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New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1977. Very Good. Age of Nationalism and Reform, 1850-1890.

Boston: Beacon Press, 1956. Paperback. Good.

Edinburgh: Birlinn Publishers, 1998. Fine. A crisp clean softcover, no markings throughout: Angus and Kincardine, an area rich in resources, has been of strategic importance for many centuries. The diversity of sights to be found north of the Tay mirrors the variety of historical sites to be found in this part of the country: White Caterhun, north-west of Brechin, dates from the Celtic Iron Age and is a hill-fort, with the largest dry stone wall in Britain; Pictish stones, dating from AD400 on, these ancient monumnets measure up to 14-feet high and bear pagan symbols; Brechin Round Tower, one of only two surviving Irish towers and the site of a monastry in the 11th century; the ruins of Arbroath Abbey, founded by William the Lion; and Claypotts and Edzell, with its walled garden, two of the 16th-century castles in Scotland. This book is a combination of guide, gazetteer and site maps. Its layout is chronological and each chapter deals with a different period, from prehistoric times to the industrial age.

Edinburgh: Birlinn Publishers, 2007. As New. A crisp clean as new softcover: The great travellers of the 17th century - Martin, Penant, Johnson et al - used the word 'curiosity' to mean many different things. They labelled as 'curiosities' people, plants, legends, historical facts and geological certainties. This book follows their example in a 21st century journey around Argyll and its islands. It is difficult to find an area of Argyll which is not curious in some way: archaeology, geography, geology and genealogy have all served to mark out this western fringe of Scotland as unique. Discarding those curiosities which it is all too easy to find on any journey through the county, Marian Pallister has looked extensively into places, people and events which are curiously layered, and has created a book that is overflowing with enchanting 'curiosities' and local histories.

London: Edward Arnold, 1985. Very Good. One of the foremost scholars of nineteenth-century England, Gash has writte n a new interpretation of the years 1815 to 1865 that takes industrializati on off center stage as the great dramatic event in national life. Gash inte grates other equally significant changes the postwar slump in trade and man ufacturing, the unprecedented expansion of population, and the increasing u rbanization. He argues that the singular ability of the industrial revoluti on to produce wealth and skills enabled England to cope with impending soci al catastrophe. Gash also reintroduces the importance of politics in explai ning events, and he challenges the recent historical interpretations giving primacy to class history and class consciousness.

US: Princeton University Press, 1994. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. In excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlig hting. The spine remains undamaged. Esther Schor tells us about the persistence of the dead, about why they sti ll matter long after we emerge from grief and accept our loss. Mourning as a cultural phenomenon has become opaque to us in the twentieth century, Sch or argues. This book is an effort to recover the culture of mourning that t hrived in English society from the Enlightenment through the Romantic Age, and to recapture its meaning. Mourning appears here as the social diffusion of grief through sympathy, as a force that constitutes communities and hel ps us to conceptualize history. In the textual and social practices of the British Enlightenment and its early nineteenth-century heirs, Schor uncovers the ways in which mourning mediated between received ideas of virtue, both classical and Christian, and a burgeoning, property-based commercial… Read More

US: Vintage Publishing, 2009. Paperback. Good. A brilliant new book about the seedy side of Victorian London by a talented young historian. In 1887, government inspectors were sent to report on the horrifying, often lethal, living conditions of the Old Nichol, a notorious 15-acre slum in L ondon s East End. Among much else, they found that the rotting 100-year-old houses were some of the most lucrative properties in the capital for their absent slumlords. Peers of the Realm, local politicians, churchmen and law yers were making profits on these death-traps of as much as 150 per cent pe r annum. Before long, Old Nichol became a focus of public attention: its 6, 000 inhabitants were condemned for their drunkenness and criminality. The s olution to the problem lay in internment camps, some said, or forced emigra tion even eugenics. The Blackest Streets focuses on the last fifteen years of the nineteenth ce ntury, a turbulent period in London s history, when revolution was very muc h in the air when… Read More

London: Victor Gollancz, 1987. Very Good.

US: Crown Publishing Group, 2019. Harback. Very Good/Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Big Oil and Gas Versus Democracy--Winner Tak e All "A rollickingly well-written book, filled with fascinating, exciting, and a larming stories about the impact of the oil and gas industry on the world t oday."--The New York Times Book Review In 2010, the words "earthquake swarm" entered the lexicon in Oklahoma. That same year, a trove of Michael Jackson memorabilia--including his iconic cr ystal-encrusted white glove--was sold at auction for over $1 million to a g uy who was, officially, just the lowly forestry minister of the tiny nation of Equatorial Guinea. And in 2014, Ukrainian revolutionaries raided the pa lace of their ousted president and found a zoo of peacocks, gilded toilets, and a floating restaurant modeled after a Spanish galleon. Unlikely as it… Read More

US: Grove/Atlantic, Inc, 2003. Paperback. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. A legendary capital of the arts, Paris hosted some of the most legendary developments in world culture - particularly at the beginning of the twentieth century, with the flowering of fauvism, cubism, dadaism, and surrealism. In Bohemian Paris, Dan Franck leads us on a vivid and magical tour of the Paris of 1900-1930, a hotbed of artistic creation where we encounter Apollinaire, Modigliani, Cocteau, Matisse, Picasso, Hemingway, and Fitzgerald, working, loving, and struggling to stay afloat. 16 pages of black-and-white illustrations are featured.

