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The First English Revolution

Simon de Montfort, Henry III and the Barons' War

By: Adrian Jobson

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The First English Revolution

Simon de Montfort, Henry III and the Barons' War

By: Adrian Jobson

Simon de Montfort, the leader of the English barons, was the first leader of a political movement to seize power from a reigning monarch. The charismatic de Montfort and his forces had captured most of south-eastern England by 1263 and at the battle of Lewes in 1264 King Henry III was defeated and taken prisoner. De Montfort became de facto ruler of England and the short period which followed was the closest England was to come to complete abolition of the monarchy until Oliver Cromwell's Commonwealth. The Parliament of 1265 - known as De Montfort's Parliament - was the first English parliament to have elected representatives. Only fifteen months later de Montfort's gains were reversed when Prince Edward escaped captivity and defeated the rebels at the Battle of Evesham. Simon de Montfort was killed. Following this victory savage retribution was exacted on the rebels and authority was restored to Henry III. Adrian Jobson captures the intensity of de Montfort's radical crusade through these most revolutionary years in English history in this spirited and dramatic narrative.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1441133011

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9781441133014

The Unpublished Letters of Henry St John, First Viscount Bolingbroke Vol 4

By: Adrian Lashmore-Davies,Mark Goldie

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The Unpublished Letters of Henry St John, First Viscount Bolingbroke Vol 4

By: Adrian Lashmore-Davies,Mark Goldie

Henry St John, First Viscount Bolingbroke (1678-1751) enjoyed varied political and literary careers. This five-volume edition draws together his letters. It includes a general introduction, headnotes, biographical index and a consolidated index. It is suitable for historians and literary scholars working in the eighteenth century.

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Routledge

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1000162052

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9781000162059

The Unpublished Letters of Henry St John, First Viscount Bolingbroke Vol 2

By: Adrian Lashmore-Davies,Mark Goldie

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The Unpublished Letters of Henry St John, First Viscount Bolingbroke Vol 2

By: Adrian Lashmore-Davies,Mark Goldie

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1000162036

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The Edwin Fox

How an Ordinary Sailing Ship Connected the World in the Age of Globalization, 1850–1914

By: Boyd Cothran,Adrian Shubert

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The Edwin Fox

How an Ordinary Sailing Ship Connected the World in the Age of Globalization, 1850–1914

By: Boyd Cothran,Adrian Shubert

It began as a small, slow, and unadorned sailing vessel—in a word, ordinary. Later, it was a weary workhorse in the age of steam. But the story of the Edwin Fox reveals how an everyday merchant ship drew together a changing world and its people in an extraordinary age of rising empires, sweeping economic transformation, and social change. This fascinating work of global history offers a vividly detailed and engaging narrative of globalization writ small, viewed from the decks and holds of a single vessel. The Edwin Fox connected the lives and histories of millions, though most never even saw it. Built in Calcutta in 1853, the Edwin Fox was chartered by the British navy as a troop transport during the Crimean War. In the following decades, it was sold, recommissioned, and refitted by an increasingly far-flung constellation of militaries and merchants. It sailed to exotic ports carrying luxury goods, mundane wares, and all kinds of people: not just soldiers and officials but indentured laborers brought from China to Cuba, convicts and settlers being transported from the British Empire to western Australia and New Zealand—with dire consequences for local Indigenous peoples—and others. But the power of this story rests in the everyday ways people, nations, economies, and ideas were knitted together in this foundational era of our modern world.

