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19. århundre e-bøker

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  • Warrior King

    THE BESTSELLING EPIC FROM THE MASTER OF ADVENTURE, WILBUR SMITH

    A BATTLE FOR HONOUR AGAINST A POWERFUL NEW ENEMYSouth Africa, 1820When Ann Waite discovers a battered longboat washed ashore in Algoa Bay, she is stunned to find two survivors: a badly scarred sailor and a little boy. As the man walks away into the morning mist alone, refusing to take the child - Harry - with him, Ann is left with no choice but to raise the boy as her own.After two years of ... Les mer

    98,06 kr

  • How to be a Victorian

    av Ruth Goodman ...
    TRAVEL BACK IN TIME WITH THE BBC'S RUTH GOODMANWe know what life was like for Victoria and Albert. But what was it like for a commoner - like you or me?How did it feel to cook with coal and wash with tea leaves?Drink beer for breakfast and clean your teeth with cuttlefish?Catch the omnibus to work and do the laundry in your corset?How to be a Victorian is a radical new approach to history; a ... Les mer

    128,46 kr

  • King Leopold's Ghost

    A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa

    The 25th Anniversary Edition, with a foreword by Barbara Kingsolver"An enthralling story . . . A work of history that reads like a novel." — Christian Science Monitor“As Hochschild’s brilliant book demonstrates, the great Congo scandal prefigured our own times . . . This book must be read and reread.” — Los Angeles Times Book ReviewA National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist * A New Y... ... Les mer

    123,73 kr eller gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Inglorious Empire

    What the British Did to India

    The Sunday Times Top 10 bestseller on India's experience of British colonialism, by the internationally-acclaimed author and diplomat Shashi Tharoor'Tharoor's impassioned polemic slices straight to the heart of the darkness that drives all empires ... laying bare the grim, and high, cost of the British Empire for its former subjects. An essential read' Financial TimesIn the eighteenth century, ... Les mer

    128,46 kr

  • A Short History of Russia

    av Mark Galeotti ...
    'Fascinating... One of the most astute political commentators on Putin and modern Russia' Financial Times**'An amazing achievement' Peter FrankopanCan anyone truly understand Russia?**Russia is a country with no natural borders, no single ethos, no true central identity. At the crossroads of Europe and Asia, it is everyone's 'other'. And yet it is one of the most powerful nations on earth, a ... Les mer

    167,04 kr

  • The Habsburgs

    The Rise and Fall of a World Power

    av Martyn Rady ...
    'This is probably the best book ever written on the Habsburgs in any language, certainly the best I have ever read ... Students, scholars and the general reader will never find a better guide to Habsburg history' Alan Sked, Times Literary SupplementIn The Habsburgs, Martyn Rady tells the epic story of a dynasty and the world it built - and then lost - over nearly a millennium.From modest origins, ... Les mer

    192,76 kr

  • Waterloo

    The History of Four Days, Three Armies, and Three Battles

    #1 Bestseller in the U.K.From the New York Times bestselling author and master of martial fiction comes the definitive, illustrated history of one of the greatest battles ever fought—a riveting nonfiction chronicle published to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Napoleon’s last stand.On June 18, 1815 the armies of France, Britain and Prussia descended upon a quiet valley south of Brussels. In ... Les mer

    153,16 kr

  • Klondike

    The Last Great Gold Rush, 1896-1899

    av Pierre Berton ...
    With the building of the railroad and the settlement of the plains, the North West was opening up. The Klondike stampede was a wild interlude in the epic story of western development, and here are its dramatic tales of hardship, heroism, and villainy. We meet Soapy Smith, dictator of Skagway; Swiftwater Bill Gates, who bathed in champagne; Silent Sam Bonnifield, who lost and won back a hotel in a ... Les mer

    150,89 kr

  • From Peoples into Nations

    A History of Eastern Europe

    av John Connelly ...
    A sweeping narrative history of Eastern Europe from the late eighteenth century to todayIn the 1780s, the Habsburg monarch Joseph II decreed that henceforth German would be the language of his realm. His intention was to forge a unified state from his vast and disparate possessions, but his action had the opposite effect, catalyzing the emergence of competing nationalisms among his Hungarian, ... Les mer

    242,49 kr

  • THE COMMON PEOPLE

    1746-1946

    First published in 1938 and updated and rewritten in 1946, G D H Cole and Raymond Postgate’s ‘The Common People. 1746-1946’ is a classic study of British working class history from the defeat of the Jacobite cause at Culloden in 1746 through to the end of WWII in 1946. Its 714 pages provide a comprehensive overview of British working class life from a libertarian socialist perspective from the end ... Les mer

    68,92 kr

  • Stampede

    Gold Fever and Disaster in the Klondike

    av Brian Castner ...
    A gripping and wholly original account of the epic human tragedy that was the great Klondike Gold Rush of 1897-98. One hundred thousand men and women rushed heedlessly north to make their fortunes; very few did, but many thousands of them died in the attempt.In 1897, the United States was mired in the worst economic depression that the country had yet endured. So when all the newspapers announced ... Les mer

    70,58 kr

  • The Invention of Murder

    How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime

    “We are a trading community, a commercial people. Murder is doubtless a very shocking offence, nevertheless as what is done is not to be undone, let us make our money out of it.” Punch.Murder in nineteenth-century Britain was ubiquitous – not necessarily in quantity but in quality. This was the era of penny-bloods, early crime fiction and melodramas for the masses. This was a time when murder and ... Les mer

    135,15 kr

  • Barrow's Boys

    A Stirring Story of Daring, Fortitude, and Outright Lunacy

    From the author of Ninety Degrees North, a spellbinding account of how officers of the British Navy explored the world after the Napoleonic Wars.In 1816, John Barrow, second secretary to the British admiralty, launched the most ambitious program of exploration the world has ever seen. For the next thirty years, his handpicked teams of elite British naval officers scoured the globe from the Arctic ... Les mer

