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Istanbul(1998) FREELY, JOHNIstanbul's history has managed to retain its own identity. This book captures the flavour of daily life as well as court ceremonial and intrigue. It also includes a gazetteer of major monuments and museums.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
History of Everyday Life in Scotland, 1800 to 1900(2010)This volume covers the nineteenth century, a period of profound change in Scottish history.Vezava: Mehka49,42 € -
Book of Migrations(2011) SOLNIT, REBECCAPortrays in microcosm a history made of great human tides of invasion, colonization, emigration, nomadism and tourism. Enriched by cross-cultural comparisons with the history of the American West, this title carves a route through Ireland's history, literVezava: Mehka18,52 € -
Inheritance(2011) SACKVILLE-WEST, ROBERTA fascinating memoir of an extraordinary family told through the vast, four hundred year old house, KnoleVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Wasteland with Words(2010) MAGNUSSON, SIGURÐUR GYLFIA comprehensive study of Iceland's social and historical development, from tiny fishing settlements to a global economic power. It is of interest to those studying this most enigmatic of islands, and also to those interested in cultural and social historyVezava: Mehka50,49 € -
London(2011) ROSS, CATHY,CLARK, JOHN,MUSEUM OF LONDONDiscover which prehistoric mammals would once have lived by the River Thames. Take a detailed look at the crystal palace of the Great Exhibition and an early map of the underground. This title offers a perspective on one of the world's most exciting citieVezava: Mehka41,99 € -
Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England(2013) MORTIMER, IANThe past is a foreign country - this is your guide, from the bestselling author of The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval EnglandWe think of Queen Elizabeth I's reign (1558-1603) as a golden age.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Brief History of the Wars of the Roses(2007) SEWARD, MR DESMONDA classic account of the bloody rivalry between the dynasties of York and Lancaster for the throne of England.Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Britain AD(2005) PRYOR, FRANCISLeading archaeologist Francis Pryor retells the story of King Arthur, legendary king of the Britons, tracing it back to its Bronze Age origins.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
The Making of the British Landscape(2011) PRYOR, FRANCISFrom our suburban streets which still trace the boundaries of long vanished farms to the Norfolk Broads, formed when medieval peat pits flooded - evidence of man's effect on Britain is everywhere. This title includes over 250 maps and photographs that chaVezava: Mehka28,03 € -
Warsaw 1920(2014) ZAMOYSKI, ADAMThe dramatic and little-known story of how, in the summer of 1920, Lenin came within a hair's breadth of shattering the painstakingly constructed Versailles peace settlement and spreading Bolshevism to western Europe.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Woodbrook(1994) THOMSON, DAVIDWoodbrook is a rare house that gives its name to a small, rural area in Ireland, not far from the old port of Sligo. He stayed for ten years. This memoir, acknowledged as a masterpiece, grew out of two great loves - for Woodbrook and for Phoebe, his pupVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Europe in the High Middle Ages(2002) JORDAN, WILLIAM CHESTERPresents the early Medieval period as a lost world, far removed from our current age, which had risen from the smoking rubble of the Roman Empire, but from which we are cut off by the great plagues and famines that ended it.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
From Pictland to Alba, 789-1070(2007) WOOLF, ALEX (LECTURER IN EARLY SCOTTISH HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS)This book charts the transformation of the political landscape of northern Britain between the eighth and the eleventh centuries. Central to this narrative is the mysterious disappearance of the Picts and their language and the sudden rise to prominence oVezava: Mehka41,69 € -
War of Wars(2007) HARVEY, ROBERTDrawing together the politics, personalities, battles and diplomacy of this tumultuous era, Robert Harvey brilliantly recreates the story of the greatest conflict that stretches from the first blaze of revolution in Paris in 1789 to final victory on the mVezava: Mehka28,04 € -
Corrupting Sea(2000) HORDEN, PEREGRINE (ROYAL HOLLOWAY, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON),PURCELL, NICHOLAS (ST JOHN'S COLLEGE, OXFORD)An analysis of the relationship between man and his physical and biological environment in the Mediterranean region over 2000 years. It covers issues such as historiography, patterns of settlement and demographic change, religious cult sites, climate, disVezava: Mehka71,20 €










