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ISBN: 9780199660933 - The Enlightenment The Enlightenment
Anthony Pagden

ISBN10: 019966093X  ISBN13: 9780199660933
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 23 May 2013
The story of how, and why, the ideal of a universal, global, and cosmopolitan society became such a central part of the Western imagination in the ferment of the Enlightenment - and how these ideas have done battle with an inward-looking... More

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ISBN: 9781843838050 - The Minute Books of the Suffolk Humane Society The Minute Books of the Suffolk Humane Society
Robert Malster

ISBN10: 1843838052  ISBN13: 9781843838050
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd The Boydell Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 16 May 2013
Documents from the Suffolk Humane Society reveal many fascinating details of life in a coastal town in the nineteenth century. The Suffolk Humane Society was formed in 1806 after the pattern of the Royal Humane Society of London, its purpose being... More

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ISBN: 9780297864301 - The Perilous Question Bestseller The Perilous Question
Antonia Fraser

ISBN10: 0297864300  ISBN13: 9780297864301
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 09 May 2013
The two-year revolution that totally changed how Britain is governed. Internationally bestselling historian Antonia Fraser's new book brilliantly evokes a key period of pre-Victorian political and social history - the passing of the Great Reform... More

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ISBN: 9781408831717 - Why Spencer Perceval Had to Die Why Spencer Perceval Had to Die
Andro Linklater

ISBN10: 1408831716  ISBN13: 9781408831717
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 09 May 2013
On the two hundredth anniversary of the assassination of Spencer Perceval - the only British Prime Minister ever to have suffered that fate - this is the riveting untold story of the murder, the murderer and the repercussions of his act On 11 May... More

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ISBN: 9781472507785 - The Great Famine The Great Famine
Ciaran O Murchadha

ISBN10: 1472507789  ISBN13: 9781472507785
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Bloomsbury Academic
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 09 May 2013
The Great Famine: Ireland's Agony examines this enormous human calamity anew. Beginning with the coming of the potato blight in 1845 and the resulting harvest failures that left the country's impoverished population numb with shock as well as... More

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ISBN: 9781409129813 - Perilous Question Perilous Question
Antonia Fraser

ISBN10: 1409129810  ISBN13: 9781409129813
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Format: Audio CD
Publication date: 09 May 2013
Internationally bestselling historian Antonia Fraser's new book brilliantly evokes one year of pre-Victorian political and social history - the passing of the Great Reform Bill of 1832. For our inconclusive times, there is an attractive resonance... More

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ISBN: 9780674047990 - The Summits of Modern Man The Summits of Modern Man
Peter H Hansen

ISBN10: 0674047990  ISBN13: 9780674047990
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 03 May 2013
Mountaineering has served as a metaphor for civilization triumphant. A fascinating study of the first ascents of the major Alpine peaks and Mt. Everest, The Summits of Modern Man reveals the significance of our encounters with the world's most... More

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ISBN: 9780300181128 - The Passage to Europe The Passage to Europe
Luuk van Middelaar

ISBN10: 0300181124  ISBN13: 9780300181128
Publisher: Yale University Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 03 May 2013
Makes highly original connections between the world of European power politics since 1500 and the Brussels institutions of our own day. From Spaak to Sarkozy, Thatcher to Merkel, the author introduces the key players responsible for creating and... More

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ISBN: 9781845951924 - The Spirit of Venice The Spirit of Venice
Paul Strathern

ISBN10: 1845951921  ISBN13: 9781845951924
Publisher: Vintage Pimlico
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 02 May 2013
Tells the history of the economic and naval power of the modern western world, from its struggle to ascendancy, through the arc of its glory - when its trading empire reached as far afield as China, Syria and West Africa - to the beginning of its... More

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ISBN: 9780712357005 - Propaganda Propaganda
David Welch

ISBN10: 0712357009  ISBN13: 9780712357005
Publisher: The British Library Publishing Division
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 01 May 2013
Published to accompany a major exhibition of the British Library, Propaganda is all around us, used to promote a sense of common cause and belonging, change behaviour or influence ideas, as well as to mislead, deceive, even destroy. More