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(2008)
| 9781843833642 | Boydell & Brewer Ltd Academic | pbk. | book | 321pp
AUD 36.95 (inc. GST), AUD 33.59 (ex. GST),
William Dampier [1651-1715] is the most remarkable seaman that England producedin the century and a half between Drake and Captain Cook. They eachcircumnavigated the world once; Dampier did so three times. He commanded thefirst government-funded voyage of discovery with a specific mission to report...
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(2018)
| 9781783272587 | Boydell & Brewer Ltd Academic | hbk. | book | 526pp | Availability last checked: 22/2/2019
AUD 56.95 (inc. GST), AUD 51.77 (ex. GST),
The health - and especially deaths - of composers excite controversy. Was Mozartreally poisoned? Did Tchaikovsky commit suicide? How did Beethoven lose hishearing? Much good previous scholarship has been sullied by unsubstantiatedviews, and many composers' reputations have been unfairly tarnished byscandalous...
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(2018)
| 9781783271764 | Boydell & Brewer Ltd Academic | hbk. | book | 270pp | Availability last checked: 22/2/2019
AUD 56.95 (inc. GST), AUD 51.77 (ex. GST),
"Anthony Goodman's brilliant yet accessible scholarship draws in the reader inthe most entertaining and vibrant way. He was one of our greatest historians ofthe later medieval period, whose warm humanity shines forth in his writing. Hehas given us, as a parting gift, the definitive biography of an exceptional,intriguing...
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(2017)
| 9781783272044 | Boydell & Brewer Ltd Academic | pbk. | book | 256pp | Availability last checked: 22/2/2019
AUD 45.95 (inc. GST), AUD 41.77 (ex. GST),
The Sutton Hoo ship-burial is one of the most significant finds ever made inEurope. It lies in a burial ground which contains all the elements ofarchaeological mystery: seventeen mounds, buried treasure, and sacrificedhorses. In this very accessible book, Martin Carver explains what we know ofthis site,...
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(2012)
| 9781843837879 | Boydell & Brewer Ltd Academic | hbk. | book | 272pp
AUD 53.95 (inc. GST), AUD 49.05 (ex. GST),
WINNER of the 2013 Katharine Briggs AwardNEW LOWER PRICEThis book uses the nineteenth-century legend of Spring-Heeled Jack to analyseand challenge current notions of Victorian popular cultures. Starting as oralrumours, this supposedly supernatural entity moved from rural folklore tometropolitan press...
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(2019)
| 9780851153063 | Boydell & Brewer Ltd Academic | hbk. | book | 159pp | Availability last checked: 22/2/2019
AUD 101.95 (inc. GST), AUD 92.68 (ex. GST),
Coming in June 2019
In 1200 the Suffolk town of Dunwich was one of medieval England's wealthiestports. However, a succession of marine inundations in the late thirteenth andearly fourteenth centuries drastically reduced its size and importance.Evocative descriptions of Dunwich's long struggle against the sea abound, butlittle...
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Clark, James G. Preest, David.
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(2019)
| 9781783270767 | Boydell & Brewer Ltd Academic | hbk. | book | 983pp | Availability last checked: 22/2/2019
AUD 281.95 (inc. GST), AUD 256.32 (ex. GST),
Coming in June 2019
The Deeds of the abbots of St Albans is the longest continuous chronicle of amedieval monastery in England, following its fortunes from its first foundationin the wake of the first Viking raids to its status as a proud and prosperouspillar of the church establishment more than six centuries later. More...
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Hutková, Karolina.
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(2019)
| 9781783273942 | Boydell & Brewer Ltd Academic | hbk. | book | 268pp | Availability last checked: 22/2/2019
AUD 157.95 (inc. GST), AUD 143.59 (ex. GST),
Coming in June 2019
This book examines the silk-processing activities of the English East IndiaCompany in Bengal and presents the Company as a manufacturer rather than atrading body or political agent. Silk was one of the first globally tradedcommodities; its luxury status and potential to create tax revenues and employthe...
