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After Suez: Adrift in the American Century
ISBN: 9781845111762 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Fifty years after Antony Eden's fateful decision to take on the Egyptian President, Gamal Abdel Nasser, veteran Guardian journalist Martin Woollacott brings to life the arguments, personalities and events surrounding the crisis, and follows its disastrous legacy. He draws on four decades of foreign affairs reporting to show how it changed the Middle East, and the world. More than anything else Suez exposed with brutal clarity that Britain cannot pursue any policy in the world without the support of America. Woollacott's richly fascinating book shows both how Suez led to where we are...
Fifty years after Antony Eden's fateful decision to take on the Egyptian President, Gamal Abdel Nasser, veteran Guardian journalist Martin Wool...
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208,28 zł |
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Dawn After Dark
ISBN: 9781845115968 / Angielski / Twarda / 359 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this stimulating dialogue the authors compare ways of thought from opposite ends of the earth, from traditions, cultures, and religions as different as can be. Their common theme is the spiritual crisis facing modern civilization, East and West, and the rediscovery of our humanity through the artistic intuition and religious impulse shared by all humanity.
In this stimulating dialogue the authors compare ways of thought from opposite ends of the earth, from traditions, cultures, and religions as differen...
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260,35 zł |
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Operation Barbarossa 1941 (3): Army Group Center
ISBN: 9781846031076 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Osprey's third and final volume in the Barbarossa trilogy, this title completes the account of the strategic intricacies of the German campaign against Russia. Detailing the final Nazi push for Moscow, Robert Kirchubel examines the causes behind the German failure, including the inability to re-supply troops or provide reserves, and the lack of decent German winter uniforms and transport. Full-color artwork, maps and bird's-eye views illustrate the campaign in detail, revealing how the Red Army capitalized on every German weakness in spite of its own flaws. Osprey's third and final volume in the Barbarossa trilogy, this title completes the account of the strategic intricacies of the German campaign aga... |
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93,12 zł |
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Fin de Siecle: The Meaning of the Twentieth Century
ISBN: 9781850439677 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bringing together specialists from the fields of international relations, history and politics, this work attempts to answer three main questions regarding the 20th century. It considers what the century's salient characteristics have been, what else is ending as the century ends, and whether Churchill was right in calling it a ""disappointing century.""
As the contributors address these issues, they also discuss whether it has been an American century or a ""nuclear"" century, and whether it marks the ""end of history,"" the triumph of Western liberalism, or merely the end of the Cold... Bringing together specialists from the fields of international relations, history and politics, this work attempts to answer three main questions rega...
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712,53 zł |
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The Bayreuth Festival during the 'Third Reich'
ISBN: 9783656460947 / Angielski / Miękka / 24 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject History Europe - Germany - National Socialism, World War II, grade: A (1,0), The New School (Historical Studies), course: Modern Dictatorship and Political Religion, language: English, abstract: ...] Since its founding in 1876, the Bayreuth Festival had been a locus of representation for politically prominent figures; among the guests of the first Festival were the German Emperor Wilhelm I and the Brazilian Emperor Dom Pedro II2. In the years to come, Bayreuth would keep its meaning as a "political symbol" 3. From 1933 on, the Wagnerian Hitler...
Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject History Europe - Germany - National Socialism, World War II, grade: A (1,0), The New School (Historica...
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172,16 zł |
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The Origins of Postmodernity
ISBN: 9781859842225 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Traces the genesis, consolidation and consequences of the postmodern idea. Beginning in the Hispanic world of the 1930s, the text takes the reader through to the 70s, when Lyotard and Habermas gave the idea of postmodernism wider currency and finally the 90s, with the work of Fredric Jameson.
Traces the genesis, consolidation and consequences of the postmodern idea. Beginning in the Hispanic world of the 1930s, the text takes the reader thr...
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127,12 zł |
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Gateshead: Architecture in a Changing English Urban Landscape
ISBN: 9781873592762 / Angielski / Miękka / 82 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Gateshead has often been overshadowed by Newcastle, its northern neighbour across the River Tyne, yet its history is full of fascinating insights into the way in which a northern industrial town experienced the 19th and 20th centuries. This book explores this period of great change through a study of the town's everyday historic landscape. The story of industry includes the legacy of railway engineering and the construction of the Team Valley Trading Estate, a nationally significant example of a state-sponsored attempt to engineer economic change. Gateshead's growth brought new civic...
