Zbirka: Zgodovina: Od prazgodovine do danes
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Nineteenth Century(2000)In the 19th century Europe changed more rapidly and radically than during any prior period. This volume offers an approach to understanding one of the most complex periods of modern history, addressing all the major issues.Vezava: Mehka83,99 € -
Amazons of Black Sparta(2011) ALPERN, STANLEY B.This volume examines the "Amazons", whose existence has been verified via documents and eye-witness accounts from battles for the West African kingdom of Dahomey in the 18th and 19th centuries.Vezava: Mehka24,94 € -
In the Footsteps of William Wallace(2010) YOUNG, ALAN,STEAD, MICHAEL JIn the footsteps of William WallaceVezava: Mehka28,03 € -
Ten Days That Shook the World(2007) REED, JOHNPresents an account of the Russian revolution. This book describes the events in Petrograd in November 1917, when Lenin and the Bolsheviks finally seized power.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Cosmopolis(1992) TOULMIN, STEPHENIn the 17th century, the vision of Cosmopolis arose - a rationally ordered society. This vision perpetuated the delusion that human nature and society could be fitted into precise and manageable rational categories. This text confronts that agenda - its iVezava: Mehka43,72 € -
Great Britain's Great War(2014) PAXMAN, JEREMYLife in Britain during the First World War was far stranger than many of us realize. The author tells the story of the war through the experience of those who lived it - nurses, soldiers, politicians, factory-workers, journalists and children - explainingVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Scourging Angel(2010) GUMMER, BENEDICTNothing experienced in human history, before or since, eclipses the terror, tragedy and scale of the Black Death, the disease which killed millions of people in Medieval Europe. By the time it completed its pestilential journey through the British Isles iVezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Salvation at Stake(2001) GREGORY, BRAD S.Thousands were executed for incompatible religious views in 16th-century Europe. The meaning and significance of those deaths are studied here comparatively, providing an argument for the importance of martyrdom as a window onto religious sensibilities anVezava: Mehka53,11 € -
Great Hunger(1991) WOODHAM-SMITH, CECILThe Irish potato famine of the 1840s, perhaps the most appalling event of the Victorian era, killed over a million people and drove as many more to emigrate to America. The impact on Anglo-Irish relations was incalculable, the immediate human cost almostVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Redcoat: The British Soldier in the Age of Horse and Musket(2002) RICHARD HOLMESVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Secret History of Georgian London(2010) CRUICKSHANK, DANGeorgian London evokes images of elegant buildings and fine art, but it was also a city where prostitution was rife, houses of ill repute widespread, and many tens of thousands of people dependent in some way or other on the wages of sin.Vezava: Mehka26,62 € -
Secret Flotillas Vol 1: Clandestine Sea Operations to Brittany 1940-44(2013) RICHARDS, BROOKSAs the fall of France took place, almost the entire coastline of Western Europe was in German hands. Clandestine sea transport operations provided lines of vital intelligence for wartime Britain. These secret flotillas" landed and picked up agents in andVezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Heinemann Advanced History: The Modernisation of Russia 1856-1985(2002) LAVER, JOHNThis resource is written for for students studying the economic and social development of Russia and the Soviet Union, as well as the nature of Russian government and its impact on the Russian people in this period.Vezava: Mehka59,59 € -
Destiny in the Desert(2013) DIMBLEBY, JONATHANA unique single-volume history of the road to El Alamein - 'the end of the beginning' - and the bloody battle that followed ...Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Antony and Cleopatra(2011) GOLDSWORTHY, ADRIANThe epic story of one of the most famous love affairs in history, by the bestselling author of CAESAR.Vezava: Mehka23,82 € -
King's Mistress, Queen's Servant(2010) BORMAN, TRACYHenrietta Howard, later Countess of Suffolk, was the long-term mistress and confidante of King George II. The mark that this enigmatic and largely neglected royal mistress left on the society and culture of early Georgian England was to resonate well beyoVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Mary Queen of Scots(2008) WEIR, ALISONOn the night of 10 February 1567 an explosion devastated the Edinburgh residence of Henry Stewart, Lord Darnley, second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots. For this reason Elizabeth I had opposed his family's longstanding wish to marry him to Mary Stuart, whVezava: Mehka21,02 €
