The Violent Century

Phantom Terror: Political Paranoia and the Creation of the Modern State, 1789-1848, Hardcover - Adam Zamoyski

226,99 RON 242,99 RON

Reducere. For the ruling and propertied classes of the late eighteenth century, the years following the French Revolution were characterized by intense anxie...

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The Age of Acrimony: How Americans Fought to Fix Their Democracy, 1865-1915, Hardcover - Jon Grinspan

119,99 RON

A penetrating, character-filled history "in the manner of David McCullough" (WSJ), revealing the deep roots of our tormented present-day politics. ...

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All Things Left Wild, Hardcover - James Wade

153,99 RON 164,99 RON

Reducere. After an attempted horse theft goes tragically wrong, sixteen-year-old Caleb Bentley is on the run with his mean-spirited older brother across the ...

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How the Indians Lost Their Land: Law and Power on the Frontier, Paperback - Stuart Banner

213,99 RON 228,99 RON

Reducere. Between the early seventeenth century and the early twentieth, nearly all the land in the United States was transferred from AmericanIndians to whi...

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Embattled: How Ancient Greek Myths Empower Us to Resist Tyranny, Hardcover - Emily Katz Anhalt

164,99 RON 176,99 RON

Reducere. An incisive exploration of the way Greek myths empower us to defeat tyranny. As tyrannical passions increasingly plague twenty-first-century politi...

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Vivid Faces: The Revolutionary Generation in Ireland, 1890-1923, Hardcover - R. F. Foster

198,99 RON 212,99 RON

Reducere. On Easter Monday, 1916, Irish rebels poured into Dublin's streets to proclaim an independent republic. Ireland's long struggle for self-government ...

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The Wehrmacht Retreats: Fighting a Lost War, 1943, Hardcover - Robert M. Citino

420,99 RON

Throughout 1943, the German army, heirs to a military tradition that demanded and perfected relentless offensive operations, succumbed to the reali...

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A Pilgrimage of Murder: A Medieval Mystery Set in 14th Century London, Paperback - Paul Doherty

96,99 RON 103,99 RON

Reducere. Brother Athelstan's Canterbury pilgrimage is disrupted by brutal murder in the latest absorbing medieval mystery. Summer, 1381. The Great Revolt ha...

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The Darjeeling Distinction: Labor and Justice on Fair-Trade Tea Plantations in India, Paperback - Sarah Besky

186,99 RON

Nestled in the Himalayan foothills of Northeast India, Darjeeling is synonymous with some of the finest and most expensive tea in the world. It is ...

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Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive, Paperback - Marisa J. Fuentes

121,99 RON

Contributor(s): Author: Marisa J. FuentesIn the eighteenth century, Bridgetown, Barbados, was heavily populated by both enslaved and free women. Ma...

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A Golden Fury, Hardcover - Samantha Cohoe

94,99 RON

"A vivid ride through eighteenth century Europe with darkness and dread creeping at its corners. Utterly enchanting." - Emily A. Duncan, New York T...

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Lives of the Eminent Philosophers, Paperback - Diogenes Laertius

132,99 RON 142,99 RON

Reducere. Originally written in Greek sometime in the 3rd century, "Lives of the Eminent Philosophers" is the historically significant collection of biograph...

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Prayer and Performance in Early Modern English Literature: Gesture, Word and Devotion, Hardcover - Joseph Sterrett

684,99 RON

DescriptionEarly modern England was a nation alive with intense religious debate, with often violent results. Central to these debates were questio...

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A History of War: From Ancient Warfare to the Global Conflicts of the 21st Century, Hardcover - Chris McNab

166,99 RON 178,99 RON

Reducere. This lavishly illustrated full-color hardback explores the dark but compelling story of warfare, from its emergence in prehistoric tribal disputes,...

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John Bellany & Alan Davie: Cradle of Magic, Hardcover - John Bellany

467,99 RON 500,99 RON

Reducere. Cradle of Magic brings together two giants of 20th-century British painting: John Bellany and Alan Davie Alan Davie (1920-2014) was one of the firs...

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The Big Book of California Ghost Stories, Paperback - Janice Oberding

107,99 RON 115,99 RON

Reducere. Few states can rival California in terms of natural beauty and exciting history. But nearly three centuries of violent crime, sickness, greed, and ...

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Ivanhoe, Hardcover - Walter Scott

69,99 RON

DescriptionThe FLAME TREE COLLECTABLE CLASSICS are chosen to create a delightful and timeless home library. Each stunning edition features deluxe c...

