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Africa's Armies: From Honor to Infamy | |||
| A History from 1791 to the Present | History | |||
| Robert B Edgerton | ||||
| Westview 2002 328 pages | ||||
| Hardback 0813339472 | ||||
| Published Price £17.99 | Our Price £6.99 | |||
| Robert Edgerton presents a sweeping chronicle of Africa's military history, from pre-colonial times to the post-colonial civil wars that have devastated parts of sub-Saharan Africa, ending with a discussion of the future role for African military forces. | ||||
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A History of Death | |||
| Burial Customs and Funeral Rites, from the Ancient World to Modern Times | History | |||
| Michael Kerrigan | ||||
| Lyons 2007 192 pages | ||||
| Paperback Illustrated 1599212013 | ||||
| Published Price $19.95 | Our Price £3.99 | |||
| Despite the universality of death the reactions of different cultures down the ages could hardly be more diverse. From Japan's cheerfully decorated headstones and the grisly humour of English epitaphs to live burials, Egyptian mummies and shrunken heads, this survey of death and burial practices illustrates the full range of solemn and celebratory grieving and remembrance rituals, showing how they connect with differing concepts of life - and judgement - after death. | ||||
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The Divided Ground | |||
| Indians, Settlers and the Northern Borderland of the American Revolution | History | |||
| Alan Taylor | ||||
| Alfred A Knopf 2006 548 pages | ||||
| Hardback 0679454713 | ||||
| Published Price $35.00 | Slightly off-mint | Our Price £6.99 | ||
| Joseph Brant, a Mohawk Indian from the Mohawk Valley on the north- western frontier of New York, met Samuel Kirkland in 1761 at a school for missionaries in Connecticut. Their early friendship turned to bitter enmity as Kirkland went on to serve American expansionism as a missionary, while Brant turned to defending the Indian borderlands between the British in Canada and the Americans. By telling their story, Taylor illuminates the contested borders between Indians (mainly Iroquois) and settlers and between Canada and America. American-cut pages. Off-mint. | ||||
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The Communist Takeover of Hangzhou | |||
| The Transformation of City and Cadre | History | |||
| James Z Gao | ||||
| Hawaii UP 2004 342 pages | ||||
| Hardback 0824827015 | ||||
| Published Price £51.50 | Our Price £28.00 | |||
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Acre | |||
| The Rise and Fall of a Palestinian City, 1730-1831 | History | |||
| Thomas Philipp | ||||
| Columbia University Press 2001 300 pages | ||||
| Paperback 0231123272 | ||||
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| In the 18th century Acre was capital of a politically and economically unique area of the Mediterranean coast (present day northern Israel and southern Lebanon). Philipp's study shed lights on a centre of power that many identify as the beginning of modern Palestinian history. | ||||
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The Medieval Church in Manuscripts | |||
| History | ||||
| Justin Clegg | ||||
| British Library 2003 64 pages | ||||
| Paperback Illustrated 0712347844 | ||||
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| The most powerful institution in Europe, the Church's influence went beyond religious beliefs and spiritual values to shape the cultural and economic framework of medieval life. Drawing on the British Library's illuminated manuscript collections and written by one of the Library's Curators of Medieval Manuscripts, this concise study describes the Church in the later Middle Ages and its impact on contemporary society. | ||||
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Elizabeth I | |||
| Her Life in Letters | History | |||
| Felix Pryor | ||||
| British Library 2003 144 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 0712347887 | ||||
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| Elizabeth I presided over a golden age in England's history, exercising supreme authority in a man's world while remaining defiantly feminine. Published in 2003 to commemorate the 400th anniversary of her death, this volume contains photographic facsimiles, with transcripts and translations, of 60 manuscripts written either by or to the Virgin Queen. Among them are early letters to her father, Henry VIII; a message to the future James I written some 60 years later; and a furious rebuttal from Ivan the Terrible when Elizabeth refused to marry him. | ||||
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Courtly Love in Medieval Manuscripts | |||
| History | ||||
| Pamela Porter | ||||
| British Library 2003 64 pages | ||||
| Paperback Illustrated 0712347836 | ||||
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| Said to originate with 11th century troubadours, the 'courtly love' of medieval romances refers to a stylized, idealistic and ultimately unrequited relationship between a knight and his lady. Illustrated with images of romantic love and chivalry from illuminated manuscripts in the British Library, this is a study of the phenomenon of courtly love in the context of the real-life relationships of medieval society. | ||||
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Wesley and the Wesleyans | |||
