Zbirka: Britanska in irska zgodovina
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How The Irish Saved Civilization(2003) CAHILL, THOMASThe untold story of Ireland's role, from the fall of Rome to the rise of medieval Europe.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Emergency Writing(2018) TEEKELL, ANNATaking seriously Ireland's euphemism for World War II, ""the Emergency"", Anna Teekell's Emergency Writing asks both what happens to literature written during a state of emergency and what it means for writing to be a response to an emergency.Vezava: Trda138,25 € -
Walk in the Park(2017) ELBOROUGH, TRAVISParks are such a familiar part of everyday life, you might be forgiven for thinking they have always been there. In fact, public parks are an invention.The author excavates the history of parks in all their colour and complexity. It is a celebration of aVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Idea of Italy(2022)A unique portrait of nineteenth-century Italy as seen through the eyes of the first generation of British photographersVezava: Trda70,00 € -
Story of the Country House(2021) ASLET, CLIVEThe fascinating story of the evolution of the country house in Britain, from its Roman precursors to the presentVezava: Trda38,00 € -
Unconsidered People(2021) DUNNE, CATHERINENew updated edition of the seminal work by Catherine Dunne, which charted the lives of the London Irish, in all their variety and colour, now with a brand new foreword by Diarmaid Ferriter. Half a million Irish people left Ireland in the nineteen-fifties,Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Pocket Magna Carta(2016)The Latin text of Magna Carta (the 1217 issue of Henry III) is reproduced, together with a modern translation and an introduction which traces the background to the making of the charter and its subsequent revisions through the centuries. It also explainsVezava: Trda10,80 € -
First Kingdom(2021) ADAMS, MAXAn investigation of the obscure centuries that followed the departure of the Romans from Britain.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Philippa of Hainault(2022) WARNER, KATHRYNNew paperback edition - Philippa of Hainault: Mother of the English Nation. The first biography of a remarkable and influential English queen.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Rebellion in the Middle Ages(2021) LEWIS, MATTHEWThis new book provides a fresh perspective on these well-known rebellions, it examines the causes behind insurrections and how in turn they influenced the development of England from the Normans to the Tudors.Vezava: Trda35,05 € -
Disability and the Tudors(2021) CONNOLLY, PHILLIPA VINCENTOften portrayed as fools at court, or beggars dependent on the Church, little is known about what life was really like for disabled people living in Tudor England.Vezava: Trda35,05 € -
Great Highland Famine(2021) DEVINE, TOM M.The Great Hunger in nineteenth-century Ireland was a major human tragedy of modern times. Acute famine also gripped the Scottish Highlands at the same time, causing misery, hardship and distress. The story of that lesser known human disaster is told in thVezava: Mehka42,77 € -
Behind the Throne(2018) TINNISWOOD, ADRIANBehind the Throne uncovers the reality of five centuries of life at the English court, taking the reader on a remarkable journey from one Queen Elizabeth to another and exploring life as it was lived by clerks and courtiers and clowns and crowned heads: tVezava: Trda35,05 € -
What We Have Lost(2019) HAMILTON-PATERSON, JAMESJames Hamilton-Paterson turns his literary and analytical skills to the wider picture of Britain's lost industrial and technological civilisation.Vezava: Mehka14,01 € -
English Garden Eccentrics(2022) LONGSTAFFE-GOWAN, TODDA highly original study of eccentric English garden-makers and their extraordinary gardensVezava: Trda57,03 € -
Civilised by Beasts(2021) ADELMAN, JULIANAThis book offers a unique account of life in nineteenth-century Dublin, told through human-animal relationships. It argues that the exploitation of animals formed a key component of urban change, from municipal reform to class formation to the expansion oVezava: Mehka35,63 €
