wyszukanych pozycji: 26
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Theodor Fontane: Literature and History in the Bismarck Reich
ISBN: 9780195128376 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. First published in Germany to popular and critical acclaim, this is a unique portrait of the life and work of Theodor Fontane, the greatest German novelist of his age, as well as a major poet and theater critic and much loved travel writer. Gordon A. Craig, one of the foremost scholars of German history, interpolates a cohesive historical biography of Fontane with his own reflections on the art, culture, and politics of Fontane's world. The ideas and impressions of Fontane and Craig echo one another throughout the book in compelling and fascinating ways. Fontane's travel accounts of...
First published in Germany to popular and critical acclaim, this is a unique portrait of the life and work of Theodor Fontane, the greatest German nov...
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638,62 zł |
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Tact and Intelligence: Essays on Diplomatic History and International Relations
ISBN: 9780930664268 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 330 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. During a career that spanned sixty years, Gordon A. Craig (1913?2005) was one of America's leading authorities on diplomatic history and international relations. This volume of previously uncollected essays (with one essay published here for the first time) includes several surveys, from different perspectives, of the field of diplomatic history; comparative studies of American and European conceptions of foreign policy and the balance of power; and essays on the theory and practice of diplomacy, focusing especially on the turbulent twentieth century. During a career that spanned sixty years, Gordon A. Craig (1913?2005) was one of America's leading authorities on diplomatic history and internatio... |
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120,84 zł |
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Knowledge and Power: Essays on Politics, Culture, and War
ISBN: 9780930664305 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 330 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Gordon A. Craig (1913-2005), one of America's most distinguished historians of modern Germany, was an indefatigable essayist. This volume gathers previously uncollected articles from the last quarter of a career that spanned six decades. Placing politics in the perspective of culture, and culture in the perspective of politics, these essays examine the persistent tension between liberalism and militarism in German history, and include the author's reflections on political leadership, intellectual creativity, and military catastrophe. Gordon A. Craig (1913-2005), one of America's most distinguished historians of modern Germany, was an indefatigable essayist. This volume gathers p... |
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120,84 zł |
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The Acid Suite: Science Fiction Anthology
ISBN: 9781793083593 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 52 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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30,21 zł |
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Index to the Story of My Days: Some Memoirs of Edward Gordon Craig
ISBN: 9780521280709 / Angielski / Miękka / 1981 / 370 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Edward Gordon Craig (1872 1966) was the most brilliant and influential stage designer this century. Always a controversial figure, he set out to revolutionise the theatre by creating a new art, the art of the theatre. Almost single-handed he formulated the principles on which a modern approach to stage design would be based. In his writings and engravings he transformed stage scenery from painted back-cloth into an abstract three-dimensional world of form and light. Craig's reputation as a designer is firmly established; his brilliance as a writer is only beginning to be recognised. Index to...
Edward Gordon Craig (1872 1966) was the most brilliant and influential stage designer this century. Always a controversial figure, he set out to revol...
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230,16 zł |
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Literary Modernism, Bioscience, and Community in Early 20th Century Britain
ISBN: 9781403977540 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. This book examines the relationship between the literary and bioscientific cultures of the period as a means of exploring the ways in which the comprehension and representation of the human body fundamentally shapes a variety of the period's communal and national visions.
This book examines the relationship between the literary and bioscientific cultures of the period as a means of exploring the ways in which the compre...
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192,30 zł |
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The Politics of the Prussian Army: 1640-1945
ISBN: 9780195002577 / Angielski / Miękka / 1964 / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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686,21 zł |
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Germany 1866-1945
ISBN: 9780192851017 / Angielski / Miękka / 1980 / 842 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This is the history of the rise and fall of united Germany, which lasted only 75 years from its establishment by Bismark in 1870, and ended in the rubble of Hitler's regime. Gordon Craig not only analyses the political structures of and the foreign, social, and economic policies of successive governments, but also examines the individuals who dominated the period and the important intellectual and cultural influences at work. His fascinating chapter on the rich diversity of Weimar culture - Mann and Hesse, Marlene Deitrich and film, Brecht, Schonberg, Expressionist art, and the growth of...
This is the history of the rise and fall of united Germany, which lasted only 75 years from its establishment by Bismark in 1870, and ended in the rub...
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326,05 zł |
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The Battle of Königgrätz: Prussia's Victory Over Austria, 1866
ISBN: 9780812218442 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The Battle of Koniggratz Prussia's Victory over Austria, 1866 Gordon A. Craig "The campaign and its military importance are described with exemplary clarity, aided by effective maps and a keen sense of geography."--American Historical Review Koniggratz, a city overlooking the river Elbe, was a western strongpoint of the Austrian Empire. On the morning of July 3, 1866, Prussia attacked the city against high odds and defeated the Austrian army in a single day, despite the Austrian advantage in heavy artillery and command of the high ground. The fall of Koniggratz transferred power over...
