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The Penguin History of Britain: New Worlds, Lost Worlds:The Rule of the Tudors 1485-1630
ISBN: 9780140148268 / Angielski / Miękka / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. No period in British history today retains more resonance and mystery than the sixteenth century. The leading figures of the time have become almost mythical, and the terrors and grandeurs of Tudor Britain have resonance with even the least historically minded readers. Above all Brigden sees the key to the Tudor world as religion - the new world of Protestantism and its battle with the the old world of uniform Catholicism. This great religious rent in the fabric of English society underlies the savage violence and turbulence of the period - from Henry VIII's break with Rome to the...
No period in British history today retains more resonance and mystery than the sixteenth century. The leading figures of the time have become almost m...
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My East End : Memories of Life in Cockney London
ISBN: 9780140259506 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Gilda O'Neill's The East End traces the East End of London - cockneys, criminals, street markets, pub singalongs, dog racing, jellied eels. London's East End it is a place at once appealing and unruly, comforting and incomprehensible. Gilda O'Neill, an East Ender herself shows there is more to this fascinating area than a collection of cliched images. Using oral history and more traditional sources she builds up a powerful image of this community - bringing to us, with wit and honesty, the real story of London's East End. 'Every page is a delight. Every chapter made vivid by a writer who has...
Gilda O'Neill's The East End traces the East End of London - cockneys, criminals, street markets, pub singalongs, dog racing, jellied eels. London's E...
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The Making of the British Landscape: How We Have Transformed the Land, from Prehistory to Today
ISBN: 9780141040592 / Angielski / Miękka / 832 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Telling the fascinating history of how we and our ancestors created the British landscape, Francis Pryor explains how to understand and interpret the clues that reveal the history of our land and of how people have lived on it through time.
Telling the fascinating history of how we and our ancestors created the British landscape, Francis Pryor explains how to understand and interpret the ...
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Oxford
ISBN: 9780192801364 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An account of the character, history, mores, buildings, climate, and people of one of Britain's most fascinating cities. This book is intended for all those interested in the local history, culture, and architecture of Oxford, especially visitors to Oxford.
An account of the character, history, mores, buildings, climate, and people of one of Britain's most fascinating cities. This book is intended for all...
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Black Experience and the Empire
ISBN: 9780199290673 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work explores the lives of people of sub-Saharan Africa and their descendants, how they were shaped by empire, and how they in turn influenced the empire in everything from material goods to cultural style. The black experience varied greatly across space and over time. Accordingly, thirteen substantive essays and a scene-setting introduction range from West Africa in the sixteenth century, through the history of the slave trade and slavery down to the 1830s, to nineteenth- and twentieth-century participation of blacks in the empire as workers, soldiers, members of colonial elites,...
This work explores the lives of people of sub-Saharan Africa and their descendants, how they were shaped by empire, and how they in turn influenced th...
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Tales of the Elders of Ireland
ISBN: 9780199549856 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Tales of the Elders of Ireland is the first complete translation of the late Middle-Irish Acallam na Senorach, the largest literary text surviving from twelfth-century Ireland. It contains the earliest and most comprehensive collection of Fenian stories and poetry, intermingling the contemporary Christian world of Saint Patrick with his scribes; clerics; occasional angels and souls rescued from Hell; the earlier pagan world of the ancient, giant Fenians and Irish kings; and the parallel, timeless Otherworld (peopled by ever-young, shape-shifting fairies). This readable, lucid new translation...
Tales of the Elders of Ireland is the first complete translation of the late Middle-Irish Acallam na Senorach, the largest literary text surviving fro...
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Synge and Edwardian Ireland
ISBN: 9780199609888 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The dramatic career of the Irish playwright J.M. Synge, from his first plays in 1902 to his premature death in 1909, almost exactly coincided with the years of Edward VII's reign. Those years have long been studied in a British context, but Synge and Edwardian Ireland is the first book to explore the cultural life of Edwardian Ireland as a distinctive period. By emphasizing several less familiar Irish contexts for Synge's work - including a new sociological awareness, the rise of a local celebrity culture, an international theatre context, the arts and crafts movement, Irish...
The dramatic career of the Irish playwright J.M. Synge, from his first plays in 1902 to his premature death in 1909, almost exactly coincided with the...
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Whose Side Are You On?: Sport, the Troubles and Me
ISBN: 9780224082976 / Angielski / Miękka / 326 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As a new generation of sports stars like Rory McIlroy in golf, and Mark Allen in snooker emerge unscarred by the Troubles in Northern Ireland, this is a timely look at what their predecessors faced.
As a new generation of sports stars like Rory McIlroy in golf, and Mark Allen in snooker emerge unscarred by the Troubles in Northern Ireland, this is...
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Northern Ireland: The Politics of War and Peace (Revised, Updated)
ISBN: 9780230507791 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Clearly and accessibly written and based on original research, Paul Dixon's book provides a lively introduction to the nature and politics of the Northern Ireland conflict and of successive attempts to resolve it. The comprehensively revised second edition has been updated to take account of new information throughout and an entirely new chapter has been added on implementing the Good Friday Agreement.
Clearly and accessibly written and based on original research, Paul Dixon's book provides a lively introduction to the nature and politics of the Nort...
