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This book provides insights into the work of an experienced colonial administrator and diplomat at the height of Britain’s involvement abroad. Andrew Stuart's wide-ranging experience included decolonization in Uganda, preparations for negotiations with China over Hong Kong, and revolutions in the Seychelles, Bangladesh.

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9781860647130 | Tauris Academic Studies, June 1, 2001, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: This book provides insights into the work of an experienced colonial administrator and diplomat at the height of Britain’s involvement abroad.

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9781850439783 | Tauris Academic Studies, July 15, 2009, cover price $29.00

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9781860644610 | Tauris Academic Studies, October 20, 2000, cover price $120.00

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Recounts the life of Gertrude Bell, an Englishwoman adventurer in the style of Beryl Markham and Isak Dinesen, who explored parts of the Arab world around the time of World War I and helped create the modern Middle East. Reprint. 12,500 first printing. PW. (view table of contents)

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9780385474085 | Doubleday, September 1, 1996, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: Recounts the life of Gertrude Bell, an English adventurer who explored the Arab world and helped create the modern Middle East

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9780385495752 | Anchor Books, July 1, 1999, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Recounts the life of the adventurer who helped create the modern Middle East

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9781860644061 | Tauris Academic Studies, August 21, 1999, cover price $75.00

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Covering the changes in the tax law for 1998 returns, a guide to year-round tax-planning shows readers how to reduce their taxes through taking advantage of deductions, rules for income reporting, tax credits, and other areas. Original. 15,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

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9780028626819 | Macmillan General Reference, December 1, 1998, cover price $14.95 | also contains Enigmatic Proconsul: Sir Philip Mitchell and the Twilight of Empire | About this edition: Covers deductions, credits, loopholes, income-sheltering, and how new tax rates and regulations will affect long-term planning

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Product Description: The aim of this book is to give a candid view of the last Viceroys of India, their style of governance, and their impact on the Freedom Movement. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780195776980 | Oxford Univ Pr, November 27, 1997, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: The aim of this book is to give a candid view of the last Viceroys of India, their style of governance, and their impact on the Freedom Movement.

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Product Description: As colonial secretary MacDonald moved British colonial policy from a laissez-faire attitude to a developmental view; he was responsible for creating the Colonial Development and Welfare Fund, the first aid program. His last Cabinet post was as health minister during the London blitz, where he worked with Winston Churchill...read more

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9780773513037 | McGill Queens Univ Pr, October 1, 1995, cover price $110.00 | About this edition: As colonial secretary MacDonald moved British colonial policy from a laissez-faire attitude to a developmental view; he was responsible for creating the Colonial Development and Welfare Fund, the first aid program.

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Product Description: The life of Edward Keith-Roach spans the transition of Britain's imperial history from a position of power, serenity and confidence, to one of growing frustration and decline. Perhaps nowhere was this seen more starkly than in Palestine, where Keith-Roach served as Governor of Jerusalem during the period of the British Mandate...read more

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9781850438250 | Palgrave Macmillan, December 1, 1994, cover price $39.50 | About this edition: The life of Edward Keith-Roach spans the transition of Britain's imperial history from a position of power, serenity and confidence, to one of growing frustration and decline.

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Product Description: John O'Regan pursued a long career in the British Colonial Service. He served in Ceylon, Jamaica, Nigeria, Uganda and, finally, Iran. In this book he gives an account of the concerns of the Overseas Civil Service during the period spanning the end of the empire and the emergence of independent nation-states...read more

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9781850437772 | Tauris Academic Studies, February 1, 1994, cover price $105.00 | About this edition: John O'Regan pursued a long career in the British Colonial Service.

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9781850437390 | Tauris Academic Studies, December 1, 1993, cover price $39.50
9781850437390 | Tauris Academic Studies, December 1, 1993, cover price $39.50

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Covering the changes in the tax law for 1998 returns, a guide to year-round tax-planning shows readers how to reduce their taxes through taking advantage of deductions, rules for income reporting, tax credits, and other areas. Original. 15,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

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9781850435259 | Tauris Academic Studies, September 1, 1992, cover price $69.50 | About this edition: Sir Philip Mitchell has a distinguished career in the British Colonial Service during the latter stages of Empire.

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9780028626819, titled "J.K. Lasser''s Year-Round Tax Strategies 1999" | Macmillan General Reference, December 1, 1998, cover price $14.95 | also contains J.K. Lasser''s Year-Round Tax Strategies 1999 | About this edition: Covers deductions, credits, loopholes, income-sheltering, and how new tax rates and regulations will affect long-term planning

Hubert Evans' fascinating memior recounts his time in India and the people and events which shaped the history of the subcontinent. A must read for anyone interested in the history of India and the inner workings of the Raj.

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9780714633367 | Routledge, June 1, 1989, cover price $105.00 | About this edition: Hubert Evans' fascinating memior recounts his time in India and the people and events which shaped the history of the subcontinent.

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9780203987988 | Routledge, August 1, 1992, cover price $100.00

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Product Description: During her lifetime the name of Gertrude Bell evoked rich images of the exotic and mysterious Arab world. But her fame faded and now she is remembered only as a friend and colleague of T.E. Lawrence. She was an intrepid traveller, journeying alone through the deserts of the Middle East or scaling testing peaks in the Swiss Alps...read more

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9780907582861 | Berg Pub Ltd, December 1, 1985, cover price $104.95 | About this edition: During her lifetime the name of Gertrude Bell evoked rich images of the exotic and mysterious Arab world.

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9780907582687 | Berg Pub Ltd, January 1, 1992, cover price $35.95 | About this edition: During her lifetime the name of Gertrude Bell evoked rich images of the exotic and mysterious Arab world.

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9780312048419 | Reprint edition (Palgrave Macmillan, January 1, 1991), cover price $45.00

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Traces the life of the seventeenth century Virginian who fought in the War of the Spanish Succession, served as governor of the Leeward Islands, and lived the life of a Restoration rake

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9780912697871 | 1 edition (Algonquin Books, October 1, 1989), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Traces the life of the seventeenth century Virginian who fought in the War of the Spanish Succession, served as governor of the Leeward Islands, and lived the life of a Restoration rake

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Paperback:

9780712619271 | Reprint edition (David & Charles, December 1, 1988), cover price $13.95

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