ilość książek w kategorii: 2637
The Friends of Liberty: The English Democratic Movement in the Age of the French Revolution
ISBN: 9781138680906 / Angielski / Twarda / 588 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book, originally published in 1979, traces the growth of English radicalism from the time of Wilkes to the final suppression of the radical societies in 1799. The metropolitan radical movement is described in the context of the general democratic evlution of the West int he age of the American and French revolutions, by showing how its direction was influenced by events in France, Scotland and Ireland. The book emphasizes the importance of the great regional centres of provincial radicalism and of the evolution of a local, radical press. It also throws light on the impact of Painite... This book, originally published in 1979, traces the growth of English radicalism from the time of Wilkes to the final suppression of the radical so... |
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532,07 zł |
Martyrdom and Sacrifice in Islam: Theological, Political and Social Contexts
ISBN: 9781784535087 / Angielski / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Martyrdom in the Muslim world is increasingly integral to conversations about international security. Over the years, the belief system around self sacrifice has become key to understanding the Middle East and its political relationships with the West, although much of the literature and conversation has been restricted to modern concepts of jihadism. The recent spate of scholarship relating to suicide bombers and jihadists studies these concepts without a broader understanding of the principle of martyrdom. This book expands on the chronology of self-sacrifice within Islam and contextualizes...
Martyrdom in the Muslim world is increasingly integral to conversations about international security. Over the years, the belief system around self sa...
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658,75 zł |
Wake up Black people!: Before It's Too Late
ISBN: 9781505895605 / Angielski / Miękka / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Our worst enemy is ourselves so stop blaming others, especially the White man There are things that are much more important than fashion, sports, musics, dancing, rapping, movies, tv shows and acting.
Our worst enemy is ourselves so stop blaming others, especially the White man There are things that are much more important than fashion, sports, mus...
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49,60 zł |
Revolutionary Heroes, and Other Historical Papers: Historical Classic Readings-10
ISBN: 9781530792733 / Angielski / Miękka / 58 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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35,85 zł |
Under the Shadow: Rage and Revolution in Modern Turkey
ISBN: 9781784534578 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Turkey stands at the crossroads of the Middle East―caught between the West and ISIS, Syria and Russia, and governed by an increasingly forceful leader. Acclaimed writer Kaya Genc has been covering his country for the past decade. In Under the Shadow he meets activists from both sides of Turkey's political divide: Gezi park protestors who fought tear gas and batons to transform their country's future, and supporters of Erdoğan's conservative vision who are no less passionate in their activism. He talks to artists and authors to ask whether the New Turkey is a good place... Turkey stands at the crossroads of the Middle East―caught between the West and ISIS, Syria and Russia, and governed by an increasingly forcef... |
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91,16 zł |
Robespierre and the Festival of the Supreme Being: The Search for a Republican Morality
ISBN: 9781526103789 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The search for a republican morality provides an exciting new study of an important event in the French Revolution and a defining moment in the career of its principal actor, Maximilien Robespierre, the Festival of the Supreme Being. This day of national celebration was held to inaugurate the new state religion, the Cult of the Supreme Being, and whilst traditionally it has been dismissed as a compulsory political event, this book redefines its importance as a hugely popular national event. Hitherto unused or disregarded source material is used to offer new perspective to the national...
The search for a republican morality provides an exciting new study of an important event in the French Revolution and a defining moment in the career...
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453,39 zł |
False Dawn
ISBN: 9780190611415 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Half a decade after Arabs across the Middle East poured into the streets to demand change, hopes for democracy have disappeared in a maelstrom of violence and renewed state repression. Egypt remains an authoritarian state, Syria and Yemen are in the midst of devastating civil wars, Libya has descended into anarchy, and the self-declared Islamic State rules a large swath of territory. Even Turkey, which also experienced large-scale protests, has abandoned its earlier shift toward openness and democracy and now more closely resembles an autocracy. How did things go so wrong so quickly...
Half a decade after Arabs across the Middle East poured into the streets to demand change, hopes for democracy have disappeared in a maelstrom of viol...
