Zbirka: Zgodovina 20. stoletja
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Foundations(2020) WETHERELL, DR SAMAn urban history of modern Britain, and how the built environment shaped the nation's politicsFoundations is a history of twentieth-century Britain told through the rise, fall, and reinvention of six different types of urban space: the industrial estate,Vezava: Trda61,40 € -
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: Mehka61,76 € -
Paths out of the Apocalypse(2022) KONRAD, 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: Trda196,09 € -
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: Trda45,54 € -
Boom Cities(2020) SAUMAREZ SMITH, OTTO (ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK)In this volume, Otto Saumarez Smith recounts the fraught history of the urban development of British city centres in the 1960s, uncovering the planning philosophy, and the political, cultural, and legislative background that created the conditions for theVezava: Mehka69,47 € -
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: Mehka48,09 € -
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: Trda38,54 € -
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: Mehka38,94 € -
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: Mehka24,52 € -
Enoch Powell(2022) CORTHORN, PAUL (READER IN MODERN BRITISH HISTORY, QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST)Best known for his notorious 'Rivers of Blood' speech in 1968 and his outspoken opposition to immigration, Enoch Powell was one of the most controversial figures in British political life in the second half of the twentieth century and a formative influenVezava: Mehka24,52 € -
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: Mehka21,71 € -
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 € -
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: Mehka27,45 € -
Little Lindy Is Kidnapped(2020) 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: Trda23,52 € -
Dangerous Medicine(2022) HALPERN, SYDNEY A.The untold history of America’s mid-twentieth-century program of hepatitis infection research, its scientists’ aspirations, and the damage the project caused human subjectsVezava: Trda47,52 € -
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 €
