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List englishmen
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(great after dinner trivia, especially to test the brits & non brits:-)
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Binding: paperbackbooks spine maybe slightly creased due to age and wearwe take pride in serving youitem information:author: fiennes, ranulphother details:condition: goodcategory: books
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Oxfam shop dumfries : four englishmen flee for their lives across the merciless kalahari desert, carrying a stolen fortune in raw diamonds, and hunted by a fierce african tribecabrillo takes action, saving the beautiful sloane macintyre - who's looking for a long-submerged ship that may hold a fortune in diamondswhat begins as a snake hunt leads cabrillo on to the trail of a far more lethal quarry - a deranged militant and his followers who plan to unleash the devastating power of nature itself against all who oppose themin his latest bestseller, clive cussler, the grandmaster of adventure, shows once again that when it comes to page-turning action, he's the man to beatthe thieves manage to reach the waiting hms rove - only to die with their pursuers in a vicious storm that buries them all under tons of sandsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe present day: juan cabrillo and the crew of the covert combat ship oregon have barely escaped a mission on the congo river when they intercept a mayday from a defenceless boat under fire off the african coastbut what surprises cabrillo is her story about a crazy fisherman who claims to have been attacked in the same area on the open sea by giant metal snakes
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The british rulers were motivated not by race but by class - they loathed indians or africans no more or less than they loathed the great majority of englishmen, dreaming of an empire based on deference and feudalismoxfam bookshop cheltenham the british empire has generally been seen as a racist empire (most influentially in edward said's orientalism)while not wholly denying this, cannadine, in this funny, often horrifying book, suggests a different dynamicsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe often farcical gap between these views and reality make ornamentalism both highly enjoyable and extremely provocative for anyone wishing to understand how the british empire really worked
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Oxfam bookshop reading in , winthrop dotherwise in very good conditionevery book published to this day on slavery and racism builds upon his work; all are judged in comparison to it; none has surpassed itnb normal wear to coverjordan set out in encyclopedic detail the evolution of white englishmen's and anglo-americans' perceptions of blacks, perceptions of difference used to justify race-based slavery, and liberty and justice for whites onlywood, reminds us that jordan's text is still the definitive work on the history of race in america in the colonial era see oxfam website for delivery information read morethis second edition, with new forewords by historians christopher leslie brown and peter h
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Although traditionally associated with the eighteenth century, when wealthy englishmen would complete their education on the continent, the grand tour is here investigated in a wider context, from the decline of the roman empire to recent timesdocumenting the lives and travels of these personalities, professor chaney's remarkable book provides a complete picture of one of the most fascinating phenomena in the history of western civilisationsee oxfam website for delivery information read morefamous men, and an increasing proportion of women, all contributed to establishing a convention which eventually came to dominate european culturethe english had previously travelled to italy to study the classics; now they travelled to learn italian and study medicine, diplomacy, dancing, riding, fencing, and, eventually, art and architectureauthors from chaucer to erasmus came to mock the custom but even the reformation did not stop the urge to travelit has very minor fading but is otherwise in very good conditionoxfam shop devizes the grand tour has become a subject of major interest to scholars and general readers interested in exploring the historic connections between nations and their intellectual and artistic productionthis copy is complete with uncut dust jacketfrom the mid-sixteenth century, northern europeans justified travel to the south in terms of education
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