    92,00 kr eller gratis med Kobo Plus

  • The Soldier's Daughter

    The gripping historical novel from AnneMarie Brear

    The gripping, emotional historical saga from TOP 50 bestselling author of The Orphan in the Peacock Shawl, AnneMarie BrearCan her rebellious spirit ever be tamed?Yorkshire 1860With the heat of their beloved India far behind them, Evie Davenport and her widowed British Army officer father, are starting a new life in England. But Evie is struggling. With her dearest mother gone, Yorkshire with its ... Les mer

    51,31 kr eller gratis med Kobo Plus

  • The Husband Hunters

    Social Climbing in London and New York

    'A tale of buccaneering matriarchs marrying their American princess daughters to the dim-witted, cash-strapped sons of British peers . . . Cleverly researched, sparkling with diamonds and wickedly funny' SpectatorTowards the end of the nineteenth century and for the first few years of the twentieth, a strange invasion took place in Britain. The citadel of power, privilege and breeding in which the ... Les mer

    152,30 kr

  • The Birth Of The Modern

    World Society 1815-1830

    av Paul Johnson ...
    A classic study of fifteen crucial years in the formation of the modern worldThe Birth of the Modern has established itself as a new kind of historical work - an examination of the way the matrix of the modern world was formed. Paul Johnson, one of today's most popular historians, takes fifteen critical years and subjects them to a fascinatingly detailed analysis: their geopolitics and politics, ... Les mer

    104,68 kr

  • 1812

    Napoleon’s Fatal March on Moscow

    av Adam Zamoyski ...
    Adam Zamoyski’s bestselling account of Napoleon’s invasion of Russia and his catastrophic retreat from Moscow, events that had a profound effect on European history.In 1812 the most powerful man in the world assembled the largest army in history and marched on Moscow with the intention of consolidating his dominion. But within months, Napoleon’s invasion of Russia – history’s first example of ... Les mer

    135,15 kr

  • Her Smile

    av Carla Kelly ...
    Sometimes people end up in the wrong place at the wrong time. Thanks to an impulsive request from Elizabeth Ann Everett, the Everett family from Omaha, Nebraska, become tourists on a vacation in newly created Yellowstone National Park. The year is 1877 and the weather is fine, . When the Nez Perce, fleeing the U.S. Army, charge into a tourist camp, pampered, wealthy Elizabeth Everett gets more ... Les mer

    68,49 kr eller gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Enough Is Enuf

    Our Failed Attempts to Make English Easier to Spell

    av Gabe Henry ...
    A brief and humorous 500-year history of the Simplified Spelling Movement from advocates like Ben Franklin, C. S. Lewis, and Mark Twain to texts and Twitter.Why does the G in George sound different from the G in gorge? Why does C begin both case and cease? And why is it funny when a philologist faints, but not polight to laf about it? Anyone who has ever had the misfortune to write in English has, ... Les mer

    171,35 kr

  • The Mersey Mothers

    The gritty historical saga from Sheila Riley

    av Sheila Riley ...
    Serie Bok 3 - Reckoner's Row
    The final instalment in the intriguing adventure of Sheila Riley's brilliant and gritty Reckoner's Row seriesIt's all hands on deck on Reckoners Row...Liverpool 1953January sees the dawn of the Queen Elizabeth’s Coronation year as the mothers of Reckoners Row unite in preparation for the celebration of the new Queen.Meanwhile Evie Kilgaren is dreaming of her summer wedding to Danny Harris, but ... Les mer

    51,31 kr eller gratis med Kobo Plus

  • The Domestic Revolution

    How the Introduction of Coal into Victorian Homes Changed Everything

    av Ruth Goodman ...
    “Our domestic Sherlock brims with excitement” (Roger Lowenstein, Wall Street Journal) in this erudite romp through the smoke-stained, coal-fired houses of Victorian England.“The queen of living history” (Lucy Worsley) dazzles anglophiles and history lovers alike with this immersive account of how English women sparked a worldwide revolution—from their own kitchens. Wielding the same wit and ... Les mer

    132,69 kr

  • 19th Century Europe

    A Cultural History

    av Hannu Salmi ...
    Nineteenth-Century Europe offers a much-needed concise and fresh look at European culture between the Great Revolution in France and the First World War. It encompasses all major themes of the period, from the rising nationalism of the early nineteenth century to the pessimistic views of fin de siècle. It is a lucid, fluent presentation that appeals to both students of history and culture and the ... Les mer

    199,09 kr

  • The Transformation of the World

    A Global History of the Nineteenth Century

    Oversatt av Patrick Camiller ...
    Serie serien America in the World
    A panoramic global history of the nineteenth centuryA monumental history of the nineteenth century, The Transformation of the World offers a panoramic and multifaceted portrait of a world in transition. Jürgen Osterhammel, an eminent scholar who has been called the Braudel of the nineteenth century, moves beyond conventional Eurocentric and chronological accounts of the era, presenting instead a ... Les mer

    299,59 kr

  • Beguiling the Beauty: Fitzhugh Book 1

    av Sherry Thomas ...
    Serie Bok 1 - Fitzhugh
    Fans of Grace Burrowes, Liz Carlyle, Meredith Duran, Sarah Maclean and Courtney Milan will be enthralled by the dazzling talent of Sherry Thomas in this captivating romance in which a 'vengeful temptress' is taught a lesson in love by the very man she hates.When the Duke of Lexington meets a mysterious baroness on a transatlantic liner, he is fascinated. She's exactly what he's been searching for ... Les mer

    228,50 kr