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  • British Mail Steamers to South America, 1851-1965

    A History of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company and Royal Mail Lines

    by Robert E. Forrester ...
    During the nineteenth century Britain’s maritime, commercial and colonial interests all depended upon a regular and reliable flow of seaborne information from around the globe. Whilst the telegraph increasingly came to dominate long-distance communication, postal services by sea played a vital role in the network of information exchange, particularly to the more distant locations. Much importance ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

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  • Crossing the Line

    Australia’s Secret History in the Timor Sea

    by Kim McGrath ...
    Series Book 12 - Redback
    For fifty years, Australia has schemed to deny East Timor billions of dollars of oil and gas wealth.With explosive new research and access to never-before-seen documents, Kim McGrath tells the story of Australia’s secret agenda in the Timor Sea, exposing the ruthlessness of successive governments. Australia did nothing to stop Indonesia’s devastating occupation of East Timor, when – on our ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Something Will Turn Up

    Britain’s Economy, Past, Present and Future

    by David Smith ...
    As the prevailing winds of the global economy have changed, so Britain has been buffeted from boom to bust and back again. But how much is our country's economic landscape shaped by the huge forces of international capital - and the hope that 'something will turn up' - and how much by the individual men and women at the heart of our economic policy?David Smith forged his career as Britain's ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Official History of the Falklands Campaign, Volume 1

    The Origins of the Falklands War

    by Lawrence Freedman ...
    Series series Government Official History Series
    Drawing on a vast range of previously classified government archives as well as interviews with key participants, this first volume of the official history of the Falklands Campaign is the most authoritative account of the origins of the 1982 war.In the first chapters the author analyzes the long history of the dispute between Argentina and Britain over the sovereignty of the Islands, the ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • The Rise and Fall of the City of Money

    A Financial History of Edinburgh

    by Ray Perman ...
    It started and ended with a financial catastrophe. The Darien disaster of 1700 drove Scotland into union with England, but spawned the institutions which transformed Edinburgh into a global financial centre. The crash of 2008 wrecked the city’s two largest and oldest banks – and its reputation. In the three intervening centuries, Edinburgh became a hothouse of financial innovation, prudent banking ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dragons

    Ten Entrepreneurs Who Built Britain

    by Liam Byrne ...
    Britain's rise to global dominance from the 16th century owed as much to the vision and creativity of traders, industrialists and bankers as it did to wars of conquest fought by military men.DRAGONS tells the story of British business endeavour through the lives of ten titans of commerce. Beginning with the Tudor merchants who transformed England's economy via trade with the New World, Liam Byrne ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Till Time's Last Sand

    A History of the Bank of England 1694-2013

    by David Kynaston ...
    ____________________The authorised history of the Bank of England by the bestselling David Kynaston, 'the most entertaining historian alive' (Spectator).'Kynaston's aim is to provide a history of the Bank for the general reader and in this he triumphantly succeeds, providing a worthy complement to the notable series of books on different periods of the Bank's history … wonderfully readable' ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The History of Mining

    The events, technology and people involved in the industry that forged the modern world

    by Michael Coulson ...
    THE INDUSTRY THAT FORGED THE MODERN WORLDThroughout history metals and raw materials have underpinned human activity. So it is that the industry responsible for extracting these materials from the ground – mining – has been ever present throughout the history of civilisation, from the ancient world of the Egyptians and Romans, to the industrial revolution and the British Empire, and through to the ... Read more

    $69.69 USD

  • Crossing Continents

    A History of Standard Chartered Bank

    by Duncan Campbell-Smith ...
    For almost a hundred years from the 1860s, the City of London's overseas banks financed the global trade that lay at the core of the British Empire. Foremost among them from the beginning were two start-up ventures: the Standard Bank of South Africa, which soon developed a powerful domestic franchise at the Cape, and the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China. This book traces their stories ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Shell Shock

    The Secrets And Spin Of An Oil Giant

    by Ian Cummins, John Beasant ...
    Royal Dutch/Shell is a multinational behemoth. Every four seconds of every day, 1,200 cars fill their tanks with petrol on Shell forecourts, while at airports around the world civil airliners are refuelled with Shell aviation spirit every ten seconds. The company has long been regarded as a world leader and a model for other corporations. That is, until January 2004.In a truly dramatic statement, ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Nine Crises

    Fifty Years of Covering the British Economy from Devaluation to Brexit

    by William Keegan ...
    A collapsing pound, spiralling oil prices, near-rationing of electricity... over the past half-century, Britain's economy has lurched from one crisis to another, though it somehow always survives or at least it has done until now.Veteran financial journalist William Keegan has seen it all, from the 1967 devaluation to the three-day week, from Black Wednesday to the global financial crash of 2007 ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Official History of Privatisation, Vol. II

    Popular Capitalism, 1987-97

    by David Parker ...
    Series series Government Official History Series
    This is Volume II of Professor Parker's authoritative Official History of Privatisation, covering the period from the re-election of Margaret Thatcher in 1987 to the election of Tony Blair in 1997.Volume II considers in detail several of the major privatisations, including those of airports, steel, water, electricity, coal and the railways, as well as a number of smaller ones. Each privatisation ... Read more

    $73.99 USD