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		The Atlantic Telegraph
				History
		WH Russell
		Nonsuch 2005 128 pages		Qty
		Paperback Illustrated 1845880749
		Published Price £16.00		Sale Price £4.99
	After several attempts, on 27 July 1866 the great transatlantic telegraph cable was hauled ashore at Heart's Content, Newfoundland. The 1,686 nautical mile cable that was to revolutionize communications between Europe and America was brought across the Atlantic by Brunel's Great Eastern. The journalist William Howard Russell was on board the Great Eastern during the 1865 attempt to lay the cable, recording how this remarkable feat of engineering was achieved. This edition adds a postscript to Russell's account, outlining the events of the following year.
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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
		Published Price $26.00		Sale Price £3.99
	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
		Published Price £13.99		Sale Price £3.99
	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 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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		Subjects of the Sultan
		Culture and Daily Life in the Ottoman Empire		History
		Suraiya Faroqhi
		IB Tauris 2007 358 pages		Qty
		Paperback 1850437602
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	While the cultural heritage of the Ottoman Empire has usually been presented through the monuments and arts of the ruling elite, this study investigates the day-to-day lives of the common people under Ottoman rule, from the Middle Ages to the early 20th century. Focusing on urban life and everyday culture, Suraiya Faroqhi looks at the practice of arts from building to cooking, and examines the relationships between patrons, artists and audiences and the ways in which knowledge and artistic skills were transmitted.
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		Charlemagne's Tablecloth
		A Piquant History of Feasting		History
		Nichola Fletcher
		Weidenfeld 2004 256 pages		Qty
		Hardback Illustrated 0297843435
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	There has probably never been a society that did not use food to celebrate and impress, and Nichola Fletcher's eclectic collection of feasts, banquets and dinners provides ample evidence of the importance of good eating. The various occasions included here may be flamboyant, eccentric, or homely, dazzling successes or dramatic failures, but Fletcher demonstrates that the key to understanding them resides far more in the social context than the menu itself.
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		The History of Toys
		From Spinning Tops to Robots		History
		Deborah Jaffe
		Sutton 2006 282 pages		Qty
		Hardback Illustrated 0750938498
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	Toys have been played with since the very beginning of civilization. Indeed, many of today's favourites can be traced back to ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome. This account examines the progression from dolls, kites, balls and the early mechanized musical boxes and boats, to the modern craze for Tamagotchis and techno robots. In addition it looks at how attitudes to childhood have changed and answers questions such as why was Meccano invented? And who devised talking dolls?
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		Slavery and Freedom in Colonial Brazil
				History
		AJR Russell-Wood
		Oneworld 2002 306 pages		Qty
		Paperback 1851682880
		Published Price £15.99		Sale Price £8.99
	Combining modern scholarship with a wealth of documentary and archival evidence, this is an authoritative portrait of the lives of slaves and free persons of colour in colonial Brazil. The author charts the working conditions, domestic lives, preoccupations and aspirations of slaves and their fellow freed men.
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		The Women's Century
		A Celebration of Changing Roles, 1900-2000		History
		Mary Turner
		National Archives 2004 180 pages		Qty
		Hardback Illustrated 1903365511
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	In 1900, a woman had no right to vote and, with very few exceptions, her place was in the home; by 2000 women could be business executives, politicians or priests. Mary Turner describes the progress of women's struggle for equality decade-by-decade, looking in particular at the Suffragette movement and the effects of the two World Wars on women's lives, and profiling such champions of women's rights as Lady Constance Lytton, 'Red Ellen' Wilkinson and Mary Stott.
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		South Italian Festivals
		A Local History of Ritual and Change		History
		Herman Tak
		Amsterdam University Press 2000 272 pages		Qty
		Paperback 9053564268
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	A story of socio-economic changes in an Italian mountain town Calvello over a 500 year period; from traditional society to modernity. The book studies a one year cycle of local and ecclesiastical rituals. With the analysis of field research, oral history, iconography, topography and archival sources, Tak reveals an interplay between the structures of social life and their ritual expression.
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		What's Going On?
		California and the Vietnam Era		History
		Marcia A Eymann; Charles Wollenberg (Edited by)
		California University Press 2004 240 pages		Qty
		Paperback Illustrated 0520242440 268x220mm
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	A dramatic case study of the political passions, spiritual pain, and cultural divisions produced by the war, 'What's Going On? California and the Vietnam Era' provides for the first time a balanced and personal look at the Vietnam years in California, revealing their impact on American life and culture.
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		Last of a Breed
		Portraits of Working Cowboys		History
		Martin H Schreiber
		Long Wind 2001 84 pages		Qty
		Hardback Illustrated 1892695073 280x280mm
		Published Price £14.99		Sale Price £5.99
	Stark, compelling, evocatively beautiful - this remarkable collection of 69 black and white photographs is a homage to the cowboys of Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico. The work of celebrated photographer Martin Schreiber, these are not images of the Old West but contemporary scenes of a vanishing way of life. Off-mint.
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		One Voice
		Pacifist Writings from the Second World War		History
		Vera Brittain
		Continuum 2005 182 pages		Qty
		Paperback 0826485340
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	This book reprints for the first time two short works by Vera Brittain (1893-1970) with an introduction by Aleksandra Bennett and a foreword by Shirley Williams, Vera Brittain's daughter. Following the First World War, in which she served as a nurse, Brittain moved gradually towards a position of Christian pacifism. Written in 1942 in the form of letters to her son, Humiliation with Honour is a statement of her pacifist beliefs. Two years later, in Seeds of Chaos, she argued forcibly against the Allies' policy of 'obliteration bombing'.
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		At Home with the Gentry
		A Victorian English Lady's Diary of Russian Country Life		History
		Amelia Lyons
		Bramcote 1998 132 pages		Qty
		Paperback 1900405059
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	A personal account of an Englishwoman's stay in the province of Tambov in the early 1850s providing an insight into the life of the Russian country gentry on the eve of the Crimean War.
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		'The Production of a Female Pen'
		Anna Larpent's Account of the Duchess of Kingston's Bigamy Trial of 1776		History
		Matthew J Kinservik (Edited by)
		Yale University Press 2004 104 pages		Qty
		Hardback Illustrated 0845731548 290x235mm
		Published Price £17.50		Sale Price £3.99
	'The whole world is occupied with the Duchess of Kingston's trial', wrote Horace Walpole, and among the 4,000 spectators at the actual event, sitting in the Lord High Steward's box, was the young Anna Larpent (1758-1832). In a diary and letters to women friends, Anna recorded her detailed and shrewd observations on the trial and her emotional response to the Duchess's predicament: 38 manuscript pages that illuminate Larpent's life, her attitudes to women's writing and the trial itself. The MS is presented here in photographic facsimile, with an introduction, transcription and contemporary portraits.
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