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The Napoleonic Empire and the New European Political Culture
ISBN: 9781349317035 / Angielski / Miękka / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Napoleon's conquests were spectacular, but behind his wars, is an enduring legacy. A new generation of historians have re-evaluated the Napoleonic era and found that his real achievement was the creation of modern Europe as we know it.
Napoleon's conquests were spectacular, but behind his wars, is an enduring legacy. A new generation of historians have re-evaluated the Napoleonic era...
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402,53 |
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The British Abroad Since the Eighteenth Century, Volume 2: Experiencing Imperialism
ISBN: 9781349454440 / Angielski / Miękka / 263 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a collection of twelve interdisciplinary essays from international scholars concerned with examining the British experience of Empire since the eighteenth century. It considers themes such as national identity, modernity, culture, social class, diplomacy, consumerism, gender, postcolonialism, and perceptions of Britain's place in the world.
This is a collection of twelve interdisciplinary essays from international scholars concerned with examining the British experience of Empire since th...
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201,24 |
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The Risorgimento Revisited: Nationalism and Culture in Nineteenth-Century Italy
ISBN: 9781349320332 / Angielski / Miękka / 303 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bringing together the work of a ground-breaking group of scholars working on the Italian Risorgimento to consider how modern Italian national identity was first conceived and constructed politically, the book makes a timely contribution to current discussions about the role of patriotism and the nature of nationalism in present-day Italy.
Bringing together the work of a ground-breaking group of scholars working on the Italian Risorgimento to consider how modern Italian national identity...
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201,24 |
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Britain and Wellington's Army
ISBN: 9781349323654 / Angielski / Miękka / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Britain was France's most implacable enemy during the Napoleonic Wars yet was able to resist the need for conscription to fill the ranks of its army and sustain Wellington's campaigns in Portugal and Spain. This new study explains how the men were found to replenish Wellington's army, and the consequences on Britain's government, army and society.
Britain was France's most implacable enemy during the Napoleonic Wars yet was able to resist the need for conscription to fill the ranks of its army a...
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442,79 |
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Cinema and Society in the British Empire, 1895-1940
ISBN: 9781349455782 / Angielski / Miękka / 243 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. By 1940 going to the movies was the most popular form of public leisure in Britain's empire. This book explores the social and cultural impact of the movies in colonial societies in the early cinema age.
By 1940 going to the movies was the most popular form of public leisure in Britain's empire. This book explores the social and cultural impact of the ...
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201,24 |
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Burgos in the Peninsular War, 1808-1814: Occupation, Siege, Aftermath
ISBN: 9781349492534 / Angielski / Miękka / 221 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For a full month in the autumn of 1812 the 2,000-strong garrison of the fortress the French had constructed to overawe the city of Burgos defied the Duke of Wellington. In this work a leading historian of the Peninsular teams up with a leading conflict archaeologist to examine the reasons for Wellington's failure.
For a full month in the autumn of 1812 the 2,000-strong garrison of the fortress the French had constructed to overawe the city of Burgos defied the D...
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201,24 |
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Making Sense of Constitutional Monarchism in Post-Napoleonic France and Germany
ISBN: 9781349339778 / Angielski / Miękka / 341 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Focusing on the genesis of 'constitutional monarchism' in the context of the French Restoration and its favourable reception in post-Napoleonic Germany, this study highlights the potential and limitations of a daring attempt to improve traditional forms of monarchical legitimacy by means of a modern representative constitution.
Focusing on the genesis of 'constitutional monarchism' in the context of the French Restoration and its favourable reception in post-Napoleonic German...
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201,24 |
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Modernity and the Second-Hand Trade: European Consumption Cultures and Practices, 1700-1900
ISBN: 9781349310869 / Angielski / Miękka / 281 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bringing together the latest research on the neglected area of second-hand exchange and consumption, this bookoffers fresh insights into the buying and selling of used goods in western-Europe during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and seeks to re-examine and redefine the relationship between modernity and the second-hand trade."
Bringing together the latest research on the neglected area of second-hand exchange and consumption, this bookoffers fresh insights into the buying an...
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201,24 |
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Feminist Media History: Suffrage, Periodicals and the Public Sphere
ISBN: 9781349316953 / Angielski / Miękka / 239 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Highlighting the contributions of feminist media history to media studies and related disciplines, this book focuses on feminist periodicals emerging from or reacting to the Edwardian suffrage campaign andsituates them in the context of current debates about the public sphere, social movements, and media history."
Highlighting the contributions of feminist media history to media studies and related disciplines, this book focuses on feminist periodicals emerging ...
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201,24 |
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Region and State in Nineteenth-Century Europe: Nation-Building, Regional Identities and Separatism
ISBN: 9781349339402 / Angielski / Miękka / 303 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In reaction to the centralizing nation-building efforts of states in nineteenth-century Europe, many regions began to define their own identity. In thirteen stimulating essays, specialists analyze why regional identities became widely celebrated towards the end of that century and why some considered themselves part of the new national self-image.
In reaction to the centralizing nation-building efforts of states in nineteenth-century Europe, many regions began to define their own identity. In th...
