Zbirka: Visoki in pozni novi vek: od 1700 do 1900
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Cosmopolis(1992) TOULMIN, STEPHENIn the 17th century, the vision of Cosmopolis arose - a rationally ordered society. This vision perpetuated the delusion that human nature and society could be fitted into precise and manageable rational categories. This text confronts that agenda - its iVezava: Mehka43,72 € -
Great Hunger(1991) WOODHAM-SMITH, CECILThe Irish potato famine of the 1840s, perhaps the most appalling event of the Victorian era, killed over a million people and drove as many more to emigrate to America. The impact on Anglo-Irish relations was incalculable, the immediate human cost almostVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Redcoat: The British Soldier in the Age of Horse and Musket(2002) RICHARD HOLMESVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Secret History of Georgian London(2010) CRUICKSHANK, DANGeorgian London evokes images of elegant buildings and fine art, but it was also a city where prostitution was rife, houses of ill repute widespread, and many tens of thousands of people dependent in some way or other on the wages of sin.Vezava: Mehka26,62 € -
Heinemann Advanced History: The Modernisation of Russia 1856-1985(2002) LAVER, JOHNThis resource is written for for students studying the economic and social development of Russia and the Soviet Union, as well as the nature of Russian government and its impact on the Russian people in this period.Vezava: Mehka59,59 € -
King's Mistress, Queen's Servant(2010) BORMAN, TRACYHenrietta Howard, later Countess of Suffolk, was the long-term mistress and confidante of King George II. The mark that this enigmatic and largely neglected royal mistress left on the society and culture of early Georgian England was to resonate well beyoVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Disraeli(2014) HURD, DOUGLAS,YOUNG, EDWARDA 'gripping, succinct and lethal' (Matthew Parris, THE TIMES) reappraisal of the life of Benjamin Disraeli, the most celebrated and colourful politician of the nineteenth century.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Creating the Creole Island(2005) VAUGHAN, MEGANA historical reconstruction of the making of a slave society in the Indian Ocean.Vezava: Mehka51,56 € -
Robert Peel(2008) HURD, DOUGLASLife of one of the greatest British Prime Ministers - by an author who knows the scene from his years as a senior Minister in Margaret Thatcher's Cabinet.Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Mistress Of Charlecote(2002) FAIRFAX-LUCY, A.A delightful memoir of Mary Elizabeth Lucy and her life at Charlecote.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Frederick the Great(2011) MITFORD, NANCYWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY KATE WILLIAMSFrederick II of Prussia attempted to escape his authoritarian father as a boy, but went on to become one of history's greatest rulers. Nancy Mitford brings all these contradictions and achievements to sparkling life inVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Strangest Family(2015) HADLOW, JANICEAn intensely moving account of George III’s doomed attempt to create a happy, harmonious family, written with astonishing emotional force by a stunning new history writer.Vezava: Mehka28,03 € -
Guilty Thing(2017) WILSON, FRANCESThe life of Thomas De Quincey – a dynamic and unique biography of the most mysterious member of the Wordsworth circle and the last of the Romantics.Vezava: Mehka30,28 € -
Bible and the flag(1990) STANLEY, BA scholarly examination of the relationship between Protestant missions and imperialism in the past 200 years.Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
House By The Thames(2007) TINDALL, GILLIANthey have seen the countrified lanes of London’s marshy south bank give way to a network of wharves, workshops and tenements – and then seen these, too, become dust and empty air. Rich with anecdote and colour, this fascinating book breathes life into tVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Eminent Victorians(2009) STRACHEY, LYTTONEminent Victorians is a groundbreaking work of biography that raised the genre to the level of high art. It replaced reverence with scepticism and Strachey's wit, iconoclasm, and narrative skill liberated the biographical enterprise. His portraits of CardVezava: Mehka15,41 €
