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Dieren, Dierenboeken, Lapland, Natuur, Natuurboeken

Nancy Langston – Reindeer

Nancy Langston Reindeer review and information book about a tale of nature and survival in a changing north. Yale University Press will publish the book and global history of human relationships with reindeer, written by Nancy Langston, the science writer, on October 6, 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

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Nancy Langston Reindeer

Reindeer

A Tale of Nature and Survival in a Changing North

  • Author: Nancy Langston
  • Book type: animal behaviour book, nature book
  • Publisher: Yale University Press
  • To be released: October 6, 2026
  • Length: 264 pages
  • Format: hardback / ebook
  • Prize: $ 30.00
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Blurb of the book on reindeer written by Nancy Langston

A global history of human relationships with reindeer, and how wildlife relocation can preserve both reindeer populations and cultural heritage.

Across the Arctic and the boreal north, reindeer populations are dwindling as our ever developing planet grows warmer. Reindeer range is roughly half what it was in the nineteenth century, and populations have dropped by more than half in the past ten years alone. However, we have a conservation tool at hand for this crisis: wildlife translocation, or moving animals to more suitable habitats.

In this book, the first popular global history of reindeer, Nancy Langston interweaves historical research with accounts of her fieldwork in northern Scandinavia, Iceland, North America, Mongolia, and elsewhere. She details the history of struggles faced by communities that have relied on reindeer hunting and herding and engages with the scientific debates about the need to move northern wildlife to viable habitats because of human activities. She also addresses the challenges—logistical, ethical, and societal—of moving large animals in a world with complex geopolitical boundaries.

Enhanced by the author’s own artwork, this passionate, informed, and surprisingly hopeful volume sheds light on the complicated past and possible futures of reindeer and the cultures surrounding them.

Nancy Langston is Distinguished Professor Emerita of Environmental History at Michigan Technological University. Her books include Climate Ghosts: Migratory Species in the Anthropocene and Sustaining Lake Superior: An Extraordinary Lake in a Changing World. She lives in Chassell, Michigan.

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Guy Laron – Oil Wars

Guy Laron Oil Wars review and information book about the struggle for control that has shaped the modern world. Yale University Press will publish the history book on written by Guy Laron the Israeli historian on October 20, 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

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  • “Full of insight and riveting historical detail, Oil Wars explains just how pervasively extracting oil and gas from Eurasia and transporting these commodities have shaped the world for 150 years. I learned a great deal.” (Helen Thompson, author)
  • “Gripping . . . . Deftly weaves together global strategy, imperial adventures, and intelligence contests. A must-read.”—Lorenz M. Lüthi, author of The Iron Curtain“Laron’s lively and original account arrives just as oil geopolitics have returned with a vengeance.” (Nathan J. Citino, author)

Guy Laron Oil Wars

Oil Wars

The Struggle for Control that has Shaped the Modern World

  • Author: Guy Laron (Israel)
  • Book type: war history
  • Publisher: Yale University Press
  • To be released: October 20, 2026
  • Length: 528 pages
  • Format: hardback / ebook
  • Prize: $ 37.50
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Blurb of the book by Guy Laron about the wars over oil

A vital history of oil and politics, showing how the struggle to control energy corridors and chokepoints shaped the modern world.

For the last twenty years, Putin’s Russia has weaponised its vast resources of oil and gas, trying to use them to dominate Ukraine and, later, with growing audacity, challenge NATO itself. But this is far from the first time this tactic has been used. Over the last 150 years, access to oil and gas has repeatedly been used as a tool to gain an advantage.

Looking at the global picture—including Vietnam, India, and Egypt—Guy Laron charts the connection between oil, gas, and political power from the First World War through the Cold War to the crises of today. He shows how political actors leveraged their power through key chokepoints: production sites, pipelines, and even refineries. Whilst at the same time, companies lobbied states to block rivals and eliminate competition. This has been a high-stakes game over the controlling heights of the world economy that continues until this very day.

Guy Laron is a senior lecturer in international relations at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the author of two books, Origins of the Suez Crisis and The Six-Day War. His op-eds have appeared in The Guardian, Le Monde Diplomatique, and American Prospect.

