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The Long Eighteenth Century
British Political and Social History 1688-1832
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2016
This long-awaited second edition sees this classic text by a leading scholar given a new lease of life. It comes complete with a wealth of original material on a range of topics and takes into account the vital research that has been undertaken in the field in the last two decades.
The book...
by Oswald Mosley
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2019
‘Tomorrow We Live’ (1938) by Oswald Mosley is the book whose style most closely resembles the emotive tone of his speeches. There was good reason for this: British Union, the Movement that Mosley led, was by now engaged in a life or death struggle to avert the coming War that would cost 60-million...
Between Self and Society
Inner Worlds and Outer Limits in the British Psychological Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
Between Self and Society explores the psychosocial dramas that galvanize six major British novels written between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries. The book challenges an influential misconception that has for too long hindered appreciation of the psychological novel. John Rodden argues that there...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
In a world of conflicting nationalist claims, mass displacements and asylum-seeking, a great many people are looking for 'home' or struggling to establish the 'nation'. These were also important preoccupations between the English and the French revolutions: a period when Britain was first at war within...
by Wendy Webster
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2007
Did loss of imperial power and the end of empire have any significant impact on British culture and identity after 1945? Within a burgeoning literature on national identity and what it means to be British this is a question that has received surprisingly little attention. Englishness and Empire makes...
Wasted Years, Wasted Lives Volume 1
The British Army in Northern Ireland 1975-77
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Over the past several years, Ken Wharton, himself a former soldier, has been prolific in his coverage of the Troubles, which spread their tentacles far from the streets, and fields of Northern Ireland. Over 4,000 people died in or as a consequence of them and it cost the lives of over 1,300 British...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
This book examines the evolution of the Foreign Office in the 20th century and the way in which it has responded to Britain's changing role in international affairs. The last century was one of unprecedented change in the way foreign policy and diplomacy were conducted. The work of 'The Office' expanded...
Letters and Journals of James, Eighth Earl of Elgin
Governor of Jamaica, Governor-General of Canada, Envoy to China, Viceroy of India
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2013
James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin and 12th Earl of Kincardine, KT, GCB, PC (20 July 1811 – 20 November 1863), was a British colonial administrator and diplomat. He was the Governor General of the Province of Canada, a High Commissioner in charge of opening trades with China and Japan, and Viceroy...
by Geoffrey of Monmouth
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2013
The "Historia Regum Britanniae" (English: The History of the Kings of Britain) is a pseudo-historical account of British history, written circa 1136 by Geoffrey of Monmouth. It chronicles the lives of the kings of the Britons in a chronological narrative spanning a time of two thousand years,...
by Mike Wells, Mary Dicken
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
Exam Board: OCR
Level: A-level
Subject: History
First Teaching: September 2015
First Exam: June 2016
This is an OCR endorsed resource
Build strong subject knowledge and skills in A Level History using the in-depth analysis and structured support in this tailor-made series for OCR's British...
by Norman Lowe
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2009
For individual or classroom study, this revised 4th edition, brings British history up-to-date with new content on Britain under New Labour since 1997. Taking into account latest research and interpretations, the commentary is informative and enjoyable; the source material stimulating and enlightening.
Trade Unions and the State
The Construction of Industrial Relations Institutions in Britain, 1890-2000
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
The collapse of Britain's powerful labor movement in the last quarter century has been one of the most significant and astonishing stories in recent political history. How were the governments of Margaret Thatcher and her successors able to tame the unions?
In analyzing how an entirely new...
Colin Palmer’s Trilogy on Imperialism in the Caribbean, Omnibus E-Book
Includes Freedom's Children, Cheddi Jagan and the Politics of Power, and Eric Williams and the Making of the Modern Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
This Omnibus E-Book brings together all three of Colin A. Palmer's books on the making of the modern Caribbean. Included are:
Freedom's Children: The 1938 Labor Rebellion and the Birth of Modern Jamaica
This is the first comprehensive history of Jamaica's watershed 1938 labor rebellion...
by Edward Watson
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
As the famous Colt revolver is to the United States of America, so is the Webley to the British Commonwealth, where weapons bearing their name have been used by British, Dominion and Foreign troops in wars waged in every part of the globe. With few exceptions, the weapons under review are prized specimens...