wyszukanych pozycji: 6
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Edge of Empire: Conquest and Collecting in the East 1750–1850
ISBN: 9780007180110 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 388 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Talented historian Maya Jasanoff offers an alternative history of the British Empire. It is not about conquest - but rather a collection of startling and fascinating personal accounts of cross-cultural exchange from those who found themselves on the edges of Empire.
Talented historian Maya Jasanoff offers an alternative history of the British Empire. It is not about conquest - but rather a collection of startling ...
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65,37 |
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Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World
ISBN: 9781400075478 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER
This groundbreaking book offers the first global history of the loyalist exodus to Canada, the Caribbean, Sierra Leone, India, and beyond. At the end of the American Revolution, sixty thousand Americans loyal to the British cause fled the United States and became refugees throughout the British Empire. Liberty s Exiles tells their story. This surprising new account of the founding of the United States and the shaping of the post-revolutionary world traces extraordinary journeys like the one of Elizabeth Johnston, a young... NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER
This groundbreaking book offers the first global history of the loyalist exodus to Canada, the Ca... |
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80,92 |
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The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World
ISBN: 9780007553723 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK BIOGRAPHY PRIZE `Enlightening, compassionate, superb' John le Carre A visionary life and times of Joseph Conrad, and of our global world, from one of the best historians writing today. Migration, terrorism, the tensions between global capitalism and nationalism, the promise and peril of a technological and communications revolution: these forces shaped the life and work of Joseph Conrad at the dawn of the twentieth century. In this brilliant new interpretation of...
SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK BIOGRAPHY PRIZE `Enlightening, compassionate, superb' John le Carre ...
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65,37 |
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Edge of Empire: Lives, Culture, and Conquest in the East, 1750-1850
ISBN: 9781400075461 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In this imaginative book, Maya Jasanoff uncovers the extraordinary stories of collectors who lived on the frontiers of the British Empire in India and Egypt, tracing their exploits to tell an intimate history of imperialism. Jasanoff delves beneath the grand narratives of power, exploitation, and resistance to look at the British Empire through the eyes of the people caught up in it. Written and researched on four continents, Edge of Empire enters a world where people lived, loved, mingled, and identified with one another in ways richer and more complex than previous accounts have led...
In this imaginative book, Maya Jasanoff uncovers the extraordinary stories of collectors who lived on the frontiers of the British Empire in India and...
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88,63 |
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The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World
ISBN: 9780143111047 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Heart of Darkness
ISBN: 9780393358438 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. "[A] triumph of graphic art [and] a compelling work of literary interpretation."-Maya Jasanoff, Coolidge Professor of History, Harvard University, from the Foreword
"[A] triumph of graphic art [and] a compelling work of literary interpretation."-Maya Jasanoff, Coolidge Professor of History, Harvard University, fro...
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66,97 |