Illustrated London by Peter Ackroyd
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A magnificent pictorial history of London, to tie in with Peter Ackroyd's TV series (BBC) based on his bestselling London: A BiographyLavish, large format picture book about London, with Peter Ackroyd's inimitable text and captions. Divided into three parts:Fire and Destiny London as metropolis; maps an ...Show more
Lost Colony - The Untold Story of China's First Great Victory over the West by Tonio Andrade
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How a Chinese pirate defeated European colonialists and won Taiwan during the seventeenth century During the seventeenth century, Holland created the world's most dynamic colonial empire, outcompeting the British and capturing Spanish and Portuguese colonies. Yet, in the Sino-Dutch War--Europe's first w ...Show more
Listening to Britain - Home intelligence reports on Britain's finest hour - May to September 1940 by Paul Addison and Jeremy A. Crang (eds)
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The Watchers : A Secret History of the Reign of Elizabeth I by Stephen Alford
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Elizabeth I was a ruler who radiated a sense of power and purpose. Her long and successful reign was a Golden Age of wealth, confidence, creativity, Shakespeare's plays and Walter Raleigh's adventures: the apotheosis of the Tudor dynasty. Across much of Europe, however, Elizabeth was viewed very differe ...Show more
By The Sword: Gladiators, Musketeers, Samurai Warriors, Swashbucklers and Olympians by Richard Cohen
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The secret history of the fiercely beautiful art of fencing.Though fencing is seen as a graceful and noble sport, it is not without its seamy side. By The Sword traces the darkness behind the mask, from the sport's early brutal days to the more civilised, yet no less dangerous, days of duelling and then ...Show more
Albion - The Origins of the English Imagination by Peter Ackroyd
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This title covers the whole of English cultural history from its roots in the Anglo-Saxon period, through the centuries, to numerous examples from contemporary times. Explorations include: forgery and plagerism; ruins and antiquarianism; the English love of miniatures; and drag acts and eccentrics.
The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean by David Abulafia
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The Indian Mutiny 1857 by Saul David
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Reading Level: very good
The bloody insurrection of 1857 that became known as the Indian Mutiny remains a dark stain on Britain's Imperial past. The British complacency that fuelled the rebellion; the ease with which it is spread; the horrific massacres of innocents and the merciless retribution that followed; and the bravery o ...Show more
The Terror : Civil War in the French Revolution by David Andress
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The French Revolution marks the foundation of the modern political world. It was in the crucible of the Revolution that the political forces of conservatism, liberalism and socialism began to find their modern forms, and it was the Revolution that first asserted the claims of universal individual rights ...Show more
Treachery at Sharpnose Point - Unraveling the Mystery of the Caledonia's Final Voyage by Jeremy Seal
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While walking through a cliff-top graveyard in the town of Morwenstow on the coast of Cornwall, the author encounters a wooden Scottish figurehead that once adorned the Caledonia, a ship wrecked on the English coast in 1842. Through further investigation, Seal begins to suspect the townspeople, and chie ...Show more
1776 by David McCullough
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In this masterful book, David McCullough tells the intensely human story of those who marched with General George Washington in the year of the Declaration of Independence -- when the whole American cause was riding on their success, without which all hope for independence would have been dashed and the ...Show more
The Chinese Opium Wars by Jack Beeching
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An enlightening account of a notorious period in nineteenth-century imperialism, when an effort by the Chinese government to stamp out the country's profitable opium trade resulted in a series of conflicts known as the Opium Wars. Index; illustrations and map.