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History, military and Historical Biography of pre-20th century characters like Nelson, Napoleon to Buddha or Ghengis Khan.
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Like most of those who study
history, he (Napoleon III) learned
from the mistakes of the past how
to make new ones.
- A. J. P Taylor
| Rousseau, Jean-Jacques Book Number: 27141 |
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Rousseau (1712-1778) argues for the preservation of individual freedom in political society. An individual can only be free under the law, he says, by voluntarily embracing the law as his own. Henc...
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| ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE Book Number: 28847 |
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Hailed as the finest book ever written on the nature of democracy, it continues to be an influential text on both sides of the Atlantic, above all in the emerging democracies of Eastern Europe. De ...
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| SUN TZU Book Number: 35497 |
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The two political classics in this book are the product of a time of intense turmoil in Chinese history. They are anything but armchair strategy or ivory-tower speculation: they are serious, urgen...
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| STEPHEN PARKINSON Book Number: 80294 |
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Founded in 1815, the Cambridge Union immediately became the subject of controversy when an attempt was made to shut it down on the grounds that it was interfering with students' studies. The real f...
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| Machiavelli, Nicolo Book Number: 80667 |
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Written in 1513 for the Medici, immediately following their return to power in Florence, The Prince remains as relevant a text on the craft of ruling and the exercise of power in today's world of c...
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| EDITED BY JOHN CHERRY Book Number: 80888 |
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Courtly love and romance originated in Provence in Southern France in the 12th century and this concept underlies the romances chosen here. The story of Tristan and Isolt is well known to us throu...
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| GEOFFREY BLAINEY Book Number: 80933 |
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Is it possible to condense the history of the most tumultuous century the world has ever known into one volume? Geoffrey Blainey is Australia's most prominent historian and in his previous book, A ...
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| DOUGLAS KEISTER Book Number: 80939 |
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Sub-titled 'A Field Guide to Paris Cemeteries and Their Residents', around 12 million people have found a resting place in the catacombs, cemeteries and mausoleums in the Paris metropolitan area. ...
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| ANTONY MASON Book Number: 82923 |
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With added blue blood and an ex-libris label, this beautifully designed little history book really puts royalty on the map. Includes some famous and important royal residences and battle grounds, ...
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| ROBERT DARNTON Book Number: 82568 |
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Censorship by the state has never been a more urgent issue as we confront the problems of internet pornography and terrorist propaganda. On the other hand, we proudly boast of our commitment to fre...
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| MICHAEL SOMMER Book Number: 82575 |
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From Augustus to Romulus Augustulus, 80 quotations from ancient commentators, fact boxes, maps and more, seven thematic chapters cover foundation, power and imperial building projects. How did a m...
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| ERIK LARSON Book Number: 82579 |
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The story of the Lusitania, sunk by a German U-boat in May 1915 under the pretext that it was carrying munitions, was a turning point in World War I, ultimately influencing President Woodrow Wilson...
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| DUKE MARKETING Book Number: 82761 |
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Using advance high-definition cameras, this stunning aerial photography film offers unrivalled views from the Ancient Celtic settlements to modern suburbia. With narration from Richard Mervyn thro...
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| THOMAS CHRISTENSEN Book Number: 83117 |
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This fascinating exploration of the early modern world, from the author of The Discovery of America and Other Myths, focuses on a single year as a window into a restless, expansive era. From galleo...
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| MIKE OSBORNE Book Number: 83898 |
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London, the capital of the country and a tapestry of Britain's history, is adorned with features of our past spread across the skyline and streets. A prominent feature of our city's historical land...
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| MARTIN DUGARD Book Number: 83904 |
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In 1856 two intrepid adventurers, Richard Francis Burton and John Hanning Speke, set off to unravel a geographical unknown - the location of the River Nile's source. They travelled deep into a forb...
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| ANDREA THOMAS Book Number: 83908 |
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The Renaissance, a cultural and intellectual movement which spread outwards from Italy to Europe in the 15th and 16th centuries, is often thought to have eluded Scotland, but as the author demonstr...
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| DEREK J. TAYLOR Book Number: 83917 |
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One of the single most important artefacts in British history, Magna Carta represents to an extent the 'birth of democracy'. Born out of a judicial quagmire in the 13th century, its existence gave ...
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| JÜRGEN SORGES Book Number: 83928 |
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Quaint cottages with rose bedecked walls, old stone-built pubs, ancient buttressed abbeys, ruined Franciscan priories, strange rock formations and tree-lined lanes - all sights we can still see tod...
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| GEORGE ARMSTRONG Book Number: 83933 |
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George Armstrong calls the past 'another country' yet, with this guide, we have the perfect companion to travel back in time to the domestic spheres of Victorian England. Filled with guidance for e...
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| RICHARD STITES Book Number: 83989 |
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This sweeping narrative of four doomed revolutions which broke out in the wake of Napoleon's final defeat is a thrilling and impressively researched read from the late Richard Stites, renowned as a...
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| JORG RUPKE Book Number: 83994 |
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The Ancient and Modern series from Oxford University Press puts the ancient world in the context of contemporary thinking, and this volume on religion is a particularly fascinating window into the ...
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| WENDY MOORE Book Number: 84305 |
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Sub-titled 'The Society Doctor Who Held Victorian London Spellbound' we are taken back to the early 1800s when medicine was a brutal business, operations performed without anaesthesia and conventio...
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| BRIAN LANDERS Book Number: 84396 |
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The author has a business background and career and presents a well written and piercing account of American history from its colonial beginnings to its present role as an unacknowledged empire tha...
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| LEONIE FRIEDA Book Number: 84341 |
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Even today, 15th century Italy, that dangerous and exhilarating place, still glitters. Many of the great sculptures, churches, frescoes adorned with the faces of their patrons remain familiar toda...
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| ELIZABETH ABBOTT Book Number: 84353 |
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Known as the 'fancy woman', 'kept woman', the 'other woman', what do Jane Eyre, Madame de Pompadour, Eloise, Marilyn Monroe and Camilla Parker-Bowles have in common? Is a mistress merely a wife-in...
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| ADRIAN TINNISWOOD Book Number: 84357 |
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William Rainborowes was a powerful figure in English naval circles in the 1630s, and advisor to Charles I and the leader of a spectacular raid to free captives from a Moroccan pirate base in 1637. ...
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| ANDREW LAMBERT Book Number: 84501 |
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"We had come in search of Alexander Selkirk, the Scots mariner who spent four years on the island, and his legendary alter ego Robinson Crusoe; we had also come to find Lord Anson and Juan Fernánde...
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| JOHN HANNING SPEKE Book Number: 84524 |
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Speke's original text detailing his travels in Africa that began in 1859, during which he hoped to prove that the Victorian N'yanza was the source of the Nile. It details the main sights visited o...
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| WILLIAM M. FOWLER JR. Book Number: 84435 |
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Between 1845 and the American Civil War came a transport revolution delightfully described at the time as "Vulcan now rides in Neptune's Barge". Steam power, the greatest invention - and prime driv...
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