school, the pre-Columbian Indians were not sparsely settled in a pristine wilderness; rather, there were huge numbers of Indians who actively molded and influenced the land around them. The asto...
Releasedatum: 2005-08-09 € 11,99
7. The Unwinding - George Packer
America is in crisis. In the space of a generation, it has become more than ever a country of winners and losers, as industries have failed, institutions have disappeared and the country's focus has shifted to idolise celebrity and wealth. George Packer narrates the story of America over the past three decades, bringing to the task his empathy with people facing difficult challenges, his sharp eye for detail and a gift for weaving together engaging narratives.The Unwinding moves deftly back ...
Releasedatum: 2013-06-10 € 11,99
8. America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization - Graham Hancock. A new investigation into the ancient apocalypse
***THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER*** 'Hancock's books provide a fascinating, alternative version of prehistory. America Before, detailed and wide-ranging, turns what was myth and legend into a new story of the past.' Daily Mail Was an advanced civilization lost to history in the global cataclysm that ended the last Ice Age? Graham Hancock, the internationally bestselling author and television presenter, has made it his life's work to find out -- and in America Before, he draws on the latest...
Releasedatum: 2019-04-02 € 3,99
9. Dispatches - Michael Herr
With an introduction by Kevin Powers. A groundbreaking piece of journalism which inspired Stanley Kubrick's classic Vietnam War film Full Metal Jacket. We took space back quickly, expensively, with total panic and close to maximum brutality. Our machine was devastating. And versatile. It could do everything but stop. Michael Herr went to Vietnam as a war correspondent for Esquire . He returned to tell the real story in all its hallucinatory madness and brutality, cutting to the quick of the conf...
Releasedatum: 2014-12-15 Genre:Geschiedenis € 5,99
10. The World of the Ancient Incas - Dr David M Jones. The Extraordinary History of the Hidden Civilizations of the First Peoples of the South American Andes, with Over 200 Photographs and Illustrations
The lives of the ancient native peoples of Peru and the Andes are shrouded in mystery and mythology. Within these pages is a fascinating and in-depth guide to the mysterious Inca world, providing an extraordinary insight into the lives of its everyday citizens. This beautifully illustrated book provides a vivid account of how the Chavín, Nazca, Moche, Wari, Tiwanaku, Chimu, Inca and other peoples lived, exploring the daily life of the Incas from birth to childhood, adulthood and marriage, to th...
Releasedatum: 2012-10-01 € 1,49
11. Area 51 - Annie Jacobsen. An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base
The explosive, untold story of the Cold War's biggest secret. The REAL X-Files. It is the most famous military installation in the world. And no credible insider has ever divulged the truth about his time inside of it. Until now. This is the first book based on interviews with scientists, pilots, and engineers - 58 in total - who provide an unprecedented look into the mysterious activities of a top-secret base, from the Cold War to today. With a jaw-dropping ending, it proves that facts are ofte...
Releasedatum: 2011-05-17 € 4,49
12. The Battle for the Falklands - Max Hastings & Simon Jenkins
The Battle for the Falklands is a thoughtful and informed analysis of an astonishing chapter in modern British history from journalist and military historian Sir Max Hastings and political editor Simon Jenkins. Ten weeks. 28,000 soldiers. 8,000 miles from home. The Falklands War in 1982 was one of the strangest in British history. At the time, many Britons saw it as a tragic absurdity - thousands of men sent overseas for a tiny relic of empire - but the British victory over the Argentinians not ...
Releasedatum: 2012-03-22 Genre:Geschiedenis € 7,49
13. The Republic for Which It Stands - Richard White. The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896
The Oxford History of the United States is the most respected multivolume history of the American nation. In the newest volume in the series, The Republic for Which It Stands, acclaimed historian Richard White offers a fresh and integrated interpretation of Reconstruction and the Gilded Age as the seedbed of modern America. At the end of the Civil War the leaders and citizens of the victorious North envisioned the country's future as a free-labor republic, with a homogenous citizenry, both black...
