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Political Imaginaries in Twentieth-Century India
ISBN: 9781350239807 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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148,24 |
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The History of the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, 1943-2016: Between the State and the Arts
ISBN: 9783031134081 / Angielski / Twarda / 307 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book presents the history of the Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts (CEMA) in Northern Ireland from its conception in 1943, and its successor organisation, the Arts Council of Northern Ireland (ACNI). Exploring the political and social impact of cultural policy in Northern Ireland, the book illustrates how the arts developed during the twentieth century and sheds light on the relationship between politics and culture. The author takes a closer look at the responsibilities of ACNI, and examines its interaction with the unionist government, which sought to influence how...
This book presents the history of the Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts (CEMA) in Northern Ireland from its conception in 1943, and ...
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442,79 |
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A Third Reich, as I See It": Politics, Society, and Private Life in the Diaries of Nazi Germany, 1933-1939
ISBN: 9780253065322 / Angielski / Twarda / 666 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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403,20 |
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Injustice of Place: Uncovering the Legacy of Poverty in America
ISBN: 9780063239494 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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150,93 |
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Alva and Gunnar Myrdal in Sweden and America, 1898–1945: Unsparing Honesty
ISBN: 9780367497088 / Angielski / Miękka / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Alva and Gunnar Myrdal are the only couple ever awarded Nobel prizes as individuals: Gunnar won the prize in Economics in 1974, and Alva won the Peace Prize in 1982. This dual biography examines their work as architects of the modern welfare state and probes the connections between the public and private dimensions of their lives. Drawing on their extensive personal correspondence and diaries between their electrifying first meeting in 1919 and their protracted marital crisis in the early 1940s, this book presents the psychologist and the economist as they sought to combine love and work in...
Alva and Gunnar Myrdal are the only couple ever awarded Nobel prizes as individuals: Gunnar won the prize in Economics in 1974, and Alva won the Peace...
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194,26 |
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National History and New Nationalism in the Twenty-First Century: A Global Comparison
ISBN: 9780367520410 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In most countries, national history has become a battleground in fields such as popular culture, museums, schoolbooks, and memorial politics. This book gives a broad international overview of the rise of renewed national historical narratives and the way professional historians react to them.
In most countries, national history has become a battleground in fields such as popular culture, museums, schoolbooks, and memorial politics. This boo...
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194,26 |
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Provincial Police Reform in Early Victorian England: Cambridge, 1835–1856
ISBN: 9780367688738 / Angielski / Miękka / 170 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This original study of the "New Police" in Cambridge provides a more nuanced picture of policing in early-Victorian England than traditional Whig and early revisionist Marxist interpretations implied and will support undergraduate courses in Victorian local, social and criminal justice history.
This original study of the "New Police" in Cambridge provides a more nuanced picture of policing in early-Victorian England than traditional Whig and ...
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194,26 |
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Towards an Equality of the Sexes in Early Modern France
ISBN: 9780367708467 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This interdisciplinary volume of eleven essays examines the idea and the reality of equality between the sexes in early modern France. It aims to contribute towards the development of the history of equality as an intellectual category within the history of political thought.
This interdisciplinary volume of eleven essays examines the idea and the reality of equality between the sexes in early modern France. It aims to cont...
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194,26 |
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Food and Feast in Premodern Outlaw Tales
ISBN: 9780367751098 / Angielski / Miękka / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume collects eleven essays together with a contextualizing introduction examining the relationship between outlaws, food, and feasting in the literature and culture of the premodern British Isles and France, c. 10th-17th centuries.
This volume collects eleven essays together with a contextualizing introduction examining the relationship between outlaws, food, and feasting in the ...
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194,26 |
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The Politics of Punishment: A Comparative Study of Imprisonment and Political Culture
ISBN: 9780367756611 / Angielski / Miękka / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores why some governments choose to imprison more people than others, why some nations’ prison systems are more humane, and how these systems of imprisonment change over time. It will be essential for students, academics and policy-makers working in the areas of penology, criminology, criminal justice, law and social history.
This book explores why some governments choose to imprison more people than others, why some nations’ prison systems are more humane, and how these ...
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194,26 |
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The Execution of Admiral John Byng as a Microhistory of Eighteenth-Century Britain
ISBN: 9780367767594 / Angielski / Miękka / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. According to Voltaire, Admiral John Byng was executed to "encourage the others." Of course, the story is more complicated. This microhistorical account upon a macro event presents an updated, revisionist, and detailed account of a dark chapter in British naval, social, and cultural history.
