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New publications by Rossanna Barragan

Two new publications by Rossana Barragán

7 November 2019 21:53

Potosí Global (Viajando con sus primeras imágenes, 1550-1650, La Paz: Plural) and Work and Workers in Latin America (Trabajo y Trabajadores en América Latina, Siglos XVI-XXI (CIS, REDLATT, 2019) .

Potosí Global (Viajando con sus primeras imágenes, 1550-1650, La Paz: Plural) is a journey along the descriptions and depictions of Potosí and the connections entangled through them between Seville, Antwerp, Frankfurt and Constantinople. 

IISH Collections | Book blog | Bart Lankester - Photo by Prometheus Uitgevers

Come On, Women!

29 November 2017 13:56

Trien de Haan-Zwagerman (1891-1986) became a prominent figure in the Dutch left wing movement of the 1920s. Bart Lankester wrote her biography.

IISH Collections | Collectie blog | Gijs Kessler

Biography Jan Schaefer

11 April 2017 14:18

In geouwehoer kun je niet wonen. Het leven van Jan Schaefer  by Louis Hoeks is a great read.

IISH Collections | Book Blog | Raymond B. Craib

José Domingo Gómez Rojas

7 December 2016 14:44

At first sight, Raymond Craib’s The Cry of the Renegade, Politics and Poetry in Interwar Chile, is a biography of the anarchist poet José Domingo Gómez Rojas (1896-1920). 

IISH Collections | Book blog | Élisée Reclus - Photo by IISH

Elisée Reclus

6 December 2016 15:25

Elisée Reclus (1830-1905) was far ahead of his time in many fields: he was the first practitioner of the field of social geography, counts as one of the founders of naturism and vegetarianism, led the way at the Paris Commune (1870) and propagated the world language Esperanto.

IISH Collections | Book blog | Johan van Hell - Design for 1 may celebration in Olympic Stadium Amsterdam (1930)

Johan van Hell

1 November 2016 16:25

Johan van Hell (1889-1952) was a versatile man. Besides being a visual artist, he was a clarinet player and oboist, and not the least.

IISH Collections | Bookblog | Rob van Gennep - Photo by Atlas Contact

Rob van Gennep, publisher

6 September 2016 13:40

Rob van Gennep was the publisher of the political left in the Netherlands in the 70s. Geke van der Wal has now written his biography.

IISH Collections | Bookblog | Carolin Kosuch - Photo by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht

Gustav Landauer and kindred spirits

21 December 2015 14:12

Missratene Söhne. Anarchismus und Sprachkritik im Fin de Siècle by Carolin Kosuch is a triple-biography of three befriended Jewish 'rebels' around the turn of the century, Gustav Landauer, Erich Mühsam and Fritz Mauthner.

IISH Collections | Bookblog | Tity de Vries

Biography Sal Tas (1905-1976)

17 November 2015 16:05

Een onwrikbaar geloof in zijn gelijk ('An unshakable belief in being right') is the title that Tity de Vries gave to her biography of the left-wing journalist Sal Tas.

IISH Collections | Bookblog | Marijke C. Pette

Pette Cacao and Chocolate, a family business

4 November 2015 16:05

A book to be feasted on, as nicely edited is Pette Cacao and Chocolate, A Zaan family business in turbulent times, by Marijke C. Pette, just published by Kemper Conseil