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US: Indiana University Press, 1957. Paperback. Good. Bibliographical note": p. 265-273.

Edinburgh: Scottish Cultural Press, 1999. Near Fine. A tight clean copy, no markings throughout. Rev. and updated ed. of: History for young Scots. 2nd ed. 1980. Includes index.

US: Historic Royal Palaces, 2001. Very Good. The life and death of a Tudor traitor.

US: St. Martin's Press, 2005. Paperback. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Edwardian Britain has often been described as a golden sunlit afternoon---p ersonified by its genial and self-indulgent King. In fact, modern Britain w as born during the reign of Edward VII, when politics, science, literature, and the arts were turned upside down. In Parliament, the peers were crushed for the first time since Magna Carta. Irish nationalists and suffragettes took politics out on to the streets. H ome Rule and Votes for Women were delayed, not precipitated, by the First W orld War. Great parliamentary stars such as Lloyd George and Winston Churchill typifi ed an era in which personalities dominated the headlines of the new tabloid newspapers. It was the age of Rolls and Royce, Scott and Shackleton, Edwar d Elgar, Shaw, the Pankhursts, and Mrs. Alice Keppel, whose social life was reported… Leer más

London: L.T.A.Robinson Ltd, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No DJ. A highly collectible rare copy, illustrated colour and b/w plates, some wea r to boards,internally no inscriptions or marks throughout.

US: Penguin Books, 1950. Paperback. Good.

US: Penguin Books Ltd, 1972. Paperback. Good. This history of England in the 18th century is not a chronological narrativ e of ministries and wars, but a history of the development of English socie ty; the ministries and wars, of course, have their place, but no greater a place than the economic, cultural, and social history of the time. The book is divided into three parts: the ages of Walpole, of Chatham, and of Pitt.

US: Fourth Estate, 2001. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. In the style of 'Longitude' and 'Fermat's Last Theorem', a narrative histor y of the making of the myth of the English. Three thousand years of our isl and history from Boadicea to Blair, from the acclaimed author of 'Restituti on'. In 75,000 words Maureen Duffy covers three thousand years of history to sho w where the idea of the English has come from. The myth begins with the ide a that the English were the original inhabitants of this island, that the ' real' natives of Britain are the English and anyone else is somehow a forei gner. The idea is captured by G K Chesterton in his popular poem of 1912 wh ich begins 'Before the Romans came to Rye or out to Severn strode/The rolli ng English drunkard made the rolling English road'. The first British heroes Boadicea and Caractacus ruled parts of an… Leer más

US: Penguin UK, 2001. Paperback. Good. For generations the traditional focus for those wishing to understand the r oots of the modern world has been France on the eve of the Revolution. Port er certainly acknowledges France's importance, but here makes an overwhelmi ng case for consideringBritain the true home of modernity - a country drive n by an exuberance, diversity and power of invention comparable only to twe ntieth-century America. Porter immerses the reader in a society which, reco vering from the horrors of the Civil War and decisively reinvigorated by th e revolution of 1688, had emerged as something new and extraordinary - a so ciety unlike any other in the world.

US: Penguin Books Ltd, 1974. Paperback. Good.

New York: Random House, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. A tight clean copy, protected in a new brodart wrapper. Born in Belfast in 1948, Adams has spent his entire life in the nationalist movement and immediately states that he was never a member of the IRA; he similarly denies that Sinn Fein is "the political wing of the IRA." Northern Ireland politics is always a complicated array of facts and contradictions, but Adams has done a workmanlike job of defining events and personalities. He puts the 1988 Gibraltar assassinations of three IRA members squarely at the feet of Margaret Thatcher. And while he excoriates Thatcher and her ilk, he embraces Nelson Mandela ("the greatest political leader of our time"), Steve Bilko, Bishop Desmond Tutu, Rosa Parks and Ho Chi Minh as mentors and heroes. The Good Friday Agreement is at the book's heart. There are many heroes, including Nobel laureate John Hume, Irish Prime Ministers Albert Reynolds and Bertie Ahern, Tony Blair and, most prominently,… Leer más

US: Kodansha Globe, 1994. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Just before dawn on January 9, 1800, a mysterious creature emerged from a f orest in southern France. Although he was human in form and walked upright, his habits were those of a young male animal. He was wearing only a tatter ed shirt, but did not seem troubled by the cold. Showing no modesty about h is nakedness, he ate greedily, seizing roasted potatoes from a hot fire. He seemed to have no language skills, only grunting occasionally. A cause cel ebre developed over the question of what should be done with this puzzling wild boy. People wondered: Could he learn to speak? Or be taught to eat wit h a knife and fork? In THE FORBIDDEN EXPERIMENT, the award-winning cultural historian Roger Shattuck offers a captivating account of this fascinating episode in intellectual history. He examines the relationships that developed… Leer más

US: Ebury, 2006. Good. Following the success of Forgotten Voices of the Great War, Lyn Smith visit s the oral accounts preserved in the Imperial War Museum Sound Archive, to reveal the sheer complexity and horror of one of human history's darkest ho urs. The great majority of Holocaust survivors suffered considerable physic al and psychological wounds, yet even in this dark time of human history, t ales of faith, love and courage can be found. As well as revealing the stor y of the Holocaust as directly experienced by victims, these testimonies al so illustrate how, even enduring the most harsh conditions, degrading treat ment and suffering massive family losses, hope, the will to survive, and th e human spirit still shine through.

US: Penguin Books, 1965. Paperback. Very Good. Includes bibliographies and index v. 1. Old Régime and revolution, 1715-1799. 3rd ed. -- v. 2. From the First Empire to the Second Empire, 1799-1871. 2nd ed. -- v. 3. France of the republics, 1871-1962.

US: Franklin Classics, 2018. Paperback. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and i s part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and poss ibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distr ibute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be p reserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part… Leer más

US: Arcade Publishing, 1996. Hardcover. Like New. The anecdotal history of Harry's Bar in Venice, a meeting place for the ric h and famous for sixty-five years, accompanies the autobiography of one of the founders of the bar, Arrigo Cipriani, from World War II through the pre sent.

US: Palgrave Macmillan, 1980. Hardcover. Very Good.

US: Penguin Books, 1957. Good.

US: Pan Macmillan, 2008. Paperback. Good. This engaging volume tells the story of how the great political visions and idealisms of Victorian Britain came to be defeated by a culture of consume rism, celebrity, and self-gratification. It explains how in each decade, po litical leaders found themselves confounded by the British people, who alwa ys turned out to be harder to herd than predicted. Historically Britain has been a country on the edge-first of invasion, then of bankruptcy, then on the vulnerable front line of the Cold War, and later in the forefront of th e great opening up of capital and migration. This history follows all the p olitical and economic stories of the modern era as well as with such social trends as comedy, cars, the war against homosexuals, oil-men and punks, Ma rgaret Thatcher's wonderful good luck, political lies, and the true heroes of British theater.

US: Penguin Books, 1961. Paperback. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.