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Engelse historicus, Wetenschap

Mike Jay – Wireheads

Mike Jay Wireheads review and information book and an unnatural history of technology in the brain. Yale University Press will publish the book and story of the mavericks and scientists, crackpots and artistic visionaries who imagined a future where machines fuse with our minds written by Mike Jay, the American historian, on October 13, 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

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  • “If you’re interested in the nexus of science, technology, psychoanalysis, the military industrial complex, New Age cosmology, and Weird Guys, this is the book for you … A totally fascinating tour of the (often brilliant, sometimes cruel, always strange) characters who pursued brain-machine interfaces, and the experimentation, ritual, espionage, fraud, and abuse they perpetrated to free, or control, the human mind.” (Max Read, editor of Read Max)
  • “Full of tales of madness, delusion and inspiration, Wireheads is the definitive account of humanity’s ambitious but misguided attempts to connect mind and machine. Thoroughly researched, entertaining and eye-opening.” (John Higgs, author)

Mike Jay Wireheads

Wireheads

An Unnatural History of Technology in the Brain

  • Author: Mike Jay
  • Book type: the brain and the electronic device
  • Publisher: Yale University Press
  • To be released: October 6, 2026
  • Length: 264 pages
  • Format: hardback / ebook
  • Prize: $ 30.00
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Blurb of the book by Mike Jay

The story of the mavericks and scientists, crackpots and artistic visionaries who imagined a future where machines fuse with our minds.

As humanity and technology become ever more tightly interwoven, Wireheads explores the final and most intimate frontier: the brain, and the electronic devices, magnetic signals, implants, and computer interfaces that promise to merge it with the world of the machine. Will these technologies eventually direct our thoughts and behaviour—or are they doing so already? Will they maintain us in states of artificial bliss, or connect us to higher intelligences, or replace the world of our senses with simulated realities?

Mike Jay, acclaimed author of Psychonauts, now traces the tangled, paranoid history of these real and fantastical brain technologies. From the fictions of H. G. Wells and Philip K. Dick to The Matrix, the CIA’s Cold War experiments and Elon Musk’s Neuralink, scientists and visionaries have long chased the dream of neural enhancement and control, with wildly varying degrees of success.

Encompassing covert military operations and psychedelic art, moral philosophy and cybernetic theory, Jay has assembled a thrilling narrative out of our attempts to understand and rewire the brain—and a brilliant meditation on what it means to be human in a posthuman age.

Mike Jay is a celebrated british historian of science, medicine, and culture. He is the author of acclaimed books including Free Radicals, Mescaline, and Psychonauts, described by Michael Pollan as “easily the most interesting work of psychedelic history I’ve read in years.

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Ballet en dans, Biografie

Lynn Garafola – Arthur Mitchell biography

Lynn Garafola Arthur Mitchell biography review and information book the Extraordinary Life of Harlem’s Ballet Visionary. Yale University Press will publish the new book in the Black Lives series written by Lynn Garafola on iHarlem’s Ballet Visionary, September 29, 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

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Arthur Mitchell

The Extraordinary Life of Harlem’s Ballet Visionary

  • Author: Lynn Garafola (United States)
  • Book type: biography, ballet book
  • Publisher: Yale University Press
  • To be released: September 29, 2026
  • Length: 412 pages
  • Format: hardback / ebook
  • Prize: $ 35,00
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Blurb of the biography of Arthur Mitchell

The first biography of the celebrated ballet dancer Arthur Mitchell and the iconic dance company he founded, from a renowned dance historian.

Arthur Mitchell (1934–2018) was one of the first Black principal dancers at the New York City Ballet and a favorite of the legendary choreographer George Balanchine. He redefined American dance through his performance in ballets such as Agon and A Midsummer Night’s Dream and through his boundary-transcending company, the Dance Theatre of Harlem.

Dance historian Lynn Garafola deftly traces Mitchell’s journey from his childhood in Harlem to international stardom and his decision—sparked by outrage over the assassination of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.—to create a classical ballet company that celebrated Black artistry. Mitchell led the Dance Theatre of Harlem through more than forty years of triumphs and challenges, reshaping the cultural landscape and reenvisioning who belonged on the ballet stage.

