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Picturing India: People, Places, and the World of the East India Company
ISBN: 9780295742939 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The British engagement with India was an intensely visual one. Images of the subcontinent, produced by artists and travelers in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century heyday of the East India Company, reflect the increasingly important role played by the Company in Indian life. And they mirror significant shifts in British policy and attitudes toward India. The Company's story is one of wealth, power, and the pursuit of profit. It changed what people in Europe ate, what they drank, and how they dressed. Ultimately, it laid the foundations of the British Raj. Few historians have... The British engagement with India was an intensely visual one. Images of the subcontinent, produced by artists and travelers in the eighteenth- and... |
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186,73 zł |
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Britain's Maritime Empire: Southern Africa, the South Atlantic and the Indian Ocean, 1763-1820
ISBN: 9781107498211 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 289 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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158,58 zł |
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The Royal Navy and the British Atlantic World, C. 1750-1820
ISBN: 9781349701308 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 223 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. This book foregrounds the role of the Royal Navy in creating the British Atlantic in the eighteenth century. It outlines the closely entwined connections between the nurturing of naval supremacy, the politics of commercial protection, and the development of national and imperial identities - crucial factors in the consolidation and transformation of the British Atlantic empire. The collection brings together scholars working on aspects of the Royal Navy and the British Atlantic in order to gain a better understanding of the ways that the Navy protected, facilitated, and shaped the...
This book foregrounds the role of the Royal Navy in creating the British Atlantic in the eighteenth century. It outlines the closely entwined connecti...
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459,42 zł |
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Britain's Maritime Empire: Southern Africa, the South Atlantic and the Indian Ocean, 1763-1820
ISBN: 9781107100725 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A fascinating new study in which John McAleer explores the maritime gateway to Asia around the Cape of Good Hope and its critical role in the establishment, consolidation and maintenance of the British Empire in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Situated at the centre of a maritime chain that connected seas and continents, this gateway bridged the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, which, with its commercial links and strategic requirements, formed a global web that reflected the development of the British Empire in the period. The book examines how contemporaries perceived, understood...
A fascinating new study in which John McAleer explores the maritime gateway to Asia around the Cape of Good Hope and its critical role in the establis...
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512,44 zł |
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Rex Stout: A Majesty's Life-Millennium Edition
ISBN: 9780918736444 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 668 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The acclaimed Edgar winning biography of the creator of detective Nero Wolfe, is now published with the title McAleer always wanted. Includes new photos and Introduction by Professor McAlee.
The acclaimed Edgar winning biography of the creator of detective Nero Wolfe, is now published with the title McAleer always wanted. Includes new phot...
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136,37 zł |
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The Royal Navy and the British Atlantic World, C. 1750-1820
ISBN: 9781137507648 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 223 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. This bookforegrounds the role of the Royal Navy in creating the British Atlantic in theeighteenth century.
This bookforegrounds the role of the Royal Navy in creating the British Atlantic in theeighteenth century.
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459,42 zł |
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Representing Africa: Landscape, Exploration and Empire in Southern Africa, 1780-1870
ISBN: 9780719081040 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Southern Africa played a varied but vital role in Britain's maritime and imperial stories: it was one of the most intricate pieces in the British imperial strategic jigsaw, and representations of southern African landscape and maritime spaces reflect its multifaceted position.
'Representing Africa' examines the ways in which British travellers, explorers and artists viewed southern Africa in a period of evolving and expanding British interest in the region. Drawing on a wide range of archival sources, contemporary travelogues and visual images, many of which have not previously been... Southern Africa played a varied but vital role in Britain's maritime and imperial stories: it was one of the most intricate pieces in the British impe...
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464,10 zł |
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Captain Cook and the Pacific: Art, Exploration and Empire
ISBN: 9780300207248 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. British Royal Navy Captain James Cook's voyages of exploration across and around the Pacific Ocean were a marvel of maritime achievement, and provided the first accurate map of the Pacific. The expeditions answered key scientific, economic, and geographic questions, and inspired some of the most influential images of the Pacific made by Europeans. Now readers can immerse themselves in the adventure through the collections of London's National Maritime Museum, which illuminate every aspect of the voyages: oil paintings of lush landscapes, scientific and navigational instruments, ship plans,...
British Royal Navy Captain James Cook's voyages of exploration across and around the Pacific Ocean were a marvel of maritime achievement, and provided...
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218,40 zł |
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Jane Austen the Woman: Some Biographical Insights
ISBN: 9780312126889 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. By focusing on the woman rather than the author, George Tucker paints a new and welcome picture of Jane Austen: not the spinster recluse of previous biographies, but a vibrant, well-traveled woman who was very much a part of the world in which she lived. By focusing on the woman rather than the author, George Tucker paints a new and welcome picture of Jane Austen: not the spinster recluse of previou... |
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99,70 zł |
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Exhibiting the Empire: Cultures of Display and the British Empire
ISBN: 9780719091094 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Exhibiting the empire considers how a whole range of cultural products - from paintings, prints, photographs, panoramas and 'popular' texts to ephemera, newspapers and the press, theatre and music, exhibitions, institutions and architecture - were used to record, celebrate and question the development of the British Empire. It represents a significant and original contribution to our understanding of the relationship between culture and empire. Written by leading scholars from a range of disciplinary backgrounds, individual chapters bring fresh perspectives to the interpretation of media,...
Exhibiting the empire considers how a whole range of cultural products - from paintings, prints, photographs, panoramas and 'popular' texts to ephemer...
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491,40 zł |
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Islands and the British Empire in the Age of Sail
ISBN: 9780198847229 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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414,16 zł |
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Mystery Writing in a Nutshell
ISBN: 9781596635050 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Edgar Allan Poe Award winner, Pulitzer Prize nominee, and best-selling author John McAleer, Ph.D. (Harvard), taught crime fiction at Boston College for nearly four decades, nurturing authors like George V. Higgins (The Friends of Eddie Coyle), Chuck Hogan (The Standoff), Margaret McLean (Under Oath), James Devlin (Elmore Leonard), and Ted Murphy (the "Belltown Mysteries"). Now he and his son, Andrew McAleer-also a mystery author and Professor of Crime Fiction at Boston College-share the secrets, techniques and art of crafting the mystery novel. Mystery Writing in a Nutshell is an invaluable...
Edgar Allan Poe Award winner, Pulitzer Prize nominee, and best-selling author John McAleer, Ph.D. (Harvard), taught crime fiction at Boston College fo...
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51,82 zł |
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Curating Empire: Museums and the British Imperial Experience
ISBN: 9781784993467 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Curating empire explores the diverse roles played by museums and their curators in moulding and representing the British imperial experience. The establishment of museums throughout the British Empire is increasingly recognised as part of the context of imperialism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, both practically and symbolically. Focusing on a range of curators and museums, this collection demonstrates how individuals, their curatorial practices, and intellectual and political agendas influenced the direction of their institutions, the interpretation of material, and the...
Curating empire explores the diverse roles played by museums and their curators in moulding and representing the British imperial experience. The esta...
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109,15 zł |
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Atlantic Voyages: The East India Company and the British Route to the East in the Age of Sail
ISBN: 9780192894748 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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414,16 zł |
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