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Passage to India(2019) MALLINSON, ALLANIn India, relations are strained between the presidency of Madras and some of the neighbouring princely states. Having taken command of the action in Bristol to restore order after one of the bloodiest and most destructive riots in the nation's history,Vezava: Mehka14,01 €
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Empires and Encounters(2015)Between 1350 and 1750 the world reached a tipping point of global connectedness. In this volume of the acclaimed series A History of the World, noted international scholars examine five critical geographical areas where exploration and empire building ledVezava: Trda60,02 €
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Industry, Reform and Empire(2020) HUTCHISON, IAINIndustry, Reform and Empire traces the evolution of politics from a repressive, reactionary and electorally restricted regime before 1832 to an era of wider franchise and sweeping institutional reform.Vezava: Mehka41,69 €
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London Zoo and the Victorians, 1828-1859(2020) ITO, TAKASHILondon Zoo examined in its nineteenth-century context, looking at its effect on cultural and social life.Vezava: Mehka50,48 €
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Children of the Revolution(2009) GILDEA, ROBERTNineteenth-century France was renowned for its literature, philosophy, art, poetry and technology. Yet this was also a century of political anarchy and bloodshed, where each generation of the French Revolution's 'children' would experience their own wars,Vezava: Mehka26,62 €
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Six Records of a Floating Life(1983) FU, SHENSix Records of a Floating Life (1809) is an extraordinary blend of autobiography, love story and social document written by a man who was educated as a scholar but earned his living as a civil servant and art dealer.Vezava: Mehka14,01 €
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Ireland and Anglo-Irish Relations since 1800: Critical Essays(2022) FLEMING, N.C.,O’DAY, ALANThis volume treats the complexities, perspectives, methodologies and debates on the themes of the years between 1801 and 1879. Its focus is the making of the Union, the Catholic question, the age of Daniel O'Connell, the famine and its consequences, emigrVezava: Mehka60,81 €
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Flesh in the Age of Reason(2005) PORTER, ROYThe culmination of a lifelong interest in the metaphysics of the body by the premier social historian of medicine. How did we come to a modern understanding of our bodies and souls? What were the breakthroughs that allowed human beings to see themselves iVezava: Mehka28,03 €
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Urban Slavery in the Age of Abolition: Volume 28, Part 1(2020)When the full abolition of slavery appeared on the political agenda in the Atlantic world, the institutional arrangements that underpinned it changed dramatically. This volume explores how cities were part and parcel of slave societies, and how methods ofVezava: Mehka38,00 €
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Qing Empire and the Opium War(2018) MAO, HAIJIANThe Opium War of 1839–42 is a subject of enduring interest. The Chinese historian Mao Haijian presents a revisionist reading of the conflict and its main Chinese protagonists, offering a comprehensive explanation as to why the Qing Empire was so badly defVezava: Mehka85,75 €
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Illuminating History(2021) BAILYN, BERNARDThe brilliance of a master historian shines through this personal account of a lifetime’s work.Vezava: Mehka16,03 €