Releasedatum: 2017-08-04 Genre:Geschiedenis € 23,99
14. De terugkeer van de wereld van Marco Polo - Robert D. Kaplan. Oorlog, strategie en westerse belangen in de 21e eeuw
De gerenommeerde Amerikaanse politiek analist Robert D. Kaplan buigt zich in zestien scherpe en weldoordachte artikelen over de buitenlandse politiek van de Verenigde Staten in de laatste twintig jaar. Hij onderzoekt de rol van de VS in de globale politiek en door welke tijdloze principes en factoren deze gevormd dient te worden. Centraal staat het artikel waar het boek mee opent en waar het zijn naam aan ontleent: ‘De terugkeer van de wereld van Marco Polo’, over de geopolitieke situat...
Releasedatum: 2018-03-21 Genre:Geschiedenis € 13,99
15. De aarde huilt - Peter Cozzens. De strijd van de indianen om West-Amerika 1866-1891
De aarde huilt vertelt het meeslepende verhaal van de decennialange strijd tussen het Amerikaanse leger en de stammen van de Great Plains en de Rocky Mountains aan het eind van de negentiende eeuw. Na afloop van de Burgeroorlog zette het Amerikaanse leger zich aan de taak om het tot dan toe grotendeels onontgonnen Westen te veroveren – een tragische episode in de ontstaansgeschiedenis van de Verenigde Staten. De cultuur en levenswijze van de oorspronkelijke bewoners moesten plaatsmaken voor di...
Releasedatum: 2017-10-03 Genre:Geschiedenis € 19,99
16. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee - Dee Brown. An Indian History of the American West
The “fascinating” #1 New York Times bestseller that awakened the world to the destruction of American Indians in the nineteenth-century West ( The Wall Street Journal ). First published in 1970, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee generated shockwaves with its frank and heartbreaking depiction of the systematic annihilation of American Indian tribes across the western frontier. In this nonfiction account, Dee Brown focuses on the betrayals, battles, and massacres suffered by American Indians betwe...
Releasedatum: 2012-10-23 € 13,99
17. Empire of the Summer Moon - S. C. Gwynne. Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History
*Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award* *A New York Times Notable Book* *Winner of the Texas Book Award and the Oklahoma Book Award* This New York Times bestseller and stunning historical account of the forty-year battle between Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of the American West “is nothing short of a revelation…will leave dust and blood on your jeans” ( The New York Times Book Review ). Empire of the Summer Moon spans two astonishing ...
Releasedatum: 2010-05-25 € 15,99
18. Empire of the Summer Moon - S.C. Gwynne. Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History
In the tradition of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, a stunningly vivid historical account of the forty-year battle between Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of the American West, centering on Quanah, the greatest Comanche chief of them all. Empire of the Summer Moon spans two astonishing stories. The first traces the rise and fall of the Comanches, the most powerful Indian tribe in American history. The second is the epic saga of the pioneer woman Cynthia Ann Parker and her mixed-bl...
Releasedatum: 2011-07-07 € 5,99
19. Madam Secretary - Madeleine Albright. A Memoir
“One of the most diverting political bios in recent memory.” -- Entertainment Weekly Revised and updated with a new epilogue, Madam Secretary is the moving and inspiring memoir of one of the most distinguished public figures in American history, seven-time New York Times bestselling author and former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright A national bestseller on its first publication in 2003, Madam Secretary is the riveting personal story of former Secretary of State Madeleine Albr...
Releasedatum: 2013-01-22 Genre:Geschiedenis € 12,99
20. Amerika's laatste kans - Casper Thomas. Over de toekomst van de democratie in Amerika
Amerika-correspondent Casper Thomas beschrijft de polarisatie, ongelijkheid en politieke verlamming in de VS, en wat dat betekent voor democratieën in de rest van de wereld. De Verenigde Staten staan op een tweesprong. Polarisatie, ongelijkheid en politieke verlamming in Washington tekenen een verdeeld land dat niet langer de wereld naar zijn hand kan zetten. De komende jaren worden allesbepalend: krijgt Amerika weer grip op zichzelf of raakt het land verder op drift? Onder Joe Biden is het lan...
