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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
New SOCIAL CONTRACT |
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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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New LEVIATHAN |
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With an introduction by Dr Richard Serjeantson. Since its first publication in 1651, Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan has been recognised as one of the most compelling, and most controversial, works of p...
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| EDITED BY HUGH THOMAS Book Number: 85626 |
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First published in 1988, this revised edition (2005) is here in 2018 new paperback reprint. Acclaimed historian Hugh Thomas wrote a book ideal for the cultured tourist. He has chosen the Earl of ...
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| C. DE LA BEDOYERE & C. KIDNEY Book Number: 85977 |
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Big spiral bound fact book with a fantastic 3D scene of gladiators in combat on the front cover and verdict stickers Live! or Die! with thumbs up and thumbs down among the 90 colourful stickers inc...
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| BRUCE FEILER Book Number: 87481 |
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Thomas Merton said, "Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another." Since antiquity, one story has stood at the centre of every convers...
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New HISTORIES |
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Herodotus (c480 - c425 B.C.) is the Father of History and his Histories are the first piece of western historical writing. They are also the most entertaining. Why did Pheidippides run the 26 mile ...
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| BRIAN LAVERY Book Number: 88814 |
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In January 1778, during his third voyage across the Pacific, Captain Cook wrote in his journal, "How shall we account for this Nation spreading itself so far over this Vast ocean?" He was speaking ...
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| MELISSA KATSOULIS Book Number: 89002 |
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What's married life like from the man's point of view? What does a wedding actually mean to him and do men really not know how to do laundry? With masculinity in crisis again, it's more important...
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| IAN LLOYD Book Number: 89271 |
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A compelling series of vignettes on 30 famous Victorians such as Barnum, the Greatest Showman, who failed to impress Queen Victoria, how the Queen was taught to use the telephone by Alexander Graha...
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| STEVEN H. NEWTON Book Number: 89340 |
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Focussing in on the first battle for the high ground, July 1st 1863 in the American Civil War, we are taken to Gettysburg, PA. Confederate General Henry Heth pushed his division down Chamberburg P...
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| MARK FORSYTH Book Number: 89034 |
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History books often tell us that people were drunk, without revealing the when, where, why and with whom. In this engaging study the author looks into the question of how people get plastered acro...
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| EDITED BY BRITTAIN BOUCHARD Book Number: 89395 |
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The chivalric ideals of knighthood have been celebrated for almost 1000 years, from the medieval stories of King Arthur to Victorian paintings where handsome warriors woo gorgeous maidens with luxu...
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| EDITED BY ROALD DOCTER ET AL Book Number: 89826 |
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A rare 2015 Dutch publication which has used a vast array of objects on loan from exhibitions throughout Europe including the British Museum and the National Carthage Museum at the Louvre, the Engl...
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| DAVID GLADWIN Book Number: 89986 |
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This lively and idiosyncratic history of the charabanc or pleasure-bus takes the story to the end of World War II with archive photos, timetables, magazine articles, cartoons, advertisements, anecd...
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| JAMES WATERSON Book Number: 89994 |
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The conflict between Christians and Muslims in the early medieval period is full of resonance for our own times. We are used to hearing the story from a British perspective, including the exploits ...
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| JACKIE STRACHAN & J. MOSELEY Book Number: 89807 |
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'How Hierarchies Help Us Make Sense of The World', this fascinating miscellany of various hierarchies that govern our existence explains the pecking order and ranks of society, religion, leisure an...
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Published as a reply to Burke's Reflections of the Revolution in France, Rights of Man is a classic statement of the belief in humanity's potential to change the world for the better. Paine writes ...
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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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| THOMAS J. SCHAEPER Book Number: 89382 |
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The name of Edward Bancroft (1744-1821) is little-known, but in this first complete biography we discover what an important figure he was in the history of espionage and the American Revolution. Bo...
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| SUE WHEATCROFT Book Number: 89730 |
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To what extent were the 'decision-makers' aware of the problems faced by disabled children during the war, and how did they attempt to deal with the problems, and to what extent were they successfu...
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| EDWARD WILSON-LEE Book Number: 89772 |
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An innovative work of history which tells the extraordinary story of Christopher Columbus's illegitimate son, Hernando Colón, a singular visionary of the printing-press age. At the peak of the Age...
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| TRANSLATED BY MICHAEL WOLFE Book Number: 89773 |
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'Here Phillip, a father, laid down his highest hope: a twelve year old son, Niccolites.' 'This is the tomb of Megistias, Slain by the Medes at Thermopylae. Famous prophet, he knew what was coming....
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| MARKUS KRAJEWSKI Book Number: 89780 |
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From the Baroque courts via the upstairs-downstairs layout of turn of the last century mansions, through the distributed application structures and digitally connected smart houses of today, the wo...
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| ELIZABETH YALE Book Number: 89781 |
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In early modern Britain, the study of natural history and antiquities was founded on writing. Writing was naturalists' primary means for creating, assembling and sharing knowledge. Working with t...
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| RICHARD HAPPER Book Number: 90083 |
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A year-long scenic route of jolliness taking in the quirky events, inventions, traditions, people, places and characters that make Ireland a country worth celebrating every day of the year. Within...
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| MARK MASON Book Number: 90399 |
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Runners up can be as exciting as the winner - if not more so! This collection of anecdotes and facts celebrates the lesser-known men, women and objects of history, ranging from the second man to sw...
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| GEORGE MORTON-JACK Book Number: 90433 |
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A pioneering study that looks at the 1914-18 War from the perspective of South Asia. 1.5 million Indians fought with the British in the First World War from Flanders to the African bush and the de...
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| DEREK TAIT Book Number: 90674 |
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Working his way clockwise round Cornwall's stupendous coastline, the author crosses the Tamar Bridge from Devon and visits Saltash, a place where Neolithic flint arrowheads are two-a-penny and wher...
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| PETER HORE Book Number: 90681 |
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Contributors to the Trafalgar Chronicle, the yearbook of The 1805 Club, are leading experts in the field like Professor John Hattendors from the US Naval War College in Newport RI, Professor Andrew...
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