Zbirka: Socialna in kulturna zgodovina
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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: Mehka15,41 € -
People's History of England(1985) MORTON, ARTHUR LESLIEThis work lays out the main outlines and most important turning points of British history - from the point of view of ordinary people. The book has remained in print for more than 50 years.Vezava: Mehka39,21 € -
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 € -
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: Mehka15,41 € -
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: Mehka35,63 € -
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 € -
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: Mehka67,70 € -
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: Mehka15,41 € -
Even on Days when it Rains(2008) O'DONNELL, JULIAIrish singing star Daniel O'Donnell's mother, Julia, grew up on a remote island off the northwest coast of Ireland, going barefoot and doing hard labour as as child during the poverty-stricken 1920s. The hard work continued through her teenage years asVezava: Mehka22,42 € -
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 € -
Globe(2016) ARNOLD, CATHARINEA fascinating portrait of life in Shakespeare's London, seen from the theatrical perspective, by popular historian, Catharine Arnold.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Colonialism and Homosexuality(2002) ALDRICH, ROBERT (UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA)Examining case studies, each a micro history of a particular colonial situation and a sexual encounter, this is a thorough investigation of the connections of homosexuality and imperialism from the late 1800s until the era of decolonization.Vezava: Mehka76,02 € -
