Max Persault loves his sea-faring life as a ship-owner & merchant. When his cousin Alistair, the newly elevated Duke of Haslingfield, appeals for his help, he finds himself masquerading as the duke & on his way to Cromer, while Alistair sets off to France to complete an undercover mission. Max`s talents do not lend themselves to acting, however, & before even arriving at his destination, he has aroused the suspicions of Miss Constance Church. Constance struggles with her misgivings about Max. At first dismissing him, she soon begins to suspect that there may be much more to him than meets the eye. How will she react when the man who calls himself a duke of the realm turns out to be a landless buccaneer? Will his cover be ruined as gossip about the mysterious duke begins to spread in the town? In this lively & comedic tale of love & masquerade, first impressions are questioned, judgements are upturned & pretences must eventually come undone. ...

Imperia at 1:7, 000 on an indexed street plan from Litografia Artistica Cartografica, Italy’s leading publishers of city maps with an extensive range of titles. Where appropriate, the plans include an enlargement showing the historic centre in greater detail. On each plan monuments including historic buildings & churches, archaeological sites, cultural or educational institutions, & important municipal buildings or facilities are numbered & listed next to the plan. One way streets are not marked. Street index is on the reverse. The plan of Imperia extends along the coast to include Cervo & San Lorenzo al Mare. ...

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Imperia Province in a series of handy size road maps from Litografia Artistica Cartografica (LAC) with more minor local roads & tracks than can be found on most regional maps. The series is gradually being changed to a new style of digitally derived cartography, so presentation of adjoining titles may vary. All the maps have hill shading to represent the general relief with spot heights for selected peaks, & show a few more local roads & rough tracks than the other road map series. Intermediate road distances are indicated. Regional, provincial & communal borders are marked, & railways, funiculars, airports, sea ferry links & campsites are shown. The legend is in Italian only. The new, digitally produced editions are indexed & have enhanced, more finely drawn cartography: the hill-shading is less bold, motorway service areas are marked, natural parks are highlighted & an expanded range of symbols indicates various landmarks & sites, e.g. antiquities, churches, etc. Two styles of the new cartography are produced, differing only in the colour of the predominant background shading: grey or yellow/green. Some of the new editions include geographical coordinates for the map corners. The index of localities is on the reverse. This title is still produced in the traditional cartographic style. ...

This second edition of a highly acclaimed & interdisciplinary book which quickly established itself as a seminal text in its field investigates the way in which travel writing has constructed an image of the world beyond Europe for European readerships. Focusing on writing about South America & Africa in relation to the political & economic expansion of Europe, this long-awaited second edition of Imperial Eyes: is updated throughout, including a new preface, an updated introduction & a postscript reflecting critically on the category of the 'postcolonial' & how it has changed since the first edition was published in 1992. It contains new material, which reads well-known Latin American texts through the concept of neocoloniality & continues to discuss more general questions of the postcolonial in relation to the Americas & new ways of expressing late twentieth-century experiences of migration & displacement. It contains new illustrations of relevant documents & artefacts discussed within the text. ...

Jane Taylor`s classic guidebook to Istanbul is acknowledged as the ultimate introduction to the city. It leads travellers from the great monuments of Byzantium & early Constantinople to the mosques & palaces built for Suleyman the Magnificent & the other Sultans while providing both practical information & a rich historical context. It also covers more recent sites: ranging from the mundane (the Galatasaray fishmarket) to the magnificent pavilions & villas of late Ottoman times. In addition to Istanbul, the cities of Iznik, Bursa & Edirne are covered in extensive detail. Filled with maps, itineraries, plans & descriptions of all the sites that any visitor could hope to see, this is the only guidebook that a traveller to Istanbul will ever need. ...

From inside a surreal bubble of pure Americana known as the Green Zone, the US-led Coalition Provisional Authority attempted to rule Iraq following the fall of Saddam Hussein`s regime. Drawing on interviews & internal documents, Rajiv Chandrasekaran tells the memorable story of this ill-prepared attempt to build American democracy in a war-torn Middle Eastern country, detailing not only the risky disbanding of the Iraqi army & the ludicrous attempt to train the new police force, but absurdities such as the aide who based Baghdad`s new traffic laws on those of the state of Maryl&, downloaded from the net, & the twenty-four-year-old who had never worked in finance put in charge of revitalising Baghdad`s stock exchange. ” Imperial Life in the Emerald City” is American reportage at its best. ...

The story of Spain`s rise to greatness from its humble beginnings as one of the poorest & most marginal of European countries is a remarkable & dramatic one. With the marriage of Ferdinand & Isabella, the final expulsion of the Moslems & the discovery of America, Spain took on a seemingly unstoppable dynamism that made it into the world`s first global power. This amazing success however created many powerful enemies & Elliott`s famous book charts the dramatic fall of Habsburg Spain with the same elan as it charts the rise. ...

Imperial Triumph presents the history of Rome at the height of its imperial power. Beginning with the reign of Hadrian in Rome & ending with the death of Julian the Apostate on campaign in Persia, it offers an intimate account of the twists & often deadly turns of imperial politics in which successive emperors rose & fell with sometimes bewildering rapidity. Yet, despite this volatility, the Romans were able to see off successive attacks by Parthians, Germans, Persians & Goths & to extend & entrench their position as masters of Europe & the Mediterranean. This books shows how they managed to do it. Professor Michael Kulikowski describes the empire`s cultural integration in the second century, the political crises of the third when Rome`s Mediterranean world became subject to the larger forces of Eurasian history, & the remaking of Roman imperial institutions in the fourth century under Constantine & his son Constantius II. The Constantinian revolution, Professor Kulikowski argues, was the pivot on which imperial fortunes turned
- & the beginning of the parting of ways between the eastern & western empires. This sweeping account of one of the world`s greatest empires at its magnificent peak is incisive, authoritative & utterly gripping.
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The Imperial War Museum`s archive is home to more than 20, 000 hours of moving image material spanning the twentieth century in Britain. The clips range from documentary film & official newsreels, to unedited combat footage, & amateur shots. In the museum`s early days the films could only be viewed through Mutoscope machines from the late nineteenth century that functioned much like a flipbook, giving life to a series of motionless images. The Mutoscope did not project images on a screen, rather the machine was used by one person at a time. To re-create the experience of watching these historical film reals, some of the most compelling scenes have been reproduced in these action-filled flipbooks. The ” Tanks” flipbook shows the up-close action of the 1917 Mark IV tank. The bulletproof steel vehicle rolls along on its massive treads, plowing through everything in its path. This was the most-used tank on the British side during World War I, & a total of 1, 200 were built nationwide. Replicating the action of old-time film strips, these flipbooks will be a delight for both children & adults, transporting those who flip the pages to Britain`s wartime past. ...