We Danced All Night. A Social History of Britain Between the Wars, Paperback - Martin Pugh

Bounded by the Great War on one side and by the looming shadow of the Second World War on the other, the inter-war period has characteristically be...

Britain is celebrated for having avoided the extremism, political violence and instability that blighted many European countries between the two wo...

An eye-opening history of Britain and the Islamic world--a thousand-year relationship that is closer, deeper, and more mutually beneficial than is ...

A tender, unsettling collection of writing capturing a continent on the brink of further upheaval.Publisher: Granta BooksAuthor(s): Joseph RothTran...

From the 1880s to the Second World War, Campbell Road, Finsbury Park (known as Campbell Bunk), had a notorious reputation for violence, for breedin...

Reducere. A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE - LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE - "A beautiful and deeply moving book."--Sally Rooney, author of Normal...

Publisher: Monash University PublishingAuthor(s): Dr Patricia, OAM ClarkeNumber of pages: 240Collection: Australian HistoryPublication date: 2013Di...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Chris (University of Lincoln, UK) O'RourkeIllustration(s): 18 bw illusNumber of pages: 224Collection...

Reducere. Our experiences of dying have been shaped by ancient ideas about death and social responsibility at the end of life. From Stone Age ideas about dyi...

Martin Kitchen's compelling account of Europe between the wars sets the twenty-year crisis within the context of the profound sense of cultural mal...

Reducere. DescriptionThe early years of the twentieth century were a difficult period for Big Business. Corporate monopolies, the brutal exploitation of labo...

The State of Freedom: A Social History of the British State since 1800 - Patrick Joyce

The first three editions of this bestselling book have established A Social History of the Media as a classic, providing a masterful overview of co...

Reducere. Using a wealth of contemporary Ottoman sources, this book recreates the social history of Istanbul, a huge, cosmopolitan metropolis and imperial ca...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Greco-Persian Wars, then keep reading...This cultural prominence was on full display during ...

One of the most devastating portraits ever drawn of a human society - life in Hitler's Germany during the Third ReichPublisher: Orion Publishing Co...

New B-format paperback - The first book to consider British history from a magical perspective, and how these arcane magical themes developed over ...

Contributor(s): Editor: Keith WrightsonThe rise of social history has had a transforming influence on the history of early modern England. It has b...

Reducere. The theme of this extraordinary book is the evolution of the modern conception of family life and the modern image; of the nature of children. Arie...

A comprehensive study of Iceland's social and historical development, from tiny fishing settlements to a global economic power. It is of interest t...

Reducere. The American family has undergone a series of transformations from its socially sanctified role as the center of society to today's private, indepe...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Napoleonic Wars, then keep reading...The Napoleonic Wars, which took place between 1803 and ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. DescriptionWhen the Chinese communists came to power in 1949, they promised to 'turn society upside down'. Efforts to build a communist society cre...

Reducere. In 1948, a war broke out that would result in Israeli independence and the erasure of Arab Palestine. Over twenty months, thousands of Jews and Ara...

The drum kit has provided the pulse of popular music from before the dawn of jazz up to the present day pop charts. Kick It, a provocative social h...

Americans love "this year's model, " relying on the "new" to be always "improved." Enthusiasm for the new, says Stanley Buder, is essential to Amer...

Reducere. A Social History of American Technology, Second Edition, tells the story of American technology from the tools used by its earliest inhabitants to ...

Hibbert tries to show by reference to history of punishments, to the reactions of those who suffered them or have been threatened by them, and to t...

Chinese Diasporas provides a concise and compelling new history of internal and external Chinese migration from the sixteenth century to the presen...

Kristen Richardson traces the social seasons of debutantes on both sides of the Atlantic, sharing their stories in their own words, through diaries...

Shellac and Swing! tells the story of the gramophone's 'golden age, ' when it helped to shape Britain's musical, social and political life and impa...

Publisher: Polity PressAuthor(s): Peter BurkeNumber of pages: 248Publication date: 2011Dimensions: 227 x 155 x 27Cover type: Paperback / softbackRe...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Fei-Hsien WangIllustration(s): 14 b/w illus. 8 tables.Number of pages: 368Collection: Studies of th...

Reducere. First substantial translation of Apollinaire's later works by an award-winning poet. Guillaume Apollinaire's final years exactly coincided with the...

What did it mean to be a 'rebel woman' in the interwar years? Taking the form of a multiple biography, this book traces the struggles, passions and...

Sean Damer provides a sustained critique of the Corporation of Glasgow's council housing policy and argues that it had the unintended consequence o...

Reducere. Distinguished liturgical historian and theologian Frank Senn here ventures behind the liturgical screen, behind the texts, and behind the rubrics t...

A collection of essays written to take the reader on a journey through history, examining the impact of autism on the opinions and solutions of wri...

Social historian and author Gillian Perry takes us on a highly entertaining whistle-stop tour of the history of the English afternoon tea, enhanced...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Punic Wars, then keep reading...The Punic Wars between 264 BCE and 146 BCE were a series of ...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of ancient Japan, then keep reading... This cultural prominence was on full display during these wa...

DescriptionCombining history of science and a history of universities with the new imperial history, Universities in Imperial Austria 1848-1918: A ...

Reducere. Although we are learning a lot from historians about the lives of slaves in the United States, we still know little about slavery in the Caribbean....

Reducere. In Overhaul, historians Richard Flint and Shirley Cushing Flint present the largely forgotten story of Albuquerque's locomotive repair shops, which...

A portrait of 18th century England, from its princes to its paupers, from its metropolis to its smallest hamlet. It covers topics that include - di...

Explores high and popular culture; family, race, gender and class relations; sexual attitudes and material conditions; science and technology - the...

Capital, as Marx once wrote, comes into the world "dripping from head to foot, from every pore, with blood and dirt." He might well have been descr...