Zbirka: Zgodovina: dogodki in teme
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Brief History of Life in Victorian Britain(2008) PATERSON, MICHAELFrom the Great Exhibition to Dickensian slums, the triumph of empire to the anxiety of revolt - Victorian Britain was an age of paradoxes.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Bring the Noise(2007) REYNOLDS, SIMONFrom Morrissey and Nick Cave to The Streets and Kanye West, this book explores the links between hip-hop and rock. It focuses on two strands: white alternative rock and black street music. It identifies the strange dance of white bohemian rock and black cVezava: Mehka28,04 € -
Confessions Of A Failed Southern Lady(2006) KING, FLORENCE* A side-splitting story of growing up different in the Old South.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Commer Story(2002) CARVERHILL, GEOFFThis title charts the evolution and history of one of Britain's principal commercial vehicle manufacturers. Commer underwent several name changes as it acquired, and was acquired by, several other companies. whilst creating some of the world's most innovaVezava: Trda46,26 € -
Fante and the Transatlantic Slave Trade(2014) SHUMWAY, REBECCA (CUSTOMER)Examines the history of the Fante people of southern Ghana during the transatlantic slave trade, 1700 to 1807.Vezava: Mehka58,55 € -
Revolution 1989(2010) SEBESTYEN, VICTOR'A compelling and illuminating account of a great drama in the history of our times which showed once again that ordinary men and women really can change the world' Jonathan Dimbleby, MAIL ON SUNDAYVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
History of Contemporary Italy(1990) GINSBORG, PAULContemporary Italy strongly mirrors Britain - the countries have roughly the same extent, population size and GNP - and yet they are fantastically different. This book presents an account of how Italy has coped, or failed to cope, with the past decades. IVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Boys of Summer(2013) KAHN, ROGERThis is a book about young men who learned to play baseball during the 1930s and 1940s, and then went on to play for one of the most exciting major-league ball clubs ever fielded.Vezava: Mehka28,04 € -
Scandalous Life(1996) LOVELL, MARY S.The biography of Jane Digby, an ‘enthralling tale of a nineteenth-century beauty whose heart – and hormones – ruled her head.’ Harpers and QueenVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
On Royalty(2007) PAXMAN, JEREMYWhat is the point of Kings and Queens? What do they do all day? And what does it mean to be one of them? This title looks at our present incumbents to find out just what makes them tick.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Yiddish Civilisation(2006) KRIWACZEK, PAULA portrait of a civilisation which flourished within living memory and left an indelible mark on historyVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All(2009) THOMPSON, CHRISTINAA book that perfectly balances memoir and history, interweaving a cross-cultural love story with the larger history of the colonial encounterVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
How We Lived Then(2002) LONGMATE, NORMANAlthough nearly 90% of the population of Great Britain remained civilians throughout the war, or for a large part of it, their story has so far largely gone untold.Vezava: Mehka28,04 € -
In Bed with the Tudors(2013) LICENCE, AMYWhat went on behind closed doors in the Tudor Court? Comprehensive coverage of all the major Tudors: Henry VII, Elizabeth of York, Prince Arthur, Henry VIII, Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves, Catherine Howard, Catherine Parr,Vezava: Mehka16,81 € -
Classless Society(2014) TURNER, ALWYN W.The first popular history of a decade that is yet to be defined or anatomised as the 1960s or 1970s have been, A Classless Society goes in search of a Britain still reeling from the conflicts of the Thatcher years.Vezava: Mehka28,04 € -
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave(2009) DOUGLASS, FREDERICKFrederick Douglass's Narrative recounts his life as a slave in Maryland and escape to freedom in 1838. An important slave autobiography, it is significant both for what it tells us about slave life and about its author. It is here reprinted with contexualVezava: Mehka12,61 €
