History Of Britain – alle Bücher und DVDs, Seite 6

Adrian Knott
The Mighty Atom

The Mighty Atom: The Life of Boxing Legend Jimmy Wilde is the long-awaited biography of a boxing all-time great. Blessed with freakish knockout power that belied his skeletal frame, in his heyday Wilde wa…

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Susan L Carruthers
Making Do

Imagine a world in which clothing wasn't superabundant - cheap, disposable, indestructible - but perishable, threadbare and chronically scarce. Eighty years ago, when World War II ended, a textile famine …

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Emile Chabal
The Age of Hobsbawm

An intellectual biography of Eric Hobsbawm, one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century.Eric Hobsbawm (1917-2012) was one of the foremost European intellectuals of the twentieth century.…

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Indira Ghose
A Defence of Pretence

How the drama of Shakespeare's time demonstrates the tensions within civilityIs civility merely a matter of reinforcing status and excluding others? Or is it a lubricant in a polarised world, enabling us …

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James Grant
Friends Until the End

Edmund Burke and Charles Fox made common political cause in eighteenth-century Britain for twenty-five years: they supported the rebellious American colonies, attacked the British slave trade, defended re…

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Len Gougeon
Old England, New England, and the Civil War

The first study to document how the Civil War brought about a bitter cultural and political conflict between Great Britain and the United States, a conflict that ignited a global struggle for racial equal…

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Carolyn Dever
Chains of Love and Beauty

Why a monumental diary by an aunt and niece who published poetry together as “Michael Field”—and who were partners and lovers for decades—is one of the great unknown works of late-Victorian and early mode…

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Stephen Greenblatt
Dark Renaissance

In brutally repressive sixteenth-century England, artists had been frightened into dull conventionality; foreigners were suspect; popular entertainment largely consisted of coarse spectacles, animal fight…

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Daniel Rachel
Don't Look Back in Anger

The nineties was the decade when British culture reclaimed its position at the artistic centre of the world. Not since the 'Swinging Sixties' had art, comedy, fashion, film, football, literature and music…

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Ralph Pezzullo
The Great Chinese Art Heist

The extraordinary story of the theft of priceless Chinese antiques around the world and the connection to crimes spanning more than two centuries---with present-day implications.For the past decade, the a…

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Rich Cross,
This Is a Message to Persons Unknown

Flesh and blood are what we are, flesh and blood are who we are, our cover is blown ...This Is a Message to Persons Unknown is the first full history of the legendary band Poison Girls. From their first g…

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Rich Cross,
This Is a Message to Persons Unknown

Flesh and blood are what we are, flesh and blood are who we are, our cover is blown ...This Is a Message to Persons Unknown is the first full history of the legendary band Poison Girls. From their first g…

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June Sarpong
Calling Una Marson

The groundbreaking story of the BBC's first Black woman broadcaster - finally brought to light.

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Christopher De Hamel
The Book in the Cathedral

**From the bestselling author of Meetings With Remarkable Manuscripts,a captivating account of the last surviving relic of Thomas BecketThe assassination of Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral on 29 Dec…

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David Mark Rathel,
Andrew Fuller and the Search for a Faith Worthy of All Acceptation

Andrew Fuller was an influential English pastor-theologian of the eighteenth century; this work provides a fresh interpretation of Fuller's theological development and constructive soteriological proposal…

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Philip E Orbanes
Monopoly X

"The incredible true story of how Monopoly games were used to smuggle escape aids to Allied servicemen in German P.O.W. camps--and more"--Provided by publisher.

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Len Gougeon
Old England, New England, and the Civil War

The first study to document how the Civil War brought about a bitter cultural and political conflict between Great Britain and the United States, a conflict that ignited a global struggle for racial equal…

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Peter Ackroyd
Forgotten London

Peter Ackroyd, acclaimed historian and critic, uncovers London's hidden past in this richly illustrated journey through its forgotten streets and stories.No city shaped the modern world quite like London-…

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Helen Castor
The Eagle and the Hart

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERThe author of She-Wolves chronicles the lives and reigns of Richard II and Henry IV, two cousins whose rivalry brought their nation to the brink of disintegration - and …

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Barnaby Phillips
The African Kingdom of Gold

Power. Empire. Plunder. The forgotten history of Britain and the Asante gold.Kumasi is burning. British soldiers prowl the streets, stoking the fires. The royal palace is filled with explosives and razed,…

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