Releasedatum: 2022-10-28 € 12,99
21. De verovering van de Rockies - Robert D. Kaplan. hoe haar geografie de rol van de Verenigde Staten in de wereld bepaalt
De verovering van de Rockies is een kort epos dat aan de hand van een intelligente en meeslepende beschrijving van het Amerikaanse landschap uiteenzet hoe het land een wereldmacht is geworden en hoe het zich in de chaotische wereld van nu zou moeten gedragen. Als klein jongetje luisterde Robert D. Kaplan vol aandacht naar de verhalen van zijn vader, die als vrachtwagenchauffeur van de ene kust van de Verenigde Staten naar de andere reisde. In De verovering van de Rockies volgt Kaplan zijn vaders...
Releasedatum: 2017-01-18 Genre:Geschiedenis € 12,99
22. American Caesars - Nigel Hamilton. Lives of the US Presidents, from Franklin D. Roosevelt to George W. Bush
The twentieth century has been called 'the American Century'. Not since the days of the Roman emperors has there been such a succession of rulers holding the fate of the world in their hands. Now, award-winning biographer Nigel Hamilton gives us the lives of the twelve men, from Franklin D. Roosevelt to George W. Bush, who presided over America's imperial fortunes - the good, the bad and the truly awful. How did these American Caesars reach the White House? What were the challenges they faced wh...
Releasedatum: 2011-08-31 € 11,99
23. Een land van dromen - Louis P. Masur. De geschiedenis van de Verenigde Staten van 1585 tot heden
Een complete geschiedenis van de Verenigde Staten in een compacte uitgave 'Masur is een goede verteller en geeft droom en werkelijkheid geïllustreerd alle ruimte.' NRC De geschiedenis van de Verenigde Staten en de Amerikaanse droom zijn onlosmakelijk met elkaar verbonden. ‘Amerika is de som van onze dromen,’ zo verwoordde oud-president Barack Obama het treffend. In deze toegankelijke en compacte geschiedenis duikt gevestigd historicus Louis Masur in de rijke en tumultueuze historie van het ...
Releasedatum: 2021-01-26 Genre:Geschiedenis € 14,99
24. The Death and Life of Great American Cities - Jane Jacobs
In this classic text, Jane Jacobs set out to produce an attack on current city planning and rebuilding and to introduce new principles by which these should be governed. The result is one of the most stimulating books on cities ever written. Throughout the post-war period, planners temperamentally unsympathetic to cities have been let loose on our urban environment. Inspired by the ideals of the Garden City or Le Corbusier's Radiant City, they have dreamt up ambitious projects based on self-cont...
Releasedatum: 2016-11-17 Genre:Geschiedenis € 14,99
25. The American Future - Simon Schama CBE. A History From The Founding Fathers To Barack Obama
The American Future traces the history of a country whose most enduring trait is its capacity for self-renewal, especially at times of disaster. Examining issues of power, race and immigration, religious fervour and prosperity, this masterful portrait of the world's most controversial superpower looks backwards and forwards to understand why now, more than ever, the fate of America, and by extension the rest of the world, is hanging in the balance.
Releasedatum: 2010-08-31 € 12,99
26. How the Word Is Passed - Clint Smith. A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVOURITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR A NUMBER ONE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NON-FICTION 'A beautifully readable reminder of how much of our urgent, collective history resounds in places all around us that have been hidden in plain sight.' Afua Hirsch, author of Brit(ish) Beginning in his hometown of New Orleans, Clint Smith leads the reader on an unforgettable tour of monuments and landmarks - those that are honest about the past and those ...
Releasedatum: 2021-06-01 € 3,99
27. Emergency - Neil Strauss. This Book Will Save Your Life
Terrorist attacks. Natural disasters. Domestic crackdowns. Economic collapse. Riots. Wars. Disease. Starvation. What can you do when it all hits the fan? You can learn to be self-sufficient and survive without the system. "I've started to look at the world through apocalypse eyes." So begins Neil Strauss's harrowing new book: his first full-length work since the international bestseller The Game, and one of the most original-and provocative-narratives of the year. After the last few years of vio...
