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(Paperback)
By: James Hamilton-Paterson
ISBN: 9781784972363
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2019
UK Publication Date: 4th April 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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James Hamilton-Paterson turns his literary and analytical skills to the wider picture of Britain's lost industrial and technological civilisation.
(Hardback)
By: Gary A. Donaldson
ISBN: 9781442211759
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2016
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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In this book, Gary Donaldson argues that the 1952 presidential election, which exposed deep internal divisions on the left and the right, set the stage for the current U.S. political landscape. This book will prove an invaluable resource to readers, students, and scholars interested in rooting out the origins of our contemporary political landscape, on the right and the left.
(Paperback)
By: Peter Snow
ISBN: 9781848546134
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2014
UK Publication Date: 5th June 2014
Publisher: John Murray Press
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The 1814 invasion of Washington.
(Paperback, 2nd edition)
By: Martin Jacques
ISBN: 9780140276046
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Mar 2012
UK Publication Date: 29th March 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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China will replace the United States as the world's dominant power. In so doing, it will not become more western but the world will become more Chinese. This title introduces a set of ideas including China as a civilization-state, the tributary system, the Chinese idea of race, and the principle of contested modernity.
(Paperback)
By: Barry Turner
ISBN: 9780099591474
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2014
Publisher: Cornerstone
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Compelling and moving real-life accounts of the impact on family life of the return of the troops at the end of the Second World War.
Summer 1945. Six long years of war had profoundly changed family life.
(Hardback)
By: Howard Hughes
ISBN: 9781848856509
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2012
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback, Main)
By: Professor Charles Townshend
ISBN: 9780571237210
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2011
UK Publication Date: 4th August 2011
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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A compelling work of political and military history, this is a highly original account of the conquest of Mesopotamia in 1914 - Britain's first invasion of Iraq.
(Paperback)
By: Adam Nicolson
ISBN: 9780007431007
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2011
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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A fascinating, lively account of the making of the King James Bible.
(Paperback)
By: Hugh Pearson
ISBN: 9781583226148
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2011
Publisher: Seven Stories Press,U.S.
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A former editorial page writer at the "Wall Street Journal" recaptures the violent instant in which the civil rights movement was nearly derailed.
(Hardback)
By: James D'Arc
ISBN: 9781423652809
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2019
Publisher: Gibbs M. Smith Inc
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(Hardback)
By: Douglas Burgess
ISBN: 9781623545062
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2022
UK Publication Date: 1st March 2022
Publisher: Charlesbridge Publishing,U.S.
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"A study of how the struggle over natural law and human rights has transformed the relationship between state and citizen from antiquity to the present"--
(Paperback)
By: Donald R. Prothero
ISBN: 9781588348043
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2025
Publisher: Smithsonian Books
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(Paperback)
By: Alan Titchmarsh
ISBN: 9781849901529
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2011
UK Publication Date: 14th April 2011
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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Goes on a personal and nostalgic journey through post-War Britain in search of treasured values and traditions that were once the soul of society. This title also takes a broader perspective, creating a detailed and evocative portrait of a way of life that is fast disappearing.
(Hardback)
By: Valerie Cox
ISBN: 9781399712293
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2024
Publisher: Hachette Books Ireland
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(Hardback)
By: Valerie Cox
ISBN: 9781399712279
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2023
UK Publication Date: 13th October 2022
Publisher: Hachette Books Ireland
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A time capsule for the future of how life was, and the knowledge Ireland's grandparents wish to pass on to the upcoming generation.
(Paperback)
By: Matthew Restall
ISBN: 9780062427274
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2019
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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A dramatic rethinking of the encounter between Montezuma and Hernando Corts that completely overturns what we know about the Spanish conquest of the Americas
On November 8, 1519, the Spanish conquistador Hernando Corts first met Montezuma, the Aztec emperor, at the entrance to the capital city of Tenochtitlan.
(Paperback)
By: Ronald Rosbottom
ISBN: 9781848547391
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2015
UK Publication Date: 1st January 2015
Publisher: John Murray Press
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The Occupation of Paris told in a new light; the effects on its citizens as well as on the city itself.
(Hardback)
By: John Ganz
ISBN: 9780374605445
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2024
UK Publication Date: 1st August 2024
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc
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A lively, revelatory look back at the convulsions at the end of the Reagan era - and their dark legacy today.
(Paperback)
By: Tony Judt
ISBN: 9780099593430
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Dec 2015
UK Publication Date: 29th October 2015
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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The author's first collection of essays, Reappraisals, was centred on twentieth-century Europe in history and memory. In this book, his widow and fellow historian, gathers together important essays from the span of his career that chronicle both the evolution of his thought and the consistency of his passionate engagement and intellectual elan.
(Paperback)
By: Duncan Barrett
ISBN: 9781471148163
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2019
UK Publication Date: 11th July 2019
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
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True-life recollections from the Channel Islanders who were the only British subjects to live under Nazi rule in WWII.
(Hardback, Main)
By: Nigel Fountain
ISBN: 9781783350414
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2014
Publisher: Guardian Faber Publishing
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Drawn from the Guardian's coverage of the first world war, When the Lamps Went Out portrays a society in cataclysm and proves the adage that journalism is the 'first draft of history'.
(Paperback, Main - Re-issue)
By: Andy Beckett
ISBN: 9780571221370
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2010
UK Publication Date: 8th May 2025
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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The most dynamic, relevant and exciting history book of the year, shedding a whole new light on overlooked recent history.
(Paperback)
By: Zecharia Sitchin
ISBN: 9780061379284
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2008
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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(Hardback)
By: Paula Akpan
ISBN: 9781398719897
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2025
UK Publication Date: 8th May 2025
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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Discover the reigns of twelve African queens and warriors from across the continent, from pioneering historian and writer, Paula Akpan.
