Zbirka: Socialna in kulturna zgodovina
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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 € -
Hollow City(2018) SOLNIT, REBECCAAcclaimed writer Rebecca Solnit and photographer Susan Schwartzenberg survey San Francisco's transformation through gentrification in the early milleniumVezava: Mehka38,57 € -
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: Mehka51,59 € -
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 € -
Aerial Aftermaths(2018) KAPLAN, CARENCaren Kaplan traces the cultural history of aerial imagery-from the first vistas provided by balloons in the eighteenth century to the sensing operations of military drones-to show how aerial imagery is key to modern visual culture and can both enforce miVezava: Mehka53,22 € -
Greedy Queen(2018) GRAY, ANNIEFull of original research, Annie Gray's first book considers Britain's most iconic monarch from a new perspective, telling the history of British dining culture along the way.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
NHS at 70(2018) WELCH, ELLENTraces the history of the National Health Service, from its founding in July 1948 to the present day.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Twenty-First-Century Tolkien(2022) GROOM, PROFESSOR NICKAn engaging, original and radical reassessment of J.R.R. Tolkien, revealing how his visionary creation of Middle-Earth is more relevant now than ever before.Vezava: Trda33,27 €