Releasedatum: 2012-05-01 Genre:Geschiedenis € 10,99
28. Not In Your Lifetime - Anthony Summers. The Assassination of JFK
It might not be in your lifetime', said the Chief Justice of the United States when asked whether the files on the assassination of President Kennedy would be made public. If the President was killed by a lone gunman, as the first official enquiry claimed, why can we still not see all relevant records? Fifty years on and the murder of the century remains unsolved. Drawing on thirty years of investigation, Anthony Summers examines the case in compelling, forensic detail. He analyses the evidence ...
Releasedatum: 2013-10-10 Genre:Geschiedenis € 1,99
29. The Day the World Came to Town - Jim Defede. 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland
The True Story Behind the Events on 9/11 that Inspired Broadway’s Smash Hit Musical Come from Away, Featuring All New Material from the Author When 38 jetliners bound for the United States were forced to land at Gander International Airport in Canada by the closing of U.S. airspace on September 11, the population of this small town on Newfoundland Island swelled from 10,300 to nearly 17,000. The citizens of Gander met the stranded passengers with an overwhelming display of friendship and goodw...
Releasedatum: 2011-07-12 Genre:Geschiedenis € 10,99
30. Dereliction of Duty - H. R. McMaster. Johnson, McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff
"The war in Vietnam was not lost in the field, nor was it lost on the front pages of the New York Times or the college campuses. It was lost in Washington, D.C." —H. R. McMaster (from the Conclusion) Dereliction Of Duty is a stunning analysis of how and why the United States became involved in an all-out and disastrous war in Southeast Asia. Fully and convincingly researched, based on transcripts and personal accounts of crucial meetings, confrontations and decisions, it is the only book...
Releasedatum: 2011-03-01 Genre:Geschiedenis € 11,99
31. The Penguin History of Latin America - Edwin Williamson. New Edition
Now fully updated to 2009, this acclaimed history of Latin America tells its turbulent story from Columbus to Chavez. Beginning with the Spanish and Portugese conquests of the New World, it takes in centuries of upheaval, revolution and modernization up to the present day, looking in detail at Argentina, Mexico, Brazil, Chile and Cuba, and gives an overview of the cultural developments that have made Latin America a source of fascination for the world. 'A first-rate work of history ... His cool,...
Releasedatum: 2003-07-31 € 12,99
32. Het geheim van de goudenregen - Chris Houtman. Het wonderbaarlijke leven van de Pilgrim's-dochter Elizabeth Blossom
Leiden, 1629 De tranen biggelen over haar wangen. De negenjarige Elizabeth (Betsy) Blossom vertrekt binnenkort met haar vader, moeder en kleine broertjes naar Amerika. Maar ze wil helemaal niet weg. Ze wil in Leiden blijven, de stad waar ze is geboren. Maar ze moet mee naar het 'Beloofde Land'. Het is eng, ze vindt het geloof van haar ouders verstikkend. New Jersey, 1712 Als Betsy's achterkleindochter Prudence nieuwsgierig vraagt naar het land waar haar overgrootmoeder vandaan komt, wordt Betsy ...
Releasedatum: 2019-06-28 Genre:Geschiedenis € 7,99
33. Fantasyland - Kurt Andersen. How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History
You’re entitled to your own opinion but not your own facts Fantasy is the USA’s primary product. From the Pilgrim Fathers onward America has been a place where renegades and freaks came in search of freedom to create their own realities with little objectively regulated truth standing in their way. The freedom to invent and believe whatever the hell you like is, in some ways, an unwritten constitutional right. But, this do-your-own-thing freedom also is the driving credo of America's current...
Releasedatum: 2017-10-12 Genre:Geschiedenis € 10,99
34. Het onsterfelijke leven van Henrietta Lacks - Rebecca Skloot
Haar naam was Henrietta Lacks, maar de medische wereld kent haar als HeLa. In de jaren '50 werden haar kankercellen zonder dat zij dat wist bij haar weggenomen. Met behulp van deze cellen, die letterlijk onsterfelijk zijn, werden de meest uiteenlopende geneeskundige ontdekkingen gedaan en rond de verkoop ervan ontstond een miljoenenindustrie. Het leven van Henrietta bleef echter vrijwel onbekend en ook haar familie wist tot ruim dertig jaar geleden niet van het bestaan van de cellen af. Rebecca ...
