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Die Stuarts
C.H. Beck 2011; US$ 8.72Hauptbeschreibung Die schottische Familie der Stuarts ging aus dem normannischen Adelsgeschlecht der Fitzalans hervor. Walter Fitzalan bekleidete als erster seines Clans im 12. Jahrhundert das einflußreiche Amt eines königlichen Truchsessen - eines Steward, woraus sich der spätere Name des Hauses ableitet. Mit Robert II. bestieg im 14. Jahrhundert... more...
Die »radikale Rechte« in Großbritannien
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 1991; US$ 21.68Biographische Informationen Dr. Arnd Bauerkämper ist Professor für die Geschichte des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts an der Freien Universität Berlin. more...
The Eighteenth Century
Oxford University Press 1998; US$ 49.99Volume II of the Oxford History of the British Empire examines the history of British worldwide expansion from the Glorious Revolution of 1689 to the end of the Napoleonic Wars, a crucial phase in the creation of the modern British Empire. This is the age of General Wolfe, Clive of India, and Captain Cook. more...
Britain, America and Anti-Communist Propaganda 1945-53
Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 50.95In the Cold War battle for hearts and minds Britain was the first country to formulate a coordinated global response to communist propaganda. In January 1948, the British government launched a new propaganda policy designed to 'oppose the inroads of communism' by taking the offensive against it.' A small section in the Foreign Office, the innocuously... more...
Anglo-Norman Studies 25
Boydell & Brewer 2003; US$ 95.00The Battle Conference celebrated its quarter-centenary in 2002 in Glasgow, and this volume, while ranging from Norman Sicily to Scandinavia, has a particular focus on Scottish themes. There are six papers on aspects of Scottish history from the eleventh to the early thirteenth century: on kings and their followers, on the building of burghs, and on... more...
The Age of Elizabeth in the Age of Johnson
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 30.00Lynch explores eighteenth-century British conceptions of the Renaissance, and the historical, intellectual, and cultural uses to which the past was put during the period. Scholars, editors, historians, religious thinkers, linguists, and literary critics of the period all defined themselves in relation to 'the last age' or 'the age of Elizabeth'. more...
Nineteenth-century Britain
Oxford University Press 2000; US$ 9.99An account of remarkable economic and social change and an even more remarkable political stability. The authors show the forces behind 19th-century Britain's rise to its imperial zenith, and the continuing tensions within the nations and classes of the "union state". more...
Jellied Eels and Zeppelins
Thorogood Publishing 2003; US$ 14.95Ethel May Elvin was born in 1906; interviewed by Sue Taylor, she recalls her father's account of standing sentry at Queen Victoria's funeral, the privations and small pleasures of a working-class Edwardian childhood, growing up through the First World War and surviving the Second. more...
Radical Lord Radnor
University of Minnesota Press 1977; US$ 67.50The third Earl of Radnor, born William Pleydell-Bouverie, served in the British House of Commons for twenty-seven years (1801?1828) as Viscount Folkestone and in the House of Lords for twenty years (1828?1848). Although he was a great hereditary landowner, Lord Radnor was the most radical nobleman to serve in Parliament in the first half of the nineteenth... more...
Queen Elizabeth and England's Golden Age
Infobase Publishing 2005; US$ 30.00Under Queen Elizabeth's rule, literature, fashion, and education came to the forefront. more...