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111,87 zł |
Towards a Jurisprudence of State Communism: Law and the Failure of Revolution
ISBN: 9781138684164 / Angielski / Twarda / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. More than twenty-five years after the collapse of the Socialist bloc, the nature of the regimes in Eastern Europe between 1945 and 1989 continues to evade the attempts of political theorists and scholars of post-communism to define and classify them. Drawing on philosophical inquiry, jurisprudential analysis and intellectual history, this book traces the impact of communist ideology and practice on legal thought: from its critical roots in the midst of the nineteenth century to its reactionary stand in the later years of the twentieth. Exploring how the communist experience both in its... More than twenty-five years after the collapse of the Socialist bloc, the nature of the regimes in Eastern Europe between 1945 and 1989 continues t... |
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709,42 zł |
Cynkowi chłopcy. Audiobook
ISBN: 9788380492943 / Polski / Twarda / 1 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Od 1979 do 1989 roku w czasie interwencji radzieckiej życie straciło co najmniej kilkaset tysięcy Afgańczyków, a kilkadziesiąt tysięcy radzieckich żołnierzy poniosło śmierć lub zostało rannych. Wyjeżdżali, by zostać bohaterami. Do kraju wracali jako bankruci – bez nóg, bez rąk, z koszmarami, które miały ich nigdy nie opuścić. Niektórzy wracali w cynkowych trumnach. Z opowieści weteranów, pielęgniarek, matek i żon „afgańców” wyłania się wstrząsający obraz niepotrzebnej wojny; wśród zapierających dech w piersiach afgańskich krajobrazów rozgrywają...
Od 1979 do 1989 roku w czasie interwencji radzieckiej życie straciło co najmniej kilkaset tysięcy Afgańczyków, a kilkadziesiąt tysięcy radzieck...
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46,90 zł |
Inside Syria: The Backstory of Their Civil War and What the World Can Expect
ISBN: 9781633882355 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Based on firsthand reporting from Syria and throughout the Middle East, Inside Syriaunravels the complex dynamics underlying the Syrian Civil War. Through vivid, on-the-ground accounts and interviews with rebel leaders, regime supporters, and Syrian president Bashar al-Assad himself, veteran journalist Reese Erlichgives the reader a better understanding of this momentous power struggle and why it matters.
Through his many contacts inside Syria, the author reveals who is supporting Assad and why, describes the agendas of the rebel factions, and depicts in stark terms the dire plight... Based on firsthand reporting from Syria and throughout the Middle East, Inside Syriaunravels the complex dynamics underlying the Syrian Civil W...
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77,30 zł |
The Architecture of Percier and Fontaine and the Struggle for Sovereignty in Revolutionary France
ISBN: 9781472480163 / Angielski / Twarda / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As the official architects of Napoleon, Charles Percier (1764 1838) and Pierre-Francois-Leonard Fontaine (1762 1853) designed interiors that responded to the radical ideologies and collective forms of destruction that took place during the French Revolution. The architects visualized new forms of imperial sovereignty by inverting the symbols of monarchy and revolution, constructing meeting rooms resembling military encampments and gilded thrones that replaced the Bourbon lily with Napoleonic bees. Yet in the wake of political struggle, each foundation stone that the architects laid for the... As the official architects of Napoleon, Charles Percier (1764 1838) and Pierre-Francois-Leonard Fontaine (1762 1853) designed interiors that respon... |
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734,76 zł |
The Allied Intervention in Russia, 1918-1920: The Diplomacy of Chaos
ISBN: 9781349493241 / Angielski / Miękka / 317 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work explores the reasons for the Allied intervention into Russia at the end of the Great War and examines the military, diplomatic and political chaos that resulted in the failure of the Allies and White Russians to defeat the Bolshevik Revolution.
This work explores the reasons for the Allied intervention into Russia at the end of the Great War and examines the military, diplomatic and political...
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428,99 zł |
The French Revolution and the Creation of Benthamism
ISBN: 9781349363810 / Angielski / Miękka / 442 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first study of how Genevan Etienne Dumont, and his traumatic experience of the French Revolution, shaped the reception and presentation of 'Benthamism' and masked the true face of Jeremy Bentham, one of the architects of modern society who visualised a new world based on the values of transparency, accountability, and economy.
The first study of how Genevan Etienne Dumont, and his traumatic experience of the French Revolution, shaped the reception and presentation of 'Bentha...
