Zbirka: Socialna in kulturna zgodovina
2166 rezultatov
-
Witch Craze(2006) ROPER, LYNDALIn the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, thousands of women confessed to being witches and were put to death. This book presents an account of the pursuit, interrogation, torture, and burning of witches, particularly in Germany, as well as a deeper expVezava: Mehka41,82 € -
1970s Scrapbook(2020) OPIE, ROBERTFull of pop, punk and personalities, The 1970s Scrapbook sways through this energetic era on platform shoes to the beat of glamrock and disco mania.Vezava: Trda23,09 € -
1960s Scrapbook(2020) OPIE, ROBERTThe 1960s Scrapbook presents a visual record of a turbulent decade, with over 1000 images in colour.Vezava: Trda23,09 € -
Six Records of a Life Adrift(2011) SHEN FUA memoir of a life in the Qing dynasty. It reveals a sensitive and artistic man, who failed at the civil service examinations that were the gateway to official employment and had to settle for becoming an itinerant private secretary, dabbling unsuccessfulVezava: Mehka26,60 € -
First Bohemians(2014) GATRELL, VICIn the teeming, disordered, and sexually charged square half-mile centred on London's Covent Garden something extraordinary evolved in the eighteenth century. It was the world's first creative 'Bohemia'. The nation's most significant artists, actors, poetVezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Night Song of the Last Tram - A Glasgow Childhood(2006) DOUGLAS, ROBERTIf my father had been killed in North Africa or Italy during the Second World War, I know that for the rest of my life I would have looked at the few photographs of him and mourned our lost relationship. Unfortunately, he survived and came home.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: Mehka52,50 € -
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 € -
Brother Gardeners(2009) WULF, ANDREAOne January morning in 1734, cloth merchant Peter Collinson hurried down to the docks at London's Custom House to collect cargo just arrived from John Bartram in the American colonies.Vezava: Mehka16,81 € -
British Queer History(2013)Takes stock of the ‘new British queer history’. Topics range from newspaper reporting of sodomy cases, to homoerotic representations in art, to queer autobiographical accounts, to oral histories of Scottish lesbians, and much else besides. -- .Vezava: Mehka44,55 € -
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: Mehka47,52 € -
Food History Reader(2014)With the proliferation of food history courses and avid interest amongst scholars and the public, the need for a comprehensive collection of primary texts is urgent. This is the definitive reader, spanning the globe from classical antiquity to the presVezava: Mehka69,49 € -
Stopping Places(2004) EVANS, SIMONKent, the "Garden of England", was also the market garden for its giant neighbour, London.Vezava: Mehka26,72 € -
Twenty Chickens for a Saddle(2009) SCOTT, ROBYN'Beautifully written, acutely observed This is a wonderful memoir of an exotic childhood and a striking portrait of one of the world's most beguiling countries. A gem of a book.' ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITHVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Ghost Map(2008) JOHNSON, STEVENTells the story of the terrifying cholera epidemic that engulfed London in 1854, and the two unlikely heroes - anesthetist Doctor John Snow and affable clergyman Reverend Henry Whitehead - who defeated the disease through a combination of local knowledge,Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Beauty and Cosmetics 1550 to 1950(2012) DOWNING, SARAH JANEThe source of tremendous power and focus of incredible devotion, throughout history notions of beauty have been integral to social life. Each age has had its own standards: a gleaming white brow during the Renaissance, the black eyebrows considered charmiVezava: Mehka13,89 €
