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  • L'évolution du chartisme

    Du réformisme à la violence, 1837-1839

    Cet ouvrage est une réédition numérique d’un livre paru au XXe siècle, désormais indisponible dans son format d’origine. ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Northern Element in English Literature

    Series series Alexander Lectures
    In 1931, Sir William Craigie gave the Alexander Lectures in English at the University of Toronto entitled The Northern Element in English Literature with a focus on proving the existence of a Northern literary culture, comparing English literature with Northern literature, especially that of the Scottish and Scandinavians. The book is divided into four lectures. ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • British Colonial Theories 1570-1850

    by Klaus Knorr ...
    Series series Heritage
    The purpose of this study is to present and examine significant British colonial theories on the advantages and disadvantages resulting to the mother country from the establishment and maintenance of overseas colonies. For what reasons was the building and preservation of Empire thought profitable or unprofitable to the British nation? Professor Knorr has performed a major service in providing a ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • English Merchant Shipping 1460-1540

    Series series Heritage
    Between 1460 and 1540 the development of merchant shipping was of vital importance to the growth of England as a European power. In this work Miss Burwash offers a complete history of the English merchant marine in the late middle ages and early renaissance period. Her account includes a description of the size and design of the ships, the trades in which they engaged, the business arrangements ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • King Arthur: Hero and Legend

    The whole subject is brought up to date - Arthurian buffs will want this book. DAILY TELEGRAPHWho was the real Arthur? Why were his knights so famous? Was he buried at Glastonbury? Richard Barber takes the story from the anonymous 8th century chronicler who first listed his battles to the novelists of the 20th century. A clear and readable account of the development of the stories about Arthur and ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Valley of Vision

    Blake as Prophet and Revolutionary

    by Peter Fisher ...
    Series series Heritage
    The author of this important contribution to the study of Blake was tragically drowned in a sailing accident when he had almost completed it in manuscript. His was a critical mind of singular erudition and power. As is abundantly evidenced in these chapters which Northrop Frye has prepared for publication. Fisher had made a careful study of Oriental philosophy and of Plato and the Neo-Platonists ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • British Emigration to British North America

    The First Hundred Years (Revised and Enlarged Edition)

    by Helen Cowan ...
    Series series Heritage
    In 1928 Miss Cowan published in the series "University of Toronto Studies, History and Economics" her first work on population movements: British Emigration to British North America, 1783-1837. This study has remained a standard reference on its subject and for some time has been available for purchase only through second-hand channels. In the intervening years Miss Cowan maintained an active ... Read more

    $37.99 USD

  • Chief Whip

    Series series Heritage
    The author's grandfather, Aretas Akers-Douglas (1857-1926) was in his day called "The Prince of Whips". Starting in 1880 as a confederate of the brilliant but unorthodox Lord Randolph Churchill, he graduated in record time to the position of chief dispenser of the official Conservative party line and held it for ten exceptionally arduous years at the height of the Home Rule controversy with its ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • The Renaissance and English Humanism

    by Douglas Bush ...
    Series series Alexander Lectures
    The appearance of a fourth printing of The Renaissance and English Humanism indicated the scholarly success this book has enjoyed for more than a decade. As a brief yet thoughtful and eloquent evaluation of the influence of the Christian humanistic tradition upon our culture it has not been surpassed. The study is divided into four parts: in the first, Professor Bush discusses modern theories of ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • The Career of Arthur Hamilton Gordon

    First Lord Stanmore 1829-1912

    by J.K. Chapman ...
    Series series Heritage
    This close examination of Sir Arthur Gordon's six governorships (New Brunswick, Trinidad, Mauritius, Fiji, New Zealand, and Ceylon) and his administration of the Western Pacific High Commission should help fill the need for a more accurate assessment of the role of the colonial governor in the governing process than the paucity of biographies of these governors has previously made possible. It ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • English History 1914-1945

    Series Book 15 - Oxford History of England
    During ten of the 31 years between 1914 and 1945 the English people were involved in world wars; for 19 of the years they lived in the shadow of mass unemployment. These themes and the politics which sprang from them shape the narrative of this book. ... Read more

    $202.99 USD

  • The Recollections of Rifleman Bowlby

    by Alex Bowlby ...
    The classic memoir by an infantryman in the British army during the Second World War, “a book to bring a shiver to the most grizzled veteran (The Sunday Times).In 1944, having distinguished itself in the North Africa campaign, Rifleman Bowlby’s battalion of Greenjackets was sent to Italy. But instead of being used in the specialized role for which it had been trained, most of the battalion’s ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • English Enterprise in Newfoundland 1577-1660

    by Gillian Cell ...
    Series series Heritage
    Between 1577 and 1660 Newfoundland emerged from relative obscurity to become the centre of a booming and valued industry, the site of one of England's first colonies, and a place of such strategic importance that the English government could not afford to ignore it. From the time of its discovery in the late fifteenth century, the fishermen of Western Europe made annual fishing voyages to ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Anglo-Saxon England

