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Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2016
Written by specialists from various fields, this edited volume is the first systematic investigation of the impact of imperialism on twentieth-century Britain. The contributors explore different aspects of Britain's imperial experience as the empire weathered the storms of the two world wars, was...
Canada's Navy, 2nd Edition
The First Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017
From its eighteenth-century roots in exploration and trade, to the major conflicts of the First and Second World Wars, through to current roles in multinational operations with United Nations and NATO forces, Canada's navy – now celebrating its one hundredth anniversary – has been an expression...
The Royal Navy
A History Since 1900
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2014
Since 1900, the Royal Navy has seen vast operational changes. This book tells the story, not just of victory and defeat, but also of how the Navy has adjusted to a century of rapid technological and social change. The extensive reforms made by Admiral Fisher at the dawn of the twentieth century saw...
Life and Times of the Atomic Bomb
Nuclear Weapons and the Transformation of Warfare
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016
Life and Times of the Atomic Bomb takes up the question of how the world found itself in the age of nuclear weapons – and how it has since tried to find a way out of it. Albert I. Berger charts the story of nuclear weapons from their origins through the Atomic Age and the Cold War up through the...
by Lindsey German
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2013
How a Century of War Changed the Lives of Women looks at the remarkable impact of war on women in Britain. It shows how conflict has changed women's lives and how those changes have put women at the centre of peace campaigning. *BR**BR*Lindsey German, one of the UK's leading anti-war activists and...
Race, Science, and the Nation
Reconstructing the Ancient Past in Britain, France and Germany
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
Across the nineteenth century, scholars in Britain, France and the German lands sought to understand their earliest ancestors: the Germanic and Celtic tribes known from classical antiquity, and the newly discovered peoples of prehistory. New fields – philology, archeology and anthropology – interacted,...
War and Displacement in the Twentieth Century
Global Conflicts
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
Human displacement has always been a consequence of war, written into the myths and histories of centuries of warfare. However, the global conflicts of the twentieth century brought displacement to civilizations on an unprecedented scale, as the two World Wars shifted participants around the globe....
Raising Consumers
Children and the American Mass Market in the Early Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2004
In the present electronic torrent of MTV and teen flicks, Nintendo and Air Jordan advertisements, consumer culture is an unmistakably important—and controversial—dimension of modern childhood. Historians and social commentators have typically assumed that the child consumer became significant...
Italian Women at War
Sisters in Arms from the Unification to the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2016
Italian Women at War: Sisters in Arms from Unification to the Twentieth Century offers diverse perspectives on Italian women’s participation in war and conflict throughout Italy’s modern history, contributing to the ongoing scholarly conversation on this topic. Part one of the book focuses on...
Global West, American Frontier
Travel, Empire, and Exceptionalism from Manifest Destiny to the Great Depression
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
This thoughtful examination of a century of travel writing about the American West overturns a variety of popular and academic stereotypes. Looking at both European and American travelers’ accounts of the West, from de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America to William Least Heat-Moon’s Blue Highways,...
Remaking the Modern World 1900 - 2015
Global Connections and Comparisons
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
The sequel and companion volume to C.A. Bayly's ground-breaking The Birth of the Modern World, 1780-1914, this wide-ranging and sophisticated study explores global history since the First World War, offering a coherent, comparative overview of developments in politics, economics, and society at large.
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Fighting Fundamentalist
Carl McIntire and the Politicization of American Fundamentalism
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
For most of his sixty-year career, the Reverend Carl McIntire was at the center of controversy. The best-known and most influential of the fundamentalist radio broadcasters and anticommunists of the Cold War era, his many enemies depicted him as a dangerous far rightist, a racist, or a "McCarthyite"...
Japan's Holy War
The Ideology of Radical Shinto Ultranationalism
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2009
Japan’s Holy War reveals how a radical religious ideology drove the Japanese to imperial expansion and global war. Bringing to light a wealth of new information, Walter A. Skya demonstrates that whatever other motives the Japanese had for waging war in Asia and the Pacific, for many the war was...
Contesting the Moral High Ground
Popular Moralists in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
In mid-twentieth century Britain, four intellectuals - Julian Huxley, Bertrand Russell, Malcolm Muggeridge, and Barbara Ward - held sway over popular conceptions of morality. While Huxley and Russell championed ideas informed by agnosticism and atheism, Muggeridge and Ward were adherents to Christianity....