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Children and War Volume 1: Past and Present

Embacher Helga, Prontera Grazia

ISBN: PB: 9781911096719, ISBN: HB: 9781909384477, Casemate, Helion and Company, July 2013
298 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 2 tables, 28 black&white illus.

The amount of international research on "Children and War" carried out by academics, governments and non-governmental organisations has continually increased in recent years. At the same time there has been growing public interest in how children exp...

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Biography & Memoires

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William Beckford First Prime Minister of the London Empire

Gauci Perry

ISBN: HB: 9780300166750, Yale University Press, June 2013
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.

This first-ever biography of William Beckford provides a unique look at eighteenth-century British history from the perspective of the colonies. Even in his own time, Beckford was seen as a metaphor for the dramatic changes occurring during this era....

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Queens and Mistresses of Renaissance France

Wellman Kathleen

ISBN: HB: 9780300178852, Yale University Press, June 2013
416 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 59 black&white illus.

This book tells the history of the French Renaissance through the lives of its most prominent queens and mistresses, beginning with Agnes Sorel, the first officially recognized royal mistress in 1444, including Anne of Brittany, Catherine de Medici,...

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Household Politics Conflict in Early Modern England

Herzog Don

ISBN: HB: 9780300180787, Yale University Press, May 2013
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

"Household Politics" offers a brand-new look at "familial patriarchy" in early modern England, which was an era when it supposedly thrived. Canonical sources and sermons often urged the subordination of women. But Herzog found that most considered th...

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In the Olden Time Victorians and the British Past

Sanders Andrew

ISBN: HB: 9780300190427, Yale University Press, April 2013
224 pp., 24.1x19.1 cm, 80 colour images, 20 black&white illus.

In this richly textured and wide-ranging survey of Victorian attitudes to the past, Andrew Sanders builds on Roy Strong's ground-breaking book And when did you last see your father?: The Victorian Painter and British History (1978). Sanders explores...

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Edward III

Ormrod W. Mark

ISBN: PB: 9780300194081, Yale University Press, April 2013
752 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 28 black&white illus.

Edward III (1312-1377) was the most successful European ruler of his age. Reigning for over fifty years, he achieved spectacular military triumphs and overcame grave threats to his authority, from parliamentary revolt to the Black Death. Revered by h...

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Mary I England's Catholic Queen

Edwards John

ISBN: PB: 9780300194166, ISBN: HB: 9780300118100, Yale University Press, April 2013
336 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

The life story of Mary I – daughter of Henry VIII and his Spanish wife, Catherine of Aragon – is often distilled to a few dramatic episodes: her victory over the attempted coup by Lady Jane Grey, the imprisonment of her half-sister Elizabeth, the bur...

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Northern Ireland The Reluctant Peace

Cochrane Feargal

ISBN: HB: 9780300178708, Yale University Press, April 2013
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.

In this thoughtful and engaging book, Feargal Cochrane looks at Northern Ireland's "Troubles" from the late 1960s to the present day. He explains why, a decade and a half after the peace process ended in political agreement in 1998, sectarian attitud...

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German Generation An Experiential History of the Twentieth Century

Kohut Thomas A.

ISBN: PB: 9780300192452, ISBN: HB: 9780300170030, Yale University Press, April 2013
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

Germans of the generation born just before the outbreak of World War I lived through a tumultuous and dramatic century. This book tells the story of their lives and, in so doing, offers a new history of twentieth-century Germany, as experienced and m...

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Arch Conjuror of England John Dee

Parry Glyn

ISBN: PB: 9780300194098, Yale University Press, April 2013
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 14 black&white illus.

Outlandish alchemist and magician, political intelligencer, apocalyptic prophet, and converser with angels, John Dee (1527-1609) was one of the most colourful and controversial figures of the Tudor world. In this fascinating book – the first full-l...

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