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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 € -
How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World(2004) WHEEN, FRANCISAn entertaining, impassioned polemic on the retreat of reason in the late 20th century. An intellectual call to arms, Francis Wheen’s Sunday Times bestseller is one of 2004’s most talked about books.Vezava: Mehka16,81 € -
Bitter Freedom(2016) WALSH, MAURICEThe Irish Revolution - the war between the British authorities and the newly-formed IRA - was the first successful revolt anywhere against the British Empire.Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Sport and Ireland(2017) ROUSE, PAUL (LECTURER, SCHOOL OF HISTORY, LECTURER, SCHOOL OF HISTORY, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN)The first history of sport in Ireland, locating the history of sport within Irish political, social, and cultural history, and within the global history of sport. It studies the relationship between sport and national identity, how sport influences policyVezava: Mehka62,30 € -
Forgotten Men and Fallen Women(2015) ALLEN, HOLLYHolly Allen explores popular and official narratives of forgotten manhood, fallen womanhood, and other social and moral archetypes during the Great Depression and the Second World War.Vezava: Trda78,75 € -
Acts of Union and Disunion(2014) COLLEY, LINDAIn a year that sees a Scottish referendum on independence, the author analyses some of the forces that have unified Britain in the past. She examines the mythology of Britishness, and how far and why it has faded. She discusses the Acts of Union with WaleVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
West and East Yorkshire Buses and Trolleybuses in 1962(2022) WALLIS, PHILIPFeaturing previously unpublished images, Philip Wallis looks back sixty years at the fascinating bus scene of Yorkshire of 1962.Vezava: Mehka22,42 € -
Take Six Girls(2016) THOMPSON, LAURAThe contrasting lives of the Mitford sisters – stylish, scandalous and tragic by turns – hold up a mirror to upper-class life before and after the Second World War.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
The Noodle Maker of Kalimpong: My Untold Story of the Struggle for Tibet(2016) GYALO THONDUPVezava: Mehka22,42 € -
Photographs and the Practice of History(2022) EDWARDS, PROFESSOR ELIZABETH (DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY, UK)Vezava: Mehka36,58 € -
Bloc Life(2019) MOLLOY, PETERThere was life before the fall. 1989 was a year of astonishing and rapid change: the fall of the Berlin Wall marked the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and an end to an entire way of life for millions of people behind the Iron Curtain.Vezava: Mehka23,82 € -
SOE(2016) CROWDY, TERRYThe SOE (Special Operations Executive) was one of the most innovative British creations of the Second World War. This book looks at the men and women who made up the SOE, the rigorous training to which they were subjected, and their lives during and afterVezava: Mehka12,61 € -
Rethinking Camelot: JFK, the Vietnam War, and U.S. Political Culture(0) NOAM CHOMSKYVezava: Mehka30,88 € -
Bomber Command: Airfields of Lincolnshire(2016) JACOBS, PETERAs part of the Aviation Heritage Trail series, the accomplished military author and former RAF Officer Peter Jacobs takes us to the Bomber County of Lincolnshire.Vezava: Mehka25,22 € -
London Routemasters in the Late 1970s and Early 1980s(2020) RHODES, MIKEAn illustrated look at the Routemaster which is an iconic London bus, recognised around the world, from the late 1970s to early 1980.Vezava: Mehka22,42 € -
Conflict on Mount Lebanon(2020) RABAH, MAKRAM (LECTURER IN THE DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY, THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT)Explores the course and the nature of the conflict between the Druze and the Maronites – arguably the two founding communities of modern Lebanon.Vezava: Trda125,15 €