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UNC Press Books

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9798890862440

Keating on Construction Contracts

By: Stephen Furst,Vivian Ramsey,Sarah Hannaford,Adrian Williamson,Donald Keating,John Uff

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Keating on Construction Contracts

By: Stephen Furst,Vivian Ramsey,Sarah Hannaford,Adrian Williamson,Donald Keating,John Uff

With a chapter on public procurement by Sarah Hannaford ; A commentary on JCT forms of contract by Adirian Williamson, and a commentary of the infrastructure conditions of contract by John Uff

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Sweet & Maxwell

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0414047923

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9780414047921

Mixed-Race and Modernity in Colonial India

Changing Concepts of Hybridity Across Empires

By: Adrian Carton

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Mixed-Race and Modernity in Colonial India

Changing Concepts of Hybridity Across Empires

By: Adrian Carton

Focusing on Portuguese, British and French colonial spaces, this book traces changing concepts of mixed-race identity in early colonial India. Starting in the sixteenth century, it discusses how the emergence of race was always shaped by affiliations based on religion, class, national identity, gender and citizenship across empires. In the context of increasing British power, the book looks at the Anglo-French tensions of the eighteenth century to consider the relationship between modernity and race-making. Arguing that different forms of modernity produced divergent categories of hybridity, it considers the impact of changing political structures on mixed-race communities. With its emphasis on specificity, the book situates current and past debates on the mixed-race experience and the politics of whiteness in broader historical and global contexts. By contributing to the understanding of race-making as an aspect of colonial governance, the book illuminates some margins of colonial India that are often lost in the shadows of the British regime. It is of interest to academics of world history, postcolonial studies, South Asian imperial history and critical mixed-race studies.

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Routledge

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1136325026

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9781136325021

The Unpublished Letters of Henry St John, First Viscount Bolingbroke Vol 5

By: Adrian Lashmore-Davies,Mark Goldie

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The Unpublished Letters of Henry St John, First Viscount Bolingbroke Vol 5

By: Adrian Lashmore-Davies,Mark Goldie

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1000162060

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Colchester, Fortress of the War God

an Archaeological Assessment

By: David Radford,Adrian Gascoyne

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Colchester, Fortress of the War God

an Archaeological Assessment

By: David Radford,Adrian Gascoyne

This volume is a critical assessment of the current state of archaeological knowledge of the settlement originally called Camulodunon and now known as Colchester. The town has been the subject of antiquarian interest since the late 16th century and the first modern archaeological excavations occurred in 1845 close to Colchester Castle, the towns most prominent historic site. The earliest significant human occupation recorded from Colchester dates to the late Neolithic, but it was only towards the end of the 1st century BC that an oppidum was established in the area. This was superseded initially by a Roman legionary fortress and then the colonia of Camulodunum on a hilltop bounded on the north and east by the river Colne. There is little evidence for continuing occupation here in the early post-Roman period, but in 917 the town was re-established as a burgh and gradually grew in importance. After the Norman Conquest, a castle was built on the foundations of the ruined Roman Temple of Claudius, and a priory and an abbey were established just to the south of the walled town. Although the town, as elsewhere, was affected by the Dissolution of the Monasteries and the English Civil War it remained essentially medieval in character until the 18th century. During the 19th century this process of change was accelerated by the arrival of the railway, industrialisation and the establishment of the military garrison. Since the 1960s Colchester has been subject to recurring phases of re-development, the most recent having ended only in 2007, which have had a significant impact on the historic environment. Fortunately the town is one of the best studied in the country.

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Oxbow Books

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1782970754

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9781782970750

Theoretical Geomorphology

By: Adrian E. Scheidegger

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Theoretical Geomorphology

By: Adrian E. Scheidegger

The surface features of the Earth are commonly split into two categories, the first of which comprises those features that are due to processes occurring inside the solid Earth (endogenic features) and the second those that are due to processes occurring outside the solid Earth (exogenic features). Specifically, the endogenic features are treated in the science of geodynamics, the exogenic features in the science of geomorphology. I have treated the theoretical aspects of the endogenic features in my Principles of Geodynamics, and it is my aim to supplement my earlier book with a discussion of the theory of the exogenic features, the taxonomy of the latter having been discussed in my Systematic Geomorphology. It is my hope that the three books will together pre sent a reasonably coherent, if necessarily incomplete, account of theoretical geology. Contrary to endogenic phenomena, exogenic processes can often be directly observed as they occur: the action of a river, the develop ment of a slope, and the evolution of a shore platform are all suffi ciently rapid so that they can be seen as they take place. This has the result that in geomorphology one is generally on much less specula tive ground regarding the mechanics of the processes at work than one is in geodynamics.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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364275659X

