Engelstalige boeken / English language books

The Kreenholm Strike of 1872.

Reginald Zelnik uses a single episode―a militant strike at the Kreenholm factory, Europe's largest textile plant―to explore the broad historical moment. In examining this crucial event of Russian…

How did enlightened Russians of the eighteenth century understand society? And how did they reconcile their professed ideals of equality and justice with the authoritarian political structures in which they lived? Historian Elise…

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Auteurs : Edward Acton / Vladimir Iu. Cherniaev / William G. Rosenberg
Artikelnummer : BF8777
Categorie(ën) : Geschiedenis / Engelstalige boeken
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Between 1899 and 1911, student strikes and demonstrations disrupted Russia's higher educational institutions. The universities marched to their own peculiar tempo, however, and it was not until the strike of 1905 that student…

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Auteur : Niki Lauda
Artikelnummer : BF
Categorie(ën) : Biografieën/waargebeurd / sport / Engelstalige boeken
Taal : Engels
ISBN : 9780091642402
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This text investigates the Russian tradition in education, and seeks to understand schools in the context of larger historical and social processes. A central theme of the volume is the interaction between school and community,…

The modernization of Russian Jewry.

Contrary to general perceptions concerning Russia during this era, Jewish political activities continued beyond 1907, and given the political limits of Tsarist Russia, transformed and…

This collective study of civil rights in Russia before the Revolution of 1917 challenges the conventioanl view, held by both Western and Soviet historians, that concepts of civil rights and the relationship of the individual to…

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Auteur : Naomi Shepherd
Artikelnummer : BF8767
Categorie(ën) : Geschiedenis / Engelstalige boeken
Taal : Engels
ISBN : 9780297812883
Uitgever : Weidenfeld &…

Leisure activities at the end of the Tsarist Era.

An athlete becomes a movie star; a waiter rises to manage a chain of nightclubs; a movie scenarist takes to writing restaurant reviews. Intrepid women hunt bears, drive in…

Journeys among the defiant people of the Caucasus.

Two centuries ago, the Russians pushed out of the cold north towards the Caucasus Mountains, the range that blocked their access to Georgia, Turkey, Persia and India. They were…

Chekhov's life was one long battle with his dependants and with the tuberculosis that was to kill him at the age of 44. This biography aims to show him in the heroism of his short life - at times made hell by a monstrous father,…

The Battle for Europe, 1807 to 1814.

This book tells the story of one of the most astonishing dramas in Europe's history. In the summer of 1812 after years of uneasy peace, Napoleon, the master of almost the whole continent,…

In the first full-scale history of the reign of Catherine to appear in almost a century Isabel de Madariaga uses a broad range of Western and Soviet scholarship to give an authoritative account of Catherine's own role in the…

Three major waves of anti-Jewish rioting swept Southern Russia and Russian Poland in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In this book distinguished scholars of Russian Jewish history explore the origins and nature…

Universities are said to be the "powerhouses" of modern society. They educate our leaders and advance our basic knowledge of nature and society. The essays in this book discuss how universities work, and have worked, in relation…

Socialist Europe and Revolutionary Russia: Perception and Prejudice 1848-1923 analyses perceptions and images of Russia held by European socialists in the period between the revolutions of 1848 and firm establishment of the Soviet…

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Auteurs : Susan Gross Solomon / John F. Hutchinson
Artikelnummer : BF8733
Categorie(ën) : Geschiedenis / Engelstalige boeken
Taal : Engels
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There are sixty recipes, from soups to sweets, taking in a summer and a winter drink along the way. There are also eleven fine engravings by the artist Nicole Fenosa, at whose home in Vendrell Irving Davis spent many summers.…

In deze eerste druk van Grove Press Special (stripboek) vindt u 12 hoofdstukken, voor volwassenen: fantasie, sex, humor en satire.

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Auteurs : Michael O'Donoghue / Frank…

A textbook of basic science and clinical research.

Naast tekst vindt u in dit boek ook schema's, schetsen en diagrammen.

Auteur :John Boik
Artikelnummer : BF6500 L
Categorie : Gezondheid en medisch / Engelstalige boeken
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