According to Voltaire, Admiral John Byng was executed to "encourage the others." Of course, the story is more complicated. This microhistorical accoun...
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194,26 |
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Fathers and Sons in the English Middle Class, c. 1870–1920
ISBN: 9780367767600 / Angielski / Miękka / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores the relationship between English middle-class fathers and sons between c. 1870 and 1920, questioning how they negotiated shifting masculine identities and relations of power, as well as emotional entanglements, revealing negotiation and love, as well as rebellion and conflict.
This book explores the relationship between English middle-class fathers and sons between c. 1870 and 1920, questioning how they negotiated shifting m...
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194,26 |
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Diplomatic Identity in Postwar Britain: The Deconstruction of the Foreign Office "Type", 1945–1997
ISBN: 9780367768256 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book seeks to understand the cultural renegotiation of the "Foreign Office Type," the traditional archetype in which British diplomats had been recruited before developments in the twentieth century forced the Foreign Office to reconsider its template for an ideal British diplomat.
This book seeks to understand the cultural renegotiation of the "Foreign Office Type," the traditional archetype in which British diplomats had been r...
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194,26 |
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British Concepts of Heroic "Gallantry" and the Sixties Transition: The Politics of Medals
ISBN: 9780367769710 / Angielski / Miękka / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines the relationship between concepts of heroic "gallantry," as projected by the British honours system, and the transitions of the supposed Sixties ‘cultural revolution’. It will interest researchers of heroism, the Sixties revolution and British honours, decorations and medals.
This book examines the relationship between concepts of heroic "gallantry," as projected by the British honours system, and the transitions of the sup...
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194,26 |
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Cultural Histories of Ageing: Myths, Plots and Metaphors of the Senescent Self
ISBN: 9780367769796 / Angielski / Miękka / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Drawing on 16th- to 21st-century Western literature, this book teases out culturally specific conceptions of old age as well as subjective constructions of late-life identity. The chapters demonstrate the great potential of interdisciplinary literary studies for historicising the ageing self.
Drawing on 16th- to 21st-century Western literature, this book teases out culturally specific conceptions of old age as well as subjective constructio...
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194,26 |
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Food History: A Feast of the Senses in Europe, 1750 to the Present
ISBN: 9781032006383 / Angielski / Miękka / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book elevates the senses to a central role in the study of food history as the traditional focus upon food types, quantities, and nutritional values is incomplete without some recognition of smell, touch, sight, hearing, and taste. It is ideal for scholars of food history, studies and culture, as well as social and cultural historians.
This book elevates the senses to a central role in the study of food history as the traditional focus upon food types, quantities, and nutritional val...
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194,26 |
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Political Economy and Imperial Governance in Eighteenth-Century Britain
ISBN: 9781032012032 / Angielski / Miękka / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines the relationship between imperial governance and political economy in eighteenth-century Britain, particularly in Canada and Ireland.
This book examines the relationship between imperial governance and political economy in eighteenth-century Britain, particularly in Canada and Irelan...
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194,26 |
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Labour in the Suburbs: Political Change in Croydon During the Twentieth Century
ISBN: 9781032206394 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is the first comprehensive economic, social and political study of the London suburb of Croydon from 1900 up to the present day.
This book is the first comprehensive economic, social and political study of the London suburb of Croydon from 1900 up to the present day.
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655,81 |
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Archbishop William Laud
ISBN: 9781032467368 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 1987, Archbishop William Laud shows how Laud dragged the English Church, and with it English society, towards a new and radical version of Anglicanism.
First published in 1987, Archbishop William Laud shows how Laud dragged the English Church, and with it English society, towards a new and radical ver...
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461,44 |
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The New Civil Rights Movement Reader: Resistance, Resilience, and Justice
ISBN: 9781625346896 / Angielski / Miękka / 600 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the United States, the fight to secure full civil rights for African American people has endured for centuries. The movement has included many voices, among them, working people, charismatic activists, musicians and artists, the LGBTQIA community, veterans, suburbanites, and elected officials. Moving from the labor struggles of the 1930s to the sit-ins and boycotts of midcentury, and the Black Lives Matter protests of today, this expansive volume brings together first-person accounts, political documents and speeches, and historical photographs from each region of the country. Designed...
In the United States, the fight to secure full civil rights for African American people has endured for centuries. The movement has included many voic...
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140,83 |