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		Alexander the Corrector
		The Tormented Genius Who Unwrote the Bible		History
		Julia Keay
		HarperCollins 2004 270 pages		Qty
		Hardback Illustrated 000713195X
		Published Price £16.99		Our Price £2.99
	The Complete Concordance to the Holy Scriptures was the monumental achievement of Aberdeen-born proof-reader Alexander Cruden (1699-1770), who spent twelve years and vast sums of money on its 2.5 million words. Despite his three confinements in asylums, Julia Keay doubts the widespread belief that Cruden was mad, and has at last uncovered the harrowing and sometimes comic story of his involvement in a scandal, too shocking to reveal at the time, which destroyed the career of a remarkable, enigmatic man.
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		War and Combat 1150-1270
		The Evidence from Old French Literature		History
		Catherine Hanley
		DS Brewer 2003 263 pages		Qty
		Hardback 0859917819
		Published Price £45.00		Our Price £9.99
	Exploring depictions of warfare in 12th and 13th century French vernacular literature, Hanley shows how these texts supplement historical accounts of combat and illuminate contemporary perceptions of war. No jacket.
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		Blood Brothers
		A Short History of the Civil War		History
		Frank E Vandiver
		Texas A&M University Press 1993 209 pages		Qty
		Paperback Illustrated 0890965242
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	Combining vivid narrative with a meditation on the meaning of the American Civil War, Frank Vandiver recounts the campaigns and major battles of the first war of the Industrial Revolution, with its unprecedented machinery, firepower and engineering; and interprets the war as rooted in the character and vision of Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis, their conflicting ideologies and the different revolutions of North and South.
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		The Colors of Courage: Gettysburg's Forgotten History
		Immigrants, Women and African Americans in the Civil War's Defining Battle		History
		Margaret S Creighton
		Basic 2005 321 pages		Qty
		Hardback 0465014569
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	In 1863, as Union and Confederate armies marched on southern Pennsylvania, the town of Gettysburg found itself on centre stage: the ensuing three days of fighting became a decisive turning point in the Civil War. Creighton narrates the story of this crucial battle from the viewpoint of three unsung groups: African Americans, women and immigrants. She examines what was at stake for these 'outsiders', the impact that war had on their lives, and why their experiences became peripheral to the conventional history of Gettysburg.
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		Slavery and Human Progress
				History
		David Brion Davis
		Oxford University Press 1986 374 pages		Qty
		Paperback 0195037332
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	In a penetrating survey of slavery and emancipation, from antiquity to the 20th century, Davis shows how slavery, once regarded as a form of human progress, played a crucial part in the expansion of the West, and he focuses on the "momentous shift from 'progressive' enslavement to 'progressive' emancipation" in the 19th century. Exploring the connections between slavery, emancipation and progress, Davis illuminates two central issues: the human capacity for dignifying acts of oppression and the problems of implementing social change. Off-mint.
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		The Last Duel
		A True Story of Crime, Scandal and Trial by Combat in Medieval France		History
		Eric Jager
		Broadway 2004 242 pages		Qty
		Hardback 0767914163
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	In 1386, in the midst of the Hundred Years' War, a remarkable private dispute was resolved through the ancient institution of trial by combat, which was thereafter abolished. Based on extensive research in Normandy and Paris, The Last Duel tells the tragic tale of a wife who accused her husband's old friend of rape, a notorious case which eventually came before the king himself and left the legal system in deadlock, with fatal results. American-cut pages.
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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
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	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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		Ivan the Terrible
				History
		Kazimierz Waliszewski
		Nonsuch 2006 384 pages		Qty
		Paperback 1845880803
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	Ivan (1530-84) has been seen by history as a cruel and brutal ruler, setting up Russia's first secret police and exiling or killing thousands. Kazimierz Waliszewski's account of the Tsar's life (first published in 1904) gives a more balanced assessment of a reign full of contradictions. It begins with a description of the country's political and social condition, its intellectual life and customs, before demonstrating Ivan's achievements, such as his establishment of a standing army.
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		The Cookbook that Changed the World
		The Origins of Modern Cuisine		History
		T Sarah Peterson
		Tempus 2006 256 pages		Qty
		Paperback Illustrated 0752440268
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	To what do we owe the awesome and enduring reputation of French cuisine? This book explores one of the most dramatic and influential changes in the history of Western food: the appearance of modern French cuisine in the mid-17th century. Peterson looks at why food changed so drastically from medieval sugar and spice to the salt-acid taste, focusing on Francois Pierre de la Varenne's Le Cuisinier Francois (1631), a book that changed the course of culinary history
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		Annals of the Reign of George III
		Volume One		History
		John Aikin
		Nonsuch 2006 528 pages		Qty
		Paperback 1845880196
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	Overshadowed now by his 'madness', George III's reign (1760-1820) saw momentous changes in British and world history: America won independence, Australia was 'discovered', the French monarchy was overthrown and the Industrial Revolution was changing the social and economic life of Britain. Published in 1816, these Annals are by a contemporary biographer, John Aikin, who recorded in fascinating detail the events of this period. His first volume covers the years 1760-1794, when the king was still of comparatively sound mind.
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		Bascilla
		The Splendor and the Scandal: Building St Peters		History
		R A Scotti
		Viking 2006 299 pages		Qty
		Hardback Illustrated 0670037761
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		Finding Atlantis
		A True Story of Genius, Madness and an Extraordinary Quest for a Lost World		History
		David King
		Harmony 2005 310 pages		Qty
		Hardback Illustrated 1400047528
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	This is the first full account in English of the life and work of Olof Rudbeck (1630-1702), the forgotten Swedish philosopher and scientist who enjoyed a high international reputation in his day. Rudbeck's grand theory argued that almost all the ancient mythologies could be traced to a common ancestor civilization, previously situated in northern Sweden, but now lost. David King's analysis reveals a fascinating combination of genius and madness in Rudbeck's character and demonstrates how seriously his ideas were taken at the time. American-cut pages.
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		Francis Bacon's New Atlantis
		New Interdisciplinary Essays		History
		Bronwen Price (Ed)
		Manchester University Press 2002 209 pages		Qty
		Paperback 0719060524
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	Providing a range of critical perspectives, these nine essays explore aspects of New Atlantis including narrative contexts, ethics, politics, use of rhetoric, gender, sexual difference and knowledge, and miracles.
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		Tractor in the Pasture
		Rusting Icons of Rural America		History
		Lee Klancher
		Motorbooks 2003 128 pages		Qty
		Hardback Illustrated 0760308764
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	Taken together, the author's short essays, powerful quotes from some of the great writers from our time, and scenic photography from around the world capture the fading days of America's rural landscape. In particular, 140 images of forgotten tractors are a symbol of a time of change in rural America.
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		The Rebellious Slave
		Nat Turner in American Memory		History
		Scot French
		Houghton Mifflin 2004 379 pages		Qty
		Hardback 0618104488
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	The Nat Turner Rebellion in Virginia, 1831, was the bloodiest slave uprising in American history. Described at the time as a 'fanatic preacher' and rebel leader, Nat Turner was caught, tried and executed. This study places the contested history and enduring memory of the Rebellion within the broader context of the black freedom struggle. Examining literature ranging from the so-called Confessions of Nat Turner (published in 1831) to William Styron's 1967 novel of the same name, French charts the evolving image of Nat Turner, the rebellious slave, as an American icon.
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