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In the seventeenth century Bristol was the second city of England. It was the main west coast port an internationally important entrepot and trading centre. This study argues that when the Royalists captured Bristol in July 1643 they gained not only the city but also the materials and facilities that literally allowed them to remain in the war.

In personal as well as historical terms, more even than the war for independence, the Civil War has been the defining experience of the American democracy. This title...

Chris Pascoe is fascinated by the English Civil War. He also likes beer. So when the thought came to him to set out on a pub crawl around the sites of the English ...

The Civil Wars provides a critical new synthesis of current research on the political crisis that engulfed all three Stuart kingdoms in the mid-Seventeenth century. Drawing on new archival findings and challenging current orthodoxies on a...

Perhaps the most famous uniforms of the Civil War belonged to the Zouaves troops of French derivation whose vibrant attire was accented by fezzes and baggy trousers. This volume depicts them in all their colourful glory and covers the uniforms of engineers surgeons marines and generals.

Anticipating the centenary of World War I, a brilliant new history of the year it began--a year forever memorable (Woodrow Wilson)--that examines the war and its causes through new eyes. In The Lost History of 1914, Jack Beatty examines the...

IThis copy is in very good condition: clean and unmarked. Size: 15 x 23 cms. n 1945, many Europeans still heated with coal, cooled their food with ice, and lacked indoor plumbing. This book presents an account of the extraordinary development of Europe's economy since the end of World War II. It argues that the continent's history has been critical to its economic performance.