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British Women in the Nineteenth Century
ISBN: 9780333676301 / Angielski / Miękka / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This highly original synthesis is a clear and stimulating assessment of nineteenth-century British women. It aims to provide students with an in-depth understanding of the key historiographical debates and issues, placing particular emphasis upon recent, revisionist research. The book highlights not merely the ideologies and economic circumstances which shaped women's lives, but highlights the sheer diversity of women's own experiences and identities. In so doing, it presents a positive but nuanced interpretation of women's roles within their own families and communities, as well as stressing...
This highly original synthesis is a clear and stimulating assessment of nineteenth-century British women. It aims to provide students with an in-depth...
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Modern British History: Since 1900
ISBN: 9780333719541 / Angielski / Miękka / 378 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Jeremy Black's compelling text provides a thematic account of British history centering on the twentieth century. To the traditional, chronological account of historic events, Black adds long-range thematic chapters reflecting the full range of topics. These include political structures, ideologies, wars and international relations, economic history, social history as well as consumerism, media and mass communication. The coverage is further enlivened with exhibits providing supplementary background information on key personalities and pivotal events, and numerous illustrations.
Jeremy Black's compelling text provides a thematic account of British history centering on the twentieth century. To the traditional, chronological ac...
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Gender, Democracy and Inclusion in Northern Ireland
ISBN: 9780333760666 / Angielski / Miękka / 197 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mainstream politics in Northern Ireland has not been welcoming to women, but many women have been present in community and voluntary organizations where their contribution has been outstanding. This book examines four organizations (including the recently-formed Northern Ireland Women's Coalition) where women have been active. It discusses the processes and structures created by these groups in order to work democratically across differences and argues that their experiences are invaluable to the development of feminist debates on democracy and difference.
Mainstream politics in Northern Ireland has not been welcoming to women, but many women have been present in community and voluntary organizations whe...
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The Making Of The British Army
ISBN: 9780553815405 / Angielski / Miękka / 752 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the English Civil War to today's War on Terror: in this sweeping account of nearly 500 years of military history, former soldier Allan Mallinson looks at how the Army's dramatic past has made it one of the most effective fighting forces in the world today.
From the English Civil War to today's War on Terror: in this sweeping account of nearly 500 years of military history, former soldier Allan Mallinson ...
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The Complete War Walks
ISBN: 9780563487173 / Angielski / Miękka / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In "The Complete War Walks" Richard Holmes takes us on a journey through time to visit 12 battlefields throughout Britain, Northern France and Belgium that mark crucial moments in Britain's bloody and turbulent history.
In "The Complete War Walks" Richard Holmes takes us on a journey through time to visit 12 battlefields throughout Britain, Northern France and Belgium...
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New Selected Poems 1966-1987
ISBN: 9780571143726 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An updated selection of all Heaney's books, up to and including The Haw Lantern, which was published in 1987. The book also includes selections from Stations, prose poems of 1975 which have never appeared except as a pamphlet.
An updated selection of all Heaney's books, up to and including The Haw Lantern, which was published in 1987. The book also includes selections from S...
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Death of a Naturalist
ISBN: 9780571230839 / Angielski / Miękka / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Reissues Seamus Heaney's collection, which on its appearance in 1966 won the Cholmondeley Award, the E C Gregory Award, the Somerset Maugham Award, and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize.
Reissues Seamus Heaney's collection, which on its appearance in 1966 won the Cholmondeley Award, the E C Gregory Award, the Somerset Maugham Award, an...
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The American Irish: A History
ISBN: 9780582278172 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The American Irish: A History, is the first concise, general history of its subject in a generation. It provides a long-overdue synthesis of Irish-American history from the beginnings of emigration in the early eighteenth century to the present day. While most previous accounts of the subject have concentrated on the nineteenth century, and especially the period from the famine (1840s) to Irish independence (1920s), The American Irish: A History incorporates the Ulster Protestant emigration of the eighteenth century and is the first book to include extensive coverage of the...
The American Irish: A History, is the first concise, general history of its subject in a generation. It provides a long-overdue synthesis of Ir...
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The Islander: Complete and Unabridged
ISBN: 9780717157945 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This superb account of life on the Great Blasket Island off the west coast of Kerry, written as the nineteenth century draws to its close and the dawn of a new era trespasses on the lives of its small community, is both a shocking and captivating read.
Here is the first complete translation of Tomas O'Crohan's autobiography An tOileanach, first published in 1929. This edition is based on Professor Sean O Coileain's definitive 2002 Irish language edition. It contains many passages omitted from the previous English language translation by Robin Flower from the 1930s, some... This superb account of life on the Great Blasket Island off the west coast of Kerry, written as the nineteenth century draws to its close and the d... |
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Elizabeth's London: Everyday Life in Elizabethan London
ISBN: 9780753817575 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The everyday realities and practical details of daily life in Elizabethan London, which most history books ignore - a Sunday Times bestseller.
The everyday realities and practical details of daily life in Elizabethan London, which most history books ignore - a Sunday Times bestseller.
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A History of Ancient Britain
ISBN: 9780753828861 / Angielski / Miękka / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text presents a history of ancient Britain and the indelible marks which thousands of years of human civilization have made upon the landscape.
This text presents a history of ancient Britain and the indelible marks which thousands of years of human civilization have made upon the landscape.
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