Gateshead has often been overshadowed by Newcastle, its northern neighbour across the River Tyne, yet its history is full of fascinating insights into...
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93,12 zł |
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Under the Cloud: The Decades of Nuclear Testing
ISBN: 9781881043058 / Angielski / Miękka / 568 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In "a chilling documentary history of America's above-ground nuclear tests conducted during the 1950s and early 1960s, Miller takes on the subject and universalizes it, at the same time giving it the flavor of a Dos Passos novel" ("Kirkus Reviews").
In "a chilling documentary history of America's above-ground nuclear tests conducted during the 1950s and early 1960s, Miller takes on the subject and...
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172,82 zł |
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Oktober 1932 - März 1934
ISBN: 9783598237881 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 429 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Von singularem Wert sind die Tagebucher von Goebbels, weil sie das einzige Selbstzeugnis eines nationalsozialistischen Spitzenpolitikers uber einen Zeitraum von mehr als zwei Jahrzehnten darstellen und die Fruhgeschichte der NSDAP, die nationalsozialistische Beherrschung und die Zerstorung des alten Europa sowie die Deutschland in den Abgrund reiende Katastrophe gleichermaen umfassen. Die Tagebucher geben Zeugnis daruber, wie Goebbels die Geschichte seiner Zeit sehen wollte - insofern sind sie keine objektive Darstellung dieser Epoche, auch kein mit subjektiver Aufrichtigkeit verfates... Von singularem Wert sind die Tagebucher von Goebbels, weil sie das einzige Selbstzeugnis eines nationalsozialistischen Spitzenpolitikers uber einen... |
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520,47 zł |
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Rotarmisten Schreiben Aus Deutschland
ISBN: 9783598116568 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 461 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Die Reihe erscheint seit 1977. In ihr erscheinen vor allem Editionen historischer Quellen und Inventare; sie dient aber auch zur Publizierung von Bibliographien, Handbuchern und Monographien. Die Reihe erscheint seit 1977. In ihr erscheinen vor allem Editionen historischer Quellen und Inventare; sie dient aber auch zur Publizierung von B... |
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607,26 zł |
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Register Der Geburtsorte Und Der Letzten Wohnorte
ISBN: 9783598105401 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 303 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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737,44 zł |
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Werner Hegemann (1881-1936): Stadtplanung, Architektur, Politik - Ein Arbeitsleben in Europa Und Den USA
ISBN: 9783598232282 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 1284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dieser Titel ist die erste umfassende Biographie des Stadtplaners und Architekturkritikers Werner Hegemann. Seit seiner Tatigkeit fur die groe Berliner Bauausstellung von 1910 galt er in der Fachwelt als Spezialist fur moderne Stadtplanung. Er organisierte internationale Stadtebauausstellungen in Deutschland und in den USA. Uber Genf und Paris ging er 1933 ins amerikanische Exil. Das vorliegende Werk eroffnet den Zugang zu Leben und Werk Hegemanns, dessen Arbeiten in Europa und in den USA immer noch groe Wertschatzung besitzen.
Dieser Titel ist die erste umfassende Biographie des Stadtplaners und Architekturkritikers Werner Hegemann. Seit seiner Tatigkeit fur die groe Berline...
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1561,86 zł |
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Culture, Censorship and the State in Twentieth-Century Italy
ISBN: 9781900755955 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Recent work on the cultural history of modern Italy has radically challenged received opinion about the relationship of state and culture during the twentieth century. In this rich interdisciplinary book the complex interactions and negotiations of control arising from this state-culture connection are elucidated by way of case studies of major authors, filmmakers and artists and their encounters with censorship, patronage and other forms of direct state intervention; analytical surveys of different periods, media and culture industries; and through an examination of such key issues as...
Recent work on the cultural history of modern Italy has radically challenged received opinion about the relationship of state and culture during the t...
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442,54 zł |
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Speaking Out and Silencing: Culture, Society and Politics in Italy in the 1970s
ISBN: 9781904350729 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Commonly referred to collectively as the anni di piombo -- years of lead -- the 1970s have been seen as a parenthesis in Italian history, which was dominated by political violence and terrorism. The seventeen essays in this wide-ranging collection adopt different scholarly perspectives to challenge this monolithic view and uncover the complexity of the decade, exploring its many facets and re-assessing political conflict. The volume brings to the fore the ruptures of the period through an examination of literature, film, gender relations, party politics and political participation, social...
