This gripping biographical study, published here for the first time in paperback, explores the immensely complicated relationship that existed between A.L. Rowse and his native Cornwall.

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9780859897983 | Published: 2007

Hardback    £60.00
9780859897440 | Published: 2005

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9780859898966 | Published: 2015

After the Ruins uses both official and unofficial records to explore a relatively ignored aspect of recent rural history: how the fields, farms, villages and market towns of Northern France were restored during the 1920s in the aftermath of the Great War.

Hardback    £65.00
9780859894913 | Published: 1996

The "inquisition" (Mihnah) unleashed by the seventh Abbasid caliph, 'Abdallah al-Ma'mun (r. 813-833), has long attracted the attention of modern scholars of the intellectual, political, and religious history of the early Abbasid era. Historians have seen it as the key to a wide array of puzzles and problems in early Islamic history.

Paperback    £37.00
9781937040550 | Published: 2016

"An American in Victorian Cambridge" is a richly detailed account of student life in the Cambridge of the 1840s. The rationale for the book, which is as appealing today as it was then, is that this is pre-eminently a book about an American student at an English university. In this new edition, some substantial additions have been made.

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9780859898256 | Published: 2008

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9780859898249 | Published: 2008

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9780859898980 | Published: 2015

A completely new, revised and enlarged edition of this classic survey of monuments in South-West England associated with the stories of King Arthur and Knights of the Round Table: the castle of Tintagel, the great hill-fort of Cadbury in south Somerset, the ruined abbey at Glastonbury and Castle Dore in south Cornwall.

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9780859896764 | Published: 2002

Lavishly illustrated with extensive colour photographs, plans, and reconstruction drawings the book brings to life for the first time the home environment of the lost elite Sephardic community of Ottoman Damascus. An essential resource for those studying the architecture, history, and culture of Syria and the Ottoman Empire. 255 col & 47 b/w illus.

Hardback    £74.00
9780897571005 | Published: 2018

In 2000, a sixteenth-century manuscript containing a copy of a previously unknown play in Middle Cornish was discovered among papers bequeathed to the National Library of Wales. This eagerly awaited edition of the play offers a text with a facing-page translation, and a reproduction of the original text at the foot of the page.

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9780859892940 | Published: 2016

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9780859898003 | Published: 2007

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9780859898997 | Published: 2015

In a scholarly but accessible account founded on contemporary sources, illustrated with testimonies of eye-witnesses and participants, this book sets out to decide the controversial question of whether the Qawasim were in fact pirates after acquiring an enduring reputation as such during the years 1797-1820.

Hardback    £75.00
9780859895095 | Published: 1997

British Instructional Films was at the centre of a number of issues important to Britain and the Empire in the 1920s:  the memory and history of the Great War, national and imperial identities, the role of cinema as a shaper of attitudes and identities, power relations between Britain and the USA and the nature of popular culture as an international contest in its own right.

Hardback    £60.00
9780859899987 | Published: 2016

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9780859890823 | Published: 2018

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9780859890526 | Published: 2018

Book looks in detail at the domestic and foreign policy of Charilaos Trikoupis, 19th-century Greek politician; in particular a basic aspect of his economic development programme: the construction of public works including rail and road networks, the cutting of the Corinthian canal, and the draining of Lake Kopaïs. 122 illustrations, many in colour.

Hardback    £39.00
9789607237033 | Published: 2001