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194,97 zł |
Soldiers, Shahs and Subalterns in Iran: Opposition, Protest and Revolt, 1921-1941
ISBN: 9781349359530 / Angielski / Miękka / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Against conventional views of the unchallenged hegemony of a modernizing monarchy, this book argues that power was continuously contested in Riza Shah's Iran. Croninexcavates the successive challenges to Riza Shah's regime posed by a range of subaltern social groups and seeks to restore to these groups a sense of their historical agency."
Against conventional views of the unchallenged hegemony of a modernizing monarchy, this book argues that power was continuously contested in Riza Shah...
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389,98 zł |
The Northern Rebellion of 1569: Faith, Politics and Protest in Elizabethan England
ISBN: 9781349362998 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work offers the first full-length study of the only armed rebellion in Elizabethan England. Addressing recent scholarship on the Reformation and popular politics, it highlights the religious motivations of the rebel rank and file, the rebellion's afterlife in Scotland, and the deadly consequences suffered in its aftermath.
This work offers the first full-length study of the only armed rebellion in Elizabethan England. Addressing recent scholarship on the Reformation and ...
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389,98 zł |
Jewish Resistance to 'Romanianization', 1940-44
ISBN: 9781349503513 / Angielski / Miękka / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ionescu examines the process of economic Romanianization of Bucharest during the Antonescu regime that targeted the property, jobs, and businesses of local Jews and Roma/Gypsies and their legal resistance strategies to such an unjust policy.
Ionescu examines the process of economic Romanianization of Bucharest during the Antonescu regime that targeted the property, jobs, and businesses of ...
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194,97 zł |
Exile, Imprisonment, or Death: The Politics of Disgrace in Bourbon France, 1610-1789
ISBN: 9780198788690 / Angielski / Twarda / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On the accession of Louis XIII in 1610 following the assassination of his father, the Bourbon dynasty stood on unstable foundations. For all of Henri IV's undoubted achievements, he had left his son a realm that was still prey to the ambitions of an aristocracy that possessed independent military force and was prepared to resort to violence and vendetta in order to defend its interests and honour. To establish his personal authority, Louis XIII was forced to resort to conspiracy and murder, and even then his authority was constantly challenged. Yet a little over a century later, as the reign...
On the accession of Louis XIII in 1610 following the assassination of his father, the Bourbon dynasty stood on unstable foundations. For all of Henri ...
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642,38 zł |
Ostatnie Dni Romanowów
ISBN: 9788360562932 / Polski / Twarda / 134 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Wznowienie wydanego w Polsce przed wojną tłumaczenia książki Roberta Archibalda Wiltona Ostatnie dni Romanowów, to kolejna próba przywrócenia właściwego obrazu wydarzeniom rewolucji bolszewickiej, które po upływie stu lat okazują się być ciągle zafałszowywane.
Wznowienie wydanego w Polsce przed wojną tłumaczenia książki Roberta Archibalda Wiltona Ostatnie dni Romanowów, to kolejna próba przywrócenia w...
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33,25 zł |
The Men Will Talk to Me: Clare Interviews by Ernie O'Malley
ISBN: 9781781174180 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Including dramatic first-hand accounts of the activities of the IRA in Clare during the War of Independence and the Civil War, this book adds missing voices to the Irish revolutionary narrative, especially from the anti-Treaty IRA who were unwilling to engage with the 'Free-Staters' in the Bureau of Military History.
Including dramatic first-hand accounts of the activities of the IRA in Clare during the War of Independence and the Civil War, this book adds missing ...
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90,86 zł |
Hales Brothers and the Irish Revolution
ISBN: 9781781173756 / Angielski / Miękka / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The story of the Hales family from Bandon epitomises the whole revolutionary period in Ireland. They were involved from the establishment of the Irish Volunteers in West Cork and were closely associated with well-known revolutionary figures, including Michael Collins, Tom Barry and Liam Deasy. Both SeAn and Tom were company commanders in the IRA in the area. The signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty in December 1921 split the family and led to the two brothers taking opposing sides in the Civil War that would follow. Tom Hales was the most senior Republican officer on the scene of the chaotic... The story of the Hales family from Bandon epitomises the whole revolutionary period in Ireland. They were involved from the establishment of the Ir... |
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90,86 zł |