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Athenaeum "More Than Just Another London Club"

Wheeler Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780300246773, Yale University Press, September 2020
424 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 37 colour illus., 2 black&white illus.

When it was founded in 1824, the Athen?um broke the mold. Unlike in other preeminent clubs, its members were chosen on the basis of their achievements rather than on their background or political affiliation. Public rather than private life dominated...

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Law

Archipelago of Justice Law in France's Early Modern Empire

Wood Laurie M.

ISBN: HB: 9780300244007, Yale University Press, June 2020
288 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 14 black&white illus.

This book is a groundbreaking evaluation of the interwoven trajectories of the people, such as itinerant ship-workers and colonial magistrates, who built France's first empire between 1680 and 1780 in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. These imperial su...

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Postwar Moment Progressive Forces in Britain, France, and the United States after World War II

Woloch Isser

ISBN: HB: 9780300124354, Yale University Press, March 2019
560 pp., 23.5x16.5 cm, 29 black&white illus.

After the end of World War II, Britain, France, and the United States were faced with two very different choices: return to the civic order of pre-war normalcy or embark instead on a path of progressive transformation. In this ambitious and original...

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America

Hot Protestants A History of Puritanism in England and America

Winship Michael P.

ISBN: HB: 9780300126280, Yale University Press, February 2019
368 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.

Begun in the mid-sixteenth century by Protestant nonconformists keen to reform England's church and society while saving their own souls, the puritan movement was a major catalyst in the great cultural changes that transformed the early modern world....

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Curious World of Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn

Willes Margaret

ISBN: PB: 9780300238686, Yale University Press, August 2018
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 47 colour illus., 18 black&white illus.

<p>Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn are two of the most celebrated English diarists. They were also extraordinary men and close friends. This first full portrait of that friendship transforms our understanding of their times. Pepys was earthy and shrewd,...

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Eleanor Crosses The Story of King Edward I's Lost Queen and her Architectural Legacy

Warrington Decca

ISBN: PB: 9781909930650, Signal Books, May 2018
196 pp., 21.7x13.7 cm

For sale in CIS only! "The Eleanor Crosses" begins in November 1290 with the untimely death in a Lincolnshire village of Queen Eleanor of Castile, beloved consort of King Edward I of England. A sombre journey of more than 200 miles must follow, to t...

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Education

Intellectual Properties of Learning A Prehistory from Saint Jerome to John Locke

Willinsky John

ISBN: HB: 9780226487922, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone

Providing a sweeping millennium-plus history of the learned book in the West, John Willinsky puts current debates over intellectual property into context, asking what it is about learning that helped to create the concept even as it gave the products...

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Colonial Violence European Empires and the Use of Force

Walter Dierk

ISBN: HB: 9781849048071, Hurst Publishers, May 2017
352 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Western interventions today have much in common with the countless violent conflicts that have occurred on Europe's periphery since the conquest of the Americas. Like their predecessors, modern imperial wars are shaped by geogr...

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Military

Battle of Montgomery, 1644 The English Civil War in the Welsh Borderlands

Worton Jonathan

ISBN: PB: 9781911096238, Casemate, Helion and Company, November 2016
120 pp., 24.8x18 cm, 8 maps, 8 black&white illus., 42 colour illus.

Reflecting on the Battle of Montgomery, Sir Thomas Myddelton – who had jointly commanded the victorious Parliamentarian Army – later described it as: "as great a victory as hath been gained in any part of the kingdom". Fought on 18 September 1644 in...

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Ukrainians Unexpected Nation (Fourth Edition)

Wilson Andrew

ISBN: PB: 9780300217254, Yale University Press, October 2015
432 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 24 black&white illus.

The most acute, informed, and up-to-date account available today of Ukraine and its people, now in its fourth edition.

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