Zbirka: Zgodovina: dogodki in teme
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The Cut Out Girl - A Story of War and Family, Lost and Found(2019) BART VAN ES , BART VAN ESVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Palace of Palms(2021) TELTSCHER, KATEThe Palm House at Kew has been one of Britain’s most popular attractions since it opened in 1848 – this is the story of its creation and the men whose vision it was.Vezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Beast Within(2022) SALISBURY, JOYCE E. (PROFESSOR EMERITUS OF HISTORY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-GREEN BAY, USA)The third edition of The Beast Within has been updated throughout to include current scholarship, new discussion of definitions, and fresh perspectives on critical animal theory that places animals, rather than humans, at the center of the discourse.Vezava: Mehka72,22 € -
Loving Before Loving(2021) LESTER, JOAN STEINAUBraiding intellectual, personal, and political history, Joan Lester tells the story of a writer and activist fighting for love and justice before, during, and after the Supreme Court's 1967 decision striking down bans on interracial marriage in Loving v.Vezava: Trda39,90 € -
You Goddess!(2022) FOLEY, ELIZABETH,COATES, BETHThe much-loved authors of What Would Boudicca Do? channel the feminist power of mythical goddesses in this witty, inspirational gift.Vezava: Mehka14,01 € -
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Ghosts of Archive(2022) HARRIS, VERNEGhosts of Archive draws on the discourses of deconstruction, intersectionality and archetypal psychology to mount an argument that archive is fundamentally and structurally spectral and that the work of archive is justice.Vezava: Mehka75,24 € -
Freedom from Fear(2001) KENNEDY, DAVID M. (DONALD J. MCLACHLAN PROFESSOR OF HISTORY, DONALD J. MCLACHLAN PROFESSOR OF HISTORY, STANFORD UNIVERSITY)Between 1929 and 1945, two great travails were visited upon the American people: the Great Depression and World War II. Freedom from Fear tells the story of how Americans endured, and eventually prevailed, in the face of those unprecedented calamities.Vezava: Mehka30,83 € -
Foundations(2020) WETHERELL, DR SAMAn urban history of modern Britain, and how the built environment shaped the nation's politicsFoundations is a history of twentieth-century Britain told through the rise, fall, and reinvention of six different types of urban space: the industrial estate,Vezava: Trda61,40 € -
Harlem Renaissance(2016) WALL, CHERYL A. (BOARD OF GOVERNORS ZORA NEALE HURSTON PROFESSOR, BOARD OF GOVERNORS ZORA NEALE HURSTON PROFESSOR, RUTGERS UNIVERSITY)This Very Short Introduction offers an overview of the Harlem Renaissance, a cultural awakening among African Americans between the two world wars. Cheryl A. Wall brings readers to the Harlem of 1920s to identify the cultural themes and issues that engageVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Boom Cities(2020) SAUMAREZ SMITH, OTTO (ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK)In this volume, Otto Saumarez Smith recounts the fraught history of the urban development of British city centres in the 1960s, uncovering the planning philosophy, and the political, cultural, and legislative background that created the conditions for theVezava: Mehka69,47 € -
Gypsies(2020) CRESSY, DAVID (GEORGE III PROFESSOR OF BRITISH HISTORY AND HUMANITIES DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR EMERITUS, GEORGE III PROFESSOR OF BRITISH HISTORY AND HUMANITIES DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR EMERITUS, THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY)The story of Gypsies in England, from their first appearance in early Tudor times to the present day. A book that disentangles the rich and sometimes lurid myth from the everyday reality of Gypsy life over more than half a millennium of English history.Vezava: Mehka21,71 € -
Astronomer and the Witch(2015) RUBLACK, ULINKA (PROFESSOR OF EARLY MODERN EUROPEAN HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE)The extraordinary tale of Johannes Kepler, one of the most admired astronomers of all time, and the six long years spent defending his mother from her neighbours' accusations of witchcraft. A story which takes us to the heart of Kepler's changing world.Vezava: Trda33,63 € -
Menagerie(2018) GRIGSON, CAROLINE (UCL INSTITUTE OF ARCHAEOLOGY, HONORARY PROFESSOR)The story of the panoply of exotic animals that were brought into Britain from time immemorial until the foundation of the London Zoo. A tale replete with the extravagant, the eccentric, and -- on occasion -- the downright bizarreVezava: Mehka21,71 €
