Zbirka: Britanska in irska zgodovina
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Modern Britain, 1750 to the Present(2025) VERNON, JAMES (UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY)This revised introduction to the history of modern Britain accounts for the recent, remarkable changes to Britain since the 2008 financial crisis. Extending from the 18th century to the present, Vernon gives increased prominence to themes of environmentalVezava: Mehka57,01 € -
Working-Class Raj(2025) LINDGREN-GIBSON, ALEXANDRA (UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI)Working-Class Raj explores what happened to working-class men and women when they left Britain and travelled to India, where their worlds were upended by the disruptive addition of race to British social hierarchies. Drawing on previously unused corresponVezava: Mehka57,01 €
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London that was Rome(2024) HARRISON, MICHAELFirst published in 1971 The London that was Rome is both a detective story and a tale of buried treasure. With ‘New Archaeology’ the author has not only recovered the street plan of Roman London, but also replaced the buildings-temples, barracks, banks, tVezava: Mehka53,21 € -
Illustrations of the History and Antiquities of the Holy Trinity Church, Coventry, from Original Documents(2011) SHARP, THOMASVezava: Mehka14,96 €
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Royal Bastards(2008) BEAUCLERK-DEWAR, PETER,POWELL, ROGERSex, power, mystery and blood - this fresh approach to the British monarchy recounts gripping, untold stories about their unofficial offspring.Vezava: Mehka18,21 €
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Changes in Attitudes to Immigrants in Britain, 1921-2021(2025) BRABER, BENThis book reviews changes in attitudes towards immigrants in Britain and the language used to put these feelings into words between 1921 and 2021. It analyses in what context attitudes were articulated and where they came from.Vezava: Trda129,71 €
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Nation of Petitioners(2025) MILLER, HENRY J. (DURHAM UNIVERSITY)Between 1780 and 1918, over one million petitions from across the four nations were sent to the House of Commons. This first study of the nineteenth-century heyday of petitioning explores the central role of petitions in reshaping the political culture ofVezava: Mehka57,01 €
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Fast Set(2005) JENNINGS, CHARLES* Three Extraordinary Men and Their Race for the Land Speed Record* The story of the speed kings - the obsessive fast-car record-breakers of the 1920s to 1940sVezava: Mehka22,80 €
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British Imagination(2025) WATSON, PETERThe third in Peter Watson's spiritual trilogy, including THE GERMAN GENIUS and THE FRENCH MIND: a masterful and epic intellectual history of BritainVezava: Trda42,06 € -
First Stones(2022)Results of recent research on the Neolithic long cairns lying in the shadow of the Black Mountains in south-east Wales.Vezava: Mehka65,91 € -
Land Is All That Matters(2025) DUNGAN, MYLESA sweeping narration of the land wars that shaped Irish history, from the ruinous famine of 1741 to the eve of World War Two.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
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Jamaican in Lincolnshire(2024) OTTEY, RALPHThe memoir of Ralph Ottey, covering his childhood in Jamaica, his wartime service in the RAF and his life and career in LincolnshireVezava: Trda92,97 € -
Rise and Demise.(2023) DEERING, DERMOTThe story of a young Irishman's career in the British colonial serviceVezava: Mehka23,81 €
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Condition Red: Air Raid Imminent(2020) BRAZIER, CORINNEDetailed account of the role of the police in Birmingham during WWII including planning for War, additional policing duties, heroism and remembering fallen officersVezava: Mehka23,15 €
