Kultura a zábava

This survey of Greek art looks at material culture between 600 and 300 BC, concentrating on research from the past twenty…

Originally published in 1923, this book contains an edition of John Donne's Devotions, which were first printed in 1624.…

Using Southeast Asia as an example, this book tests theory about the relation between modernity, nationalism, and ethnic…

This volume takes an alternative look at the notion of 'wage-workers'. The contributors suggest that the idea of a 'pure'…

Les Fleurs du mal owes its 'landmark' status to the sheer aesthetic quality of its verses. Professor Leakey provides a…

Originally published in 1925, this volume examines the habits of various insects with numerous illustrative figures. It is a…

This introductory study presents Racine's Phdre as the culmination of French classical tragedy. It situates the play in its…

• Čeština

Originally published in 1926, this book contains a general history of the measurement of time now known as the week. Colson…

Originally published in 1923, this book contains twelve essays on English literature and analysis. Six of the articles…

• Rok vydání 1927

Ivor H. N. Evans (1886-1957) was a British anthropologist, ethnographer and archaeologist who lived and worked in what is…

Published in 1884, this brief illustrated account of the ruins of the once great city of Tiwanaku in Bolivia pre-dates many…

This book, first published in 1999, is a biography of Russia's greatest musical dramatist, Modest Musorgsky, known for his…

Published in 1792, this book is the second part of Paine's Rights of Man, published in the aftermath of the French…

First published in 1791, this work provides a detailed account of Parads' adventures as a spy for the French government, at…

Originally published in 1906, this book contains suggestions pertaining to the teaching of chemistry at an elementary level.…

This book considers the 'labouring poor' as actively pursuing a whole range of strategies for survival. Building and…

Originally published in 1937, this book contains a poem by the Armenian poet Ernest Haik Riddall Altounyan (1889-1962). The…

This book presents a new viewpoint on economic globalization. The author argues that opponents fail to see that…

Originally written in 1914 for the six hundredth anniversary of the battle, this book details the history surrounding the…

Originally published in 1936 as the third instalment of McKenzie's School Certificate trilogy, this book explains the…

Josephine Elizabeth Butler (1828-1906) was a prominent English feminist. This volume, first published anonymously in 1871,…

Lively and accessible account of the relationship between man and nature in Graeco-Roman antiquity. Describes the ways in…

• Rok vydání 1930

This book contains the text of the Prince Consort Prize Essay for 1930 on the subject of Epirus, the region on the periphery…

Liberal individualism, or 'classical liberalism' as it is often called, refers to a political philosophy in which liberty…

Originally published in 1937, this book contains the text of the Thirlwall Prize-winning essay for that year on the subject…

An extensive collection of first-hand testimony and narratives by slaveholders describing the facts and highlighting the…

Originally published in 1923 as part of the Cambridge Modern French Series, this book contains the French text of Henry…

This book, first published in 1936, tells the history of Pembroke College, Cambridge from its foundation in 1347 to the…

• Rok vydání 1898

A pioneering Egyptologist, Flinders Petrie (1853-1942) excavated over fifty sites and trained a generation of…

The second volume of studies based on the work of Heinrich Schenker (1868-1935), now recognised as the twenty-first…

Originally published in 1919, this book contains the French text of five memoirs written by authors who served in the armed…

Kathryn Bailey presents a fascinating and highly accessible biography of Anton Webern, focusing on several aspects of…

• Čeština

This book examines the economic and political impact of foreign investment in the United States and of American investment…

This memoir by one of the nineteenth century's most celebrated engravers, with observations of fellow artists and public…

This book discusses the 'marginal' people of late medieval Paris, the large and shifting group of men and women who existed…

This book explores definitions and understandings of the relations between migration and cultural processes, calling into…

This book explores public opinion about being and becoming American, and its implications for contemporary immigration…

First published in 1787, this bold work by Ottobah Cugoano, an emancipated slave living in England, was one of the first…

This collection of essays explains the evolution and persistence of various practices of indirect labour recruitment. Labour…

• Čeština

Gamson asks, how is it that so many people become active in movements if they are so uninterested and badly informed about…

Florence Kelley (1859-1932) was a committed socialist who campaigned against child labour in the United States. This volume,…

First published in 1958, this book aims to describe 'the main features of government in Great Britain, the Empire and the…

Contested elections became a fact of political life for the first time in early-17th-century England as the gentry pressed…

Originally published in 1936 as the second instalment of McKenzie's School Certificate series, this book explains the…

This book summarizes a wide range of recent literature on slavery for all of tropical Africa. It analyzes the demography,…

• Rok vydání 1892

This 1892 biography of Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) does not attempt to gloss over the notorious difficulties of Carlyle's…

• Rok vydání 1909

This edition of a manuscript history in Latin, written by the monk John Flete (c. 1420-1465) and edited by the historian and…

The influence of the state on human lives is more comprehensive and sustained than that of any other organizational…