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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
A system of ambition?	Jeremy Black	xxv, 304 p. ; 22 cm	OL11520960W
Beyond delivery	Edward Peck	xxii, 237 p. : 23 cm	OL12085899W
Gender and power in Britain, 1640-1990	Susan Kingsley Kent	Gender and Power in Britain is an original and exciting history of Britain from the early modern period to the present focusing on the interaction of gender and power in political, social, cultural a…	OL14864491W
Major Farran's hat	David Cesarani	Explores why Britain lost Palestine, linking its counterinsurgency and diplomatic strategies through the role of Roy Farran, commander of British counterterrorism squads, to the abduction of a Jewish…	OL15449167W
Victoria and her court	Virginia Schomp	"A social history of Victorian England, focusing on life in the upper echelons of society during the reign of Queen Victoria (1837-1901)"--Provided by publisher.	OL16009282W
The two unions	Alvin Jackson	Alvin Jackson examines the two Unions--the Anglo-Scots Union of 1707 and the British-Irish of 1801--comparing their background, birth, and survival. In sustaining a comparison between the Unions, he …	OL16617408W
A Blaze of Autumn Sunshine	Tony Benn	In this final volume of diaries, Tony Benn reflects on the compensations and the disadvantages of old age. With the support of a small circle of friends and his extended family, he continues his a…	OL16808407W
Chocolate on trial	Satre, Lowell J.	"Chocolate on Trial: Slavery, Politics, and the Ethics of Business recounts the events surrounding the libel trial in which Cadbury Bros. sued the Standard of London over the newspaper's accusation t…	OL1892158W
Crime Reduction and Community Safety	Daniel Gilling	This book analyses Labour's policies of local crime control from 1997 through to 2006. Picking up on the Conservative legacy, it follows the establishment of local crime and disorder reduction partne…	OL19838577W
Health policy	Iain Crinson	Providing a critical assessment of developments in health and health-care policy, this book is primarily focused on the UK, covering issues such as the policy-making process, the development of the N…	OL19854899W
The Pristine Culture of Capitalism	Ellen Meiksins Wood	La burguesía es también y sobre todo la hegemonía de su relato histórico. Según términos bien conocidos, se asegura que derrotó al absolutismo y trajo las libertades económicas y políticas que acabar…	OL1994854W
The Muslims are coming!	Arun Kundnani	"Following the killing of Osama bin Laden, polls showed that Americans were more anxious about terrorism than they were before his death. The new front in the War on Terror is the "homegrown enemy," …	OL19992241W
Thomas Cromwell	Tracy Borman	Reviled as a Machiavellian schemer who stopped at nothing in his quest for power, Thomas Cromwell was also a loving husband, father and guardian, a witty and generous host, and a loyal and devoted se…	OL19992676W
In it together	Matthew D'Ancona	Tells the story of Britain's coalition government. With exclusive, unprecedented access to all the major senior figures, from David Cameron, George Osborne, Boris Johnson and Nick Clegg, this title t…	OL20882378W
Citizens and subjects	Anthony Wright	Citizens and Subjects is an essay on the nature and condition of democracy in Britain at the end of the twentieth century. It looks at the commonly held view that Britain is a model democracy, exposi…	OL2449834W
Kingship and politics in the reign of Edward VI	Stephen Alford	This book offers a reappraisal of the kingship and politics of the reign of Edward VI, the third Tudor king of England who reigned from the age of nine in 1547 until his death in 1553. The reign has …	OL2707856W
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity	Paul Spicker	Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Paul Spicker's new book takes the three founding principles of the French Revolution - Liberty, Equality, Fraternity - and examines how they relate to so…	OL3371791W
Politics in the age of Fox, Pitt, and Liverpool	John W. Derry	"For many people the late eighteenth century was a period of political corruption, with the political world waiting for the triumph of reform. In this study, now in a revised edition, John Derry show…	OL4098168W
The Kit-Cat Club	Ophelia Field	The fascinating history of the male-only members of the Kit-Cat Club, the unofficial centre of Whig power in 17th century Britain, and home to the greatest political and artistic thinkers of a genera…	OL6011795W
Progressives, Pluralists, and the Problems of the State	Marc Stears	"This book offers a challenging new interpretation of the development of progressive and socialist ideologies in the United States and Britain. Rejecting the conventional wisdom that American and Bri…	OL8011760W