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Giants of Steam: The Great Men and Machines of Railways’ Golden Age
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From Jonathan Glancey, the critically acclaimed and bestselling author of Spitfire: The Biography, comes his new be...
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The Arabs: A History
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Charting the evolution of Arab identity from Ottomanism to Arabism to Islamism, this work covers themes including t...
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Merchant, Soldier, Sage: A New History of Power
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Proposes a radical approach to how we see our world, and who runs it, in the vein of Francis Fukuyama’s &ldqu...
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Gentry: Six Hundred Years of a Peculiarly English Class
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Adam Nicolson tells the story of England through the history of fourteen gentry families – from the 15th cent...
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Ghosts of Empire: Britain’s Legacies in the Modern World
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This fascinating book shows how the later years of the British Empire were characterised by accidental oversights, ...
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The Criminal Conversation of Mrs Norton
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Westminster, London, 22 June 1836. It is a fine, fresh morning that will become hot as the day progresses. Crowds a...
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The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America’s Banana King
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A tough, uneducated Russian Jew, Sam Zemurray built a fruit-selling empire hustling rotting fruit to market to eke ...
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The Fishing Fleet: Husband-hunting in the Raj
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The untold stories of the young women who were sent to India in search of marriage
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Scotland’s Empire: The Origins of the Global Diaspora
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By 1820 Britain controlled a fifth of the world’s population, and no people had made a more essential contrib...
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The Scottish Nation: A Modern History
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Provides history of Scotland and traces the epic story of a nation from the act of union to today’s ongoing d...
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To the Ends of the Earth: Scotland’s Global Diaspora, 1750-2010
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The Scots are one of the world’s greatest nations of emigrants. For centuries, untold numbers of men, women a...
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