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Inconvenient People(2013) WISE, SARAHUncovers twelve shocking stories, untold for over a century and reveals the darker side of the Victorian upper and middle classes - their sexuality, fears of inherited madness, financial greed and fraudulence - and chillingly evoke the black motives at thVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Violent Abuse of Women in 17th and 18th Century Britain(2019) PIMM, GEOFFREYThis work records the many kinds of violent physical and verbal abuse perpetrated against women in Britain and her colonies, both domestically and under the law.Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Illuminating Natural History(2021) MCBURNEY, HENRIETTAThe life and art of the 18th-century naturalist Mark Catesby, and his pioneering work depicting the flora and fauna of North America, are explored in vibrant detailVezava: Trda70,00 € -
Book of Phobias and Manias(2022) SUMMERSCALE, KATEA thrilling compendium of our deepest fears and obsessions by the bestselling author of The Suspicions of Mr Whicher.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Utopia's Discontents(2021) HILLIS, FAITH (ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF HISTORY, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO)Utopia's Discontents provides the first synthetic treatment of the Russian revolutionary emigration before the Revolution. It argues that neighborhoods created by Russian exiles became sites of revolutionary experimentation that offered their residents aVezava: Trda55,11 € -
Chiefs Now in This City(2021) CALLOWAY, COLIN G. (JOHN KIMBALL JR. 1943 PROFESSOR OF HISTORY AND NATIVE AMERICAN STUDIES, JOHN KIMBALL JR. 1943 PROFESSOR OF HISTORY AND NATIVE AMERICAN STUDIES, DARTMOUTH COLLEGE)Vezava: Trda43,45 € -
British Women Surgeons and their Patients, 1860–1918(2017) BROCK, CLAIRE (UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER)Drawing upon a rich archive, Brock explores the cultural, social and self-representation of the woman surgeon in Britain from 1860 to the end of the Great War. This book is essential reading for those interested in medical history, providing wide-rangingVezava: Trda157,27 € -
Radical Enlightenment(2002) ISRAEL, PROFESSOR JONATHAN I. (PROFESSOR IN THE SCHOOL OF HISTORICAL STUDIES, PROFESSOR IN THE SCHOOL OF HISTORICAL STUDIES, INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY, PRINCETON, USA)"The Radical Enlightenment" was a set of ideas which helped lay the foundations of the modern world on the basis of equality, democracy, secularism, and universality. This study by cultural historian, Jonathan Israel, shows how Spinoza and his thought setVezava: Mehka101,50 € -
Industrial Revolution(2017) ALLEN, ROBERT C. (GLOBAL DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR OF ECONOMIC HISTORY, NYU ABU DHABI)The Industrial Revolution was one of the great, transforming events of world history. Robert C. Allen explains what happened during this period, and why. He asks why the revolution occured in Britain rather than other countries, and looks at the impact ofVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Reconstruction(2020) GUELZO, ALLEN C. (HENRY R. LUCE PROFESSOR OF THE CIVIL WAR ERA AND DIRECTOR OF CIVIL WAR ERA STUDIES, HENRY R. LUCE PROFESSOR OF THE CIVIL WAR ERA AND DIRECTOR OF CIVIL WAR ERA STUDIES, GETTYSBURG COLLEGE)Allen C. Guelzo's Reconstruction: A Very Short Introduction is a gracefully-written interpretation of Reconstruction as a spirited struggle to re-integrate the defeated Southern Confederacy into the American Union after the Civil War, to bring African AmeVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Not Like Us(1998) DANIELS, ROGERExamining the conditions of immigrants, Native Americans, and African Americans between 1890 and 1924, the heyday of immigration and a time of supposed progress for American minorities, Mr. Daniels finds that these groups experienced as much repression asVezava: Mehka15,67 € -
High Culture and Tall Chimneys(2022) MOORE, JAMESThis study follows the development of Lancashire’s unique network of art institutions throughout the nineteenth century, exploring the motivations of the artists, patrons, politicians and philanthropists involved. -- .Vezava: Mehka44,55 € -
Women Against Cruelty(2021) DONALD, DIANAThis is the first study of women’s leading contribution to animal protection in nineteenth-century Britai -- .Vezava: Mehka44,55 €










