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Imperial Skirmishes War and Gunboat Diplomacy in Latin America
ISBN: PB: 9781902669212, Signal Books, May 2002
220 pp., 22.7x15.2 cm, black&white illus.
For sale in CIS only! Notorious for its recent military dictatorships, South America is less well known for its wars. But since the dawn of independence in the early nineteenth century, the continent has witnessed a series of conflicts, some short a...
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£14,99
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Silent Traveller in London
ISBN: PB: 9781902669410, Signal Books, October 2001
232 pp., 20.4x13.4 cm
For sale in CIS only! By the 1930s Western books about China were common. But a book about the West, and particularly London, written by a Chinese author, was a rarity – and continues to be so.Chiang Yee's account of London, first published in 1938,...
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£10,99
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Romantic in Spain
ISBN: PB: 9781902669397, Signal Books, September 2001
312 pp., 20.3x13.3 cm
For sale in CIS only! "I travel for the sake of travelling, to escape from myself and others. I travel to make a dream come true, quite simply, or to change skin if you like". In May 1840, Theophile Gautier, the enfant terrible of the French Romanti...
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£12,99
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Venice A Cultural and Literary History
ISBN: PB: 9781902669298, Signal Books, May 2001
219 pp., 20.4x13.6 cm
For sale in CIS only! Established on its many islands by Roman refugees, the centre of a maritime empire, a republic for a thousand years, Venice has always been distinct from the rest of Italy, and from anywhere else. Its unique light and hundreds...
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£12,00
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Old Provence
ISBN: PB: 9781902669199, Signal Books, April 2001
384 pp., 20.3x13.3 cm
For sale in CIS only! "Deep as we may bury the Roman Empire, we cannot hide it in the valley of the Rhone; for its bones pierce through Provensal soil in many places as though that giant grave were still too narrow for the skeleton of a past that ca...
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Madrid A Cultural and Literary History
ISBN: PB: 9781902669274, Signal Books, March 2001
256 pp., 20.4x13.6 cm
For sale in CIS only! Planted by royal whim in a harsh, sun-drenched tableland, Madrid flaunts its distinctive Spanish identity as the most vibrant of Europe's capitals. An imperial court, remote from external influences, produced durable curiositie...
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£12,00
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Two Years in the French West Indies
ISBN: PB: 9781902669175, Signal Books, December 2000
384 pp., 20.3x13.3 cm
For sale in CIS only! In October 1887 the writer and translator Lafcadio Hearn sailed from New York to Martinique, where he fell under the spell of the island and its people. Intending to stay only a few months, he remained there for two years, imme...
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£12,99
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Mexico City A Cultural and Literary History
ISBN: PB: 9781902669076, Signal Books, July 2000
256 pp., 20.4x13.6 cm
For sale in CIS only! Mexico City is a place of superlatives. The oldest city in the Americas, it is now the world's largest urban area. Formerly the centre of the Aztec and Spanish empires, this vast modern metropolis is home to over fifteen millio...
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£12,00
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New Nukes India, Pakistan and Global Disarmament
ISBN: PB: 9781902669250, Signal Books, February 2000
340 pp., 22.4x14.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The recent Indian and Pakistani nuclear tests brought nuclear proliferation and the terrible threat of nuclear war back to the world's centre stage. The south Asian nuclear moves have raised regional tensions, transformed Kashm...
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£12,99
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Oxford A Cultural and Literary History
ISBN: PB: 9781902669052, Signal Books, November 1999
256 pp., 20.4x13.6 cm
For sale in CIS only! Celebrated by Matthew Arnold as the "city of dreaming spires", Oxford has a long and illustrious history as one of Europe's oldest university towns. Its colleges, libraries and museums, ranging from the medieval to the modern,...
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