Releasedatum: 2017-11-14 Genre:Geschiedenis € 8,99
35. America's First Civilization - Michael D. Coe
Here is the story of America's oldest - and oddest - civilization, the Olmecs of the southern Mexican jungles. Virtually unknown to archaeologists until the early twentieth century, their true importance is only now being realized and shedding new light on how the Indian peoples of the Americas came to be here.
Releasedatum: 2017-02-08 € 8,99
36. The First Americans - John David Cross
It was about 13,000 years ago that the First Americans, people who came from Asia, worked their way past the melting glaciers of the last Ice Age and began spreading across North, Central, and South America - lands previously unscarred by humans and teeming with mammoths, giant bison, saber-toothed tigers, and beavers the size of a cow. But it's only recently that scientists have pieced together the elusive, compelling saga of that epic migration. And the more we learn about them, the more we mu...
Releasedatum: 2016-12-17 € 8,99
37. The Lost City of the Monkey God - Douglas Preston. A True Story
The #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller, named one of the best books of the year by The Boston Globe and National Geographic: acclaimed journalist Douglas Preston takes readers on a true adventure deep into the Honduran rainforest in this riveting narrative about the discovery of a lost civilization -- culminating in a stunning medical mystery. Since the days of conquistador Hernán Cortés, rumors have circulated about a lost city of immense wealth hidden somewhere in the Hondu...
Releasedatum: 2017-01-03 Genre:Geschiedenis € 10,99
38. An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States - Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
New York Times Bestseller Now part of the HBO docuseries "Exterminate All the Brutes," written and directed by Raoul Peck Recipient of the American Book Award The first history of the United States told from the perspective of indigenous peoples Today in the United States, there are more than five hundred federally recognized Indigenous nations comprising nearly three million people, descendants of the fifteen million Native people who once inhabited this land. The centuries-long genocida...
Releasedatum: 2014-09-16 € 11,99
39. The Conquest of New Spain - Bernal Diaz Del Castillo
Bernal Diaz was an eyewitness to one of history's most remarkable events - the conquest of the Empire of the Aztecs, and the defeat of their Emperor Montezuma. The indomitable Diaz delivers his chronicle first-hand, vividly describing the ruthless battles, the brilliant Machiavellian strategies of Cortes, and the superstitions vacillations of Montezuma that lead to the momentous overthrow of the Aztec civilization. Despite the supremacy of their weapons and armour, the Spanish "Conquistadors" ov...
Releasedatum: 2013-10-27 Genre:Geschiedenis € 2,49
40. The Heart of Everything That Is - Bob Drury & Tom Clavin. The Untold Story of Red Cloud, An American Legend
This acclaimed New York Times bestselling biography of the legendary Sioux warrior Red Cloud, is “ a page-turner with remarkable immediacy…and the narrative sweep of a great Western” ( The Boston Globe ). Red Cloud was the only American Indian in history to defeat the United States Army in a war, forcing the government to sue for peace on his terms. At the peak of Red Cloud’s powers the Sioux could claim control of one-fifth of the contiguous United States and the loyalty of thousands of...
Releasedatum: 2013-11-05 € 17,99
41. Breaking the Maya Code - Michael D. Coe
The inside story of one of the major intellectual breakthroughs of our time - the last great decipherment of an ancient script. It will fascinate anyone interested in decipherment and puzzles as well as scholars of Maya civilization. The book has been revised and updated with the latest discoveries.
Releasedatum: 2012-01-02 € 15,99
42. The Mac Donalds of Suriname: The Ancestors - De Mac Donalds van Suriname: De voorouders - Alphonse L MacDonald
On 25 November 2020 it was 200 years since a young Scot, Alexander MacDonald, entered Suriname, never to return to his homeland. This title provides some historical facts about Alexander MacDonald, his origin and life in Suriname. Like all history, family history is a combination of facts, myths or fiction and mystery. In this account great efforts are made to present facts, although occasionally some myths may have been taken as facts and in some cases even some mysteries may remain. Op 25 nove...