Drawing on over a decade of research, including scores of interviews and access to Mitchell’s own archives, Garafola has delivered the first full-length biography of Mitchell—a man who was ambitious, generous, mercurial, and wildly talented—as well as the first deeply researched history of his transformative dance company viewed within a broad cultural context. It is an essential portrait of a visionary who transformed the art of ballet and its practitioners forever.

Lynn Garafola, a dance historian and critic, is professor emerita of dance at Barnard College. She is the recipient of multiple awards and fellowships and the author of La Nijinska: Choreographer of the Modern, Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, and Legacies of Twentieth-Century Dance.

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George Hutchinson – Jean Toomer Biography

George Hutchinson Jean Toomer Biography review and information book in the Black Lives series. Yale University Press  will publish in the Black Lives Series the biography of the, written by George Hutchinson on August 18, 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author, the actor and the publication.

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  • “In Toomer, Hutchinson meets a life he is exceptionally well equipped to decipher. There is no better biography of Cane’s searching author, and no better account of that classic’s liminal genesis.” (William J. Maxwell, Washington University in St. Louis)
  • “A rich and compelling account of Jean Toomer’s unorthodox American life. It will be the authoritative biography of this major figure of the Harlem Renaissance/US modernism for years to come.” (Mark Whalan, University of Oregon)
  • “Toomer’s refusal of racial and artistic categories confounded even ardent supporters. Illuminating Toomer’s struggles against all restraints, Hutchinson’s deeply researched, insightful biography revitalizes a brilliant but misread writer: a spectacular achievement.” (Carla Kaplan, author)
  • “No one appreciates the intricacies of the color line with more poetic imagining and surgical, academic precision like Hutchinson. Whether he is approaching the issue through the lens of ideas or institutions, or through the vehicle of an individual life, like that of Jean Toomer, Hutchinson has been a witness for the bounty of stories that are contained in the interstices of identity for the entirety of his brilliant career.” (Emily Bernard)

George Hutchinson Jean Toomer Biography

Jean Toomer

Writer for a New America

Author: George Hutchinson (United States)

  • Book type: Biography
  • Publisher: Yale University Press
  • Series: Black Lives
  • To be released: August 18, 2026
  • Length: 344 pages
  • Format: hardback / ebook
  • Prize: $ 28.00
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Blurb of the Jean Toomer biography

A critical biography of Harlem Renaissance writer Jean Toomer and his lifelong struggle to transcend race, by an award-winning author.

The poet and novelist Jean Toomer (1894–1967) was among the most influential figures of the Harlem Renaissance, inspiring generations of Black writers with his 1923 modernist masterwork Cane. Yet his mission was to awaken Americans to the formation of a new “American” race that would supersede the “old” racial categories. Award-winning biographer George Hutchinson reveals how Toomer’s racial theory shaped both his literary genius and his personal struggles.

Born into the Black elite in Washington, D.C., Toomer was highly sensitive to the color line and able to move across it. Toomer engaged in a lifelong struggle to be released from this system, reinventing himself racially, spiritually, and artistically not as a Black man but as a “superman.” From his early attraction to physical culture through his search for Cosmic Consciousness, Toomer aspired to shape a new modern sensibility alongside his bohemian contemporaries Georgia O’Keeffe, Alfred Stieglitz, Langston Hughes, and Nella Larsen. Yet his refusal to identify as Black, in tandem with his messianic calling, came at the cost of his literary career and the women who loved him.

Hutchinson shows how the tortures of American racism shaped Toomer’s life—and how the struggle to birth a new “American” identity marks his art.

George Hutchinson is the Newton C. Farr Professor of American Culture and the George Reed Professor of Writing and Rhetoric at Cornell University. He is the award-winning author of several books, including In Search of Nella Larsen: A Biography of the Color Line and the Pulitzer Prize–nominated The Harlem Renaissance in Black and White. He is editor of the Penguin Classics edition of Jean Toomer’s Cane. Hutchinson lives in Trumansburg, New York.

