Zbirka: Regionalna in narodna zgodovina
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Presidents(2009) GRAUBARD, STEPHENExplores the history of the world's greatest elective office and the role each incumbent has played in changing the scope of its powers. Using individual presidential portraits of each of the presidents, this title asks, and answers, a variety of crucialVezava: Mehka28,03 € -
Future History of the Arctic(2011) EMMERSON, CHARLESLong at the margins of global affairs, the Arctic now finds itself at the frontline of issues which will challenge and define our world in the twenty-first century. This title weaves together the history of the region with reportage and reflection, revealVezava: Mehka26,62 € -
Oxford History of Modern Europe(2000)Combining readability with authority, this book covers Europe's turbulent history from the French Revolution in the late eighteenth century to the present day. It provides a better understanding of modern Europe, how it came to be what it is, and where itVezava: Mehka23,11 € -
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire(1996) GIBBON, EDWARDGibbon's "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" (the first volume was originally published in 1776), is one of the most famous texts in the English language. David Womersley's annotated edition returns to manuscript and original sourcesVezava: Mehka30,84 € -
Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition(1991) KAGAN, DONALDIn the third volume of his four-volume history of the Peloponnesian War, Donald Kagan examines the years between the signing of the peace treaty and the destruction of the Athenian expedition to Sicily in 413 B.C.Vezava: Mehka49,88 € -
Face Of Battle(2014) KEEGAN, JOHNThe Face of Battle is military history from the battlefield: an imperishable account of the direct experience of individuals at 'the point of maximum danger'.Vezava: Mehka23,82 € -
End of the Roman Republic 146 to 44 BC(2013) STEEL, CATHERINE (LECTURER IN CLASSICS AND ANCIENT HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW)Catherine Steel tells the history of this crucial and turbulent century, focusing on the issues of freedom, honour, power, greed and ambition.Vezava: Mehka50,95 € -
Twelve Days(2007) SEBESTYEN, VICTORThe defining moment of the Cold War: 'The beginning of the end of the Soviet empire.' (Richard Nixon)Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Tudor Wales(2014) AMIN, NATHENFull-colour guide to the many places in Wales associated with this famous dynastyVezava: Mehka22,42 € -
Victorian London(2006) PICARD, LIZAFrom rag-gatherers to royalty, from fish knives to Freemasons: everyday life in Victorian London.Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Sugar Barons(2012) PARKER, MATTHEWFor 200 years after 1650 the West Indies were the most fought-over colonies in the world, as Europeans made and lost immense fortunes growing and trading in sugar - a commodity so lucrative that it was known as white gold.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
1415: Henry V's Year of Glory(2010) MORTIMER, IANDoes he deserve to be thought of as 'the greatest man who ever ruled England?'In Ian Mortimer's groundbreaking book, he portrays Henry in the pivotal year of his reign. Recording the dramatic events of 1415, he offers the fullest, most precise and least rVezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Infinite City(2010) SOLNIT, REBECCAWhat makes a place? This title searches out the answer by examining the many layers of meaning in one place, the San Francisco Bay Area. It explores the area thematically - connecting, for example, Eadweard Muybridge's foundation of motion-picture technolVezava: Mehka40,39 € -
Edwardian Scrapbook(2002) OPIE, ROBERTAn evocative, vivid and vibrant look at British history, this book uses Robert Opie's collection of ephemera to give us a glimpse of a bygone age.Vezava: Trda23,09 € -
London(2012) ACKROYD, PETERAn abridged edition of Peter Ackroyd's magisterial biography of the city of London. Prize-winning historian, novelist and broadcaster, Peter Ackroyd takes us on a journey - historical, geographical and imaginative - through the city of London.Vezava: Mehka28,04 € -
Edinburgh History of the Greeks, 1453 to 1768(2015) GREENE, MOLLY (PROFESSOR OF HISTORY AND HELLENIC STUDIES, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY)This volume considers the period of Ottoman rule in Greek history in light of changing scholarship about this era and makes it accessible for the first time to a wider audience.Vezava: Mehka50,95 € -
Island at the Center of the World(2014) SHORTO, RUSSELLA richly nuanced portrait of the unknown history of New York City.Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Greeks(1991) KITTO, H.The Greeks were extraordinary not least because they evolved "a totally new conception of what human life was for". Elaborating on that claim, the author explores the life, culture and history of classical Greece.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Molotov's Magic Lantern(2011) POLONSKY, RACHELMolotov - ruthless apparatchik, participant in the collectivizations and the Great Purge - was also an ardent bibliophile. Molotov's library and his magic lantern became the prisms through which Rachel Polonsky renewed her vision of Russia.Vezava: Mehka18,21 €