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9783642756597

Cutting Code

Software and Sociality

By: Adrian Mackenzie

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Cutting Code

Software and Sociality

By: Adrian Mackenzie

Software has often been marginalized in accounts of digital cultures and network societies. Although software is everywhere, it is hard to say what it actually is. Cutting Code: Software and Sociality is one of the first books to treat software seriously as a full-blown cultural process and as a subtly powerful material in contemporary communication. From deCSS to Java, from Linux to Extreme Programming, this book analyses software artworks, operating systems, commercial products, infrastructures, and programming practices. It explores social forms, identities, materialities, and power relations associated with software, and it asks how software provokes the re-thinking of production, consumption and distribution as entwined cultural processes. Cutting Code argues that analysis of code as a mosaic of algorithms, protocols, infrastructures, and programming conventions offers valuable insights into how contemporary social formations invent new kinds of personhood and new ways of acting.

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Peter Lang

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0820478237

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9780820478234

Supported Reagents

Preparation, Analysis, and Applications

By: James H. Clark,Adrian P. Kybett,Duncan J. Macquarrie

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Supported Reagents

Preparation, Analysis, and Applications

By: James H. Clark,Adrian P. Kybett,Duncan J. Macquarrie

In diesem Buch werden wertvolle Informationen zur Chemie der Tragerreagenzien dargeboten, die bisher in der chemischen Literatur oder in entsprechenden Abstracts nur sehr schwer zu finden waren. Materialien und deren Praparation, sowie Analysemethoden und Fallstudien werden ausfuhrlich beschrieben. In der Entwicklung von Tragerreagenzien und deren potentieller Anwendung in der organischen Synthese gab es in jungster Zeit einen regelrechten Boom. Ein ganz entscheidender Vorteil von Tragerreagenzien ist ihre Umweltvertraglichkeit. Sie stellen somit eine interessante Alternative zu den konventionellen Reagenzien dar, die korrodierend, unwirtschaftlich und vor allem schwer zu entsorgen sind.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0471187798

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9780471187790

Death and the Victorians

A Dark Fascination

By: Adrian Mackinder

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Death and the Victorians

A Dark Fascination

By: Adrian Mackinder

From spooky stories and real-life ghost hunting, to shows about murder and serial killers, we are fascinated by death - and we owe these modern obsessions to the Victorian age. Death and the Victorians explores a period in history when the search for the truth about what lies beyond our mortal realm was matched only by the imagination and invention used to find it. Walk among London’s festering graveyards, where the dead were literally rising from the grave. Visit the Paris Morgue, where thousands flocked to view the spectacle of death every single day. Lift the veil on how spirits were invited into the home, secret societies taught ways to survive death, and the latest science and technology was applied to provide proof of the afterlife. Find out why the Victorian era is considered the golden age of the ghost story, exemplified by tales from the likes of Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, Oscar Wilde and Henry James. Discover how the birth of the popular press nurtured our taste for murder and that Jack the Ripper was actually a work of pure Gothic horror fiction crafted by cynical Victorian newspapermen. Death and the Victorians exposes the darker side of the nineteenth century, a time when the living were inventing incredible ways to connect with the dead that endure to this day.

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Pen and Sword History

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1399082582

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9781399082587

A Bird Atlas of Kenya

By: Adrian Lewis

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A Bird Atlas of Kenya

By: Adrian Lewis

Kenya, a country only the size of Texas, has one of the richest avifaunas in Africa. This atlas is an explanatory overview of Kenya's 1065 species, essential both to the birdwatcher as a means of finding birds and interpreting the significance of field observations, and to the ornithologist as a standard reference work.

