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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 € -
Black Prince of Florence(2017) FLETCHER, CATHERINE‘A spectacular, elegant, brilliant portrait of skulduggery, murder and sex in Renaissance Florence’ Simon Sebag Montefiore, Evening Standard, Books of the Year 1531 – after years of brutal war and political intrigue, the bastard son of a Medici Duke and aVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Lives, Volume V(1917) PLUTARCHPlutarch (ca. AD 45–120) wrote on many subjects. His forty-six Parallel Lives are biographies planned to be ethical examples in pairs, one Greek figure and one similar Roman, though the last four lives are single. They not only record careers and illustriVezava: Trda44,47 € -
Roman History, Volume IV(1916) DIO CASSIUSDio Cassius (Cassius Dio), ca. AD 150–235, was born in Bithynia. Dio’s work is a vital source for the last years of the Roman republic and the first four Roman emperors.Vezava: Trda44,47 € -
Cyrus the Great(2019)Cyrus the Great re-contextualizes Cyrus’s epoch in light of recent scholarship. Themes include: Mesopotamian antecedents of his religious policy, the idiosyncratic genesis of Persian imperial art; Babylonian exile and the Bible; Hellenistic and Arsacid geVezava: Mehka34,95 € -
Two Works on Trebizond(2019) PANARETOS, MICHAEL,BESSARIONThis volume presents translations from the Greek of two crucial primary sources published together for the first time—Michael Panaretos’s On the Emperors of Trebizond and Bessarion’s Encomium on Trebizond—providing enlightening perspectives on Byzantine iVezava: Trda47,68 € -
The History of Akbar(2020) ABU'L-FAZLThe History of Akbar, Volume 6 by Abu’l-Fazl details the twenty-third to twenty-eighth years of Akbar’s reign, including accounts of the quelling of rebellions in Bihar, Bengal, and Kabul, and final victory in Gujarat. The Persian text, presented in the NVezava: Trda47,68 € -
Stealth(2020) WESTWICK, PETER (DIRECTOR OF THE AEROSPACE HISTORY PROJECT, DIRECTOR OF THE AEROSPACE HISTORY PROJECT, THE HUNTINGTON-USC INSTITUTE ON CALIFORNIA AND THE WEST)The story of the technology that revolutionized aeronautics and changed modern warfareVezava: Trda36,44 € -
Women, Art, and Architecture in Northern Italy, 1520–1580(2017) MCIVER, KATHERINE A.Vezava: Mehka43,30 € -
Power and Perspective(2022)A critical reconsideration of the history of photography that explores how commerce and conflict fueled its practice in nineteenth-century ChinaVezava: Trda78,75 € -
Question of Freedom(2022) THOMAS, WILLIAM G.The story of the longest and most complex legal challenge to slavery in American historyVezava: Mehka38,02 € -
American Contagions(2022) WITT, JOHN FABIANA concise history of how American law has shaped—and been shaped by—the experience of contagionVezava: Mehka20,89 € -
Last Slave Ships(2022) HARRIS, JOHNA stunning behind-the-curtain look into the last years of the illegal transatlantic slave trade in the United StatesVezava: Mehka31,22 € -
Under the Red White and Blue(2021) MARCUS, GREILA deep dive into how F. Scott Fitzgerald’s vision of the American Dream has been understood, portrayed, distorted, misused, and kept aliveVezava: Mehka26,60 € -
Fortunes of Francis Barber(2021) BUNDOCK, MICHAELThe story of the extraordinary relationship between a former slave and England’s most distinguished man of lettersVezava: Mehka22,80 € -
Marie-Antoinette(2021) HARDMAN, JOHNA new look which fundamentally overturns our understanding of this famously “out of touch” queenVezava: Mehka24,70 €











