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Historicizing Roma in Central Europe(2022) SHMIDT, VICTORIA,JAWORSKY, BERNADETTE NADYAIn Central Europe, limited success in revisiting the role of science in the segregation of Roma reverberates with the yet-unmet call for contextualizing the impact of ideas on everyday racism. This book attempts to interpret such a gap as a case of episteVezava: Mehka80,49 € -
Roman Britain(2015) SALWAY, PETER (QUONDAM FELLOW, ALL SOULS COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, AND EMERITUS FELLOW OF THE OPEN UNIVERSITY)For centuries Britain was an integral part of the Roman Empire. In this Very Short Introduction, Peter Salway weaves together the latest archaeological investigations and historical scholarship to chart life in Roman Britain from the first Roman invasionVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Interesting Narrative(2018) EQUIANO, OLAUDAHThe Interesting Narrative is a first-hand account of the horrors of slavery, published on the eve of the British abolition debate in 1789. The most important African autobiography of the 18th century, it recounts Equiano's adventures on land and sea. ThisVezava: Mehka16,81 € -
Industrial Revolution(2017) ALLEN, ROBERT C. (GLOBAL DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR OF ECONOMIC HISTORY, NYU ABU DHABI)The Industrial Revolution was one of the great, transforming events of world history. Robert C. Allen explains what happened during this period, and why. He asks why the revolution occured in Britain rather than other countries, and looks at the impact ofVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Humanitarians at War(2021) STEINACHER, GERALD (ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF HISTORY AND HYMEN ROSENBERG PROFESSOR OF JUDAIC STUDIES, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF HISTORY AND HYMEN ROSENBERG PROFESSOR OF JUDAIC STUDIES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN)How the International Committee of the Red Cross emerged triumphant from the dark days of World War II, escaping its ambiguous wartime record to re-affirm its leadership in world humanitarian affairs and help rewrite the rules of war in the Geneva ConventVezava: Mehka41,80 € -
Alexander the Great(2014) BOWDEN, HUGH (SENIOR LECTURER IN ANCIENT HISTORY AT KING'S COLLEGE LONDON)In 336 BC Alexander the Great became king of Macedon. During his twelve-year reign he conquered the Achaemenid Persian Empire, the largest to have yet existed, and in the process had a profound effect on the world he moved through. In this examination ofVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Poetry of the First World War(2014)A new anthology that combines generous selections from well-known soldier poets such as Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon with work by civilian and women poets. A general introduction places Great War poetry in its contexts and the work of each poet is pVezava: Mehka11,87 € -
Five Year Mission(2015) BALE, TIM (PROFESSOR OF POLITICS, PROFESSOR OF POLITICS, QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON)The story of Ed Miliband's attempt to put Labour back into power after just five years in opposition: the challenges he has faced, the difficulties - and the colleagues - he has had to deal with, some of the mistakes he has made, and the successes he hasVezava: Mehka18,91 € -
Children of Henry VIII(2014) GUY, JOHN (FELLOW OF CLARE COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE)The fascinating family drama of Henry VIII and his four children, re-created from the original sources by best-selling Tudor historian John GuyVezava: Mehka17,51 € -
Love in the Blitz(2021) ALEXANDER, EILEEN‘Her voice is absolutely, beguilingly conversational … Intelligent, allusive, iconoclastic, captivatingly intense … This is the news from the domestic frontline: personal, unique, unexpurgated, without propaganda, as it unfolded and was experienced … SpleVezava: Mehka14,02 € -
After Gorbachev(1993) WHITE, STEPHEN (UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW)Fourth time around for bestselling text on collapse of Soviet communism. New chapter takes story up to Yeltsin's referendum victory.Vezava: Mehka51,56 € -
(Post-)colonial Archipelagos(2022) BURCHARDT, HANS-JURGEN,LEINIUS, JOHANNAThe influence of Spanish colonialism on 21st century crisesVezava: Trda129,20 € -
Civil War(2016) CAESARCivil War provides a vigorous, direct, clear, third-personal, impassioned account of Caesar’s campaigns during the civil war of 49–48 BC, drawn from his three books of commentarii.Vezava: Trda44,47 € -
Histories, Volume III(2011) POLYBIUSIn his history, Polybius (ca. 200–118 BC) is centrally concerned with how and why Roman power spread. The main part of the work, a vital achievement despite the incomplete state in which all but the first five books of an original forty survive, describesVezava: Trda44,47 € -
Saturnalia, Volume I(2011) MACROBIUSSaturnalia has been prized since the Renaissance as a treasure trove of otherwise unattested lore.Vezava: Trda44,47 € -
Roman History, Volume II(2019) APPIANAppian (ca. AD 95–161) is a principal source for the history of the Roman Republic. His theme is the process by which Rome achieved her contemporary prosperity, and his method is to trace in individual books the story of each nation’s wars with Rome up thVezava: Trda44,47 €
