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1812: Year of Destinyby Adam ZamoyskiISBN 0007123752 (0-00-712375-2)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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› Find signed collectible books: '1812: Year of Destiny'Book summary:This is the story of how the most powerful man on earth met his doom, and how the greatest fighting force ever assembled was wiped out.; By 1810 Napoleon was master of Europe, defied only by Britain, which he could not defeat because he had no navy. His intention was to destroy Britain through a total blockade, the Continental System. But Tsar Alexander of Russia now refused to apply the blockade, and Napoleon decided to bring him to heel.; Napoleon quickly realised that nemesis awaited him, and the events of 1812 had a colossal impact on the fate of Europe: a great patriotic surge helped turn the Russians into a nation (hence Tchaikovsky's '1812' overture) and led them to reject Western values; the Germans began their fateful 'Prussification'; the French lost their cultural dominance. [via]
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The Austrians: A Thousand-Year Odysseyby Gordon Brook-ShepherdISBN 000638255X (0-00-638255-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Capitalism and Material Life, 1400-1800by Fernand BraudelISBN 0006335020 (0-00-633502-0)
Hardcover, Fontana
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Catherine, Empress of All the Russiasby Vincent CroninISBN 0002161192 (0-00-216119-2)
Hardcover, Collins
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Culture of the Europeans: From 1800 to the Presentby Donald SassoonISBN 0002558793 (0-00-255879-3)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Culture of the Europeans: From 1800 to the Present'Book summary:[via]Compelling, wide-ranging, and hugely ambitious, this book offers an integrated history of the culture produced and consumed by Europeans since 1800, and follows its transformation from an elite activity to a mass marketfrom lending libraries to the internet, from the first public concerts to music downloads. In itself a cultural tour de force, the book covers high and low culture, readers and writers, audiences and prima donnas, Rossini and hip hop, Verdi and the Beatles, Zola and Tintin, Walter Scott and Jules Verne, the serialized novel of the 19th century as well as Dallas and Coronation Street. Included in its vast scope are fairy tales, best-sellers, crime and sci-fi, non-fiction, magazines, newspapers, comic strips, plays, opera, musicals, pop music, sound recording, films, documentaries, radio, and television. A continent-wide survey, this majestic work includes discussions of rock music under communism, Polish and Danish bestsellers, French melodramas and German cabarets, fascist and Soviet cinema. It examines the ways culture travelshow it is produced, transformed, adapted, absorbed, sold, and consumed; how it is shaped by audiences and politics, and controlled by laws and conventional morality; and why some countries excel in particular genres. It examines the anxiety and attraction felt by Europeans towards American culture, and asks to what extent European culture has become Americanized. Stylishly written, devoid of jargon, this is global non-fiction narrative at its best.More editions of Culture of the Europeans: From 1800 to the Present:
Danubeby Claudio MagrisISBN 0002711559 (0-00-271155-9)
Hardcover, Collins Harvill
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Evening in the Palace of Reason: Bach Meets Frederick the Great in the Age of Enlightenmentby James R. GainesISBN 0007156618 (0-00-715661-8)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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From Alexander to Cleopatra: The Hellenistic Worldby Michael GrantISBN 0020327870 (0-02-032787-0)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshireby Amanda ForemanISBN 0002556685 (0-00-255668-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire'Book summary:Georgiana Spencer was, in a sense, an 18th-century It Girl. She came from one of England's richest and most landed families (the late Princess Diana was a Spencer too) and married into another. She was beautiful, sensitive, and extravagant--drugs, drink, high-profile love affairs, and even gambling counted among her favorite leisure-time activities. Nonetheless, she quickly moved from a world dominated by social parties to one focused on political parties. The duchess was an intimate of ministers and princes, and she canvassed assiduously for the Whig cause, most famously in the Westminster election of 1784. By turns she was caricatured and fawned on by the press, and she provided the inspiration for the character of Lady Teazle in Richard Sheridan's famous play The School for Scandal. But her weaknesses marked the last part of her life. By 1784, for one, Georgiana owed "many, many, many thousands," and her creditors dogged her until her death.
Biographer Amanda Foreman describes astutely the mess that surrounded the personal relationships of the aristocratic subculture (Georgiana and the duke engaged for many years in a ménage à trois with Lady Elizabeth Fraser, who inveigled her way into the duke's bed and the duchess's heart). Foreman is, by her own admission, a little in love with her subject, which can lead to occasional lapses of perspective, but generally it adds zest to a narrative built on, rather than burdened by, scholarship, that is at once accessible and learned. An impressive debut, in every sense. --David Vincent, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigationby Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Thomas Porter WhitneyISBN 000262253X (0-00-262253-X)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers Limited
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**Time Magazine's Best Nonfiction Book of the 20th Century**
In this masterpiece, Solzhenitsyn has orchestrated thousands of incidents and individual histories into one narrative of unflagging power and momentum. Written in a tone that encompasses Olympian wrath, bitter calm, savage irony, and sheer comedy, it combines history, autobiography, documentary, and political analysis as it examines in its totality the Soviet apparatus of repression from its inception following the October Revolution of 1917.
This second volume in Solzhenitsyn's narrative chronicles the appalling inhumanity of the Soviets' ''destructive-labor camps'' and the fate of prisoners in them--felling timber, building canals and railroads, and mining gold without equipment or adequate food and clothing, and subject always to the caprices of the camp authorities. Most tragic of all is the life of the women prisoners and the luckless children they bear.
