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Plutarch: Volume 47(2021) ROSKAM, GEERT (KU LEUVEN, BELGIUM)This volume introduces the life and works of Plutarch of Chaeronea, one of classical antiquity's most influential writers. It examines Plutarch's views on philosophy, history and religion, and his method of intellectual enquiry. The book also considers thVezava: Mehka34,22 € -
Athenian Empire(2020) KALLET, LISA (UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD),KROLL, JOHN H. (UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD)This extensively illustrated book addresses the significance of coins as historical documents in the larger narrative of the empire and those who came into conflict with it. While written principally for an undergraduate audience, much of the coin evidencVezava: Mehka39,92 € -
Urban Slavery in the Age of Abolition: Volume 28, Part 1(2020)When the full abolition of slavery appeared on the political agenda in the Atlantic world, the institutional arrangements that underpinned it changed dramatically. This volume explores how cities were part and parcel of slave societies, and how methods ofVezava: Mehka30,88 € -
Gerald of Wales(2006) BARTLETT, ROBERTThis study of Gerald discusses the political path he had to tread and portrays him as an example of the medieval world.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Anne Neville(2007) HICKS, PROF MICHAELAnne Neville was queen to England’s most notorious king, Richard III. This fascinating new biography seeks to tell the story of Anne’s life in her own right, and uncovers the real wife of Richard III by charting the remarkable twists and turns of her frauVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Nostalgic Imagination(2020) COLLINI, STEFAN (PROFESSOR EMERITUS OF INTELLECTUAL HISTORY AND ENGLISH LITERATURE, PROFESSOR EMERITUS OF INTELLECTUAL HISTORY AND ENGLISH LITERATURE, UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE)In the book born from his Oxford Ford Lectures, Stefan Collini challenges the historical assumptions at work in twentieth-century English literary criticism, showing how the work of critics was bound up with claims about the nature and direction of historVezava: Mehka45,95 € -
Neighbours, Distrust, and the State(2022) BRODIE, MARC (FORMER FELLOW, FORMER FELLOW, UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD)Neighbours, Distrust, and the State shows that in the past, just like now, many poor people 'wanted something done' by government in their communities, examining how they thought about such things as the role of the police, compulsory schooling, housing eVezava: Trda80,26 € -
In These Times(2015) UGLOW, JENNYShortlisted for the Duff Cooper PrizeAs the Napoleonic wars raged, what was life really like for those left at home? Award-winning social historian Jenny Uglow reveals the colourful and turbulent everyday life of Georgian Britain through the diaries, lettVezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Along the Archival Grain(2010) STOLER, ANN LAURAOffers a methodological and analytic opening to the affective registers of imperial governance and the political content of archival forms. This title identifies the social epistemologies that guided perception and practice, revealing the problematic raciVezava: Mehka48,47 € -
Fall of the Roman Empire(2006) HEATHER, PETERA major new narrative account of one of history's greatest and most epic mysteries: the strange death of the Roman Empire.Vezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Opium War(2012) LOVELL, JULIALively, erudite and meticulously researched' Literary ReviewVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Rhetoric of Exemplarity in Early Modern England(2022) ULLYOT, MICHAEL (ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH, UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY)This book investigates the role of exemplarity as a rhetorical device in late Elizabethan and Jacobean literature and culture. Ullyot argues that exemplarity is driven by both reader and author, and that positive moral examples were presented as aspiratioVezava: Trda145,92 € -
Anglo-Saxon Farms and Farming(2020) BANHAM, DEBBY (AFFILIATED LECTURER, AFFILIATED LECTURER, DEPT OF ANGLO-SAXON, NORSE AND CELTIC, UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE),FAITH, ROSAMOND (VISITING FELLOW, VISITING FELLOW, KELLOGG COLLEGE, OXFORD)A study of farming in England before the Norman Conquest, in a period before trade was an important way of making a living, exploring what tools and methods were used in Anglo-Saxon farming, what kind of livestock was kept, and what crops were grown.Vezava: Mehka82,76 € -
Greek Historical Inscriptions 478-404 BC(2020)This volume is a companion to the editors' Greek Historical Inscriptions, 404-323 BC. It presents a selection of important Greek inscriptions from the fifth century BC alongside English translations, commentaries, and photographs in an accessible referencVezava: Mehka90,37 € -
Mad at the World(2021) SOUDER, WILLIAMA biography of one of America’s most popular and misunderstood authors, John Steinbeck.Vezava: Mehka29,93 € -
Beauty of Living(2021) ROSENBLITT, J. ALISON (REGENT'S PARK COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD)An incisive biography of E.E. Cummings’ early life, including his First World War ambulance service and subsequent imprisonment, inspirations for his inventive poetryVezava: Mehka29,93 € -
Inevitability of Tragedy(2021) GEWEN, BARRYA fresh portrait of Henry Kissinger focusing on the fundamental ideas underlying his policies: realism, balance of power and national interest.Vezava: Mehka24,94 € -
Science in the Metropolis(2020)This book presents new research on "thick spaces" of scientific research and processes of interurban and transnational knowledge transfer and exchange in Vienna in the late 19th and early 20th centuries – infrastructural preconditions for the explosion ofVezava: Trda123,12 € -
Dracula(2022) MORGAN, GILESFew fictional characters have proven to be as enduringly popular as the legendary Count Dracula. In Dracula: The Origins and Influence of the Legendary Vampire Count, author Giles Morgan examines the roots of the vampire myth and the creation of Bram StokVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Hair(2018) VINCENT, SUSAN J. (CENTRE FOR RENAISSANCE AND EARLY MODERN STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF YORK, UK)Vezava: Mehka49,88 €
