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Penguin Social History of Britain(1990) PORTER, ROYA portrait of 18th century England, from its princes to its paupers, from its metropolis to its smallest hamlet. The topics covered include - diet, housing, prisons, rural festivals, bordellos, plays, paintings, and work and wages.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Six Wives Of Henry VIII(2009) FRASER, LADY ANTONIAAntonia Fraser s bestselling biography of Henry VIII s six wives a subject of enduring fascination.Vezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Restoration London(2004) PICARD, LIZAFrom poverty to pets, medicine to magic, slang to sex and from wallpaper to women's rights - a glorious portrait of life in London from 1660-70, by the bestselling author of Elizabeth's London.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Sodomy and the Pirate Tradition(1995) BURG, B. R.Investigates the social and sexual world of these sea roversVezava: Mehka44,89 € -
Dr Johnson's London(2004) PICARD, LIZAThe everyday realities of life in the city of Hogarth, Fielding and Dr Johnson, by the author of the bestselling Elizabeth's London.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Augustan Rome 44 BC to AD 14(2012) RICHARDSON, J. S. (EMERITUS PROFESSOR OF CLASSICS, UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH)Centring on the reign of the emperor Augustus, volume four is pivotal to the series, tracing of the changing shape of the entity that was ancient Rome through its political, cultural and economic history.Vezava: Mehka54,04 € -
Shakespeare's London(2011) PORTER, STEPHENEveryday life in the teeming metropolis during William Shakespeare's time in the city.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Flame Trees Of Thika(2014) HUXLEY, ELSPETHWhen Elspeth Huxley’s pioneer father buys a remote plot of land in Kenya, the family sets off to discover their new home: five hundred acres of Kenyan scrubland, infested with ticks and white ants, and quavering with heat.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Penguin Historical Atlas of the Vikings(1995) HAYWOOD, JOHNVikings were more than just marine warriors. This atlas shows their development as traders and craftsmen, explorers, settlers and mercenaries. It contains over sixty colour maps, and follows the tracks of the Viking merchants who travelled deep into RussiVezava: Mehka26,62 € -
Greatest Traitor(2010) MORTIMER, IANThe first biography of the rebel baron who deposed and murdered Edward II. One night in August 1323 a captive rebel baron, Sir Roger Mortimer, drugged his guards and escaped from the Tower of London.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Philip the Bold(2002) VAUGHAN, RICHARD,VALE, MALCOLMA biography of Philip and a study of the emergence of the Burgundian state under his aegis in the years 1384-1404, paying particular attention to his crucial aquisition of Flanders. There is comprehensive analysis of how Philip'sgovernment worked.Vezava: Mehka54,51 € -
Pol Pot Regime(2008) KIERNAN, BENOffering an account of the Cambodian revolution and genocide, this book includes a preface that takes the story up to 2008 and the UN-sponsored Khmer Rouge tribunal.Vezava: Mehka38,00 € -
Victorians(2003) WILSON, A.N.People, not abstract ideas, make history, and nowhere is this more revealed than in A. The 'global village' is a Victorian village and many of the ideas we take for granted, for good or ill, originated with these extraordinary, self-confident people. WilsVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Inventing the Victorians(2002) SWEET, MATTHEWAs Sweet shows us in this brilliant study, many of the concepts that strike us as terrifically new - political spin-doctoring, extravagant publicity stunts, hardcore pornography, anxieties about the impact of popular culture upon children - are VictorianVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Rejoice! Rejoice!(2013) TURNER, ALWYN W.An acclaimed history of the biggest, brashest and most tumultuous decade in recent British history.Vezava: Mehka28,04 € -
Secret State(2010) HENNESSY, PETERWhat were the secret plans for Britain if World War Three had erupted and 'breakdown' had occurred? When would the Queen have been informed and where would she have gone? How does the contingency planning for a national emergency work today? This book givVezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Rome in the Late Republic(2000) BEARD, MARY,CRAWFORD, MICHAEL (UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON, UK)This textbook outlines the factors that every student must assess for a proper understanding of the period, from the attitudes of the aristocracy and the role of state religion to the function of political institutions.Vezava: Mehka33,25 €