US: University of California Pre, 2008. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dustjacket. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Seeking to penetrate the mysteries of two great wine regions-"two opposite civilizations, two distinct ways of feeling"-Jean-Robert Pitte embarks upon an evocative and fascinating exploration of the land, people, and wines of Bordeaux and Burgundy. His account is a rich tapestry of terroir, history, culture, and economics from Roman to modern times. The unique qualities of the wines of each region, Pitte believes, cannot be entirely explained by the differences in their physical environments: they have social origins as well. Beginning with an entertaining look at the remarkable variety of ins ults exchanged by partisans of the two regions, Pitte delves into the key r ole played by medieval monks, dukes, and peasant vignerons in building thei r respective reputations and in creating… Read More

Edinburgh: Birlinn Ltd, 1998. As New. A crisp clean softcover as new: This definitive story of the Scottish Borders covers the area's history, landscape and culture, including: military and sporting traditions, customs, language and music.

US: Gardners Books, 2002. Paperback. Very Good. Since the Dayton Peace Agreement at the end of 1995, Bosnia-Hercegovina has been the focus of a major international intervention to transform a deeply divided post-war territory into a politically viable, multi-ethnic and dem ocratic state. This study places that state-making enterprise within the co ntext of Bosnia's complex historical legacy - the background to the `Bosnia n question' that emerged as Yugoslavia unravelled in 1991-2, and the social and political realities at ground level in post-war Bosnia. At the same ti me, Sumantra Bose brings a comparative perspective to the issues that make contemporary Bosnia significant far beyond its contested borders - debates over partition, the efficacy of international peace-building interventions, and the suitability of particular political-institutional frameworks to lo nger-term goals of coexistence and democratisation.

US: NYU Press, 1994. Paperback. Very Good. This updated edition of Noel Malcolm's highly-acclaimed Bosnia: A Short His tory provides the reader with the most comprehensive narrative history of B osnia in the English language. Malcolm examines the different religious and ethnic inhabitants of Bosnia, a land of vast cultural upheaval where the e mpires of Rome, Charlemagne, the Ottomans, and the Austro-Hungarians overla pped. Clarifying the various myths that have clouded the modern understandi ng of Bosnia's past, Malcolm brings to light the true causes of the country 's destruction. This expanded edition of Bosnia includes a new epilogue by the author examining the failed Vance-Owen peace plan, the tenuous resoluti on of the Dayton Accords, and the efforts of the United Nations to keep the uneasy peace. What went wrong in the country where Christians and Muslims mingled and tolerated each other for over five centuries? It was a land with a vibrant political and cultural history, unlike any other in… Read More

US: Penguin Books, 2004. Paperback. Good. More than two centuries after Master's Mate Fletcher Christian led a mutiny against Lieutenant William Bligh on a small, armed transport vessel called Bounty, the true story of this enthralling adventure has become obscured b y the legend. Combining vivid characterization and deft storytelling, Carol ine Alexander shatters the centuries-old myths surrounding this story. She brilliantly shows how, in a desperate attempt to save one man from the gall ows and another from ignominy, two powerful families came together and bega n to create the version of history we know today. The true story of the mut iny on the Bounty is an epic of duty and heroism, pride and power, and the assassination of a brave man's honor at the dawn of the Romantic age.

US: Pengiun, 1990. Paperback. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. High and popular culture; family, race, gender and class relations; sexual attitudes and material conditions; science and technology - the diversity of social developments in Britain from 1945 to 2002 are thoroughly explored in this new edition of aclassic text. 'Something of a tour de force... Without serious distortion or omission he moves dexterously through a wide variety of sources, ranging from poetry through film and novels to opinion polls.. it is astonishing how much he gets in' Times Educational Supplement 'An enjoyable, readable, usable achievement which leads the field' John Vincent, Sunday Times.

US: Penguin, 1984. Paperback. Good. An examination of the changes in the society of Great Britain includes disc ussions of family life, politics, unemployment, health services and educati on.

US: W. W. Norton & Company, 1982. Paperback. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. The years between 1603 and 1714 were perhaps the most decisive in English h istory. During this period modern English society and a modern state began to take shape, and England's position in the world was transformed. The Century of Revolution tries to penetrate below the familiar events to g rasp when happened-to ordinary English men and women as well as to kings an d queens or abstractions like "society" and "the state." In this new edition, Dr. Hill includes the most important conclusions of recent research and has added postscripts drawing attention to especially significant books.

US: British Broadcasting Corpora, 1980. Paperback. Good. Kenneth Clark's sweeping narrative looks at how Western Europe evolved in t he wake of the collapse of the Roman Empire, to produce the ideas, books, b uildings, works of art and great individuals that make up our civilisation. The author takes us from Iona in the ninth century to France in the twelft h, from Florence to Urbino, from Germany to Rome, England, Holland and Amer ica. Against these historical backgrounds he sketches an extraordinary cast of characters -- the men and women who gave new energy to civilisation and expanded our understanding of the world and of ourselves. He also highligh ts the works of genius they produced -- in architecture, sculpture and pain ting, in philosophy, poetry and music, and in science and engineering, from Raphael's School of Athens to the bridges of Brunel.

US: Flamingo, 2000. Paperback. Good. Physical description: xxviii, 321 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : il lustrations, portraits ; 24cm. Subjects: Diplomats' spouses -- Great Britai n -- Biography.