Zbirka: Visoki in pozni novi vek: od 1700 do 1900
869 rezultatov
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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 € -
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: Mehka21,02 € -
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 € -
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 € -
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: Mehka28,04 € -
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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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 €
