Zbirka: Visoki in pozni novi vek: od 1700 do 1900
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It’s Our Turn to Eat(2010) WRONG, MICHELAA gripping account of both an individual caught on the horns of an excruciating moral dilemma and a continent at a turning point.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Invention of Murder(2011) FLANDERS, JUDITH‘We are a trading community, a commercial people. Murder is doubtless a very shocking offence, nevertheless as what is done is not to be undone, let us make our money out of it.’ PunchVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Heinemann Advanced History: France in Revolution 1776-1830(2002) WALLER, SALLYContaining sample exam questions at both AS and A2 levels, this text aims to show students what makes a good answer and why it scores high marks. It should help students grasp the difference between a GCSE and an A-level mark in history.Vezava: Mehka66,65 € -
Secret History of Our Streets: London(2013) BULLMAN, JOSEPH,HEGARTY, NEIL,HILL, BRIANThe Secret History of Our Streets explores six roads spread across inner London - from Camberwell, Holland Park and Islington to Shoreditch, Deptford and Bermondsey - through the experiences of the people who lived there.Vezava: Mehka28,03 € -
Self-Help(2008) SMILES, SAMUELA bestseller in 1859, Self-Help became one of Victorian Britain's most important statements on the allied virtues of hard work, thrift, and perseverance. Smiles's book is the precursor of today's motivational and self-improvement literature and encapsulatVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Peninsular War(2003) ESDAILE, CHARLESFor centuries Spain had been the most feared and predatory power in Europe - it had one of the world's great navies to defend it. Trafalgar destroyed its navy and French and British armies marching across it at will. The result was a war which killed overVezava: Mehka28,03 € -
Medical Muses(2012) HUSTVEDT, ASTIA groundbreaking new book about the nineteenth century obsession with hysteria, focussing on the renowned Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris.Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
To War with Wellington(2011) SNOW, PETERThe story of one of the world's greatest soldiers - and the men who fought with him.Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
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Ancien Regime and the Revolution(2008) DE TOCQUEVILLE, ALEXISPresents a critique of the ancien regime, with its venality, oppression and inequality, yet acknowledges the reforms introduced under Louis XVI, and claiming that the post-Revolution state was in many ways as tyrannical as that of the King. This book raisVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Newton(2007) ILIFFE, ROB (, READER IN THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE, IMPERIAL COLLEGE, LONDON)Newton's contributions to our understanding of the heavens and the earth are considered by many to be unparalleled. This Very Short Introduction explains his remarkable scientific theories, and also uses Newton's own unpublished writings to paint a picturVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Cochrane(2001) THOMAS, DONALDBestselling account of the life of a real Horatio HornblowerVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Eighteenth-Century Britain(2000) LANGFORD, PAUL (FORMERLY PROFESSOR OF MODERN HISTORY, FORMERLY PROFESSOR OF MODERN HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD)First published as part of the best-selling The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, Paul Langford's Very Short Introduction to Eighteenth-Century Britain spans from the aftermath of the Revolution of 1688 to Pitt the Younger's defeat at attempted parliVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Fatal Shore(2003) HUGHES, ROBERTAn epic description of the brutal transportation of men, women and children out of Georgian Britain into a horrific penal system which was to be the precursor to the Gulag and was the origin of Australia.Vezava: Mehka23,82 € -
French Revolution, 1789-1799(2001) MCPHEE, PETER (, PROFESSOR OF HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE)In this general introduction to the history of the French Revolution, the author provides a guide to the vast historiography of the French Revolution and tackles the main questions that have preoccupied historians of revolutionary France in the decade aftVezava: Mehka61,76 € -
To the Ends of the Earth(2012) DEVINE, T. M.The Scots are one of the world's greatest nations of emigrants. This title offers an account of the Scots as a 'global people', charting their forgotten role in the building of the modern world.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Belle(2014) BYRNE, PAULAThe inspiration behind the powerful new film starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Tom Wilkinson and Emily Watson, this is the story of Dido Belle, whose adoption by an aristocratic family challenged the conventions of 18th century England.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Samurai William(2003) MILTON, GILESBestselling author Giles Milton takes us on a fascinating Jacobean adventure.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
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Captives(2003) COLLEY, LINDALinda Colley uses these tales of ordinary individuals trapped in extraordinary encounters to re-evaluate the character and diversity of the British Empire. She shows how British attitudes to Islam, slavery, race, and American Revolutionaries look differenVezava: Mehka26,62 €
