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{{newreview|author=Stephen Bates|title=1815: Regency Britain in the Year of Waterloo|rating=4.5|genre=History|summary=The idea of taking a pivotal year from the past and devoting a whole book to the theme, embracing political, social and military history, is a very interesting one. Stephen Bates did so successfully not long ago with ‘Two Nations: Britain in 1846’, and here he does the same again, taking a step three decades back.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781858217</amazonuk>}}
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|author=Lena Mukhina and Amanda Love Darragh (translator)
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144726987X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jerry White
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099556049</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=David Esterly
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715649191</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Emma Tennant, Hilary Bailey and David Elliott
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1857886267</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=The Mill Girls
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091958288</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=Money: The Unauthorised Biography
|summary=Occasionally books are not exactly what they seem. When I picked this up, read the blurb and began the contents inside, I was expecting a kind of biography or history of money through the ages. The opening chapter, a brief sketch of the economy of the Pacific island of Yap and how it worked, seemed to confirm this. It tells us how in the late nineteenth century Yap, east of the Philippine Islands, had an unwieldy coinage consisting of stone wheels around 12ft in diameter, called fei. The population did not carry these around, let alone own them like we possess pounds and pence, as they were part of a sophisticated system of credit management.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099578522</amazonuk>
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