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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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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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| 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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New RIGHTS OF MAN |
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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| KEVIN NEWMAN Book Number: 90684 |
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Sussex-born tour guide, teacher, history consultant and journalist Kevin Newman regularly escapes up on the South Downs on walks much shorter than Belloc managed. Many writers have written about t...
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| ALISON EATWELL Book Number: 90354 |
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The National Archive in Kew holds thousands of petitions from prisoners, their families, employers, supporters and even prosecutors written after the prisoner had been sentenced in the hope of gain...
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| SUZIE GROGAN Book Number: 90360 |
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Sub-titled 'The Life of A Surgeon-Apothecary 1750-1850', imagine performing surgery on a patient without anaesthetic, administering medicine that could kill or cure, picture dissecting mouldering c...
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| CLAIRE HARMAN Book Number: 90377 |
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Relish the gruesome details of this impressively researched historical account of a celebrated Victorian murder with a literary twist. In the early morning of 6th May 1840, on a highly respectable...
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| HENRY MAYHEW Book Number: 56595 |
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A masterpiece of social observation. Mayhew takes us into the abyss, into a world without fixed employment where skills are declining and insecurity mounting, a world of criminality, pauperism and...
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| JULIE SARPY Book Number: 90806 |
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Joanna of Flanders, Countess of Montfort and Richmond, Duchess of Brittany was in her time the heroine of Hennebont, the pivotal siege during the first half of the Breton Civil War (1341-1365) that...
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| THOMAS PAKENHAM Book Number: 90906 |
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Even in the mid-1870s, Europeans pictured Africa as an empty continent, a vacant kind of no-mans-land. 25 years later, five European powers had seized nearly all of it, in the process forming 30 ne...
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| RUDIGER BARTH & H. FRIEDERICHS Book Number: 90861 |
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How could it happen? How did Hitler rise to power in a democracy and then so ruthlessly consolidate his position as a dictator? This book looks at a single momentous winter in 1932, reporting meeti...
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| JULIE WHEELWRIGHT Book Number: 90888 |
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Western culture has a popular tradition of women who dressed as men and joined the military, often immortalised in books or on stage and screen. Julie Wheelwright soon discovered many of these acc...
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| DAVID HUTCHINGS Book Number: 90895 |
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After the 'unsinkable' RMS Titanic - a White Star liner - struck an iceberg during her maiden voyage over the Atlantic on 14 April 1912, the ship sank with 1,503 people losing their lives. This com...
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| PETER HOPKIRK Book Number: 91015 |
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Told with skill, knowledge, enthusiasm and insight this is the enthralling history of Central Asia and the struggle between Tsarist Russia and Victorian Britain for the treasures of India, played o...
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| E. D. BRADBY Book Number: 91020 |
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First published by Oxford University Press in 1926, this paperback 2017 edition is a welcome reprint. The aim of the book is to give some idea of the French Revolution to the general reader who is...
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| PETER JONES Book Number: 91058 |
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Sub-titled 'Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About The Romans But Were Afraid To Ask' here is 1200 years of Roman history from its earliest foundation in 753BC to the end of its empire in the Wes...
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| MAURICE GERAGHTY & M. KRIMS Book Number: 91079 |
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A 75 minute colour film entitled 'Mohawk' set in the 18th century. American artist Jonathan Adams played by Scott Brady is working in Mohawk territory where he paints the local scenery. Before lo...
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| SIMON WINCHESTER Book Number: 91092 |
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A sweeping global history of how our land has been mapped, owned, divided, stolen, cared for, fought over, preserved and restored. Mass appropriation of land as perpetrated by European colonists i...
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| CHRISTOPHER HIBBERT Book Number: 91129 |
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Divided into three parts, Christopher Hibbert masterly depicts first Napoleon and his rise to power, then a portrait of Wellington and the Allied armies, and lastly the steps leading up to and the ...
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| BERNARD LEWIS Book Number: 91145 |
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For the first time in almost 200 years, the rulers, and to some extent the peoples of the Middle East, must accept responsibility for their own affairs, to make and recognise their own mistakes, an...
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