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The Honourable Company (Harpercollins)
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During 200 years the East India Company grew from a loose association of Elizabethan tradesmen into "the grandest society of merchants in the universe". As a commercial enterprise it came to control half the world's trade and as a political entity it administered an embryonic empire. Without it there would have been no British India and no British Empire. In a tapestry ranging from Southern Africa to north-west America, and from the reign of Elizabeth I to that of Victoria, bizarre locations and roguish personality abound. From Bombay to Singapore and Hong Kong the political geography of today is, in some respects, the result of the Company. This book looks at the history of the East India Company.
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China. A History (Harpercollins)
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Three thousand years of Chinese history in an accessible and authoritative single volume.
Despite the recent rise of China to a position of dominance on the world economic stage, Chinese history remains an elusive subject. Yet it is this vast narrative of appalling loss, superhuman endeavour and incredible invention that has made China the superpower it is today. From the dawn of legend to the succession of great dynasties, from Confucius to Chairman Mao and from the clamour of revolution to the lure of slick capitalism, John Keay takes the reader on a sweeping tour through Chinese history. This is a definitive and indispensable account of a country set to play a major part in our future.
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Rites of Peace. The Fall Of Napoleon and the Congress of Vienna (Harpercollins)
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Following on from his epic '1812: Napoleon's Fatal March on Moscow', bestselling author Adam Zamoyski has written the dramatic story of the Congress of Vienna.
In the wake of his disastrous Russian campaign of 1812, Napoleon's imperious grip on Europe began to weaken, raising the question of how the Continent was to be reconstructed after his defeat. There were many who dreamed of a peace to end all wars, in which the interests of peoples as well as those of rulers would be taken into account. But what followed was an unseemly and at times brutal scramble for territory by the most powerful states, in which countries were traded as if they had been private and their inhabitants counted like cattle.
The results, fixed at the Congress of Vienna in 1815, not only laid the foundations of the European world we know; it put in place a social order and a security system that lie at the root of many of the problems which dog the world today. Although the defining moments took place in Vienna, and
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The Information. A History, a Theory, a Flood (4th Estate)
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Winner of the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books 2012, the world's leading prize for popular science writing.
We live in the information age. But every era of history has had its own information revolution: the invention of writing, the composition of dictionaries, the creation of the charts that made navigation possible, the discovery of the electronic signal, the cracking of the genetic code.
In 'The Information' James Gleick tells the story of how human beings use, transmit and keep what they know. From African talking drums to Wikipedia, from Morse code to the 'bit', it is a fascinating account of the modern age's defining idea and a brilliant exploration of how information has revolutionised our lives.
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Sissinghurst. An Unfinished History (Harpercollins)
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A fascinating account from award-winning author Adam Nicolson of the history of Nicolson’s own national treasure, his family home: Sissinghurst.
Sissinghurst is world-famous as a place of calm and beauty, a garden slipped into the ruins of a rose-pink Elizabethan palace. But is it entirely what its creators intended? Has its success over the last thirty years come at a price? Is Sissinghurst everything it could be?
The story of this piece of land, an estate in the Weald of Kent, is told here for the first time from the very beginning. Adam Nicolson, who now lives there, has uncovered remarkable new findings about its history as a medieval manor and great sixteenth-century house, from the days of its decline as an eighteenth-century prison to a flourishing Victorian farm and on to the creation, by his grandparents Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson, of a garden in a weed-strewn wreck.
Alongside his recovery of the past, Adam Nicolson wanted something else: for the land at Sissinghurst to live again, to
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The Invention of Murder. How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime (Harpercollins)
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Murder in the 19th century was rare. But murder as sensation and entertainment became ubiquitous - transformed into novels, into broadsides and ballads, into theatre and melodrama and opera - even into puppet shows and performing dog-acts.
