POLITICAL SCIENCE
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E-Book | Pub: 01 Apr 2023£19.99As seen in The Times, Sunday Times, Spectator, and on Tonight with Andrew Marr (LBC) Join journalist Ian Williams as he examines China like never before. He begins with the extraordinary rise of the Chinese surveillance state, how information...
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E-Book | Pub: 07 Jul 2022£30.00
This is an appraisal of clanship both with respect to its vitality and its eventual demise, in which the author views clanship as a socio-economic, as well as a political agency, deriving its strength from personal obligations and mutual service...
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E-Book | Pub: 19 Feb 2016£12.99
The Company of Scotland and its attempts to establish the colony of Caledonia on the inhospitable isthmus of Panama in the late seventeenth century is one of the most tragic moments of Scottish history. Devised by William Paterson, the stratagem was...
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Paperback | Pub: 01 Apr 2021£16.99
Featured in The Times and Sunday Times ‘One of the year’s most exciting releases’ – The Herald China is building the world’s first digital totalitarian state, a system of hitherto unimaginable social and political control....
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Paperback | Pub: 07 Mar 2024£12.99
Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize As seen in The Times, Sunday Times, Spectator, and on Tonight with Andrew Marr (LBC) Under President Xi Jinping, China’s global ambitions have taken a dangerous new turn. Bullying and intimidation have...
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E-Book | Pub: 01 Apr 2023£3.99Discover two of the 20th Century’s most important novels from the legendary George Orwell. First published in 1945, Animal Farm – the history of a revolution that went wrong – is Orwell’s brilliant satire on the corrupting influence...
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E-Book | Pub: 01 Nov 2014£12.99
This new and compelling history of eighteenth-century Scotland paints a rich and detailed portrait of the country at a time when it was of truly global significance. This journey from the Union of 1707 to its centenary and beyond takes in vivid...
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E-Book | Pub: 30 Jul 2012£6.99
In the summer of 2002, Mitchell set sail aboard the 30-foot yacht Foggy Dew on a voyage that took him from his home through the Western Isles to Orkney and Shetland and on to the west coast of Norway. Against the backdrop of one of the world’s...
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E-Book | Pub: 19 May 2016£9.99In 1947, when India achieved independence, Britain portrayed the transfer of power as the outcome of decades, even centuries, of responsible planning – the honourable discharge of an historic responsibility. That view has never been seriously...
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E-Book | Pub: 01 Jan 2001£30.00
This major collection of essays brings together in readily accessible form the fruits of research into the political thought and culture of Renaissance and Reformation Scotland. As a collection, it ranges from detailed studies of the writings of...
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Paperback | Pub: 01 Oct 2026£10.99
With its natural predators long exterminated, huge deer populations controlled by landowners – largely for their own private interests – have had far-reaching environmental impacts. Despite efforts by conservationists to reduce populations and...
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E-Book | Pub: 01 Jan 2001£30.00
These essays constitute the first radical reassessment since the nineteenth century of the role of architecture as an expression of lordship and status among Scottish secular and ecclesiastical elites in the period c.1124–c.1650. These studies of...
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E-Book | Pub: 03 Oct 2013£12.99
War opened and closed Scotland’s greatest century: a pitiless part in the defeat of Naploeon in 1815, a huge blood-sacrifice for the sake of victory from 1914. In between came the greatest contributions to the progress and happiness of the...
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E-Book | Pub: 01 Jan 2001£20.00
Few Scottish historians are better known than T. C. Smout and fewer still more deserving of the high esteem in which they are held. He has made an outstanding contribution to Scottish historical studies both as an academic discipline and as a...
