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Corporate Policing, Yellow Unionism, and Strikebreaking, 1890-1930(2022)This book provides a comparative and transnational examination of the complex and multifaceted experiences of anti-labour mobilization, from the bitter social conflicts of the pre-war period, through the epochal tremors of war and revolution, and the violVezava: Mehka72,92 €
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Becoming George Orwell(2021) RODDEN, JOHNIs George Orwell the most influential writer who ever lived? Yes, according to Rodden's provocative book about the transformation of a man into a myth. He charts the astonishing passage of a litterateur into a legend.Vezava: Mehka29,66 €
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Supernatural War(2021) DAVIES, OWEN (PROFESSOR OF HISTORY, PROFESSOR OF HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE)The story of how widespread belief in fortune-telling, prophecies, spirits, magic, and protective talismans gripped the battlefields and home fronts of Europe during the First World War.Vezava: Mehka20,83 €
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Welfare and Social Policy in Britain Since 1870(2019)This collection of twelve essays reviews the history of welfare in Britain over the past 150 years. It focuses on the ideas that have shaped the development of British social policy and on the thinkers who have inspired and also contested the welfare statVezava: Trda175,42 €
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Sisters in the Struggle(2001)Women were at the forefront of the civil rights struggle, but their individual stories were rarely heard. Only recently have historians begun to recognize the central role women played in the battle for racial equality. This book represents the coming ageVezava: Mehka45,01 €
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Good War(2015) FAIRWEATHER, JACKIn its earliest days, the American-led war in Afghanistan appeared to be a triumph, a 'good war' in comparison to the debacle in Iraq. This book explores the intentions and hubris that caused the West's strategy in Afghanistan to flounder, refuting the loVezava: Mehka16,66 €
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Virtual Walls?(2017)A reassessment of the journey Germans in East and West have taken during the past two and a half decades: even today, an open-ended, unfinished journey.Vezava: Trda133,88 €
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Very Dangerous Woman(2016) MCDONALD, DEBORAH,DRONFIELD, JEREMYA story of passion, espionage and double crossing that encircled the globe and saw a woman born to indulgence and selfishness sacrifice everything for love - only to be betrayedVezava: Mehka18,05 €
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Mao's Great Famine(2017) DIKOTTER, FRANKAn unprecedented, groundbreaking history of China's Great FamineWinner of the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize 2011Vezava: Mehka23,61 €
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Where Poppies Blow(2017) LEWIS-STEMPEL, JOHNThe natural history of the Western Front during the First World War by the award-winning author of Meadowland.Vezava: Mehka15,27 €
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Four Killings(2022) DUNGAN, MYLESA history of the fate of a single family in the period of the Irish Revolution.Vezava: Mehka13,88 €
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Four Killings(2021) DUNGAN, MYLESA history of the fate of a single family in the period of the Irish Revolution.Vezava: Mehka27,32 €
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Reconstructing Modernity: Space, Power and Governance in Mid-Twentieth Century British Cities(2018) GREENHALGH, JAMESThis book examines the redevelopment of British cities in the immediate post-war, challenging existing histories of reconstruction and urban modernism. -- .Vezava: Trda75,30 €