It is fashionable these days to speak of the death of Europe. And Dutch journalist Geert Mak’s new history of Europe’s 20th century begins with a scene from a picturesque European village in 1999.
PARIS — On the eve of the new millennium, the Dutch journalist and historian Geert Mak traveled across Europe, crisscrossing the continent with the hope of answering the question “What it meant, that ...
Wetenschapspodium Radboud Reflects heeft weer een aantal bijeenkomsten op de planning staan. Zaterdag 7 maart is hier het ...
The Dream of Europe. By Geert Mak. Translated by Liz Waters. Harvill Secker; 592 pages; £25 “WHAT HAS happened”, wonders Geert Mak, “in these 20 glorious years of globalisation and the free market?” ...
Schrijver Geert Mak is vrijdagavond 6 maart te gast bij het Woerkums Literair Café in het Altena College. De avond begint om 20.30 uur en draait om literatuur, geschiedenis en maatschappelijke thema’s ...
On January 4, 1999, Mak, a journalist and one of the Netherlands' most popular authors, set out from Amsterdam on assignment for his newspaper, the NRC Handelsblad, to crisscross Europe in the final ...
Calvin will host an outspoken Dutch journalist and author on Saturday, November 4 at 7:30 pm in a talk that is free and open to all. Geert Mak will speak in the Calvin Chapel on the topic "Dutch ...
Amsterdam THE SMALL CITY of Schiedam, on the Nieuwe Maas river near Rotterdam, has played a big role in the Dutch imagination of late. Five years ago, the historian/journalist Geert Mak entranced the ...
De aanslag op Charlie Hebdo heeft hem geschokt. En de kans op een escalatie van politieke extremen maakt hem extreem bezorgd. Maar volgens de Nederlandse schrijver Geert Mak zit de dreiging voor ...