Zbirka: Socialna in kulturna zgodovina
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The Brewer's Tale: A History of the World According to Beer(2015) WILLIAM BOSTWICKVezava: Mehka21,61 € -
Woman's World, 1850–1960(2022) JONES, DAN,AMARAL, MARINAA survey of the many roles played by women across the world from 1850–1960, using colourised photos and captions to tell to their story.Vezava: Trda42,06 € -
Making of the Modern Philippines(2022) BOWRING, PHILIP (INDEPENDENT JOURNALIST AND AUTHOR, ASIA)Vezava: Trda53,46 € -
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: Mehka75,09 € -
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: Trda53,46 € -
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: Trda77,52 € -
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: Trda111,97 € -
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 € -
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Origins of Modern Science(2021) GAL, OFER (UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY)The first textbook covering the history of science from antiquity through the Scientific Revolution. Providing students of all backgrounds with the tools to study science like a historian, Gal covers everything from Pythagorean mathematics to Newton's PriVezava: Mehka53,22 € -
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 € -
Ladies in Waiting(2020) SOMERSET, ANNEAn illuminating commentary on court life from the Tudors to the present day.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
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 €
