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  • The Snake's Pass

    A Critical Edition

    by Bram Stoker, Mark Doyle, William Hughes, Nicholas Daly, Síghle Bhreathnach-Lynch ...
    Series series Irish Studies
    In 1890, The Snake’s Pass was published in serialized form in the periodical The People. It is the story of Arthur Severn, an Englishman who has inherited wealth and a title through an aunt who took him under her wing to the exclusion of closer relations. His inheritance includes land in Ireland, and now that he is a man of leisure, he decides to tour the west of Ireland. As Bram Stoker’s first ... Read more

    $25.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Kinks

    Songs of the Semi-Detached

    by Mark Doyle ...
    Series series Reverb
    Of all the great British bands to emerge from the 1960s, none had a stronger sense of place than the Kinks. Often described as the archetypal English band, they were above all a quintessentially working-class band with a deep attachment to London.Mark Doyle examines the relationship between the Kinks and their city, from their early songs of teenage rebellion to their album-length works of social ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • John Cale's Paris 1919

    by Mark Doyle ...
    Series series 33 1/3
    John Cale's enigmatic masterpiece, Paris 1919, appeared at a time when the artist and his world were changing forever. It was 1973, the year of the Watergate hearings and the oil crisis, and Cale was at a crossroads. The white-hot rage of his Velvet Underground days was nearly spent; now he was living in Los Angeles, working for a record company and making music when time allowed. He needed to lay ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • Sex and Sexualities in Ireland

    Interdisciplinary Perspectives

    Edited by Barbara Górnicka, Mark Doyle ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This edited collection provides an invaluable resource of seventeen chapters from a wide range of academic disciplines. These chapters place sex and sexualities in Ireland in historical context and take the reader through the structural changes that have transformed the expression of sexuality in Ireland from one of self-denial to self-expression. The collection does not however unquestionably ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

  • The British Empire

    A Historical Encyclopedia [2 volumes]

    Edited by Mark Doyle ...
    Series series Empires of the World
    An essential starting point for anyone wanting to learn about life in the largest empire in history, this two-volume work encapsulates the imperial experience from the 16th–21st centuries.From early sixteenth-century explorations to the handover of Hong Kong in 1997, the British Empire controlled outposts on every continent, spreading its people and ideas across the globe and profiting mightily in ... Read more

    $161.99 USD

  • Utopian and Dystopian Themes in Tolkien’s Legendarium

    by Mark Doyle ...
    Utopia and Dystopia in Tolkien’s Legendarium explores how Tolkien’s works speak to many modern people’s utopian desires despite the overwhelming dominance of dystopian literature in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It also examines how Tolkien’s malevolent societies in his legendarium have the unique ability to capture the fears and doubts that many people sense about the trajectory of ... Read more

    $34.79 USD

  • Communal Violence in the British Empire

    Disturbing the Pax

    by Mark Doyle ...
    Joint winner of the North American Conference on British Studies 2017 Stansky Book Prize for the best book on British Studies since 1800Communal Violence in the British Empire focuses on how Britons interpreted, policed, and sometimes fostered violence between different ethnic and religious communities in the empire. It also asks what these outbreaks meant for the power and prestige of Britain ... Read more

    $39.69 USD

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    How Britain Made the Modern World

    by Niall Ferguson ...
    Niall Ferguson's acclaimed bestseller on the highs and lows of Britain's empire'A remarkably readable précis of the whole British imperial story - triumphs, deceits, decencies, kindnesses, cruelties and all' Jan MorrisOnce vast swathes of the globe were coloured imperial red and Britannia ruled not just the waves, but the prairies of America, the plains of Asia, the jungles of Africa and the ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Empire

    The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power

    by Niall Ferguson ...
    **A bestselling historian shows how the British Empire created the modern world“Scrupulous scholarship and a rattling good tale.” —Wall Street Journal**The British Empire was the largest in all history: the nearest thing to global domination ever achieved. The world we know today is in large measure the product of Britain’s Age of Empire. The global spread of capitalism, telecommunications, the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume II: The Eighteenth Century

    by Alaine Low, Wm. Roger Louis ...
    Series Book 2 - The Oxford History of the British Empire
    Volume II of the Oxford History of the British Empire examines the history of British worldwide expansion from the Glorious Revolution of 1689 to the end of the Napoleonic Wars, a crucial phase in the creation of the modern British Empire. This is the age of General Wolfe, Clive of India, and Captain Cook. The international team of experts deploy the latest scholarly research to trace and analyse ... Read more

    $66.59 USD

  • The Company-State: Corporate Sovereignty and the Early Modern Foundations of the British Empire in India

    Corporate Sovereignty and the Early Modern Foundations of the British Empire in India

    by Philip J. Stern ...
    Almost since the event itself in 1757, the English East India Company's victory over the forces of the nawab of Bengal and the territorial acquisitions that followed has been perceived as the moment when the British Empire in India was born. Examining the Company's political and intellectual history in the century prior to this supposed transformation, The Company-State rethinks this narrative and ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • AQA GCSE History: Migration, Empires and the People

    by Abdul Mohamud, Robin Whitburn ...
    Create a stimulating, well-paced teaching route through the 2016 GCSE History specification using this tailor-made series that draws on a legacy of market-leading history textbooks and the individual subject specialisms of the author team to inspire student success.- Motivate your students to deepen their subject knowledge through an engaging and thought-provoking narrative that makes historical ... Read more

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