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The Victorian Visitors: Culture Shock in Nineteenth-Century Britain by Rupert Christiansen Publisher Comments Marshaling the experiences of a set of remarkable foreign visitors to England in the 1800s, the author chronicles their impact on British culture and its impact upon them. Includes stories of visits by French painter Gericault, Richard Wagner, Ralph... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list German exiles :British perspectives by J M Ritchie Book News Annotation Looks at the experiences of artists and writers who came to Britain from Germany, Austria, and Czechoslovakia to escape National Socialism. Subjects include expressionism in exile in Great Britain, the exile plays of Hans Jose Rehfisch, women in exile,... (read more) Your price $7.20 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Douglas Hyde by Janet Egle Dunleavy Publisher Comments "This biography of a man who was not only a political leader but an influential figure in literary history . . . should become the standard work."--James F. Kilroy, Tulane University<P>"Apart from the book's interest to students of modern Irish... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $11.60 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list King Arthur: A Military History by Michael Holmes Publisher Comments Is it true King Arthur was a real person, who profoundly influenced actual history? The evidence presented here comes from many reliable ancient sources depicting Britain around the year A.D. 500, and from numerous modern historians who have developed... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Marlborough by Correlli Barnett Synopsis This book seeks to bring to life the heroic figure behind the age of Blenheim. The emphasis throughout is on the character and personality of John Churchill rather than on the general historical events of his life. Originally published by Eyre Methuen in... (read more) Your price $4.98 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Queen Victoria at Home by Michael De La Noy Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-274) and index.... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $11.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list St. Margaret: Queen of Scotland by Alan J Wilson Publisher Comments St. Margaret is, after Mary, Queen of Scots, perhaps the most famous woman in Scottish history, and her life is among the most extraordinary of any other major Scottish historical figure.... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Titled Americans: Three American Sisters and the British Aristocratic World Into Which They Married by Elisabeth Kehoe Publisher Comments &lt;div&gt;Elisabeth Kehoe brings to life a sweeping, three-generational saga of the remarkable Jerome sisters -- among the most glamorous women of their time -- whose well-chosen marriages to British aristocracy represented the first of such... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Churchill: Wanted Dead or Alive by Celia Sandys Publisher Comments A diverting account by Churchill's granddaughter of a period regarded by the wartime leader as the most adventurous of his life.... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Three Empires on the Nile: The Victorian Jihad, 1869-1899 by Dominic Green Publisher Comments In a dramatic narrative, acclaimed historian Green recounts the clash between Victorian Britain and a militant Islamist state that eerily foreshadows the 21st century. of full-color photos.... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price $14.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

Sign up for our Recently Arrived Used Books newsletter service and find great used titles in Great Britain on the very day they're added to our shelves. email address   The Mother Town: Civic Ritual, Symbol, and Experience in the Borders of Scotland by Gwen Kenned Neville Publisher Comments A theoretical and sociological exploration of the relationship between law and society, this book constructs an approach to law that integrates legal theory with sociological approaches to law. Law is generally understood to be a mirror of society--a... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $3.70 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Under the Molehill: An Elizabethan Spy Story by John Bossy Synopsis In the 16th century, Elizabethan London was uneasy: would France side with Protestant England or with Catholic Europe? This volume describes the espionage operation that was devised to find the answer, and speculates on the identity of the mole in the... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Popular Tales of the West Highlands Volume 2 by J F Campbell Publisher Comments The second volume of the finest treasure-house of Scottish tales ever published.... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Prince & the Infanta: The Cultural Politics of the Spanish Match by Glyn Redworth Publisher Comments On the night of March 7, 1623, the prince of Wales and the duke of Buckingham knocked on the door of the British embassy in Madrid. Their unsolicited arrival began one of the most bizarre episodes in British history, as the Protestant heir to the Stuart... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Love and Madness: The Murder of Martha Ray, Mistress of the Fourth Earl of Sandwich by Martin Levy Publisher Comments Chapter One Why Vainly Seek to Flee? Love Will Pursue You. Martha Ray had a great deal on her mind during the evening of Wednesday, April 7, 1779, as her personal maid set about preparing her for a night at Covent Garden Theatre. She had not been out of... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list For King and Parliament: Bristol and the English Civil War by John Lynch Publisher Comments This provocative new study argues that the Royalists by capturing Bristol in July 1643, they gained not only England's second most important city but also the materials and facilities that allowed them to remain as long as they did in Civil War.... (read more) List Price $45.95 Your price $30.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Last of the Dandies: The Scandalous Life and Escapades of Count D'Orsay by Nick Foulkes Publisher Comments From his first appearance in London in 1821 until his death in Paris in 1852, Count D'Orsay dominated and scandalized the whole of European society. For three decades he was the ultimate arbiter in matters of taste and style -- what D'Orsay wore today... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price $17.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list London by John Russell Publisher Comments John Russell, author of Abrams' highly successful Paris and a score of other volumes, lived in London for nearly 50 years. Here, he offers a matchless, wonderfully illustrated tour of the city and its most notable citizens through the centuries.... (read more) List Price $24.98 Your price $6.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Gender, Democracy and Inclusion in Northern Ireland (Women's Studies at York) by Carmel Roulston Publisher Comments Mainstream politics in Northern Ireland have not been welcoming to women, but many women have been present in community and voluntary organizations, where their contribution has been outstanding. This book examines four organizations (including the... (read more) List Price $65.00 Your price $17.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Women in the Medieval English Countryside: Gender and Household in Brigstock Before the Plague by Judith M Bennett Publisher Comments Unlike most histories of European women, which have typically focused on the 19th and 20th century elite, this study reconstructs the public lives of peasant women and men during the six decades before the Black Death of 1348-49. Drawing on the extensive... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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