History Britain Wars British by Schama Simon (201 results)

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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition/First Printing. Includes Picture Credits And Index. The Book Is Bound In Black Paper Over Boards With Gilt Lettering On The Spine. The Jacket Has Two Short Tears At The Lower Edge.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Minor shelf wear to binding. Light wear and soiling to edges of text block. Several pages have creased corners. Text and images unmarked. Dj lightly worn with scuffs, creases & small scratches in a mylar cover. **Please note: book is oversized and heavy, and will require substantial additional shipping fees to international or expedited addresses.**.

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. First Edition. 7.5 X 0 X 9.75 inches; 544 pages; light shelf wear to DJ. Minor tear to DJ rear's top edge. Very Good condition otherwise. No other noteworthy defects. No markings. ; - Your satisfaction is our priority. We offer free returns and respond promptly to all inquiries. Your item will be carefully cushioned in bubble wrap and securely boxed. All orders ship on the same or next business day. Buy with confidence.

25.0 x 20.0cms 414pp colour illusts small sealed tear Chronicle of the changes that transformed life in Britain from internal strife to foreign wars.

hardcover. Condition: near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: near fine. Color & b/w illustrations. 544 pages. Small 4to, cloth, d.w. (New York: Hyperion, 2001). Near fine in near fine dust wrapper.

Hardcover, in dust jacket. First edition, first printing. Light bump to lower spine, else fine in fine dust jacket, in mylar cover.

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Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Volume 2 only. Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. ; 11.3 X 8.0 X 1.5 inches; 544 pages.

2vols. c. 400pp each. 8vo. Original cloth in dustwrapper. Colour plates. A fine pair. Volume 1 is a reprint, volume 2 a first edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Reprint. BBC/BCA. Reprint. Tightly bound, clean unmarked pages, moderate age spotting to upper closed page block; unclipped jacket with only light wear to edges.To understand what Britain has become it is necessary to know what it has been. The second volume in this history takes the story of Britain from the Civil War to the Enlightenment. Each chapter focuses on a major theme. Quantity Available: 1. Category: History; Inventory No: dscf7356.

Kartoniert, großes 8°, 544 S., mit zahlr., meist farbigen Abbildungen, »Simon Schama s "A History of Britain" is far more than the book of the TV-series . The book is far richer and fuller, covering a huge span so economically that there is room for plenty of arresting detail . It is the sort of vivid history that keeps you awake.« Guter Zustand.

Soft Covers. Condition: VG/Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. Illustrated soft covers - mild crease to rear cover. 544pp., including colour and b/w maps/illustrations. VG/Fine. The price includes an allowance for any extra UK P&P - the item weighs around 1.5kg. Overseas buyers should contact the seller direct to negotiate appropriate P&P fees.

