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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: Mehka20,83 € -
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: Mehka27,79 € -
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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: Mehka15,27 € -
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Yiddish Civilisation(2006) KRIWACZEK, PAULA portrait of a civilisation which flourished within living memory and left an indelible mark on historyVezava: Mehka18,05 € -
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: Mehka18,05 € -
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: Mehka27,79 € -
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: Mehka16,66 € -
Classless Society(2014)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: Mehka27,79 € -
Spanish Holocaust(2013) PRESTON, PAULSelected as the Sunday Times History Book of the Year for 2012, this is a meticulous work of scholarship from the foremost historian of 20th-century Spain.Vezava: Mehka26,39 € -
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: Mehka12,50 € -
World That Never Was(2011) BUTTERWORTH, ALEXThe last years of the nineteenth century saw the birth of a new phenomenon: international terrorism. Alex Butterworth interweaves group biography, cultural history and meticulous detective work to create a revelatory account of the age.Vezava: Mehka25,00 € -
Sextant(2015) BARRIE, DAVIDIn the tradition of Dava Sobel's ‘Longitude’ comes sailing expert David Barrie's compelling and dramatic tale of invention and discovery – an eloquent elegy to one of the most important navigational instruments ever created, and the daring mariners who usVezava: Mehka18,05 € -
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Strange Laws Of Old England(2013) CAWTHORNE, NIGELAn entertaining tour of the wilder shores of the British legal systemVezava: Mehka15,27 € -
Penguin Social History of Britain(1990) PORTER, ROYA portrait of 18th century England, from its princes to its paupers, from its metropolis to its smallest hamlet. The topics covered include - diet, housing, prisons, rural festivals, bordellos, plays, paintings, and work and wages.Vezava: Mehka18,05 € -
Empire(2002) HOWE, STEPHEN (, TUTOR IN POLITICS AT RUSKIN COLLEGE, OXFORD)Although the great historic imperial systems have collapsed during the past, their legacies shape almost every aspect of life on a global scale. What has replaced the old territorial empires in world politics? Do the United States and its allies - the forVezava: Mehka13,88 € -
Restoration London(2004) PICARD, LIZAFrom poverty to pets, medicine to magic, slang to sex and from wallpaper to women's rights - a glorious portrait of life in London from 1660-70, by the bestselling author of Elizabeth's London.Vezava: Mehka18,05 €
