Kort før hans død overdrages forfatteren morfarens notesbøger, og ved hjælp af disse stykkes hans livshistorie sammen i en blanding af roman og essay. Om fattige kår i opvæksten, kærligheden til faderen og de gruopvækkende oplevelser som soldat i 1. verdenskrig
Describes German administration which used the 'velvet glove" to exploit Belgian industry and work force, but nonetheless authorized shooting of hostages and deportation of Jews.
Amel Ahmed brings new historical evidence and a novel theoretical framework to bear on the study of democratization. Looking at the politics of electoral system choice at the time of suffrage expansion among early democratizers, she shows that the electoral systems used in advan…
by Witte, Els, Craeybeckx, Jan, Meynen, Alain
Offers a historical perspective in interpreting the current tensions in Belgian politics based on scientific literature. As a European trendsetter Belgium was the first country on the European continent to experience a quick process of industrialisation and the first liberal sta…
Among the more intriguing documentary sources from late medieval Europe are pardon letters--petitions sent by those condemned for serious crimes to monarchs and princes in France and the Low Countries in the hopes of receiving a full pardon. The fifteenth-century Burgundian Low …