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Tiffany M. Hale – Fugitive Religion

Tiffany M. Hale Fugitive Religion review and information book about the Ghost Dance and Indigenous Resistance After the U.S. Civil War. Yale University Press will publish the book by Tiffany M. Hale, professor in the Department of Religion at Barnard College of Columbia University, June 16, 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

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  • “In this rigorous, well-researched book, Tiffany M. Hale reintroduces the reader to the postbellum Indigenous practice of the Ghost Dance. By underscoring how this fugitive religious movement shaped a kind of racial consciousness among Indigenous communities in response to settler violence, Hale connects the Ghost Dance to the blues impulse within African American culture.” (Joseph Winters, Rutgers University)
  • “Placing Black and Native ways of knowing in a revelatory dialogue, Fugitive Religion reimagines the nineteenth century as an entangled and prophetic world, a reservoir of spiritual possibilities easily misread or ignored. Tiffany Hale reveals a series of Ghost Dances, distinct in location and practice but kin in impetus and import, and so transports readers from the painful terrain of Wounded Knee to a history longer, wider, and deeper.” (Philip J. Deloria, Harvard University)

Tiffany M. Hale Fugitive Religion

Fugitive Religion

The Ghost Dance and Indigenous Resistance After the U.S. Civil War

  • Author: Tiffany M. Hale (United States)
  • Book type: history of the city of Shanghai
  • Publisher: Yale University Press
  • Series: The Henry Roe Cloud Series on American Indians and Modernity
  • To be released: June 16, 2026
  • Length: 296 pages (15 color illustrations)
  • Size: 15,5 x 23,5 cm
  • Format: hardcover / ebook
  • Prize: $ 45.00
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Blurb of the book by Tiffany M. Hale on the Ghost Dance and Indigenous Resistance

A bird’s-eye look at the Ghost Dance, the first instance of modern, collective racial self-consciousness for Native peoples in the United States.

From the Sand Creek Massacre (1864) to the Massacre at Wounded Knee (1890), Indigenous religious practices—legally banned after 1883—took on new meanings as acts of defiance against colonialism and white supremacy. By reexamining the familiar story of the Ghost Dance and Wounded Knee Massacre and placing it into the context of resistance by Black and Native peoples during Reconstruction and Redemption, historian Tiffany M. Hale explains the Ghost Dance not just as a religious movement but also as a complex social phenomenon that enabled Indigenous people to maintain their identities and communities despite the pervasive force of colonialism and the challenges of modernity.

Chronicling how individual Native people, their families, and communities navigated the fraught post–Civil War conditions of the United States, Hale suggests that Ghost Dances hold something in common with blues traditions of working-class African Americans. By giving Ghost Dance participants a chance to reflect on their lived experiences of warfare, deracination, and diplomacy, “fugitive religion” helped create modern racial self-consciousness in the United States.

Tiffany M. Hale is assistant professor in the Department of Religion at Barnard College of Columbia University. She is a scholar of Indigenous religious traditions whose work focuses on nineteenth century Native American history and United States race relations. Professor Hale teaches courses in global Indigenous religious traditions, Native American history, and religion in the Americas.

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China, Chinese geschiedenis, Engelse historicus

Michael Dillon – Shanghai

Michael Dillon Shanghai review and information of the content of the book containing the story of china’s most dynamic city. Yale University Press will publish the book by Michael Dillon, professor of history and an affiliate of King’s College London’s Lau China Institute, on the history of Shanghai, on June 30, 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

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  • “A wonderfully clear and comprehensive depiction of one of the leading cities of the twenty-first century. Michael Dillon really does know every back street and neighbourhood, and his book covers all the contrasting manifestations of life in the old city—Chinese and Europeans, traders and compradores, industrialists and stockbrokers, writers and journalists, gangsters and revolutionaries, luxury and squalor.” (Philip Snow, author of China and Russia)
  • “An affectionate, knowledgeable, and highly readable account of the past and present of one of the great global cities. Michael Dillon draws on his long experience both with China, and with the city itself, to give an account from the very earliest origins, to the industrial, political and cultural drama of the 20th century—and the status of the city today as the country’s most powerful statement of modernity with Chinese characteristics.” (Kerry Brown, author)

Michael Dillon Shanghai

Shanghai

Story of China’s Most Dynamic City

  • Author: Michael Dillon (England)
  • Book type: history of the city of Shanghai
  • Publisher: Yale University Press
  • To be released: June 30, 2026
  • Length: 352 pages (25 color illustrations + 3 maps)
  • Size: 15,2 x 23,5 cm
  • Format: hardcover / ebook
  • Prize: $ 35.00
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Blurb of the book about the history of Shanghai written by Michael Dillon

A comprehensive new history of Shanghai, revealing its vital place in Chinese history and politics across the centuries.