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van, der Laan J. M.
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(2019)
| 9781640140431 | Boydell & Brewer Ltd Academic | hbk. | book | 270pp | Availability last checked: 22/2/2019
AUD 202.95 (inc. GST), AUD 184.50 (ex. GST),
Coming in June 2019
The Faust legend, which has come down to us most famously in Goethe's tragedybut also in countless other incarnations since the late sixteenth century, wasfirst collected and presented as a cohesive narrative (in manuscript) byChristoph Rosshirt during the 1570s. Rosshirt was also the first to provideillustrations...
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Sloan, Emily.
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(2019)
| 9781783274192 | Boydell & Brewer Ltd Academic | hbk. | book | 225pp | Availability last checked: 22/2/2019
AUD 135.95 (inc. GST), AUD 123.59 (ex. GST),
Coming in June 2019
After his military career, Major Hayman Rooke undertook detailed studies oflandscape, ancient trees, natural history, meteorology, and ancient and RomanBritain. He was linked into a broad network of friends and correspondents,including landowners such as Earl Bathurst and the duke of Portland, and theiragents...
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Burrage, Melissa D.
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(2019)
| 9781580469500 | Boydell & Brewer Ltd Academic | hbk. | book | 438pp | Availability last checked: 22/2/2019
AUD 56.95 (inc. GST), AUD 51.77 (ex. GST),
Coming in June 2019
One of the cherished narratives of American history is that of the Statue ofLiberty welcoming immigrants to its shores. Accounts of the exclusion andexploitation of Chinese immigrants in the late nineteenth century and Japaneseinternment during World War II tell a darker story of American immigration....
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Bintley, Michael D. J. Boulton, Meg.
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(2019)
| 9781783274116 | Boydell & Brewer Ltd Academic | hbk. | book | 258pp | Availability last checked: 22/2/2019
AUD 135.95 (inc. GST), AUD 123.59 (ex. GST),
Coming in June 2019
Professor Jane Hawkes has devoted her career to the study of medieval stone,exploring its iconographies, symbolic significances and scholarly contexts, andshedding light on the obscure and understudied sculpted stone monuments ofAnglo-Saxon England. This volume builds on her scholarly interests, offering...
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Dyson, Gerald P.
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(2019)
| 9781783273669 | Boydell & Brewer Ltd Academic | hbk. | book | 288pp | Availability last checked: 22/2/2019
AUD 135.95 (inc. GST), AUD 123.59 (ex. GST),
Coming in June 2019
Priests were ubiquitous figures in the Anglo-Saxon world: they acted aseducators, agents of royal authority, scribes, and dealers in real estate. Butwhat set priests apart from the society in which they lived was the authority toprovide pastoral care and their ability to use the written word. Early...
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Neal, Stan.
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(2019)
| 9781783274239 | Boydell & Brewer Ltd Academic | hbk. | book | 194pp | Availability last checked: 22/2/2019
AUD 146.95 (inc. GST), AUD 133.59 (ex. GST),
Coming in June 2019
The transformation of Singapore, founded by Stamford Raffles in 1819, from atrading post to a major centre for international trade was a huge commercial andcolonial success for Britain. One key factor in all of this was the recruitmentof Chinese migrant labour, which by the 1850s made up over half of...
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French, Hannah.
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(2019)
| 9781783273850 | Boydell & Brewer Ltd Academic | hbk. | book | 384pp | Availability last checked: 22/2/2019
AUD 123.95 (inc. GST), AUD 112.68 (ex. GST),
Coming in June 2019
Sir Henry J. Wood (1869-1944), co-founder and chief conductor of the Proms fornearly half a century, is often noted for his championing of the leadingcomposers of the day, including Richard Strauss, Debussy, Rachmaninov, Ravel andVaughan Williams. Less known is Wood's pivotal role in advocating and...
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