Zbirka: Zgodovina: dogodki in teme
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Neighbours, Distrust, and the State(2022) BRODIE, MARC (FORMER FELLOW, FORMER FELLOW, UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD)Neighbours, Distrust, and the State shows that in the past, just like now, many poor people 'wanted something done' by government in their communities, examining how they thought about such things as the role of the police, compulsory schooling, housing eVezava: Trda80,26 € -
Dracula(2022) MORGAN, GILESFew fictional characters have proven to be as enduringly popular as the legendary Count Dracula. In Dracula: The Origins and Influence of the Legendary Vampire Count, author Giles Morgan examines the roots of the vampire myth and the creation of Bram StokVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Autobiography of William Sanders Scarborough(2021) SCARBOROUGH, WILLIAM SANDERSTraces Scarborough’s path out of slavery in Macon, Georgia, to a prolific scholarly career that culminated with his presidency of Wilberforce University. Despite the racism he met as he struggled to establish a place in higher education for African AmericVezava: Mehka44,47 € -
Royal Navy Versus the Slave Traders(2021) EDWARDS, BERNARDThrilling naval action in the Atlantic against a ruthless enemy.Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Railway Navvies(2019) COLEMAN, TERRYPick, shovel, dynamite: the classic account of the men who built the railways.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Spaniards in Mauthausen(2018) BRENNEIS, SARA J.By examining narratives about Spanish Mauthausen victims over the past seventy years, author Sara J. Brenneis provides a historical, critical, and chronological analysis of a virtually unknown body of work.Vezava: Mehka62,37 € -
Perfecting of Nature(2020) DOTY, JOSHExplores antebellum American conceptions of bioplasticity - the body's ability to react and change from interior and exterior forces - and argues that literature helped to shape the cultural reception of these ideas.Vezava: Mehka58,84 € -
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Metropolis(2021) WILSON, BENFrom the Sunday Times bestselling author, a dazzling, globe-spanning history of humankind's greatest invention: the city. 'Brilliant...enchanting' Evening Standard 'Exhilarating' New York TimesThe story of the city is the story of civilisation.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
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Tea and Empire(2017) MCCARTHY, ANGELA,DEVINE, T.This book brings to life for the first time the remarkable story of James Taylor, ‘father of the Ceylon tea enterprise’ in the nineteenth century, and examines the dark side of planting life including violence and conflict, oppression and despair. -- .Vezava: Trda53,46 € -
Working in America(2014)The Great Recession brought rising inequality and changing family economies. New technologies continued to move jobs overseas, including those held by middle-class information workers.Vezava: Mehka77,51 €
