Western Rising of 1549
ISBN: PB: 9780300276886,
Yale University Press,
February 2024
400 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm, 16 black&white illus., 7 maps
400 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm, 16 black&white illus., 7 maps
The fascinating story of the so-called "Prayer Book Rebellion" of 1549 which saw the people of Devon and Cornwall rise up against the Crown.
The Western Rising of 1549 was the most catastrophic event to occur in Devon and Cornwall between the Black...
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12.99 GBP
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World of the Crusades
ISBN: PB: 9780300274219,
ISBN: HB: 9780300217391,
Yale University Press,
November 2023
520 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm
520 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm
Throughout the Middle Ages crusading was justified by religious ideology, but the resulting military campaigns were fueled by concrete objectives: land, resources, power, reputation. Crusaders amassed possessions of all sorts, from castles to reliqua...
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16.99 GBP
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27.50 GBP
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Music of Exile
The Untold Story of the Composers who Fled Hitler
ISBN: HB: 9780300266504,
Yale University Press,
October 2023
416 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 15 black&white illus.
416 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 15 black&white illus.
What happens to a composer when persecution and exile means their true music no longer has an audience?
In the 1930s, composers and musicians began to flee Hitler's Germany to make new lives across the globe. The process of exile was complex: altho...
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25.00 GBP
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Gentlemen of Uncertain Fortune
How Younger Sons Made Their Way in Jane Austen's England
ISBN: PB: 9780300273311,
Yale University Press,
September 2023
400 pp., 19,7x12,7 cm, 8 colour illus.
400 pp., 19,7x12,7 cm, 8 colour illus.
In Regency England the eldest son usually inherited almost everything while his younger brothers, left with little inheritance, had to make a crucial decision: what should they do to make an independent living? Rory Muir weaves together the stories o...
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12.99 GBP
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Soviet Sixties
ISBN: HB: 9780300250527,
Yale University Press,
September 2023
480 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 24 black&white illus.
480 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 24 black&white illus.
The story of a remarkable era of reform, controversy, optimism, and Cold War confrontation in the Soviet Union.
Beginning with the death of Stalin in 1953, the "sixties" era in the Soviet Union was just as vibrant and transformative as in the West....
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25.00 GBP
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Tudor England
A History
ISBN: PB: 9780300273328,
Yale University Press,
September 2023
720 pp., 19,6x12,7 cm, 25 colour illus., 27 black&white illus.
720 pp., 19,6x12,7 cm, 25 colour illus., 27 black&white illus.
A compelling, authoritative account of the brilliant, conflicted, visionary world of Tudor England.
When Henry VII landed in a secluded bay in a far corner of Wales, it seemed inconceivable that this outsider could ever be king of England. Yet he an...
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14.99 GBP
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After the Nazis
The Story of Culture in West Germany
ISBN: HB: 9780300259247,
Yale University Press,
August 2023
512 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 32 colour illus.
512 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 32 colour illus.
A wide-ranging, insightful history of culture in West Germany – from literature, film, and music to theater and the visual arts.
After World War II a mood of despair and impotence pervaded the arts in West Germany. The culture and institutions of t...
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25.00 GBP
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Two Houses, Two Kingdoms
A History of France and England, 1100-1300
ISBN: PB: 9780300272970,
Yale University Press,
July 2023
496 pp., 19,6x12,7 cm, 24 black&white illus.
496 pp., 19,6x12,7 cm, 24 black&white illus.
An exhilarating, accessible chronicle of the ruling families of France and England, showing how two dynasties formed one extraordinary story.
The twelfth and thirteenth centuries were a time of personal monarchy, when the close friendship or petty f...
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11.99 GBP
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Asylum between Nations
Refugees in a Revolutionary Era
ISBN: HB: 9780300256567,
Yale University Press,
July 2023
320 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 22 black&white illus.
320 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 22 black&white illus.
Why some of the most vulnerable communities in Europe, from independent cities to new monarchies, welcomed refugees during the Age of Revolutions and prospered.
Driven from their homelands, refugees from ancient times to the present have sought as...
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35.00 GBP
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Scotland
The Global History: 1603 to the Present
ISBN: PB: 9780300273014,
Yale University Press,
July 2023
528 pp., 19,6x12,7 cm, 64 black&white illus.
528 pp., 19,6x12,7 cm, 64 black&white illus.
An engaging and authoritative history of Scotland's influence in the world and the world's on Scotland, from the Thirty Years War to the present day.
Scotland is one of the oldest nations in the world, yet by some it is hardly counted as a nation at...
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12.99 GBP
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