Zbirka: Socialna in kulturna zgodovina
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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: Mehka18,21 € -
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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: Mehka19,62 € -
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 € -
Her Brilliant Career(2014) COOKE, RACHELA witty and touching account of ten inspirational figures that makes us reconsider conventional ideas of the fifties woman.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
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 € -
Children's Games in Street and Playground(2008) OPIE, IONA,OPIE, PETERA magnificent survey of over 85 games played by children, largely out of sight of adults, in the 1960s, in the street, playground and wasteland.Vezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Industry and Empire(1999) HOBSBAWM, E JThis outstanding history describes and accounts for Britain's rise as the world's first industrial world power, its decline from the temporary dominance of the pioneer, its rather special relationship with the rest of the world (notably the underdevelopedVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Disenchanted Night(1995) SCHIVELBUSCH, WOLFGANGTells the story of the development of artificial light in the nineteenth century. This title reveals the ways that the technology of artificial illumination helped forge modern consciousness. It discusses a range of subject including the political symboli41,93 €
