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ISBN: 9780747812364 - Gypsies of Britain Gypsies of Britain
Janet Keet-Black

ISBN10: 0747812365  ISBN13: 9780747812364
Publisher: Shire Publications Ltd
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 10 Jun 2013
Explores the history of this lifestyle, looking at how Gypsies have maintained their distinctive culture and how they have adapted to the twenty-first century, and focusses on a range of traditional Gypsy occupations including harvesting, horse... More

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ISBN: 9781908402523 - Stanford's Street Maps of Victorian London, 1863 Stanford's Street Maps of Victorian London, 1863
Edward Stanford

ISBN10: 1908402520  ISBN13: 9781908402523
Publisher: Osprey Publishing Old House Books
Format: Sheet Map
Publication date: 09 May 2013
Suitable for researchers and genealogists. This book presents a slipcase box set which shows individual buildings, the gardens of suburban houses, separate platforms of new railway stations and even individual statues in London's squares. More

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ISBN: 9780674072237 - Becoming Dickens Becoming Dickens
Robert Douglas-Fairhurst

ISBN10: 0674072235  ISBN13: 9780674072237
Publisher: Harvard University Press The Belknap Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 03 May 2013
This provocative biography tells the story of how an ambitious young Londoner became England's greatest novelist. Focused on the 1830s, it portrays a restless, uncertain Dickens who could not decide on a career path. Through twists and turns... More

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ISBN: 9780300190212 - Roman Fever Roman Fever
Richard Wrigley

ISBN10: 0300190212  ISBN13: 9780300190212
Publisher: Yale University Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 03 May 2013
Argues that "bad air" (mal'aria) is a neglected aspect of thinking about the city's history and as a destination for artists, visitors, and Romans both ancient and modern. This title invites alternative perspective on the city and its countryside... More

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ISBN: 9780674065758 - Empire of the Dharma Empire of the Dharma
Hwansoo Ilmee Kim

ISBN10: 0674065751  ISBN13: 9780674065758
Publisher: Harvard University, Asia Center
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 03 May 2013
Kim explores the dynamic relationship between Korean and Japanese Buddhists in the years leading up to the Japanese annexation of Korea. Conventional narratives portray Korean Buddhists as complicit in the religious annexation of the peninsula... More

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ISBN: 9780752490137 - Wellington's Right Hand Wellington's Right Hand
Joanna Hill

ISBN10: 0752490133  ISBN13: 9780752490137
Publisher: The History Press Ltd Spellmount Publishers Ltd
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 01 May 2013
General Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount Hill of Almarez was imaginative, brave - and perhaps more surprisingly for the period in which he lived an d fought - compassionate towards those under his command. He was a man who frequently led from the... More

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ISBN: 9781445605869 - Jane Austen Jane Austen
Helen Amy

ISBN10: 1445605864  ISBN13: 9781445605869
Publisher: Amberley Publishing
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 28 Apr 2013
An highly-illustrated short biography of Jane Austen. To coincide with the 200th anniversary of the publication of Pride & Prejudice in 2013. In the middle of the nineteenth century one of the vergers of Winchester Cathedral, where Jane Austen is... More

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ISBN: 9780300177275 - Distinguished Images Distinguished Images
Stephen Bann

ISBN10: 0300177275  ISBN13: 9780300177275
Publisher: Yale University Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 26 Apr 2013
Rather than simply tracing the rise of Modernism in the 19th century, this book reconstitutes the period's cultural milieu through a series of case studies written with an eye to overarching forces at play. It surveys the field as a whole and... More

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ISBN: 9780199695799 - Boardroom Scandal Boardroom Scandal
James Taylor

ISBN10: 0199695792  ISBN13: 9780199695799
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 25 Apr 2013
Considers the role played by the criminal law in regulating the economy, posing the question: should businessmen who commit fraud go to prison? Explores changing approaches to the question of criminal sanctions in Victorian Britain and the... More

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ISBN: 9781781551776 - Napoleon and His Women Friends Napoleon and His Women Friends
Gertrude Aretz

ISBN10: 1781551774  ISBN13: 9781781551776
Publisher: Fonthill Media
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 25 Apr 2013
Josephine was Napoleon's love, but unable to have children, he divorced her in the cause of creating a dynasty. Of his second wife, Louise, an Austrian princess, he said 'I have married a womb!' In addition there were several lively sisters... More