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Masters and Servants in Tudor England | |||
| History | ||||
| Alison Sim | ||||
| Sutton 2006 195 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 0750940174 | ||||
| Published Price £20.00 | Our Price £6.99 | |||
| Life in Tudor England was ordered in a very strict social hierarchy, and the divisions between the classes were firmly maintained: it was understood that everyone, apart from the monarch, served someone, and service was valued rather than denigrated. Drawing on a wealth of contemporary sources, Tudor expert Alison Sim investigates the role of service at every level of society, and provides an informative and entertaining account of the lives of the people who kept the wheels of daily life turning. | ||||
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The Pirate Queen | |||
| Elizabeth I, her Pirate Adventurers and the Dawn of Empire | History | |||
| Susan Ronald | ||||
| Sutton 2007 471 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 0750948418 | ||||
| Published Price £25.00 | Our Price £7.99 | |||
| It was Philip II of Spain who dubbed Elizabeth the 'Pirate Queen', and he was not far wrong. Elizabeth was acutely aware of the vulnerability of her Protestant nation, and fully understood how vital sea power was to its survival: in the words of Sir Walter Raleigh, 'Whoever commands the sea commands trade'. Susan Ronald ably demonstrates the thin line between Elizabethan merchant adventurer and pirate, and shows how state-sponsored piracy and plunder played an important part in transforming England into a world power. | ||||
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The Savage Border | |||
| The Story of the North-West Frontier | History | |||
| Jules Stewart | ||||
| Sutton 2007 240 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 0750944528 | ||||
| Published Price £19.99 | Our Price £6.99 | |||
| Today the presumed hiding place of Al Qaeda and Taliban leaders, Pakistan's North-West Frontier has long been home to the belligerent Pathan whose code of honour requires them to protect anyone who asks for sanctuary. Stewart focuses on the period since the first British contact with the area and includes first-hand accounts of Frontier life since the Second World War. Discussing attempts to deal with the Pathans in the past, he asks whether the tribesmen can be persuaded to give up the terrorists. | ||||
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