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Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History
ISBN: 9780140092332 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. A fascinating persuasive history of how sugar has shaped the world, from European colonies to our modern diets In this eye-opening study, Sidney Mintz shows how Europeans and Americans transformed sugar from a rare foreign luxury to a commonplace necessity of modern life, and how it changed the history of capitalism and industry. He discusses the production and consumption of sugar, and reveals how closely interwoven are sugar's origins as a "slave" crop grown in Europe's tropical colonies with is use first as an extravagant luxury for the aristocracy, then as a staple of the diet...
A fascinating persuasive history of how sugar has shaped the world, from European colonies to our modern diets In this eye-opening study, S...
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71,36 zł |
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A History of the County of York East Riding, Volume V: Holderness: Southern Part
ISBN: 9780197227602 / Angielski / Twarda / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. The volume tells the stories of eighteen parishes in the southern part of Holderness wapentake, the wedge of Yorkshire between the North Sea and the Humber. The low--lying landscape has changed repeatedly during the historical period, with lands along the north bank of the Humber being washed away or growing, lesser watercourses silting up, new drains being made, the steady erosion of the cliff along the sea coast, and the cyclical breaching, destruction, and redeposit of the long spit of land at Spurn Head. The church of Kilnsea and several small settlements have gone with the receding...
The volume tells the stories of eighteen parishes in the southern part of Holderness wapentake, the wedge of Yorkshire between the North Sea and the H...
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374,57 zł |
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A History of the County of Somerset: Volume VI: Andersfield, Cannington, and North Petherton Hundreds (Bridgwater and Neighbouring Parishes)
ISBN: 9780197227800 / Angielski / Twarda / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. Andersfield, Cannington, and North Pether-ton hundreds together occupy the Lower Par-rett valley stretching from the Quantock ridge in the west to King's Sedgemoor in the east, and from the Bristol Channel in the north to the river Tone in the south. By the late 11th century the settlement pattern was dense, especially between the Quantocks and the Par-rett, an area crossed by the Saxon 'herpath' in the north and including the 10th-century strongholds of Athelney and Lyng in the south and the Domesday royal manors of Can-nington, North Petherton, and Creech St. Michael. The origin of the...
Andersfield, Cannington, and North Pether-ton hundreds together occupy the Lower Par-rett valley stretching from the Quantock ridge in the west to Kin...
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374,57 zł |
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Between Ocean and City : The Transformation of Rockaway, New York
ISBN: 9780231128490 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Rockaway Beach was once a popular seaside resort in south Queens with a small permanent population. Shortly after World War II, large parts of this narrow peninsula between the ocean and the bay became some of New York City's worst slums. A historian who grew up in the community and his wife, a social worker, together present an illuminating account of this transformation, exploring issues of race, class, and social policy and offering a significant revision of the larger story of New York City's development. In particular, the authors qualify some of the negative assessments of Robert Moses,...
Rockaway Beach was once a popular seaside resort in south Queens with a small permanent population. Shortly after World War II, large parts of this na...
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280,77 zł |
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Reflections on Modern History : The Historian and Human Responsibility
ISBN: 9780313202322 / Angielski / Twarda / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This collection of essays and addresses epitomize the thinking of Kohn on how he regards the history profession, how he interprets the events of his time, and how he applies his understanding of liberalism, nationalism, and the supranational order.
