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A History of Britain in Ten Enemies

A History of Britain in Ten Enemies

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From the multimillion-copy bestselling author of the Horrible Histories, this is a witty, whistlestop tour through the history of Britain (for grown ups) - a ST bestseller with 30k+ hardbacks...
Entangled Pasts, 1768-now: Art, Colonialism and Change

Entangled Pasts, 1768-now: Art, Colonialism and Change

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Informed by ongoing research, this handsome exhibition catalogue published to accompany Entangled Pasts, 1768-now at the Royal Academy 3 February 28 April 2024, features the work of artists connected with...
Unlike Anything That Ever Floated: The Monitor and Virginia and the

Unlike Anything That Ever Floated: The Monitor and Virginia and the

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"Ironclad against ironclad, we maneuvered about the bay here and went at each other with mutual fierceness," reported Chief Engineer Alban Stimers following that momentous engagement between the USS Monitor...
Music: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Musical Instruments and the

Music: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Musical Instruments and the

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Each family of instruments is discussed in detail: strings, woodwind and brass, percussion and keyboards, as well as a section on the voice. All the modern orchestral instruments and their...
The Queen's Agent: Francis Walsingham at the Court of Elizabeth I

The Queen's Agent: Francis Walsingham at the Court of Elizabeth I

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Elizabeth I came to the throne at a time of insecurity and unrest. Rivals threatened her reign; England was a Protestant island, isolated in a sea of Catholic countries. Spain...
The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature

The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature

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Replacing the Annals of English Literature (first published by OUP in 1935), the Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature presents a chronological record of around 15,000 works published in the...
The Infinite City: Utopian Dreams on the Streets of London

The Infinite City: Utopian Dreams on the Streets of London

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'Glorious' Guardian 'Vigorous, rigorous and eminently readable' SPECTATOR In his soaring new book, Niall Kishtainy draws us into the imaginative worlds of Thomas More, the Diggers, William Morris and Extinction...
How to Behave Badly in Renaissance Britain

How to Behave Badly in Renaissance Britain

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From royalty to peasantry, every age has its bad eggs, those who break all the rules and rub everyone up the wrong way. But their niggling, anti-social and irritating ways...
The American Revolution: A Short History

The American Revolution: A Short History

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This book demonstrates how the course of the American Revolution and the creation of a national entity were influenced by the political, economic, and social diversity of the thirteen colonies....
Queen Victoria's Matchmaking: The Royal Marriages that Shaped Europe

Queen Victoria's Matchmaking: The Royal Marriages that Shaped Europe

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A captivating exploration of the role in which Queen Victoria exerted most international power and influence: her role as matchmaking grandmother In the late nineteenth century, Queen Victoria had over...
The End of Anglo-America: Historical Essays in the Study of Cultural

The End of Anglo-America: Historical Essays in the Study of Cultural

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This collection of essays examines the phenomenon of the gradually evolving cultural differences which took place between America and Britain after the American revolution. A culture of individualism began to...
Lois the Witch

Lois the Witch

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Beware the self-righteous man of faith, the wicked-eyed child, the jealous lover. For this is Salem, in 1691, where rumours fly...
Eagles over the Alps: Suvorov in Italy and Switzerland, 1799

Eagles over the Alps: Suvorov in Italy and Switzerland, 1799

$95.00 AUD$80.00 AUD
A superbly researched and detailed narrative of the Russian campaign in the Alps against the armies of Revolutionary France. 1799 - Russia's greatest soldier was at war in Italy and...
A Concise History of Bolivia

A Concise History of Bolivia

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In its first Spanish edition, Herbert Klein's A Concise History of Bolivia won immediate acceptance within Bolivia as the new standard history of this important nation. Surveying Bolivia's economic, social,...
Freedom's Battle: The Origins of Humanitarian Intervention

Freedom's Battle: The Origins of Humanitarian Intervention

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This gripping and important book brings alive over two hundred years of humanitarian interventions. Freedom's Battle illuminates the passionate debates between conscience and imperialism ignited by the first human rights...
Bonnie Prince Charlie: A Biography

Bonnie Prince Charlie: A Biography

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Bonny Prince Charlie has always been a figure swathed in romantic mystery. This biography makes use of letters and documents from among the Stuart Papers. It deals with his relationship...
Carl Gustav Armfelt and the Struggle for Finland during the Great

