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 SHARPSHOOTER IN THE CRIMEA: The Letters of the Captain Gerald Goodlake VC 1854-56Best Price: $26.55 The letters home to his family by Gerald Goodlake, a young officer in the Coldstream Guards,... |  Dreadful Visitations: Confronting Natural Catastrophe in the Age of EnlightenmentBest Price: $15.75 Throughout history, varying responses to catastrophe have revealed much about a society's... |  Edward Gibbon and EmpireBest Price: $87.60 To understand Gibbon's History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire properly it is... |  The Great Shakespeare Fraud: The Strange, True Story of William-Henry IrelandBest Price: $7.89 William-Henry Ireland, at only nineteen, perpetrated the greatest Shakespeare forgery ever... |  BLENHEIM 1704: Marlborough's Greatest Victory (Battleground Marlbourugh)Best Price: $13.20 A detailed and easily followed guidebook that tells the story of the Duke of Marlborough's... |
 The First Global War: Britain, France, and the Fate of North America, 1756-1775Best Price: $125.00 By 1756 the wilderness war for control of North America that erupted two years earlier between... |  FONTENOY: France Rules over Europe (Men & Battles)Best Price: $16.47 May 1745. After a brief start to the campaign, the French Army under the Mare'chal de Saxe laid... |  Politics and Nation: England 1450 - 1660 (Blackwell Classic Histories of England)Best Price: $6.00 This political narrative of the rise and fall of the Tudor monarchy examines the relationship... |  Storm in the Community: Yiddish Polemical Pamphlets of Amsterdam Jewry, 1797-1798 |  The French Revolution and Empire: The Quest for a Civic OrderBest Price: $29.99 Hadn't plan to review this title, but couldn't allow previous review to go without another... |
 The "Lower Sort": Philadelphia's Laboring People 1750-1880Best Price: $22.50 This book recreates the daily lives of laboring men and women in America's premier urban center... |  Maritime Power and the Struggle for Freedom : Naval Campaigns that Shaped the Modern World, 1788-1851Best Price: $0.01 Peter Padfield has made his reputation as a naval warfare historian. His biography of Admiral... |  The United Irishmen: Popular Politics in Ulster and Dublin, 1791-1798Best Price: $61.54 The United Irish movement launched a tradition of revolutionary republicanism in Ireland which... |  Georgian Cookery: Recipes and History (Cooking Through the Ages)Best Price: $12.24 Written for the tourist to pick up at a gift store whilst visiting a NH site this may be a nice... |  Lord Churchill's Coup: The Anglo-American Empire and the Glorious Revolution ReconsideredBest Price: $1.99 20 illustrations in text. |
 Toleration in Enlightenment EuropeBest Price: $50.28 The Enlightenment is often seen as the great age of religious and intellectual toleration, and... |  George II: Puppet of the Politicians? (Exeter Studies in History)Best Price: $62.89 As a scholarly biography of George II, Prof. Black's work must be praised simply for its... |  The Eastern Paths to Philosophic Self-Enlightenment: An Introduction to Eastern PhilosophiesBest Price: $50.00 |  Culloden: 1746Best Price: $13.00 This is the best single volume account of the battle of Culloden and far superior to John... |  Indian Giving: Economies of Power in Early Indian-White Exchanges (Native Americans of the Northeast)Best Price: $14.95 Whether they involved goods, words, or ideas, acts of giving and trading were fundamental in... |
 The Crowd in History: A Study of Popular Disturbances in France And England, 1730-1848Best Price: $6.00 Who took part in the widespread disturbances that periodically shook 18th-century London? What... |  Black Ivory: Slavery in the British EmpireBest Price: $31.03 When taking my college class (Rise and fall of the British Empire), it did not talk enough about... |  BLENHEIM: Battle for Europe - How two men stopped the French Conquest of Europe (Cassell Military Paperbacks)Best Price: $6.45 The two greatest land battles of English/British arms are universally thought to be Waterloo and... |  Amazing Grace: The Great Days of Dukes (Sutton History Paperbacks)Best Price: $6.89 "A fully-equipped duke costs as much to keep up a two Dreadnoughts. They are just as great... |  The San Saba Mission: Spanish Pivot in TexasBest Price: $17.81 The San Saba Mission by Robert S. Weddle is a comprehensive outlook on the Spanish attempt to... |
 Europe: Privilege and Protest: 1730-1789 (Blackwell Classic Histories of Europe)Best Price: $19.03 This book is an updated and revised edition of a classic introduction to one of the key periods... |  The Family and the Nation: Gender and Citizenship in Revolutionary France, 1789-1830Best Price: $19.78 The French Revolution transformed the nation's--and eventually the world's--thinking about... |  Europe Divided: 1559 - 1598 (Blackwell Classic Histories of Europe)Best Price: $21.53 This is an excellent survey of the crucial events in European history during the second half of... |  Fragile Lives: Violence, Power, and Solidarity in Eighteenth-Century Paris (Harvard Historical Studies)Best Price: $27.50 In taking up this book, I was looking for the author to provide me with various primary source... |  Fragile Paradise: The Discovery of Fletcher Christian, Bounty MutineerBest Price: $13.41 This is by far one of the best books about the infamous mutiny on the Bounty. Glynn Christian... |
