Black Gold: The History of How Coal Made Britain 9780008128357, 9780008128364

Foundations: How the Built Environment Made Twentieth-Century Britain 9780691208558

An urban history of modern Britain, and how the built environment shaped the nation’s politics Foundations is a histor

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Powering Empire: How Coal Made the Middle East and Sparked Global Carbonization 9780520310728, 0520310721

The Age of Empire was driven by coal, and the Middle East—as an idea—was made by coal. Coal’s imperial infrastructure pr

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Dress Codes: How the Laws of Fashion Made History 9781501180095

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Black Gold : Britain and Oil in the Twentieth Century [1 ed.] 9781441174772, 9781847250438

This book charts the story of the raw material that shaped the world's history in the twentieth century, and with i

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Empire of Sand: How Britain Made the Middle East 1780270615, 9781780270616

At the end of the First World War Britain and to a much lesser extent France created the modern Middle East. The possess

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Black Coal Miners in America 9780813181516, 9780813192741

From the early day of mining in colonial Virginia and Maryland up to the time of World War II, blacks were an important

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Templars: The Knights Who Made Britain 9780300274844

A gripping account of the Knights Templar, challenging received wisdom to show how these devout medieval knights played

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The Invergordon Mutiny: A Narrative History of the Last Great Mutiny in the Royal Navy and How It Forced Britain off the Gold Standard in 1931 1317403126, 9781317403128

In September 1931 the Royal Navy experienced its biggest modern mutiny. The largest warships in the Atlantic Fleet were

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Shades of Black: Assembling Black Arts in 1980s Britain 9780822386445

In the 1980s—at the height of Thatcherism and in the wake of civil unrest and rioting in a number of British cities—the

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The California Gold Rush and the Klondike Gold Rush: The History of America’s Most Famous Gold Rushes

*Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the gold rushes written by participants *Includes bibliographies for further re

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