Historiebogen

The first "volume" is about Medieval Europe with small isolated communities - with the possessors (landowners, clergy) and the landless (peasants, craftsmen) - and the merchants wh...

Vasco da Gama succeeds in finding the sea route south of Africa to India and returns safely to Portugal. On the east coast of Africa, he sets sail for rich trading cities that have...

Now the wealth flows to Europe, but the merchants who have to sell the goods are charged customs duties, bridge tolls and other expenses by the petty princes. They feel taxed and l...

On August 3, 1562, John Hawkins sailed from London with three ships heading south. The slave trade on the west coast of Africa had begun. Other countries quickly followed, all prof...

The period from the middle of the 18th century to the end of the 19th. The breakthrough of industrialism is a triumph for employers. For craftsmen and farmers it is a tragedy. But...

The crisis in industry begins in 1873 and spreads to all industrial countries, the workers are put on the streets without work, wages and food. They gather for meetings and form so...

The two world wars, revolution in Russia that ended with state capitalism, the interwar period with unemployment, Nazism and fascism, the post-war period with the Cold War in Europ...

Unrest and rebellion in the colonies characterize the period after World War II. The old colonial powers have to give up, the colonies become independent states, but lack capital a...

In an interview recorded three weeks before the change of power in Portugal in April 1974, Gil Fernandes, P.A.I.G.C. talks about the Portuguese colony of Guinea Bissau and the form...