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		Histories: French Constructions of the Past
		Postwar French Thought. Volume 1		History
		Jacques Revel; Lynn Hunt (Edited by)
		New Press 1995 654 pages		Qty
		Paperback 1565844351
		Published Price $22.95		Sale Price £2.99
	The first of four volumes that trace the intellectual transformations of postwar France through anthologies of seminal writings, Histories focuses on the historians associated with the journal Annales, setting their work in the wider context of postwar French historiography, structuralism, quantitative methods and interdisciplinary studies. The selections include foundational texts by Braudel, Labrousse, Duby, Chartier and Wachtel, as well as works by Foucault, Levi-Strauss and Bourdieu, many of them in their first English translation.
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		Men that God Made Mad
		A Journey through Truth, Myth and Terror in Northern Ireland		History
		Derek Lundy
		Jonathan Cape 2006 351 pages		Qty
		Paperback 0224078623
		Published Price £11.99		Sale Price £2.99
	A Canadian writer, born in Belfast, Derek Lundy examines the lives of three of his Irish ancestors from very different periods in order to understand how inherited memory and the selective plundering of history have affected the perception of truth in Northern Ireland since the 17th century. He ably demonstrates how partisan perspectives have contributed to perpetuation of the sectarian divide from which the community has suffered for so long.
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		The Ambassadors
		From Ancient Greece to the Nation State		History
		Johnathan Wright
		HarperCollins 2006 338 pages		Qty
		Hardback Illustrated 0007173431
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	A little-studied aspect of international history concerns the vital role played by ambassadors and envoys in earlier international relations, from Ancient Greece to the European Enlightenment and the birth of the nation state. Jonathan Wright's historical account identifies many remarkable characters who filled these roles, and discusses the necessary rituals and institutions of diplomacy. He demonstrates that ambassadorial activity was not only highly influential in the political sphere but also functioned as the vanguard of cultural discovery and exchange.
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		Between Salt Water and Holy Water
		A History of Southern Italy		History
		Tommaso Astarita
		Norton 2005 352 pages		Qty
		Hardback Illustrated 0393058646
		Published Price £15.99		Sale Price £3.99
	The southern regions of Italy are far less familiar to tourists than those of the north, and have long suffered from unflattering stereotypes. But, as native Neapolitan Tomasso Astarita shows in this excellent introduction, the area contains a rich and vibrant culture which combines the sacred and the secular in unique ways. By providing the historical context he brings us closer to understanding and appreciating this intriguing land - the birthplace of, among many other things, the comic opera and the pizza. Slightly scruffy jacket.
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		Athens
		A History: From Ancient Ideal to Modern City		History
		Robin Waterfield
		Basic 2004 400 pages		Qty
		Hardback Illustrated 046509063X
		Published Price £19.99		Sale Price £11.99
	In this narrative history of the city, Robert Waterfield provides a splendid introduction to the grand sweep of Athenian history, up to the hosting of the 2004 Olympic Games.
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		The Public Vaults Unlocked
		Discovering American History in the National Archives		History
		Jane McAllister; (Edited by)
		National Archives 2005 178 pages		Qty
		Hardback Illustrated 1904832172 250x209mm
		Published Price £22.50		Sale Price £8.99
	An introduction to the records held by the US National Archives and Records Administration in Washington DC, including immigration and naturalization papers such as Albert Einstein's Declaration of Intention and a ship's passenger arrival record listing an infant Bob Hope.
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		The Charters of Freedom
		"A New World Is at Hand"		History
		Stacey Bredhoff
		Giles 2004 98 pages		Qty
		Hardback Illustrated 1904832024 277x210mm
		Published Price £16.95		Sale Price £6.99
	A history of the events and philosophies which guided America's Founding Fathers to create the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights with colour photographs of the newly reinstalled Charters in the National Archives Museum in Washington DC.
