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British State Romanticism

Authorship, Agency, and Bureaucratic Nationalism

by Anne Frey
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2009

British State Romanticism contends that changing definitions of state power in the late Romantic period propelled authors to revisit the work of literature as well as the profession of authorship. Traditionally, critics have seen the Romantics as imaginative geniuses and viewed the supposedly less...

America and the British Imaginary in Turn-of-the-Twentieth-Century Literature

by B. Miller
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2010

In an innovative reading of fin-de-siecle cultural texts, Miller argues that British representations of America, Americans, and Anglo-American relations at the turn of the twentieth century provided an important forum for cultural distinction.

Angels Of Armageddon: The Royal Air Force In The Battle Of Megiddo [Illustrated Edition]

by Major Gary J. Morea
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014

Includes World War One In The Desert Illustration Pack- 115 photos/illustrations and 19 maps spanning the Desert campaigns 1914-1918 Egypt and Palestine offered the British an opportunity to fight a war of movement. Unlike the Western Front, Egypt and Palestine were undeveloped with wide expanses...

(Dis)Placing Empire

Renegotiating British Colonial Geographies

by Michael M. Roche
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017

While there has been for the past two decades a lively and extensive academic debate about postcolonial representations of imperialism and colonialism, there has been little work which focuses on 'placed' materialist or critical geographical perspectives. The contributors to this volume offer such...

British Foreign Policy, National Identity, and Neoclassical Realism

by Amelia Hadfield-Amkhan
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2010

This groundbreaking study offers a genuinely multidisciplinary exploration of cultural influences on foreign policy. Through an innovative blend of historical analysis, neoclassical realist theory, and cultural studies, Amelia Hadfield-Amkhan shows how national identity has been a catalyst for British...

Losing Small Wars

British Military Failure in the 9/11 Wars

by Frank Ledwidge
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017

This new edition of Frank Ledwidge’s eye-opening analysis of British involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan unpicks the causes and enormous costs of military failure. Updated throughout, and with fresh chapters assessing and enumerating the overall military performance since 2011—including Libya, ISIS,...

Plumer of Messines

by Gen. Sir Charles Harington
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017

Originally published in 1935, this is the memoir of Lord Herbert Plumer, commander of the Second Army during the First World War, and written by Sir Charles Harington Harington, who served as Major-General, General Staff, of the Second Army for a large period of the Great War in the defence of the...

City of London in the Great War

by Stephen John Wynn
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2016

Throughout the First World War, London played a major part in Great Britain's war effort, both at home and abroad. A far as Germany was concerned, the city was their ultimate goal – the ultimate target that would bring them the sought-after victory they so desired. With the British Royal...

The End is Nigh

British Politics, Power, and the Road to the Second World War

by Robert Crowcroft
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2019

Few decades have given rise to such potent mythologies as the 1930s. Popular impressions of those years prior to the Second World War were shaped by the single outstanding personality of that conflict, Winston Spencer Churchill. Churchill depicted himself as a political prophet, exiled into the wilderness...

Ashmead-Bartlett’s Despatches From The Dardanelles

by Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015

Published during the Great War, this book by Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett (1881-1931), a British war correspondent during the First World War, covers the preparations for the assault on Gallipoli, the naval Battle of the Dardanelles, the landings at ANZAC and Cape Helles and the battles for Krithia, Achi...

Home

A Time Traveller's Tales from Britain's Prehistory

by Francis Pryor
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2014

In Home Francis Pryor, author of The Making of the British Landscape, archaeologist and broadcaster, takes us on his lifetime's quest: to discover the origins of family life in prehistoric Britain Francis Pryor's search for the origins of our island story has been the quest of a lifetime. In...

The Making of the British Landscape

How We Have Transformed the Land, from Prehistory to Today

by Francis Pryor
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2010

This is the changing story of Britain as it has been preserved in our fields, roads, buildings, towns and villages, mountains, forests and islands. From our suburban streets that still trace out the boundaries of long vanished farms to the Norfolk Broads, formed when medieval peat pits flooded, from...

Britain in the Middle East

1619-1971

by Dr Robert T. Harrison
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016

Britain in the Middle East provides a comprehensive survey of British involvement in the Middle East, exploring their mutual construction and influence across the entire historical sweep of their relationship. In the 17th century, Britain was establishing trade links in the Middle East, using...

Geographies of the Romantic North

Science, Antiquarianism, and Travel, 1790–1830

by A. Byrne
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013

This book examines British scientific and antiquarian travels in the "North," circa 1790–1830. British perceptions, representations and imaginings of the North are considered part of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century processes of British self-fashioning as a Northern nation, and key in unifying the expanding North Atlantic empire.

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