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Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. To commemorate the 40th anniversary of their beginning, with Master and Commander, these evocative stories are being re-issued in paperback with smart new livery. This is the… More

In 1844 the USS Yorktown sailed from New York, as part of the U.S. Navy's newly established African Squadron, to interdict slave ships leaving the African coast. Aboard the sloop of war, Master's Mate John C. More

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From 1500 to 1650 many societies underwent profound social and economic changes, resulting in the transformation of human labour and ideas about work. This volume explores how ideas about working (and not working) evolved over time in the early modern period and are still resonant today. More

Focuses on the literary implications of 17th-century religion, Shakespeare's Roman plays, and 16th-century poetry. More

Yearly volume of the best essays submitted to the Southeastern Renaissance Conference, focusing on sexuality in Elizabethan poetry, Renaissance drama and its links to the wider culture, and on seventeenth-century literature. More

Features the best scholarly essays from the 2013 Southeastern Renaissance Conference held at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, including essays on Renaissance poetics, friendship, and representations of women. More

Annual volume of the best essays submitted to the Southeastern Renaissance Conference, this year with an emphasis on English drama, particularly Jonson and Marlowe. More

Collection of documents covering the first complete survey of the Gulf coast by the Bombay Marine. More

Comprehensive second editions of History for the IB Diploma Paper 2, revised for first teaching in 2015. More

Paper Memory tells of one man's mission to preserve for posterity the memory of everyday life in sixteenth-century Germany. Lundin takes us inside the mind of an undistinguished German burgher, Hermann Weinsberg, whose early-modern writings sought to make sense of changes that were unsettling the… More

Written at a time when furious arguments are raging about the best way to govern America, this title aims of persuading New Yorkers to accept the newly drafted Constitution in 1787. It makes a case for power-sharing between State and Federal authorities and for a Constitution that has endured… More

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During the time covered by this volume, Madison remained at Montpelier, with visits to neighbourhood friends and attendance at the Board of Visitor meetings at the University of Virginia. Madison wrote letters on a wide range of topics, corresponding with President James Monroe about domestic and… More

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The complete letters, dispatches and chronicles that tell the real story of Anne Boleyn. More

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Discover fashion through history! How did a Regency bride and groom dress for their wedding? Why did everyone wear hats? Cut out the fourteen colourful costumes, for both women and men, then dress up the dolls to explore the fashions of Jane Austen's day. More

Comprehensive second editions of History for the IB Diploma Paper 2, revised for first teaching in 2015. More

Comprehensive books to support study of History for the IB Diploma Paper 3, revised for first assessment in 2017. More

This book covers the Paper 3 topic Ireland and the Union c1774-1923 in the Edexcel A level specification for first teaching from September 2015. More

This book covers the Paper 3 topic The British experience of warfare c1790-1918 in the Edexcel A level specification for first teaching from September 2015. More

This book covers the Paper 3 topic The Golden Age of Spain 1474-1598 in the Edexcel A level specification for first teaching from September 2015. More

This book covers the Paper 3 topic Germany, 1871-1990: united, divided and re-united in the Edexcel A level specification for first teaching from September 2015. More

This book covers the Paper 3 topic The making of modern China 1860-1997 in the Edexcel A level specification for first teaching from September 2015. More

This book covers the Paper 3 topic The making of modern Russia 1855-1991 in the Edexcel A level specification for first teaching from September 2015. More

Volume 23 of the collected papers of John C. Calhoun covering the last nine months in the twenty-ninth congress (April 1846 to December 1846) provides insight into the significant issues facing the country during the period including the Oregon crisis, the Mexican War, tariff reform, and the initial More

…'Grand Old Man of India', was thrice president of the Indian National Congress, and the first Indian to be elected to the British House of Commons. This volume brings together for the first time rare private papers, including correspondence, of Dadabhai Naoroji from the National Archives of India. More

This book covers the Paper 3 topic Britain: losing and gaining an empire, 1763-1914 in the Edexcel A level specification for first teaching from September 2015. More

This book covers the Paper 3 topic Rebellion and disorder under the Tudors 1485-1603 in the Edexcel A level specification for first teaching from September 2015. More

This book covers the Paper 3 topic Poverty, public health and the state in Britain c1780-1939 in the Edexcel A level specification for first teaching from September 2015. More

This book covers the Paper 3 topic The changing nature of warfare, 1859-1991 in the Edexcel A level specification for first teaching from September 2015. More

This book covers the Paper 3 topic The witch craze in Britain, Europe and North America c1580-c1750 in the Edexcel A level specification for first teaching from September 2015. More

This book covers the Paper 3 topic Industrialisation and social change in Britain, 1759-1928: forging a new society in the Edexcel A level specification for first teaching from September 2015. More

Although millions of African American women were held in bondage over the 250 years that slavery was legal in the United States, Harriet Jacobs (1813-97) is the only one known to have left papers testifying to her life. This collection includes papers of an African American woman held in slavery. More

The Federalist Papers comprise eighty-five essays written to persuade New Yorkers to ratify the Constitution of the United States in 1787-8. Written by key players in the American Revolution, they made a case for a new, united nation. They are the most important work of political thought to have… More

This work concludes the half-century project of the scholarly edition and publication of the letters, speeches, and papers of John C. Calhoun. It chronicles Calhoun's last sojourn at his Fort Hill home in the fall of 1849, his final months in Washington and fatal illness. More

In 1836 the 23-year-old Dickens was invited by his publishers to write `a monthly something' illustrated by sporting plates. Thus the Pickwick Club was born: its supposed `papers' soom outgrew their origins and became a brilliantly comic novel, still among Dicken's most popular works. More

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The ten-volume Colonial Series, covering the years 1748-1775, takes the young Washington through his command of the Virginia Regiment during the French and Indian War and then focuses on his political and business activities as a Virginia planter during the fifteen years before the American… More

The ten-volume Colonial Series, covering the years 1748-1775, takes the young Washington through his command of the Virginia Regiment during the French and Indian War and then focuses on his political and business activities as a Virginia planter during the fifteen years before the American… More

A biographical sketch of the antecedents, early life and career of William Thornton, particulary known for his design of the US Capitol. It includes his early antislavery writings, and detailed accounts of the evolution of the first successful steamboat. More

Part of the ""Revolutionary War Series"", this work documents a period that includes the Continental Army's last weeks at Valley Forge, the British evacuation of Philadelphia, and the Battle of Monmouth Court House. It begins with George Washington's army at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, celebrating… More

This is the last of three volumes to document the administration of the Dutch-controlled colonies that were under the jurisdiction of New York's first governor, Sir Edmund Andros. The documents range from official correspondence, reports and notes, to court minutes. More

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This volume details the importance of two themes that dominated Calhoun's concerns: the efforts of the Northern majority to exclude the South from territories being won in battle; and his continuing campaign to curb American imperialism, which Calhoun thought boded ill for republican virtue. More

Fulke Greville was born at Beauchamp Court, Alcester in 1554. Educated at Shrewsbury School and Jesus College, Cambridge he went on to serve both Queen Elizabeth I and King James I. Indeed he was knighted by Elizabeth in 1597 and later bestowed with the title of Lord Brooke by James. More

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This is the 11th part in a series of volumes containing the papers of George Washington. This particular volume contains correspondence, orders and other documents from August to October 1777, one of the most militarily active periods of America's Revolutionary War. More

A four-volume series of the selected correspondence of the great American abolitionist and reformer - Frederick Douglass. It illuminates not only his growth as an activist and writer, but the larger world of the times and the abolition movement as well. More

A second volume of the collected correspondence of the great African-American reformer and abolitionist features correspondence written during the Civil War years More