Zbirka: Socialna in kulturna zgodovina
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Return To Akenfield(2007) TAYLOR, CRAIG'Gentle, subtle, absorbing ... the most complex and supple account of that much-discussed idea, "modern rural life", that I have ever read' Robert Macfarlane, author of Mountains of the Mind and The Wild PlacesVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Somewhere To Lay My Head(2007) DOUGLAS, ROBERTThe next chapter in Robert Douglas's remarkable life story picks up from the bestselling NIGHT SONG OF THE LAST TRAM but can be read on its ownVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Women in England 1760-1914(2005) STEINBACH, PROFESSOR SUSIEA rich and fresh survey of women's lives between George III and the First World WarVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Among the Bohemians(2003) NICHOLSON, VIRGINIASubversive, eccentric and flamboyant - the Bohemians ate garlic and didn't always wash; they painted and danced and didn't care what people thought. They sent their children to co-ed schools; explored homosexuality and Free Love. They were often drunk, brVezava: Mehka22,42 € -
Change Is Gonna Come: Music, Race And The Soul Of America(2002) WERNER, CRAIGA Change is Gonna Come chronicles more than forty years of black music: from the hopeful, angry refrains of the Freedom movement to the slick pop of Motown;Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Magnetic Mountain(1997) KOTKIN, STEPHENAn account of what Stalinism meant to the masses of ordinary people who lived it. It argues that Stalinism offered itself as an opportunity for enlightenment. It depicts a whole range of life: from the blast furnace workers who labored in the iron and steVezava: Mehka56,55 € -
Year 1000(2003) LACEY, ROBERT,DANZIGER, DANNY* Vivid recreation of how English people lived a thousand years ago. * What life was like at the turn of the first Millennium.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Grand Expectations(1998) PATTERSON, JAMES T. (PROFESSOR OF HISTORY, PROFESSOR OF HISTORY, BROWN UNIVERSITY, USA)James T. Patterson skilfully weaves together political, social, cultural, and economic history to present a fascinating survey of postwar America.Vezava: Mehka34,33 € -
Heart of Europe(2001) DAVIES, NORMAN (SCHOOL OF SLAVONIC AND EAST EUROPEAN STUDIES, SCHOOL OF SLAVONIC AND EAST EUROPEAN STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON)The image of Poland has once again been impressed on European consciousness. Norman Davies provides a key to understanding the modern Polish crisis in this lucid and authoritative description of the nation's history. Beginning with the period since 1945,Vezava: Mehka29,43 € -
Modern Spain, 1875-1980(2001) CARR, RAYMOND (FORMERLY WARDEN, FORMERLY WARDEN, ST ANTONY'S COLLEGE, OXFORD)Starting at the `September Revolution' of 1868 and going up to 1980, Raymond Carr explains much of modern Spanish history - often a strange mixture of advanced liberal politics imposed upon a conservative society.Vezava: Mehka23,11 € -
Irish(2004) BURROWES, JOHNIrish is the story of the mass migration from Ireland to Glasgow that took place in the wake of the Great Famine of the mid-nineteenth century. The coming of the Irish to Glasgow had a bigger impact on the city than other event.Vezava: Mehka16,81 € -
Old Woman's Reflections(1977) SAYERS, PEIGStorytelling kept alive the myths, legends, and history of the Blasket Islands, which are three miles off Irelands Dingle Peninsula. In her old age, Peig Sayers, 'the Queen of Gaelic storytellers', recounted her life to her son, who recorded the tale in tVezava: Mehka11,90 € -
Slave Trade(2006) THOMAS, HUGHThe rise and fall of the business of slave trading - by a bestselling historianVezava: Mehka28,04 € -
Fall of Public Man(2003) SENNETT, RICHARDAre we now so self-absorbed that we take little interest in the world beyond our own lives? Or has public life left no place for individuals to participate? This title examines the growing imbalance between private and public experience, and asks what canVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Untold History of the Potato(2009) READER, JOHNThe story of one of the world's most important crops From the gold potatoes at the Sun Temple in Cuzco, Peru, the muddy ones in Ireland and those grown in China for McDonald's chips, the story of the spud is both satisfying and fascinating.Vezava: Mehka23,82 € -
1920s Scrapbook(2008) OPIE, ROBERTCaptures the mood of a radical decade in Great Britain in over 1000 colour images - illustrating why this decade became know as the 'roaring twenties'.Vezava: Trda23,09 € -
Short History of Slavery(2007) WALVIN, JAMESPresents an account of the Atlantic slave trade which helps us to understand the rise and fall of one of the most shameful chapters in British history.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
World History(2001) PONTING, CLIVEConventional accounts of world history tend to focus on the rise of Western civilisation and concentrate on the story of ancient Greece, the Roman empire and the expansion of Europe. Only towards the end of the story does Europe come slowly to dominate thVezava: Mehka35,05 €