Home to 25 million people, Shanghai is the most populous and wealthiest city in China. A meeting point between China and the wider world, the city has become the beating heart of Chinese capitalism, a place of initiative, confidence, and forward thinking. It is a city of stark contradictions, suffused with both extreme wealth and poverty, luxury living, and a highly organised criminal underworld.

Michael Dillon explores the full history of Shanghai, from its origins as a small fishing village to the bustling financial hub of today. The city has been central to some of the most turbulent events in China’s modern history, from the British and French colonial concessions of the nineteenth century, to the birth of the Chinese Communist Party and its vital role in Chinese economics and politics today. Shanghai is a fascinating portrait of China’s most dynamic city—and explores its future role in the country’s development.

Michael Dillon is professor of history and an affiliate of King’s College London’s Lau China Institute. An expert on modern Chinese history, politics, and society, he is the author of numerous books, including We Need to Talk About Xi, a history of modern China, and biographies of Zhou Enlai and Deng Xiaoping.

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Daniel Okrent – Stephen Sondheim biography

Daniel Okrent Stephen Sondheim biography review and information book about the Jewish-American composer and songwriter. Yale University Press will publish the new book in the Jewish Lives series on Stephen Sondheim, Art Isn’t Easy, March 17, 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

Daniel Okrent Stephen Sondheim biography review

  • “An intricate, elegant tour through the life and psyche of an uneasy genius. Okrent’s book is stuffed with new matter and fascinating insights even for specialists like me who’ve been immersed in Sondheim’s biography and art for decades.” (Laurie Winer, author of Oscar Hammerstein II and the Invention of the Musical)
  • “In this compact, densely pleasurable life of Stephen Sondheim, Daniel Okrent has achieved the remarkable feat of bringing to fresh life an endlessly chronicled subject in a compellingly readable and authoritative way.” (James Kaplan, author of Irving Berlin)

Daniel Okrent Stephen Sondheim biography

Stephen Sondheim

Art Isn’t Easy

  • Author: Daniel Okrent (United States)
  • Book type: biography
  • Publisher: Yale University Press
  • Series: Jewish Lives
  • Released: March 17, 2026
  • Length: 336 pages
  • Format: hardcover / ebook
  • Prize: $ 35.00
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Blurb of the Stephen Sondheim biography

A revelatory look at the complex inner world of one of the twentieth century’s most beloved theatrical composers.

Stephen Sondheim (1930–2021) was a towering figure in American musical theater. Celebrated for his iconic Broadway shows such as Company, Sweeney Todd, and Into the Woods, his accolades include eight Tony Awards, multiple Grammy Awards, an Academy Award, and a Pulitzer Prize. In this intimate biography, Daniel Okrent follows Sondheim through the tumult of his upbringing and his parents’ divorce, his acquaintance with Oscar Hammerstein II and subsequent discovery of musical theater, and his rise to fame as both a lyricist and composer.

Okrent shines new light on Sondheim’s tormented emotional life, wavering self-confidence, and alcoholism, drawing on the artist’s intimate correspondence with such notable figures as Hal Prince, Leonard Bernstein, and Arthur Laurents; exclusive interviews with his close friends and collaborators, including James Lapine and John Weidman; and Sondheim’s own oral history, which remained closed until his death. As Okrent explores the ways Sondheim’s music and lyrics express the inner man, he reveals a life that was defined by two parallel arcs: the movement from alienation to connection, and from ambivalence to resolution.

Daniel Okrent had careers as a book and magazine editor and was the first public editor of the New York Times. He is the prize-winning author of six books, including The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics, and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition. He lives in New York City and on Cape Cod.

