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27 produkter
Mr Five Per Cent
The many lives of Calouste Gulbenkian, the world’s richest man
Häftad, 2020
191 kr
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Winner of the BAC Wadsworth Prize for Business History 2020When Calouste Gulbenkian died in 1955 at the age of 86, he was the richest man in the world, known as 'Mr Five Per Cent' for his personal share of Middle East oil. The son of a wealthy Armenian merchant in Istanbul, for half a century he …
Great Economic Thinkers
An Introduction – from Adam Smith to Amartya Sen
Av Jonathan Conlin, Jonathan Conlin
Häftad, 2020
182 kr
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Great Economic Thinkers presents an accessible introduction to the lives and works of the most influential economists of modern times: Adam Smith, David Ricardo, John Stuart Mill, Karl Marx, Alfred Marshall, Joseph Schumpeter, John Maynard Keynes, and Nobel Prize winners Friedrich Hayek, Milton …
Making History
Edward Augustus Freeman and Victorian Cultural Politics
Av Bremner, G.A. Bremner m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
1246 kr
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'History is past politics, politics is present history.' Thus observed Edward Augustus Freeman, 19th-century historian and public intellectual. He was an idiosyncratic and imaginative thinker who saw past and present as interwoven and had a way of collapsing barriers of time - a gift for making the …
The Met
A History of a Museum and Its People
Inbunden, 2024
1060 kr
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New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the world’s greatest cultural institutions. Its holdings encompass a vast range—including paintings, sculptures, costumes, instruments, and arms and armor—and span millennia, from ancient Egypt and Greece to Islamic art to European Old Masters …
The Met
A History of a Museum and Its People
Häftad, 2024
264 kr
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New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the world’s greatest cultural institutions. Its holdings encompass a vast range—including paintings, sculptures, costumes, instruments, and arms and armor—and span millennia, from ancient Egypt and Greece to Islamic art to European Old Masters …
Charles Kingsley
Faith, Flesh, and Fantasy
Av Jonathan Conlin, Jan Marten Ivo Klaver
Inbunden, 2020
2882 kr
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Novelist, poet, Anglican priest, and controversialist, Charles Kingsley (1819–75) epitomizes the bustling Victorian man of faith and letters, a prolific polymath as ready to break a lance with John Henry Newman over Christian doctrine as he was to preach to schoolchildren on the virtues of manly, …
Charles Kingsley
Faith, Flesh, and Fantasy
Av Jonathan Conlin, Jan Marten Ivo Klaver
Häftad, 2022
811 kr
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Novelist, poet, Anglican priest, and controversialist, Charles Kingsley (1819–75) epitomizes the bustling Victorian man of faith and letters, a prolific polymath as ready to break a lance with John Henry Newman over Christian doctrine as he was to preach to schoolchildren on the virtues of manly, …
Pleasure Garden, from Vauxhall to Coney Island
E-bok, 2012
1192 kr
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Summers at the Vauxhall pleasure garden in London brought diverse entertainments to a diverse public. Picturesque walks and arbors offered a pastoral retreat from the city, while at the same time the garden's attractions indulged distinctly urban tastes for fashion, novelty, and sociability. High- …
Pleasure Garden, from Vauxhall to Coney Island
Inbunden, 2013
998 kr
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Summers at the Vauxhall pleasure garden in London brought diverse entertainments to a diverse public. Picturesque walks and arbors offered a pastoral retreat from the city, while at the same time the garden's attractions indulged distinctly urban tastes for fashion, novelty, and sociability. High- …
Chevalier d'Eon and his Worlds
Gender, Espionage and Politics in the Eighteenth Century
Av Simon Burrows, Jonathan Conlin m. fl.
Inbunden, 2010
2193 kr
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These essays draw on new research into Charles d'Eon de Beaumont's unusual life, exploring how a gender identity could come to be negotiated over time. Cross-dressing author, envoy, soldier and spy Charles d'Eon de Beaumont's unusual career fascinated his contemporaries and continues to attract …
Charles Kingsley
Faith, Flesh, and Fantasy
Av Jan Marten Ivo Klaver, Jonathan Conlin
E-bok, 2020
956 kr
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Novelist, poet, Anglican priest, and controversialist, Charles Kingsley (1819–75) epitomizes the bustling Victorian man of faith and letters, a prolific polymath as ready to break a lance with John Henry Newman over Christian doctrine as he was to preach to schoolchildren on the virtues of manly, …
Charles Kingsley
Faith, Flesh, and Fantasy
Av Jan Marten Ivo Klaver, Jonathan Conlin
E-bok, 2020
935 kr
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Novelist, poet, Anglican priest, and controversialist, Charles Kingsley (1819–75) epitomizes the bustling Victorian man of faith and letters, a prolific polymath as ready to break a lance with John Henry Newman over Christian doctrine as he was to preach to schoolchildren on the virtues of manly, …
Evolution and the Victorians
Science, Culture and Politics in Darwin's Britain
E-bok, 2014
530 kr
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Charles Darwin's discovery of evolution by natural selection was the greatest scientific discovery of all time. The publication of his 1859 book, On the Origin of Species, is normally taken as the point at which evolution erupted as an idea, radically altering how the Victorians saw themselves and …
Evolution and the Victorians
Science, Culture and Politics in Darwin's Britain
Häftad, 2014
488 kr
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Charles Darwin’s discovery of evolution by natural selection was the greatest scientific discovery of all time. The publication of his 1859 book, On the Origin of Species, is normally taken as the point at which evolution erupted as an idea, radically altering how the Victorians saw themselves and …
Evolution and the Victorians
Science, Culture and Politics in Darwin's Britain
Inbunden, 2014
2047 kr
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Charles Darwin’s discovery of evolution by natural selection was the greatest scientific discovery of all time. The publication of his 1859 book, On the Origin of Species, is normally taken as the point at which evolution erupted as an idea, radically altering how the Victorians saw themselves and …
Chevalier d'Eon and his Worlds
Gender, Espionage and Politics in the Eighteenth Century
Av Simon Burrows, Jonathan Conlin m. fl.
