Zbirka: Socialna in kulturna zgodovina
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Vanity Fair 100 Years(2013) CARTER, GRAYDONVanity Fair 100 Years showcases a century of personality and power, art and commerce, crisis and culture--both highbrow and low. In the sumptuous 384-page coffee table book, the editors of Vanity Fair have created the definitive history of the most talkedVezava: Trda83,89 € -
Bloody Foreigners(2013) WINDER, ROBERTThe story of immigration to Britain from the Romans to asylum seekers - a moving and inspiring history which chronicles the remarkable stories of immigration that founded and defined a nationVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Gypsies of Britain(2013) KEET-BLACK, JANETExplores the history of this lifestyle, looking at how Gypsies have maintained their distinctive culture and how they have adapted to the twenty-first century, and focusses on a range of traditional Gypsy occupations including harvesting, horse-dealing, fVezava: Mehka12,34 € -
Singled Out(2008) NICHOLSON, VIRGINIATells the story of the women who were left alone after World War I - a remarkable generation of women who were changed by war; and in their turn helped change society. This title is about those women, and about how they were forced, to stop depending on mVezava: Mehka26,62 € -
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Necropolis(2007) ARNOLD, CATHARINEA vivid historical narrative of how London has dealt with its dead from pagan burial rites through the Black Death to the Blitz and the death of Diana.Vezava: Mehka16,81 € -
1215: The Year of Magna Carta(2004) DANZIGER, DANNY,GILLINGHAM, JOHN,DANZIGER, DANNYBroad in scope and rich in detail, 1215: THE YEAR OF MAGNA CARTA is a vivid exploration of what may have been the most important year of our lives.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
No Such Thing as Society(2011) MCSMITH, ANDYA highly praised new history of that most turbulent of decades: the 1980s.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
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Big Oyster(2007) KURLANSKY, MARKWhen Peter Minuit bought Manhattan for $24 in 1626 he showed his shrewdness by also buying the oyster beds off tiny, nearby Oyster Island, renamed Ellis Island in 1770. In 1842, when the novelist Charles Dickens arrived in New York, he could not conceal hVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Millions Like Us(2012) NICHOLSON, VIRGINIAWe tend to see the Second World War as a man's war, featuring Spitfire crews and brave deeds on the Normandy beaches. But in conditions of "Total War" millions of women demonstrated that they were cleverer, more broad-minded and altogether more complex thVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Thinking the Twentieth Century(2013) SNYDER, TIMOTHY,JUDT, TONYTwo explorers set out on a journey from which only one of them will return. Their unknown land is that often fearsome continent we call the 20th Century. Their route is through their own minds and memories. Thinking the Twentieth Century is about the lifeVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Perfect Summer(2007) NICOLSON, JULIETThe enchanting and absorbing story of a remarkable summer; defining a world on the cusp of irrevocable changeVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Rural Rides(2001) COBBETT, WILLIAMWilliam Cobbett provides evocative descriptions of the 19th century southern English countryside, his encounters with labourers, and outbursts at the encroaching cities and sufferings of the poor. Ian Dyck places these accounts in the context of Cobbett'sVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
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Blitz(2011) GARDINER, JULIETFrom the author of ‘Wartime’ comes an outstanding history of the most sustained onslaught ever endured by Britain's civilian population – the Blitz.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Images of the Past: The Miners' Strike(2014) METCALF, MARK,HARVEY, MARK,JENKINSON, MARTINIncludes some never previously seen before images to serve as a unique social document on the dispute that changed the face of Britain. The coal miners' strike of 1984/5 was the longest national strike in British historyVezava: Mehka23,82 €
