Zbirka: Socialna in kulturna zgodovina
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Rosalie Gardiner Jones and the Long March for Women's Rights(2020) JACK, ZACHARY MICHAELIn February 1913, firebrand activist "General" Rosalie Gardiner Jones mustered an army of equal rights activists and women demanding the right to vote and marched 250 miles from Manhattan to Washington, DC. The story of this indomitable woman shows a forgVezava: Mehka76,92 € -
Book of Sea Shanties(2021) EVANS, NATHANThis book of shanties will take you on a journey through time. Nathan Evans presents his favourite songs to sing along to. Find out the history and meaning behind each of the shanties.Vezava: Trda21,02 € -
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: Trda30,89 € -
Mass Political Culture Under Stalinism(2018) VELIKANOVA, OLGAThis book is the first full-length study of the Soviet Constitution of 1936, exploring Soviet citizens’ views of constitutional democratic principles and their problematic relationship to the reality of Stalinism.Vezava: Trda141,85 € -
Fierce Chemistry(2021) SHAPIRO, HARRYOne hundred years on from the Dangerous Drugs Act of 1920, this book examines the money, politics and exploitation behind drugs and raises the question nobody asks: ‘What kind of drugs policy do we actually want in the UK?’Vezava: Trda28,04 € -
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: Mehka35,51 € -
Not Forgotten(2018) OLIVER, NEILThe hidden and often moving story of Britain's coming of age in the First World War.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Belonging and Betrayal – How Jews Made the Art World Modern(2021) DELLHEIM, CHARLESVezava: Trda57,03 € -
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 € -
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 €
