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The Fateful Journey
Bold, headstrong, and fabulously wealthy, Dutch traveller Alexine Tinne (1834–1869) made several excursions into the African interior, often accompanied by her mother, at a time when very few European women traveled. The Fateful Journey follows her trip with German zoologist Theodor von Heuglin, which took them through Egypt and Sudan in search of adventure and unknown regions in Central Africa.. Drawing upon four years of research in the Tinne archives, and including never before published correspondence, photographs, and other documents, Robert Joost Willink presents a compelling account of their journey and its tragic ending. This exciting volume not only sheds light on Tinne's life and times, it also offers captivating insights into the world of European adventurers in the 19th century. An enthralling mix of adventure and careful scholarship, The Fateful Journey creates a powerful portrait of Alexine Tinne throughout her life, from her start as a rich heiress in the Netherlands to her end as the intrepid explorer who risked—and lost—everything on a daring, doomed quest.
First Raise a Flag
A beautifully written first-hand account of how bitter and deadly rivalries dashed the hopes of the world's newest nation
Reis naar het noodlot : Het Afrikaanse avontuur van Alexine Tinne (1835-1869)
Beschrijving van de reizen en de laatse jaren van Alexine Tinne, die als eerste Europese vrouw de bovenloop van de Nijl bevoer.
Die Ökonomisierung der Kartografie
Kartografiegeschichte erforscht Karten und die Akteure, welche die Karten erstellen. Die Kultur des Produzenten spielt dabei eine ebenso große Rolle, wie auch die Bedeutung des Karteninhaltes für den (vermeintlichen) Rezipienten. Dabei wurde in der Vergangenheit häufig außer Acht gelassen, dass die Kartenproduktion der Neuzeit keinesfalls eine Freizeitbeschäftigung einiger Weniger war, deren herausragende gesellschaftliche Stellung erst die Ressourcen der Erzeugung von Weltbildern auf Papier zur Verfügung stellte. Die Rolle der Kartografie als gewinnbringende Option des Buchhandels kam in der Literatur bislang zu kurz. Auf Basis dieses Befundes unterteilt sich die Arbeit in drei Analys...
The Women I Think About at Night
"What can a forty-something childless woman do? Bored with her life and feeling stuck, Mia Kankimèaki leaves her job, sells her apartment, and decides to travel the world, following the paths of the female explorers and artists from history who have long inspired her. She flies to Tanzania and then to Kenya to see where Karen Blixen--of Out of Africa fame--lived in the 1920s. In Japan, Mia attempts to cure her depression while researching Yayoi Kusama, the contemporary artist who has voluntarily lived in a psychiatric hospital for decades. In Italy, Mia spends her days looking for the works of forgotten Renaissance women painters of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, and finally finds her heroines in the portraits of Sofonisba Anguissola, Lavinia Fontana, and Atremisia Gentileschi. If these women could make it in the world hundreds of years ago, why can't Mia?"--Publisher website.
Architecture
The question of what architecture is answered in this book with one sentence: Architecture is space created for human activities. The basic need to find food and water places these activities within a larger spatial field. Humans have learned and found ways to adjust to the various contextual difficulties that they faced as they roamed the earth. Thus rather than adapting, humans have always tried to change the context to their activities. Humanity has looked at the context not merely as a limitation, but rather as a spatial situation filled with opportunities that allows, through intellectual interaction, to change these limitations. Thus humanity has created within the world their own contextual bubble that firmly stands against the larger context it is set in. The key notion of the book is that architecture is space carved out of and against the context and that this process is deterministic.
Blackness in Western Europe
While the study of race relations in the United States continues to inspire and influence European thinking, Europeans have yet to confront their own history. To be black in Europe—whether during the sixteenth century or today—means sharing one crucial experience: being part of a small, but visible minority. European slave-owners, company directors, and investors in the distant past maintained an ocean-wide gap between themselves and the enslaved in the plantation colonies of the Caribbean. In the following centuries, this distance persisted. Even today, to be black in Europe often means to be one of a few black persons in a group. A racial pattern of exclusion has characterized European...
De Belgische ontdekkingsreizigers
Van Rubroeck tot de Gerlache in zeven eeuwen en continenten 'Wanneer we tussen deze barbaren aankwamen, leek het me alsof ik in een andere wereld was beland. Nadat ze ons lange tijd hadden laten wachten, gezeten in de schaduw van onze wagens, omsingelden ze ons op hun paarden. Hun eerste vraag was of we al eerder bij hen waren geweest.' - Willem van Rubroeck na zijn eerste ontmoeting met Mongoolse soldaten België heeft een belangrijke, maar onderschatte rol gespeeld in het inkleuren van de wereldkaart. Sinds Willem van Rubroeck in de 13de eeuw naar het Mongoolse hof trok, hebben tientallen Belgen zich gewaagd aan avonturen die hen naar alle uithoeken van de wereld hebben gebracht. De Belgische ontdekkingsreizigers biedt voor het eerst een overzicht van deze avonturiers en missionarissen, die tot leven komen dankzij talrijke dagboekfragmenten en getuigenverslagen. Prachtige gravures, tekeningen en kaarten roepen mee de sfeer op van het tijdperk van de ontdekkers. Een reis door de wereld én door de geschiedenis.
A Cultural History of Exploration
"What has driven humanity to expand across the globe? How was it achieved? And what has it meant to be on the receiving end - not the explorer but the explored? In a work that spans more than 5,000 years, these questions are addressed by 43 experts, each contributing their overview of a theme applied to a period in history. Aided by a wide range of case material, they illustrate the meaning of exploration in a global context from antiquity to the present day. Individual volume editors ensure of the cohesion of the whole and, to make it as easy as possible to use, chapter titles are identical across each of the volumes. This gives the choice of reading about a specific period in a single volume, or following a theme across history by reading the relevant chapter in each of the six. The six volumes cover: 1. Antiquity; 2. The Middle Ages; 3. The Early Modern Age; 4. The Age of Expansion and Enlightenment; 5. The Industrial Age; 6. The Modern Age"--
Geschiedenissen van de islam in Nederland en Vlaanderen
Het beeld van moslims in België en Nederland beperkt zich doorgaans tot dat van migranten die zich vanaf de jaren 1960 vestigden in deze landen. Die perceptie doet echter geen recht aan de rijke geschiedenis van de islam in de Lage Landen, en evenmin aan de beeldvorming over moslims en hoe die maatschappij, cultuur en wetenschap beïnvloedde. Met dit boek werpen de auteurs een verrassend nieuw licht op deze veelzijdige geschiedenis: van de 16de-eeuwse studie van de Leuvense geleerde Nicolaas Cleynaerts, die samen met de geleerde islamitische slaaf Kharūf in Spanje en Marokko het Arabisch en de islam bestudeerde, tot de bekering van de Leidse arts dr. P.H. van der Hoog en de eerste congressen van Europese moslims tijdens het interbellum in de 20ste eeuw. Geschiedenissen van de islam in Nederland en Vlaanderen illustreert op heldere en overtuigende wijze duidelijk hoe interacties, beeldvorming en academisch onderzoek van de islam stevig ingebed waren en zijn in de verweven werelden van islam en Europa.
