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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: Mehka45,42 € -
Rituality and Social (Dis)Order(2022) TESTA, ALESSANDRO (CHARLES UNIVERSITY, CZECH REPUBLIC)This is the first comparative historical anthropology of popular European Carnival written in English, with a focus on its cultural, religious, and political dimensions and transformations throughout the centuries.Vezava: Mehka80,49 € -
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 € -
De Havilland Mosquito, Vol. 1(2019) MACKAY, RONThis first of two volumes on de Havilland’s “Wooden Wonder” covers the night-fighter and fighter-bomber variants of the deadly Mosquito.Vezava: Trda26,62 € -
Challenge(2013) LAMBERT, ANDREWIn that dark hour America saw its chance to challenge British dominance: her troops invaded Canada and American frigates attacked British merchant shipping, the lifeblood of British defence. War polarised America.Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
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 € -
Ship of Fools(2010) O'TOOLE, FINTANFor twenty years, Ireland's economic miracle was supposed to be the envy of the world. For years, those with economic power had been investing in a gigantic property bubble. In Ship of Fools Fintan O'Toole tells the story of this dizzying rise and sickeVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
If Walls Could Talk(2012) WORSLEY, LUCYWhy, for centuries, did people fear fruit?All these questions - and more - are answered in this juicy, truly intimate history of the home. Through the bedroom, bathroom, living room and kitchen, Lucy Worsley explores what people actually did in bed, inVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
ONCE UPON A TIME IN SOUTHEND and District(2021) SUMMERS, ANDREWA showcase of the work of talented the Southend Standard cartoonists of the mid-1930s - smart, analytical and topical at time and drawn from Southend Standard Archives. Although the cartoons were created 90 years ago many would not be out place today. IfVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Buffalo Bill's Wild West(2018) DUNFORD, DAVIDThis is the story of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, and how more than a century before `The Only Way is Essex' came to pass, people flocked to see the world's first 'reality shows' in Essex that featured real coyboys, real US Cavalry and real native indiaVezava: Mehka12,61 € -
Think Tank Aesthetics(2020) LEE, PAMELA M. (PROFESSOR, YALE UNIVERSITY)How the approaches and methods of think tanks—including systems theory, operational research, and cybernetics—paved the way for a peculiar genre of midcentury modernism.Vezava: Trda44,10 € -
Politics of Piety(2011) MAHMOOD, SABAProvides an analysis of Islamist cultural politics through the ethnography of a thriving, grassroots women's piety movement in the mosques of Cairo, Egypt.Vezava: Mehka48,47 € -
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 € -
What If?(2001) COWLEY, ROBERTAnyone interested in military history or indeed history in general will find it fascinating to read.' The SpectatorVezava: Mehka23,82 € -
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: Mehka21,61 €
