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               Anticlericalism in Britain, c.1500-1914
               Aston, Nigel & Matthew Cragoe
 Sutton 2001   ISBN: 0750922060
 New Unread Trade Paperback. Unmarked.
 Beginning with the watershed of the Reformation, Anticlericalism examines the subject by means of a series
 of discrete but chronologically continuous essays by some of the leading academics in the field.                      
 BRITISH HISTORY,REFORMATION,RELIGION,CLERGY,CLERICS,ROMAN CATHOLICISM,
 ANGLICANISM       Book #7386		  
US$10.00 
   


               Napoleon Bonaparte: England’s Prisoner
               Giles, Frank
 Carroll & Graf 2001   ISBN: 0786710764
 New Unread Trade Paperback. Unmarked.
 An account of the exile of Napoleon by the British to the island of St. Helena.                      
 FRANCE,FRENCH HISTORY,EUROPEAN HISTORY,NAPOLEONIC WARS,
 EXILE,ST. HELENA,ROYAL NAVY,BELLEROPHON       Book #7272		  
US$12.00 
   


               The Duke
               Guedalla, Philip
 Wordsworth Military Library 1997    ISBN: 1853266795
 New Unread Trade Paperback. Unmarked.
 A biography of Britain’s most brilliant military commander of the age, nemesis of Napoleon and
 later British Prime Minister.                     
 BRITISH HISTORY,MILITARY HISTORY,NAPOLEONIC WARS,WATERLOO,PRIME MINISTERS       
 Book #7373		  
US$12.50 
   


               Berlin: A Portrait of Its History, Politics, Architecture, and Society
               MacDonogh, Giles
 St. Martin’s First U.S. Edition 1998   ISBN: 0312185375
 Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover.
 A fascinating study of the history, sociology, architecture, food, crime, and theater of one of Europe’s
 most intriguing cities... Illustrated.                      
 GERMANY,EUROPEAN HISTORY,NAZIS,JEWS,HITLER,ARCHITECTURE,SOCIOLOGY,
 TWENTIETH CENTURY       Book #7096		  
US$15.00
    


               Women of the Raj: The Mothers, Wives, and Daughters of the British Empire in India
               MacMillan, Margaret
 Random House 2007   ISBN: 0812976397
 Very Good Trade Paperback. Several small fore-edge spots - else Fine. Spine is uncreased.
 Book is tight, bright and unmarked.
 Margaret MacMillan examines the hidden lives of the women who supported their husbands’ conquests - and in turn supported the Raj,
 often behind the scenes and out of the history books. Illustrated.                     
 BRITISH HISTORY,BRITISH RAJ,BRITISH EMPIRE,SOCIAL HISTORY,INDIA       Book #7652		  
US$8.00
    


               Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia
               Rashid, Ahmed
 Yale University Press 2001   ISBN: 0300089023
 Fine Trade Paperback. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked.
 “Correspondent Ahmed Rashid brings the shadowy world of the Taliban - the world’s most extreme
 and radical Islamic organiztion - into sharp focus in this enormously insightful book.”                     
 AFGHANISTAN,ISLAM,TERRORISM       Book #7500,7660		  
US$8.00 
   


               The Decline and Fall of the House of Windsor
               Spoto, Donald
 Simon & Schuster First Edition 1995   ISBN: 0684815443
 Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover.
 “...the first book to tell the whole story of the family that has occupied the British throne from the reign
 of Queen Victoria to the time of Queen Elizabeth II.”                      
 BRITISH HISTORY,BRITISH MONARCHY,BRITISH ROYALTY,ROYAL FAMILY, ROYALS,
 QUEEN VICTORIA,QUEEN ELIZABETH       Book #7228		  
US$12.00
    
           

               Tales of Two Cities: Race and Economic Culture in Early Republican North and South America: Guayaquil, Ecuador,
                and Baltimore, Maryland
               Townsend, Camilla
University of Texas Press First Edition 2000   ISBN: 0292781695
Fine Oversized Trade Paperback. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked.
In this innovative study...Camilla Townsend challenges the traditional view that North Americans succeeded because of the so-called Protestant work ethic and argues instead that they prospered relative to South America because of differences in attitudes toward workers that evolved in the colonial era. Illustrated.           
SOCIAL HISTORY,SOCIAL CLASSES,ECONOMICS,NINETEENTH CENTURY,ECUADOR, BALTIMORE,MARYLAND       Book #6970		  
US$15.00
    


               Garibaldi And The Thousand, May 1860
               Trevelyan, George Macauley
 Phoenix 2002    ISBN: 1842124749
 New Unread Trade Paperback. Unmarked.
 Trevelyan’s 1909 classic which deals with Garibaldi in exile and his subsequent return to Sicily
 with one thousand men to proclaim himself dictator.                      
 ITALY,SICILY,ITALIAN HISTORY,DICTATORS       Book #7737		  
US$10.00
    


               A Coffin for King Charles: The Trial and Execution of Charles I
               Wedgwood, C.V.
 Time-Life 1981   ISBN: 0809436396
 Fine Trade Paperback in stiff paper wraps. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked.
 The classic account of the trial and execution of Charles I during the English Civil War.
 Introduction by A.L.Rowse. Illustrated.                       
 BRITISH CIVIL WAR,BRITISH HISTORY,CROMWELL,PARLIAMENT       Book #7156		  
US$8.00 
   


               The Rise and Fall of the House of Windsor
               Wilson, A. N.

 W. W. Norton First Edition 1993                       ISBN  0393036073
Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover.
Readers with an interest in history (and perhaps a taste for the gothic) will be fascinated by Wilson’s tracing of the present misery of the Windsor’s to the quarrels and eccentricities of elder generations...
BRITISH ROYALTY,ROYALS,BRITISH HISTORY,TWENTIETH CENTURY                                                                                                                                                                    Book# 6920 		US$14.00