Arian Verheij Volgorde van de boeken (chronologisch)

In the bestselling tradition of influential geopolitical works, an award-winning journalist utilizes ten maps to elucidate the geo-political strategies of world powers. Geography constrains leaders, limiting their choices based on mountains, rivers, seas, and urban landscapes. To grasp world events, it’s essential to consider geography alongside people, ideas, and political movements, as it provides a fuller understanding. The author examines key regions, including Russia, China, the USA, Latin America, the Middle East, Africa, Europe, Japan and Korea, and Greenland and the Arctic. By analyzing their weather, seas, mountains, rivers, deserts, and borders, he reveals how these physical characteristics influence each country's strengths, vulnerabilities, and decision-making processes. Through ten up-to-date maps, he presents the complex geo-political strategies of these regions in engaging prose. For instance, the implications of Russia's need for a navy amid frozen ports, China’s geographical constraints on its future, Europe’s perpetual disunity, and America’s security from invasion are explored. This work highlights the critical, yet often overlooked, role of geography in shaping global aspirations and historical events, serving as an essential guide to understanding the world’s political landscape.

Author and historian Tom Holland returns to his roots in Roman history and the audience he cultivated with Rubicon —his masterful, witty, brilliantly researched popular history of the fall of the Roman republic—with Dynasty , a luridly fascinating history of the reign of the first five Roman emperors. Dynasty continues Rubicon 's story, opening where that book ended: with the murder of Julius Caesar. This is the period of the first and perhaps greatest Roman Emperors and it's a colorful story of rule and ruination, running from the rise of Augustus through to the death of Nero. Holland's expansive history also has distinct shades of I Claudius , with five wonderfully vivid (and in three cases, thoroughly depraved) Emperors—Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, and Nero—featured, along with numerous fascinating secondary characters. Intrigue, murder, naked ambition and treachery, greed, gluttony, lust, incest, pageantry, decadence—the tale of these five Caesars continues to cast a mesmerizing spell across the millennia.