Commonly referred to collectively as the anni di piombo -- years of lead -- the 1970s have been seen as a parenthesis in Italian history, which was do...
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676,90 zł |
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World War I and the Cultures of Modernity
ISBN: 9781934110690 / Angielski / Miękka / 197 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A revisionist study that rejects the time-honored argument that the Great War was the cataclysmic break with the epoch that preceded it
Download Plain Text version Although many novels and works of history have been published on the calamity that was the First World War, no work until this one has sought to unify current historical and literary interpretations of the 1914-1918 era and its implications for modern life. The essays collected here chart the war and its cultural and literary contours from a variety of new and challenging intellectual vantage points. Focusing in different... A revisionist study that rejects the time-honored argument that the Great War was the cataclysmic break with the epoch that preceded it
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218,27 zł |
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Geschichte im Zeitalter der Globalisierung
ISBN: 9783110178265 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 495 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Erstmals in deutscher Sprache liegt hiermit eine umfassende Darstellung globaler Entwicklungen von der Vorgeschichte des zweiten Weltkrieges bis zur Gegenwart vor. Mit Blick auf die zentrale Bedeutung globaler ZusammenhAnge gelingt die Abbildung politischer, wirtschaftlicher und sozialer Bewegungen der letzten siebzig Jahre. Dabei bezieht der Autor nicht nur Ergebnisse der in- und auslAndischen zeitgeschichtlichen Forschung ein, sondern beleuchtet auch mOgliche Konsequenzen daraus.
Erstmals in deutscher Sprache liegt hiermit eine umfassende Darstellung globaler Entwicklungen von der Vorgeschichte des zweiten Weltkrieges bis zur G...
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607,26 zł |
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The Girls' Own Paper, Vol 1-4 (1880-1883), Victorian Periodicals for Boys and Girls Series 1: Victorian Periodicals for Boys and Girls Series 1
ISBN: 9784902454178 / Angielski / Twarda / 3200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This facsimile reprint of the leading Victorian weekly for girls from the first to the 196th issue covering 1880 to 1883 is a complete reproduction of the original periodicals containing many illustrations (some in colour) in the original size. The texts contain a mixture of factual articles concerning history, science, religion, famous figures, and topical social changes affecting the daily lives of girls and women, as well as short stories, serialised novels, and poetry. Regular features also included fashion patterns, needlework designs, and information about or examples of recently... This facsimile reprint of the leading Victorian weekly for girls from the first to the 196th issue covering 1880 to 1883 is a complete reproduction... |
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5753,69 zł |
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British Servants - A Collection of Early Guides and Companions
ISBN: 9784902454222 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This five-volume set offers a collection of thirteen guides and companions written for British servants in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The chronologically balanced selection provides a historical perspective on the changes of the roles of servants and their position in British society. This five-volume set offers a collection of thirteen guides and companions written for British servants in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.... |
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5206,95 zł |
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Through a Glass, Darkly: Blurred Images of Cultural Tradition and Modernity Over Distance and Time
ISBN: 9789004115972 / Angielski / Twarda / 93 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In today's European arts and sciences most of the time we see not only other, but also our own cultural traditions and the different forms of modernity like a dim image in a mirror. And the future of our own and other cultures seems to be shrouded in mystery, because our gift of knowledge and inspired messages are only partial. The question this book addresses is whether it is possible to get an almost face-to-face intimacy with various forms of cultural tradition and modernity by using our experiences and our powers of imagination, i.e. our expectations, in a more fruitful way. The...
In today's European arts and sciences most of the time we see not only other, but also our own cultural traditions and the different forms of modernit...
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303,74 zł |
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Comparative Civilizations and Multiple Modernities: A Collection of Essays
ISBN: 9789004129931 / Angielski / Twarda / 488 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of essays provides an analysis of the dynamics of Civilizations. The processes of globalization and of world history are described from a comparative sociological point of view in a Weberian tradition. These essays were written between 1974 and 2002 by one of the most eminent sociologists of today.
This collection of essays provides an analysis of the dynamics of Civilizations. The processes of globalization and of world history are described fro...
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715,95 zł |
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