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201,24 |
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Science and Empire: Knowledge and Networks of Science Across the British Empire, 1800-1970
ISBN: 9781349321902 / Angielski / Miękka / 346 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Offering one of the first analyses of how networks of science interacted within the British Empire during the past two centuries, this volume shows how the rise of formalized state networks of science in the mid nineteenth-century led to a constant tension between administrators and scientists.
Offering one of the first analyses of how networks of science interacted within the British Empire during the past two centuries, this volume shows ho...
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402,53 |
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Spain's First Carlist War, 1833-40
ISBN: 9781349486526 / Angielski / Miękka / 283 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Spain's First Carlist War was an unlikely agent of modernity. It pitted town against country, subalterns against elites, and Europe's Liberal powers against Absolute Monarchies. This book traces the individual, collective and international experience of this conflict, giving equal attention to battle fronts and home fronts.
Spain's First Carlist War was an unlikely agent of modernity. It pitted town against country, subalterns against elites, and Europe's Liberal powers a...
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442,79 |
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Victoria's Madmen: Revolution and Alienation
ISBN: 9781349339327 / Angielski / Miękka / 309 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Victoria's Madmen is the story of those who were outcasts by temperament and choice; the non-conformists of the Victorian Age. Clive Bloom's readable account of the dark underbelly of Victoria's Britain captures the unrest bubbling under the surface of strait-laced Victorian society.
Victoria's Madmen is the story of those who were outcasts by temperament and choice; the non-conformists of the Victorian Age. Clive Bloom's readable ...
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80,47 |
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Exhibiting Animals in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Empathy, Education, Entertainment
ISBN: 9781349480906 / Angielski / Miękka / 265 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Exotic animals were coveted commodities in nineteenth-century Britain. Spectators flocked to zoos and menageries to see female lion tamers and hungry hippos. Helen Cowie examines zoos and travelling menageries in the period 1800-1880, using animal exhibitions to examine issues of class, gender, imperial culture and animal welfare.
Exotic animals were coveted commodities in nineteenth-century Britain. Spectators flocked to zoos and menageries to see female lion tamers and hungry ...
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523,30 |
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The British Abroad Since the Eighteenth Century, Volume 1: Travellers and Tourists
ISBN: 9781349454426 / Angielski / Miękka / 267 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book considers the British travelling beyond their isles over the last three hundred years, and through a range of interdisciplinary perspectives reflects on their taste for discovery and self-discovery both through the exploration - and exploitation - of other lands and peoples.
This book considers the British travelling beyond their isles over the last three hundred years, and through a range of interdisciplinary perspectives...
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201,24 |
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John Kemble's Gibraltar Journal: The Spanish Expedition of the Cambridge Apostles, 1830-1831
ISBN: 9781349480920 / Angielski / Miękka / 425 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The summer of 1830 stirred revolutionary desires in young hearts across Europe. More than a generation of war and political instability had failed to dampen the fervor still felt from the French Revolution. In England the Cambridge Apostles took up the cause of the Spanish emigres so movingly visible in London where they had sought refuge from the tyranny of Ferdinand VII and his suppression of constitutional rights. The Spanish Expedition of the Cambridge Apostles has always captured our imaginations. Its blend of idealism and daring, of theory and practice, of thought and energy, seems...
The summer of 1830 stirred revolutionary desires in young hearts across Europe. More than a generation of war and political instability had failed to ...
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201,24 |
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Gypsies in Germany and Italy, 1861-1914: Lives Outside the Law
ISBN: 9781349486502 / Angielski / Miękka / 223 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. By the early 20th century, Gypsies in Germany and Italy were pushed outside the national community and subjected to the arbitrary whims of executive authorities. This book offers an account of these exclusionary policies and their links to the rise of nationalism, liberalism, and the modern bureaucratic state.
By the early 20th century, Gypsies in Germany and Italy were pushed outside the national community and subjected to the arbitrary whims of executive a...
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201,24 |
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Nationalism and the Reshaping of Urban Communities in Europe, 1848-1914
ISBN: 9781349319435 / Angielski / Miękka / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book brings together a distinguished group of historians to explore the previously neglected relationship between nationalism and urban history. It reveals the contrasting experiences of nationalism in different societies and milieus. It will help historians to reassess the role of nationalism both inside and outside the nation state.
This book brings together a distinguished group of historians to explore the previously neglected relationship between nationalism and urban history. ...
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201,24 |
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Transnational Soldiers: Foreign Military Enlistment in the Modern Era
ISBN: 9781349340125 / Angielski / Miękka / 263 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Warfare in the modern era has often been described in terms of national armies fighting national wars. This volume challenges the view by examining transnational aspects of military mobilization from the eighteenth century to the present. Truly global in scope, it offers an alternative way of reading the military history of the last 250 years.
Warfare in the modern era has often been described in terms of national armies fighting national wars. This volume challenges the view by examining tr...
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402,53 |
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Studies in Settler Colonialism: Politics, Identity and Culture
ISBN: 9781349315888 / Angielski / Miękka / 307 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A widespread and still contemporary political phenomenon that exercises a profound effect on societies, settler colonialism structures relationships both historically and culturally diverse. This book assesses the distinctive feature of settler colonialism, and discusses its political, sociological, economic and cultural consequences.
A widespread and still contemporary political phenomenon that exercises a profound effect on societies, settler colonialism structures relationships b...
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