Category: Britannia

Deaglan de Breadun describes the determined efforts of Tony Blair, Bertie Ahern, Bill Clinton, George Mitchell, Gerry Adams and many others to persuade ruthless paramilitaries to put aside guns and bombs and make peace with their enemies. This edition brings the story up to date, encompassing the historic power-sharing agreement of 2007.
View More...

Empire: The British Imperial Experience From 1765 To The Present

By: Denis Judd

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Basic Books: July 1998

Seller ID: 239183

ISBN: 0465019544

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

The British Empire radically altered the modern world. At its height, it governed over a quarter of the human race and encompassed more than a fifth of the globe. As well as providing the British people with profits and a sense of international purpose, the Empire afforded them the opportunity to create new lives for themselves through emigration and settlement. It supplied jobs at home and overseas, encouraged national aggrandizement, and allowed experiments in social engineering. For those it ruled over, the Empire often represented arbitrary power, gunboat diplomacy, and the disruption of l...
View More...

Ireland's Story

By: Desiree Edwards-Rees

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Barnes & Noble: January 1967

Seller ID: 308492

ISBN: B0006BSTW4

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Acceptable

The Hundred Years War: The English in France 1337-1453

By: Desmond Seward

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Penguin Books: August 1999

Seller ID: 320674

ISBN: 0140283617

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

From 1337 to 1453 England repeatedly invaded France on the pretext that her kings had a right to the French throne. Though it was a small, poor country, England for most of those "hundred years" won the battles, sacked the towns and castles, and dominated the war. The protagonists of the Hundred Years War are among the most colorful in European history: Edward III, the Black Prince; Henry V, who was later immortalized by Shakespeare; the splendid but inept John II, who died a prisoner in London; Charles V, who very nearly overcame England; and the enigmatic Charl...
View More...

Wellington: Pillar of State

By: Elizabeth Longford

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Harper: January 1972

Seller ID: 217951

ISBN: 006012671X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

View More...

THE QUEEN

By: Elizabeth Longford

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Knopf: October 1983

Seller ID: 268891

ISBN: 0394523288

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

View More...

At War (Lannan Selection)

By: Flann O'Brien

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press: January 2004

Seller ID: 278568

ISBN: 1564783286

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Like "The Best of Myles" and "Further Cuttings from Cruiskeen Lawn" (both available from Dalkey Archive Press), "At War" is a collection of Flann O'Brien's columns written for the "Irish Times"> under the pseudonym Myles na Gopaleen. Taken from the war years of 1940-45, these writings provide plenty of acerbic wit and persistent prodding of "the good people of Ireland." And in typical O'Brien fashion, no one is safe from his opinionated attacks. His oftentimes hysterical musings include discussions of theater, what it means to be Irish, ideas for alternative pubs and liquors, advice for chi...
View More...

Victorian England: Portrait of an Age (Galaxy Books)

By: G.M. Young

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Oxford University Press: December 1964

Seller ID: 345061

ISBN: 0195002598

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

View More...

The London Complaint: A Celebration of the Capital's Maladies

By: Geoff Nicholson

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Harbour Books (East) Ltd: October 2016

Seller ID: 376752

ISBN: 1905128304

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

View More...

Lord Rochester's Monkey

By: Graham Greene

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Viking: September 1974

Seller ID: 320762

ISBN: 0670440558

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

View More...

Mr Bligh's Bad Language: Passion, Power and Theater on H. M. Armed Vessel Bounty

By: Greg Dening

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Cambridge University Press: June 1992

Seller ID: 169947

ISBN: 0521383706

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

"Captain Bligh" is a cliche of our times for the extravagant and violent misuse of power. In fact, William Bligh was one of the least physically violent disciplinarians in the British navy. That paradox inspires the author to ask why, then, did Bligh have a mutiny? Its answer is to display the theatricality of naval institutions and the mythologizing power of history. Mr Bligh's Bad Language is an anthropological and historical study of the mutiny on the Bounty, and its role in society and culture. Throughout the book, Greg Dening draws on a wide range of intellectual influences, ending with t...
View More...

The King's English (Wordsworth Collection)

By: H. W. Fowler

Price: $4.95

Publisher: NTC/Contemporary Publishing Company: September 1999

Seller ID: 310817

ISBN: 1853263044

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
View More...

