Zbirka: Visoki in pozni novi vek: od 1700 do 1900
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Lowland Clearances(2019) AITCHISON, PETER,CASSELL, ANDREWThe Highland Clearances are a well-documented episode in Scotland’s past but they were not unique. The process began in the Scottish Lowlands nearly a century before, when tens of thousands of people were moved from the land by estate owners who replacedVezava: Mehka16,62 € -
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Colony of Good Hope(2022) LEINE, KIMA powerful epic story of colonialism, set in eighteenth-century Greenland, about the great forces of nature, love, death, evil, and the meeting of cultures and fathers and sons.Vezava: Trda26,62 € -
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Adventurer(2022) DAMROSCH, LEOA fast-paced narrative about the world-famous libertine Giacomo Casanova, from celebrated biographer Leo DamroschVezava: Trda38,61 € -
Prisoners of Time - Prussians, Germans and Other Humans(2022) CHRISTOPHER CLARKVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
When the King Took Flight(2004) TACKETT, TIMOTHYOn a June night in 1791, King Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette fled Paris in disguise, hoping to escape the turmoil of the French Revolution. They were arrested by a group of citizens a few miles from Belgium and forced to return to Paris. Two years later tVezava: Mehka41,31 € -
Black Victorians(2022) N. ABRAHAM, KESHIA,WOOLF, JOHNBlack Victorians shows how Black lives were visible, present and influential – not temporary presences but established and rooted; and how paradox and ambivalence characterised the Victorian view of race.Vezava: Trda33,27 € -
Before Homosexuality in the Arab-Islamic World, 1500-1800(2009) EL-ROUAYHEB, KHALEDAttitudes toward homosexuality in the premodern Arab-Islamic world are commonly depicted as schizophrenic. This title argues that this apparent paradox is based on the anachronistic assumption that homosexuality is a timeless, self-evident fact to which aVezava: Mehka45,62 € -
Raj(1998) JAMES, LAWRENCE* A book that is narrative-driven, but full of outstanding scholarship and insight. * Subtitled 'The Making and Unmaking of British India' - how the British Raj shaped the Indian sub-continent as it is today.Vezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Naturalists in Paradise(2015) HEMMING, JOHNAlfred Russel Wallace, Henry Walter Bates and Richard Spruce were English naturalists who went to Amazonia 150 years ago. This book combines all three young mens experiences of the Amazon, drawing heavily on their own letters and books.Vezava: Trda27,97 € -
Neighbours, Distrust, and the State(2022) BRODIE, MARC (FORMER FELLOW, FORMER FELLOW, UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD)Neighbours, Distrust, and the State shows that in the past, just like now, many poor people 'wanted something done' by government in their communities, examining how they thought about such things as the role of the police, compulsory schooling, housing eVezava: Trda80,26 € -
Dracula(2022) MORGAN, GILESFew fictional characters have proven to be as enduringly popular as the legendary Count Dracula. In Dracula: The Origins and Influence of the Legendary Vampire Count, author Giles Morgan examines the roots of the vampire myth and the creation of Bram StokVezava: Mehka14,01 €
