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Colonial Lives Across the British Empire: Imperial Careering in the Long Nineteenth Century by David Lambert Publisher Comments A series of portraits of ???imperial lives??? to rethink the history of the British Empire in the nineteenth century.... (read more) List Price $105.00 Your price $50.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Edward VII's Last Loves: Alice Keppel & Agnes Keyser by Raymon Lamont Brown Publisher Comments As the Hon. Mrs. George Keppel, Alice Keppel (Camilla Parker-Bowles great-grandmother) was one of the best-known society hostesses of the Edwardian era.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Road to Nab End: A Lancashire Childhood by William Woodruff Publisher Comments A marvelously evocative account of growing up poor in a British mill town.... (read more) List Price $19.90 Your price $5.25 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Titled Americans: Three American Sisters and the English Aristocratic World Into Which They Married by Elizabeth Kehoe Publisher Comments The Titled Americans is a family saga spanning three generations, chronicling the glamorous lives of Leonard Jerome, his daughters, and their children. Raven-haired Jennie ("the beautiful') married Randolph Churchill, younger son of the Duke of... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list By Permission of Heaven the True Story by Adrian Tinniswood Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-311) and index.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list How the Irish Saved Civilization : the Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role From the Fall of Rome To the Rise of Medieval Europe (95 Edition) by Thomas Cahill Publisher Comments A delightful and illuminating look into a crucial but little known "hinge" of history in which the author shows that the Irish were not only conservators of civilization, but became shapers of the medieval mind, putting their unique stamp on Western... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Irish Famine (95 Edition) by Peter Gray Publisher Comments In 1845, when the potato crop failed in Ireland, the resulting famine caused the deaths of one in eight Irish. This compelling book takes readers through this devastating period, explaining, from all sides, the causes of the famine, the often misguided... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Oxford History of the British Empire #01: The Origins of Empire: British Overseas Enterprise to the Close of the Seventeenth Century by Nicholas Canny Publisher Comments A five-volume comprehensive assessment of the British Empire in the light of recent scholarship and the progressive opening of historical records. Written by international experts, Volume I explains how and why Britain became involved with transoceanic... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Scotch-irish : a Social History (62 Edition) by James G. Leyburn Publisher Comments Dispelling much of what he terms the 'mythology' of the Scotch-Irish, James Leyburn provides an absorbing account of their heritage. He discusses their life in Scotland, when the essentials of their character and culture were shaped; their removal to... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $10.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Nineteenth Century : the British Isles, 1815-1901 (00 Edition) by Colin (ed.) Matthew Publisher Comments This new eleven-volume series will span the history of the British Isles from the Roman Era to the present. Each volume consists of essays by leading historians who focus on key issues for the period--including society, economy, religion, politics, and... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $34.00 (Used - Trade Paper) 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   That Great Lucifer: A Protrait of Sir Walter Ralegh by Margaret Irwin Publisher Comments No lover of history can fail to recognize in the man who cast his cape gracefully across a puddle to protect the feet of his queen, the symbol of the Elizabethan Age. For Sir Walther Ralegh was more, much more than the courtier portrayed in the painting.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $7.38 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Forgotten Commissioner: Sir William Mildmay and the Anglo-French Commission of 1750-1755 by Enid Robbie Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-294) and index.... (read more) List Price $59.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Two Mr. Gladstones: Study in Psychology and History by Travis L Crosby Publisher Comments William Gladstone - four times prime minister of Great Britain, the premier moral spokesman of the Victorian era, a prodigious author, and an unparalleled orator - was among the most revered figures of his age. But there was another side to Gladstone... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Stuarts (Royal History of England) by Antonia Fraser Publisher Comments Each of these lavishly illustrated books serves up a brief and manageable portion of the Fraser-edited and much-touted Lives of the Kings and Queens of England. A set of six jewels for Fraser's crown.... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list A Royal Duty by Burrell Paul Publisher Comments Now comes the long awaited book, A Royal Duty by Paul Burrell, the man in whom she confided on matters big and small. Paul, one of the Queen's personal footmen, met Diana during one of her first visits to Balmoral Castle. And while it may have been fate... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list How the Scots Invented Modern World (01 Edition) by Arthur Herman Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 431-452) and index.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Celts ((Rev)97 Edition) by Nora K. Chadwick Publisher Comments New edition of the classic survey, with a new introductory chapter by Professor Barry Cunliffe that discusses the origins of the Celtic races and provides an overview of current issues.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list India : a Concise History ((3RD)85 Edition) by Conor O'brien Synopsis A history of Ireland. This book concentrates on four events in particular: the Catholic revolt against Elizabeth; the Battle of the Boyne, which established the Protestant Ascendancy; the impact of the French Revolution; and the fall from power of... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Course of Irish History - Revised and Updated (4TH 01 Edition) by T.w. Moody Publisher Comments of color plates, this is the complete, authoritative history of Ireland from prehistoric times to the present.... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Empire : the British Imperial Experience From 1765 To the Present (96 Edition) by Denis Judd Publisher Comments The British Empire radically altered the modern world. At its height, it governed over a quarter of the human race and encompassed more than a fifth of the globe. As well as providing the British people with profits and a sense of international purpose... (read more) List Price $35.65 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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