A Magnificent Obsession: Victoria, Albert, and the Death That Changed the British Monarchy

By: Helen Rappaport

Price: $6.95

Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin: May 2013

Seller ID: 337089

ISBN: 1250031524

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

As she did in her critically acclaimed The Last Days of the Romanovs, Helen Rappaport brings a compelling documentary feel to the story of this royal marriage and of the queen's obsessive love for her husband - a story that began as fairy tale and ended in tragedy.
After the untimely death of Prince Albert, the queen and her nation were plunged into a state of grief so profound that this one event would dramatically alter the shape of the British monarchy. For Britain had not just lost a prince: during his twenty year marriage to Queen Victoria, Prince Albert had increasingly p...
View More...

How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World & Everything in It

By: Herman, Arthur

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Broadway Books: September 2002

Seller ID: 387981

ISBN: 0609809997

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

An exciting account of the origins of the modern world
Who formed the first literate society? Who invented our modern ideas of democracy and free market capitalism? The Scots. As historian and author Arthur Herman reveals, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Scotland made crucial contributions to science, philosophy, literature, education, medicine, commerce, and politics--contributions that have formed and nurtured the modern West ever since.
Herman has charted a fascinating journey across the centuries of Scottish history. Here is the untold story of how John Knox and t...
View More...

Churchill

By: J. Rufus Fears

Price: $7.95

Publisher: The Teaching Company: January 2001

Seller ID: 326506

ISBN: 1565853865

Binding: Audio CD

Condition: Used - Good

View More...

The Scotch-Irish: A Social History

By: James G. Leyburn

Price: $6.95

Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press: August 1989

Seller ID: 344819

ISBN: 0807842591

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Dispelling much of what he terms the 'mythology' of the Scotch-Irish, James Leyburn provides an absorbing account of their heritage. He discusses their life in Scotland, when the essentials of their character and culture were shaped; their removal to Northern Ireland and the action of their residence in that region upon their outlook on life; and their successive migrations to America, where they settled especially in the back-country of Pennsylvania, Virginia, the Carolinas, and Georgia, and then after the Revolutionary War were in the van of pioneers to the west.

View More...

English

By: Jeremy Paxman

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Penguin UK: September 2007

Seller ID: 300293

ISBN: 0141032952

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

In The English Jeremy Paxman sets out to find about the English. Not the British overall, not the Scots, not the Irish or Welsh, but the English. Why do they seem so unsure of who they are?
Jeremy Paxman is to many the embodiment of Englishness yet even he is sometimes forced to ask: who or what exactly are the English? And in setting about addressing this most vexing of questions, Paxman discovers answers to a few others. Like:

Why do the English actually enjoy feeling persecuted?

What is behind the English obsession with games?

How did they acquire thei...
View More...

Aristocratic Century: The Peerage of Eighteenth-Century England (The Wiles Lectures)

By: John Cannon

Price: $8.95

Publisher: Cambridge University Press: May 1987

Seller ID: 316482

ISBN: 0521335663

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Since the work of Butterfield and Namier in the 1930s, it has commonly been said that eighteenth-century England appears atomised, left with no overall interpretation. Subsequent work on religious differences and on party strife served to reinforce the image of a divided society, and in the last ten years historians of the poor and unprivileged have suggested that beneath the surface lurked substantial popular discontent. Professor Cannon uses his 1982 Wiles Lecture to offer a different interpretation - that the widespread acceptance of aristocratic values and aristocratic leadership gave a re...
View More...

Clans and families of Ireland: The heritage and heraldry of Irish clans and families

By: John Grenham

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Gill and Macmillan: January 1993

Seller ID: 340590

ISBN: 0717120325

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The origins of Irish names are intermingled with the nation's long and often tragic past. Telling of invasion, famine, emigration and war, this book provides readers with a glimpse of the history behind 200 of Ireland's most commonly encountered surnames. It sheds light on the origins of the names, highlighting their geographical distribution and providing details of prominent family members. photographs of Ireland's landscapes, historic sites and artefacts.
View More...

«

1
2
3
4
5

»

$0.00 (0 Items)

Category: Britannia