Zbirka: Zgodovina: dogodki in teme
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Tunnels(2017) MITCHELL, GREGIn the summer of 1962, one year after the rise of the Berlin Wall, a group of daring young West Germans risked prison, Stasi torture and even death to liberate friends, lovers, and strangers in East Berlin by digging tunnels under the Wall. This book tellVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Inheritance: The tragedy of Mary Davies(2022) HOLLIS, LEOThe reclaimed history of a woman whose tragic life tells a story of madness, forced marriages and how the super-rich came to own LondonVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
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Atlas of Vanishing Places(2022) ELBOROUGH, TRAVISAtlas of Vanishing Places takes you on a voyage to all corners of the world in search of the lost, disappearing and vanished places.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Jewish Edinburgh(2019) GILFILLAN, M.D.This first full-length history of the Jews of Edinburgh chronicles their immigration to Scotland's capital city from Russia during the 1880s in the wake of Tsarist persecution, and examines their reception by native Scots.Vezava: Mehka77,03 € -
Hollow Places(2020) HADLEY, CHRISTOPHER‘Impossible to summarise and delightfully absorbing, Hadley’s book is comfortably the most unexpected history book of the year’ Sunday Times A luminous journey through a thousand years of folklore and English history.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Restless Republic(2022) KEAY, ANNATHE SUNDAY TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022 WINNER OF THE POL ROGER DUFF COOPER PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE Eleven years when Britain had no king.Vezava: Trda35,05 € -
Aerial Aftermaths(2018) KAPLAN, CARENCaren Kaplan traces the cultural history of aerial imagery-from the first vistas provided by balloons in the eighteenth century to the sensing operations of military drones-to show how aerial imagery is key to modern visual culture and can both enforce miVezava: Mehka53,22 € -
Atlas of the Great Irish Famine(2012)The Great Famine is possibly the most pivotal event/experience in modern Irish history. Its global reach and implications cannot be underestimated. In terms of mortality, it is now widely accepted that over a million people perished between the years 1845Vezava: Trda96,25 € -
Twenty-First-Century Tolkien(2022) GROOM, PROFESSOR NICKAn engaging, original and radical reassessment of J.R.R. Tolkien, revealing how his visionary creation of Middle-Earth is more relevant now than ever before.Vezava: Trda33,27 € -
Declaration of Arbroath(2020) COWAN, EDWARD J.The Declaration of Arbroath, 6 April, 1320, is one of the most remarkable documents to have been produced anywhere in medieval Europe. This book examines the origins of the Declaration and the ideas upon which it drew, while tracing the rise of its mythicVezava: Mehka14,25 € -
After Diana(1998)The death of Diana, Princess of Wales, was met by the greatest public mourning witnessed in the 20th century. For those perplexed by the events surrounding Diana's death, this book seeks to provide some answers. It brings together writings which analyze hVezava: Mehka34,20 € -
'Desegregation' of English Schools(2020) ESTEVES, OLIVIERThis detailed study is the first ever book on English bussing, an integrationist policy introduced in places like Southall and Bradford in the 1960s. It reveals the failure of dispersal, which segregated rather than integrated, leaving Asian children vulnVezava: Mehka44,55 € -
Bloc Life(2019) MOLLOY, PETERThere was life before the fall. 1989 was a year of astonishing and rapid change: the fall of the Berlin Wall marked the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and an end to an entire way of life for millions of people behind the Iron Curtain.Vezava: Mehka23,82 €