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Routledge

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1351470116

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9781351470117

Recruiting, Retaining and Releasing People

By: Adrian Mackay

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Recruiting, Retaining and Releasing People

By: Adrian Mackay

The greater part of an HR budget is spent on recruitment and retaining good people is key to a company's success. This book contains essential and up-to-date material around recruitment and retention including those issues that are currently pressing on companies with regard to flexibilty, returning to work, coaching and skills shortages. The problems of retirement, redundancy and dismissal are also addressed which is an integral part but not included in many texts. It provides the student and the professional with one place to find all the aspects and consequences of good practice in recruitment and retention.

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Routledge

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113636952X

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9781136369520

Victoria's Scottish Lion

The Life of Colin Campbell, Lord Clyde

By: Adrian Greenwood,Philip J Haythornthwaite

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Victoria's Scottish Lion

The Life of Colin Campbell, Lord Clyde

By: Adrian Greenwood,Philip J Haythornthwaite

From humble Glasgow beginnings, Colin Campbell rose to become Scotland’s finest general and a favourite of Queen Victoria. In his fifty-year career he fought through the Peninsula, the Crimea, China and India, and still found time to contain a slave revolt, a Chartist revolution and Ireland’s Tithe War. Through a combination of personal courage, compassionate leadership and genius for military strategy he became an idol for the men who served under him. This undisputed hero, whose memory has grown faint beside celebrated warriors of the Victorian age, was a soldier ahead of his time – the first working-class field marshal, with strong humanitarian leanings and an instinct for harnessing the power of the press. In the first major biography of Campbell since 1880 his career is radically reinterpreted and the life of this very private man is revealed. 'Victoria's Scottish Lion' was shortlisted for The Society for Army Historical Research's 2015 Templar Prize.

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The History Press

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0750965541

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9780750965545

The Weasel

A Double Life in the Mob

By: Adrian Humphreys

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The Weasel

A Double Life in the Mob

By: Adrian Humphreys

In the world of organized crime, the bosses grab the headlines. But a crime family has many working parts and the young mobster known as The Weasel was the epitome of a crucial, invisible cog—the soldier, the muscle, the driver, the gopher. By a quirk of fate, Marvin Elkind—The Weasel—was placed in the Toronto foster home of a tough gangster family, immersing him from the age of nine in a daring world of con men, cheats, bootleggers, bank robbers and Mafia bosses. During a Golden Age of underworld life in New York, Detroit and across Canada, The Weasel found himself working with a surprising cast of colourful characters. He befriended powerful gangsters by smuggling bottles of Scotch to their tables at New York’s famed Copacabana, and he was pushed to be Jimmy Hoffa’s chauffeur. But his disenchantment with broken promises put him in the hands of law enforcement and he made an abrupt career change, becoming Canada’s most prolific police informant. As he traveled the world befriending and betraying a stunning array of mobsters, mercenaries, spies, drug traffickers, pornographers, union fat cats and corrupt politicians, The Weasel learned he was a far better fink than he ever was a crook. The Weasel reveals a unique and engaging figure who lived a dangerous and rare experience.

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Harper Collins

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1443427578

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9781443427579

See Inside an Aztec Town

By: Cottie Arthur Burland,Adrian Sington,Charlotte Snook

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See Inside an Aztec Town

By: Cottie Arthur Burland,Adrian Sington,Charlotte Snook

Text and illustrations describe the history and culture of the Aztecs, once the most powerful civilization in Central America.

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0091396700

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Writing!

An Informal, Anecdotal Guide to the Secrets of Crafting and Selling Non-fiction

By: Adrian Waller

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Writing!

An Informal, Anecdotal Guide to the Secrets of Crafting and Selling Non-fiction

By: Adrian Waller

Subtitle: an informal, anecdotal guide to the secrets of crafting and selling non-fiction. Waller provides information on research, preparing proposals, interviewing, and organizing ideas. The end result is a highly polished final draft which adheres to the standards required by the top magazines.

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McClelland & Stewart

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0771087942

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9780771087943

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