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Cathalijne Boland Reuchlins reis
de Holland-Amerika Lijn en de landverhuizers
Biografie van de Nederlandse ondernemer George Reuchlin (1874-1912), die in 1891 met de Holland-Amerika Lijn naar New York reisde en in 1912 omkwam bij de ramp met de Titanic. Met speciale aandacht voor de historische context van de grootscheepse emigratie van Europeanen naar Amerika rond het eind van de 19e eeuw.
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Nederlands | 444 pagina's | Alfabet Uitgevers, [Utrecht] | 2023
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M.P.M. Burger Pijn, bloedverlies en hysterie
een geschiedenis van de gynaecologie
Historisch overzicht van de ontwikkelingen van het vakgebied van de gynaecologie van de Griekse oudheid tot de negentiende eeuw, met aandacht voor de medische discussie rondom het begrip ‘hysterie’, de eerste experimentele gynaecologische operaties en de geschiedenis van de gynaecologie in Nederland.
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Nederlands | 246 pagina's | Eburon, Utrecht | 2023
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Patrick Griffin The age of Atlantic Revolution
the fall and rise of a connected world
"The Age of Atlantic Revolution was a defining moment in western history. Our understanding of rights, of what makes the individual an individual, of how to define a citizen versus a subject, of what states should or should not do, of how labor, politics, and trade would be organized, of the relationship between the church and the state, and of our attachment to the nation all derive from this period (c. 1750-1850). Historian Patrick Griffin shows that the Age of Atlantic Revolution was rooted in...
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Engels | 376 pagina's | Yale University Press, New Haven | 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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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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