Zbirka: Zgodovina: dogodki in teme
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Taming Babel(2016) LEOW, RACHEL (UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE)Taming Babel examines the role of language in the making of modern postcolonial Asian nations. Focusing on one of the most linguistically diverse territories in the British Empire, it explores the profound anxieties generated by a century of struggles toVezava: Trda137,00 € -
Last Man Off(2015) LEWIS, MATTIn the depths of Antarctic winter, hundreds of miles from land or rescue, a small fishing boat is swallowed by waves as high as houses. Only the actions of Matt Lewis, a 23-year-old British marine biologist and one of the most inexperienced men aboard, wiVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Six Months in 1945(2013) DOBBS, MICHAELWhen FDR, Winston Churchill and Josef Stalin gathered outside the Crimean city of Yalta in February 1945, they had Hitler's armies on the run, and victory was just a matter of time. Their mission was to forge the decisions that would shape the postwar worVezava: Mehka23,82 € -
At Day's Close(2022) ROGER EKIRCH, PROFESSOR A.A fascinating and colourful social history of the nighttime. 'A wonderful revelation of a vanished age of darkness' SPECTATORVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Hugh Despenser the Younger and Edward II(2019) WARNER, KATHRYNFirst biography of 'the greatest villain of the fourteenth century'.Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Reluctant Skeptic(2017) CRAVER, HARRY T.Discusses Kracauer from the perspective of the history of religion in modern Germany Seeks to give more emphasis to the importance of the history of religious thought in modern German cultural and intellectual history Approaches Kracauer on the basis ofVezava: Trda170,54 € -
Anatomy of Murder(2016) HILDEBRANDT, SABINEOf the many medical specializations to have been transformed by the rise of National Socialism, anatomy has received little attention. As historian & physician Sabine Hildebrandt reveals, anatomists progressed through gradual stages of ethical transgressiVezava: Trda184,32 € -
How Sugar Corrupted the World(2019) WALVIN, PROFESSOR JAMESHow did a simple commodity, once the prized monopoly of kings and princes, become an essential ingredient in the lives of millions, before mutating yet again into the cause of a global health epidemic?Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Crichel Boys(2021) FENWICK, SIMONAn elegant biography of Long Crichel, a house in a secluded village in rural Dorset which, during the second half of the twentieth century, became a hub of creativity and social activity for its denizens and their guests.Vezava: Trda40,20 € -
History of Torture in Britain(2019) WEBB, SIMONThe first book ever devoted solely to torture as practiced in Britain and its empire.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Insurrection(2022) HUNTER, JAMESWhen Scotland’s 1846 potato crop was wiped out by blight, the country was plunged into crisis. The dramatic events that followed have long been ignored or forgotten. Now, in James Hunter, they have their historian. The story he tells is, by turns, moving,Vezava: Mehka18,52 € -
Scotland: Mapping the Nation(2017) FLEET, CHRISTOPHER,WILKES, MARGARET,WITHERS, CHARLES W. J.Compiled by three experts, Scotland: Mapping the Nation offers a fascinating and thought-provoking perspective on Scottish history which is beautifully illustrated with complete facsimiles and details of hundreds of the most significant manuscript and priVezava: Trda49,90 €
