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Washington at the Plow(2021) RAGSDALE, BRUCE A.George Washington spent most of his time farming, often employing experimental methods. Washington saw slave-powered scientific agriculture as the key to the nation’s prosperity. Bruce Ragsdale argues that it was slave labor’s inefficiency as much as itsVezava: Trda42,91 € -
Slow Moon Climbs(2021) MATTERN, SUSANA surprising look at the role of menopause in human history - and why we should change the ways we think about it.Vezava: Mehka27,45 € -
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Oxford Illustrated History of the Reformation(2017)The Oxford Illustrated History of the Reformation is the story of one of the truly epochal events in world history -- and how it helped create the world we live in todayVezava: Mehka32,93 € -
Shaping the Archive in Late Medieval England(2017) NOVACICH, SARAH ELLIOTT (RUTGERS UNIVERSITY, NEW JERSEY)Tracing three episodes in sacred history - the loss of Eden, the loading of Noah's Ark, and the Harrowing of Hell - Sarah Elliott Novacich shows how medieval writers and artists pondered ways of preserving and transmitting the past, and considered the pleVezava: Trda83,89 € -
Dreamworlds of Race(2020) BELL, DUNCANHow transatlantic thinkers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries promoted the unification of Britain and the United StatesBetween the late nineteenth century and the First World War an ocean-spanning network of prominent individuals advocatVezava: Trda62,48 € -
Sick Note(2022) MILLWARD, GARETH (RESEARCH FELLOW, RESEARCH FELLOW, UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM)Sick Note is a history of how the British state asked, 'who is really sick?' Tracing medical certification for absence from work from 1948 to 2010, Gareth Millward shows how the sick note has survived in practice and in the popular imagination - just likeVezava: Trda68,42 € -
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Invisible Agents(2020) AKKERMAN, NADINE (READER IN EARLY MODERN ENGLISH LITERATURE, READER IN EARLY MODERN ENGLISH LITERATURE, LEIDEN UNIVERSITY)A compelling history of women in seventeenth century espionage, telling the forgotten tales of women from all walks of life who acted as spies in early modern Britain. Nadine Akkerman has immersed herself in archives and letter collections, acting as a moVezava: Mehka21,71 € -
Charles I's Killers in America(2019) JENKINSON, MATTHEW (MEMBER OF THE SENIOR COMMON ROOM, NEW COLLEGE, OXFORD)After the Restoration the men who signed Charles I's death warrant fled to New England, becoming folk heroes for America's earliest historians and novelists. This is the story of the lives and afterlives of these regicides, and the truth behind the attempVezava: Trda38,54 € -
Voices of Nimes(2022) LIPSCOMB, SUZANNAH (PROFESSOR OF HISTORY, PROFESSOR OF HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF ROEHAMPTON)Most of the women who ever lived left no trace of their existence on the record of history. In this book, Suzannah Lipscomb recovers the lives and aspirations of ordinary sixteenth- and seventeenth-century French women, using rich source material to showVezava: Mehka31,34 € -
Rorke's Drift and Isandlwana(2021) BECKETT, IAN F. W. (HONORARY PROFESSOR OF MILITARY HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF KENT)The story of Isandlwana, the battle that shocked the British empire at its zenith, and Rorke's Drift, which immediately followed it and went some way to restoring wounded British pride: how they were fought, how they have been remembered, and what they meVezava: Mehka18,91 € -
End of Outrage(2017) MAC SUIBHNE, BREANDAN (PROFESSOR OF HISTORY, PROFESSOR OF HISTORY, CENTENARY COLLEGE, NEW JERSEY)Tells the absorbing story of post-famine Donegal, the Molly Maguires -- a secret society who had set themselves up against the exploitation of the rural poor -- and Patrick McGlynn -- an avaricious schoolmaster who turned informer on them, availing of hunVezava: Trda61,76 € -
Idi Amin(2021) LEOPOLD, MARKThe first serious full-length biography of modern Africa’s most famous dictatorVezava: Mehka24,70 €
