Zbirka: Socialna in kulturna zgodovina
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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 € -
Atlas of the Great Irish Famine(2012)The Great Famine is possibly the most pivotal event/experience in modern Irish history. Its global reach and implications cannot be underestimated. In terms of mortality, it is now widely accepted that over a million people perished between the years 1845Vezava: Trda96,25 € -
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 € -
Declaration of Arbroath(2020) COWAN, EDWARD J.The Declaration of Arbroath, 6 April, 1320, is one of the most remarkable documents to have been produced anywhere in medieval Europe. This book examines the origins of the Declaration and the ideas upon which it drew, while tracing the rise of its mythicVezava: Mehka14,25 € -
Perfecting of Nature(2020) DOTY, JOSHExplores antebellum American conceptions of bioplasticity - the body's ability to react and change from interior and exterior forces - and argues that literature helped to shape the cultural reception of these ideas.Vezava: Mehka58,84 € -
Metropolis(2021) WILSON, BENFrom the Sunday Times bestselling author, a dazzling, globe-spanning history of humankind's greatest invention: the city. 'Brilliant...enchanting' Evening Standard 'Exhilarating' New York TimesThe story of the city is the story of civilisation.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
'Desegregation' of English Schools(2020) ESTEVES, OLIVIERThis detailed study is the first ever book on English bussing, an integrationist policy introduced in places like Southall and Bradford in the 1960s. It reveals the failure of dispersal, which segregated rather than integrated, leaving Asian children vulnVezava: Mehka44,55 €
