Patrick N. Allitt
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The Rise and Fall of the British Empire
6 editions
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2009
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The Industrial Revolution
2 editions
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2014
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Victorian Britain
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1999
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The American West: History, Myth, and Legacy
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The Conservative Tradition
4 editions
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2009
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American Religious History
3 editions
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2001
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The Great Tours: England, Scotland and Wales
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2018
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I'm the Teacher, You're the Student: A Semester in the University Classroom
9 editions
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2004
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America After the Cold War: The First Thirty Years
2 editions
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2020
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American Identity
3 editions
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2002
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“If you study a historical episode and feel good about it, it probably means that you haven't had it explained very well. Historical conflict is usually the struggle of different conceptions of what is good.”
― The Rise and Fall of the British Empire
― The Rise and Fall of the British Empire
“Author reports that a group of tortoises was given to the British by India's natives during the Seven Years War which ended in 1763. The last of those tortoises died in 2004 at the age of 255.”
― The Rise and Fall of the British Empire
― The Rise and Fall of the British Empire
“Author relates the reaction of an Irish village to a landowner who tried to raise rents on the land's occupants. The villagers refused to talk to or trade with the man, whose name was Captain Boycott.”
― The Rise and Fall of the British Empire
― The Rise and Fall of the British Empire
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