Zbirka: Zgodovina: Od prazgodovine do danes
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Early Chinese Empires(2010) LEWIS, MARK EDWARDIn 221 BC the First Emperor of Qin unified what would become the heart of a Chinese empire whose major features would endure for two millennia. In the first of a six-volume series on the history of imperial China, Lewis highlights the key challenges facinVezava: Mehka34,95 € -
Cairo in the War(2013) COOPER, ARTEMISA history of the glamorous and military critical city of Cairo during the Second World WarVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Heaven's Command(2012) MORRIS, JANTells the story of the rise of the British Empire, from the accession of Queen Victoria in 1837 to her Diamond Jubilee in 1897. The author evokes every aspect of the 'great adventure', ranging from ships and botanical gardens to hill stations and sugar plVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Farewell the Trumpets(2012) MORRIS, JANFarewell the Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat traces the momentous decline and fall of the greatest of empires - from Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee to the death of Winston Churchill in 1965.Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Pax Britannica(2012) MORRIS, JANThe second instalment of the Pax Britannica Trilogy by Jan Morris, recreates the British Empire at its dazzling climax - the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1897, celebrated as a festival of imperial strength, unity, and splendour.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Isabella(2012) WEIR, ALISONDescribed by Christopher Marlowe as the 'She-Wolf of France', Isabella was one of the most notorious femme fatales in history.Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Great Transformation(2007) ARMSTRONG, KARENNow available in paperback: The Great Transformation is nothing less than a global account of the time when religion was born. 'A remarkable history... fascinating and highly readable... profoundly relevant.' Julie Wheelwright, IndependentVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Pirates Of Barbary(2011) TINNISWOOD, ADRIANDrawing on material, from furious royal proclamations to the private letters of pirates and their victims, as well as Islamic accounts, this title provides perspectives of the corsairs and an insight into what it meant to sacrifice all you have for a lifeVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
History of Everyday Life in Medieval Scotland(2011)This book examines the ordinary, routine, daily behaviour, experiences and beliefs of people in Scotland from the earliest times to 1600.Vezava: Mehka49,42 € -
Brief History of Life in Victorian Britain(2008) PATERSON, MICHAELFrom the Great Exhibition to Dickensian slums, the triumph of empire to the anxiety of revolt - Victorian Britain was an age of paradoxes.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Diana Mosley(2004) DE COURCY, ANNEDiana Mosley was one of the most fascinating and controversial figures of recent times. After four years, she left him for the fascist leader, Oswald Mosley, and set herself up as Mosley's mistress - a course of action that horrified her family and scandaVezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Fante and the Transatlantic Slave Trade(2014) SHUMWAY, REBECCA (CUSTOMER)Examines the history of the Fante people of southern Ghana during the transatlantic slave trade, 1700 to 1807.Vezava: Mehka58,55 € -
Brief History of Britain 1485-1660(2011) HUTTON, PROFESSOR RONALDA fresh look at the Tudors and Stuarts by one of Britain's leading historians of the period.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
1940s Childhood(2014) MARSH, JAMESA nostalgic look at life growing up in the 1940sVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
History of Contemporary Italy(1990) GINSBORG, PAULContemporary Italy strongly mirrors Britain - the countries have roughly the same extent, population size and GNP - and yet they are fantastically different. This book presents an account of how Italy has coped, or failed to cope, with the past decades. IVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Ayatollah Begs to Differ(2009) MAJD, HOOMANIntroduces readers to an Iran that few people see, meeting opium-smoking clerics, women cab drivers and sartorially challenged presidential officials, among others. This work reveals a country where both t-shirt wearing teenagers and religious martyrs expVezava: Mehka22,42 € -
Spanish Civil War 1936–39 (1)(2014) DE QUESADA, ALEJANDROFeaturing full-colour artwork, this is the first detailed English-language study of Franco’s German-allied forces in the devastating Spanish Civil War, the ‘rehearsal’ for World War II.Vezava: Mehka18,21 €
