Ordinary Women, Extraordinary Lives: Norfolk women in the first half of the twentieth century
ISBN: 9781909796317 / Angielski / Miękka / 118 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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64,83 zł |
Justice Denied: Friends, Foes and the Miners' Strike
ISBN: 9780850367300 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. TV portraits of the Miners' strike of 1984/5 stressed the violence of the pickets and responsible policing. This book challenges those images, looks at the impact of the strike on participants, and reflects on ongoing controversies and community pride.
TV portraits of the Miners' strike of 1984/5 stressed the violence of the pickets and responsible policing. This book challenges those images, looks a...
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121,42 zł |
Britain's Cold War: Culture, Modernity and the Soviet Threat
ISBN: 9781784538057 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The cultural history of the Cold War has been characterised as an explosion of fear and paranoia, based on very little actual intelligence. Both the US and Soviet administrations have since remarked how far off the mark their predictions of the other's strengths and aims were. So much of the cultural output of the period - in television, film, and literature - was concerned with the end of the world. Here, Nicholas Barnett looks at art and design, opinion polls, the Mass Observation movement, popular fiction and newspapers to show how exactly British people felt about the Soviet Union and the...
The cultural history of the Cold War has been characterised as an explosion of fear and paranoia, based on very little actual intelligence. Both the U...
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622,44 zł |
Brutality in an Age of Human Rights: Activism and Counterinsurgency at the End of the British Empire
ISBN: 9781501714658 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Brutality in an Age of Human Rights, Brian Drohan demonstrates that British officials' choices concerning counterinsurgency methods have long been deeply influenced or even redirected by the work of human rights activists. To reveal how that influence was manifested by military policies and practices, Drohan examines three British...
In Brutality in an Age of Human Rights, Brian Drohan demonstrates that British officials' choices concerning counterinsurgency methods have long been ...
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223,04 zł |
Playboys and Mayfair Men: Crime, Class, Masculinity, and Fascism in 1930s London
ISBN: 9781421423470 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An original and exciting cultural history of 1930s Britain, this innovative book and the exploits of its dissolute playboys will appeal to true-crime readers and historians alike.
An original and exciting cultural history of 1930s Britain, this innovative book and the exploits of its dissolute playboys will appeal to true-crime ...
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122,85 zł |
Darkest Hour: How Churchill Brought England Back from the Brink
ISBN: 9780062790767 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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99,70 zł |
Imperial Control in Cyprus: Education and Political Manipulation in the British Empire
ISBN: 9781784539528 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Protectorate Cyprus, education was one of the most effective tools of imperial control and political manipulation used by the British. Imperial Control in Cyprus charts the cultural and educational aspects of British colonial rule in Cyprus and analyzes what these policies reveal about the internal struggles on the island between 1931 and 1960. Cyprus had been under British occupation since 1878, but it was in the 1930s that educational policies acquired a strong political significance and became essential in preserving the British position on the island. The co-existence...In Protectorate Cyprus, education was one of the most effective tools of imperial control and political manipulation used by the British. Imper... |
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622,44 zł |
1917 - The Passchendaele Year: The British Army in Flanders: The Diary of Achiel Van Walleghem
ISBN: 9781911454410 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This unusual work offers a personal documentary and highly individual witness to the terrible events in Flanders in 1917. The Battle of "Third Ypres" - popularly known as "Passchendaele" - epitomized the worst slaughter on the western front of the First World War. Many thousands killed, to no avail; the trenches full of mud; the total annihilation of the landscape; attempts to break through to victory which only produced minor movement forward, and at a terrible cost.This book tells the previously untold story of daily life immediately behind the frontline during the tragic year of 1917.The...
This unusual work offers a personal documentary and highly individual witness to the terrible events in Flanders in 1917. The Battle of "Third Ypres" ...
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363,07 zł |
Darkest Hour: How Churchill Brought England Back from the Brink
ISBN: 9780062749529 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the acclaimed novelist and screenwriter of The Theory of Everything comes a revisionist look at the period immediately following Winston Churchill's ascendancy to Prime Minister--soon to be a major motion picture starring Gary Oldman. May 1940. Britain is at war, Winston Churchill has unexpectedly been promoted to Prime Minister, the horrors of Blitzkreig witness one western European Democracy fall after another in rapid succession. Facing this horror, with pen in hand and typist-secretary at the ready, Churchill wonders what words could capture the public mood when... From the acclaimed novelist and screenwriter of The Theory of Everything comes a revisionist look at the period immediately following Wins... |
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86,69 zł |
1917 - The Passchendaele Year: The British Army in Flanders: The Diary of Achiel Van Walleghem
ISBN: 9781911454403 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This unusual work offers a personal documentary and highly individual witness to the terrible events in Flanders in 1917. The Battle of "Third Ypres" - popularly known as "Passchendaele" - epitomized the worst slaughter on the western front of the First World War. Many thousands killed, to no avail; the trenches full of mud; the total annihilation of the landscape; attempts to break through to victory which only produced minor movement forward, and at a terrible cost.This book tells the previously untold story of daily life immediately behind the frontline during the tragic year of 1917.The...