| Religion in Eighteenth-Century Britain | History | |||
| John Kent | ||||
| Cambridge University Press 2002 230 pages | ||||
| Paperback 0521455553 | ||||
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| Challenging the 'myth of the so-called evangelical revival', this study starts from the assumption that there was no large-scale religious revival during the 18th century. Instead the role of the 'primary level of religious behaviour' (as opposed to institutionalized theologies) is analysed in terms of the emergence of the Wesleyan societies from the Church of England. The Wesley's achievements are reassessed, and there are fresh discussions of the role of women in the movement and Anglican responses. Felt-tip mark on lower trimmed edge. | ||||
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Vital Accounts | |||
| Quantifying Health and Population in Eighteenth-Century England and France | History | |||
| Andrea A Rusnock | ||||
| Cambridge University Press 2002 250 pages | ||||
| Hardback 0521803748 | ||||
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| Through a compelling comparative analysis, Rusnock charts the work of the physicians, clergymen and government officials who crafted the sciences of political and medical arithmetic before the age of statistics and censuses. Felt-tip mark on lower trimmed edge. | ||||
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The Trojan War | |||
| A New History | History | |||
| Barry Strauss | ||||
| Simon & Schuster 2006 258 pages | ||||
| Hardback 074326441X | ||||
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| For centuries scholars have made conjectures about the historical reality behind Homer's epic account of the Trojan War and its cast of heroes. Barry Strauss uses the latest archaeological research to show how the weapons and battle tactics described in the Iliad relate to other Bronze Age evidence; he reconstructs the large and prosperous city of Troy, which lay in a region which has often seen conflict; and asks whether it was really Helen's face which launched the ships of the Greek expedition. American-cut pages. Off-mint. | ||||
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Farming in the First Millenium AD | |||
| British Agriculture between Julius Caesar and William the Conqueror | History | |||
| Peter Fowler | ||||
| Cambridge University Press 2002 398 pages | ||||
| Paperback Illustrated 052189056X | ||||
| Published Price £38.00 | Our Price £19.99 | |||
| Peter Fowler presents a detailed survey of agriculture during the thousand years following the Roman invasion, assembling and analysing the latest evidence on farms, fields, technology, livestock and food and diet. He offers new interpretations on subjects ranging from implements to illuminated manuscripts, and concludes with a review of the ways in which agriculture shaped early Britain's societies and landscapes. The appendices include lists of sites, museums and herb gardens. Felt-tip mark on upper trimmed edge. | ||||
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Economy, Polity, and Society | |||
| British Intellectual History 1750-1950 | History | |||
| Stefan Collini; Richard Whatmore; Brian Young (Edited by) | ||||
| Cambridge University Press 2000 284 pages | ||||
| Paperback 0521639786 | ||||
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| In these 11 essays contributors first address aspects of the 18th century attempt, particularly in the work of Adam Smith, to come to grips with the nature of 'commercial society' and its notions of the self, political liberty and economic progress. They go on to explore the Englightenment legacy in the works of Jeremy Bentham, Tom Paine, Maria Edgeworth and Richard Whately; and finally, they examine telling examples of the conflict between economic thinking and moral values. Felt-tip mark on lower trimmed edge. | ||||
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Remapping Early Modern England | |||
| The Culture of Seventeenth-Century Politics | History | |||
| Kevin Sharpe | ||||
| Cambridge University Press 2000 476 pages | ||||
| Paperback 0521664098 | ||||
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| Leaving behind 'the stale debates over revisionism', Sharpe advocates a new exploration of the culture of early modern politics from the Reformation to the 1688 Revolution. In this collection of 12 essays he deals with political language and discourse, visual culture and the refiguring of political history; discussing topics including private conscience and public duty in the writings of James VI and I and Charles I; Sir Robert Cotton; and the failure of republican culture in 17th century England. Felt-tip mark on upper trimmed edge. | ||||
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Concepts of Race in the Eighteenth Century | |||
| (Eight volumes) | History | |||
| Robert Bernasconi (Edited by) | ||||
| Thoemmes 2006 2668 pages | ||||
| Hardback 1855068699 | ||||
| Published Price £800.00 | Our Price £464.00 | |||
| These volumes bring together central texts in the history of the scientific concept of race, beginning in Volume 1 with facsimile texts by Bernier, Linnaeus and Maupertius. Other volumes contain works by Buffon, Kant and Forster, Blumenbach, Samuel Stanhope Smith, Girtanner and Charles White. In original languages, with the editor's introductions. No jackets. | ||||
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