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| A Documentary History of Slavery, Freedom, and the Civil War | History | |||
| Ira Berlin; Barbara J Fields; (Edited by) | ||||
| New Press 2007 571 pages | ||||
| Paperback Illustrated 1565841204 | ||||
| Published Price £13.99 | Our Price £6.99 | |||
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The Irish Boats | |||
| Volume 2 - Liverpool to Cork and Waterford | History | |||
| Malcolm McRonald | ||||
| Tempus 2006 256 pages | ||||
| Paperback Illustrated 0752438840 | ||||
| Published Price £19.99 | Our Price £4.99 | |||
| The second in a three-volume series on the history of the steam packets and ferries that travelled the Irish Sea between Liverpool and Ireland from the 1820s onwards, focusing on vessels on routes from Liverpool to Cork and Waterford, and looking at the coastal cruises offered by some of the ships. | ||||
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Childhood at Court 1819-1914 | |||
| History | ||||
| John Van Der Kiste | ||||
| Sutton 2003 198 pages | ||||
| Paperback Illustrated 0750934379 | ||||
| Published Price £8.99 | Our Price £3.99 | |||
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The Rudiments of Genteel Behaviour | |||
| History | ||||
| Francis Nivelon | ||||
| Paul Holberton 2003 72 pages | ||||
| Paperback Illustrated 1903470102 280x215mm | ||||
| Published Price £11.99 | Our Price £4.99 | |||
| Originally from France, Francis Nivelon was a successful dancer on the London stage and later a dancing master. His book, written and illustrated in 1737, aimed to impart 'a graceful Attitude, and agreeable Motion, an easy Air, and a genteel Behaviour'. A manual of deportment, it provides remarkably precise instruction on appearance and movement - how to curtsy, salute passers-by, even how to stand. This facsimile of the book is introduced by Hugh Belsey, with an Afterword by Paul Holberton. | ||||
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Adorning the Empress | |||
| History | ||||
| May Holdsworth | ||||
| FormAsia 2004 112 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 9627283851 | ||||
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| May Holdsworth's short essay on women in the Qing dynasty (1644-1912) accompanies an evocative collection of paintings and aristocratic Chinese women's clothes, painted fans, hair ornaments and bound-foot shoes. | ||||
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Understanding Fashion History | |||
| History | ||||
| Valerie Cumming | ||||
| Batsford 2004 144 pages | ||||
| Paperback Illustrated 0713488751 254x210mm | ||||
| Published Price £16.99 | Our Price £6.99 | |||
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Tea | |||
| The Drink That Changed the World | History | |||
| John Griffiths | ||||
| Andre Deutsch 2007 384 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 023300212X | ||||
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| The Real Story of The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists | History | |||
| Dave Harker | ||||
| Zed 2003 282 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 1842773844 | ||||
| Published Price £55.00 | Our Price £7.99 | |||
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The Long History of Old Age | |||
| History | ||||
| Pat Thane (Edited by) | ||||
| Thames & Hudson 2005 322 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 0500251266 260x190mm | ||||
| Published Price £25.00 | Our Price £12.99 | |||
| We all grow old, but the experience of 'old age' has varied considerably across the ages, and from culture to culture. A group of leading historians here describes how old age has been defined and treated in Western countries, from the antiquity, through the Middle Ages, to the present day. With extraordinary historical insight they provide an absorbing overview of one of the great neglected themes of human history, superbly illustrated with images reproduced from high art and popular prints. | ||||
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The Impressionists at Home | |||
| History | ||||
| Pamela Todd | ||||
| Thames & Hudson 2005 176 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 0500512396 270x250mm | ||||
| Published Price £19.95 | Our Price £9.99 | |||
| Monet at Giverny, Renoir at Les Collettes, Pissarro at the Hermitage at Pontoise... This richly illustrated study uses the Impressionists' paintings of the interiors of their homes and studios to explore how and where and with whom these artists lived, to provide glimpses of family and domestic life, and to illuminate aspects of contemporary living from home decoration to mistresses. The book is arranged by the function of rooms - beginning with entertaining and ending in the boudoir - with a final section of artists' biographies. | ||||
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Consuming Passions | |||
| Leisure and Pleasure in Victorian Britain | History | |||
| Judith Flanders | ||||
| HarperPress 2006 604 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 0007172958 | ||||
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| One of the unexpected fruits of the Industrial Revolution in the Victorian era was a veritable explosion in entertainment, which was increasingly organized on a mass scale. Social historian Judith Flanders tells the story of how, in a few short decades, leisure was transformed into a major industry, with rapid expansion in sectors such as tourism, shopping, organized sport, newspapers and advertising, and how each development was pursued with the Victorians' flair for business, spectacle and wild theatricality. | ||||
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The Fall of Mussolini | |||
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| Philip Morgan | ||||
| Oxford University Press 2007 264 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 019280247X | ||||
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| This account of Mussolini's fall from power in July 1943 illuminates both the causes and the consequences of that momentous event. Morgan shows how Italians coped with the extraordinary pressures of wartime and how the experience of war eventually distanced them from their dictator. He goes on to examine how the Italian people responded to the invasion and occupation of their country by both Nazi-German and Anglo-American forces, and how crucial this period was in shaping Italy's post-war development. | ||||
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Chinese America | |||
| The Untold Story of America's Oldest New Community | History | |||
| Peter Kwong; Dusanka Miscevic | ||||
| New Press 2005 524 pages | ||||
| Paperback Illustrated 1595581197 220x150mm | ||||
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Oxford Goldsmiths Before 1800 | |||
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| Ann Natalie Hansen | ||||
| At the Sign of the Cock 1996 164 pages | ||||
| Hardback 0961349131 | ||||
| Published Price £35.00 | Our Price £9.99 | |||
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Great Deaths | |||
| Grieving, Religion, and Nationhood in Victorian and Edwardian Britain | History | |||
| John Wolffe | ||||
| Oxford University Press 2000 332 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 0197262384 | ||||
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