The
Age of Aristocracy (History of England (Houghton Mifflin Company: Eighth
Edition), 3.)
by Walter L. Arnstein, William Bradford Willcox
(Hardcover -- January )
The Art of Dress: Fashion in England and France 1750 to 1820
by Aileen Ribeiro
Listed under Fashion History
The
Best of Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke (Conservative
Leadership Series)
by Edmund Burke, Peter J. Stanlis (Editor)
(Hardcover -- December )
Britain
in the Hanoverian Age, 1714-1837: An Encyclopedia
by Gerald Newman (Editor), Leslie Ellen Brown (Editor)
Library Binding: 600 pages ; Dimensions (in inches):
1.79 x 11.22 x 8.86
Publisher: Garland Publishing;
ISBN: 0815303963
Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British
North America, 1754-1766
by Fred Anderson
Listed under Seven
Years War
Dr.
Johnson's London : Coffee-Houses and Climbing Boys, Medicine, Toothpaste,
and Gin, Poverty and Press-Gangs, Freakshows and Female Education
by Liza Picard
Everyday life in late 18th century London
Hardcover: 384 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.31 x
9.56 x 6.42
Publisher: St. Martin's Press;
ISBN: 0312276656
English
Society in the Eighteenth Century (Penguin Social History of Britain)
by Roy Porter
(Paperback -- September 1990)
The Floating Brothel : The Extraordinary True Story of an Eighteenth-Century
Ship and Its Cargo of Female Convicts
by Sian Rees
Listed under Australian History
The
Hell-Fire Clubs: A History of Anti-Morality
by Geoffrey Ashe
Paperback: 250 pages
Sutton Publishing; ISBN: 0750924020; Revised edition
A
History of Britain, Volume II: The Wars of the British 1603-1776
by Simon Schama
The beginning of the 17th century promised that England's golden age
would long outlast its Elizabethan namesake. Within a few years, that promise
would end in civil war, political unrest, and international conflict, a
period of strife that would last for two centuries, but produce the modern
British nation. In this swiftly moving narrative, the second installment
in a three- volume companion to the BBC/History Channel television series,
Simon Schama examines key events that would utterly change British life:
the collapse of monarchy and republic, the establishment of the beginnings
of empire, and the ever-wider division between court and country. The wars
that accompanied these turns of fortune were, Schama writes, "eminently
unpredictable, improbable, and avoidable." With them came the Glorious
Revolution, the bloody suppression of religious dissent, the conquest of
neighboring kingdoms, and the wide-scale movement of large populations
from one place to another--including the deliberate introduction of nearly
100,000 Scots, Welsh, and English settlers in Ireland, which, Schama writes,
"utterly dwarfed the related 'planting' on the Atlantic seaboard of North
America." Along the way, Schama considers actors major and minor in this
tumultuous play, from the unlucky king Charles I to Oliver Cromwell (who
"lacked the one essential characteristic for true dictatorship: a hunger
to accumulate power purely for its own sake"), from the writer Daniel Defoe
to the pragmatic politician Sir Robert Walpole, from William Pitt to the
African slaves who peopled Britain's American colonies.
Though understandably rushed and sometimes unfocused, Schama's narrative
ably captures Britain's transformation from island outpost to global power.
--
Gregory McNamee - Amazon.com
Hardcover: 544 pages
Talk Miramax Books; ISBN: 0786867523;
The
Lunar Men
by Jenny Uglow (Author)
In the late 1700s, five gifted inventors and amateur scholars in Birmingham,
England, came together for what one of them, Erasmus Darwin, called "a
little philosophical laughing." They also helped kick-start the industrial
revolution, as Jenny Uglow relates in the lively The Lunar Men: Five
Friends Whose Curiosity Changed the World. Their "Lunar Society" included
Joseph Priestley, the chemist who isolated oxygen; James Watt, the Scottish
inventor of the steam engine; and Josiah Wedgwood, whose manufacture of
pottery created the industrial model for the next century. Joined by other
"toymakers" and scholarly tinkerers, they concocted schemes for building
great canals and harnessing the power of electricity, coined words such
as "hydrogen" and "iridescent," shared theories and bank accounts, fended
off embezzlers and industrial spies, and forged a fine "democracy of knowledge."
And they had a fine time doing so, proving that scholars need not be dullards
or eccentrics asocial.
Uglow's spirited look at this group of remarkable "lunaticks" captures
a critical, short-lived moment of early modern history. Readers who share
their conviction that knowledge brings power will find this book a rewarding
adventure. --Gregory McNamee - Amazon.com
Hardcover: 608 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.83 x
9.76 x 6.38
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux; ; 1st American
edition (October 30, )
ISBN: 0374194408
Nelson's Navy: The Ships, Men and Organization, 1793-1815
by Brian Lavery
Listed under Nelson
Thomas
More: A Biography
by Richard Marius
Paperback: 592 pages
Harvard Univ Pr; ISBN: 0674885252; Reprint edition (March
)
DAMN
REBEL BITCHES
by Maggie Craig
(Paperback -- September )
Memoirs
of King George II
by Horace Walpole
Publisher: Yale Univ Pr; (July 1985)
Nature's
Government: Science, Imperial Britain, and the "Improvement" of the World
by Richard Drayton
(Hardcover -- August 1, )
Naval
Warfare in the Age of Sail
by Bernard Ireland, Tony Gibbons (Illustrator)
(Hardcover -- October )
The
Prize of All the Oceans: Commodore Anson's Daring Voyage and Triumphant
Capture of the Spanish Treasure Galleon
by Glyn Williams
Book Description: In 1740, the first year of the war with Spain,
Commodore George Anson set sail with a squadron of six British warships.
His secret mission: to seize the legendary Spanish galleon on her yearly
voyage from Acapulco to Manila laden with Peruvian silver, "the prize of
all the oceans." It was to be four years of hardship, disaster, mutiny,
and, finally, heroism.
Historian Glyn Williams's The Prize of All the Oceans shapes Anson's
dramatic voyage into a powerful narrative threaded with incisive analysis
and commentary, giving readers a vivid portrait of an intrepid commander
who never wavered in his resolve to capture the prize and return home triumphant.
Glyn Williams tells the full story for the first time in a book that will
rivet history buffs and armchair survivalists alike.
Paperback from Penguin USA (Paper)
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Wesley
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by Richard P. Heitzenrater
(Paperback -- November )
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