Cloth with dustjacket. Condition: Gut. 416 p./ 544 p./ 576 p. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - vol.I slightly rubbed and scuffed otherwise perfect condition, vol.II + III. very good condition - In this, the first book in his epic two-volume history, Simon Schama brings Britain's past to dramatic life with a wealth of compelling stories and vivid detail. Gripping and unapologetically personal, Schama's perspective moves from the early tribes and invasions of the British isles to the Norman Conquest; through the religious wars and turbulence of the Middle Ages to the sovereignties of Henry II, Richard I and King John; through the outbreak of the Black Death, which destroyed nearly half of Europe's population; through the reign of Edward I and the growth of national identity in Scotland and Wales; to the turbulent religious and dynastic conflicts of the Tudor Age, culminating in the glorious reign of Elizabeth I. -- As the narrative unfolds, the theme of change sometimes gentle and subtle, sometimes shocking and violentemerges as its most powerful dynamic. Schama is particularly acute in showing the changes that wash over custom and habit, transforming loyalties and establishing or melting boundaries. At the heart of his history lie questions which have universal and timeless resonance: What makes or breaks a nation? To whom do we give our allegiance and why? And where do the roots of our community liein our hearth and home, our village or city, tribe or faith? And what is Britainone country or many, one culture or several? -- All these themes are delivered through the stories which Schama tells so brilliantly, and in a form that is at once traditional and excitingly new. The great and the wicked are hereBoudicca, Queen of the Iceni, and William the Conqueror; Becket and Thomas Cromwell; Robert the Bruce and Anne Boleyn; King Alfred and Mary, Queen of Scotsbut so are countless more ordinary lives: an Irish monk waiting for the plague to reach him in his cell at Kilkenny; a small boy running through the streets of Elizabethan London to catch a glimpse of his Queen. They are all caught on the rich and teeming canvas on which Schama paints his unforgettable portrait of the life of a great nation. Superbly readable, Schamas A History of Britain is destined to become a touchstone work for our time, reintroducing us to the past with dazzling energy and clarity. -- INSIDE THESE PAGES LIES THE BLOODY EPIC OF LIBERTY, THE BRITISH ILIAD. -- The second volume of Simon Schama's A History of Britain brings the histories of Britain's civil warsfull of blighted idealism, shocking carnage, and unexpected outcomesstartlingly to life. These conflicts were fought unsparingly between the nations of the islandsIreland, England, and Scotlandand between parliament and the crown. Shattering the illusion of a "united kingdom," they cost hundreds of thousands of lives: a greater proportion of the population than died in the First World War. -- When religious passion gave way to the equally consuming passion for profits, it became possible for the pieces of Britain to come together as the spectacularly successful business enterprise of "Britannia Incorporated." And in a few generations that business state expanded in a dizzying process that transformed what had been an obscure, off-shore footnote to Europe's great powers into the main eventthe most powerful empire in the world. -- Yet somehow, it was the "wrong empire." The British considered it a bastion of liberty, yet it was based on military force and the enslavement of hundreds of thousands of Africans. In America, the emptiness of British claims to protect "freedom" was thrown back into the teeth of colonial governors and redcoat soldiers, while the likes of Sam Adams and George Washington inherited the mantle of Cromwell. -- Simon Schama grippingly evokes the horror of the battle, famine, and plague; the flames of burning cities; the pathos of broken families, with fathers and sons forced to choose opposing sides. But he al captures the intimacies of palace and parliament ar the seductions of profit and pleasure. Geniuses li] John Milton, Thomas Hobbes, and Benjamin Frankl stalk vividly through his pages, but so do Scotti: clansmen, women pamphleteers, and literate, eloque African slaves like Olaudah Equiano. -- "WHILE BRITAIN WAS LOSING AN EMPIRE, IT WAS FINDING ITSELF." -- The compelling opening words to The Fate of Empire set the tone and agenda for the final stage of Simon Schamas epic voyage around Britain, her people and past. Spanning two centuries, crossing the breadth of the empire, and covering a vast expanse of topics from the birth of feminism to the fate of freedom he explores the forces that shaped British culture and character, from 1776 to 2000. -- The story opens on the eve of a bloody revolution, but not a British one. The French Revolution never actually crossed the Channel, though its spirit of fiery defiance and Romantic idealism did, sparking off a round of radical revolts and reforms that gathered momentum over the coming centuryfrom the Irish Rebellion to the Chartist Petition. If the British Empire helped to make Britain stable and rich, did it live up to its promise to help the ruled as well as the rulers? The Fate of Empire makes stops at celebrations, like the Great Exhibition, and catastrophes, like the Irish potato famine and the Indian Mutiny. Amidst the military and economic shocks and traumas of the twentieth century, and through the voices of Churchill, Orwell, and H.G. Wells, Schama asks the question that still haunts the Britishis the immense weight of British history a blessing or a curse or a millstone around the neck of the future? -- The Fate of Empire is a vast compelling epic, made more so by the lively storytelling and big bold characters at the heart of the action. But alongside flamboyant heroes, like Nelson and Churchill, Schama recalls un.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near fine. First UK edition-first printing. Fine/Near fine.BBC Books,2001.First UK edition-first printing.Large format black hardback(silver lettering to the spine) in fine condition, with Dj(two small nicks,scratches and crease on the Dj cover) in near fine condition.Illustrated with colour,b/w photos,drawings,maps.Nice and clean pages as new with a small pencil mark impression on the edge of the half-title page,small crease on the edges of the pages.Nice and clean book with light shelf wear on the Dj cover.544pp including select Bibliography and index.Price un-clipped.Please note:This is very heavy book(approx. 1.8 Kg).A collectable first edition.

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket. Text block lightly speckled. Back jacket panel has a crease along the bottom. ; 11.3 X 8.0 X 1.5 inches; 544 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near fine. First UK edition-first printing. Fine/Near fine.BBC Books,2001.First UK edition-first printing.Large format black hardback(silver lettering to the spine) in fine condition, with Dj(two small nicks,scratches and crease on the Dj cover) in near fine condition.Illustrated with colour,b/w photos,drawings,maps.Nice and clean pages as new with a small pencil mark impression on the edge of the half-title page,small crease on the edges of the pages.Nice and clean book with light shelf wear on the Dj cover.544pp including select Bibliography and index.Price un-clipped.Please note:This is very heavy book(approx. 1.8 Kg).A collectable first edition.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. 1st printing. An unread book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Tie-in with the British historian's television series on the BBC. Excellent condition - upper corners bumped, minor pushing to spine tips (it's a large, very heavy book) but in super, clean condition otherwise. Dustjacket is unclipped, minor creasing in a couple of places. Laid into the book is a plain white card (pencil annotations to verso) which has been boldly signed by the author. Signed by Author(s).