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27 produkter
Pursuit of Italy
A History of a Land, its Regions and their Peoples
Häftad, 2012
190 kr
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The book that explains the whole extraordinary course of Italian history like no other in English The Pursuit of Italy traces the whole history of the Italian peninsula in a wonderfully readable style, full of well-chosen stories and observations from personal experience, and peopled by many of the …
The Pursuit of Italy
A History of a Land, Its Regions, and Their Peoples
Häftad, 2012
284 kr
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One of The Economist 's Books of the Year A provocative, entertaining account of Italy's diverse riches, its hopes and dreams, its past and present Did Garibaldi do Italy a disservice when he helped its disparate parts achieve unity? Was the goal of political unification a mistake? The question is …
Film Club
No School. No Work ... Just Three Films a Week
Häftad, 2010
187 kr
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Jesse didn't want to go to school anymore. After much deliberation, his father offers him an unconventional deal: he can drop out, sleep all day, not work, not pay rent, but on one condition - that he watches three films a week, of his father's choosing.What follows is an unusual journey as week by …
Pursuit of Italy
A History of a Land, its Regions and their Peoples
E-bok, 2011
108 kr
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The book that explains the whole extraordinary course of Italian history like no other in EnglishThe Pursuit of Italy traces the whole history of the Italian peninsula in a wonderfully readable style, full of well-chosen stories and observations from personal experience, and peopled by many of the …
British in India
Three Centuries of Ambition and Experience
Häftad, 2019
214 kr
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A SUNDAY TIMES, THE TIMES, SPECTATOR, NEW STATESMAN, TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR'A richly panoramic exploration of the British experience of India ... hugely researched and elegantly written, sensitive to the ironies of the past and brimming with colourful details' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday TimesThe …
Curzon
Imperial Statesman
Häftad, 2019
225 kr
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'A fast-moving, entertaining and finely written story' Simon Schama'Masterly ... a remarkable portrait of a brilliant complex and tragic genius' William Dalrymple, Los Angeles TimesGeorge Nathaniel Curzon's controversial life in public service stretched from the high noon of the British Empire to …
Curzon
Imperial Statesman
E-bok, 2019
147 kr
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'A fast-moving, entertaining and finely written story' Simon Schama'Masterly ... a remarkable portrait of a brilliant complex and tragic genius' William Dalrymple, Los Angeles TimesGeorge Nathaniel Curzon's controversial life in public service stretched from the high noon of the British Empire to …
Long Recessional
The Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling
Häftad, 2019
172 kr
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'Superb, beautifully written, touching and occasionally very funny' Andrew RobertsDavid Gilmour's superb biography of Rudyard Kipling is the first to show how the life and work of the great writer mirrored the trajectory of the British Empire, from its zenith to its final decades. His famous poem …
Long Recessional
The Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling
E-bok, 2019
136 kr
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'Superb, beautifully written, touching and occasionally very funny' Andrew RobertsDavid Gilmour's superb biography of Rudyard Kipling is the first to show how the life and work of the great writer mirrored the trajectory of the British Empire, from its zenith to its final decades. His famous poem …
British in India
Three Centuries of Ambition and Experience
E-bok, 2018
125 kr
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A SUNDAY TIMES, THE TIMES, SPECTATOR, NEW STATESMAN, TLS BOOK OF THE YEARThe British in this book lived in India from shortly after the reign of Elizabeth I until well into the reign of Elizabeth II. Who were they? What drove these men and women to risk their lives on long voyages down the Atlantic …
Ruling Caste
Imperial Lives in the Victorian Raj
Häftad, 2007
210 kr
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In 1900 just over a thousand British civil servants ruled a population of nearly 300 million people spread over a territory now covered by India, Pakistan, Burma and Bangladesh. In its time, the Indian Civil Service was regarded as efficient, benevolent and incorruptible, but revisionist historians …
Last Leopard
Häftad, 2008
165 kr
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David Gilmour's biography of Giuseppe di Lampedusa unearths the life story of the creator of "The Leopard", one of the great novels of the twentieth century. A book whose imagery, once tasted, haunts the reader forever. "The Leopard" describes the golden era of the nineteenth-century Sicily in all …
The British in India
A Social History of the Raj
Häftad, 2019
387 kr
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An immersive portrait of the lives of the British in India, from the seventeenth century to Independence Who of the British went to India, and why? We know about Kipling and Forster, Orwell and Scott, but what of the youthful forestry official, the enterprising boxwallah, the fervid missionary? …
Film Club
No School. No Work ... Just Three Films a Week
E-bok, 2008
147 kr
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Jesse didn't want to go to school anymore. After much deliberation, his father offers him an unconventional deal: he can drop out, sleep all day, not work, not pay rent, but on one condition - that he watches three films a week, of his father's choosing.What follows is an unusual journey as week by …
Cities of Spain
E-bok, 2012
125 kr
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Unlike France and England, Spain has not been dominated by its capital, and the focus of its history shifts from city to city over the centuries, illuminating different features of the country's past. Toledo, Cordoba, Seville and Madrid have at various times managed to establish a political and …
Auf der Suche nach Italien
Eine Geschichte der Menschen, Städte und Regionen von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart
E-bok, 2013
181 kr
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Elegant und kenntnisreich führt David Gilmour seine Leser durch die Geschichte der Halbinsel. Er reichert seine Darstellung an mit prächtigen Anekdoten, sinnlichen Eindrücken und interessanten Gesprächen. Ein kluges und inspiriertes Buch.Gilmour zeigt, dass die Pracht Italiens immer in seinen …
Reminiscences of the Pen' Folk
Paisley Weavers of other Days. Third Edition
Häftad, 2017
405 kr
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