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The Medici Conspiracy: The Illicit Journey of Looted Antiques | |||
| From Italy's Tomb Raiders to the World's Greatest Museums | History | |||
| Peter Watson; Cecilia Todeschini | ||||
| PublicAffairs 2006 380 pages | ||||
| Hardback 1586484028 | ||||
| Published Price £15.99 | Our Price £5.99 | |||
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The Long Summer | |||
| How Climate Changed Civilization | History | |||
| Brian Fagan | ||||
| Basic 2004 284 pages | ||||
| Paperback 0465022820 | ||||
| Published Price £8.99 | Our Price £3.99 | |||
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Latin America | |||
| Its Problems and Its Promise: A Multidisciplinary Introduction | History | |||
| Jan Knippers Black (Edited by) | ||||
| Westview 2005 624 pages | ||||
| Paperback 0813341647 | ||||
| Published Price £23.99 | Our Price £5.99 | |||
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The River Nile in the Age of the British | |||
| Political Ecology and the Quest for Economic Power | History | |||
| Terje Tvedt | ||||
| IB Tauris 2004 456 pages | ||||
| Hardback 1860648355 | ||||
| Published Price £55.00 | Our Price £7.99 | |||
| Giving a new perspective on a crucial political period and a vitally important region, Tvedt begins by describing how the Nile came under British control and 'how the entire river was conceptually conquered by British water-planners' by 1900. Covering the period up to Britain's defeat at Suez in 1956, the study encompasses politicians from Churchill to Haile Salassie and offers a fresh understanding of the region's history, European colonialism and the partition of Africa, and of hydropolitics in general. | ||||
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Pitt the Younger | |||
| A Life | History | |||
| Michael J Turner | ||||
| Hambledon 2003 358 pages | ||||
| Hardback 1852853778 | ||||
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British Universities | |||
| Past and Present | History | |||
| Robert Anderson | ||||
| Hambledon 2006 242 pages | ||||
| Hardback 1852853476 | ||||
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Hanging in Judgment | |||
| Religion and the Death Penalty in England | History | |||
| Harry Potter | ||||
| SCM 1993 292 pages | ||||
| Hardback 0334025338 | ||||
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| Potter presents a history of hanging in England, focusing on the role of the churches, particularly the Church of England, in the preservation of the death penalty in 1810 and its abolition in 1969. | ||||
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Washington | |||
| The Making of the American Capital | History | |||
| Fergus M Bordewich | ||||
| Amistad 2008 368 pages | ||||
| Hardback 0060842385 | ||||
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| How did a place that was strategically indefensible, captive to the politics of slavery and a target of unbridled land speculation become the capital of the United States? Fergus Bordewich gives an engrossing account of the invention and building of Washington DC: 'in part a soaring story of national aspiration, in part a cautionary tale of the first great land-grabbing boondoggle in American history, and in part a grim record of slavery's buried history'. | ||||
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Fifty Things You Need to Know about British History | |||
| History | ||||
| Hugh Williams | ||||
| Collins 2008 394 pages | ||||
| Hardback 0007278411 | ||||
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| This enjoyable history groups 50 key events in the story of the nation into five thematic strands: 'Roots', from the Romans to the EU; 'Struggle' from Agincourt to the Falklands; 'The Sea', from Francis Drake to the Empire Windrush; 'Freedom', from Magna Carta to the creation of the NHS; and 'Ingenuity', from The Origin of Species to the rules of football. The result is a zestful and entertaining overview of the triumphs and tragedies that have shaped the character and institutions of Britain. | ||||
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Cradle and Crucible | |||
| History and Faith in the Middle East | History | |||
| David Fromkin; Zahi Hawass; Yossi Klein Halevi et al | ||||
| National Geographic 2002 256 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 0792269152 251x195mm | ||||
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| Both the cradle of European civilization and a destabilizing source of conflict, the Middle East has been the focus of the aspirations of Christians, Muslims and Jews for millennia. This impressive survey by leading scholars - extensively illustrated with colour photographs and clear, well-presented maps - provides a detailed history of the political, cultural, historical and religious forces that have shaped the region, from the prehistoric cultures of the fertile crescent to the present conflict between Israel and Palestine. | ||||
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The Monarchy and the British Nation | |||
| 1780 to the Present | History | |||
| Andrzej Olechnowicz (Edited by) | ||||
| Cambridge University Press 2007 328 pages | ||||
| Paperback 0521606357 | ||||
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| Shedding new light on the monarchy's place in British public life, this volume addresses two fundamental questions about the monarchy in the modern period: What has been its function in the political and social life of the nation? Why, for much but by no means all of the modern period, has it been so popular with its subjects? Among the ten essay subjects are the monarchy and public values, Ireland, the monarchy in film, the royal court and republicanism. | ||||
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The Infernal Machine | |||
| A History of Terrorism | History | |||
| Matthew Carr | ||||
| New 2006 410 pages | ||||
| Hardback 1595581790 | ||||
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| In recent years Western leaders have spoken extensively of terrorists' attacks on 'freedom' and 'democracy', but Matthew Carr argues that this is a misunderstanding of terrorists' motives which has striking historical parallels. Beginning with the assassination of Tsar Alexander II in 1881, he offers a thorough survey both of modern political violence and of its use by rulers as a pretext for sacrificing civil liberties and curtailing democratic institutions. | ||||
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That Sweet Enemy | |||
| The French and the British from the Sun King to the Present | History | |||
| Robert and Isabelle Tombs | ||||
| Knopf 2006 782 pages | ||||
| Hardback 1400040248 | ||||
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| For centuries, Britain and France have regarded each other with an uneasy mixture of admiration and envy, amusement and contempt. Enemies throughout the 18th and early 19th centuries, the nations forged an alliance in two world wars that endures to this day - as do the rivalry, the suspicion and the jokes. This massively informative and wryly entertaining book by a husband-and-wife team of historians, one English, one French, surveys the Anglo-French love-hate relationship from high diplomacy to popular culture. American Cut Pages | ||||
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Revolutions and the Collapse of Monarchy | |||
| Human Agency and the Making of Revolution in France, Russia and Iran | History | |||
| Zhand Shakibi | ||||
| IB Tauris 2007 256 pages | ||||
| Hardback 184511292X | ||||
| Published Price 59.50 | Our Price £9.99 | |||
| Led by his study of Iran to question general theories of revolution and in particular the role of the monarch, Zhand Shakibi presents a comparative study of the implosion of the monarchical states in Bourbon France, Romanov Russia and Pahlavi Iran. His aim is to determine the extent to which Louis XVI, Tsar Nicholas II and Mohammad Reza Shah made revolution in their respective countries, and the result is an alternative - or complementary - explanation to existing theories of revolution. No jacket. | ||||
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The Aztec World | |||
| History | ||||
| Elizabeth M Brumfiel; Gary M Feinman (Edited by) | ||||
| Abrams 2008 252 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 0810972786 285x237mm | ||||
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| The last of the great prehispanic civilizations of central Mexico, the Aztecs grew from a band of nomads to the rulers of an extensive empire. In these 13 essays a team of international scholars discuss aspects of Aztec culture and society, from religion and cosmology to women, urbanism and the effects of European conquests. Illustrated throughout, this catalogue of a 2008-9 Chicago exhibition contains photographs of splendid artefacts from several Mexican collections, new archaeological discoveries and virtual reconstructions of lost works. | ||||
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