Zbirka: Zgodovina 20. stoletja
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Freedom from Fear(2001) KENNEDY, DAVID M. (DONALD J. MCLACHLAN PROFESSOR OF HISTORY, DONALD J. MCLACHLAN PROFESSOR OF HISTORY, STANFORD UNIVERSITY)Between 1929 and 1945, two great travails were visited upon the American people: the Great Depression and World War II. Freedom from Fear tells the story of how Americans endured, and eventually prevailed, in the face of those unprecedented calamities.Vezava: Mehka32,23 € -
Vices of the Mind(2021) CASSAM, QUASSIM (PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY, PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY, UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK)Quassim Cassam introduces the idea of epistemic vices, character traits that get in the way of knowledge, such as closed-mindedness, intellectual arrogance, wishful thinking, and prejudice. Using examples from politics to illustrate the vices at work, heVezava: Mehka64,61 € -
Paths out of the Apocalypse(2022) KONRA¡D, OTA (ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF MODERN HISTORY, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF MODERN HISTORY, CHARLES UNIVERSITY, PRAGUE),KUCERA, RUDOLF (DIRECTOR OF THE MASARYK INSTITUTE AND ARCHIVES, DIRECTOR OF THE MASARYK INSTITUTE AND ARCHIVES, CZECH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES)Paths out of the Apocalypse fundamentally rethinks some key debates in the scholarship on early 20th-century Central Europe, the First World War, violence, nationalism and modern European comparative social and cultural history, considering the populationVezava: Trda205,21 € -
Hitler's First Hundred Days(2021) FRITZSCHE, PETER (W. D. & SARAH E. TROWBRIDGE PROFESSOR OF HISTORY, W. D. & SARAH E. TROWBRIDGE PROFESSOR OF HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN)The chilling story of the hundred days in the spring of 1933 in which the Nazis laid the foundations for their Third Reich.Vezava: Trda47,65 € -
Nostalgic Imagination(2020) COLLINI, STEFAN (PROFESSOR EMERITUS OF INTELLECTUAL HISTORY AND ENGLISH LITERATURE, PROFESSOR EMERITUS OF INTELLECTUAL HISTORY AND ENGLISH LITERATURE, UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE)In the book born from his Oxford Ford Lectures, Stefan Collini challenges the historical assumptions at work in twentieth-century English literary criticism, showing how the work of critics was bound up with claims about the nature and direction of historVezava: Mehka46,44 € -
Question of Standing(2022) JEFFREYS-JONES, RHODRI (PROFESSOR EMERITUS OF AMERICAN HISTORY AND HONORARY FELLOW, PROFESSOR EMERITUS OF AMERICAN HISTORY AND HONORARY FELLOW, UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH)A Question of Standing deals with recognizable events that have shaped the history of the first 75 years of the CIA. Unsparing in its accounts of dirty tricks and their consequences, it values the agency's intelligence and analysis work to offer balancedVezava: Trda40,64 € -
Cricket Country(2022) KIDAMBI, PRASHANT (ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR IN COLONIAL URBAN HISTORY SCHOOL OF HISTORY, POLITICS AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER)The extraordinary story of the first 'All India' national cricket tour of Great Britain and Ireland - and how the idea of India as a nation took shape on the cricket pitch.Vezava: Mehka41,80 € -
Reckonings(2020) FULBROOK, MARY (DEAN OF THE FACULTY OF SOCIAL AND HISTORICAL SCIENCES, DEAN OF THE FACULTY OF SOCIAL AND HISTORICAL SCIENCES, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON)Reckonings documents how Holocaust victims have sought justice over the decades and the haunting disparity between crime and punishment.Vezava: Mehka25,22 € -
International Relations Since 1945(2020) W. YOUNG, JOHN (PROFESSOR OF INTERNATIONAL HISTORY, PROFESSOR OF INTERNATIONAL HISTORY, THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM, UK),KENT, JOHN (EMERITUS PROFESSOR, EMERITUS PROFESSOR, LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS & POLITICAL SCIENCE)International Relations since 1945 is a comprehensive introduction to the global history of International Relations. The text has been fully updated for the third edition and features three new chapters covering Brexit, Trump, the rise of major powers inVezava: Mehka83,99 € -
Born in the GDR(2016) VAIZEY, HESTER (UNIVERSITY LECTURER IN MODERN GERMAN HISTORY AND FELLOW OF CLARE COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE)The real life stories of eight East Germans caught up in the dramatic transition from Communism to Capitalism by the fall of the Berlin Wall - and what they feel about life after the Wall.Vezava: Mehka22,42 € -
Bold and Dangerous Family(2018) MOOREHEAD, CAROLINEHis opponents – including editors, union representatives, lawyers and judges – were beaten into submission. Caroline Moorehead draws readers into the lives of this remarkable family – their loves, their loyalties, their laughter and their ultimate sacrifiVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Stealth(2020) WESTWICK, PETER (DIRECTOR OF THE AEROSPACE HISTORY PROJECT, DIRECTOR OF THE AEROSPACE HISTORY PROJECT, THE HUNTINGTON-USC INSTITUTE ON CALIFORNIA AND THE WEST)The story of the technology that revolutionized aeronautics and changed modern warfareVezava: Trda36,44 € -
Little Lindy Is Kidnapped(2022) DOHERTY, THOMASThomas Doherty offers a lively and comprehensive cultural history of the media coverage of the abduction of the child of Charles and Anne Lindbergh and its aftermath. He traces how newspapers, radio, and newsreels reported on what was dubbed the “crime ofVezava: Mehka21,38 € -
Charlie Brown's America(2021) BALL, BLAKE SCOTT (ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF HISTORY, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF HISTORY, HUNTINGDON COLLEGE)Charlie Brown's America tells the story of how and why the lovable kids and an adventurous beagle of Peanuts became the unlikely spokespeople for American life in the last half of the twentieth century.Vezava: Trda55,11 € -
Man of Good Hope(2016) STEINBERG, JONNYSerially betrayed by the people who promised to care for him, Asad lived his childhood at a sceptical remove from the adult world, living in a bewildering number of places, from the cosmopolitan streets of inner-city Nairobi to towns deep in the EthiopianVezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Reporting the Troubles 2(2022)Following the success of the acclaimed 'Reporting the Troubles' (2018), this book brings together new contributions from seventy journalists writing about the events and people they could never forget from their time reporting in Northern Ireland. ForeworVezava: Mehka26,24 € -
Franchise(2021) CHATELAIN, MARCIA (GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY)WINNER • 2021 PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORYWinner • 2022 James Beard Foundation Book Award [Writing]The “stunning” (David W. Blight) untold history of how fast food became one of the greatest generators of black wealth in America.Vezava: Mehka24,94 € -
Staging a Revolution: the Art of Persuasion in the Islamic Republic of Iran(1995) CHELKOWSKI, PETER J,DABASHI, HAMIDA visual survey of the public myths and collective symbols used in the making of the Islamic Revolution in Iran and the subsequent war with Iraq, from the fiery words of Ayatollah Khomeini to revolutionary posters, graffiti, slogans, murals, posters and bVezava: Trda71,86 €