Carl Gustav Armfelt and the Struggle for Finland during the Great

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A comprehensive account of the military career of one of the great and tragic figures from the final death throes of the Swedish empire. Charles XII's planned conquest of Norway...
The Infinite City: Utopian Dreams on the Streets of London

The Infinite City: Utopian Dreams on the Streets of London

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'Glorious' Guardian 'Vigorous, rigorous and eminently readable' SPECTATOR In his soaring new book, Niall Kishtainy draws us into the imaginative worlds of Thomas More, the Diggers, William Morris and Extinction...
Young Elizabeth: Princess. Prisoner. Queen.

Young Elizabeth: Princess. Prisoner. Queen.

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Elizabeth I is one of England's most famous monarchs, whose story as the 'Virgin Queen' is well known. But queenship was by no means a certain path for Henry VIII's...
Fields of Glory: a History and Tour Guide of the Atlanta Campaign

Fields of Glory: a History and Tour Guide of the Atlanta Campaign

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traces the 1864 campaign and leads readers on a driving tour of Sherman's path. Franklin Garrett of the Atlanta Historical Society calls it "a difficult job well done" A History...
The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History

The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History

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From the author of 'Britons', the story of the exceptional life of the intrepid Elizabeth Marsh -- an extraordinary woman of her time who was caught up in trade, imperialism,...
The Cambridge History of the American Civil War: Volume 3, Affairs of

The Cambridge History of the American Civil War: Volume 3, Affairs of

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This volume analyzes the cultural and intellectual impact of the war, considering how it reshaped Americans' spiritual, cultural, and intellectual habits. The Civil War engendered an existential crisis more profound...
In the Cause of Humanity: A History of Humanitarian Intervention in

In the Cause of Humanity: A History of Humanitarian Intervention in

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In the Cause of Humanity is a major new history of the emergence of the theory and practice of humanitarian intervention during the nineteenth century when the question of whether,...
The Cambridge History of World Literature

The Cambridge History of World Literature

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World Literature is a vital part of twentieth-first century critical and comparative literary studies. As a field that engages seriously with function of literary studies in our global era, the...
Hunting Game: Raiding Politics in the Central African Republic

Hunting Game: Raiding Politics in the Central African Republic

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Northeastern Central African Republic - a vast space bordering Chad, Darfur, and South Sudan - is a quintessential 'stateless' space, where the government has little presence and armed actors operate...
The Cambridge Economic History of China

The Cambridge Economic History of China

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China's rise as the world's second-largest economy surely is the most dramatic development in the global economy since the year 2000. Volume II, which spans China's two turbulent centuries from...
The Cambridge History of America and the World: Volume 1, 1500-1820

The Cambridge History of America and the World: Volume 1, 1500-1820

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The first volume of The Cambridge History of America and the World examines how the United States emerged out of a series of colonial interactions, some involving indigenous empires and...
The Cambridge Edition of the Correspondence of Daniel Defoe

The Cambridge Edition of the Correspondence of Daniel Defoe

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This comprehensive and authoritative edition of the correspondence of Daniel Defoe situates each letter in its biographical, literary, and historical contexts. A unique source for a turbulent period of British...
The Cambridge History of Ireland: Volume 3, 1730-1880

The Cambridge History of Ireland: Volume 3, 1730-1880

$226.95 AUD$158.87 AUD
The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries was an era of continuity as well as change. Though properly portrayed as the era of 'Protestant Ascendancy' it embraces two phases - the eighteenth...
Encountering the Pacific in the Age of the Enlightenment

Encountering the Pacific in the Age of the Enlightenment

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The Pacific Ocean was the setting for the last great chapter in the convergence of humankind from across the globe. Driven by Enlightenment ideals, Europeans sought to extend control to...
The Idea of Europe: From Antiquity to the European Union

The Idea of Europe: From Antiquity to the European Union

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The creation of the European Union and the progressive integration of the European states has raised serious questions about the existence of a distinctive European identity. Do the British share...
Measuring Minds: Henry Herbert Goddard and the Origins of American

