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Patriots and Liberators
ISBN: 9780006861560 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A timely reissue of Simon Schama's landmark study of the Netherlands from 1780-1813, this is a tale of a once-powerful nation's desparate struggle to survive the treacheries and brutality of European war and politics. Between 1780 and 1813 the Dutch Republic -- a country once rich enough to be called the cash till of Europe and powerful enough to make war with England -- was stripped of its colonies, invaded by its enemies, driven to the edge of bankruptcy, and, finally, reduced to becoming an appendage of the French empire -- an appendage not even the French seemed to value overmuch. Out of...
A timely reissue of Simon Schama's landmark study of the Netherlands from 1780-1813, this is a tale of a once-powerful nation's desparate struggle to ...
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The Basque History Of The World
ISBN: 9780099284130 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. They are a mythical people, almost an imagined people, writes Kurlansky. Signs of their civilization exist well before the arrival of the Romans in 218BC. Their forbidden tongue is equally mysterious, it is related to no other, but today the Basques are enjoying what may be the most important cultural renaissance in their long existence.
They are a mythical people, almost an imagined people, writes Kurlansky. Signs of their civilization exist well before the arrival of the Romans in 21...
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A young man suddenly emerged claiming to be Richard of York, the younger of the Princes in the Tower. As such, he tormented Henry vii for eight years. He tried three times to invade England and behaved like a prince. Officially, however, he was proclaimed to be Perkin Warbeck, the son of a Flemish boatman.
A young man suddenly emerged claiming to be Richard of York, the younger of the Princes in the Tower. As such, he tormented Henry vii for eight years....
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91,80 |
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Civilization : A New History of the Western World
ISBN: 9780099526063 / Angielski / Miękka / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Through a vivid and dramatic interrogation of the past, this work examines and illuminates the nature of Western civilization from its earliest incarnations.
Through a vivid and dramatic interrogation of the past, this work examines and illuminates the nature of Western civilization from its earliest incarn...
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91,80 |
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1759: The Year Britain Became Master of the World
ISBN: 9780099526391 / Angielski / Miękka / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Drawing on a mass of primary materials - from texts in the Vatican archives to oral histories of the North American Indians, this title shows how the conflict between Britain and France triggered the first 'world war', raging from Europe to Africa; the Caribbean to the Pacific; the plains of the Ganges to the Great Lakes of North America.
Drawing on a mass of primary materials - from texts in the Vatican archives to oral histories of the North American Indians, this title shows how the ...
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65,37 |
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Victoria's Wars: The Rise of Empire
ISBN: 9780141005553 / Angielski / Miękka / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Explores the early part of Queen Victoria's reign, when the British Empire was well on the way to becoming the greatest empire the world had ever seen. This title shows how Britain ruthlessly exploited her position as the world's only superpower to expand her empire.
Explores the early part of Queen Victoria's reign, when the British Empire was well on the way to becoming the greatest empire the world had ever seen...
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The Anatomy of Fascism
ISBN: 9780141014326 / Angielski / Miękka / 321 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Fascism was the major political invention of the twentieth century and the source of much of its pain. How can we try to comprehend its allure and its horror? Is it a philosophy, a movement, an aesthetic experience? What makes states and nations become fascist?
Fascism was the major political invention of the twentieth century and the source of much of its pain. How can we try to comprehend its allure and its...
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Closing the Ring: The Second World War
ISBN: 9780141441764 / Angielski / Miękka / 704 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Winston Churchill's six-volume history of the cataclysm that swept the world remains the definitive history of the Second World War.
Winston Churchill's six-volume history of the cataclysm that swept the world remains the definitive history of the Second World War.
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Tudorism: Historical Imagination and the Appropriation of the Sixteenth Century
ISBN: 9780197264942 / Angielski / Twarda / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first in-depth and wide-ranging academic investigation of the reception of the Tudor period in the modern world, this volume includes studies by many of the leading scholars in their fields, and considers the modern appropriation of the Tudors in art, music, architecture, design, religion, public history, social history, film and television, and internet networking sites. A noteworthy scholarly trend in recent decades has been a growing interest in the ways in which societies utilise the past as a cultural resource, as a repertoire of quotable designs and styles, as a vantage point from...
The first in-depth and wide-ranging academic investigation of the reception of the Tudor period in the modern world, this volume includes studies by m...
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Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity 1650-1750
ISBN: 9780199254569 / Angielski / Miękka / 832 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the wake of the Scientific Revolution, the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries saw the complete demolition of traditional structures of authority, scientific thought, and belief by the new philosophy and the philosophers, including Voltaire, Diderot, and Rousseau. The Radical Enlightenment played a part in this revolutionary process, which effectively overthrew all justification for monarchy, aristocracy, and ecclesiastical power, as well as man's dominance over woman, theological dominance of education, and slavery. Despite the present day interest in the revolutions of the...
In the wake of the Scientific Revolution, the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries saw the complete demolition of traditional structures of autho...
