Zbirka: Socialna in kulturna zgodovina
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Capitalizing on Change(2019) BUDER, STANLEYIn a history spanning three hundred years, Stanley Buder examines the expansion of the market economy, the laggardly use of government to control market forces, the rise of consumerism, the shifting role of small business, and much more. He concludes withVezava: Mehka70,40 € -
Trials of the Self(2021) HOFMAN, ELWINDuellists, drunks and remorseful murderers populate Trials of the self, which highlights the criminal court as a space for publicising and negotiating models of the self. Using criminal trial records, the book argues that inner depth became increasingly iVezava: Trda32,08 € -
British Empire Through Buildings(2020) MACKENZIE, JOHN M.Imperialism is strikingly represented in its buildings. This work illuminates the dispersal of colonial culture and religious forms, social classes, and racial divisions over two centuries, from the establishment of colonial rule to a post-colonial world.Vezava: Trda43,07 € -
Class, Work and Whiteness(2020) GINSBURGH, NICOLAThis book explores the class experiences of white workers in Southern Rhodesia. In examining the roles of lower class whites in the production of race, gender and nationalism under minority rule, this research contributes to understandings of social identVezava: Trda77,52 € -
It's a London Thing(2019) MELVILLE, CASPARThis book tells the history of the London black music culture that emerged in post-colonial London at the end of the twentieth century; the people who made it, the racial and spatial politics of its development and change, and the part it played in foundiVezava: Mehka28,50 € -
Chancers(2019) JEFFERY, BARBARAWhen the heir to the Maharajah of Kashmir, met a woman called Maudie in London soon after the Armistice of 1918, he would end up writing a cheque for the equivalent of GBP14,000,000 - the biggest blackmail payment in history. Swindler Monty was behind theVezava: Trda28,04 € -
We Danced All Night(2009) PUGH, MARTINBounded by the Great War on one side and by the looming shadow of the Second World War on the other, the inter-war period has characteristically been portrayed as a time of great and unrelenting depression.Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Human Cosmos(2021) MARCHANT, JOA journey through the history of science and humankind's relationship with the night sky and the cosmos beyond, from the author of Royal Society Prize-shortlisted CureVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Beneath the Big Top: A Social History of the Circus in Britain(2014) WARD, STEVEThis book provides a new look at the social history of the circus in the UK and Ireland. Using contemporary news reports and eyewitness accounts from both performers and audiences to create an entertaining and informative read.Vezava: Mehka22,42 € -
Repackaging Christianity(2022) ATHERSTONE, ANDREWA history of the Alpha movement - how 'God's own spin doctor' repackaged Christianity for a contemporary age.Vezava: Trda30,84 € -
Mediocre(2022) OLUO, IJEOMAA bold and provocative look at white male power from the New York Times number one bestselling author of So You Want to Talk About Race.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Darkly(2019) TAYLOR, LEILALeila Taylor takes us into the dark heart of the American gothic, analysing the ways it relates to race in America in the twenty-first century.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Selected Letters(2017) WALPOLE, HORACEOffers an extensive selection of author's letters, arranged by subject so that you can choose from themes including social life, the Court, politics, literature, and the evolution of his Gothic castle and art and book collections at Strawberry Hill.Vezava: Trda23,82 € -
Carols From King's(2019) COGHLAN, ALEXANDRAThe exquisite sound of a lone chorister singing Once in Royal David’s City amid the candlelit chapel of King’s College, Cambridge, marks the start of the Christmas festivities for millions of people round the globe.Vezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Passengers(2021) HOBSON, JAMESThis book is about stagecoach travel during the Napoleonic War, the era of Austen and Dickens, and the early years of Queen Victoria. Its covers travel, hospitality and roads and many other aspects of British life between 1790 and 1840. It is a story ofteVezava: Trda33,65 €
