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Looking for good British history books.Areas of interest: (those in red are main interests)Industrial RevolutionBritish ColonialismThe decline of British colonialismAmerican Revolution from a British perspective.Colonial AmericaWWIWar of the RosesEnglish Civil WarGood history of the monarchiesAmazon's going to get another economic stimulus from me soon.
One of my favorites was / is Catherine Drinker Bowen's Lion and the Throne about Sir Edward Coke – More then just a biography, it is very readable and gives excellent insight to the English legal system and government – as well as British colonial machinations in North America in the early 17th century.
Try The Princes in the Tower by Alison Weir, she also wrote one called simply “The Wars of the Roses” that is also good.
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