Zbirka: Splošna in svetovna zgodovina
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Most Interesting Book in the World(2024) BROOKE-HITCHING, EDWARDA miscellany of things too strange to be true, yet somehow are, by former BBC QI Elf turned bestselling author, Edward Brooke-Hitching.Vezava: Trda21,02 € -
Thermopylae(2004) BRADFORD, ERNLEAn impressively accessible narrative depicting the three-day battle for the pass at Thermopylae (the Hot Gates)- a critical contest in Xerxes's massive invasion of Greece. The bloody stand made there by Leonidas and his small Spartan army in 480 B.C. hasVezava: Mehka25,22 €
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Oh, Socrates!(2023) DUDLEY, JILLFarmers wife travels in footsteps of Socrates.Vezava: Mehka12,61 €
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Swahili Worlds in Globalism(2024) KUSIMBA, CHAPURUKHA M. (UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA)Discusses a medieval African urban society as a product of interactions among African communities who inhabited the region between 100 BCE and 500 CE. Positioned as the gateway into and out of eastern Africa, the Swahili coast became a site through whichVezava: Mehka34,22 €
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From Bicycle to Bentley, A Bookmaker's Story(2023) MACKESON, RUPERTStephen takes the reader from his earliest school days when it became clear he was academically bright, especially in maths, attending prep school, winning a scholarship to major public school Uppingham where he won maths prizes and, aged 16, passed 3 S (Vezava: Trda28,04 € -
Globe(2023) HANNAM, JAMESA history of how we came to know that the earth is round, rather than flat.Vezava: Trda23,82 € -
Analysis of Henry Kissinger's World Order(2017) GIBSON, BRYANHenry Kissinger’s 2014 book World Order: Reflections on the Character of Nations and the Course of History not only offers a summary of thinking developed throughout a long and highly influential career–it is also an intervention in international relationVezava: Mehka12,36 €
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Lightbulb Moments in Human History (Book II)(2024) ELSAESSER, EVELYNThe humorous history of humanity's game-changers.Vezava: Mehka26,24 €
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Medieval Textiles across Eurasia, c. 300–1400(2023) BLESSING, PATRICIA (PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, NEW JERSEY),WILLIAMS, ELIZABETH DOSPEL (DUMBARTON OAKS, WASHINGTON DC),SHEA, EIREN L. (GRINNELL COLLEGE, IOWA)Considers the textiles made, traded, and exchanged across Eurasia from late antiquity to the late Middle Ages with special attention to the socio-political and cultural aspects of this universal medium. It presents a wide range of textiles used in both doVezava: Mehka34,22 € -
Anticolonial Transnational(2023)The first volume to explore transnational anticolonialism as a global phenomenon spanning the entire twentieth century. Leading scholars demonstrate that anticolonial movements everywhere in this period were invariably transnational in terms of their imagVezava: Mehka49,41 € -
Early Tang China and the World, 618–750 CE(2023) YANG, SHAO-YUN (DENISON UNIVERSITY, OHIO)This Element presents a broad and revisionist analysis of early Tang China's relations with the rest of the Eurasian world and argues that idealizing the Tang as exceptionally “cosmopolitan” limits our ability to think both critically and globally about iVezava: Mehka34,22 € -
Mooring the Global Archive(2023) DUSINBERRE, MARTIN (UNIVERSITAT ZURICH)The first in-depth analysis of archival methodologies in the writing of global history, focused on a Japanese migrant steamship in the 1880s-90s. Tracing the ship's journeys between Japan, Hawai'i, Southeast Asia and Australia, Martin Dusinberre analysesVezava: Mehka43,70 €
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Chronologica(2016) BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHINGA fact-filled journey through 100 years of world history, exploring famous people and events in addition to lesser-known historical happenings. 100 Amazing Years presents a concise, punchy analysis of years and personalities which instigated big changesVezava: Trda23,42 €
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Drunk On Power(2023) PFEIFER, HEINRICHEnglish for the first time, this meticulously detailed account of the Nazi 'Deep State' by one of its leading counterintelligence chiefs reveals the deepest secrets, and names foreign Gestapo agents whose identities have never before been public knowledgeVezava: Trda46,32 € -
Spanish Armada(2014) HUTCHINSON, ROBERTA dramatic blow-by-blow account of the defeat of the Spanish Armada by the English fleet - a tale of daring and disaster on the high seas by one of our best narrative historians.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Crossfire(2013) MARRS, JIM"Compelling... [Marrs] neatly capsulizes the plethora of theories offered by critics of the lone-gunman theory."-The Washington PostVezava: Mehka31,36 € -
All the Countries We've Ever Invaded(2013) LAYCOCK, STUARTThis book takes a look at some of the truly awe-inspiring ways our country has been a force, for good and for bad, right across the world. A lot of people are vaguely aware that a quarter of the globe was once pink, but that’s not even half the story.Vezava: Mehka14,01 €