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The Oxford Handbook of Modern Scottish History
ISBN: 9780199563692 / Angielski / Twarda / 768 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Over the last three decades major advances in research and scholarship have transformed understanding of the Scottish past. In this landmark study some of the most eminent writers on the subject, together with emerging new talents, have combined to produce a large-scale volume which reconsiders in fresh and illuminating ways the classic themes of the nation's history since the sixteenth century as well as a number of new topics which are only now receiving detailed attention. Such major themes as the Reformation, the Union of 1707, the Scottish Enlightenment, Clearances, Industrialisation,...
Over the last three decades major advances in research and scholarship have transformed understanding of the Scottish past. In this landmark study som...
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The Triumph of the Dark
ISBN: 9780199676095 / Angielski / Miękka / 1248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this magisterial narrative, Zara Steiner traces the twisted road to war that began with Hitler's assumption of power in Germany. Covering a wide geographical canvas, from America to the Far East, Steiner provides an indispensable reassessment of the most disputed events of these tumultuous years. Steiner underlines the far-reaching consequences of the Great Depression, which shifted the initiative in international affairs from those who upheld the status quo to those who were intent on destroying it. In Europe, the l930s were Hitler's years. He moved the major chess pieces on the...
In this magisterial narrative, Zara Steiner traces the twisted road to war that began with Hitler's assumption of power in Germany. Covering a wide ge...
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The Sorrows of Belgium: Liberation and Political Reconstruction, 1944-1947
ISBN: 9780199694341 / Angielski / Twarda / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This title provides a vivid account of the conflicts in western Europe, specifically Belgium, at the end of the Second World War; from the Allied liberation to the departure of the Communist ministers from government in 1947.
This title provides a vivid account of the conflicts in western Europe, specifically Belgium, at the end of the Second World War; from the Allied libe...
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The Communal Age in Western Europe, c.1100-1800: Towns, Villages and Parishes in Pre-Modern Society
ISBN: 9780230536852 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An essential introductory survey of the towns, villages and parishes in which people lived in the medieval and early modern periods. Beat Kumin assesses the similarities, differences and the wider significance of these communities for European society prior to 1800.
An essential introductory survey of the towns, villages and parishes in which people lived in the medieval and early modern periods. Beat Kumin assess...
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The Immigrant Threat: The Integration of Old and New Migrants in Western Europe Since 1850
ISBN: 9780252072949 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Focuses on large and problematic groups from Western Europe's past (the Irish in the United Kingdom, the Poles in Germany, and the Italians in France) and demonstrates a number of structural similarities in the way migrants and their descendants integrated into these nation states.
Focuses on large and problematic groups from Western Europe's past (the Irish in the United Kingdom, the Poles in Germany, and the Italians in France)...
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Fortress Malta: An Island Under Siege 1940-1943
ISBN: 9780304366545 / Angielski / Miękka / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The extraordinary drama of Malta's WWII victory against impossible odds told through the eyes of the people who were there.
The extraordinary drama of Malta's WWII victory against impossible odds told through the eyes of the people who were there.
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The Ornament Of The World
ISBN: 9780316168717 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dispelling the myths that the Middle Ages were rife with religious persecution and intellectual stagnation, this glimpse into the world of medieval Spain reveals a culture where literature, science and tolerance thrived for 500 years.
Dispelling the myths that the Middle Ages were rife with religious persecution and intellectual stagnation, this glimpse into the world of medieval Sp...
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The Habsburg Monarchy C.1765-1918: From Enlightenment to Eclipse
ISBN: 9780333396544 / Angielski / Miękka / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Habsburg Monarchy thoroughly explores the dynastic characters and the multi-national complexity of the region as well as the way the Monarchy dealt with issues within the European framework, like the ending of Absolutism and education. The book spans from Joseph II's accession as Holy Roman Emperor and joint ruler of the Habsburg lands with his Mother Maria Theresa in 1765 to its fall in 1918. Utilizing English, German, Serbo-Croat, Czech, and Magyar sources, as well as others, this book is the most comprehensive history of the Habsburg Empire ever written.
The Habsburg Monarchy thoroughly explores the dynastic characters and the multi-national complexity of the region as well as the way the Monarchy deal...
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The Edwardians
ISBN: 9780349116624 / Angielski / Miękka / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Following on from the success of A N. Wilson's THE VICTORIANS, Roy Hattersley's major new appraisal of Edwardian Britain is his finest book to date
Following on from the success of A N. Wilson's THE VICTORIANS, Roy Hattersley's major new appraisal of Edwardian Britain is his finest book to date
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Furnishing the Eighteenth Century: What Furniture Can Tell Us about the European and American Past
ISBN: 9780415884792 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'Furnishing the 18th Century' is a collection of original essays that delves into the history of furniture, examining everyday items such as tea tables, jewellery boxes, dressers and sofas to uncover the social practices of the 18th century.
'Furnishing the 18th Century' is a collection of original essays that delves into the history of furniture, examining everyday items such as tea table...
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