A. Gaaff Debts without redemption

cultural differences in First World War finance

Old war debts never die, they just fade away....... In 2015, Britain finally paid off a large war loan issued in 1917 to finance the First World War. In 2010, Germany made the last payments on some 80-year-old debts originally used to finance part of its reparations bill imposed by the Treaty of Versailles in 1919. These were exceptions. The vast majority of the debts made during the Great War have never been paid back, including billion dollar loans from the US to western allies. These debts were...

Non-fictie

Engels | 402 pagina's (ePub2, 5,7 MB) | Aspekt Publishers, Soesterberg | 2022

E-book

Jochem Botman Nazis to the core

the Sassen brothers and their anti-Bolshevik crusade in Latin America

Non-fictie

Engels | 316 pagina's (ePub2, 9,5 MB) | Aspekt, Soesterberg | 2021

E-book

B.O. van Zanten The Star Mountains expedition to Dutch New Guinea in 1959

personal experiences and impressions

In 1959 the Koninklijk Nederlands Aardrijkskundig Genootschap (KNAG), together with the Rijksherbarium Leiden organised a multi-disciplinary expedition. This was a remarkable expedition because it was destined to explore the Star Mountains of what was then Dutch New-Guinea. The Star Mountains on the Central Mountain Range were the last area of Dutch New-Guinea not yet under Dutch control or governance. Hardly anything was known about this area, it was even questionable whether there were actually...

Non-fictie

Engels | 200 pagina's (PDF, 2,2 MB) | Aspekt, Soesterberg | 2021

E-book

Maarten Hell The little history of Amsterdam for dummies

This guide offers you an overview of the rich history of Amsterdam. Get acquainted with the Dutch capital throughout the ages and learn how Amsterdam developed from a swampy settlement into a trade center of global proportions. The glory days of the Golden Age will be discussed, as well as some black pages from Amsterdam's history, such as slavery, the persecution of Jews during World War II and the Bijlmer disaster. Maarten Hell is a journalist and historian. His work includes several books on the...

Non-fictie

Engels | 124 pagina's (ePub2, 1,4 MB) | BBNC Uitgevers, Amersfoort | 2016

E-book

Fate, providence and moral responsibility in ancient, medieval and early modern thought

studies in honour of Carlos Steel

Essays on key moments in the intellectual history of the West. This book forms a major contribution to the discussion on fate, providence and moral responsibility in Antiquity, the Middle Ages and Early Modern times. Through 37 original papers, renowned scholars from many different countries, as well as a number of young and promising researchers, write the history of the philosophical problems of freedom and determinism since its origins in pre-socratic philosophy up to the seventeenth century....

Non-fictie

Engels | Frans | PDF | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2014

E-book

Satoshi Kikuchi From Eckhart to Ruusbroec

a critical inheritance of mystical themes in the fourteenth century

In this thorough textual, historical, and doctrinal study the author seeks to clarify the relationship between two prominent mystics of the fourteenth century: Meister Eckhart, the German Dominican, and Jan van Ruusbroec, the Brabantine Augustinian. Special attention is paid to Ruusbroec's criticism of mystical tenets circulating in Brabant at that time which were both textually and doctrinally related to Eckhart's condemned propositions in the papal bull In agro dominico. This fact implies that...

Non-fictie

Engels | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2014

E-book

Christopher Joby The multilingualism of Constantijn Huygens (1596-1687)

Non-fictie

Engels | 280 pagina's | Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam | 2014

Gedrukt boek

Manuel Fernández-Götz Identity and power

the transformation of Iron Age societies in Northeast Gaul

Non-fictie

Engels | 288 pagina's | Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam | 2014

Gedrukt boek