Once again, this chronicle of appalling inhumanity is made endurable by the vitality and emotional range of the writing. In one truly remarkable chapter, a parody of an anthropological treatise, Solzhenitsyn achieves new heights of sardonic wit. In the final section the music changes, and he provides a magnificent coda on the possibilities of redemption and purification through suffering. [via]More editions of The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation:
History of the Scottish Peopleby T. C. SmoutISBN 0006860273 (0-00-686027-3)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers Limited
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A History of the Scottish People, 1560-1830by T. C. SmoutISBN 0002113260 (0-00-211326-0)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers Limited
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Identity of Franceby Fernand BraudelISBN 0006861695 (0-00-686169-5)
Softcover, Fontana
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Identity of France'Book summary:The last book written by the French social historian, Fernand Braudel. It is the second volume in a work which provides a perspective on his own life and his perception of the everyday world his readers share with him. It is the most personal of all his works. [via]
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The Lady and the Unicornby Tracy ChevalierISBN 0007172281 (0-00-717228-1)
Softcover, Zondervan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lady and the Unicorn'Book summary:The new novel from the author of the much-loved Girl with a Pearl Earring and Falling Angels. The Lady and the Unicorn tapestries are a set of six medieval tapestries. Beautiful, intricate and expertly made, they are also mysterious in their origin and meaning. Tapestries give an appearance of order and continuity, as if designed and made by one person, belying the complicated process required to create them. Weavers, patrons, designers, artists, merchants and apprentices were involved in their making, and behind them were the wives, daughters and servants who exercised influences over their men. Like the many strands of wool and silk woven together into one cloth, so these people came together in a complex dance to create the whole picture. Jean le Viste, a newly wealthy member of the French court, commissions the tapestries to hang in his chateau. Nicolas, his chosen designer, meets le Viste's wife Genevieve and his daughter Claude, both of whom take a keen interest in the tapestries. From Paris, Nicolas moves to a weaver's workshop in Brussels. The creation of the tapestries brings together people who would not otherwise meet - their lives become entangled, and so do their desires. As they fall in love, are shunned, take revenge, find unrequited love, turn to the church or to pagan ideals, the tapestries become to each an ideal vision of life - yet all discover that they are unable to make this ideal world their own. [via]
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Living through the Blitzby Tom Harrisson, Mass-ObservationISBN 0002160099 (0-00-216009-9)
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Modern Times: The French Revolution to the Presentby Carlton J. HayesISBN 0021856001 (0-02-185600-1)
Softcover, Glencoe/McGraw-Hill School Pub Co
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Mountbattenby Philip ZieglerISBN 0002165430 (0-00-216543-0)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers Limited
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Musical Offeringby James GainesISBN 0007153929 (0-00-715392-9)
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Napoleonby Vincent CroninISBN 0006375219 (0-00-637521-9)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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Paris and London in the Eighteenth Century: Studies in Popular Protestby George F. E. RudéISBN 0006324177 (0-00-632417-7)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers Limited
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Patriots and Liberators: Revolution in the Netherlands 1780-1813by Simon SchamaISBN 0002167018 (0-00-216701-8)
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The Peloponnesian War: Athens and Sparta in Savage Conflict, 431-404 BCby Donald KaganISBN 0007115059 (0-00-711505-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Peloponnesian War: Athens and Sparta in Savage Conflict, 431-404 BC'Book summary:The Stalingrad of the ancient world, this is an accessible, brutal and vivid history of the greatest and bloodiest war of ancient Greece. The author concentrates on the human cost of this first cataclysmic clash of two great empires, its unprecedented cruelty and the resulting utter destruction of Athenian civilisation. The Peloponnesian War, fought 2500 years ago between oligarchic Sparta and democratic Athens for control of Greece, is brought to life in this study. Kagan demonstrates the relevance of this cataclysmic event to modern times in all its horror and savagery. As two uncompromising empires fight a war of survival from diametrically opposing political, social and cultural positions, the seemingly invincible glory of Athens crumbles in tragedy. Athenian culture and politics was unmatched in originality and fertility, and is still regarded as one of the peak achievements of Western civilisation. Dramatic poets such as Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides and Aristophanes raised tragedy and comedy to a level never surpassed; architects and sculptors were at work on the Acropolis; natural philosophers like Anaxagoras and Democritus were exploring the physical world and philosophers like Socrates were dissecting the realm of human affairs. All this was lost to this bloody conflict. Unprecedented cruelty and brutality marked this war, as anger, frustration and vengeance replaced established codes of behaviour. Bands of marauders murdered innocent children, entire cities were obliterated, men were killed, and women and children were sold as slaves. With such violence came a collapse of the habits, institutions, beliefs and restraints that were the pillars of civilised life. In this work, Kagan illustrates his ability to interpret these events as a part of the universality of human experience. His expertise in both the ancient world and the wars of the 20th century gives a vivid portrait of this pivotal war which has shaped the world as we know it. [via]
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The Reawakeningby Primo Levi, Stuart J. Woolf, Philip RothISBN 0020223692 (0-02-022369-2)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Rothschilds: A Family Portraitby Frederic MortonISBN 0020230028 (0-02-023002-8)
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Russia Under the Old Regimeby Richard PipesISBN 0020360428 (0-02-036042-8)
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Scientific Renaissance 1450-1630by Marie Boas HallISBN 0006319254 (0-00-631925-4)
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Sharpe's Furyby Bernard CornwellISBN 000712015X (0-00-712015-X)
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Sharpe's Tigerby Bernard CornwellISBN 0002250101 (0-00-225010-1)
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Stalin's Nose: Across the Face of Europeby Rory MacLeanISBN 000215871X (0-00-215871-X)
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Strategy and Diplomacy, 1870-1945by Paul M. KennedyISBN 0006861652 (0-00-686165-2)
Softcover, Zondervan
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Use and Abuse of Historyby Friedrich W. Nietzsche, Adrian CollinsISBN 0023237309 (0-02-323730-9)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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Witches and Neighboursby Robin BriggsISBN 0002158442 (0-00-215844-2)
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