This collection of essays and addresses epitomize the thinking of Kohn on how he regards the history profession, how he interprets the events of hi... |
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466,69 zł |
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War for the Every Day : Generals, Knowledge, and Warfare in Early Modern Europe, 1680-1740
ISBN: 9780313310416 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. A study of operational warfare in the Habsburg old regime, 1683-1740, which recreates everyday warfare and the lives of the generals conducting it, this book goes beyond the battlefield to examine the practical skills of war needed in an agricultural landscape of pastures, woods, and water. Although sieges, forages, marches, and raids are universally considered crucial aspects of old regime warfare, no study of operational or maneuver warfare in this period has ever been published. Early modern warfare had an operational component which required that soldiers possess or learn many skills... A study of operational warfare in the Habsburg old regime, 1683-1740, which recreates everyday warfare and the lives of the generals conducting it,... |
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477,63 zł |
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The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914; Barbara W. Tuchman's Great War Series
ISBN: 9780345405012 / Angielski / Miękka / 608 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The Proud Tower, the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Guns of August, and The Zimmerman Telegram comprise Barbara W. Tuchman's classic histories of the First World War era During the fateful quarter century leading up to World War I, the climax of a century of rapid, unprecedented change, a privileged few enjoyed Olympian luxury as the underclass was "heaving in its pain, its power, and its hate." In The Proud Tower, Barbara W. Tuchman brings the era to vivid life: the decline of the Edwardian aristocracy; the Anarchists of Europe and America;...The Proud Tower, the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Guns of August, and The Zimmerman Telegram comprise Barbara W. Tuchman'... |
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79,17 zł |
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The Cultivation of Hatred: The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud
ISBN: 9780393312249 / Angielski / Miękka / 704 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Gay's search through middle-class Victorian culture, illuminated by lively portraits of such daunting figures as Bismarck, Darwin and his acolytes, George Eliot, and the great satirists Daumier and Wilhelm Busch, covers a vast terrain: the relations between men and women, wit, demagoguery, and much more. We discover the multiple ways in which the nineteenth century at once restrained aggressive behavior and licensed it. Aggression split the social universe into insiders and outsiders. "By gathering up communities of insiders," Professor Gay writes, the Victorians "discovered--only... Gay's search through middle-class Victorian culture, illuminated by lively portraits of such daunting figures as Bismarck, Darwin and his acolytes,... |
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137,76 zł |
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Clocks and Culture 1300-1700
ISBN: 9780393324433 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. How did a time-keeping device affect the growth of crafts guilds and the scientific research that led to the Industrial Revolution? Clocks and Culture is a brief history of the changes wrought by and on Europe over four hundred years due to technological advances in timekeeping and the rise of a time-aware culture. In his introduction, Anthony Grafton, Henry Putnam University Professor of History at Princeton University, puts this classic book in perspective.
How did a time-keeping device affect the growth of crafts guilds and the scientific research that led to the Industrial Revolution? Clocks and Culture...
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71,16 zł |
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Bloodless Revolution: A Cultural History of Vegetarianism: From 1600 to Modern Times
ISBN: 9780393330649 / Angielski / Miękka / 688 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Hailed by critics on both sides of the Atlantic, The Bloodless Revolution is a comprehensive history of vegetarianism, draw ing] the different strands of the subject together in a way that has never been done before (Keith Thomas, author of Man and the Natural World)."
Hailed by critics on both sides of the Atlantic, The Bloodless Revolution is a comprehensive history of vegetarianism, draw ing] the different strands...
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129,75 zł |
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Who's Who in Modern History
ISBN: 9780415118859 / Angielski / Miękka / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. Who's Who in Modern History is a unique reference book which examines those individuals who have shaped the political world since 1860. Coverage is truly global, including the most important figures in Europe, Asia, North America, Latin America, Africa and Australasia.
It provides: * an easy-to-use A-Z layout * authoritative, detailed biographies of the most important figures since 1860, from Clemenceau and Chief Buthelezi to King Fahd and Benazir Bhutto * bibliographical references for each entry, to aid further research * extensive cross-referencing * an... Who's Who in Modern History is a unique reference book which examines those individuals who have shaped the political world since 1860. Cover...
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106,13 zł |
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Memory and Memorials, 1789-1914 : Literary and Cultural Perspectives
ISBN: 9780415229760 / Angielski / Twarda / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. This volume explores the cultural importance of concepts and theories of memory. Ranging historically from the French Revolution to the beginnings of Modernism, it examines the importance of memory in cultural history.
This volume explores the cultural importance of concepts and theories of memory. Ranging historically from the French Revolution to the beginnings of ...
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579,31 zł |
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History: What and Why? : Ancient, Modern and Postmodern Perspectives
ISBN: 9780415256575 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. History: What and Why? is a highly accessible introductory survey of historians' views about the nature and purpose of their subject. It offers a historical perspective and clear guide to contemporary debates about the nature and purpose of history, and a discussion of the traditional model of history as an account of the past 'as it was'. It assesses the challenges to orthodox views and examines the impact of Marxism, feminism and post-colonialism on the study of history. This second edition has been updated to reflect the continuing, and still increasing, debate... History: What and Why? is a highly accessible introductory survey of historians' views about the nature and purpose of their subject. It o... |
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474,17 zł |
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History: What and Why? : Ancient, Modern and Postmodern Perspectives
ISBN: 9780415256582 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. This work is an accessible introductory survey of historians' views about the nature and purpose of their subject. It offers a historical perspective and clear guide to contemporary debates about the nature and purpose of history and a discussion of the traditional model of history as an account of the past as it was. It assesses the challenges to orthodox views and examines the impact of Marxism, feminism and post-colonialism on the study of history. This second edition has been updated to reflect the continuing, and still increasing, debate surrounding these issues. In particular it...
