ilość książek w kategorii: 525
The Crisis: A British Defense of American Rights, 1775-1776
ISBN: 9780865978959 / Angielski / Miękka / 816 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Crisiswas a London weekly published between January 1775 and October 1776. It was the longest-running weekly pamphlet series printed in the British Atlantic world during those years, and it used unusually bold, pithy language. Neither the longevity of the effort nor the colorful language employed would be reason enough to collect and print all ninety-two issues under one cover in a modern edition.The Crisislays claim to our attention because of its place in the rise of freedom of the press, its self-conscious attempt to create a transatlantic community of protest,... The Crisiswas a London weekly published between January 1775 and October 1776. It was the longest-running weekly pamphlet series prin... |
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63,03 zł |
A Visitor's Guide to Georgian England
ISBN: 9781473876859 / Angielski / Miękka / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why not travel back in time and fancy yourself as a Georgian? Monica Hall transports you to this boisterous period.
Why not travel back in time and fancy yourself as a Georgian? Monica Hall transports you to this boisterous period.
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71,34 zł |
Tastes of the Empire: Foreign Foods in Seventeenth Century England
ISBN: 9781476668628 / Angielski / Miękka / 225 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During the 17th century, England saw foreign foods made increasingly available to consumers and featured in recipe books, medical manuals, treatises, travel narratives, even in plays. Yet the public's fascination with these foods went beyond just eating them. Through exotic presentations in popular culture, they were able to mentally partake of products of the colonies they may not have had access to. This book examines the "body and mind" consumerism of the early British Empire.
During the 17th century, England saw foreign foods made increasingly available to consumers and featured in recipe books, medical manuals, treatises, ...
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188,57 zł |
The Townshend Moment: The Making of Empire and Revolution in the Eighteenth Century
ISBN: 9780300218978 / Angielski / Twarda / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The captivating story of two British brothers whose attempts to reform an empire helped to incite rebellion and revolution in America and insurgency and reform in Ireland
Patrick Griffin chronicles the attempts of brothers Charles and George Townshend to control the forces of history in the heady days after Britain's mythic victory over France in the mid-eighteenth century, and the historic and unintended consequences of their efforts. As British chancellor of the exchequer in 1767, Charles Townshend instituted fiscal policy that served as a catalyst for American rebellion... The captivating story of two British brothers whose attempts to reform an empire helped to incite rebellion and revolution in America and insurgenc...
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205,94 zł |
Dark Days of Georgian Britain: Rethinking the Regency
ISBN: 9781526702548 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores the darker side of life in Regency Britain, 1811-1820.
This book explores the darker side of life in Regency Britain, 1811-1820.
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109,78 zł |
Fontenoy, Britain & The War of Austrian Succession, 1740-1748, With a Short Account of the Battle of Fontenoy
ISBN: 9781782826446 / Angielski / Twarda / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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141,19 zł |
Fontenoy, Britain & The War of Austrian Succession, 1740-1748, With a Short Account of the Battle of Fontenoy
ISBN: 9781782826453 / Angielski / Miękka / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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87,63 zł |
Disciplining the Empire: Politics, Governance, and the Rise of the British Navy
ISBN: 9780674976207 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sarah Kinkel shows that the rise of British naval power was neither inevitable nor unquestioned: it was the outcome of fierce battles over the shape of Britain's empire and the bonds of political authority. The Navy was one of many battlefields where British subjects debated whether the empire would be ruled from Parliament down or the people up.
Sarah Kinkel shows that the rise of British naval power was neither inevitable nor unquestioned: it was the outcome of fierce battles over the shape o...
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241,35 zł |
The East India Company at Home, 1757-1857
ISBN: 9781787350298 / Angielski / Miękka / 500 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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181,08 zł |
History of Bartow County, Georgia. (Formerly Cass County)
ISBN: 9780893080051 / Angielski / Miękka / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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219,09 zł |
Devon Maps and Map-Makers: Manuscript Maps Before 1840
ISBN: 9780901853981 / Angielski / Miękka / 442 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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156,51 zł |
The Regency Years: During Which Jane Austen Writes, Napoleon Fights, Byron Makes Love, and Britain Becomes Modern
ISBN: 9780393249057 / Angielski / Twarda / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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131,74 zł |
The Peterloo Massacre
ISBN: 9781785038648 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Unity of the oppressed can make a difference in politically uncertain times A peaceful protest turned tragedy; In this definitive account Joyce Marlow tells the stories of the real people involved and brings to life the atrocity the government attempted to cover up.
Unity of the oppressed can make a difference in politically uncertain times A peaceful protest turned tragedy; In this definitive account Joyce Marlow...
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54,86 zł |
The Midas of Manumission: The Orphan Samuel Gist and his Virginian Slaves
ISBN: 9781912829040 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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112,94 zł |
The Midas of Manumission: The Orphan Samuel Gist and his Virginian Slaves
ISBN: 9781912829057 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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95,59 zł |
British Sociability in the Long Eighteenth Century: Challenging the Anglo-French Connection
ISBN: 9781783273591 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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495,61 zł |
The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire
ISBN: 9781635573954 / Angielski / Twarda / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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152,15 zł |
Civic identity and public space: Belfast since 1780
ISBN: 9780719086366 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Civic identity and public space, focussing on Belfast, and bringing together the work of a historian and two social scientists, offers a new perspective on the sometimes lethal conflicts over parades, flags and other issues that continue to disrupt political life in Northern Ireland. It examines the emergence during the nineteenth century of the concept of public space and the development of new strategies for its regulation, the establishment, the new conditions created by the emergence in 1920 of a Northern Ireland state, of a near monopoly of public space enjoyed by Protestants and...
Civic identity and public space, focussing on Belfast, and bringing together the work of a historian and two social scientists, offers a new perspecti...
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466,78 zł |
Writing the History of the British Stage: 1660-1900
ISBN: 9781316617762 / Angielski / Miękka / 405 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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189,12 zł |
Peterloo: The Story of the Manchester Massacre
ISBN: 9781786695840 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The story of the Peterloo massacre, a defining moment in the history of British democracy, told with passion and authority. 'A superb account of one of the defining moments in modern British history' Tristram Hunt. 'Peterloo is one of the greatest scandals of British political history ... Jacqueline Riding tells this tragic story with mesmerising skill' John Bew. 'Fast-paced and full of fascinating detail' Tim Clayton. On a hot late summer's day, a crowd of 60,000 gathered in St Peter's Field. They came from all over Lancashire - ordinary working-class men, women and children -...
The story of the Peterloo massacre, a defining moment in the history of British democracy, told with passion and authority. 'A superb account of one ...
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49,37 zł |