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Bitter Freedom(2016) WALSH, MAURICEThe Irish Revolution - the war between the British authorities and the newly-formed IRA - was the first successful revolt anywhere against the British Empire.Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Manhattan '45(2011) MORRIS, JANIn 1945, New York City stood at the pinnacle of its cultural and economic power. From its beguilingly idiosyncratic architectural style to its unmistakable slang, post-War New York springs to life through Morris's brisk, affectionate prose.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Cricket Country(2022) KIDAMBI, PRASHANT (ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR IN COLONIAL URBAN HISTORY SCHOOL OF HISTORY, POLITICS AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER)The extraordinary story of the first 'All India' national cricket tour of Great Britain and Ireland - and how the idea of India as a nation took shape on the cricket pitch.Vezava: Mehka41,80 € -
Crisis of the Meritocracy(2020) MANDLER, PETER (PROFESSOR OF MODERN CULTURAL HISTORY AND BAILEY LECTURER IN HISTORY, GONVILLE AND CAIUS COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE)The story of the revolutionary transformation of the British educational system in the second half of the 20th century from a rigid hierarchy for a minority, to a fundamental right of all citizens, one of the most valued and enduring features of the welfaVezava: Trda47,65 € -
Ovid(2020) MORGAN, LLEWELYN (PROFESSOR OF CLASSICAL LITERATURE, UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD)Ovid, wittiest of ancient poets, has been an influential model for writers and artists throughout the ages. Llewelyn Morgan introduces the poet and his works, describing each of his poems in turn, setting them in their social and literary context, and conVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Four Lost Cities(2021) NEWITZ, ANNALEEA fascinating look at four of the most spectacular cities in human history-and why they were all abandoned.Vezava: Trda36,58 € -
Champions Day(2020) CARTER, JAMES (ST. JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY)A triptych of a single day revealing the history and foreshadowing the future of a complex and cosmopolitan city in a world at war.Vezava: Trda38,24 € -
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Socrates(2019) TAYLOR, C.C.W. (EMERITUS PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY, OXFORD UNIVERSITY AND EMERITUS FELLOW OF CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE)Christopher Taylor introduces the life and philosophy of Socrates, whose work has played a central role in shaping Western philosophical thinking for centuries. Examining what we can deduce about Socrates from the writings of his contemporaries (as he himVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Welfare and Social Policy in Britain Since 1870(2019)This collection of twelve essays reviews the history of welfare in Britain over the past 150 years. It focuses on the ideas that have shaped the development of British social policy and on the thinkers who have inspired and also contested the welfare statVezava: Trda159,60 € -
Routledge History of Medieval Magic(2021) PAGE, SOPHIE,RIDER, CATHERINEThe Routledge History of Medieval Magic brings together the work of scholars from across Europe and North America to provide extensive insights into recent developments in the study of medieval magic between c.1100 and c.1500.Vezava: Mehka90,99 € -
1606(2016) SHAPIRO, JAMESFollowing the biographical style of 1599, this book traces Shakespeare's life and times from the autumn of 1605, when he took an old and anonymous Elizabethan play, The Chronicle History of King Leir, and transformed it into his most searing tragedy, KinVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Alaric the Goth(2020) BOIN, DOUGLAS (SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY)The first biography of Alaric to appear in English tells the history of the fourth-and fifth-century Roman Empire through the life of the Goth who attacked it.Vezava: Trda33,75 € -
Operation Pedestal(2022) HASTINGS, MAXThe Sunday Times bestseller ‘One of the most dramatic forgotten chapters of the war, as told in a new book by the incomparable Max Hastings’ DAILY MAILVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Operation Pedestal(2021) HASTINGS, MAXThe Sunday Times bestseller ‘One of the most dramatic forgotten chapters of the war, as told in a new book by the incomparable Max Hastings’ DAILY MAILVezava: Trda35,05 € -
Unworthy Republic(2020) SAUNT, CLAUDIOA masterful and unsettling history of "Indian Removal", the forced migration of Native Americans across the Mississippi River in the 1830s and the state-sponsored theft of their lands.Vezava: Trda33,75 € -
Daily Life in the Medieval Islamic World(2008) LINDSAY, JAMES E.Describing various aspects of life in complex historical eras - cultural, social, religious, and political, this work details such day-to-day activities as cooking, games, dress, and parenting.Vezava: Mehka31,59 € -
Tsushima(2022) KOWNER, ROTEM (PROFESSOR OF JAPANESE STUDIES, PROFESSOR OF JAPANESE STUDIES, DEPARTMENT OF ASIAN STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA, ISRAEL)The story of how the Japanese Imperial Navy defeated the Russian Imperial Navy in 1905, marking the first modern victory of an Asian power over a major European power.Vezava: Trda40,64 € -
Dragon in the West(2021) OGDEN, DANIEL (PROFESSOR OF ANCIENT HISTORY, PROFESSOR OF ANCIENT HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF EXETER)The Dragon in the West is the first book to offer an in-depth examination of the history of the image and idea of the dragon. A creature popular in contemporary fiction and cinema, Ogden reveals how the dragon was known to the ancient Greek and Roman worlVezava: Trda81,24 €
