History Of Britain – alle Bücher und DVDs, Seite 6

William Dalrymple
The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire

Finalist for the Cundill History PrizeONE OF PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEARNAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY The Wall Street Journal and NPR"Superb ... A vivid and richly detailed…

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Mike Hall, Matt Brown
The Boroughs of London

A stylish collection of beautifully designed maps of each individual London borough, paired with quirky and fascinating facts about what you'll find there.Cartographer and illustrator Mike Hall is renowne…

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Nick Triplow
Getting Carter: Ted Lewis and the Birth of British Noir

Nick Triplow's soulful biography of enigmatic British crime fiction pioneer, Ted Lewis (author of Get Carter ), is one of those rare works of literary investigation that relentlessly asserts its own statu…

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Elyse Graham
Book and Dagger

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ONE OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS' BEST BOOKS OF 2025The untold story of the academics who became OSS spies, invented modern spycraft, and helped turn the tide of the warAt the start of WWI…

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Emile Chabal
The Age of Hobsbawm

An intellectual biography of Eric Hobsbawm, one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century.Eric Hobsbawm (1917-2012) was one of the foremost European intellectuals of the twentieth century.…

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Susan L Carruthers
Making Do

Imagine a world in which clothing wasn't superabundant - cheap, disposable, indestructible - but perishable, threadbare and chronically scarce. Eighty years ago, when World War II ended, a textile famine …

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Indira Ghose
A Defence of Pretence

How the drama of Shakespeare's time demonstrates the tensions within civilityIs civility merely a matter of reinforcing status and excluding others? Or is it a lubricant in a polarised world, enabling us …

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Carolyn Dever
Chains of Love and Beauty

Why a monumental diary by an aunt and niece who published poetry together as “Michael Field”—and who were partners and lovers for decades—is one of the great unknown works of late-Victorian and early mode…

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Len Gougeon
Old England, New England, and the Civil War

The first study to document how the Civil War brought about a bitter cultural and political conflict between Great Britain and the United States, a conflict that ignited a global struggle for racial equal…

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Stephen Greenblatt
Dark Renaissance

In brutally repressive sixteenth-century England, artists had been frightened into dull conventionality; foreigners were suspect; popular entertainment largely consisted of coarse spectacles, animal fight…

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Ralph Pezzullo
The Great Chinese Art Heist

The extraordinary story of the theft of priceless Chinese antiques around the world and the connection to crimes spanning more than two centuries---with present-day implications.For the past decade, the a…

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Rich Cross,
This Is a Message to Persons Unknown

Flesh and blood are what we are, flesh and blood are who we are, our cover is blown ...This Is a Message to Persons Unknown is the first full history of the legendary band Poison Girls. From their first g…

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Rich Cross,
This Is a Message to Persons Unknown

Flesh and blood are what we are, flesh and blood are who we are, our cover is blown ...This Is a Message to Persons Unknown is the first full history of the legendary band Poison Girls. From their first g…

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Daniel Rachel
Don't Look Back in Anger

The nineties was the decade when British culture reclaimed its position at the artistic centre of the world. Not since the 'Swinging Sixties' had art, comedy, fashion, film, football, literature and music…

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June Sarpong
Calling Una Marson

The groundbreaking story of the BBC's first Black woman broadcaster - finally brought to light.

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Dave Thompson
London's Burning

London's Burningis the story of punk rock as it happened, stripped of hindsight and future legend, and laid bare. Here are the Damned and the Adverts on tour, the Sex Pistols swearing through their prime-…

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David Mark Rathel,
Andrew Fuller and the Search for a Faith Worthy of All Acceptation

Andrew Fuller was an influential English pastor-theologian of the eighteenth century; this work provides a fresh interpretation of Fuller's theological development and constructive soteriological proposal…

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Philip E Orbanes
Monopoly X

"The incredible true story of how Monopoly games were used to smuggle escape aids to Allied servicemen in German P.O.W. camps--and more"--Provided by publisher.

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Peter Ackroyd
Forgotten London

Peter Ackroyd, acclaimed historian and critic, uncovers London's hidden past in this richly illustrated journey through its forgotten streets and stories.No city shaped the modern world quite like London-…

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Len Gougeon
Old England, New England, and the Civil War

The first study to document how the Civil War brought about a bitter cultural and political conflict between Great Britain and the United States, a conflict that ignited a global struggle for racial equal…

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