In this meticulously researched and compelling book, Judith Flanders - author of 'The Victorian House' - retells the gruesome stories of many different types of murder - both famous and obscure. From the crimes (and myths) of Sweeney Todd and Jack the Ripper, to the tragedies of the murdered Marr family in London's East End, Burke and Hare and their bodysnatching business in Edinburgh, and Greenacre who transported his dismembered fiancee around town by omnibus.
With an irresistible cast of swindlers, forgers, and poisoners, the mad, the bad and the dangerous to know, 'The Invention of Murder' is both a gripping tale of crime and punishment, and history at its most readable.
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India. A History (William Collins)
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The most authoritative and highly regarded single-volume history of India – from ancient time to the modern day. Five millennia of the sub-continent’s social, economic, political and cultural history are interpreted by one of our finest writers on India and the Far East.
India’s history begins with a highly advanced urban civilisation in the Indus valley, regressing to a tribal and pastoral nomadism, and then evolving into a uniquely stratified society. The pattern of inward invasion plus outward migration was established early: from Alexander the Great via the march of Islam and the great Moghuls to the coming of the East India Company and the establishment of the British Raj.
Older, richer and more distinctive than almost any other, India’s culture furnishes all that the historian could wish for in the way of continuity and diversity. The peoples of the Indian subcontinent, while sharing a common history and culture, are not now, and never have been, a single unitary state; the book accom ...
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All Hell Let Loose. The World at War 1939-1945 (Harpercollins)
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A magisterial history of the greatest and most terrible event in history, from one of the finest historians of the Second World War. A book which shows the impact of war upon hundreds of millions of people around the world- soldiers, sailors and airmen; housewives, farm workers and children..
Reflecting Max Hastings's thirty-five years of research on World War II, All Hell Let Loose describes the course of events, but focuses chiefly upon human experience, which varied immensely from campaign to campaign, continent to continent.
The author emphasises the Russian front, where more than 90% of all German soldiers who perished met their fate. He argues that, while Hitler's army often fought its battles brilliantly well, the Nazis conducted their war effort with 'stunning incompetence'. He suggests that the Royal Navy and US Navy were their countries' outstanding fighting services, while the industrial contribution of the United States was much more important to ...
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Falling Upwards. How We Took to the Air (William Collins)
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From ambitious scientists rising above the clouds to test the air, to brave generals floating over enemy lines to watch troop movements, this wonderful book offers a seamless fusion of history, art, science, biography and the metaphysics of flight. It is a masterly portrait of human endeavour, recklessness, vision and hope.
In this heart-lifting book, Richard Holmes, author of the best-selling The Age of Wonder, follows the daring and enigmatic men and women who risked their lives to take to the air (or fall into the sky). Why they did it, what their contemporaries thought of them, and how their flights revealed the secrets of our planet is a compelling adventure that only Holmes could tell.
It is not a conventional history of ballooning. In a sense it is not really about balloons at all. It is about what balloons gave rise to. It is about the spirit of discovery itself and the extraordinary human drama it produces.
From the dramatic and exhilarating early Anglo-French b ...
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Congo (4th Estate)
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'Not only deserves the description "epic", in its true sense, but the term "masterpiece" as well' Independent
This gripping epic tells the story of one of the world's most critical failed nation-states: the Democratic Republic of Congo. Interweaving his own family's history with the voices of a diverse range of individuals - charismatic dictators, feuding warlords, child soldiers, and many in the African diaspora of Europe and China - Van Reybrouck offers a deeply humane approach to political history, focusing squarely on the Congolese perspective and returning a nation's history to its people.
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The British Are Coming. The War for America 1775 -1777 (William Collins)
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In June 1773, King George III attended a grand celebration of his reign over the greatest, richest empire since ancient Rome. Less than two years later, Britain’s bright future turned dark: after a series of provocations, the king’s soldiers took up arms against his rebellious colonies in America. The war would last eight years, and though at least one in ten of the Americans who fought for independence would die for that cause, the prize was valuable beyond measure: freedom from oppression and the creation of a new republic.