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David Holloway – Nuclear Weapons

David Holloway Nuclear Weapons review and information book with an international history of the atomic bomb. Yale University Press will publish the book on the history of nuclear weapons and the atomic bomb, written by David Holloway, Raymond A. Spruance Professor of International History Emeritus at Stanford University, on March 3, 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

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  • “Holloway builds on his pioneering study of the Soviet nuclear program to present an international history of nuclear weapons during the Cold War. This book contributes not only to our understanding of history but also to how we think about the present. It is as timely as it is substantive and insightful.” (Serhii Plokhy, the author of The Nuclear Age)
  • “Deeply knowledgeable and breathtaking in scope… In showing how international the development of nuclear weapons was from the very beginning, this brilliant book recasts our understanding of Cold War nuclear history. It is a major scholarly achievement.” (Nina Tannenwald, author of The Nuclear Taboo)

David Holloway Nuclear Weapons

Nuclear Weapons

An International History

  • Author: David Holloway (United States)
  • Book type: history book
  • Publisher: Yale University Press
  • To be released: March 24, 2026
  • Length: 720 pages
  • Format: hardback / ebook
  • Prize: $ 38.00
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Blurb of the David Holloway book on the history of nuclear weapons

A groundbreaking history of nuclear weapons across the world, from their invention to the end of the Cold War.

How should we deal with nuclear weapons? The discovery of nuclear fission fundamentally changed the world order. Its power was harnessed, nuclear bombs invented, and the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were destroyed. In recurring international crises and calls for arms control, the threat of nuclear war has hung over humanity ever since.

David Holloway traces how these weapons shaped the last century, from the US-Soviet arms race to the rivalry between India and Pakistan. Deterrence and intimidation, alliances and war plans, international treaties and organizations have all played their role. At the centre were political leaders—among them Truman, Kennedy, and Reagan, as well as Stalin, Khrushchev, and Gorbachev—who all had their fingers on the nuclear button.

This is a global history of these fearsome weapons and our attempts to deal with the consequences of their existence—a story at once fascinating and repellent, of a very dangerous period in our history.

David Holloway is Raymond A. Spruance Professor of International History Emeritus at Stanford University. He has written widely on the history of nuclear weapons and is the author of Stalin and the Bomb: The Soviet Union and Atomic Energy, 1939–1956.

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Homa Katouzian – Iran and the Revolution

Homa Katouzian Iran and the Revolution review, recensie en informatie boek over geschiedenis van het land vanaf WOII. Op 24 februari 2025 verschijnt bij Yale University Press het boek van de in Iran geboren historicus Homa Katouzian over de geschiedenis van het revolutionaire Iran, van de jaren 1940 tot heden. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

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Homa Katouzian Iran and the Revolution

Iran and the Revolution

A History

  • Auteur: Homa Katouzian
  • Soort boek: Iraanse geschiedenis
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Yale University Press
  • Verschijnt: 24 februari 2026
  • Omvang: 352 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek
  • Prijs: $ 35.00
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van het boek over geschiedenis van Iran na 1940

A major new history of revolutionary Iran, from the 1940s to the present.

Iran’s revolution in 1979 shook the world. The Pahlavi dynasty came crashing down, and the Islamic Republic rose in its place. But what led to this seismic event? How did the revolutionary movement gain such strength? And what has its legacy been for modern Iran?

In this comprehensive history, Homa Katouzian explores Iran from the 1940s to the present, showing how the revolution came into being. From the chaos of oil nationalisation to the overthrow of Mosaddeq in 1953, through the revolutionary moment itself, to the resistance movements of contemporary Iran, the revolution has had long and lasting effects. We see the profound influence of US presidents and the ramifications of Saddam Hussein’s invasion in 1980. Crucially, Katouzian shows how the revolution constituted an uprising of the whole of Iranian society and was not a purely Islamic movement.

This is an engaging account of an epochal event—one which continues to shape Iran to this day.

Homa Katouzian was born on 17 November 1942 in Tehran, Iran. He is a member of the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Oxford, and a visiting scholar at the Department of History, University of Toronto. He is the author of numerous books, including Iran: Politics, History and Literature, Iran: A Beginners’ Guide, and The Persians.

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