Releasedatum: 2022-03-20 € 11,99
43. The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee - David Treuer. Native America from 1890 to the Present
FINALIST FOR THE 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Named a best book of 2019 by The New York Times, TIME , The Washington Post , NPR , Hudson Booksellers , The New York Public Library , The Dallas Morning News, and Library Journal . "Chapter after chapter, it's like one shattered myth after another." - NPR "An informed, moving and kaleidoscopic portrait... Treuer...
Releasedatum: 2019-01-22 € 10,99
44. When Montezuma Met Cortés - Matthew Restall. The True Story of the Meeting that Changed History
A dramatic rethinking of the encounter between Montezuma and Hernando Cortés that completely overturns what we know about the Spanish conquest of the Americas On November 8, 1519, the Spanish conquistador Hernando Cortés first met Montezuma, the Aztec emperor, at the entrance to the capital city of Tenochtitlan. This introduction—the prelude to the Spanish seizure of Mexico City and to European colonization of the mainland of the Americas—has long been the symbol of Cortés’s bold and br...
Releasedatum: 2018-01-30 Genre:Geschiedenis € 12,99
45. The Slave Trade - Hugh Thomas
The Atlantic slave trade was one of the largest and most elaborate maritime and commercial ventures. Between 1492 and about 1870, ten million or more black slaves were carried from Africa to one port or another of the Americas. In this wide-ranging book, Hugh Thomas follows the development of this massive shift of human lives across the centuries until the slave trade's abolition in the late nineteenth century.
Releasedatum: 2015-11-12 € 3,99
46. 1822: Como um homem sábio, uma princesa triste e um escocês louco por dinheiro ajudaram dom Pedro a criar o Brasil - um país que tinha tudo para dar errado - Laurentino Gomes
Sucesso de Laurentino Gomes sobre a independência do Brasil está de volta em edição revista e ampliada lançada pela Globo Livros O segundo volume da premiada trilogia de Laurentino Gomes sobre episódios fundamentais da história do Brasil está de volta às livrarias em uma edição revista e ampliada. Em 1822, o escritor compara diferentes relatos sobre o dia 7 de setembro que redefiniu os rumos do nosso país. Mais do que desmistificar o grito da independência às margens do Ipiranga, o...
Releasedatum: 2015-09-05 € 4,49
47. The Witches - Stacy Schiff. Salem, 1692
'An oppressive, forensic, psychological thriller: J.K. Rowling meets Antony Beevor, Stephen King and Marina Warner ... Schiff's writing is to die for' THE TIMES It began in 1692, over an exceptionally raw Massachusetts winter, when a minister's niece started to scream and convulse. It ended less than a year later, but not before panic had infected the entire colony, nineteen men and women had been hanged, and a band of adolescent girls had brought Massachusetts to its knees. Vividly capturing th...
Releasedatum: 2015-10-29 € 3,99
48. 13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened In Benghazi by Mitchell Zuckoff... Summarized - J.J. Holt
This is an Awesome Summary of 13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened In Benghazi by Mitchell Zuckoff... Summarized by J.J. Holt
Releasedatum: 2014-09-21 € 2,99
49. History: A Very Short Introduction - John H. Arnold
John H. Arnold's Very Short Introduction is a stimulating essay about how we study and understand history. The book begins by inviting us to think about various questions provoked by our investigation of history, and explores the ways these questions have been answered in the past. Concepts such as causation, interpretation, and periodization, are introduced by means of concrete examples of how historians work, giving the reader a sense of the excitement of discovering not only the past, but als...
Releasedatum: 2000-02-24 Genre:Geschiedenis € 11,99
50. Who Discovered America? - Gavin Menzies & Ian Hudson. The Untold History of the Peopling of the Americas
Greatly expanding on his blockbuster 1421, distinguished historian Gavin Menzies uncovers the complete untold history of how mankind came to the Americas—offering new revelations and a radical rethinking of the accepted historical record in Who Discovered America? The iconoclastic historian’s magnum opus, Who Discovered America? calls into question our understanding of how the American continents were settled, shedding new light on the well-known “discoveries” of European explorers, incl...
Releasedatum: 2013-10-08 Genre:Geschiedenis € 12,99
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