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Riot!: Civil Insurrection from Peterloo to the Present Day by Ian Hernon Publisher Comments 'A riot is at bottom the language of the unheard.' --Martin Luther King Riot! covers, with a reporter's eye, almost 200 years of civil disturbance on mainland Britain, and gives a voice to some of the remarkable men and women involved. Ian Hernon... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $24.00 Used - Hardcover 
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Blackstone's Guide to the Identity Cards ACT 2006 (Blackstone's Guide) by John Wadham Publisher Comments Structured in a clear and logical way following the parts of the Act, it provides an up-to-date and informative guide, making it an essential purchase for practitioners and organizations working in a number of legal areas.... (read more) List Price $119.50 Your price: $35.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Read My Heart: A Love Story in England's Age of Revolution by Jane Dunn Publisher Comments When Sir William Temple (1628-99) and Dorothy Osborne (1627-95) began their passionate love affair, civil war was raging in Britain, and their families—parliamentarians and royalists, respectively—did everything to keep them apart... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $21.00 Used - Hardcover
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Cruel Britannia: Reports on the Sinister and the Preposterous by Nick Cohen Publisher Comments Is taken from Nick Cohen's column in "The Observer" which includes updates on the most recent scandals such as the recent London mayoral election. "If I listened to Nick Cohen I would never win an election" Tony Blair...... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal (North Yorkshire) (National Trust Guidebooks) by Mary Mauchline Publisher Comments The National Trust cares for the finest collection of historic buildings, gardens, parks, landscape and coastline in the world. Its famous and well-respected series of guidebooks provides the essential companion to your visit and a lasting souvenir of... (read more) List Price $12.75 Your price: $5.50 Used - Pamphlet
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A Writer's House in Wales by Jan Morris Publisher Comments Through an exploration of her country home in Wales, acclaimed travel writer Jan Morris discovers the heart of her fascinating country and what it means to be Welsh. Trefan Morys, Morris's home between the sea and mountains of the remote northwest corner... (read more) List Price $18.75 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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The History of England (Penguin Classics) by Thomas Babington Macaulay Synopsis This historic text was originally published in five volumes between 1849 and 1861. Covering the period from the accession of James II to the death of Richard III, it examines social, economic and political forces and events that contributed to the... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $9.50 Used - Mass Market
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Warriors and Wordsmiths of Freedom: The Birth and Growth of Democracy by Linda Macdonald Lewis Synopsis Did you know that the Declaration of Independence was based on a Scottish declaration against the English from nearly 700 years ago? This book will take you from the days of William Braveheart Wallace and Robert the Bruce during the Wars of Independence... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Princess Diana: The Hidden Evidence by Jon King Publisher Comments The staggering new evidence contained in this book offers the most persuasive argument yet that British and US intelligence acted jointly to assassinate Diana, Princess of Wales. The product of a two-year investigation, Princess Diana: The Hidden... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $16.50 Used - Hardcover
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Contributions in Labor History, #3: Domination, Legitimation, and Resistance: The Incorporation of the Nineteenth Century English Working Class by Francis Hearn Publisher Comments This work uses the critical theory developed by Herbert Marcuse and Jurgen Habermas to analyze the English working class from 1750 to 1867, in particular its social protest activities.... (read more) List Price $105.00 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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Hubbub: Filth, Noise and Stench in England, 1600-1770 by Emily Cockayne Publisher Comments Modern city-dwellers suffer their share of unpleasant experiences—traffic jams, noisy neighbors, pollution, food scares—but urban nuisances of the past existed on a different scale entirely, this book explains in vivid detail. Focusing on... (read more) List Price $42.50 Your price: $24.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Daughters of Britannia: The Lives and Times of Diplomatic Wives by Katie Hickman Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-314) and index.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $4.25 Used - Trade Paper
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1215: the Year of Magna Carta by Danny Danziger Publisher Comments Surveying a broad landscape through a narrow lens, 1215 sweeps readers back eight centuries in an absorbing portrait of life during a time of global upheaval, the ripples of which can still be felt today. At the center of this fascinating period is the... (read more) Your price: $5.95 Used - Mass Market
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Captive State the Corporate Takeover Of by George Monbiot Publisher Comments A potentially explosive indictment of the way in which the British government has ceded power to international bodies controlled by global corporations. Well known as an environmental campaigner and media commentator, Monbiot highlights the threat of big... (read more) Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Crap Towns: The Fifty Worst Places to Live in the UK by Sam Jordison Publisher Comments Consummately contentious and fabulously funny, The Idler Book of Crap Towns is the real rough guide to where not to go in Britain. The authors name and shame the 50 worst towns on the island, revealing them in all their hideous glory. From the dull... (read more) Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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Reading, Society and Politics in Early Modern England by Kevin Sharpe Publisher Comments This study ranges over private and public reading in a variety of religious, social, and scientific communities. It locates and charts specific historical moments of change in reading habits that reflect broader social and political shifts. Reputable... (read more) List Price $125.25 Your price: $35.00 Used - Hardcover
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Diary of Samuel Pepys Vol. 11: Index by Robert Latham Synopsis A comprehensive edition of Samuel Pepys's diary transcripted by Robert Latham and William Matthews. An introduction to the diarist and the diary is included.... (read more) Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Edge of Empire: Lives, Culture, and Conquest in the East, 1750-1850 by Maya Jasanoff Publisher Comments A Palladian mansion filled with Western art in the center of old Calcutta, the Mughal emperor's letters in an archive in the French Alps, the names of Italian adventurers scratched into the walls of Egyptian temples. In this imaginative book, Maya... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $18.50 Used - Hardcover
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Craze: Gin and Debauchery in an Age of Reason by Jessica Warner Publisher Comments Rotgut gin—cheap, widely available, and remarkably potent—was the overwhelming drug of choice among London’s working poor in the early 1700s. Sold for pennies in taverns and squalid gin shops, on street corners and even in jails, gin... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Brief History of the Tudor Age by Jasper Ridley Publisher Comments Beginning with the arrival of Henry Tudor and his army at Milford in 1485 to depose Richard III, and ending with the death of the great Queen Elizabeth I in 1603, this incisive and informative brief history provides a vivid account of Englands most... (read more) Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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