In this effortlessly erudite account, Russell Shorto traces the evolution of one of the world's greatest cities. From the building of its first canals in the 1300s, through the brutal...
Amsterdam is not just any city. Despite its relative size it has stood alongside its larger cousins - Paris, London, Berlin - and has influenced the modern world to a degree that few other...
Stranded at Schiphol airport, Ben Coates called up a friendly Dutch girl he'd met some months earlier. He stayed for dinner. Actually, he stayed for good.In the first book to consider the...
Schama explores the mysterious contradictions of the Dutch nation that invented itself from the ground up, attained an unprecedented level of affluence, and lived in constant dread of being...
Over weinig mensen lopen de meningen zo uiteen als over prins Bernhard. Annejet van der Zijl ging op zoek naar het verhaal achter de mythe. Ze vond een astmatisch, gepest jongetje in een...
A highly illustrated study of the battle of Nieuwpoort in 1600, one of the key engagements of the Eighty Years War. It will appeal to all enthusiasts of 16th and 17th century warfare and the...
All over the world, people learn at school that the Netherlands is a country below sea-level. Dikes, polders, windmills and wooden shoes are well-known icons for this unusual nation, while...
In 1568, the Seventeen Provinces in the Netherlands rebelled against the absolutist rule of the king of Spain. A confederation of duchies, counties, and lordships, the Provinces demanded the...
Hij vormde de basis van de kleurrijke Heineken-geschiedenis: Gerard Adriaan Heineken – stichter van het gelijknamige bierimperium, aanjager van Amsterdams economische wederopstanding in de...
The remarkable story of how an artist and a scientist in seventeenth-century Holland transformed the way we see the world.On a summer day in 1674, in the small Dutch city of Delft, Antoni...
Waarom zijn Nederlandse soldaten nooit vervolgd voor de oorlogsmisdaden die ze tussen 1945 en 1949 pleegden in toenmalig Nederlands-Indië? Tijdens onderzoek voor De Groene Amsterdammer...
In 1630s, the Netherlands was gripped by tulipmania: a speculative fever unprecedented in scale and, as history would have it, folly. The author lays waste to the legends, revealing that...
This book tells the story of Bali the "paradise island of the Pacific" its rulers and its people, and their encounters with the Western world. Bali is a perennially popular tourist...
In het najaar van 1945 kwam de grootvader van Michal Citroen terug uit Auschwitz. Veel later vertelde hij haar hoe afschuwelijk de eerste jaren na de oorlog voor hem en zijn landgenoten...
This is the book that made Simon Schama's reputation when first published in 1987. A historical masterpiece, it is an epic account of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age of Rembrandt and van...
De graanrepubliek is het verhaal van de twintigste eeuw, gesitueerd in het grimmigste stukje Nederland. In het voetspoor van de machtige landbouwhervormer Sicco Mansholt reist de lezer mee...
Een jaar zwoegen in een Duits werkkamp. Dat is wat de Joodse familie Moszkowicz verwacht als ze zich op een zomerse dinsdagmiddag in augustus 1942 meldt op een verzamelplek in Maastricht....
Amsterdam DNA - How Amsterdam became AmsterdamWhat determines a city's character? And who? To really get to know Amsterdam, you need to go back in time. Amsterdam DNA tells the story of this...
The astonishing and bestselling autobiography of the renowned campaigner for religious tolerance and women's rights, Ayaan Hirsi Ali. One of today's most admired and controversial political...
It was an emblematic crime: on a November day in Amsterdam, an angry young Muslim man shot and killed the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, iconic European provocateur, for making a movie with...
The true story of the mad heretic who led history's bloodiest mutiny - 'An adult version of LORD OF THE FLIES that is, moreover, entirely true' Evening Standard
De voedselcommissaris van Kees Tukker is een indringende reconstructie van de dilemmas in het leven en werk van een topambtenaar tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog, met een voorwoord van Ad...
De voormoeders van aanstormend historisch schrijftalent Suze Zijlstra werpt nieuw licht op de sleutelrol van vrouwen in Nederlands-Indië; het is het vergeten verhaal van de...
Discusses the 1762 interfaith conflict in which a Catholic woman named Cunegonde is arrested for kidnapping a baby slated for Protestant baptism, triggering a violent religious war on the...
Saturnine and quick-tempered, the formidable North Sea is often overlooked - even by those living within a stone's throw of its steel-grey waters. But as playground, theatre of war and...
In 1630s, the Netherlands was gripped by tulipmania: a speculative fever unprecedented in scale and, as history would have it, folly. The author lays waste to the legends, revealing that...
