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1895

1895

Author: Nicholas Freeman
Publishing date: 2011
Explores the lasting cultural and political impact of the events of this remarkable year Oscar Wilde's libel suit against the Marquess of Queensberry and its disastrous repercussions dominated British newspapers during the spring of 1895, but as this innovative study reveals, the Wilde scandal was by no means the only event to capture the public's imagination that year. Freak weather, a flu epidemic, a General Election, industrial unrest, 'sex novels' and New Women, trials of murderers and fraudsters, accidents, anarchists, bombers, balloonists and bicyclists were all topics of interest and alarm. Had Jack the Ripper returned? Did the Prime Minister have a dreadful secret? Were Aubrey Beardsley's drawings corrupting the nation's morals? Were overpaid foreign players
348.55 zł
Alcohol Flows Across Cultures

Alcohol Flows Across Cultures

Publishing date: 2020
Across a wide geographic range, this book maps changing patterns of drinking. Emphasis is laid on the connected histories of different regions and populations across the globe regarding consumption patterns, government policies, economics and representations of alcohol and drinking.
629.00 zł
London Labour and the...

London Labour and the London Poor

Author: Henry Mayhew
Tom Griffith
Publishing date: 2008
An account of life below the margins in the greatest Metropolis in the world and a portrait of the habits, tastes, amusements, appearance, speech, humour, earnings and opinions of the labouring poor at the time of the Great Exhibition.
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The Great War

The Great War

Author: Isobel Charman
Publishing date: 2015
During the First World War three quarters of a million British people died - a figure so huge that it feels impossible to give it a human context.
69.00 zł
Defeat and Memory

Defeat and Memory

Author: J Macleod
Publishing date: 2008
The legacy of defeat in war reverberates through private and collective memory and remains a sub-text in international relations and political discourse. This book examines the manner in which a series of military defeats have been understood and remembered by individuals and societies in the era of modern industrialised warfare.
276.15 zł
Gems in the Early Modern World

Gems in the Early Modern World

Publishing date: 2018
It asks why people valued gems, how they determined the value of a given gem, and how the value of a gem was connected to its perceived place of origin.
450.00 zł
Royal Rage and the...

Royal Rage and the Construction of Anglo-Norman Authority, c. 1000-1250

Author: Kate McGrath
Publishing date: 2019
This book explores how eleventh- and twelfth-century Anglo-Norman ecclesiastical authors attributed anger to kings in the exercise of their duties, and how such attributions related to larger expansions of royal authority.
313.01 zł
Soviet Dream World of...

Soviet Dream World of Retail Trade & Consumption in the 1930

Author: Amy Randall
Publishing date: 2008
In the early 1930s Soviet authorities launched a campaign to create "socialist" retailing and also endorsed Soviet consumerism. How did the Stalinist regime reconcile retailing and consumption with socialism? This book examines the discourses that the Stalinist regime's new approach to retailing and consumption engendered.
291.90 zł
The New York Times the...

The New York Times the Times of the Seventies

Author: Clyde Haberman
The New York
Publishing date: 2013
There is no better record of events then The New York Times, and now, The Times of the Seventies captures the history, culture, and personalities of the decade through hundreds of hand-selected articles and compelling original commentary in this unique and fascinating book.The New York Times: The Times of the Seventies is a brilliant time capsule containing all of the greatest, most important, and most memorable moments and events from the decade. Organized by sections such as national news, business, science & health, sports, arts & entertainment, life & style, the articles include coverage of historic events like the Watergate scandal, the end of the Vietnam War, the 1973 oil crisis, and the Iranian Revolution of 1979; cultural highlights like the break-up of the
102.90 zł
Underground

Underground

Author: Will Hunt
Publishing date: 2019
'A mesmerizingly fascinating tale, one astonishing adventure after another. I could not stop reading this beautifully written book.' Michael Finkel, author of The Stranger in the Woods'A unique history of a culturally and scientifically important netherworld most people barely know exists.' Booklist'An unusual and intriguing travel book ... A vivid illumination of the dark and an effective evocation of its profound mystery.'Kirkus (starred review) When Will Hunt was sixteen years old, he discovered an abandoned tunnel that ran beneath his house in Providence, Rhode Island. His first tunnel trips inspired a lifelong fascination with exploring underground worlds, from the derelict subway stations and sewers of New York City to sacred caves, catacombs, tombs, bunkers and
66.00 zł
Women and the Ideology of...

Women and the Ideology of Political Exclusion

Publishing date: 2018
Women and the Ideology of Political Exclusion explores the origin and evolution of the political ideology that has kept women away from centres of political power - from the birth of democracy in Ancient Athens to the Modern Era.
767.00 zł
Women, Performance and the...

Women, Performance and the Material of Memory

Author: Laura Engel
Publishing date: 2019
This book proposes that the performance of archival research is related to the experience of tourism, where an individual immerses herself in a foreign environment, relating to and analyzing visual and sensory materials through embodiment and enactment.
294.00 zł