Modern History

THE BIRTH OF THE UNITED STATES 1763-1816

Isaac Asimov
THE BIRTH OF THE UNITED STATES 1763-1816
The second volume in Asimov's history of the US which opens with the aftermath of the Treaty of Paris, when Britain gained control of the area east of the Mississippi and encompasses the American War of Independence and concludes with the war of 1812, which was the last time that Americans and British took up arms against each other.
274 pages hardback (Dobson, 1974)
Condition: has slightyl faded d/w and page edges and owner's signature

THE WAR THAT NEVER ENDED

Robert Cruden
THE WAR THAT NEVER ENDED: The American Civil War
Cruden examines the events and tensions preceeding the American Civil War, the people involved in it, and the lasting effects which still haunt the US today. By emphasising people rather than political and military aspects, the author brings the events of the war into present-day relevancy.
208 pages, hardback ( Prentice-Hall, 1973)
Condition: has faded dust jacket and page edges and owner's singature

THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN

Edward S Curtis
THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN
This is a remarkable photographic documentation of the lives of America's first inhabitants. Curtis (1868-1952) devoted his life to recording the traditional culture of the Native American Indians. Over the course of more than two decades he published 20 legendary portfolios studying 80 Indian tribes from Mexico to Alaska, presented here in full for the first time in a single volume.
768 pages paperback (Taschen, 1997)
Condition: mint

DANIEL BOONE

Lawrence Elliott
DANIEL BOONE: The Long Hunter
Daniel Boone, the most famous of America's early western pioneers, is almost more legendary than real. Elliott's biography provides a highly readable, fast-moving narrative with a sympathetic yet realistic portrait of Boone himself which adds new depth to the traditional portrait of a frontier hero.
242 pages hardback (George Allen & Unwin, 1977)
Condition: has slight dust stains on top page edge, good d/w and owner's signature

ENLIGHTENED DESPOTISM

John G Gagliardo
ENLIGHTENED DESPOTISM
The political phenomenon known as "enlightened despotism" has long long eluded definition; Gagliardo locates in the years leading up to the French Revolution a distinct and unified historical epoch, important both as the last phase of absolute monarchy and as a critical stage in the development of the modern constitutional state.
118 pages paperback (London, 1971)
Condition: has faded and worn back cover, very slight creasing of top corner of 5-6 pages and owner's signature.

ELIZABETH THE WINTER QUEEN

Jessica Gort-Williams
ELIZABETH THE WINTER QUEEN
Biography of James I's daughter, known to many of her contemporaries as the Queen of Hearts.
198 pages hardback (Abelard, 1977)
Condition: has dust stained top page edges and faded d/w; has owner's signature.

TUTANKHAMUN

Thomas Hoving
TUTANKHAMUN: The Untold Story
He discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb has gone down as the most glorious achievement in archeaology. The truth, revealed in this fascinating expose, was very different. For, as it turns out, the principals in the drama were not immune to the human failing of greed. And their fall from grace, so cleverly covered up, stirred up the dry heat of the Valley of the Kings in a series of power struggles, deceptions and thefts that were very far removed from the bland and proper accounts of the excavation that we have all be brought up on.
384 pages, paperback (Penguin, 1980)
Condition: has faded pages and cover

THE BURNING BUSH

Barnet Litvinoff
THE BURNING BUSH: Antisemitism & World History
Litvinoff carries his account of the Jewish Diaspora and the attendent anti-semitism to the most contemporary events, with the establishment of a Jewish homeland after 2000 years.
493 pages paperback (Fontana, 1989)
Condition: good but with owner's signature

THE NAKED YEARS

Marianne Mackinnon
THE NAKED YEARS
A Young Girl's Experiences in Nazi Germany
Marianne Gartner was a ten-year-old schoolgirl when she took part in the Youth Pageant of the notorious Berlin Olympics. Hers is the story of an ordinary girl living through extraordinary circumstances, told with frankness and sensitivity.
319 paperback (Transworld, 1989)
Condition: has faded top page edges and owner's signature.

THE MEN OF LIBERTY

Claude Mangeron
THE MEN OF LIBERTY: Europe on the Eve of the French Revolution 1774-1778
An enthralling and panoramic evocation of the last days of Louis XV and the proud early years of Louis XVI, re-created in hundreds of incidents, anecdotes and images.
651 pages hardback (Eyre Methuen, 1977)
Condition: good with d/w and owner's signature.

IMPERIAL BERLIN

Gerhard Masur
IMPERIAL BERLIN
Here is the gilded age of Berlin, when Max reinhardt revolutionalised the theatre; when Richard Strauss conducted the Royal Opera; when Einstein and Planck taught in Berlin's centres of learning. Masur shows how the seeds of Germany's disaster were implicit in the glittering whirl of the Kaiser's empire.
353 pages hardback (Readers' Union, 1973)
Condition: Victorian & Modern History Book Club edition. Has very slight dust stain to top page edges, slightly battered top spine edge and owner's signature.

THE END OF ORDER: Versailles 1919

Charles L Mee, Jr
THE END OF ORDER: Versailles 1919
The First World War and the Versailles treaty that followed produced the most serious upheaval in the long and stormy course of modern world history. Four great empires were part of the war's rubble. In 1919 at Versailles the world was plunged irretrievably into the chaos of the twnetieth century. It was the end of order.
301 pages hardback (Seckar & Warburg, 1981)
Condition: unread hardback with d/w, slight dust stains to top page edges and owners' signature.

