Zbirka: Socialna in kulturna zgodovina
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Visitor's Guide to Jane Austen's England(2015) WILKES, SUEThis quirky title lifts the lid on the world of privilege depicted by Jane Austen, offering a sensory view of the era and revealing the grubby realities of life in Regency England.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Five Days(2021) L. GREEN, ERICA,MOORE, WESA kaleidoscopic account of five days in the life of a city on the edge, told through eight characters on the front lines of the uprising that overtook Baltimore and riveted the world.Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Spitfire Kids(2022) CROSS, ALASDAIR,BBC WORLDWIDE LIMITEDA bestselling BBC World Service ten-part series and podcast that celebrates the men and women who built and flew the Second World War's most famous fighter plane - the Spitfire.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Spitfire Kids(2021) CROSS, ALASDAIR,BBC WORLDWIDEA bestselling BBC World Service ten-part series and podcast that celebrates the men and women who built and flew the Second World War's most famous fighter plane - the Spitfire.Vezava: Trda33,27 € -
A History of Private Life(1992)First of the widely celebrated and sumptuously illustrated series, this book reveals in intimate detail what life was really like in the ancient world.Vezava: Mehka67,35 € -
Irish-American Autobiography(2017) ROGERS, JAMES SILASIs there still a distinct Irish identity in America? This highly original survey says yes, though it’s often an indirect one. Opening a new window on the meanings of Irishness over the twentieth century, this work also reveals how Catholicism, so key to tVezava: Mehka38,00 € -
Necropolis(2022) OLIVARIUS, KATHRYNIn antebellum New Orleans, whites and Blacks died in droves from yellow fever. But the fortunes of survivors were less equal. Kathryn Olivarius explores the resulting framework of “immunocapital.” For whites, immunity signaled creditworthiness. For enslavVezava: Trda49,27 € -
Archival Silences(2021)Archival Silences demonstrates emphatically that archival absences exist all over the globe. The book questions whether benign ‘silence’ is an appropriate label for the variety of destructions, concealment and absences that can be identified within archivVezava: Mehka74,12 € -
Authenticity(2022) SHERWOOD, ALICE'Wide-ranging, witty and fresh ... a stimulating read. Authentic fun'Tim Harford, Financial Times Best Summer Books 2022'Brilliantly witty, profoundly illuminating, Alice Sherwood is a master storyteller' Simon Schama'Thought-provoking and beautifully wri22,50 € -
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History and Politics of Star Wars(2022) KEMPSHALL, CHRIS (UNIVERSITY OF EXETER, UK)This book provides the first detailed and comprehensive examination of all the materials making up the Star Wars franchise relating to the portrayal and representation of real-world history and politics.Vezava: Mehka76,02 € -
How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World(2004) WHEEN, FRANCISAn entertaining, impassioned polemic on the retreat of reason in the late 20th century. An intellectual call to arms, Francis Wheen’s Sunday Times bestseller is one of 2004’s most talked about books.Vezava: Mehka16,81 € -
Ancient Theatre and Performance Culture Around the Black Sea(2019)Combines archaeological evidence with literary analysis of key plays linked to the region to broaden the study of theatre outside fifth-century BCE Athens and allow comparison with the similarly colonial world of Southern Italy. Also offers a new route inVezava: Trda123,83 € -
Sport and Ireland(2017) ROUSE, PAUL (LECTURER, SCHOOL OF HISTORY, LECTURER, SCHOOL OF HISTORY, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN)The first history of sport in Ireland, locating the history of sport within Irish political, social, and cultural history, and within the global history of sport. It studies the relationship between sport and national identity, how sport influences policyVezava: Mehka65,20 € -
Viking-Age Trade(2022)This volume highlights the trade in slaves during the ninth and tenth centuries as driving exchanges on a trans-continental scale. A combination of general surveys and regional case-studies sets Gotland and the early medieval slave trade in a firmer frameVezava: Mehka75,24 €