E-bok, 2009
2407 kr
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Cross-dressing author, envoy, soldier and spy Charles d'Eon de Beaumont's unusual career fascinated his contemporaries and continues to attract historians, novelists, playwrights, filmmakers, image makers, cultural theorists and those concerned with manifestations of the extraordinary. D'Eon's …
Chevalier d'Eon and his Worlds
Gender, Espionage and Politics in the Eighteenth Century
Av Simon Burrows, Jonathan Conlin m. fl.
E-bok, 2011
2407 kr
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Cross-dressing author, envoy, soldier and spy Charles d''Eon de Beaumont''s unusual career fascinated his contemporaries and continues to attract historians, novelists, playwrights, filmmakers, image makers, cultural theorists and those concerned with manifestations of the extraordinary. D''Eon''s …
Evolution and the Victorians
Science, Culture and Politics in Darwin's Britain
E-bok, 2014
530 kr
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Charles Darwin's discovery of evolution by natural selection was the greatest scientific discovery of all time. The publication of his 1859 book, On the Origin of Species, is normally taken as the point at which evolution erupted as an idea, radically altering how the Victorians saw themselves and …
Tales of Two Cities: Paris, London and the Birth of the Modern City
Häftad, 2014
264 kr
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Mr Five Per Cent
The many lives of Calouste Gulbenkian, the world’s richest man
E-bok, 2019
182 kr
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Winner of the BAC Wadsworth Prize for Business History 2020When Calouste Gulbenkian died in 1955 at the age of 86, he was the richest man in the world, known as ''Mr Five Per Cent'' for his personal share of Middle East oil. The son of a wealthy Armenian merchant in Istanbul, for half a century he …
Civilisation
Häftad, 2009
364 kr
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Kenneth Clark's Civilisation (1969), was a landmark documentary series, pioneering the 'presenter as hero' model. Jonathan Conlin draws on interviews with the original crew and archival research to reveal a series that combined scepticism towards traditional ideas of progress with an inclusive …
National Gallery
A History
Inbunden, 2025
420 kr
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Published in the National Gallery’s Bicentenary year, this is the story of how one of the world’s finest collections of paintings was formed by (and for) the people of Britain For two hundred years the National Gallery has been at the heart of the nation’s life. Established in 1824 and situated in …
They All Made Peace – What is Peace?
The 1923 Lausanne Treaty and the New Imperial Order
Häftad, 2024
304 kr
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The 1923 Treaty of Lausanne may have been the last of the post-World War One peace settlements, but it was very different from Versailles. Like its German and Austro-Hungarian allies, the defeated Ottoman Empire had initially been presented with a dictated peace in 1920. In just two years, however, …
D'Eon
The Wonder of Her Sex
E-bok, 2026
353 kr
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Author, envoy, soldier, spy, the Chevaliere d'Eon spent half her life in France, presenting as a man, and the other half in London, presenting as a woman. D'Eon fought in battle, negotiated peace treaties and leaked state secrets, narrowly escaping the Bastille. Defying royal authority and gender …
D'Eon
The Wonder of Her Sex
Inbunden, 2026
1314 kr
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Author, envoy, soldier, spy, the Chevalière d’Eon spent half her life in France, presenting as a man, and the other half in London, presenting as a woman. D'Eon fought in battle, negotiated peace treaties and leaked state secrets, narrowly escaping the Bastille. Defying royal authority and gender …
D'Eon
The Wonder of Her Sex
Häftad, 2026
327 kr
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Author, envoy, soldier, spy, the Chevalière d’Eon spent half her life in France, presenting as a man, and the other half in London, presenting as a woman. D'Eon fought in battle, negotiated peace treaties and leaked state secrets, narrowly escaping the Bastille. Defying royal authority and gender …
Great Economic Thinkers
An Introduction – from Adam Smith to Amartya Sen
Av Jonathan Conlin, Jonathan Conlin
Inbunden, 2018
296 kr
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Great Economic Thinkers presents an accessible introduction to the lives and works of the most influential economists of modern times. Free from confusing jargon and equations, the book describes and discusses key economic concepts – from the role played by the division of labour to wages and rents, …