This work is an accessible introductory survey of historians' views about the nature and purpose of their subject. It offers a historical perspective ...
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148,19 zł |
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Quaker Women : Personal Life, Memory and Radicalism in the Lives of Women Friends, 1780-1930
ISBN: 9780415281430 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. One nineteenth-century commentator noted the 'public' character of Quaker women as signalling a new era in female history. This study examines such claims through the story of middle-class women Friends from among the kinship circle created by the marriage in 1839 of Elizabeth Priestman and the future radical Quaker statesman, John Bright. The lives discussed here cover a period from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries, and include several women Friends active in radical politics and the women's movement, in the service of which they were able to mobilise... One nineteenth-century commentator noted the 'public' character of Quaker women as signalling a new era in female history. This study examines such... |
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631,87 zł |
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Lunatic Hospitals in Georgian England, 1750-1830
ISBN: 9780415375160 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. Lunatic Hospitals in Georgian England constitutes the first comprehensive study of the philanthropic asylum system in Georgian England. Using original research and drawing upon a wide range of expertise on the history of mental health this book demonstrates the crucial role of the lunatic hospitals in the early development of a national system of psychiatric institutions. These hospitals were to form an essential historical link in the emergence of a national system of institutional provision for mentally disordered people. They provided important prototypes for the subsequent... Lunatic Hospitals in Georgian England constitutes the first comprehensive study of the philanthropic asylum system in Georgian England. Using origi... |
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815,86 zł |
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Great Powers and the Quest for Hegemony : The World Order since 1500
ISBN: 9780415395793 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. This timely book provides a general overview of Great Power politics and world order from 1500 to the present. Jeremy Black provides several historical case-studies, each of which throws light on both the power in question and the international system of the period, and how it had developed from the preceding period. The point of departure for this book is Paul Kennedy's 1988 masterpiece, The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers. That iconic book, with its enviable mastery of the sources and its skilful integration of political, military and economic history, was a great... This timely book provides a general overview of Great Power politics and world order from 1500 to the present. Jeremy Black provides several histor... |
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789,58 zł |
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Great Powers and the Quest for Hegemony : The World Order since 1500
ISBN: 9780415395809 / Angielski / Miękka / 273 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. This timely book provides a general overview of Great Power politics and world order from 1500 to the present. Jeremy Black provides several historical case-studies, each of which throws light on both the power in question and the international system of the period, and how it had developed from the preceding period. The point of departure for this book is Paul Kennedy's 1988 masterpiece, The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers. That iconic book, with its enviable mastery of the sources and its skilful integration of political, military and economic history, was a great... This timely book provides a general overview of Great Power politics and world order from 1500 to the present. Jeremy Black provides several histor... |
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211,27 zł |
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Bridging the Atlantic : The Question of American Exceptionalism in Perspective
ISBN: 9780521026390 / Angielski / Miękka / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Bridging the Atlantic discusses comparative developments in modern European and American history. The case studies on British, German, and U.S. history since the eighteenth century assembled here seek to establish an integrated vision of Atlantic history. The contributions by European and American historians challenge the concept of American exceptionalism and present a vivid example of the ongoing debate among American and European historians on the structure and nature of European-American relations.
Bridging the Atlantic discusses comparative developments in modern European and American history. The case studies on British, German, and U.S. histor...
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186,93 zł |
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Fascination and Misgivings : The United States in French Opinion, 1870-1914
ISBN: 9780521026918 / Angielski / Miękka / 468 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Through the views of French travelers and diverse French studies about the United States, this book shows how French opinion of the United States evolved during the late nineteenth century. Aspects of American life were puzzling and exotic to the French, yet American towns and industry gave the proof of an emerging economic power, and American society provided attractive models of social engineering. Even before World War I, the United States found its place in French opinion, following trends that continued throughout the twentieth century: fascination and misgivings, attraction and...
Through the views of French travelers and diverse French studies about the United States, this book shows how French opinion of the United States evol...
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200,88 zł |