Zbirka: Zgodovina: dogodki in teme
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On The Map(2013) GARFIELD, SIMONFrom the early sketches of philosophers and explorers through to Google Maps and beyond, this title examines how maps both relate and realign our history. It explores the legendary, impassable mountains of Kong, the role of cartography in combatting choleVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
William Wilberforce(2007) BELMONTE, KEVINHere is the true story of how British statesman and reformer William Wilberforce overcame great obstacles to help end the slave trade in England two centuries ago. The movie Amazing Grace brings this story to life, and this book is the inspiring, definitiVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Scotland, the Caribbean and the Atlantic World, 1750–1820(2010) HAMILTON, DOUGLASThis is the first book-length study wholly devoted to assessing the array of ties between Scotland and the Caribbean that bound the Atlantic World together in the later eighteenth century. -- .Vezava: Mehka35,63 € -
Fair World(2024) GREENHALGH, PAULThe great World's Fairs and Expositions staged around the world since the mid-nineteenth century were among the largest and most dramatic cultural events ever staged. Fair World tells the story of these extraordinary exhibitions from the Victorian periodVezava: Trda56,87 € -
Real Gorbals Story(2007) MACFARLANE, COLINColin MacFarlane was born in Gorbals in the 1950s, 20 years after the publication of "No Mean City", the novel about pre-war life in what was once Glasgow's deprived district. The author witnessed the last days of old Gorbals as street boy as a regeneratiVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Bankside(2013) BRANDON, DAVID,BROOKE, ALANThe story of historic district on the south bank of the Thames and beyond - the original playground of Londoners, complete with inns, bear pits, brothels and theatres.Vezava: Mehka28,04 € -
Trader, The Owner, The Slave(2008) WALVIN, PROFESSOR JAMESJames Walvin offers a new and an original interpretation of the barbaric world of slavery and of the historic end to the slave trade in April 1807. John Newton (1725-1807), author of 'Amazing Grace', was a slave captain who marshalled his human cargoesVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
1970s Scrapbook(2020) OPIE, ROBERTFull of pop, punk and personalities, The 1970s Scrapbook sways through this energetic era on platform shoes to the beat of glamrock and disco mania.Vezava: Trda23,09 € -
1960s Scrapbook(2020) OPIE, ROBERTThe 1960s Scrapbook presents a visual record of a turbulent decade, with over 1000 images in colour.Vezava: Trda23,09 € -
Six Records of a Life Adrift(2011) SHEN FUA memoir of a life in the Qing dynasty. It reveals a sensitive and artistic man, who failed at the civil service examinations that were the gateway to official employment and had to settle for becoming an itinerant private secretary, dabbling unsuccessfulVezava: Mehka26,60 € -
And God Created Cricket(2010) HUGHES, SIMONCricket defines Englishness like no other national pastime. This title presents the story of the mad characters who inhabit the game, the extraordinary lengths people go to watch and play it, and the tale of a national obsession.Vezava: Mehka16,81 € -
Keeping Christmas Well(2011) D'ECCA, ARTEMESIA"...a very attractive seasonable title..." --Books Ireland. A lavishly illustrated book with everything you need to know about Christmas: over 700 illustrations--25 in colour--from the first century to the twenty-first century.Vezava: Trda26,62 € -
Pain and Retribution(2014) WILSON, DAVIDPain and Retribution is the first single volume book to explore the fascinating history of British prisons, through their successes and failures, from the time of the Norman Conquest to the present day.Vezava: Trda44,86 € -
Slave(2007) NAZER, MENDE,LEWIS, DAMIENThe extraordinary story of a young Sudanese girl who was kidnapped and sold into slavery and how she finally escaped to freedom.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Salt(2003) KURLANSKY, MARKWars have been fought over salt and, while salt taxes secured empires across Europe and Asia, they have also inspired revolution - Gandhi's salt march in 1930 began the overthrow of British rule in India.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Lineages Of Revolt(2013) HANIEH, ADAMIn this illuminating and original work, Adam Hanieh demonstrates that the Arab Spring rebellions are about much more than democracyVezava: Mehka26,24 € -
At Her Majesty's Pleasure(2008) DOUGLAS, ROBERTThe third volume in Robert Douglas's remarkable life story picks up from the bestselling SOMEWHERE TO LAY MY HEAD and brings us up to the present day.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Night Song of the Last Tram - A Glasgow Childhood(2006) DOUGLAS, ROBERTIf my father had been killed in North Africa or Italy during the Second World War, I know that for the rest of my life I would have looked at the few photographs of him and mourned our lost relationship. Unfortunately, he survived and came home.Vezava: Mehka18,21 €
