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Revolutionary worlds
local perspectives and dynamics during the Indonesian Independence War, 1945-1949
'Revolutionary Worlds' looks at the Indonesian revolution (1945-1949) from a local and regional perspective. In several contributions, Indonesian and Dutch researchers bring to life the revolutionary world from widely differing perspectives. The authors explain how Indonesian, Chinese, Indian and Eurasian civilians, fighters, farmers and officials experienced and shaped the chaotic period between 1945 and 1950. The book focuses on survival strategies, mobilization, and the use of force against the...
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Engels | 527 pagina's | Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam | 2023
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Ashli White Revolutionary things
material culture and politics in the late eighteenth-century Atlantic world
"Historian Ashli White explores the circulation of material culture during the American, French, and Haitian revolutions, arguing that in the late eighteenth century, radical ideals were contested through objects as well as in texts. She considers how revolutionary things, as they moved throughout the Atlantic, brought people into contact with these transformative political movements in visceral, multiple, and provocative ways. Focusing on a range of objects--ceramics and furniture, garments and...
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Engels | 382 pagina's | Yale University Press, New Haven | 2023
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David Grann The Wager
a tale of a shipwreck, mutiny, and murder
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Engels | 329 pagina's | Doubleday, New York | 2023
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E.O. Tackey Chief Takyi breaker of chains
the ultimate connection
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Engels | 131 pagina's | Bookadew, Roermond | 2023
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Janet Polasky Asylum between nations
refugees in a revolutionary era
"Driven from their homelands, refugees from ancient times to the present have sought asylum in worlds turned upside down. Theirs is an age-old story. So too are the solutions to their plight. In the wake of the American and French Revolutions, thousands of men and women took to the roads and waterways on both sides of the Atlantic--refugees in search of their inalienable rights. Although larger nations fortified their borders and circumscribed citizenship, two port cities, German Hamburg and Danish...
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Engels | 312 pagina's | Yale University Press, New Haven | 2023
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Noah Heringman Deep time
a literary history
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Engels | 297 pagina's | Princeton University Press, Princeton | 2023
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