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Politics Finance And The People

Autor: Earl Reitan
Data wydania: 2007
This book traces the changes in the organization of the British economy following the War of American Independence, which unleashed a political crisis and popular movement in Britain based on demands for 'economical reform'.
250,95 zł

Rebel Land Among Turkey's Forgotten Peoples

Autor: Christopher de Bellaigue
Data wydania: 2010
What is the meaning of love and death in a remote, forgotten, impossibly conflicted part of the world? This book features the author's journeys to Turkey's inhospitable eastern provinces to find out.
47,25 zł

Religious Men and Masculine Identity in the Middle Ages

Autor: Catherine Sanok
James Clark
Jennifer Thibodeaux
Katherine Lewis
P. H. Cullum
P.h. Cullum
P H Cullum
Data wydania: 2013
Essays offering new approaches to the changing forms of medieval religious masculinity.
339,00 zł

Resisting the Tide

Autor: C Ross
Data wydania: 2009
Focussing on his term as Prime Minister from 2001-06, this volume provides an assessment of how the neo-conservative values attributed to Silvio Berlusconi were contested and resisted by a variety of groups. It is suitable for those who have an interest in Italy, in politics, in culture and cultural studies.
385,35 zł

Revolution

Autor: William Manners
Data wydania: 2019
From cycling as a source of fashion and socialising in sporting clubs, to travel around the British countryside, to its importance for widening the gene pool and its role in the women’s liberation movement Revolution presents the bicycle as a marvel of modern technology that transformed Britain and the world over.
49,00 zł

Shakespeare's Britain

Autor: Dora Thornton
Jonathan Bate
Jonathon Bate
Data wydania: 2012
From the common playgoers to the royal patrons, this book explores Britain from the perspective of Shakespeare’s audience – revealing how the significant issues of the day were explored at the playhouse through objects and quotations from Shakespeare’s plays.
53,00 zł

The Invention of Decolonization

Autor: Todd Shepard
Data wydania: 2008
In this account of the Algerian War's effect on French political structures and notions of national identity, Todd Shepard asserts that the separation of Algeria from France was truly a revolutionary event with lasting consequences for French social...
172,00 zł

Revolution

Autor: Peter Ackroyd
Data wydania: 2017
The fourth instalment in Peter Ackroyd's History of England series.
55,00 zł -4,54% 52,50 zł
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Revolutionary Passage

Autor: Marc Garcelon
Data wydania: 2005
Presents the cultural, social, and political history of Russia, during fifteen crucial years. This book traces this history from perestroika to the rise of Vladimir Putin, and argues that the pressures put on the soviet system by Gorbachev's reforms gave birth to movements for democratic reform. It also examines the DemRossiia movement.
79,00 zł

Richelieu's Desmarets and the Century of Louis XIV

Autor: Hugh Gaston Hall
Hugh Hall
Data wydania: 1990
Jean Desmarets was a late Renaissance universal man. He was a founder-member of the Academie-francaise, a novelist, playwright, poet, and architect. This book reassesses his career in the context of Richelieu's cultural policies and relates the notion of a 'century of Louis XIV' to its origins in the reign of Louis XIII.
299,00 zł

Stranger in Paris

Autor: Allan Mitchell
Data wydania: 2006
In this compact and tightly argued essay, the author maintains that the French Third Republic - and European history during this period in general - can only be understood if particular attention is paid to the special relationship that existed between France and Germany.
68,25 zł

The Invention of Russia

Autor: Arkady Ostrovsky
Arkady Ostrovsky
Data wydania: 2015
The timely and gripping story of Russia since the collapse of Communism, by The Economist's Moscow bureau chief.
124,01 zł

The King's City

Autor: Don Jordan
Data wydania: 2017
A fast-paced and thrilling history of London at the time of King Charles II, from the acclaimed co-author of The King's Revenge and The King's Bed.
97,00 zł

The State vs. Nelson Mandela 2014

Autor: Joel Joffe
Data wydania: 2014
In The State vs. Nelson Mandela, Joel Joffe, the Instructing Attorney of the defendants at the time, gives a blow-by-blow account of the most important trial in South Africa’s history.
61,01 zł

Tudor Children

Autor: Nicholas Orme
Data wydania: 2023
The first history of childhood in Tudor England
114,00 zł

