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The Dutch Atlantic: Slavery, Abolition and Emancipation
Kwame Nimako - Pluto Press
Format: Hardcover
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The Dutch Atlantic interrogates the Dutch involvement in Atlantic slavery and assesses the historical consequences of this for contemporary European society.Kwame Nimako and Glenn Willemsen show how the slave trade and slavery intertwined economic, social and cultural elements, including... |
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The Dutch Colony of New Netherland
Daniel R. Faust - PowerKids Press
Format: Hardcover
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Using the most recent research, this volume examines how New Yorks history and culture were influenced by its complex past as a part of a Dutch colony known as New Netherland. |
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The Corrie ten Boom story
Christian History Institute. - Distributed by Vision Video
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Corrie ten Boom and her family are masters of their craft; they repair broken watches and return them safely to their owners. But as the evil of World War II sweeps through their city, a new kind of "watch" comes to their care: an innocent Jewish baby, desperately needing protection... |
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The Foreign Burial of American War Dead: A History
Chris Dickon - Mcfarland
Format: Paperback
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Normandy, Flanders Field and other overseas cemeteries of the American Battle Monument Commission (ABMC) are well known. However, lesser-known burial sites of American war dead exist all over the world--in Australia and across the Pacific Rim, in Canada and Mexico, Libya and Spain, most... |
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Delta Urbanism: The Netherlands
Han Meyer - APA Planners Press; 1 edition
Format: Book
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Delta Urbanism is a major new initiative that explores the growth, development, and management of deltaic cities and regions, with the aim of balancing various goals in a sustainable manner: urbanization, port commerce, industrial development, flood defense, public safety, ecological balance,... |
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Delta Urbanism: New Orleans
Richard Campanella - APA Planners Press
Format: Book
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This volume of APA's Delta Urbanism series traces the development of New Orleans from precolonial times to post-Katrina realities, in the context of the deltaic plain on which it lies. The book describes the underlying physical terrain and covers the various transformations humans have... |
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Dutch Dialogues - New Orleans Netherlands
Han Meyer - Sun
Format: Print book
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In the aftermath of the Hurricane Katrina that laid waste to large parts of New Orleans, a number of large infrastructure and research projects have been initiated to improve flood prevention in the region. With a similar flood prone, urbanised delta area the Dutch have considerable experience... |
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A Bridge Too Far: The Classic History of the Greatest Battle of World War II
Cornelius Ryan - Simon & Schuster
Format: Paperback
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THE CLASSIC ACCOUNT OF ONE OF THE MOST DRAMATIC BATTLES OF WORLD WAR II A Bridge Too Far is Cornelius Ryan's masterly chronicle of the Battle of Arnhem, which marshalled the greatest armada of troop-carrying aircraft ever assembled and cost the Allies nearly twice as many casualties... |
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The Dutch Atlantic: Slavery, Abolition and Emancipation
Kwame Nimako - Pluto Press
Format: Hardcover
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The Dutch Atlantic interrogates the Dutch involvement in Atlantic slavery and assesses the historical consequences of this for contemporary European society.Kwame Nimako and Glenn Willemsen show how the slave trade and slavery intertwined economic, social and cultural elements, including... |
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The Dutch Colony of New Netherland
Daniel R. Faust - PowerKids Press
Format: Hardcover
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Using the most recent research, this volume examines how New Yorks history and culture were influenced by its complex past as a part of a Dutch colony known as New Netherland. |
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The Foreign Burial of American War Dead: A History
Chris Dickon - Mcfarland
Format: Paperback
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Normandy, Flanders Field and other overseas cemeteries of the American Battle Monument Commission (ABMC) are well known. However, lesser-known burial sites of American war dead exist all over the world--in Australia and across the Pacific Rim, in Canada and Mexico, Libya and Spain, most... |
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Merchant Kings: When Companies Ruled the World, 1600--1900
Stephen R. Bown - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover
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Commerce meets conquest in this swashbuckling story of the six merchant-adventurers who built the modern worldIt was an era when monopoly trading companies were the unofficial agents of European expansion, controlling vast numbers of people and huge tracts of land, and taking on governmental... |
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Operation Chowhound: The Most Risky, Most Glorious US Bomber Mission of WWII
Stephen Dando-Collins - Palgrave Macmillan
Format: Print book
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Beginning with a crazy plan hatched by a suspect prince, and an even crazier reliance on the word of the Nazis, Operation Chowhound was devised. Between May 1 and May 8, 1945, 2,268 military units flown by the USAAF, dropped food to 3.5 million starving Dutch civilians in German-occupied... |
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Singing Bronze: A History of Carillon Music
Luc Rombouts - Leuven University Press
Format: Paperback
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The carillon, the world's largest musical instrument, originated in the sixteenth century when inhabitants of the Low Countries started to produce music on bells in church and city towers. Today, carillon music still fills the soundscape of cities in Belgium and the Netherlands. Since World... |
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The Folly of the World
Jesse Bullington - Orbit
Format: Paperback
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On a stormy night in 1421, the North Sea delivers a devastating blow to Holland: the Saint Elizabeth Flood, a deluge of biblical proportions that drowns hundreds of towns, thousands of people, and forever alters the geography of the Low Countries. Where the factions of the noble Hooks and the merchant... |
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A Journal of the Flood Year
David Ely - Donald I Fine
Format: Hardcover
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In a near-future, half-flooded world governed by technobureaucracy and ultraconformity, where human contact is abhorrent and passion unheard of, William Fowke already has a reputation as a trouble-maker. And now he insists that the Wall - the engineering marvel that keeps what remains of America's... |
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Next Goal Wins
Frances Fisher - Ketchup Entertainment
Format: DVD
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Dutch coach Thomas Rongen attempts the nearly impossible task of turning the American Samoa soccer team from perennial losers into winners. With the power of hope in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds, both coach and players learn an object lesson in what it really means to be a winner... |
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The Corrie ten Boom story
Christian History Institute. - Distributed by Vision Video
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Corrie ten Boom and her family are masters of their craft; they repair broken watches and return them safely to their owners. But as the evil of World War II sweeps through their city, a new kind of "watch" comes to their care: an innocent Jewish baby, desperately needing protection... |
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A bridge too far
Richard Attenborough - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios
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In September 1944, flush with success after the Normandy Invasion, the Allies launched Operation Market Garden, a wild scheme intended to put an early end to World War II by invading Germany and smashing the Reich's war plants. |
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