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Published by Brand: John Murray Publishers, Ltd., 1999
ISBN 10: 0719557135ISBN 13: 9780719557132
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: Good. In the 1920s and '30s, Shanghai was known as "The Whore of the Orient," home to gangsters and warlords, nightclubs that never closed, and hotels that supplied heroin with room service. The city became the epitome of glamour, immortalized in books and films. With its bustling, polyglot population of British, Chinese, Americans, French, Germans, Japanese, and White Russians, and with its extremes of poverty and wealth, it appeared to straddle both East and West. By the time the Chinese Communist takeover in 1949 had destroyed the illusion, Shanghai had passed into legend. Here, through firsthand accounts, skillful research, and imaginative reconstruction, Harriet Sergeant brings the city's heyday vividly to life in a captivating account of its rise and fall. Harriet Sergeant is the author of Between the Lines and The Old Sow in the Back Room, which Booklist hailed as an "elegant, emotional, and fascinating portrayal.".
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Published by Brand: John Murray Pubs Ltd, 1996
ISBN 10: 0719556236ISBN 13: 9780719556234
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. In this commonplace book, John Murray has drawn together a collection of wise, thoughtful, and witty proverbs and sayings. The volume includes illustrations, some sent by the authors of the sayings themselves, including John Piper, John Craxton, Beryl Cook, and Val Biro.
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Published by Brand: John Murray Publishers Ltd, 1999
ISBN 10: 0719560403ISBN 13: 9780719560408
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. There have been many books about Victorian and Edwardian houses, but this is the first to concentrate on the taste of the nouveaux riches. Not just the rich but the very rich: those who grew immensely wealthy in the aftermath of the Industrial Revolution. Cotton, shipping, steel, real estate, diamonds, chemicals, banking, the stock market-that was how they made their money. But what did they do with it? Where and how did they live? J. Mordaunt Crook, one of Britain's leading architectural historians, describes the houses of the richest of the new rich-the Rothschilds, the Guinnesses, the Beits and the Brasseys, the Barings, the Wernhers, the Tennants, the Sassoons-and explains the economic and social context that sustained their extraordinary lifestyles. In effect, he tells the story of the remaking of the British ruling class. Enhanced with numerous photos as well as excerpts from novels, diaries, and memoirs.
Published by Brand: John Murray Publishers, 2023
ISBN 10: 0719566975ISBN 13: 9780719566974
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. You'll know them all: the armchair spectators supporting the plucky little Brit at Wimbledon; the Atkins dieter, with her mantra of 'Can I eat this?'; the white van man who cannot see the KEEP CLEAR sign because he has parked on top of it; the toddler whose favourite playthings are wall sockets and cats' tails. And of course the perfect family, whose children are all stars and so positive, even in a cyclone on holiday in Mauritius. Skewering affectation and exposing human folly, Victoria Mather and Sue Macartney-Snape are back with a hilarious set of Social Stereotypes in which we'll recognize everyone around us, including ourselves.
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Published by Brand: John Murray Publishers, 1979
ISBN 10: 0719536553ISBN 13: 9780719536557
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Book by Parkinson, C. Northcote.
Published by Brand: John Murray, 2006
ISBN 10: 0719563453ISBN 13: 9780719563454
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. It seemed a simple enough idea at the outset: to assemble a team of eleven men to play cricket on each of the seven continents of the globe. Except - hold on a minute - that's not a simple idea at all. And when you throw in incompetent airline officials, amorous Argentine Colonels' wives, cunning Bajan drug dealers, gay Australian waiters, overzealous American anti-terrorist police, idiot Welshmen dressed as Santa Claus, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and whole armies of pitch-invading Antarctic penguins, you quickly arrive at a whole lot more than you bargained for. Harry Thompson's hilarious book tells the story of one of those great idiotic enterprises that only an Englishman could have dreamed up, and only a bunch of Englishmen could possibly have wished to carry out.
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Published by Brand: John Murray Publishers Ltd, 1996
ISBN 10: 0719555515ISBN 13: 9780719555510
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. In a rule-governed society where a woman is a chattel of her father or her husband, romantic love is a game played for high stakes. This book shows how women strove for love in the colourful, politically turbulent Regency era. The unfortunate daughters of George III are part of this social history.
