Zbirka: Socialna in kulturna zgodovina
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Europe after Rome(2007) SMITH, JULIA M. H. (PROFESSOR IN MEDIEVAL HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW)Vezava: Mehka69,36 € -
Honourable Company(1993) KEAY, JOHNDuring 200 years the East India Company grew from an association of Elizabethan tradesmen into a powerful organization. As a commercial enterprise it came to control half the world's trade and as a political entity it administered an empire. This book looVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Daughters Of Arabia(2004) SASSON, JEANReaders of Princess Sultana's extraordinary biography Princess were gripped by her powerful indictment of women's lives behind the veil within the royal family of Saudi Arabia.Vezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Scotland's Hidden Harlots and Heroines: Women's Role in Scottish Society From 1690-1969(2014) HARROWER-GRAY, ANNIEDiscover Scottish women's history, from the 1690s to the 1960s. This colourful book tells the stories of a host of unusual characters from witches to bodysnatchers; aristocrats to female Jacobites; as well as revealing what life was once like for ordinaryVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Coronation Everest(2003) MORRIS, JANOffers an intimate evocation of the famous of all mountaineering exploits and the old-fashioned Fleet Street scoop.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Cornish Wrecking, 1700-1860(2010) PEARCE, CATHRYN J.Highly Commended in Class 6 - Non-Fiction: History and Creative Arts of the Holyer an Gof Awards 2011Shows how the image of Cornish wreckers as villains deliberately luring ships on to the rocks is a myth.Vezava: Trda38,61 € -
Consider the Fork(2013) WILSON, BEEExplores how the implements we use in the kitchen have shaped the way we cook and live. This title tells the story of how we have tamed fire and ice, wielded whisks, spoons, graters, mashers, pestles and mortars, all in the name of feeding ourselves.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
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Tudors(2013) GUY, JOHN (FELLOW OF CLARE COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE)In this revised and updated edition of The Tudors: A Very Short Introduction, John Guy offers a compelling and authoritative guide to all aspects of the Tudor period. From politics, religion, and economics, to gender, art, and culture, this is a fascinatiVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Careless People(2014) CHURCHWELL, SARAHA fascinating look at the autumn of 1922, when F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda returned to New York and the seeds for The Great Gatsby were sownVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Untold History of Ramen(2014) SOLT, GEORGEA rich, salty, and steaming bowl of noodle soup, ramen Offers an account of geopolitics and industrialization in Japan. It traces the meteoric rise of ramen from humble fuel for the working poor to international icon of Japanese culture.Vezava: Mehka48,47 € -
Recollections(2008)Presents a period much closer to home, with a departure towards various images taken of Britain in the 1950s, 60s and 70s. This title also presents a domestic revolution, from a photographer whose international fame covering a country on the other side ofVezava: Trda51,62 € -
Native American DNA(2013) TALLBEAR, KIMBecause today's DNA testing seems so compelling and powerful, increasing numbers of Native Americans have begun to believe their own metaphors: "in our blood" is giving way to "in our DNA." In Native American DNA, Kim TallBear shows how Native American clVezava: Mehka42,76 € -
Garden Cities(2014) RUTHERFORD, SARAHGarden Cities: the phrase is redolent of Arts and Crafts values and nineteenth-century utopianism.Vezava: Mehka13,89 € -
Scourging Angel(2010) GUMMER, BENEDICTNothing experienced in human history, before or since, eclipses the terror, tragedy and scale of the Black Death, the disease which killed millions of people in Medieval Europe. By the time it completed its pestilential journey through the British Isles iVezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Big House(2005) SYKES, CHRISTOPHER SIMONThe highly praised biography of an archetypal great house and the family who lived there for over 250 years.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Great Hunger(1991) WOODHAM-SMITH, CECILThe Irish potato famine of the 1840s, perhaps the most appalling event of the Victorian era, killed over a million people and drove as many more to emigrate to America. The impact on Anglo-Irish relations was incalculable, the immediate human cost almostVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Secret History of Georgian London(2010) CRUICKSHANK, DANGeorgian London evokes images of elegant buildings and fine art, but it was also a city where prostitution was rife, houses of ill repute widespread, and many tens of thousands of people dependent in some way or other on the wages of sin.Vezava: Mehka26,62 €
