Zbirka: Zgodovina: dogodki in teme
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At Home with the Brontes(2013) DINSDALE, ANNThe story of the world-famous home of the Bronte sisters. Explores the impact of the Brontes' home on their writing and what it was like for their successors living in a literary shrine. New exhibition focusing on the building starts at the Bronte ParsonaVezava: Mehka22,42 € -
Prometheans(2010) ADAMS, MAXThe story of four maverick brothers, and a thrillingly ambitious portrait of Britain in an era of technological and political revolution.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Freedom and Organization(2009) RUSSELL, BERTRANDWritten in the approachable style that has made Russell’s works so revered, this is a major work of political history in which significant economic and political forces and events that shaped the nineteenth century are examined.Vezava: Mehka30,35 € -
Dictionary of English Surnames(2005)An authoritative and enlightening guide to the origins of over 16,000 English surnames and their development over the centuries. Different forms of names are cross-referenced for ease of use. Includes a fasinating historical and linguistic introduction toVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Why the West has Won(2002) HANSON, VICTOR DAVISThis is a brilliant history of the rise to dominance of the West, exploring the links between cultural values and military success.Vezava: Mehka28,04 € -
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Black Death(2009) HATCHER, JOHNHow the people of a typical English village lived and died in the worst epidemic in history.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Whitby Jet(2009) MULLER, HELEN,MULLER, KATYJet, a hard, black, shiny gen, closely related to coal, has been fashioned into jewellery and trinkets for generations, but during the Victorian period, when the ritual surrounding death and the long mourning of Queen Victoria made black fashionable, jetVezava: Mehka12,34 € -
Demobbed(2010) ALLPORT, ALANSnapshots of gaiety and celebration are how some people today think of Britain in 1945. This book tells the real story of what happened when millions of ex-servicemen returned home. It draws on their personal letters and diaries to illuminate the darker sVezava: Mehka20,89 € -
Gentry(2012) NICOLSON, ADAMAdam Nicolson tells the story of England through the history of fourteen gentry families – from the 15th century to the present day. This sparkling work of history reads like a real-life Downton Abbey, as the loves, hatreds and many times of grief of hisVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Coal(2006) FREESE, BARBARATaking us on a rich historical journey that begins on the banks of the river Tyne, Barbara Freese explores the profound role coal has played in human history and continues to play in todays world.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Road to Wigan Pier(2014) ORWELL, GEORGEFeatures observations of working-class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire in the 1930s. This title provides descriptions of social injustice, cramped slum housing, dangerous mining conditions, squalor, hunger and growing uVezava: Mehka12,61 € -
Night(2006) WIESEL, ELIE,WIESEL, MARIONElie Wiesel was fifteen years old when he and his family were deported by the Nazis to Auschwitz. After the war, Wiesel studied in Paris and later became a journalist. During an interview with the distinguished French writer, Francois Mauriac, he was persVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Nazi Officer's Wife(2001) HAHN BEER, EDITH,DWORKIN, SUSANHow one Jewish woman survived the Holocaust - through marriage to a Nazi officer.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
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Houses and Society in Pompeii and Herculaneum(1996) WALLACE-HADRILL, ANDREWFew sources reveal the life of the ancient Romans as vividly as do the houses preserved by the eruption of Vesuvius. Wealthy Romans lavished resources on shaping their surroundings to impress their crowds of visitors. This book explores the rich potentialVezava: Mehka66,94 € -
Europe after Rome(2007) SMITH, JULIA M. H. (PROFESSOR IN MEDIEVAL HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW)Vezava: Mehka69,36 €
