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In 1895, nine American girls married peers of the British realm. It was the peak year of a social phenomenon that began when the entrenched members of old New York snubbed these "new money" families after the Civil War, sending them off to England in quest of class. MacColl presents a rich tapestry of essays, sidebars, fact-filled boxes, and lively anecdotes to chronicle the era respresnted by Downton Abbey and Upstairs, downstairs.

Amid the shortages, tedium and dangers of life in the First World War trenches, those at �the sharp end� remained determined to celebrate Christmas as a time of comradeship and community. Drawing on personal recollections and interviews and a wide range of archive photographs, Alan Wakefield shows how Christmas was celebrated by British, Dominion and Empire troops across the world.

A dual-sided history of the Revolutionary War examines the conflict from both the colonial and British sides, documenting the nearly violent political disagreements in Parliament, as well as the American-sympathetic pacifist media criticism of King George III that may have played a major role in the war's outcome. For generations, Americans have been taught to view the Revolutionary War as a heroic tale of resistance, exclusively from the perspective...