 Reconsidering the BluestockingsBest Price: $20.00 The Bluestockings were learned English women and men who gathered during the second half of the... |  Desire and Disorder: Fevers, Fictions, and Feeling in English Georgian CultureBest Price: $30.00 |  Wellington's Navy: Sea Power and the Peninsular War 1807-1814Best Price: $26.12 I just finished reading WN and it is quite good, especially having read and reread Hornblower... |  British Politics in the Age of AnneBest Price: $78.75 Holmes charts the various trials and tribulations of the emerging constitutional or limited... |  Fashion in Detail: From the 17th and 18th CenturiesI'd classify this as a lovely coffee-table book, it has many luxurious detailed close-up... |
 Below the Convergence: Voyages Toward Antarctica, 1699-1839Best Price: $3.00 Beginning with Ptolemey and all the way up to the first siting of the Ant- arctic Continent,... |  From the Closed World to the Infinite UniverseBest Price: $14.44 Time and again, when studying the history of scientific and philosophical thought in the... |  A New England?: Peace and War 1886-1918 (New Oxford History of England)Best Price: $43.53 The author, Professor of History at the University of East Anglia, concludes, "Britain was... |  Recollections of JapanBest Price: $22.50 Recollections of Japan is a personal account of living in Tokugawa Japan in the beginning of... |  Neither Slave nor Free: The Freedman of African Descent in the Slave Societies of the New World (The Johns Hopkins Symposia in Comparative History)Best Price: $25.00 I am currently writing a book, and as a part of that process I wanted to find information about... |
 Aristocrats : the illustrated companion to the television seriesBest Price: $6.25 This is a wonderful book! I bought the video from Borders, (39.99) and I LOVED it! Of course, to... |  Nelson the AdmiralBest Price: $17.64 This is a wonderful book. Colin White has taken all the new research that has emerged over the... |  Captain Bligh's Second Chance: An Eyew Account of His Return to the South Seas by Lt. George TobinBest Price: $22.86 Many people in the world know about the failure of William Bligh's Bounty voyage. Relatively... |  The Rise of the European Powers, 1679-1793Best Price: $53.00 Black's book recounts the diplomatic history of Europe from 1679 to 1798. He begins this... |  The French Revolution and Napoleon: A SourcebookBest Price: $29.96 The upheavals, terror, and drama of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic period restructured... |
 The Conquest of Mexico: The Incorporation of Indian Societies into the Western World, 16Th-18th CenturiesReally outstanding books of history almost inevitably have certain basic common features; in... |  Tudor Government: Structures of Authority in the Sixteenth CenturyBest Price: $59.75 This book examines the structures of power and jurisdiction that operated in Tudor England. It... |  Enlightenment in FranceBest Price: $10.00 |  The Enlightenment in America (Twayne's World Leaders Series, Twls 50.)Best Price: $19.95 Although the European Enlightenment and its historical development and intellectual impact has... |  From Enlightenment to RevolutionBest Price: $25.95 |
 Politics and the Rise of the Press: Britain and France 1620-1800 (Historical Connections)Best Price: $3.99 A thorough comparison of the rise of the newspaper press in Britain and France, and assesses how... |  An Age of Science and Revolutions, 1600-1800 (The Medieval and Early Modern World)Best Price: $3.97 An Age of Science and Revolutions, 1600-1800, tells the colorful story of a pivotal period in... |  Talavera: Wellington's Early Peninsula Victories 1808-9Best Price: $17.69 2005's "Talavera" is Peter Edwards' fresh, well-written account of the entry of the... |  Technology, Disease, and Colonial Conquests, Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries: Essays Reappraising the Guns and Germs TheoriesBest Price: $36.74 |  The Magic Harvest: Food, Folkore and SocietyBest Price: $28.95 This book is a unified collection of scholarly and thrilling essays on the history and... |
 The Influence of the Enlightenment on the French Revolution (College) |  The British Housewife: Cookery Books, Cooking and Society in Eighteenth-Century BritainBest Price: $74.99 |  Wellington's Peninsular WarBest Price: $16.82 Paget has produced a simple travel guide for those visiting the British battlefields on the... | ||
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