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"African History: A Very Short Introduction" looks at Africa's past and reflects on the changing ways it has been imagined and represented by examining the unity and diversity of African cultures, slavery, religion, colonial conquest, the diaspora, and the importance of history in understanding contemporary Africa. Africa has been known as 'the cradle of mankind', and its recoverable history stretches back to the Pharaohs. But the idea of study of ‘African history’ itself is new. Why is it still contested and controversial? Who invented the idea of 'Africa'? How is African history pieced together, given such a lack of documentary evidence? How did Africa interact with the world 1,000 years ago? -- From publisher's description.

Africa --- History. --- af 940 --- geschiedenis --- Afrika

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What life was like for ordinary French and English people, embroiled in a devastating century-long conflict that changed their world The Hundred Years War (1337-1453) dominated life in England and France for well over a century. It became the defining feature of existence for generations. This sweeping book is the first to tell the human story of the longest military conflict in history. Historian David Green focuses on the ways the war affected different groups, among them knights, clerics, women, peasants, soldiers, peacemakers, and kings. He also explores how the long war altered governance in England and France and reshaped peoples' perceptions of themselves and of their national character. Using the events of the war as a narrative thread, Green illuminates the realities of battle and the conditions of those compelled to live in occupied territory; the roles played by clergy and their shifting loyalties to king and pope; and the influence of the war on developing notions of government, literacy, and education. Peopled with vivid and well-known characters-Henry V, Joan of Arc, Philippe the Good of Burgundy, Edward the Black Prince, John the Blind of Bohemia, and many others-as well as a host of ordinary individuals who were drawn into the struggle, this absorbing book reveals for the first time not only the Hundred Years War's impact on warfare, institutions, and nations, but also its true human cost.

940.12 --- Geschiedenis van Europa:--ca.375-550 --- 940.12 Geschiedenis van Europa:--ca.375-550 --- Hundred Years' War, 1339-1453. --- France --- Great Britain --- History, Military --- Foreign relations

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Crusades. --- Christians. --- Religious adherents --- Church history --- Middle Ages --- Chivalry --- 940.181 --- 940.181 Kruistochten --- Kruistochten --- Jerusalem --- History --- Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem --- Latin Orient --- Palestine --- Islamic Empire --- Middle East

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Brazilië is een ongrijpbaar land, een wankelbaar en toch stevig halfcontinent. Balança mas não cai. Wiebelen, maar niet vallen, zegt een Braziliaans spreekwoord. Uit de roekeloze en voortdurende vermenging van Indiaanse, Europese, Afrikaanse en Aziatische volkeren, culturen en religies, kreeg het land toch een veelzijdige en unieke identiteit, de brasilidade. Een goed begrip van het hedendaagse Brazilië en de brasilidade kan daarom niet om vijf eeuwen Braziliaanse geschiedenis heen. Dit boek biedt hiervan een breed overzicht. Het verkiest de krachtlijnen en het pittige detail boven al te kortzichtige modellen en overhaaste interpretaties. Na een inleidende schets over land en volk, overloopt een eerste deel de geschiedenis. Vervolgens komen meer samenvattend de economische, sociale, culturele en religieuze aspecten van Brazilië aan bod. Ook samba, carnaval en voetbal ontbreken niet evenals de volkskunst en de gastronomie. Dit verhaal steunt zowel op klassieke historische bronnen, literatuur, reisverhalen en persartikelen als op persoonlijke ervaringen en relaties van de auteur. (Bron: covertekst)

History of Latin America --- Brazil --- Academic collection --- Brazilië ; geschiedenis --- am-braz 940 --- Brazilië --- geschiedenis --- History. --- History

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Dit boek belicht de geschiedenis van Japan. De zoektocht naar een evenwicht tussen aansluiting bij en afzijdigheid van het Aziatische continent en de wereld vormt hierbij de rode draad.

J3300 --- Japan: History -- general histories --- az-japa 940 --- geschiedenis --- Japan --- geschiedenis - Japan --- History