Measuring Minds: Henry Herbert Goddard and the Origins of American

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This book offers the first complete study of the origins of American intelligence testing. It follows the life and work of Henry Herbert Goddard, America's first intelligence tester and author...
Silk: A History in Three Metamorphoses

Silk: A History in Three Metamorphoses

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There is not just one story of silk. In silk is science, history and mythology. In silk is the future. Aarathi Prasad's Silk is a gorgeous new history weaving together...
The Normans are Landing!: Hastings - 1066

The Normans are Landing!: Hastings - 1066

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There, at about forty meters high and on a tray of some hundred meters wide, extends a fortress even more formidable than those of Pevensey and Hastings. It is the...
The Pure Heart

The Pure Heart

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A stunning classic horror story - perfect for fans of Mary Shelley! '[A] wonderful twisted gothic novel ... [an] evocation of a weird and wonderful world with compulsive characters and...
The Lion and the Dragon: Britain and China: A History of Conflict

The Lion and the Dragon: Britain and China: A History of Conflict

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Napoleon warned 'Let China sleep; when she wakes, she will shake the world'. Lawrence James's magisterial history analyses the relationship between Britain and China between the beginning of the Opium...
Sharpe's Enemy: The Defence of Portugal, Christmas 1812 (The Sharpe Series, Book 16)

Sharpe's Enemy: The Defence of Portugal, Christmas 1812 (The Sharpe Series, Book 16)

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* SHARPE'S COMMAND , the brand new novel in the global bestselling series, is available to pre-order now* Spain, December 1812 In a deathly cold winter on the Spanish-Portuguese border,...
Sharpe's Regiment: The Invasion of France, June to November 1813 (The Sharpe Series, Book 18)

Sharpe's Regiment: The Invasion of France, June to November 1813 (The Sharpe Series, Book 18)

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* SHARPE'S COMMAND , the brand new novel in the global bestselling series, is available to pre-order now* Richard Sharpe returns to England to save the regiment. Major Sharpe's men...
Sharpe's Havoc: The Northern Portugal Campaign, Spring 1809 (The Sharpe Series, Book 7)

Sharpe's Havoc: The Northern Portugal Campaign, Spring 1809 (The Sharpe Series, Book 7)

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* SHARPE'S COMMAND , the brand new novel in the global bestselling series, is available to pre-order now* A small British army is stranded when the French invade northern Portugal...
Sharpe's Fortress: The Siege of Gawilghur, December 1803 (The Sharpe Series, Book 3)

Sharpe's Fortress: The Siege of Gawilghur, December 1803 (The Sharpe Series, Book 3)

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* SHARPE'S COMMAND , the brand new novel in the global bestselling series, is available to pre-order now* India, December 1803 The British army are closing in on enemy troops...
Sharpe's Triumph: The Battle of Assaye, September 1803 (The Sharpe Series, Book 2)

Sharpe's Triumph: The Battle of Assaye, September 1803 (The Sharpe Series, Book 2)

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* SHARPE'S COMMAND , the brand new novel in the global bestselling series, is available to pre-order now* Sergeant Richard Sharpe witnesses a murderous act of treachery and, with Sir...
Blood, Fire and Gold: The story of Elizabeth I and Catherine de Medici

Blood, Fire and Gold: The story of Elizabeth I and Catherine de Medici

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A thrilling and highly-acclaimed joint biography of Elizabeth I and Catherine de Medici, uncovering how their complex 30-year relationship shaped their dynasties, perfect for fans of Alison Weir and Tracy...
The Devil In The White City

The Devil In The White City

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Chicago, 1893. One man built a heaven on earth. Another built hell beside it... 'An irresistible page-turner that reads like the most compelling, sleep defying fiction' TIME OUT One was...
Capitalism and Slavery

Capitalism and Slavery

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The paradigm-shifting classic that connected the dots between transatlantic slavery, capitalism and racism 'If one criterion of a classic is its ability to reorient our most basic way of viewing...
Thorns, Lust and Glory: The betrayal of Anne Boleyn

Thorns, Lust and Glory: The betrayal of Anne Boleyn

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An exciting new telling of the life of Anne Boleyn, using new archival research to reveal the woman behind the myth, from the acclaimed historian Dr Estelle Paranque. A queen...