Category: Britannia

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.

Captives: The story of Britain's pursuit of empire and how its soldiers and civilians were held captive by the dream of global supremacy

By: Linda Colley

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Pantheon: January 2003

Seller ID: 195072

ISBN: 0375421521

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Britain's pursuit of empire seems an inexorable march across continents toward its ultimate--if temporary---global hegemony. But, as Linda Colley shows in this masterfully written book, Britain's overseas enterprises were always constrained by its own limitations in size, population, and armed forces, and by divisions among its subjects---constraints and deficiencies that could make the dream of empire an ordeal even for its makers. Drawing on a wealth of captivity narratives by men and women of different social and ethnic backgrounds from the early seventeenth century to the Victorian era, Co...
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A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal

By: Macintyre, Ben

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Crown: July 2014

Seller ID: 309897

ISBN: 0804136637

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Master storyteller Ben Macintyre's most ambitious work to date brings to life the twentieth century's greatest spy story.

Kim Philby was the greatest spy in history, a brilliant and charming man who rose to head Britain's counterintelligence against the Soviet Union during the height of the Cold War--while he was secretly working for the enemy. And nobody thought he knew Philby like Nicholas Elliott, Philby's best friend and fellow officer in MI6. The two men had gone to the same schools, belonged to the same exclusive clubs, grown close through the crucible of wartime intelligence ...
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A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal

By: Macintyre, Ben

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Crown: July 2014

Seller ID: 332731

ISBN: 0804136637

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Master storyteller Ben Macintyre's most ambitious work to date brings to life the twentieth century's greatest spy story.

A Book Of Scotland

By: Maine, Edited by G. F.

Price: $7.95

Publisher: William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd: January 1951

Seller ID: 340957

ISBN: B000SHCV2K

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Engines of Instruction, Mischief, and Magic: Children's Literature in England from Its Beginnings to 1839

By: Mary V. Jackson

Price: $5.95

Publisher: N/A: January 1990

Seller ID: 293875

ISBN: 0803275706

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

When John Newbery published "A Little Pretty Pocket-Book" in London in 1744 he was onto something new: the writing and marketing of books devoted wholly to children. Although it was the Age of Reason and Newbery and his contemporaries believed that even the poorest young-ster could "look to his book" to achieve worldly success, there was an element of fun in the juvenile productions that soon flowed from the presses. The adventures of Dick Whittington, Giles Gingerbread, and Little Goody Two-Shoes delighted as they instructed. To read "Engines of Instruction, Mischief, and Magic: Children's Li...
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Malachy McCourt's History of Ireland

By: McCourt, Malachy

Price: $5.95

Publisher: MFJ Books (2004-01-01): January 1656

Seller ID: 343088

ISBN: 1606710370

Condition: Used - Very Good

The Age of Exuberance 1550-1700 (Making of Britain, 1066-1939)

By: Michael A. Reed

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Routledge Kegan & Paul: June 1986

Seller ID: 148894

ISBN: 0710098030

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The Birth of the Elizabethan Age: England in the 1560s (A History of Early Modern England)

By: Norman L. Jones

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Blackwell Pub: December 1993

Seller ID: 328703

ISBN: 063116796X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Killing England

By: O'Reilly, Bill, Dugard, Martin

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.: September 2017

Seller ID: 343539

ISBN: 1627790640

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

The Revolutionary War as never told before.

The breathtaking latest installment in Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard's mega-bestselling Killing series transports readers to the most important era in our nation's history, the Revolutionary War. Told through the eyes of George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and Great Britain's King George III, Killing England chronicles the path to independence in gripping detail, taking the reader from the battlefields of America to the royal courts of Europe. What started as protest and unrest in the colonies soon escalat...
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Killing England

By: O'Reilly, Bill, Dugard, Martin

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.: September 2017

Seller ID: 357567

ISBN: 1627790640

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

The Revolutionary War as never told before.

Troublesome Young Men: The Rebels Who Brought Churchill to Power and Helped Save England

By: Olson, Lynne

Price: $8.95

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux: April 2007

Seller ID: 343252

ISBN: 0374179549

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

A riveting history of the daring politicians who challenged the disastrous policies of the British government on the eve of World War II On May 7, 1940, the House of Commons began perhaps the most crucial debate in British parliamentary history. On its outcome hung the future of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's government and also of Britain--indeed, perhaps, the world. "Troublesome Young Men "is Lynne Olson's fascinating account of how a small group of rebellious Tory MPs defied the Chamberlain government's defeatist policies that aimed to appease Europe's tyrants and eventually forced th...
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Way Things Were: Bonnie Scotland

By: Pagett, Andrew

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Caxton Publishing: May 2001

Seller ID: 344878

ISBN: 1860199399

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

King Edward VIII: A Biography

By: Philip Ziegler

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Knopf: January 1991

Seller ID: 328702

ISBN: 0394577302

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Vivid Faces: The Revolutionary Generation in Ireland, 1890-1923

By: R. F. Foster

Price: $9.95

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company: January 2015

Seller ID: 302496

ISBN: 0393082792

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

On Easter Monday, 1916, Irish rebels poured into Dublin's streets to proclaim an independent republic. Ireland's long struggle for self-government had suddenly become a radical and bloody fight for independence from Great Britain. Irish nationalists mounted a week-long insurrection, occupying public buildings and creating mayhem before the British army regained control. The Easter Rising provided the spark for the Irish revolution, a turning point in the violent history of Irish independence.

In this highly original history, acclaimed scholar R. F. Foster explores the human dimension ...
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Doctors Monro

By: R.E.Wright-St Clair

Price: $5.95

Publisher: William Glowes and sons, Ltd:

Seller ID: 282407

ISBN: 281BOH1003939

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

History of England: Prehistory to 1714, Vol. I

By: Roberts, Clayton,Roberts, David

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Taylor & Francis: September 1990

Seller ID: 358173

ISBN: 013390394X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The first of two volumes (see also following entry) incorporating recent research into a narrative that encompasses England's social, economic, cultural, and political history with maps, charts, lists of monarchs, and a variety of b&w illustrations. Volume one ends with the death of Queen Anne and t
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Category: Britannia