Westlake, Ray

Collecting Metal Shoulder Titles.

London, Frederick Warne Publishers Ltd., 1980. hardcover with dustjacket, VIII, 187 pp. + 120 pp. plates. (shoulder titles worn by British Army personal since 1881) ISBN: 072322675X

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Book number: 13958

Catalogue: English/American History

Keywords: military history, British Army, shoulder titles, military dress, krijgsgeschiedenis, militaire kleding, schouderemblemen, krijgsonderdelen, legeronderdelen, regimenten, bataljons 072322675X

Whitehead, John

Guardian of the Grail. A New Light on the Arthurian Legend.

London & New York, Jarrolds Publishers Ltd., 1959. hardcover with dustjacket, 352 pp.. (the author identifies king Arthur as the Bear of Caledon, who fought the armies of the Emperor Claudius around A.D. 50 ) (with genealogical tables of Arthur's descent from and kinship with Celtic princes throughout Britanny).

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Book number: 15210

Catalogue: English/American History

Keywords: history, Wales, Britons, King Arthur, Grail, legends, Arimathea, Merlin, Druids

Wilkie, William

The Cardinal Protectors of England. Rome and the Tudors before the Reformation.

London, Cambridge University Press, 1974. hardcover, VIII, 262 pp.. (ex library copy; stamp on title-page; lower side of cover shows damage marks of removed library sticker; no underlinings) ISBN: 0521203325

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Book number: 21040

Catalogue: English/American History

Keywords: history, England, 1485-1539, Henry VII, Henry VIII, Rome, cardinals, Vatican, bishoprics, Francesco Todeschini Piccolimini, Pius III, Lorenzo Campeggio, Adriano Castellesi, Geronimo Ghinucci, Silvestro GigliGiulio de Medici, Clement VII 0521203325

Wise, Gene

American Historical Explanations. A Strategy for Grounded Inquiry.

Homewood (Illinois), The Dorsey Press, 1973. Ppb., XVIII, 370 pp.. (see also our no. 009655) (questions the nature of the paradigms along which American historians treated their subjects of inquiry and when and how these shift; the author makes use of the theory developed by Thomas Kuhn in his The Structure of Scientific Revolutions) ISBN: 0256014221

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Book number: 9632

Catalogue: English/American History

Keywords: history, U.S.A., historiography, methodology, paradigms, objectivity, interpretation, subjectivity,Thomas Kuhn 0256014221

Wroe, Ann

The perfect Prince. The Mystery of Perkin Warbeck and his quest for the Throne of England.

New York, Random House, 2003. hardcover with dustjacket, XI, 610 pp.. (the fascinating story of Perkin Warbeck, a Flemish youth who usurped in 1491 the identity of late Richard Duke of York, who together with his brother the young King Edward V had been murdered as a boy in the Tower in the year 1483 by a rival branch of the royal house of England; his subsequent trials to replace King Henry VII and his role in European politics as a suitable pretender to the English Crown as counterweight to King Henry VII or as a pawn to blackmail) ISBN: 1400060338

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Book number: 10945

Catalogue: English/American History

Keywords: history, England, Great-Britain, monarchy, House of York, Richard Duke of York, 15th century, pretenders, 1400060338

Wyndham, H.A.

A Family History 1410-1688. The Wyndhams of Norfolk and Somerset. idem 1688-1837. The Wyndhams of Somerset, Sussex and Wiltshire. ( 2 vol.)

London / New York / Toronto; 1939, Oxford University Press, 1950. hardcover, VII, 324; XII, 387 pp. ( + geneal. tab.).

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Book number: 16511

Catalogue: English/American History

Keywords: history, Great-Britain, England, Wyndham family, Earls of Egremont, Sir William Wyndham 1688-1740, Sir Thomas Wyndham

Yogev, Gedalia

Diamonds and Coral. Anglo-dutch Jews and Eighteenth-Century Trade.

Leicester / New York, Leicester University Press / Holmes & Meier Publishers Inc., 1978. hardcover with dustjacket, 360 pp.. ISBN: 0718511573

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Book number: 21094

Catalogue: English/American History

Keywords: economic history, Great Britain, Holland, India, commerce, trade, diamonds, Firm Israel Levin Salomons, Amsterdam, London, Jews, Judaism, Ashkenazim, family Prager, family Lindo, family Salomons, East India Company 0718511573

Ziegler, Philip

Melbourne. A Biography of William Lamb 2nd Viscount Melbourne.

London & New York, Collins, 1987. paperback, 412 pp.. ISBN: 0002179571

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Book number: 14380

Catalogue: English/American History

Keywords: history, England, Queen Victoria, William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne 0002179571

Zwaanstra, H.

Reformed Thought and Experience in a New World. A Study of the Christian Reformed Church and its American Environment 1890-1918. (dissertation Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

Kampen, J.H. Kok B.V., 1973. Ppb., X, 331 pp.. (history of the Christian Reformed Church, made up by Dutch Calvinists, in the U.S.A., esp. Michigan, and Grand Rapids,1880-1918, and its efforts to establish its own institutions, schools and unions, in order to expand its working on a wider social scale on behalf of its members).

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Book number: 9653

Catalogue: English/American History

Keywords: history, church history, U.S.A., protestantism, Christan Reformed Church, Calvinism, Calvinists