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		Coronation
		A History of Kingship and the British Monarchy		History
		Roy Strong
		HarperCollins 2005 356 pages		Qty
		Hardback Illustrated 0007160542 244x190mm
		Published Price £25.00		Sale Price £6.99
	We have not seen a coronation in Britain for over 50 years and many have no first-hand experience of this set-piece of royal pageantry which holds a highly symbolic place in the life of the nation. Roy Strong's meticulously researched, lavishly illustrated account demonstrates how the coronation ceremony has changed over the years in response to changes in the role of the monarchy - in political, social and religious contexts - while still retaining the essential aura of mystery and tradition.
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		The Clan O'Byrne of Leinster AD 400-1700
		A Compilation of Available Historical Information		History
		Paul J Burns
		House of Lochar 2001 64 pages		Qty
		Paperback 1899863834
		Published Price £5.99		Sale Price £2.99
	A historical account of the fifth largest family distilled from all available sources. The clan is associated with the Wicklow Mountains, where it retained its Celtic identity and harassed the English settlers of "the Pale" long after most tribes had been suppressed.
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		Walks through Britain's History
				History
		AA 2001 256 pages		Qty
		Hardback Illustrated 0749531533 300x235mm
		Published Price £30.00		Sale Price £5.99
	There are 108 walks described and illustrated in this colourful AA book, all designed as 'informative rambles' rather than physical challenges, and organized chronologically, from the prehistoric flint mines at Cissbury Ring to the Eden Project in Cornwall, completed in 2001. As well as a map and detailed directions for the route (including main roads and car parking), each double-page spread gives the historical background, photographs and visitor's information about the site, including OS references. Plus a map of England, Wales and Scotland for locating the walks at a glance. Laminate cover; no dust-jacket.
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		History in Quotations
				History
		MJ Cohen; John Major
		Cassel 2004 1008 pages		Qty
		Paperback 0304353876
		Published Price		Sale Price £3.99
	From lines on the creation written in Mesopotamia in the first millennium BCE, to Joseph Stiglitz on globalization in 2003, the 9,000 quotations in this collection have been chosen as 'words that shed light on what are generally accepted to be the important events, ideas, issues and personalities of world history'. Arranged in 90 sections covering 5,000 years, and with notes on the author and circumstances of each, the quotations offer what Simon Schama in his preface describes as 'an epic parade of characters and utterances'. Paperback bookclub reprint. Slightly scruffy condition.
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		The Relations of History and Geography
		Studies in England, France and the United States		History
		HC Darby
		Exeter University Press 2002 296 pages		Qty
		Hardback Illustrated 0859896994
		Published Price £47.50		Sale Price £9.99
	These 12 essays on historical geography written by Darby in the 1960s explains the basis of his ideas. They are divided into three quartets of studies relating to England, France and the United States.
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		Peoples and Empires: A Short History of
		European Migration, Exploration and Conquest, from Greece to the Present		History
		Anthony Pagden
		Modern Library 2001 213 pages		Qty
		Hardback 0679640967
		Published Price $19.95		Sale Price £7.99
	This is the story of Europe's great colonial enterprises. Condensing 2,000 years into 200 pages, Professor Pagden connects the old world ambitions of Greece, Rome and The Holy Roman Empire with the global vision of Spain, France and Britain. He examines the moral acrobatics of subjugating people 'for their own good' and shows how the Age of Empire reached its zenith in 1914 when the European powers, Russia and the United States ruled 84 percent of the world.
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		Protest and Survival
		The Historical Experience		History
		John Rule
		Merlin 1993 424 pages		Qty
		Paperback 0850364450
		Published Price £12.95		Sale Price £2.99
	Beginning with a memoir of Edward Thompson as a teacher in Yorkshire and Warwick, this volume of essays is a tribute to an historian who had a profound influence on the writing of social history. Reflecting many of Thompson's own interests, the twelve essays include studies of the survival of the English peasantry beyond industrialization; William Blake; 'dangerous' and 'criminal' classes in Victorian England; Edward Carpenter and radicalism in Sheffield; and the New York harbour strike of 1919.
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		Chretien De Troyes
		An Analytic Bibliography, Supplement I		History
		Douglas Kelly
		Tamesis 2002 586 pages		Qty
		Paperback 1855660830
		Published Price £55.00		Sale Price £28.00
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