Capability Brown and the English Landscape Garden
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The name Lancelot 'Capability' Brown (1716-83) has become synonymous with the eighteenth-century...
Sovereignty, Property and Empire, 1500-2000
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This book analyses the laws that shaped modern European empires from medieval times to the twentieth...
Survivor of the Long March: Five Years as a POW, 1940-1945
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Nothing prepares a man for war and Private Charles Waite, of the Queen's Royal Regiment, was...
The A to Z of Middle Eastern Intelligence
Muhammad Suwaed and Ephraim Kahana
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The A to Z of Middle East Intelligence addresses intelligence issues in the region from ancient...
The Conceit of Humanitarian Intervention
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The post-Cold War period has witnessed a substantial increase in armed humanitarian...
The Penguin Historical Atlas of the Bible Lands
Caroline Hull, Brian Capper, Andrew Jotischky and Simon Hall
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Taking in such important themes as the powerful early city-states that dominated the plains, the...
The Shi'ites of Lebanon: Modernism, Communism, and Hizbullah's Islamists
Rula Jurdi Abisaab and Malek Abisaab
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The complex history of Lebanese Shi'ites has traditionally been portrayed as rooted in religious and...
Tirpitz and the Imperial German Navy
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Grand Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz (1849-1930) was the principal force behind the rise of the German...
British Design from 1948: Innovation in the Modern Age
Christopher Breward and Ghislaine Wood
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'The first time that post-war design in Britain has been portrayed in such detail - a must for...