ilość książek w kategorii: 472
British Sociability in the Long Eighteenth Century
ISBN: 9781837651283 / Miękka / 18-06-2024 / 320 str. Książka dostępna od: 18-06-2024 |
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Termin ukazania się książki: 18-06-2024
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129,92 zł |
Cornish mysteries
ISBN: 9781446632086 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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144,29 zł |
Nineteenth-Century Gardens and Gardening
ISBN: 9781032698786 / Twarda / 19-06-2024 / 462 str. Książka dostępna od: 19-06-2024 |
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625,81 zł |
Those Damned Rebels
ISBN: 9780306809835 / Angielski / Miękka / 446 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Using firsthand accounts--journals, letters from British officers in the field, reports from colonial governors in the colonies--Michael Pearson has provided a contemporary report of the Revolution as the British witnessed it. Seen from this perspective, some of the major events of the war are given startling interpretations: For example, the British considered their defeat at Bunker Hill nothing more than a minor setback, especially in light of their capture of New York and Philadelphia. Only at the very end of the conflict did they realize that the Yankees had lost the battles but won the...
Using firsthand accounts--journals, letters from British officers in the field, reports from colonial governors in the colonies--Michael Pearson has p...
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107,32 zł |
The London Monster: A Sanguinary Tale
ISBN: 9780306811586 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "The facts in this case are so bizarre that no novelist would have dared to invent them," said the Philadelphia Inquirer. Indeed. A century before Jack the Ripper haunted the streets of London, another predator held sway: a "vulgar-looking man" who slashed at female pedestrians with a knife while uttering profanities with a "tremulous eagerness"--over fifty victims during a two-year crime spree. The city was gripped with fear, outrage, and "Monster mania." The latter was abetted by a 100 reward and by the circulation of bawdy prints that capitalized on the Monster's tendency to slash...
"The facts in this case are so bizarre that no novelist would have dared to invent them," said the Philadelphia Inquirer. Indeed. A century bef...
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85,85 zł |
Origin of the American Revolution, 1759-1766
ISBN: 9780865973831 / Angielski / Miękka / 520 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'Origin of the American Revolution' is the first of Bernhard Knollenberg's two-part history concerning the basis of the conflict between England and its North American colonies from 1759 to 1766. Knollenberg knits together the most important and coincident prerequisite conditions that made the colonial break with England inevitable.
'Origin of the American Revolution' is the first of Bernhard Knollenberg's two-part history concerning the basis of the conflict between England and i...
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94,48 zł |
Origin of the American Revolution, 1759-1766
ISBN: 9780865973824 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Origin of the American Revolution is the first of Bernhard Knollenberg's two-part history concerning the basis of the conflict between England and its North American colonies from 1759 to 1766.
Origin of the American Revolution is the first of Bernhard Knollenberg's two-part history concerning the basis of the conflict between England and its...
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146,01 zł |
The Queen Mother: The Untold Story of Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, Who Became Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother
ISBN: 9781250018977 / Angielski / Twarda / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Packed with stunning revelations, this is the inside story of The Queen Mother from the New York Times bestselling author who first revealed the truth about Princess Diana Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother has been called the "most successful queen since Cleopatra." Her personality was so captivating that even her arch-enemy Wallis Simpson wrote about "her legendary charm." Portrayed as a selfless partner to the King in the Oscar-winning movie The King's Speech, The Queen Mother is most often remembered from her later years as the smiling granny with the pastel hats.... Packed with stunning revelations, this is the inside story of The Queen Mother from the New York Times bestselling author who first revealed... |
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171,74 zł |
Plymouth Building Accounts of the 16th & 17th Centuries
ISBN: 9780901853141 / Angielski / Miękka / 139 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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126,68 zł |
Bath
ISBN: 9781448200634 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 1932, this is the story of eighteenth century Bath, where Beau Nash ruled as uncrowned king for so many years, the fashionable members of English society found a splendid justification for improving their health and enjoying themselves at the same time. They took the waters assiduously, gambled excessively, danced away the evenings at cotillion balls, and spent the mornings strolling along the Parades in their elegant finery, and exchanging gossip in the coffee houses. Writers, actors, artists and politicians shared the city's delights with exalted members of the... First published in 1932, this is the story of eighteenth century Bath, where Beau Nash ruled as uncrowned king for so many years, the fashionable m... |
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86,82 zł |
The 'perpetual Fair': Gender, Disorder and Urban Amusement in Eighteenth-Century London
ISBN: 9780719090912 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Each summer, a 'perpetual fair' plagued eighteenth-century London, a city in transition overrun by a burgeoning population. City officials attempted to control disorderly urban amusement according to their own gendered understandings of order and morality. Frequently derided as locations of dangerous femininity disrupting masculine commerce, fairs withstood regulation attempts. They were important in the lives of ordinary Londoners as sites of women's work, sociability, and local and national identity formation. Rarely studied as vital to London's modernisation, urban fairs were a microcosm...
Each summer, a 'perpetual fair' plagued eighteenth-century London, a city in transition overrun by a burgeoning population. City officials attempted t...