Published by Brand: John Murray Publishers, 2024
ISBN 10: 0719564158ISBN 13: 9780719564154
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Percy Sykes was sent to Persia by Army Intelligence in the 1890s, first as an explorer and spy, then to open consulates along Persia's eastern borders. His job was to deter Russian expansion towards India. Unpaid, he rode through thousands of miles of the harshest desert, marsh and mountain, often with his indomitable sister, who kept house for him until he married.
Published by Brand: John Murray Publishers, Ltd., 1998
ISBN 10: 0719555671ISBN 13: 9780719555671
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. "It was John Harris' mournful voice that tolled out the catalogue of demolition in 'The Destruction of the Country House' exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum, that devastating show that effectively launched Britain's 'Heritage' movement in 1974. His morbid fascination with [Britain's] empty, derelict, and dying country houses in the late 1940s and 1950s is the principal theme of this intensely romantic, poignant, angry, frequently hilarious, and hauntingly illustrated memoir." The Daily Telegraph.
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Published by Brand: John Murray Publishers Ltd, 1991
ISBN 10: 071954775XISBN 13: 9780719547751
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. BATEY, M. / D. LAMBERT: THE ENGLISH GARDEN TOUR. A VIEW INTO THE PAST. LONDON, 1990, 312 p. color laminas.Encuadernacion original. Nuevo.
Published by Brand: John Murray Publishers Ltd, 2024
ISBN 10: 0719552435ISBN 13: 9780719552434
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. How does one empire differ from another? Why do empires rise and fall? What has made empires flourish in some eras and regions of the world but not in others? In this broad and ambitious book, Dominic Lieven explores the place and meaning of empire from ancient Rome to the present.The central focus of the book is Russia and the rise and fall of the Tsarist and the Soviet Empires. The overwhelming majority of works on empire concentrate on the European maritime powers. Lieven's comparative approach highlights the important role played by Russia in the expansion of Europe and its rise to global dominance. The book contrasts the nature, strategies, and fate of empire in Russia with that of its major rivals, the Habsburg, Ottoman, and British empires, and considers a broad range of other cases from ancient China and Rome to the present-day United States, Indonesia, India, and the European Union.Many of the dilemmas of empire persist in today's world, and Lieven throws new light on some of the most intractable current examples, including the crisis in the former Soviet Union, the troubles in Ulster, and ethnic cleansing in the Balkans. This major examination of the imperial experience presents history on the grandest scale, combining formidable erudition with stimulating readability.
Published by Brand: John Murray, 2005
ISBN 10: 0719561310ISBN 13: 9780719561313
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Softcover. Condition: Good. When hundreds of warships belonging to the two most powerful fleets in the world clashed off the coast of Denmark in 1916, the encounter had the potential to reshape the political map forever. However, there were devastating failures of communication and command and, while the Battle of Jutland met Britain's strategic need for continued maritime dominance, the Royal Navy failed to crush its numerically inferior German opponent. The encounter has remained an enduring source of controversy ever since. A remarkable saga of genius, tragedy, and passive corruption emerges. In telling this remarkable story of Nelsonic pragmatism overwhelmed by peacetime vested interests, Andrew Gordon shows what had changed for the worse in the "rules of the game" during a long century of peace, and draws fascinating and challenging conclusions.
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Published by Brand: John Murray Publishers Ltd, 1990
ISBN 10: 0719547857ISBN 13: 9780719547850
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. In this account of the relationship between Napoleon Bonaparte and his wife, Josephine, the author has incorporated recent findings that include a new view about Napoleon's parents, Josephine's love letters to Hippolyte Charles and speculations about Napoleon's complex sexual orientation. Besotted by Josephine during the early years of their marriage, Napoleon, in the face of her indifference and infidelity, gradually became less obsessed with her and eventually divorced her in 1809 to remarry and produce an heir. Theo Aronson has also written "The King in Edward VII's Mistresses".
