Slave Empire: How Slavery Built Modern Britain 1472142357, 9781472142351

Foundations: How the Built Environment Made Twentieth-Century Britain 9780691208558

An urban history of modern Britain, and how the built environment shaped the nation’s politics Foundations is a histor

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Elizabethans: How Modern Britain Was Forged 9780008298425

Who made modern Britain the country it is today? How do we sum up the kind of people we are? What does it mean to be the

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Distant Strangers: How Britain Became Modern 9780520957787

What does it mean to live in the modern world? How different is that world from those that preceded it, and when did we

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How Governors Built the Modern American Presidency 9780812206234

Saladin M. Ambar's innovative study is the first book to explicitly credit governors with making the presidency wha

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Empireland: How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain 9780241445334, 0241445337

'This remarkable book shines the brightest of lights into some of the darkest and most misunderstood corners of our

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Empireland : How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain 9780593316689, 9780593316672

A best-selling journalist’s illuminating tour through the hidden legacies and modern realities of British empire that ex

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Jack White: How He Built an Empire From the Blues 9781783058181

The only biography of the "coolest, weirdest, savviest rock star of our time" (The New York Times Magazine).

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American Negro Slavery - Modern Reader

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Addressing Modern Slavery 174223643X, 9781742236438

An estimated 40 million people are modern-day slaves, more than ever before in human history. Long after slavery was off

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Dragons: ten entrepreneurs who built Britain 9781781857472, 9781781857465, 1781857474

Britain's rise to global dominance from the 16th century owed as much to the vision and creativity of traders, indu

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