The Battle of Koniggratz Prussia's Victory over Austria, 1866 Gordon A. Craig "The campaign and its military importance are described with exemplary c...
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107,82 zł |
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The End of Prussia
ISBN: 9780299097349 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 110 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. One of the livelier debates amongst historians concerns the dates of the beginning and, particularly, the end of Prussian history. Eminent historian Gordon A. Craig explores the slow death of Prussia by examining several key individuals and their actions at four distinct periods of Prussian history. One of the livelier debates amongst historians concerns the dates of the beginning and, particularly, the end of Prussian history. Eminent historia... |
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103,97 zł |
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The Politics of the Unpolitical: German Writers and the Problem of Power, 1770-1871
ISBN: 9780195094992 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In a book written during the First World War, Thomas Mann wrote that political activity was alien to the German spirit and that "in fact the political element was absent from the German concept of education." The Politics of the Unpolitical demonstrates the essential unreliability of this generalization by focusing on the political activity of ten of Germany's most widely respected writers in the period from the French Revolution to the founding of the Bismarck Reich in 1871.
Gordon A. Craig's book shows how Goethe, Schiller, Heinrich von Kleist, Wilhelm von Humboldt, Holderlin,... In a book written during the First World War, Thomas Mann wrote that political activity was alien to the German spirit and that "in fact the political...
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368,99 zł |
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The Germans
ISBN: 9780452010857 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. They have given mankind unique triumphs in science, literature, philosophy, music, and art. They have also produced Hitler and the Holocaust. They are romantic and conservative, idealistic and practical, proud and insecure, ruthless and good-natured. They are, in short, the Germans. In this definitive history, Professor Gordon A. Craig, one of the world's premier authorities on Germany, comes to grips with the complex paradoxes at the heart of the German identity. His masterly study explores the roots of many contemporary institutions in German history and closely examines such topics as...
They have given mankind unique triumphs in science, literature, philosophy, music, and art. They have also produced Hitler and the Holocaust. They are...
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98,78 zł |
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On the Art of the Theatre
ISBN: 9780415450331 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 154 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Actor, director, designer and pioneering theorist, Edward Gordon Craig was one of theatre's great modernisers, as well as being largely responsible for the revival of interest in Elizabethan stagecraft in modern times. This edition of his key work on the theatre contains summaries, footnotes and endnotes for each essay.
Actor, director, designer and pioneering theorist, Edward Gordon Craig was one of theatre's great modernisers, as well as being largely responsible fo...
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680,04 zł |
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Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age
ISBN: 9780691027647 / Angielski / Miękka / 1986 / 952 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. The essays in this volume analyze war, its strategic characterisitics and its political and social functions, over the past five centuries. The diversity of its themes and the broad perspectives applied to them make the book a work of general history as much as a history of the theory and practice of war from the Renaissance to the present. Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age takes the first part of its title from an earlier collection of essays, published by Princeton University Press in 1943, which became a classic of historical scholarship. Three essays... The essays in this volume analyze war, its strategic characterisitics and its political and social functions, over the past five centuries. The div... |
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275,73 zł |
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Deutsche Geschichte 1866-1945 : Vom Norddeutschen Bund bis zum Ende des Dritten Reiches
ISBN: 9783406421068 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2007 / 989 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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40,50 zł |
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Das Ende Preussens : Acht Porträts
ISBN: 9783406459641 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2001 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Das Ende Preuens - so der amerikanische Historiker Gordon A. Craig - war ein langsamer und schmerzlicher Proze, der mit der Niederlage der preuischen Armee 1806 bei Jena einsetzte. Gordon A. Craig macht uns in seinem erfolgreichen Buch, das in neuer Ausstattung in der Beckschen Reihe vorgelegt wird, mit acht faszinierenden Einzelpersnlichkeiten bekannt, durch deren Augen er diesen Proze auf hchst originelle und brillante Weise beschreibt.
Das Ende Preuens - so der amerikanische Historiker Gordon A. Craig - war ein langsamer und schmerzlicher Proze, der mit der Niederlage der preuischen ...
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44,80 zł |
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Literary Modernism, Bioscience, and Community in Early 20th Century Britain
ISBN: 9781349537594 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. This book examines the relationship between the literary and bioscientific cultures of the period as a means of exploring the ways in which the comprehension and representation of the human body fundamentally shapes a variety of the period's communal and national visions.
This book examines the relationship between the literary and bioscientific cultures of the period as a means of exploring the ways in which the compre...
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192,30 zł |
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The Diplomats, 1919-1939
ISBN: 9780691036601 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 728 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The description for this book, The Diplomats, 1919-1939, will be forthcoming. The description for this book, The Diplomats, 1919-1939, will be forthcoming. |
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445,41 zł |
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The Diplomats, 1939-1979
ISBN: 9780691656328 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 784 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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1992,64 zł |
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The Diplomats, 1939-1979
ISBN: 9780691604473 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 784 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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826,61 zł |