Zbirka: Socialna in kulturna zgodovina
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1950s Home(2009) LEIGHTON, SOPHIEIntroduces the homes that people fell in love with in the 1930s, and the fixtures and fittings that went in them. This book features illustrations and informative chapters on architectural styles, gardens, furnishings and technology in the home.Vezava: Mehka12,34 € -
Lives of Houses(2022)A group of notable writers - including UK poet laureate Simon Armitage, Julian Barnes, Margaret MacMillan, and Jenny Uglow - celebrate our fascination with the houses of famous literary figures, artists, composers, and politicians of the past.Vezava: Mehka24,22 € -
Patmos(2017) DUDLEY, JILLAll you need to know about the island's myths, legends and its gods.Vezava: Mehka5,60 € -
Imperial Boredom(2020) AUERBACH, JEFFREY A. (PROFESSOR OF HISTORY, PROFESSOR OF HISTORY, CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, NORTHRIDGE)Imperial Boredom offers a radical reconsideration of the British Empire during its heyday in the nineteenth century. Challenging the long-established view that that the Empire was about adventure and excitement, Auerbach draws on personal accounts to arguVezava: Mehka55,11 € -
South(2018) COVERLEY, MERLINArtists and writers have long felt the lure of the South. Goethe was revitalised by his journey to Italy; Nietzsche took flight southwards to begin his life anew, while DH Lawrence sought the health-giving southern sun in Sicily and Sardinia. The South SeVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Unworthy Republic(2020) SAUNT, CLAUDIOA masterful and unsettling history of "Indian Removal", the forced migration of Native Americans across the Mississippi River in the 1830s and the state-sponsored theft of their lands.Vezava: Trda33,75 € -
Women and the Public Sphere in the Age of the French Revolution(1988) LANDES, JOAN B.In this provocative interdisciplinary essay, Joan B. Landes examines the impact on women of the emergence of a new, bourgeois organization of public life in the eighteenth century. She focuses on France, contrasting the role and representation of...Vezava: Mehka48,10 € -
African Dominion(2019) GOMEZ, MICHAELIn a radically new account of the importance of early Africa in global history, Gomez traces how Islam's growth in West Africa, along with intensifying commerce that included slaves, resulted in a series of political experiments unique to the region, culmVezava: Mehka48,47 € -
Eternal Light and Earthly Concerns(2021) FOURACRE, PAULThis book investigates how the practice of keeping a light burning in churches was established in the early Middle Ages. It asks what the material consequences of implementing the practice were and why it ceased at the end of the Middle Ages. -- .Vezava: Trda77,52 € -
Scottish Suffragettes(2000) LENEMAN, LEAHThis text looks at women who fought tirelessly for equality. It focuses on the Scottish women of all ages and from all backgrounds who were involved in the non-militant "suffragist" movement.Vezava: Mehka13,42 € -
Work in the Future(2020)This short, accessible book seeks to explore the future of work through the views and opinions of a range of expertise, encompassing economic, historical, technological, ethical and anthropological aspects of the debate.Vezava: Mehka41,57 € -
Mother's Sacrifice(2020) FELTON, JENNIEA heartrending standalone saga, filled with romance, tragedy, drama, secrets and triumph in adversity from the author of the Families of Fairley Terrace series.Vezava: Trda22,45 € -
Mother's Sacrifice(2021) FELTON, JENNIEA heartrending standalone saga, filled with romance, tragedy, drama, secrets and triumph in adversity from the author of the Families of Fairley Terrace series.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
When Marilyn Met the Queen(2022) MORGAN, MICHELLEIn July 1956, Marilyn Monroe arrived in London, on honeymoon with her husband Arthur Miller, to make The Prince and the Showgirl with Laurence Olivier. It was meant to be a happy time, but it didn't turn out that way.Vezava: Trda33,27 €