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Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres, Hardcover - Henry Adams

120,99 RON 129,99 RON

Reducere. Using architecture, sculpture, culture and history, Adams humanizes the medieval period and provides valuable insight on religious philosophy. Mont...

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The Native Doctor, Paperback - A. J. Cronin

64,99 RON 69,99 RON

Reducere. Originally published in Ladies' Home Journal magazine (January 1960), THE NATIVE DOCTOR is A. J. Cronin's romantic and thrilling tale of Dr. Robert...

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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Anne Brontë

18,99 RON

With an Introduction and Notes by Peter Merchant, Canterbury Christchurch University College The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is a powerful and sometime...

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The Clash: U.S.-Japanese Relations Throughout History, Paperback - Walter LaFeber

178,99 RON 191,99 RON

Reducere. When Commodore Matthew Perry sailed into Tokyo harbor in July 1853, opening Japan to the West, a century and a half of economic, cultural, and occa...

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Crow, Paperback - Barbara Wright

64,99 RON 69,99 RON

Reducere. The summer of 1898 is filled with ups and downs for 11-year-old Moses. He's growing apart from his best friend, his superstitious Boo-Nanny butts h...

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Memory Battles of the Spanish Civil War: History, Fiction, Photography, Paperback - Sebastiaan Faber

307,99 RON

Contributor(s): Author: Sebastiaan FaberThe ability to forget the violent twentieth-century past was long seen as a virtue in Spain, even a duty. B...

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Along the Archival Grain: Epistemic Anxieties and Colonial Common Sense, Paperback - Ann Laura Stoler

193,99 RON

Along the Archival Grain offers a unique methodological and analytic opening to the affective registers of imperial governance and the political co...

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Hillbilly: A Cultural History of an American Icon, Paperback - Anthony Harkins

320,99 RON

In this pioneering work of cultural history, historian Anthony Harkins argues that the hillbilly-in his various guises of "briar hopper, " "brush a...

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An African American and Latinx History of the United States, Paperback - Paul Ortiz

81,99 RON

An intersectional history of the shared struggle for African American and Latinx civil rights Spanning more than two hundred years, An African Amer...

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Come on Up, Paperback - Jordi Nopca

90,99 RON 97,99 RON

Reducere. "Heartbreaking and hilarious, tender and violent." --New York Times Book Review"Jordi Nopca's stories, written with clarity and flair, are smart an...

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Massacring Indians: From Horseshoe Bend to Wounded Knee, Paperback - Roger L. Nichols

190,99 RON 204,99 RON

Reducere. During the nineteenth century, the U.S. military fought numerous battles against American Indians. These so-called Indian wars devastated indigenou...

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Bugsy Siegel: The Dark Side of the American Dream, Hardcover - Michael Shnayerson

145,99 RON

The story of the notorious Jewish gangster who ascended from impoverished beginnings to the glittering Las Vegas strip "Fast-paced and absorbing. ....

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Latino Heartland: Of Borders and Belonging in the Midwest, Paperback - Sujey Vega

244,99 RON 262,99 RON

Reducere. National immigration debates have thrust both opponents of immigration and immigrant rights supporters into the news. But what happens once the ral...

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Oil, Paperback - Gavin Bridge

145,99 RON

Oil pulses through our daily lives. It is the plastic we touch, the food we eat, and the way we move. Oil politics in the twentieth century was abo...

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Empire of Sin: A Story of Sex, Jazz, Murder, and the Battle for Modern New Orleans, Paperback - Gary Krist

92,99 RON 99,99 RON

Reducere. From bestselling author Gary Krist, a vibrant and immersive account of New Orleans' other civil war, at a time when commercialized vice, jazz cultu...

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Anarchism and Other Essays, Paperback - Emma Goldman

57,99 RON 62,99 RON

Reducere. Emma Goldman's strident critique of capitalism and equally passionate defence of anarchy raised her from a penniless Jewish immigrant to 'Red Emma'...

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Collected Writings of Chairman Mao - Politics and Tactics, Paperback - Mao Zedong

104,99 RON 112,99 RON

Reducere. Mao Zedong (also known as Mao Tse-tung) is regarded as one of the most controversial figures in modern world history. Having conquered the country,...

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Self-Portrait with Russian Piano, Paperback - Wolf Wondratschek

95,99 RON 102,99 RON

Reducere. A legendary literary figure who initiated a one-man Beat Generation in his native Germany, Wolf Wondratschek "is eccentric, monomaniacal, romantic-...

