Kategoria BISAC: History >> Western Europe - General

Around 1900, the Louvain photographer Edouard Morren made a unique photo report of the buildings comprising the University of Louvain. The 78 photographs were bound in a luxurious album, which is now preserved at the Louvain university archives. This new edition reproduces the numerous views of the most important sites of the university as well as photos of interiors that had never been documented before. A special focus is on the various laboratory facilities, that testify to the emerging scientific tradition of the university. The complete text is published in both English and...

Avraham Perlmutter is pas tien jaar oud als zijn leven voorgoed verandert.

In 1938 bereiken de nazi’s Avrahams geboortestad Wenen. Wanhopig om hun zoon te redden, sturen zijn ouders hem naar Nederland, maar het binnenvallende Duitse leger volgt een korte tijd later. Tijdens de daaropvolgende oorlogsjaren trotseert de jonge Avraham arrestaties, gewaagde ontsnappingen, onderduiken en hartverscheurende verliezen. Daarnaast ervaart hij echter ook de goedheid van vele Nederlanders die hem helpen ontsnappen.

Het overleven van de Holocaust vergt schranderheid, moed,...

In an absorbing mixture of poignant biography and wonderfully entertaining social history, Daughters of Britannia offers the story of diplomatic life as it has never been told before.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Vita Sackville-West, and Lady Diana Cooper are among the well-known wives of diplomats who represented Britain in the far-flung corners of the globe. Yet, despite serving such crucial roles, the vast majority of these women are entirely unknown to history.

Drawing on letters, private journals, and memoirs, as well as contemporary oral history, Katie Hickman...

Straddling a small corner of Spain and France in a land that is marked on no maps except their own, the Basques are a puzzling contradiction--they are Europe's oldest nation without ever having been a country. No one has ever been able to determine their origins, and even the Basques' language, Euskera--the most ancient in Europe--is related to none other on earth. For centuries, their influence has been felt in nearly...