Zbirka: Socialna in kulturna zgodovina
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Entitled(2018) BRYANT, CHRIS"A proudly partisan history of the British aristocracy - which scores some shrewd hits against the upper class themselves, and the nostalgia of the rest of us for their less endearing eccentricities.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Girly Drinks(2022) O'MEARA, MALLORYFrom the ancient Sumerian beer goddess to Black South African micro-brewers today, a page-turning history of women and drink.Vezava: Mehka24,94 € -
Wish Lanterns(2017) ASH, ALECAn agenda-changing account of what it means to be young in modern China.Vezava: Mehka20,07 € -
Dangerous Ideas(2021) BERKOWITZ, ERICA fascinating examination on how restricting speech has continuously shaped our culture, and how - regardless of political leanings - every individual can act as both the suppressors and the suppressed.Vezava: Trda28,51 € -
Scheming(2020) DAMER, SEAN (HONORARY FELLOW, UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH)Seán Damer provides a sustained critique of the Corporation of Glasgow’s council housing policy and argues that it had the unintended consequence of amplifying social segregation and ghettoisation in the city.Vezava: Mehka37,05 € -
Inheritance: The tragedy of Mary Davies(2021) HOLLIS, LEOThe reclaimed history of a woman whose tragic life tells a story of madness, forced marriages and how the super-rich came to own LondonVezava: Trda33,27 € -
Imperial Mud(2021) BOYCE, JAMESA post-colonial history of the destruction of the Fens of eastern England.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Legal Lessons(2021) ALTEHENGER, JENNIFERLegal Lessons examines how China’s party-state attempted to motivate ordinary citizens to learn laws during the Mao period. Archival records, advice manuals, and colorful propaganda materials reveal how official attempts to promote “correct” understandingVezava: Mehka30,96 € -
America Ground, Hastings(2021) PEAK, STEVEAn informative, illustrated history of a unique area of HastingsVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Why Patti Smith Matters(2022) ROSE, CARYNPatti Smith arrived in New York City at the end of the Age of Aquarius in search of work and purpose.Vezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Before Homosexuality in the Arab-Islamic World, 1500-1800(2009) EL-ROUAYHEB, KHALEDAttitudes toward homosexuality in the premodern Arab-Islamic world are commonly depicted as schizophrenic. This title argues that this apparent paradox is based on the anachronistic assumption that homosexuality is a timeless, self-evident fact to which aVezava: Mehka45,62 € -
Chosen Few(2014) BOTTICINI, MARISTELLA,ECKSTEIN, ZVIIn 70 CE, the Jews were an agrarian and illiterate people living mostly in the Land of Israel and Mesopotamia. By 1492 the Jewish people had become a small group of literate urbanites specializing in crafts, trade, moneylending, and medicine in hundreds oVezava: Mehka32,31 € -
Neighbours, Distrust, and the State(2022) BRODIE, MARC (FORMER FELLOW, FORMER FELLOW, UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD)Neighbours, Distrust, and the State shows that in the past, just like now, many poor people 'wanted something done' by government in their communities, examining how they thought about such things as the role of the police, compulsory schooling, housing eVezava: Trda80,26 € -
Dracula(2022) MORGAN, GILESFew fictional characters have proven to be as enduringly popular as the legendary Count Dracula. In Dracula: The Origins and Influence of the Legendary Vampire Count, author Giles Morgan examines the roots of the vampire myth and the creation of Bram StokVezava: Mehka14,01 €
