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    Graves are Walking(2013) KELLY, JOHN
    Well-meaning civil servants were eager to modernise Irish agriculture and to improve the Irish moral character, which was utterly lacking in the virtues of the new age of triumphant capitalism.
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    18,05 €
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    Short History of Parliament(2012)
    A comprehensive history of parliament in the British Isles from the earliest times, covering all aspects of parliament as an institution.
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    58,55 €
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    Scotland's Empire(2012) DEVINE, T. M.
    Tells the story of Scotland's role in forging and expanding the British Empire, from the Americas to Australia, India to the Caribbean. In this book, the author traces the vital part Scotland played in creating an empire - and the fundamental effect this
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    18,05 €
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    Three Victories and a Defeat(2008) SIMMS, BRENDAN
    Tells the story of Britain's scramble to world power in the 18th century and how, through hubris and incompetence, it lost almost everything it had gained.
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    27,78 €
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    Impaled Upon a Thistle(2010) CAMERON, EWEN A.
    Ewen Cameron explores the political debate between unionism, liberalism, socialism and nationalism, and the changing political relationship between Scotland and the United Kingdom.
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    38,81 €
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    Victoria's Wars: The Rise of Empire(2007) DAVID, SAUL
    Explores the early part of Queen Victoria's reign, when the British Empire was well on the way to becoming the greatest empire the world had ever seen. This title shows how Britain ruthlessly exploited her position as the world's only superpower to expand
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    20,83 €
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    Chartism(2007) CHASE, DR. MALCOLM
    No British social movement captured contemporary imaginations as Chartism did. This unique book is the only history to offer complete, in-depth coverage of the full chronological spread of its activities (1838-58), based throughout on detailed research. -
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    34,44 €
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    Perilous Question(2014) FRASER, LADY ANTONIA
    From beloved historian Antonia Fraser, the two-year revolution that totally changed how Britain is governed.
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    20,83 €
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    Plimsoll Sensation(2007) JONES, NICOLETTE
    The story of a Victorian philanthropist who reformed shipping laws, saved thousands of sailors' lives and became a national hero.
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    18,05 €
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    That Sweet Enemy(2007) TOMBS, ISABELLE,TOMBS, ROBERT
    Their rivalry both on peace and war, for good and ill, has shaped the modern world, from North America to India in the eighteenth century, in Africa, the Middle East and South East Asia during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and it is still shapin
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    34,74 €
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    Heaven's Command(2012) MORRIS, JAN
    Tells the story of the rise of the British Empire, from the accession of Queen Victoria in 1837 to her Diamond Jubilee in 1897. The author evokes every aspect of the 'great adventure', ranging from ships and botanical gardens to hill stations and sugar pl
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    18,05 €
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    Pax Britannica(2012) MORRIS, JAN
    The second instalment of the Pax Britannica Trilogy by Jan Morris, recreates the British Empire at its dazzling climax - the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1897, celebrated as a festival of imperial strength, unity, and splendour.
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    18,05 €
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    Pirates Of Barbary(2011) TINNISWOOD, ADRIAN
    Drawing on material, from furious royal proclamations to the private letters of pirates and their victims, as well as Islamic accounts, this title provides perspectives of the corsairs and an insight into what it meant to sacrifice all you have for a life
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    18,05 €
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    Brief History of Life in Victorian Britain(2008) PATERSON, MICHAEL
    From the Great Exhibition to Dickensian slums, the triumph of empire to the anxiety of revolt - Victorian Britain was an age of paradoxes.
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    15,27 €
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    Napoleonic Artillery(2007) DAWSON, PAUL
    The Napoleonic Wars gripped Europe, and beyond, for over ten years at the beginning of the Nineteenth century. Hundreds of battles were fought between the armies of France (and its allies) and all those powers that wished to see Napoleon Bonaparte stopped
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    44,72 €
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    Culloden(2002) PREBBLE, JOHN
    The detail for the story told in Culloden has come from regimental Order Books and manuals, from contemporary newspapers and magazines, from the letters and memoirs of soldiers and officers, eye-witness accounts of atrocity and persecution, and the person
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    20,83 €
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    England's Mistress(2007) WILLIAMS, KATE
    A dramatic, sparkling tale of sex, glamour, intrigue, romance and heartbreak, England's Mistress traces the rise and rise of the gorgeous Emma Hamilton. Born into poverty, she clawed her way up through London's underworlds of sex for sale to become Engl
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    18,05 €
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    World That Never Was(2011) BUTTERWORTH, ALEX
    The last years of the nineteenth century saw the birth of a new phenomenon: international terrorism. Alex Butterworth interweaves group biography, cultural history and meticulous detective work to create a revelatory account of the age.
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    25,00 €
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    Twilight of the Romanovs(2013) BLOM, PHILIPP,BUCKLEY, VERONICA
    Opens a door onto the world of pre-revolutionary Russia in original photographs taken during the last decades of Romanov rule. This title includes many remarkable colour images created using an early three-colourplate technique; these bring the remote pas
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    48,57 €
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    Catherine The Great(2007) ROUNDING, VIRGINIA
    'THE MOST ACCESSIBLE AND ENJOYABLE PORTRAIT YET.' DAILY MAIL______________________________________________________Power, sex, and politics: the fascinating rule of one of Russia's most significant monarchsCatherine the Great ruled Russia from 1762 until 1
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    29,17 €

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