Rick Atkinson, author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning An Army at Dawn and two other superb books about the Second World War has long been admired for his unparalleled ability to write deeply researched, stunningly vivid narrative history. In this new book, he tells the story of the first twenty-one months of America’s violent effort to forge a new nation. From the battles at Lexington and Concord in spring 1775 to those at Trenton and Princeton in winter 1776–77, American mili ...
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Enough. The Violence Against Women and How to End It (William Collins)
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This is a book that calls time on the endless tide of violence against women and the failures of our criminal justice system to respond.
From barrister Harriet Johnson, Enough lays bare the appalling status quo of abuse against women in our society, offering an irrefutable case for why change is needed in policing and justice. Most vitally, it also gives a manifesto for how to get there.
With expertise, clear-sightedness and appropriate fury, this book helps us see where women are suffering – from homicide to domestic abuse to street harassment. It exposes the ways the criminal justice system lets women down – from officers failing to properly investigate to a lack of consequences when police behaviour is unacceptable, to backlogged courts and the realities of convincing a jury.
Addressing misogyny is to everyone’s benefit and the answers aren’t simple. Enough is the call to arms we can – and must – all get behind.
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The Scottish Enlightenment. The Scots' Invention of the Modern World (Harpercollins)
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A dramatic and intriguing history of how Scotland produced the institutions, beliefs and human character that have made the West into the most powerful culture in the world.
Arthur Herman argues that Scotland's turbulent history, from William Wallace to the Presbyterian Lords of the Covenant, laid the foundations for 'the Scottish miracle'. Within one hundred years, the nation that began the eighteenth century dominated by the harsh and repressive Scottish Kirk had evolved into Europe's most literate society, producing an idea of modernity that has shaped much of civilisation as we know it. He follows the lives and work of thinkers such as Adam Smith and David Hume, writers such as Burns and Boswell, as well as architects, technicians and inventors, and traces their legacy into the twentieth century. Written with wit, erudition and clarity, The Scottish Enlightenment claims the Scots' rightful place in the history of the western world.
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Русский хранитель. Политический консерватизм (Русский мир)
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Очередная книга серии "Pro patria: историко-политологическая библиотека" посвящена характеристике политического творчества Михаила Петровича Погодина (1800-1875), последовательного и твердого консерватора, монархиста и русского патриота. Объективный анализ его научной и общественной деятельности, предпринятый доктором политических наук А. А. Ширинянцем, позволяет с большей степенью достоверности не только обосновать необходимость тщательного изучения наследия Погодина, принадлежащего "официальной народности", русскому панславизму и в целом - русскому консерватизму, но и признать центральным пунктом его политической публицистики и исторических работ тему "Россия и Запад", а смыслом теоретических изысканий - поиск оснований русской национальной идеи.
В приложении к книге публикуется ряд статей и писем М. П. Погодина 1830-1850-х годов, снабженных комментарием.
Издание адресовано ученому сословию и широкому кругу читателей - всем, кто интересуется историей общественной мысли России.
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Россия вчера и завтра (Русский мир)
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Впервые в наши дни издается избранная народно-хозяйственная публицистика Александра Ивановича Чупрова (1842-1908), выдающегося представителя отечественной экономической науки, профессора Московского университета, автора учебников, на которых воспитывалось несколько поколений ученых, деятелей просвещения, промышленников, предпринимателей. В своих трудах ученый отразил не только Россию вчерашнюю, но и смело заглянул в ее завтрашнюю судьбу. Научное наследие А.И.Чупрова вошло в золотой фонд общеевропейской культуры рубежа XIX-XX веков. Издание приурочено к 100-летию со дня кончины А.И.Чупрова.
