Zbirka: Visoki in pozni novi vek: od 1700 do 1900
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Creating the Creole Island(2005) VAUGHAN, MEGANA historical reconstruction of the making of a slave society in the Indian Ocean.Vezava: Mehka53,22 € -
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: Mehka15,41 € -
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: Mehka19,62 € -
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 € -
Barricades and Borders(2003) GILDEA, ROBERT (, PROFESSOR OF MODERN FRENCH HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD)This is a survey of European history, from the coup d'etat of Napoleon, to the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand at Sarajevo. It concentrates on the twin themes of revolution and nationalism, which often combined, but which increasingly became rival creVezava: Mehka79,60 € -
William Pitt the Younger(2005) HAGUE, WILLIAMThe award-winning biography of William Pitt the Younger by William Hague, the youngest leader of the Tory Party since Pitt himself.Vezava: Mehka28,03 € -
On the Crofter's Trail(2010) CRAIG, DAVIDIn the Clearances of the 19th century, crofts - once the mainstay of Highland life in Scotland - were swept away as the land was put over to sheep grazing. The author sets out to discover how many of their stories survive in the memories of their descendaVezava: Mehka21,37 € -
God's Playground A History of Poland(2005) DAVIES, NORMAN (, PROFESSOR EMERITUS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON, AND SUPERNUMERARY FELLOW OF WOLFSON COLLEGE, OXFORD)This edition of Norman Davies's classic study of the history of Poland has been revised and fully updated with two new chapters to bring the story to the end of the twentieth century.Vezava: Mehka99,75 € -
Nelson(2005) LAMBERT, ANDREW'Fascinating . In Nelson, Andrew Lambert - described by David Cannadine as 'the outstanding British naval historian of his generation' - is able to offer new insights into the individual quality which led Byron rightly to celebrate Nelson's genius as 'Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Pity of it All(2004) ELON, AMOSPresents history of German Jews, tracing the journey of a people and their culture from the mid eighteenth century to the eve of the Third Reich. This book chronicles a 150-year period of achievement and integration that at its peak produced a golden ageVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Scarlett Doesn't Live Here Anymore(2004) EDWARDS, LAURA F.An history of the South in the years leading up to and following the Civil War focusing on the women, black and white, rich and poor, who made up the fabric of southern life before the war and remade themselves and their world after it. It explores the exVezava: Mehka33,25 € -
Black Count(2013) REISS, TOMBy walking the same ground as Dumas - from Haiti tothe Pyramids, Paris to the prison cell at Taranto – Reiss, like the novelistbefore him, triumphantly resurrects this forgotten hero. ‘Entrances from first to last.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
God's Terrorists(2007) ALLEN, CHARLESA fascinating history of the religious fanatics that would come to be known as the founding fathers of Islamic terrorism and who set down the intellectual roots of Al Queda.Vezava: Mehka18,21 €