Soldiers as Police

Autor: Anja Johansen
E Johansen
Data wydania: 2005
This book looks at the policing of social and political protest and of the role played by the French and Prussian armies in maintaining public order in the years leading up to the First World War. The period 1890 to 1914 was characterised by mass protest in both countries as the political, social and economic order of the German Empire and the French Third Republic were repeatedly challenged by industrial disputes, public protest and riots. In Berlin and Paris, the political elites urgently needed to find ways of sustaining economic growth while maintaining political stability through their management of law and order enforcement. t the same time, public authorities had to carefully consider how protest was to be policed in a way that would not further alienate
279,30 zł

Sunset of the Empire in Malaya

Autor: T.K. Taylor
Data wydania: 2006
Describes T K Taylor's experiences in schools from Kuala Lumpur to Johore Bahru. This memoir brings a different insight into the workings of the Colonial Service in a period of enormous change as its officers helped to rebuild the country in the aftermath of World War II and Japanese occupation, Communist struggles and the dawn of independence.
135,00 zł

The Cold War

Autor: Bridget Kendall
Data wydania: 2017
The Cold War is one of the furthest-reaching and longest-lasting conflicts in modern history. It spanned the globe - from Greece to China, Hungary to Cuba - and lasted for almost half a century. It has shaped political relations to this day, drawing new physical and ideological boundaries between East and West. In this meticulously researched account, Bridget Kendall explores the Cold War through the eyes of those who experienced it first-hand. Alongside in-depth analysis that explains the historical and political context, the book draws on exclusive interviews with individuals who lived through the conflict's key events, offering a variety of perspectives that reveal how the Cold War was experienced by ordinary people. From pilots making food drops during the Berlin
124,01 zł

The Collapse of Nationalist China

Autor: Parks Coble
Data wydania: 2023
This is a ground-breaking new interpretation of the collapse of Nationalist China, an event which fundamentally changed the course of twentieth-century history. Using newly available archival sources, Parks Coble reveals why, despite the financial backing of the US, Chiang Kai-shek's government lost the civil war against the communists in 1949.
175,00 zł

The Russian Job

Autor: Douglas Smith
Data wydania: 2019
'Brilliant, disturbing . . . an important story that needed to be told. A fast-moving and most compelling read.' - Helen Rappaport, author of Four Sisters and The Race to Save the Romanovs The gripping human story of how American volunteers fought famine in Bolshevik Russia, saving Lenin's revolutionary government from chaos and millions of people from starvation In 1921, after six years of unrelenting war and revolution, Russia was in ruins. The economy had collapsed, the country was ravaged by disease and starvation claimed the lives of millions. People were so desperate for food that there were reports of cannibalism, reports that were revealed to be horribly accurate. Remarkably, it was a young American aid worker who uncovered the truth and, even more
129,00 zł

Time The Middle East The History

Data wydania: 2006
The Middle East is rich in history - and saturated in blood. This small section of the world - the birthplace of three great religions - has become a tinderbox, where cultures clash in seemingly endless rounds of violence. Now "Time" explains the current crises in Lebanon, Israel and Gaza by illuminating the complicated history of this fascinating, tortured region and profiling the swirl of cultures, religions and ideologies that drive its key players. Here is the story of the Middle East in our times, from the founding of Israel to the advent of the Islamist terrorists. Here are the answers to the questions concerned Americans are asking: Why do they fight? How can the region's tensions be resolved? Who will shape the future? Where can we look for hope? And, most
78,75 zł

Toward the Flame

Autor: Hervey Allen
Data wydania: 2003
Chronicles the experiences of the Twenty-eighth Division in the summer of 1918. Made up primarily of Pennsylvania National Guardsmen, the Twenty-eighth Division saw extensive action on the Western Front. This story presents Lieutenant Hervey Allen and his men marching inland from the French coast and the battle for the village of Fismette.
104,00 zł

Trials of Mrs. Lincoln

Autor: Samuel Schreiner
Data wydania: 2005
Mary Todd Lincoln (1818-82) was a politically ambitious, volatile, and sharp-tongued woman, a shopaholic, and an embarrassment to her son and to the powerful men who sought to control the Lincoln legacy for their own political supremacy. Slandered by former Lincoln cronies and Republican operatives, such as William Herndon, Ward Hill Lamon, and Thurlow Weed; disliked by her son's wife, the former Mary Harlan; plagued by debts, her pension grant having been denied by Congress; conspired against by her son, Robert, along with Supreme Court justice David Davis, Leonard Swett, John Todd Stuart, Isaac N. Arnold, and others, she had literally no one to turn to. This account of her final years, based on documentary evidence, sets the record straight and restores the
72,00 zł -12,64% 62,90 zł
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