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Night Things, Paperback - Michael Talbot

135,99 RON 145,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionBuilt by a madwoman during the Victorian era, Lake House is a 160-room mansion in the Adirondacks with stairways that lead nowhere, biza...

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The Brahms Bust: A Megan Crespi Mystery Series Novel, Paperback - Alessandra Comini

132,99 RON 142,99 RON

Reducere. After visiting the nineteenth-century German/Texan sculptor Elisabet Ney Museum in Austin, art crimes detective Professor Megan Crespi identifies a...

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An Outpost of Progress and Other Stories, Paperback - Joseph Conrad

18,99 RON

DescriptionDrawing upon his experiences as the captain of a steamer on the Congo River, Joseph Conrad wrote "An Outpost of Progress, " a sharp crit...

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Three Years with Quantrill: A True Story, Paperback - John McCorkle

184,99 RON 197,99 RON

Reducere. This famous memoir by John McCorkle, reissued for the first time, is the best published account by a scout who "rode with Quantrill." John McCorkle...

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Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict, Paperback - Erica Chenoweth

170,99 RON

For more than a century, from 1900 to 2006, campaigns of nonviolent resistance were more than twice as effective as their violent counterparts in a...

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Superfluous Death, Paperback - Hazel Holt

67,99 RON 72,99 RON

Reducere. The sleepy seaside town of Taviscombe has more than its share of gossips and schemers. It also has Mrs. Sheila Malory, a widow whose gift for judgi...

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End of Men, Paperback - Suzanne Strobel

73,99 RON 79,99 RON

Reducere. Millions of babies. All girls. Why?In a dark and divided dystopian America, an ambitious reporter must risk her life and reputation to find out why...

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Landlord William Scully, Paperback - Homer E. Socolofsky

184,99 RON 197,99 RON

Reducere. William Scully, an Irishman who was a member of the lesser landed gentry, put his life's energy into the accumulation of high-quality, low-cost lan...

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The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic, Hardcover - Mike Duncan

132,99 RON

The creator of the massively popular, award-winning podcast series The History of Rome brings to life the story of the tumultuous years that set th...

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American Hauntings: The Rise of the Spirit World and Birth of the Modern Ghost Hunter, Paperback - Troy Taylor

114,99 RON 123,99 RON

Reducere. AMERICAN HAUNTINGS THE RISE OF THE SPIRIT WORLD AND THE BIRTH OF THE MODERN GHOST HUNTER BY TROY TAYLORDo you believe in ghosts? You're not alone. ...

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Melmoth the Wanderer (Illustrated and Annotated), Hardcover - Charles Maturin

193,99 RON 207,99 RON

Reducere. Melmoth the Wanderer is a violent story about a man who sold his soul to the devil in exchange of a longer life, but he regretted about his deal an...

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Philmont: A History of New Mexico's Cimarron Country, Paperback - Lawrence Murphy

106,99 RON 114,99 RON

Reducere. Here is the first comprehensive history of the Colfax County area of northeastern New Mexico. Best known today as the home of the Philmont Scout Ra...

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The Experiment of the Tropics: Poems, Paperback - Lawrence Lacambra Ypil

79,99 RON 85,99 RON

Reducere. Named 1 of 6 must-read poetry books in April 2019 by The Millions.The co-winner of the inaugural Gaudy Boy Poetry Book Prize. Through the lens of h...

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The Riddle of St. Leonard's: The Owen Archer Series - Book Five, Paperback - Candace Robb

81,99 RON 87,99 RON

Reducere. "Gripping and believable...you can almost smell the streets of 14th-century York as you delve deeper into an engrossing plot." --PRIMA In the year ...

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Talaat Pasha: Father of Modern Turkey, Architect of Genocide, Paperback - Hans-Lukas Kieser

170,99 RON

The first English-language biography of the de facto ruler of the late Ottoman Empire and architect of the Armenian GenocideTalaat Pasha (1874-1921...

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Forgotten Men, Paperback - Bill Thompson

73,99 RON 79,99 RON

Reducere. The once-famous Hotel Iberia was where society's finest gathered in the days before 1859 when Victory, Louisiana became a ghost town. A building wh...

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The Hundred Years War, Volume 2: Trial by Fire, Paperback - Jonathan Sumption

291,99 RON 312,99 RON

Reducere. A succession of catastrophes in the middle years of the fourteenth century brought France to the brink of destruction. The bankruptcy of the French...

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Zone, Paperback - Mathias Enard

101,99 RON 109,99 RON

Reducere. ``The novel of the decade, if not of the century.``--Christophe ClaroFrancis Servain Mirkovic, a French-born Croat who has been working for the Fre...

