Zbirka: Zgodovina: dogodki in teme
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Replenishing the Earth(2011) BELICH, JAMES (PROFESSOR OF HISTORY, STOUT RESEARCH CENTRE, VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON)Pioneering study of the anglophone 'settler boom' in North America, Canada, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand between the early 19th and early 20th centuries, looking at what made it the most successful of all such settler revolutions, and how thisVezava: Mehka42,75 € -
I Want to Believe(2020) GITTLITZ, A.M.Aliens, nuclear war and talking dolphins; this book is a study of the weird and wonderful world of the PosadistsVezava: Mehka44,54 € -
Writing a War of Words(2021) MUGGLESTONE, LYNDA (PROFESSOR OF THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH, PROFESSOR OF THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH, UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD)Writing a War of Words is the first investigation of a valuable archive of war-time notebooks documenting changes to the English language on the Home Front. Using unconventional sources, it explores the effect of war on the language of ordinary people, anVezava: Trda61,76 € -
Oh Capitano!(2018) VECOLI, RUDOLPH J.,DURANTE, FRANCESCOThe story of Celso Cesare Moreno who traveled the world lying, scheming, and building an extensive patron/client network to expand western trade and imperialism in Asia, traffick migrant workers and children in the Atlantic, influence the fate of Hawaii,Vezava: Trda110,35 € -
End of the Road(2022) COOKE, JACKA wonderfully quixotic, charming and surprisingly uplifting travelogue which sees Jack Cooke, author of the much-loved The Treeclimbers Guide, drive around the British Isles in a clapped-out forty-year old hearse in search of famous – and not so famous –Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
End of the Road(2021) COOKE, JACKA wonderfully quixotic, charming and surprisingly uplifting travelogue which sees Jack Cooke, author of the much-loved The Treeclimbers Guide, drive around the British Isles in a clapped-out forty-year old hearse in search of famous – and not so famous –Vezava: Trda24,94 € -
Sweet Taste of Liberty(2019) MCDANIEL, W. CALEB (MARY GIBBS JONES PROFESSOR OF HUMANITIES, MARY GIBBS JONES PROFESSOR OF HUMANITIES, RICE UNIVERSITY)The extraordinary life of Henrietta Wood--a formerly enslaved woman sold back into slavery, eventually freed again, and who then sued the man who had sold her back into bondage, and won.Vezava: Trda36,44 € -
Mahjong(2021) HEINZ, ANNELISE (ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF HISTORY, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF OREGON)In Mahjong, Annelise Heinz charts a complex cultural journey as the game's history connects American expatriates in Shanghai, Jazz Age white Americans, urban Chinese Americans in the 1930s, incarcerated Japanese Americans in wartime, Jewish American suburVezava: Trda55,11 € -
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Most Remarkable Creature(2022) MEIBURG, JONATHANAn enthralling account of a modern voyage of discovery as we meet the clever, social birds of prey called caracaras, which puzzled Darwin, fascinate modern-day falconers, and carry secrets of our planet's deep past in their family history. 'CaptivatingVezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Women and the Cuban Insurrection(2018) BAYARD DE VOLO, LORRAINE (UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO BOULDER)By documenting the centrality of women rebels and Castro's hearts and minds campaign, this book shatters the Cuban War story's mythology of an insurrection waged and won by bearded guerrillas alone. Rebels used gender as a tactic to protect themselves, atVezava: Mehka47,52 € -
Ice Ages(2022) MAZUR, ALLAN (SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY, NEW YORK)Allan Mazur's book tells the appealing history of the scientific 'discovery' of Ice Ages, and how the waning of the last Ice Age paved the way for agrarian civilization and, ultimately, our present social structures. An engrossing combination of natural sVezava: Trda41,82 €
