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Politics of Empire at the Accession of George III The East India Company and the Crisis and Transformation of Britain's Imperial State

Vaughn James M.

ISBN: HB: 9780300208269, Yale University Press, April 2019
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

In this bold debut work, historian James M. Vaughn challenges the scholarly consensus that British India and the Second Empire were founded "in a fit of absence of mind". He instead argues that the origins of the Raj and the largest empire of the mod...

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Secret Expedition The Anglo-Russian Invasion of Holland 1799

van Uythoven Geert

ISBN: HB: 9781912390205, Casemate, Helion and Company, September 2018
304 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 23 images, 20 photos, 8 colour maps

In 1799, as part of the Second Coalition against France, an Anglo-Russian army landed in Holland to overthrow the Batavian Republic and to reinstate the Stadtholder William V of Orange. Initially called "The Secret Expedition", although not really a...

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Military

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Battle of Cherkassy

von Vormann Nikolaus

ISBN: HB: 9781612006031, Casemate, September 2018
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 maps

In 1943 the tide began to turn against Germany on the Eastern Front. Their summer offensive, Operation Citadel, was a failure, and the Red Army seized the initiative, despite appallingly high losses. Waging a war of attrition, the Russians gradually...

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Bodleian Library Treasures

Vaisey David

ISBN: PB: 9781851244089, ISBN: HB: 9781851244775, Bodleian Library Publishing, September 2017
240 pp., 27x27 cm, 180 colour illus.

Since its foundation in 1602, the Bodleian Library has acquired manuscripts, printed books, maps, music and ephemera in all languages, from all ages and from all corners of the globe. From this huge collection David Vaisey, former Bodley's Librarian...

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Biography & Memoires

Henry V The Conscience of a King

Vale Malcolm

ISBN: HB: 9780300148732, Yale University Press, September 2016
328 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

More than just a single-minded warrior-king, Henry V comes to life in this fresh account as a gifted ruler acutely conscious of spiritual matters and his subjects' welfare Shakespeare's centuries-old portrayal of Henry V established the king's reputa...

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Contemporary Art

Europe

Art of the Multitude Jochen Gerz-Participation and the European Experience

Vickery Jonathen P., Manus Mechtild

ISBN: PB: 9783593505640, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, September 2016
200 pp., 21.6x17.1 cm, 50 colour plates

Contemporary European public art often addresses the past and future of European unity, democracy, immigration, and civil rights".The Art of the Multitude" explores how participation in art works affects the formation of public memory, the commemorat...

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Politics of Cultural Retreat Imperial Bureaucracy in Austrian Galicia, 1772-1867

Vushko Iryna

ISBN: HB: 9780300207279, Yale University Press, August 2015
328 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 10 black&white illus.

An illuminating history of state-building, nationalism, and bureaucracy, this book tells the story of how an international cohort of Austrian officials from Bohemia, Hungary, the Hapsburg Netherlands, Italy, and several German states administered Gal...

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Magna Carta Origins and Legacy

Vincent Nicholas

ISBN: PB: 9781851243631, Bodleian Library Publishing, August 2015
160 pp., 25x21 cm, 40 colour illus.

Magna Carta is arguably the most famous document in world history. 2015 marks its 800th anniversary. Yet, until relatively recently, it was unknown how many versions of the document survive, the means by which they were distributed, or the relationsh...

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Culture Studies

Androids in the Enlightenment Mechanics, Artisans, and Cultures of the Self

Voskuhl Adelheid

ISBN: PB: 9780226034164, ISBN: HB: 9780226034027, University of Chicago Press, March 2015
288 pp., 23x15 cm, 8 halftones, 4 line illus.

The eighteenth century saw the creation of a number of remarkable mechanical androids: at least ten prominent automata were built between 1735 and 1810 by clockmakers, court mechanics, and other artisans from France, Switzerland, Austria, and the Ger...

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New World Gold Cultural Anxiety and Monetary Disorder in Early Modern Spain

Vilches Elvira

ISBN: HB: 9780226856186, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
368 pp., 21.5x14 cm

The discovery of the New World was initially a cause for celebration. But the vast amounts of gold that Columbus and other explorers claimed from these lands altered Spanish society. The influx of such wealth contributed to the expansion of the Spani...

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