Zbirka: Visoki in pozni novi vek: od 1700 do 1900
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Replenishing the Earth(2011) BELICH, JAMES (PROFESSOR OF HISTORY, STOUT RESEARCH CENTRE, VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON)Pioneering study of the anglophone 'settler boom' in North America, Canada, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand between the early 19th and early 20th centuries, looking at what made it the most successful of all such settler revolutions, and how thisVezava: Mehka42,75 € -
Indian Sex Life(2020) MITRA, DURBAHow British authorities and Indian intellectuals developed ideas about deviant female sexuality to control and organize modern society in IndiaDuring the colonial period in India, European scholars, British officials, and elite Indian intellectuals-philolVezava: Mehka51,70 € -
Later ... With Jools Holland(2022) COOPER, MARK’You never knew what you were going to be confronted with when you went on Later…’ Nick Cave ‘Later… is a voyage of discovery for us as well as the viewers’ Dave GrohlVezava: Trda35,05 € -
Birkbeck(2022) BOURKE, JOANNA (PROFESSOR OF HISTORY, PROFESSOR OF HISTORY, BIRKBECK, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON)Birkbeck traces the 200-year history of Birkbeck, University of London from its founding at a time when social elites deplored the notion of educated working people to the present day. Joanna Bourke writes a lively history of the institution, and how it cVezava: Trda72,60 € -
London's West End(2020) MCWILLIAM, ROHAN (PROFESSOR OF MODERN BRITISH HISTORY, PROFESSOR OF MODERN BRITISH HISTORY, ANGLIA RUSKIN UNIVERSITY, CAMBRIDGE)The first history of the West End of London, showing how the nineteenth-century growth of theatres, opera houses, galleries, restaurants, department stores, casinos, exhibition centres, night clubs, street life, and the sex industry shaped modern cultureVezava: Trda76,02 € -
Charles I's Killers in America(2019) JENKINSON, MATTHEW (MEMBER OF THE SENIOR COMMON ROOM, NEW COLLEGE, OXFORD)After the Restoration the men who signed Charles I's death warrant fled to New England, becoming folk heroes for America's earliest historians and novelists. This is the story of the lives and afterlives of these regicides, and the truth behind the attempVezava: Trda38,54 € -
Rorke's Drift and Isandlwana(2021) BECKETT, IAN F. W. (HONORARY PROFESSOR OF MILITARY HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF KENT)The story of Isandlwana, the battle that shocked the British empire at its zenith, and Rorke's Drift, which immediately followed it and went some way to restoring wounded British pride: how they were fought, how they have been remembered, and what they meVezava: Mehka18,91 € -
White Fury(2018) PETLEY, CHRISTER (SENIOR LECTURER IN HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON)The story of the struggle over slavery in the British empire -- as told through the rich, expressive, and frequently shocking letters of one of the wealthiest British slaveholders ever to have lived.Vezava: Trda38,54 € -
Enlightenment that Failed(2019) ISRAEL, JONATHAN I. (PROFESSOR EMERITUS, PROFESSOR EMERITUS, INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY, PRINCETON)Radical and conservative Enlightenment ideologies began to break apart as the desire for a fair society clashed with questions of religion and secularization. The Enlightenment that Failed shows how ideas promoting the interest of society as a whole cameVezava: Trda84,85 € -
End of Outrage(2017) MAC SUIBHNE, BREANDAN (PROFESSOR OF HISTORY, PROFESSOR OF HISTORY, CENTENARY COLLEGE, NEW JERSEY)Tells the absorbing story of post-famine Donegal, the Molly Maguires -- a secret society who had set themselves up against the exploitation of the rural poor -- and Patrick McGlynn -- an avaricious schoolmaster who turned informer on them, availing of hunVezava: Trda61,76 € -
Imposteress Rabbit Breeder(2020) HARVEY, KAREN (PROFESSOR OF CULTURAL HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM)In September 1726, Mary Toft was found to have given birth to seventeen rabbits in Godalming, Surrey. The case caused a sensation and was reported widely in newspapers, popular pamphlets, poems and caricatures.Vezava: Trda30,83 € -
Historicizing Roma in Central Europe(2022) SHMIDT, VICTORIA,JAWORSKY, BERNADETTE NADYAIn Central Europe, limited success in revisiting the role of science in the segregation of Roma reverberates with the yet-unmet call for contextualizing the impact of ideas on everyday racism. This book attempts to interpret such a gap as a case of episteVezava: Mehka75,24 € -
Great Exhibition, 1851(2017)An invaluable compendium of sources relating to the Great Exhibition -- .Vezava: Mehka35,63 € -
Sweet Taste of Liberty(2019) MCDANIEL, W. CALEB (MARY GIBBS JONES PROFESSOR OF HUMANITIES, MARY GIBBS JONES PROFESSOR OF HUMANITIES, RICE UNIVERSITY)The extraordinary life of Henrietta Wood--a formerly enslaved woman sold back into slavery, eventually freed again, and who then sued the man who had sold her back into bondage, and won.Vezava: Trda36,44 € -
Victims of Fashion(2021) COWIE, HELEN LOUISE (UNIVERSITY OF YORK)Helen Cowie examines the role of animal commodities in Victorian Britain. Focusing on six animal products – feathers, sealskin, ivory, alpaca wool, animal perfumes and exotic pets – she traces their rise and fall in popularity and assesses the humanitariaVezava: Trda68,43 €