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На службе Москве и Отечеству (Русский мир)
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В книге собраны подлинные документы почётного гражданина Москвы князя А.А. Щербатова (1829-1902), славно потрудившегося на благо России. Воспоминания и письма, охватывающий период с 1829 по 1901 годы, публикуются впервые. Они содержат множество интересных сюжетов из жизни русского общества; о событиях крымской войны, начале царствования императора Александра II, ходе крестьянской и других реформ. Страницы мемуаров насыщены яркими характеристиками выдающихся современников автора - представителей рода князей Голицыных и Мухановых, фельдмаршала И.Ф. Паскевича и генерала М.Д. Горчакова, поэта А.А. Фета, героя Севастопольской обороны адмирала В.А. Корнилова и др. "Отчёт" А.А. Щербатова о деятельности Московской городской думы - ценный источник по истории Москвы 1860-х гг.
Книга снабжена обширным научно-справочным аппаратом и большим количеством иллюстраций.
Рассчитана на широкий круг читателей.
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Выбор пути: Русское самодержавие второй половины XVII-первой четверти XVIII (Русский мир)
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Национальный или европейский путь развития Русского государства: что лучше для России, что более согласуется с ее историческим прошлым, была ли возможность выбора? - вопросы, которые волнуют представителей общественной мысли ни одно столетие. Во многом ответ на них может дать сравнение путей эволюции государства, предложенных и осуществлявшихся в период царствований первых Романовых и Петра I. Реформированию Русского государства во второй половине XVII - первой четверти XVIII века посвящена эта книга.
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Борьба за Крым. XVIII век (Русский мир)
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Эпохальным событием современности для всего Русского мира явилось триумфальное возвращение Крыма в состав России, отошедшего в 1954 году Украине после необдуманного и неправового решения руководства СССР. Как образно подметил Президент России В.В. Путин: "После тяжелого, изнурительного плавания Крым и Севастополь возвратились в родную гавань, в порт постоянной приписки - Россию".
Для русского народа Крым - это не просто территория, это - колыбель его цивилизации и культуры. Одной из ярчайших страниц нашей истории по праву считается присоединение полуострова к Российской империи в 1783 году. Документальному исследованию решения этой сложной проблемы и посвящена представленная на суд читателя книга.
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Князь В.М. Голицын и московское городское самоуправление (Русский мир)
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Книга представляет новую версию истории городского самоуправления со времен Ивана Калиты до инфраструктурной революции в Москве рубежа XIX-XX вв.
На основе многих впервые публикуемых документов из государственных и фамильного архива князей Голицыных обрисованы грандиозные реформы периода городского головы князя В.М. Голицына и его выдающихся предшественников: Б.Н. Чичерина, Н.А. Алексеева, давших Москве первые электростанции, трамвай, централизованную канализацию, телефон.
Впервые освещены темы крупнейшего покушения на бюджет города (Афера Балинского) и благотворительности, как уникальной формы политической борьбы московского купечества.
Историю города сопровождает развернутый портрет рода князей Голицыных, давшего выдающихся руководителей и служителей Москвы и России.
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Князь Н.М. Голицын - основатель дворцово-паркового ансамбля в подмосковной усадьбе Вязёмы (Русский мир)
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В работе впервые в исторической литературе делается попытка дать историко-биографическое исследование жизни и деятельности князя Н.М. Голицына - основателя дворцово-паркового ансамбля в подмосковной усадьбе Вязёмы, ставшей в настоящее время Государственным историко-литературным музеем-заповедником А.С. Пушкина. На основе новых архивных документов рассматривается военная, хозяйственная и общественная деятельность Николая Михайловича. В центре внимания его учеба в Славяно-греко-латинской академии, военные походы в Цесарию и Померанию, создание им образцового хозяйства в Вязёмах, личная жизнь. Особое место занимают мировоззренческие взгляды Н.М. Голицына, его духовный облик и судьба наследства.
Работа рассчитана на специалистов, музейных работников, преподавателей, студентов, учителей, учащихся и всех любителей истории.
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