This unusual work offers a personal documentary and highly individual witness to the terrible events in Flanders in 1917. The Battle of "Third Ypres" ...
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166,97 zł |
No Future: Punk, Politics and British Youth Culture, 1976-1984
ISBN: 9781107176898 / Angielski / Twarda / 414 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An innovative history of British youth culture during the 1970s and 1980s, charting the full spectrum of punk's cultural development.
An innovative history of British youth culture during the 1970s and 1980s, charting the full spectrum of punk's cultural development.
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399,42 zł |
No Future: Punk, Politics and British Youth Culture, 1976-1984
ISBN: 9781316625606 / Angielski / Miękka / 414 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An innovative history of British youth culture during the 1970s and 1980s, charting the full spectrum of punk's cultural development.
An innovative history of British youth culture during the 1970s and 1980s, charting the full spectrum of punk's cultural development.
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104,53 zł |
Reconstructing Modernity: Space, Power and Governance in Mid-Twentieth Century British Cities
ISBN: 9781526114143 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Reconstructing modernity assesses the character of approaches to rebuilding British cities during the decades after the Second World War. It explores the strategies of spatial governance that sought to restructure society and looks at the cast of characters who shaped these processes. It challenges traditional views of urban modernism and sheds new light on the importance of the immediate post-war for the trajectory of planned urban renewal in twentieth century. It examines plans and policies designed to produce and govern lived spaces - shopping centers, housing estates, parks, schools...
Reconstructing modernity assesses the character of approaches to rebuilding British cities during the decades after the Second World War. It explores ...
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430,74 zł |
Palestinians and British Perfidy: The Tragic Aftermath of the Balfour Declaration of 1917
ISBN: 9781845198961 / Angielski / Twarda / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ottoman Turkey's decision to ally with Germany in the First World War led directly to the British (and French) conquest of the Middle East and sealed the fate of Palestine. In a monstrous betrayal of its people, 93 percent of them Arab, the November 1917 Balfour Declaration withheld the independence they rightly anticipated and for strategic reasons earmarked Palestine as a National Home for the Jewish People. Ronald Storrs, a British Foreign and Colonial Office official, remarked that 'The U.K. proposed to hand (Palestine), without consulting the occupants, to a third party; and what sort of...
Ottoman Turkey's decision to ally with Germany in the First World War led directly to the British (and French) conquest of the Middle East and sealed ...
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546,00 zł |
Russia and the British Left: From the 1848 Revolutions to the General Strike
ISBN: 9781788310642 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Unknown story of the Rothstein family and their influence in British communism
Unknown story of the Rothstein family and their influence in British communism
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492,77 zł |
Secrets and Silence: Uncovering the Legacy of the Cleveland Child Sexual Abuse Case
ISBN: 9781447341147 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Official Secrets reveals that the enquiry that followed the Cleveland child abuse scandal of 1987 was a cover-up. Doctors were discouraged and social workers disempowered - a legacy that leads all the way to the current Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse.
Official Secrets reveals that the enquiry that followed the Cleveland child abuse scandal of 1987 was a cover-up. Doctors were discouraged and social ...
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65,84 zł |
Yes to Europe!: The 1975 Referendum and Seventies Britain
ISBN: 9781108425353 / Angielski / Twarda / 422 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first modern history of the 1975 European Referendum, ranging across 1970s Britain to assess why voters said 'Yes to Europe'.
The first modern history of the 1975 European Referendum, ranging across 1970s Britain to assess why voters said 'Yes to Europe'.
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153,67 zł |
The Courage to Look Back
ISBN: 9781927755624 / Angielski / Miękka / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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96,89 zł |
Peace Camping: A HIstory
ISBN: 9780953230563 / Angielski / Miękka / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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98,35 zł |
The Women's Liberation Movement and the Politics of Class in Britain
ISBN: 9781350066595 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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570,57 zł |