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Creating the People’s War(2022) HAMMETT, JESSICA (ESRC NEW INVESTIGATOR)Civil defence was the most significant voluntary organisation of the Second World War. It involved men and women of every class, generation and locality in Britain. This book examines how civil defence personnel developed local workplace communities, engaVezava: Trda121,60 € -
Transnational Solidarity(2022)This book excavates forgotten histories of solidarity which were vital to radical political imagination during the long sixties. It decentres the conventional Western loci of this critical historical moment by instead foregrounding transnational solidaritVezava: Trda129,20 € -
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Central Asian Revolt of 1916(2021)This volume provides a comprehensive reinterpretation of the 1916 Central Asian Revolt - a key event in the history of Central Asia, the Russian Empire and the First World War. -- .Vezava: Mehka62,37 € -
Britain’S ‘Brown Babies’(2021) BLAND, LUCYThis book recounts a little-known history of an estimated 2,000 children born to black GIs and white British women in World War II. Stories from over 50 of these children, alongside many photographs, reveal the racism and stigma of growing up in what wasVezava: Mehka26,72 € -
Anglophobia in Fascist Italy(2022) PILI, JACOPOAnglophobia in Fascist Italy depicts how the Fascist regime disseminated its particular image of Great Britain, consistent with its own ideological imperatives, and puts to the test effectiveness of this messaging among the Italian people. -- .Vezava: Trda111,97 € -
London Presbyterians and the British Revolutions, 1638–64(2021) VERNON, ELLIOTLondon presbyterians and the British revolutions is a case study in the politics of metropolitan religion and presbyterianism in the middle decades of the seventeenth-century. -- .Vezava: Trda77,52 € -
How to be a Historian(2021)What is unique about this volume is that is explores the history of historical studies through the prism of ‘scholarly personae’ (models of virtue, embodying how to be a historian). It offers a stimulating new perspective on the unity, or disunity, of hisVezava: Mehka46,33 € -
Making and Remaking Saints in Nineteenth-Century Britain(2021)This original collection of essays examines for the first time the place of 'saints' and sanctity in nineteenth-century Britain. -- .Vezava: Mehka53,46 € -
Pope and the Pill(2021) GEIRINGER, DAVIDThis book uses original oral history material and secretive Vatican papers to explore the sexual and religious experiences of Catholic women in post-war England. It offers a fresh perspective on the idea that ‘sex killed God’, reframing dominant approacheVezava: Mehka44,55 € -
Rebel Angels(2021) FITZGERALD, JILL (ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH)This book examines the ‘fall of the angels’ tradition in early medieval sermons, saints’ lives, legal documents and Old English biblical poetry. It argues that Anglo-Saxon authors adapted apocryphal and patristic accounts in ways that allowed them to exprVezava: Mehka53,46 € -
Justice and Mercy(2021) BYRNE, PHILIPPAThis study investigates justice and mercy in twelfth-century England, using theological texts, sermons, legal treatises and letter collections to explore how moralists approached questions of judgement and judicial ethics in the foundational period of EngVezava: Mehka44,55 € -
Out of His Mind(2022) MILNE-SMITH, AMYIn a society that defined manhood as a mastery of self-control, the madman stood as a horrifying example of what could go wrong. Out of His Mind is a socio-cultural study of the madman in Victorian society; through in-depth case studies and broad surveysVezava: Trda77,52 € -
Gender, Sex and the Shaping of Modern Europe(2022) TIMM, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR ANNETTE F. (UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY, CANADA),SANBORN, JOSHUA A. (LAYAFETTE COLLEGE, USA)Vezava: Mehka43,23 € -
Once Upon A Time in the East(2018) GUO, XIAOLUXiaolu Guo meets her parents for the first time when she is seven. They are strangers to her. When she is born her parents hand her over to a childless peasant couple in the mountains. Aged two, and suffering from malnutrition on a diet of yam leaves, theVezava: Mehka18,21 €