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453,39 zł |
The Catholic Church and the Campaign for Emancipation in Ireland and England
ISBN: 9781846826009 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Catholics in Ireland and England campaigning for relief from the penal laws, and, later, for emancipation, were obliged to deal not only with the governments in Dublin and London but also with the Holy See. In return for concessions they were required to provide 'securities' in the form of oaths, which included allegiance to King George III and his successors, and a rejection of the alleged 'claims' of the papacy which could be used to the detriment of the lawful authority of the British crown. The crown sough the right to veto candidates for the episcopate whom it deemed unsuitable. Both the...
Catholics in Ireland and England campaigning for relief from the penal laws, and, later, for emancipation, were obliged to deal not only with the gove...
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186,69 zł |
Jacobitism and Anti-Jacobitism in the British Atlantic World, 1688-1727
ISBN: 9780861933419 / Angielski / Twarda / 199 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first half of Britain's long eighteenth century was a period fraught with conflicts ranging from civil wars (1688-1691) to a series of Jacobite plots, intrigues, and rebellions. It was also a formative period marked by substantial changes including the growth and centralisation of an empire and the maturation of party politics and the public sphere. Covering almost forty years of this colourful history over an expansive geographical range, the author investigates both the existence and meaning of Jacobitism and anti-Jacobitism throughout Britain's Atlantic empire, concluding that the...
The first half of Britain's long eighteenth century was a period fraught with conflicts ranging from civil wars (1688-1691) to a series of Jacobite pl...
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354,71 zł |
The Trial of Warren Hastings: Classical Oratory and Reception in Eighteenth-Century England
ISBN: 9781784539221 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The impeachment trial of Warren Hastings dragged on for seven years from 1788 to 1795. Hastings was the first Governor-General of India and his trial had a formative impact on the British Empire. Chiara Rolli shows that in an age when British education consisted mainly of classical studies, it was antique views of rhetoric, colonialism and good imperial governance that permeated the trial. Prosecutor Edmund Burke was figured as a modern-day Cicero fighting corruption in the colonies, while Hastings was Verres, a corrupt first century Roman praetor of Sicily. In their prosecution, both Burke...
The impeachment trial of Warren Hastings dragged on for seven years from 1788 to 1795. Hastings was the first Governor-General of India and his trial ...
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557,40 zł |
The Battle of Plassey 1757: The Victory That Won an Empire
ISBN: 9781473885264 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The victory at Plassey in 1757 led to the British becoming the greatest economic and military power in India.
The victory at Plassey in 1757 led to the British becoming the greatest economic and military power in India.
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133,35 zł |
Children of Uncertain Fortune: Mixed-Race Jamaicans in Britain and the Atlantic Family, 1733-1833
ISBN: 9781469634432 / Angielski / Twarda / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. By tracing the largely forgotten eighteenth-century migration of elite mixed-race individuals from Jamaica to Great Britain, Children of Uncertain Fortune reinterprets the evolution of British racial ideologies as a matter of negotiating family membership. Using wills, legal petitions, family correspondences, and inheritance lawsuits, Daniel Livesay is the first scholar to follow the hundreds of children born to white planters and Caribbean women of color who crossed the ocean for educational opportunities, professional apprenticeships, marriage prospects, or refuge from colonial...
By tracing the largely forgotten eighteenth-century migration of elite mixed-race individuals from Jamaica to Great Britain, Children of Uncertain ...
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257,03 zł |
Unearthing the Past to Forge the Future: Colin Mackenzie, the Early Colonial State, and the Comprehensive Survey of India
ISBN: 9781785336898 / Angielski / Twarda / 356 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For much of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the British East India Company consolidated its rule over India, evolving from a trading venture to a colonial administrative force. Yet its territorial gains far outpaced its understanding of the region and the people who lived there, and its desperate efforts to gain knowledge of the area led to the 1815 appointment of army officer Colin Mackenzie as the first Surveyor General of India. This volume carefully reconstructs the life and career of Mackenzie, showing how the massive survey of India that he undertook became one of the most... For much of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the British East India Company consolidated its rule over India, evolving from a trading vent... |
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542,20 zł |
Culliford, Rolfe & Barrow
ISBN: 9781742589374 / Angielski / Miękka / 968 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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480,98 zł |
Elizabeth Craven: Writer, Feminist and European
ISBN: 9781622732753 / Angielski / Twarda / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Elizabeth Craven's fascinating life was full of travel, love-affairs and scandals but this biography, the first to appear for a century, is the only one to focus on her as a writer and draw attention to the full range of her output, which raises her stature as an author considerably. Born into the upper class of Georgian England, she was pushed into marriage at sixteen to Lord Craven and became a celebrated society hostess and beauty, as well as mother to seven children. Though acutely conscious of her relative lack of education, as a woman, she ventured into writing poetry, stories and... Elizabeth Craven's fascinating life was full of travel, love-affairs and scandals but this biography, the first to appear for a century, is the onl... |
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379,97 zł |
Calculated Values: Finance, Politics, and the Quantitative Age
ISBN: 9780674971875 / Angielski / Twarda / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Modern political culture features a deep-seated faith in the power of numbers. But quantitative evidence has not always been revered, as William Deringer shows. After the 1688 Revolution, as Britons learned to fight by the numbers, their enthusiasm for figures arose not from efforts to find objective truths but from the turmoil of politics itself.
Modern political culture features a deep-seated faith in the power of numbers. But quantitative evidence has not always been revered, as William Derin...
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234,43 zł |