KHYBER

Charles Miller
KHYBER: The Story of the North West Frontier
Miller takes the reader with him from the first tentative approach by the British through their embroilment with savage Parthans and fierce Afridis, up to the 1970s before the Soviet invasion ended the influx of adventurous western tourists.
393 pages hardback (Macdonald & Janes, 1977)
Condition: good with d/w; has slightly faded page edges and owner's signature.

MADAME DE POMPADOUR

Nancy Mitford
MADAME DE POMPADOUR
The lavishly illustrated biography of Louis XV's mistress is the usual lively Mitford combination of history and intimate character study.
254 pages hardback (BCA/Hamish Hamilton, 1972)
Condition: BCA edition with faded page edges & owner's signature

FIRST LADY OF VERSAILLES

Lucy Norton
FIRST LADY OF VERSAILLES
Marie Adelaide of Savoy, Dauphine of France
The story of the young Princess Adelaide of Savoy who, from her quiet home near Turin, suddenly found herself transported to France to become the highest ranking princess at the court of Louis XIV when she married the latter's young grandson, the Duc de Bourgogne.
402 pages hardback (Hamish Hamilton, 1978)
Condition: has owner's signature

THE KAISER

Alan Palmer
THE KAISER: Warlord of the Second Reich
No ruler has been so lauded and reviled by the British public as Queen Victoria's first-born grandson, Kaiser Wilhelm II. Yet although is caricature is firmly etched on the mind, the Kaiser remains an elusive figure; Palmer sets out to tell the story of the extraordinary life of this temperamentally insecure man who was outwardly full of swagger and bombast, the epitome of the new, self-confident Germany.
276 pages hardback (Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1978)
Condition: BCA edition good condition with faede page edges and cover and owner's signature.

THIS GILDED AFRICAN

Wenda Parkinson
THIS GILDED AFRICAN: Toussaint L'Ouverture
Born as a slave this incredible man went on to lead his army to victory against some of the most powerful forces in the world yet ended his days as Napoleon's prisoner in a cold fortress in the Jura mountains.
218 pages paperback (Quartet, 1979)
Condition: has faded pages and owner's signature.

LEONARDO

Robert Payne
LEONARDO
Payne paints a convincing pictoure of Leonardo not only as a giant of his age, but also as a man, human, real, simple and natural. Besides dispelling many myhts avbout him, the author places his subject realistically in his time.
344 pages hardback (Robert Hale, 1979)
Condition: good with faded back d/w and owner's signature.

THE FRENCH REVOLUTION

J M Roberts
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
The five main sections of the book deal with the beginnings of the Revolution; the revolution in France as the vehicle of continuity; the revolution abroad; and the Revolution as history and myth.
176 pages hardback (O.U.P., 1978)
Condition: has some dust stain on top page edges and faded d/w with tear on top back outside corner; has owner's signature.

THE WINTER QUEEN

Josephine Ross
THE WINTER QUEEN: The Story of Elizabeth Stuart
The story of the fascinating Elizabeth Stuart, daughter of James I. Unlike her father, she was both beautiful and popular, and, although it was her destiny to live most of her life on foreign soil, she never lost her reputation as England's Protestant Princess and the namesake of the great Queen.
165 pages hardback (Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1979)
Condition: has faded top page edges and d/w and owner's signature

REVOLT OF THE NETHERLANDS & HISTORICAL DRAMAS

Friedrich Schiller
REVOLT OF THE NETHERLANDS & HISTORICAL DRAMAS
Hardback (George Bell & Sons, 1877)
Condition: has worn cover with top spine torn and owner's signature

MAXIMILIAN & CARLOTA

Gene Smith
MAXIMILIAN & CARLOTA: The Habsburg Tragedy in Mexico
The tragic story of Maximilian of Austria who was proclaimed Emperor of Mexico in 1864 but was deposed three years later and executed by firing squad. His young wife lived on until 1927 to die a crazy eighty-seven-year-old inmate of a castle outside Brussels.
318 pages hardback George Harrap/PBS, 1974)
Condition: PBS club edition with faded page edges, good d/w; has owner's signature.

THE D'ALIGRES DE LA RIVIERE

D J Sturdy
THE D'ALIGRES DE LA RIVIERE
In the late 16th century the d'Aligres were a solid, reasonably prosperous family living in Chartres, with few pretensions to a grander station in life; by the mid-1620s they had moved to Paris, reached the topmost levels of central government, and acquired a noble title. Two members of the family, a father and a son, became Chancellors of France; others were distinguished in their different careers. The d'Aligres amassed extensive estates, married well, and figured among the great robe families by the end of the 17th century.
This case study uses the d'Aligres to examine themes in the political and social history of early-modern France with particular concentration on the 17th century when the Bourbon state of which the d'Alligres were assiduous servants was acquiring its definitive shape.
254 pages hardback (St Martin's Press, 1986)
Condition: good £6.00

IMPERIAL BERLIN

Prince Bernhard von Bulow
IMPERIAL BERLIN
Imperial Germany's politics and policy as seen from the inside through the words of
290 pages hardback (Cassell, 1914)
Condition: Cloth cover has bookseller's sticker and faded spine and reverse. Keywords: European history

THE CRIMEAN WAR

Philip Warner
THE CRIMEAN WAR: A Reappraisal
In his reassesssment of the war, Warner seeks to uncover the true course of the war, to place the heroics in their proper context and to show how Gerneral Simpson's description of the assault on the redan can be applied to the whole war.
232 pages hardback (Readers' Union, 1973)
Condition: Victoria & Modern History Book Club edition with dust stained top page edges, faded d/w and owner's signature

THE SOCIAL CONTRACT

Jean-Jacques Rouseau

THE SOCIAL CONTRACT

188 pages paperback (Penguin, 1970)

Condition: has faded pages and owner’s signature