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The Downing Street Years by Margaret Thatcher Publisher Comments This first volume of Margaret Thatcher's memoirs encompasses the whole of her time as Prime Minister - the formation of her goals in the early 1980s, the Falklands, the General Election victories of 1983 and 1987 and, eventually, the circumstances of her... (read more) Your price: $10.99 Google eBooks - Electronic 
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Mistress of the Elgin Marbles: A Biography of Mary Nisbet, Countess of Elgin by Susan Nagel Publisher Comments The remarkable Mary Nisbet was the Countess of Elgin in Romantic-era Scotland and the wife of the seventh Earl of Elgin. When Mary accompanied her husband to diplomatic duty in Turkey, she changed history. She helped bring the smallpox vaccine to the... (read more) Your price: $10.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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A Journey through Ruins: The Last Days of London by Patrick Wright Publisher Comments Patrick Wright is the author of a number of highly acclaimed best-selling history books, including The Village that Died for England, Tank (described by Simon Schama as "a tour de force"), and Iron Curtain (which John le Carre called "a work of wit... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $18.45 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The History of Scotland by Peter Somerset Fry Publisher Comments An ideal volume for anyone wanting a brisk overview of North Britain from the year dot to the twentieth century.... (read more) Your price: $32.95 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Edge of Empire: Lives, Culture, and Conquest in the East, 1750-1850 by Maya Jasanoff Publisher Comments A dramatic history of the formative years of the British Empire captures the events of the time through the lives of individuals who played a key role in the era and the objects they chose as memorials to their experiences, including a Palladian mansion... (read more) Your price: $14.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Great Harry by Carolly Erickson Publisher Comments St. Martin's Griffin is proud to reissue acclaimed biographer Carolly Erickson's lives of the Tudor monarchs. In this full-scale popular biography of Henry VIII, Carolly Erickson re-creates the extravagant life and times of one of history's most complex... (read more) Your price: $9.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Ties That Bound: Peasant Families in Medieval England by Barbara A. Hanawalt Publisher Comments Uses wills, coroners' rolls, and archaeological research to describe the homes, furnishings, clothing, food, kinship bonds, home economy, and stages of life of thirteenth-and fourteenth-century... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $16.60 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Mother Leakey and the Bishop: A Ghost Story by Peter Marshall Publisher Comments Halloween 1636: sightings of the ghost of an old woman begin to be reported in the small English coastal town of Minehead, and a royal commission is sent to investigate. December 1640: a disgraced Protestant bishop is hanged in the Irish capital, Dublin,... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $17.53 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Transformation of Urban Liberalism, The: Party Politics and Urban Governance in Late Nineteenth-Century England. Historical Urban Studies. by James R. Moore Publisher Comments The Transformation of Urban Liberalism re-evaluates the dramatic and turbulent political decade following the 'Third Reform Act', and questions whether the Liberal Party's political heartlands - the urban boroughs - really were in decline. In contrast to... (read more) List Price $150.00 Your price: $144.38 Google eBooks - Electronic
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God's Secret Agents: Queen Elizabeth's Forbidden Priests and the Hatching of the Gunpower Plot by Alice Hogge Publisher Comments One evening in 1588, just weeks after the defeat of the Spanish Armada, two young men landed in secret on a beach in Norfolk, England. They were Jesuit priests, Englishmen, and their aim was to achieve by force of argument what the Armada had failed to... (read more) Your price: $10.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Politics and the Mass Media in Britain by Ralph Negrine Publisher Comments In this book, Ralph Negrine examines the political role of the mass media in contemporary Britain. Covering the main features of the press and television, it develops an analysis of their relationships with "politics" and political and social... (read more) Your price: $35.95 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Mackintosh's The Government and Politics of Britain by Peter G. Richards Publisher Comments This student mainstay continues to be organised around constitutional themes, with new material on local elections, the politics of the centre and the limits of state power. Essential for all introductory students of British politics and current affairs.... (read more) Your price: $54.95 Google eBooks - Electronic
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A Dictionary of British Institutions by John Oakland Publisher Comments This succinct guide provides easy access to selected central British institutional terms which are widely employed in contemporary British life. It is cross-referenced with a comprehensive index and appendices.... (read more) Your price: $47.95 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Scandal of Empire: India and the Creation of Imperial Britain by Nicholas B. Dirks Publisher Comments Many have told of the East India Company’s extraordinary excesses in eighteenth-century India, of the plunder that made its directors fabulously wealthy and able to buy British land and titles, but this is only a fraction of the story. When one of... (read more) List Price $22.50 Your price: $21.66 Google eBooks - Electronic
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On the Trail of William Wallace by David Robertson Ross Publisher Comments The film Braveheart was a great inspiration to people all over the world. This is the true story of Braveheart, William Wallace, Scotland's great liberator. Ross chronicles his effect on the landscape of Scotland as we know it today. This book will hold... (read more) List Price $11.96 Your price: $10.61 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Explaining the English Revolution: Hobbes and His Contemporaries by Mark Stephen Jendrysik Publisher Comments As we search for greater understanding of the origins of liberalism, religious toleration, and modern democratic thought, Mark Jendrysik's timely work examines the political and religious ideals that buttressed the first 'modern' revolution. Explaining... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $24.98 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Best Love, Rosie by Nuala O'Faolain Publisher Comments The final novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Are You Somebody? Like many a modern, well-travelled woman, Rosie has lived a fascinating life, full of adventure and the pleasure of many lovers in her younger years. Now, facing the... (read more) List Price $13.50 Your price: $11.98 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Crowded with Genius: The Scottish Enlightenment: Edinburgh's Moment of the Mind by James Buchan Publisher Comments Traces the events and individuals that contributed to the transition of eighteenth-century Edinburgh from a poverty-stricken, religiously fanatical city to an envied hotspot of innovation and culture, citing the period's union with England, its radical... (read more) Your price: $10.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Mary, Queen of Scots, and the Murder of Lord Darnley by Alison Weir Publisher Comments The best-selling author of Henry VIII reexamines an array of source material to describe the relationship between Mary, Queen of Scots, and her ambitious second husband, Lord Darnley, and to investigate the 1567 murder of Lord Darnley, to assess the... (read more) Your price: $13.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Contemplating Adultery by Lotte Hamburger Publisher Comments This is the passionate story of a true epistolatory love affair between a Victorian lady and a German prince. In the early 1830s, an unhappily married Englishwoman falls in love with a man she has never met - aGerman prince, author of the bestseller that... (read more) Your price: $11.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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