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  • Plantations by Land and Sea

    North Channel Communities of the Atlantic Archipelago c.1550-1625

    by Alison Cathcart ...
    Series Book 1 - Archipelagic Studies
    This book traces the development, and subsequent implementation, of the policy of plantation from the mid-sixteenth through to the early seventeenth century focusing specifically on the North Channel context. By examining why plantation emerged as a policy within the north of Ireland, why it was implemented within the western Highlands and Isles of Scotland, and the repercussions of such a policy, ... Read more

    $116.39 CAD

  • Scotland and the Wider World

    Essays in Honour of Allan I. Macinnes

    by Dr Neil McIntyre, Professor Daniel Szechi, Dr Jean-François Dunyach, Dr Sarah Barber, Professor Steven Pincus, Professor Ewen A. Cameron, Alison Cathcart, Dr John R. Young, Professor Arthur H. Williamson0, Ciaran Brady1, Steve Murdoch2, Tim Harris3 ...
    As one of the most prolific historians of his generation, Allan I. Macinnes, Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Strathclyde, has been foremost in promoting an international rather than insular approach to the study of Scotland. In a distinguished career he has written extensively on the Scottish Highlands, the British revolutions, the formation of the United Kingdom, the Jacobite ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

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    No English king has so divided opinion, both during his reign and in the centuries since, more than Richard III.He was loathed in his own time for the never-confirmed murder of his young nephews, the Princes in the Tower, and died fighting his own subjects on the battlefield. This is the vision of Richard we have inherited from Shakespeare. Equally, he inspired great loyalty in his followers.In ... Read more

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  • Sixteenth-Century Ireland (New Gill History of Ireland 2)

    The Incomplete Conquest – Irish Landlords and the Extension of English Royal Power

    by Colm Lennon ...
    Series Book 2 - New Gill History of Ireland
    Colm Lennon's Sixteenth-Century Ireland, the second instalment in the New Gill History of Ireland series, looks at how the Tudor conquest of Ireland by Henry VIII and the country's colonisation by Protestant settlers led to the incomplete conquest of Ireland, laying the foundations for the sectarian conflict that persists to this day. In 1500, most of Ireland lay outside the ambit of English royal ... Read more

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  • The British Isles

    A History of Four Nations

    by Hugh Kearney ...
    Series series Canto Classics
    Hugh Kearney's classic account of the history of the British Isles from pre-Roman times to the present is distinguished by its treatment of English history as part of a wider 'history of four nations'. Not only focusing on England, it attempts to deal with the histories of Wales, Ireland and Scotland in their own terms, whilst recognising that they too have political, religious and cultural ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge History of Ireland: Volume 2, 1550–1730

    by Thomas Bartlett ...
    Series series The Cambridge History of Ireland
    This volume offers fresh perspectives on the political, military, religious, social, cultural, intellectual, economic, and environmental history of early modern Ireland and situates these discussions in global and comparative contexts. The opening chapters focus on 'Politics' and 'Religion and War' and offer a chronological narrative, informed by the re-interpretation of new archives. The ... Read more

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  • The Civil Wars Experienced

    Britain and Ireland, 1638-1661

    by Martyn Bennett ...
    The Civil Wars Experienced is an exciting new history of the civil wars, which recounts their effects on the 'common people'. This engaging survey throws new light onto a century of violence and political and social upheavalBy looking at personal sources such as diaries, petitions, letters and social sources including the press, The Civil War Experienced clearly sets out the true social and ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • Soldier, Rebel, Traitor

    John, Lord Wenlock and the Wars of the Roses

    by Alexander R. Brondarbit ...
    John Wenlock, first Lord Wenlock, was a leading diplomat, courtier and soldier during the Wars of the Roses whose remarkable career offers us a fascinating insight into one of the most turbulent periods in English medieval history. And yet he has hitherto been overshadowed by his more illustrious contemporaries. Alexander Brondarbit's meticulously researched and perceptive biography is overdue. It ... Read more

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  • Jacobitism, Enlightenment and Empire, 1680�1820

    by Douglas J Hamilton ...
    Series series Political and Popular Culture in the Early Modern Period
    The essays in this collection examine religion, politics and commerce in Scotland during a time of crisis and turmoil. Contributors look at the effect of the Union on Scottish trade and commerce, the Scottish role in tobacco and sugar plantations, Robert Burns’s early poetry on his planned emigration to Jamaica and Scottish anti-abolitionists. ... Read more

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  • The Lost Tudor Princess

    A Life of Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox

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    ‘Alison Weir's sound scholarship and storyteller's gift for rich, telling detail constantly engages and enthrals the reader’ The TimesThe captivating life of Margaret Douglas - a life of scandal, political intrigue and royal romance that spanned five Tudor reigns.Royal Tudor blood ran in her veins. Some thought Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox, should be queen of England.She ranked high at the ... Read more

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  • God's Fury, England's Fire

    A New History of the English Civil Wars

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  • Edward IV and the Wars of the Roses

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    This fascinating account of an unsung English monarch and military leader is "a pleasing and well-informed appraisal of the first Yorkist king" (Dr. Michael Jones, author of Bosworth 1485: Psychology of a Battle).Indisputably the most effective general of the Wars of the Roses in fifteenth-century England, King Edward IV died in his bed, undefeated in battle. Yet he has never been accorded the ... Read more

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