Zbirka: Regionalna in narodna zgodovina
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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 € -
Season of Blood(1996) KEANE, FERGALWhen President Habyarimana's jet was shot down in April 1994, Rwanda erupted into a hundred-day orgy of killing - which left up to a million dead. The author travelled through the country as the genocide was continuing. This analysis aims to reveal the teVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Street Without A Name(2009) KASSABOVA, KAPKAA revealing personal portrait of a little-known country perched on the eastern edge of Europe - captured by one of its most eloquent and engaging expats.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
There Was a Country(2013) ACHEBE, CHINUAThe defining experience of author's life was the Nigerian civil war, also known as the Biafran War. A marriage of history, remembrance, poetry and vivid first-hand observation, this title is a work of wisdom and compassion from one of the great voices ofVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Ghosts of Happy Valley(2014) BARNES, JULIETThe Ghosts of Happy Valley is a mesmerising blend of travel narrative, social history and personal quest.Vezava: Mehka16,82 € -
Catiline's War, The Jugurthine War, Histories(2007) SALLUSTContains three stories from Sallust: "Catiline's War" - tells of the conspiracy in 63 bc; "The Jugurthine War" - describes Rome's fight in Africa against the king of the Numidians; and Histories" - depicts Rome after the death of the dictator Sulla.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Mercurial Emperor(2007) MARSHALL, PETERIn the late 16th century the greatest philosophers, alchemists, astronomers, painters, and mathematicians of the day flocked to Prague to work under the patronage of the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II, an emperor more interested in the great minds of his tiVezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Vols 4-6(1994) GIBBON, EDWARDThe six-volume Everyman edition - the only complete one now available-prints the entire text of the book with all Gibbon's own notes, later editorial commentaries, maps, tables, descriptive tables of contents, indices, appendices and two magisterial essayVezava: Trda77,44 € -
1759(2008) MCLYNN, FRANKDrawing on a mass of primary materials - from texts in the Vatican archives to oral histories of the North American Indians, this title shows how the conflict between Britain and France triggered the first 'world war', raging from Europe to Africa; the CaVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Commonwealth of Thieves(2007) KENEALLY, THOMASTells the story of modern Australia begins in eighteenth-century Britain, where people were hanged for petty offences but crime was rife, and the gaols were bursting.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
More Boys and Girls of History(2012) POWER, RHODA,POWER, EILEENThe studies in this 1928 book illustrate the lives of children within various different times and social contexts. Created following the enthusiastic response which greeted the original Boys and Girls of History, this volume concentrates on the period subVezava: Mehka45,61 € -
Borgias(2011) HIBBERT, CHRISTOPHERWarlords, Popes, Poisoners - the true story of the Borgias, the first family of the Italian RenaissanceVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
London: A Short History(2011) WILSON, A NA short, entertaining and passionate history of London by the bestselling author of The Victorians.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Nazism 1919–1945 Volume 2(2000)Volume 2 of this series of documents with commentary covers the domestic aspects of the regime between 1933 and 1939: the political stystem, the economy and society, propaganda and indoctrination, policies towards youth and women, the SS system of terror,Vezava: Mehka54,51 €
