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Paddy's Lament, Ireland 1846-1847: Prelude to Hatred by Thomas Gallagher Publisher Comments Ireland in the mid-1800s was primarily a population of peasants, forced to live on a single, moderately nutritious crop: potatoes. Suddenly, in 1846, an unknown and uncontrollable disease turned the potato crop to inedible slime, and all Ireland was... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Stone Voices: The Search for Scotland by Neal Ascherson Publisher Comments The rediscovery of Scotlands past and a wake-up call about its future, from a leading scholar-journalist Scotland has a new Parliament and it has North Sea oil, but is it yet an independent, self-sustaining democracy? Is it a true nation? In Stone Voices,... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Course of Irish History by T W Moody Publisher Comments A reissue of this updated classic of Irish history.... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Irish Rebellions, 1798-1916 : an Illustrated History (98 Edition) by Helen Litton Publisher Comments A concise history of the rebellions, using newspaper reports, speeches, eyewitness accounts and a mass of photographs and illustrative material.... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Anglo-irish War: Troubles of 1913-1922 (06 Edition) by Cottrell Publisher Comments The Anglo-Irish War has often been referred to as the war 'the English have struggled to forget and the Irish cannot help but remember'. Before 1919, the issue of Irish Home Rule lurked beneath the surface of Anglo-Irish relations for many years, but... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Ireland: Short History (3RD 08 Edition) by Joseph Coohill Synopsis This third edition of Joseph Coohills bestselling book has been fully updated to include all the latest political developments in Ireland. Starting with the first prehistoric inhabitants of the island, the book takes us right up to the present day... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Past Speaks: Sources and Problems in British History Since 1688 by Walter L Arnstein Publisher Comments The Past Speaks provides primary documents arranged thematically to address a number of historical problems. It includes selections on the impact of the French Revolution, Victorian sexuality, and trench warfare in World War I, and chapters on political... (read more) List Price $133.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Prostitution and Victorian Society : Women, Class and the State (80 Edition) by Judith R. Walkowitz Publisher Comments A study of alliances between prostitutes and femminists and their clashes with medical authorities and police.... (read more) List Price $39.99 Your price: $30.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Belfast Diary: War as a Way of Life by John Conroy Publisher Comments Resolution of intractable problems around the world requires understanding ordinary people as well as leaders. This street-level view of Northern Ireland provides the best explanation of the twenty-five-year conflict.... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Hope and Glory : Britian 1900-2000 (2ND 04 Edition) by Peter Clarke Publisher Comments With a new chapter on the 1990s, this is the definitive history of Britain in the 20th century.... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Ireland : Social and Cultural History (05 Edition) by Brown Publisher Comments In this seminal work, Terence Brown examines, with grace and wit, the most eventful century in Irish history. The post-Treaty period in Ireland has been an era of intense debate about the nature and future of Irish society and culture. In a state born in... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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A Monarchy Transformed by Mark Kishlansky Publisher Comments The century between 1603 and 1714--an era of profound social, economic, and religious change--launched Britain from an isolated archipelago to a world-class intellectual, commercial, and military center. An outburst of intellectual creativity that... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Crowded With Genius : the Scottish Enlightenment : Edinburgh's Moment of the Mind (03 Edition) by James Buchan Publisher Comments In the early eighteenth century, Edinburgh was a filthy backwater town synonymous with poverty and disease. Yet by century's end, it had become the marvel of modern Europe, home to the finest minds of the day and their breathtaking innovations in... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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British Empire (07 Edition) by Philippa Levine Publisher Comments Violent, powerful, vast: the British Empire is typically viewed as distant and tropical. By contrast, this book examines the effects of the empire on men, women and children across the globe: both those under imperial rule and those who implemented it... (read more) List Price $61.25 Your price: $42.00 Used - Hardcover
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Britons : Forging the Nation 1707-1837 (2ND 05 - Old Edition) by Linda Colley Publisher Comments How was Great Britain made? And what does it mean to be British? In this prize-winning book, Linda Colley combines imperial, political, social, and cultural history to analyze the evolution of Britishness, evoking its enduring tensions as well as its... (read more) List Price $22.50 Your price: $12.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Strangers Within the Realm : Cultural Margins of the First British Empire (91 Edition) by Bernard Bailyn Publisher Comments Shedding new light on British expansion in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, this collection of essays examines how the first British Empire was received and shaped by its subject peoples in Scotland, Ireland, North America, and the Caribbean. An... (read more) List Price $45.50 Your price: $30.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Eyewitness to Irish History by Peter Berresford Ellis Publisher Comments Through sources ranging from ancient forsundun (praise songs) and the hero kings to newspaper accounts, public decrees, and even graffiti, this book offers vivid portraits of major events and everyday life in Ireland through the centuries—beginning... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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New Ireland by John Hume Publisher Comments Hume recounts the struggle for the nationalist community's rights and presents a blueprint for peace.... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Black '47 and Beyond : the Great Irish Famine in History, Economy, and Memory (99 Edition) by Cormac O'grada Publisher Comments "Ó Gráda has for a number of years been recognized as the leading economic historian of the Irish Famine. This book will immediately be seen as by far the best economic history ever published on the subject, and will remain for decades the best place... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $30.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Edwardians : the Remaking of British Society (85 Edition) by Paul Thompson Publisher Comments In the early 1970s, the author spoke to 500 Edwardians who had been born between 1872-1906: domestics, laborers, skilled and semi-skilled workers, professionals and socialites from all parts of Britain describe their work, their leisure, their political... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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