Published by Brand: John Murray, 1979
ISBN 10: 0801042135ISBN 13: 9780801042133
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No dust jacket as issued.
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Published by Brand: John Murray Publishers Ltd, 1990
ISBN 10: 0719548187ISBN 13: 9780719548185
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Burton: Snow Upon the Desert.
Published by Brand: John Murray Publishers Ltd, 2024
ISBN 10: 0719566061ISBN 13: 9780719566066
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Freedom of expression and individual enterprise have distinguished the societies of powers dominant at sea; and since supreme maritime nations have prevailed over their territorial rivals in the great wars of the modern era, it is they who have created today's world. In this final volume of his masterful trilogy, Peter Padfield carries the theme through the terrible wars of the last century to the present.
Published by Brand: John Murray Publishers Ltd, 2023
ISBN 10: 0719557534ISBN 13: 9780719557538
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. From the day Mussolini's Italy declared war on Britain in June 1940, the island of Malta was under siege. Its strategic importance was obvious to both sides, standing as it did in the central Mediterranean, athwart the supply route between Italy and the Axis armies in North Africa. It had therefore to be bombed out of existence by the Axis powers, and preserved at all costs by the British.That Malta survived was due in part to the courage and fortitude of the Maltese population and the airmen and soldiers who endured the Axis' bombing, contested the air-space above the island and maintained its defences. But without food, aircraft, ammunition and all the impedimenta necessary to warfare in a modern era, courage and fortitude would have counted for little.The expenditure of vast resources to keep Malta alive and capable of acting offensively has attracted much criticism from historians armed with the wisdom of hindsight. But the fact remains that it was done by the exertion of sea-power, of men-of-war and merchant ships acting as a single arm of British policy. It is this stark and determined effort that is detailed here.This review of the contest of air-power against sea-power by a professional seafarer, emphasizing the part played by the Merchant Navy, has new resonance in the light of recent events in Europe.
Published by Brand: John Murray Publishers Ltd, 1998
ISBN 10: 0719555965ISBN 13: 9780719555961
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Ancient as the Hills Diaries, 1973-1974.
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Published by Brand: John Murray, 2010
ISBN 10: 1848541899ISBN 13: 9781848541894
Seller: Books of the Smoky Mountains, Del Rio, TN, U.S.A.
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Condition: very good. Gently used book with ongoing seller support until you're fully satisfied with your purchase.
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Published by Brand: John Murray Publishers, 1972
ISBN 10: 071952640XISBN 13: 9780719526404
Seller: Books of the Smoky Mountains, Del Rio, TN, U.S.A.
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Published by Brand: John Murray, 2009
ISBN 10: 0719521122ISBN 13: 9780719521126
Seller: Books of the Smoky Mountains, Del Rio, TN, U.S.A.
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Published by Brand: John Murray, 2006
ISBN 10: 0719561264ISBN 13: 9780719561269
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Published by Brand: John Murray Publishers Ltd, 1991
ISBN 10: 0719549647ISBN 13: 9780719549649
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Published by Brand: John Murray Publishers Ltd, 1994
ISBN 10: 0719550157ISBN 13: 9780719550157
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Published by Brand: John Murray Publishers, Ltd., 2005
ISBN 10: 0719564174ISBN 13: 9780719564178
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Published by Brand: John Murray, 1993
ISBN 10: 0719553210ISBN 13: 9780719553219
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Published by Brand: John Murray Publishers Ltd, 1989
ISBN 10: 0719546486ISBN 13: 9780719546488
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: Good. This detailed travel companion to the Aegean area of Turkey focuses on the history and archaeological sites of the region. The author examines the many west and south-west sites of the country, including Pergamum, Horacleia, Sardis, Ephesus, Priene, Miletus and Didyma.
Published by Brand: John Murray Publishers Ltd, 1994
ISBN 10: 0719553628ISBN 13: 9780719553622
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Published by Brand: John Murray Publishers Ltd, 2010
ISBN 10: 0719565553ISBN 13: 9780719565557
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Published by Brand: John Murray, 2007
ISBN 10: 0719520924ISBN 13: 9780719520921
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