    Series Book 2 - Oxford History of England
    Discussing the development of English society, from the growth of royal power to the establishment of feudalism after the Norman Conquest, this book focuses on the emergence of the earliest English kingdoms and the Anglo-Norman monarchy in 1087. It also describes the chief phases in the history of the Anglo-Saxon church, drawing on many diverse examples; the result is a fascinating insight into ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Politics of Architecture

    A history of modern architecture in Britain

    Series series Heritage
    The history of British architecture since 1930 has been one of frequently heated controversy between the old idiom and the new and between various social and technological viewpoints. The battle is by no means over; indeed it is spreading to wider issues and outside what was previously a largely professional sphere. A book like this one, which spells out the issues and describes how they arose, is ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Cousin Cinderella

    Series series Heritage
    After experiencing life in London, the narrator and her brother discover that they are Canadians, not colonials. Their encounters with Englishmen and Americans demonstrate that there are three distinct countries, each with a character of its own, but sharing common interests. This is an early novel on the eternal theme of identity. ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • The English Ministers and Jacobitism between the Rebellions of 1715 and 1745

    by Paul S. Fritz ...
    Series series Heritage
    Since the rise of the modern nation state in Europe, political leaders have had to cope with the problems of conspiracy and internal security. The English Ministers and Jacobitism between the Rebellions of 1715 and 1745 is a study of the response made to these twin problems by the British central government, under Stanhope, Sunderland, and Walpole. Faced with the prospect of assassination, ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Milton and the Puritan Dilemma, 1641-1660

    by Arthur Barker ...
    Series series Heritage
    This analysis of the progressive definition of John Milton’s social, political, and religious opinions during the fertile years of the Puritan Revolution has become a classic work of scholarship in the thirty-five years since it was first published. Professor Barker interprets Milton’s development in the light of his personal problems and of the changing climate of opinion among his revolutionary ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • In a Defiant Stance

    The Conditions of Law in Massachusetts Bay, the Irish Comparison, and the Coming of the American Revolution

    by John P. Reid ...
    The minimum of violence accompanying the success of the American Revolution resulted in large part, argues this book, from the conditions of law the British allowed in the American colonies. By contrast, Ireland's struggle for independence was prolonged, bloody, and bitter largely because of the repressive conditions of law imposed by Britain.Examining the most rebellious American colony, ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Preaching and Theology in Anglo-Saxon England

    Ælfric and Wulfstan

    Series series Heritage
    In Preaching and Theology in Anglo-Saxon England, Professor Gatch deals with two aspects of the writings of Ælfric and Wulfstan that have been hitherto ignored by scholars of the period.First, he investigates the uses for which the two homilists prepared their sermons, analysing the homiliaries of the Carolingian church and its legislation concerning preaching and teaching, and showing that one ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Airfields Of 8th

    Then And Now

    by Roger Freeman ...
    A unique, nostalgic look at the airfields used by the Eighth in the United Kingdom during the Second World War. Conceived in war, the airfields experienced their moments of glory and, when the war ended, were left empty and derelict to die. The few which remain virtually intact have only survived because some private or public concern has formed a practical use for them, although not always as ... Read more

    $23.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Chronicles

    Translated by Geoffrey Brereton ...
    The Chronicles of Froissart (1337-1410) are one of the greatest contemporary records of fourteenth-century England and France. Depicting the great age of Anglo-French rivalry from the deposition of Edward II to the downfall of Richard II, Froissart powerfully portrays the deeds of knights in battle at Sluys, Crecy, Calais and Poitiers during the Hundred Years War. Yet they are only part of this ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Reformers and Babylon

    English Apocalyptic Visions from the Reformation to the Eve of the Civil War

    Series series Heritage
    Starting in the 1530s with John Bale, English reformers found in the apocalyptic mysteries of the Book of Revelation a framework for reinterpreting the history of Christianity and explaining the break from the Roman Catholic Church. Identifying the papacy with antichrist and the Roman Catholic Church with Babylon, they pictured the reformation as a departure from the false church that derived its ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Sir Robert Filmer and English Political Thought

    by James Daly ...
    Series series Heritage
    Sir Robert Filmer (1588-1653) was a defender of 'the Natural Power of Kings against the Unnatural Liberty of the People.' His doctrine of omnicompetent sovereignty had little influence on the thought and political debates of his time, for none of his writings was published until the last few years of his life; but it came under scrutiny later in the century, particularly during the exclusion ... Read more

    $27.99 USD