Writing China: Essays on the Amherst Embassy (1816) and Sino-British Cultural Relations
Peter J. Kitson and Robert Markley
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On 29 August 1816, Lord Amherst, exhausted after travelling overnight during an embassy to China,...
Tokyo Underworld: The Fast Times and Hard Life of an American Gangster in Japan
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In 1945, as part of the Occupation forces sent to postwar Japan Nick Zappetti, a native of Italian...
Fierce Patriot: The Tangled Lives of William Tecumseh Sherman
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With a unique, witty, and conversational voice historian Robert O'Connell breaks down the often...
Romantic English Homes
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Romantic English Homes is an inspirational collection of truly timeless houses. Robert O'Byrne has...
Cora Du Bois: Anthropologist, Diplomat, Agent
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Although Cora Du Bois began her life in the early twentieth century as a lonely and awkward girl,...
Southern Steam: The Railway Photographs of R.J. (Ron) Buckley
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Ron Buckley's evocative photographs reveal the changing scene of the Southern Railway, illustrating...
Water Lilies: And Bory Latour-Marliac, the Genius Behind Monet's Water Lilies
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Water lilies are inextricably linked to the ancient cultures of Greece and Rome, Egypt and the Far...
Crude Volatility: The History and the Future of Boom-Bust Oil Prices
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As OPEC has loosened its grip over the past ten years, the oil market has been rocked by wild price...
Pacific: The Ocean of the Future
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Travelling the circumference of the truly gigantic Pacific, Simon Winchester tells the story of the...
The John Tradescants: Gardeners to the Rose and Lily Queen
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There are few more important figures in the early history of modern gardening than John Tradescant...