Hakutulokset: Kirjoja kirjailijalta David Cannadine
yhteensä 25 hakutulosta
Margaret Thatcher
Few modern women have had as great a political impact as Margaret Hilda Roberts, the grocer's daughter from Grantham who, as Margaret Thatcher, became Britain's first woman prime …
The Pursuit of Glory: The Five Revolutions That Made Modern Europe: 1648-1815
An accessible chronicle of European history from the end of the Thirty Years' War to the Battle of Waterloo features vivid coverage of such events as the Enlightenment period, the …
Victorious Century
SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUFF COOPER PRIZE 2018 'This is stupendous. The British nineteenth century, in all its complexity, all its horror, all its energy, all its hopes is laid bare. …
The Country House: Past, Present, Future
From The Crown to Downton Abbey, the country house speaks to our fantasies of rustic splendour, style, and escape. Featuring three hundred photos from the National Trust, this …
Tudors to Windsors
The Collection of the National Portrait Gallery, London, embraces over 500 years of British history, more than 60,000 sitters and explores ideas of social change, power and …
Churchill
An entirely new perspective on Churchill and his paintings told in his own words and including material never before published, edited and introduced by David Cannadine.Across …
Winston Churchill in the Twenty First Century
For many people throughout the English-speaking world and beyond, Winston Churchill was the greatest statesman of the twentieth century: the saviour of his country and a staunch …
Heroic Chancellor: Winston Churchill and the University of Bristol, 1929 to 1965
"Not only was Churchill the most illustrious and the most distinguished Chancellor that the University of Bristol has ever had, but he was also in his prime, from the 1940s …
The Pleasures of the Past
Each of the thirty essays here penetrates to the root of a character, a problem, a style, an idea, drawn from the recent British past. Clear-eyed, acerbic, witty, David Cannadine …
Rituals of Royalty
Heads of state today mark their rites of passage with splendid ceremonial, from Reagan’s inaugural to Andropov’s funeral. Such spectacles continue to be a prominent part of modern …
The Undivided Past
David Cannadine's impassioned, controversial plea for us to recognise the importance of both equality and historyGreat works of history have so often had at their heart a wish to …