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Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow, Paperback - Henry Louis Gates

107,99 RON

DescriptionThe New York Times bestseller. A profound new rendering of the struggle by African-Americans for equality after the Civil War and the vi...

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Empire of the Black Sea: The Rise and Fall of the Mithridatic World, Hardcover - Duane W. Roller

189,99 RON 203,99 RON

Reducere. What is commonly called the kingdom of Pontos flourished for over two hundred years in the coastal regions of the Black Sea. At its peak in the ear...

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The Great Steel Strike and Its Lessons: The American Strike of 1919, Its Causes and the Labor Unions Involved, Paperback - William Z. Foster

71,99 RON 77,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionTrade unionist and Marxist politician William Z. Foster explains the organization and failure of the steel strike in 1919, an action whi...

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America's Greatest Engineering Projects: The Construction History of the Transcontinental Railroad, the Panama Canal, and the Hoover Dam, Paperback -

86,00 RON

*Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the projects' construction *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading The Transcont...

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A Bloody Habit, Paperback - Eleanor Bourg Nicholson

94,99 RON

It is 1900, the dawn of a new century. Even as the old Queen's health fails, Victorian Britain stands monumental and strong upon a mountain of tech...

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The History and Coinage of the Roman Imperators 49-27 BC, Hardcover - David R. Sear

472,99 RON 506,99 RON

Reducere. The brief period covered by The History and Coinage of the Roman Imperators witnessed the violent transition of the Roman state from a republican c...

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Return of the Barbarians: Confronting Non-State Actors from Ancient Rome to the Present, Paperback - Jakub J. Grygiel

143,99 RON

Barbarians are back. These small, highly mobile, and stateless groups are no longer confined to the pages of history; they are a contemporary reali...

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War in Japan 1467-1615, Paperback - Stephen Turnbull

143,99 RON 154,99 RON

Reducere. In 1467 the Onin War ushered in a period of unrivalled conflict and rivalry in Japan that came to be called the Age of Warring States or Sengoku Ji...

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Enduring Courage: Ace Pilot Eddie Rickenbacker and the Dawn of the Age of Speed, Paperback - John F. Ross

129,99 RON 139,99 RON

Reducere. The sensational true story of Eddie Rickenbacker, America's greatest flying aceAt the turn of the twentieth century two new technologies--the car a...

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The Light Ages: The Surprising Story of Medieval Science, Hardcover - Seb Falk

166,99 RON 178,99 RON

Reducere. Soaring Gothic cathedrals, violent crusades, the Black Death: these are the dramatic forces that shaped the medieval era. But the so-called Dark Ag...

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Cult of Glory: The Bold and Brutal History of the Texas Rangers, Paperback - Doug J. Swanson

119,99 RON

"Swanson has done a crucial public service by exposing the barbarous side of the Rangers." --The New York Times Book Review A twenty-first century ...

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The Last Empress, Paperback - Anchee Min

109,99 RON 117,99 RON

Reducere. The last decades of the nineteenth century were a violent period in China's history marked by humiliating foreign incursions and domestic rebellion...

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Against a Crimson Sky (the Poland Trilogy Book 2), Paperback - James Conroyd Martin

103,99 RON 111,99 RON

Reducere. A magnificent and sweeping epic, Against a Crimson Sky is an unforgettable tale of love, secrets, valor, and the enduring strength of the human spi...

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Red Meat Republic: A Hoof-To-Table History of How Beef Changed America, Hardcover - Joshua Specht

138,99 RON 148,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionHow beef conquered America and gave rise to the modern industrial food complexBy the late nineteenth century, Americans rich and poor ha...

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Journey Into the Land of the Zeks and Back: A Memoir of the Gulag, Hardcover - Julius Margolin

260,99 RON 279,99 RON

Reducere. Under the Soviet regime, millions of zeks (prisoners) were incarcerated in the forced labor camps, the Gulag. There many died of starvation, diseas...

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Against a Crimson Sky (The Poland Trilogy Book 2), Hardcover - James Conroyd Martin

148,99 RON

A magnificent and sweeping epic, Against a Crimson Sky is an unforgettable tale of love, secrets, valor, and the enduring strength of the human spi...

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Perfect Storm, Hardcover - Sebastian Junger

247,99 RON 265,99 RON

Reducere. "Drifting down on swimmers is standard rescue procedure, but the seas are so violent that Buschor keeps getting flung out of reach. There are times...

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