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De zestiende eeuw was een eeuw van uitersten: hoewel de renaissance volop culturele, intellectuele en wetenschappelijke vernieuwing bracht, werd Europa ook verscheurd door godsdiensttwisten, oorlog en opstand. Vanuit Antwerpen probeerde uitgever Christoffel Plantijn de verscheurde samenleving te binden met boeken. Taal vormde voor hem het cement van een samenleving. Hij publiceerde de allereerste woordenboeken van het Nederlands, in de hoop dat de mensen elkaar konden vinden in een gemeenschappelijke taal. Hij hoopte ook dat religieuze tegenstellingen zouden verdwijnen wanneer gelovigen de bijbel beter zouden lezen. Plantijn ging op zoek naar de woorden van God zelf en publiceerde de definitieve biografie van de bijbel. Op heldere en meeslepende wijze beschrijft Sandra Langereis in deze schitterende biografie de zestiende eeuwse wereld van Christoffel Plantijn, de man die dankzij de uitvinding van de boekdrukkunst en ondanks onvoorstelbare tegenslagen zijn drukkerswerkplaats tot ’s werelds grootste uitgeverij wist te maken.

Printers - Belgium - Biography --- Publishers and publishing - Belgium - Biography --- Plantin, Christophe --- Plantin, Christophe, - approximately 1520-1589 --- boekdrukkunst --- boeken --- drukkunst --- Printers --- Publishers and publishing

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749.07 --- 749.038(493) --- Interieurarchitectuur ; meubeldesign ; 20ste eeuw ; Chr. Gevers --- Gevers, Christophe 1928-2007 (°Antwerpen) --- Architectuur ; industrieel design ; 20ste eeuw --- Belgische kunstenaars --- DVD's --- design --- meubelkunst --- interieurvormgeving --- twintigste eeuw --- België --- Gevers Christophe --- meubilair --- 745.071 GEVERS --- 749.071 GEVERS --- 747.071 GEVERS --- 749.071(493) --- Christophe Gevers --- Belgische designers --- Belgische meubelontwerpers --- Meubelontwerpers ; designers ; interieurarchitecten --- Meubelkunst en design ; 1950 - 2000 ; België --- Belgische meubelontwerpers en meubelmakers --- Contains audio-visual material --- Gevers, Christophe --- Designers --- Belgium --- Catalogs --- Interior decoration --- History --- 20th century

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"Explains the popularity of Christopher Columbus in the early Americas. Illustrates how New World representations of Columbus integrate older discourses of empire. Shows how the idea of empire was significant in the construction of the new nations of the Americas"--

History / United States --- Literary Criticism / Caribbean & Latin American --- History / Caribbean & West Indies --- History --- Columbus, Christopher --- Influence. --- America --- Discovery and exploration --- Spanish. --- Civilization --- European influences. --- Colombo, Cristoforo --- Colomb, Christophe --- Columbus, Christoffel --- Colombus, Christophorus --- Colón, Cristóbal --- Kolumbus, Christoph --- Europe

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Columbus is the first blazing star in a constellation of European adventurers whose right to claim and conquer each land mass they encountered was absolutely unquestioned by their countrymen. How a system of religious beliefs made the taking of the New World possible and laudable is the focus of Kadir's timely review of the founding doctrines of empire. The language of prophecy and divine predestination fills the pronouncements of those who ventured across the Atlantic. The effects of such language and their implications for current theoretical debates about colonialism and decolonization are legion. Kadir suggests that in this supposedly postcolonial era, richer nations and the privileged still manipulate the rhetoric of conquest to justify and serve their own worldly ends. For colonized peoples who live today at the "ends of the earth," the age of exploitation may be no different from the age of exploration.

Prophecy --- Americas - General --- Regions & Countries - Americas --- History & Archaeology --- Christianity. --- Christianity --- Columbus, Christopher. --- America --- Europe --- Discovery and exploration. --- Territorial expansion. --- Prophecy (Christianity) --- Colomb, Christophe --- Colombus, Christophorus --- Columbus, Christoffel --- Columbus, Christopher --- Colón, Cristóbal --- Kolumbus, Christoph --- Council of Europe countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia --- Colombo, Cristoforo --- Discovery and exploration --- Territorial expansion

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In this provocative and timely collection of essays--five published for the first time--one of the most important ethnohistorians writing today, James Axtell, explores the key role of imagination both in our perception of strangers and in the writing of history. Coinciding with the 500thanniversary of Columbus's ""discovery"" of America, this collection covers a wide range of topics dealing with American history. Three essays view the invasion of North America from the perspective of the Indians, whose land it was. The very first meetings, he finds, were nearly always peaceful.Other essays

Indians of North America --- History --- Columbus, Christopher --- Colombo, Cristoforo --- Colomb, Christophe --- Columbus, Christoffel --- Colombus, Christophorus --- Colón, Cristóbal --- Kolumbus, Christoph --- Influence. --- North America --- Discovery and exploration. --- America --- Discovery and exploration --- Spanish. --- Turtle Island (Continent) --- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 --- Influence --- Spanish --- 16th century