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Another Bloody Chapter In An Endless Civil War. Volume 1
Northern Ireland and the Troubles, 1984-87
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2016
The period under review covers the years of 1984-87 - nearing the end of the third decade of the Troubles. It will use research and oral contributions from the mid to late 1980s and will show not only how the Provisional IRA (PIRA) grew in financial and logistical strength, but also how the Security...
The Struggle for the State in Jordan
The Social Origins of Alliances in the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
Why do the states of the Arab world seem so unstable? Why do alliances between them and with outside powers change so suddenly? Jamie Allinson argues that the answer lies in the expansion of global capitalism in the Middle East. Drawing out the unexpected way in which Jordan's Bedouin tribes became...
Britain in Global Politics Volume 1
From Gladstone to Churchill
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
This volume of essays focuses upon Britain's international and imperial role from the mid-Victorian era through until the immediate aftermath of the Second World War. Individual chapters by acknowledged authorities in their field deal with a variety of broad-ranging and particular issues, including:...
Barbed Wire Diplomacy
Britain, Germany, and the Politics of Prisoners of War 1939-1945
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2010
Barbed Wire Diplomacy examines how the United Kingdom government went about protecting the interests, lives and well-being of its prisoners of war (POWs) in Nazi Germany between 1939 and 1945. The comparatively good treatment of British prisoners in Germany has largely been explained by historians...
At Home and under Fire
Air Raids and Culture in Britain from the Great War to the Blitz
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2012
Although the Blitz has come to symbolize the experience of civilians under attack, Germany first launched air raids on Britain at the end of 1914 and continued them during the First World War. With the advent of air warfare, civilians far removed from traditional battle zones became a direct target...
The Brussels and North Atlantic Treaties, 1947-1949
Documents on British Policy Overseas, Series I, Volume X
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
This volume documents the drafting, negotiation and signature of the treaty that has been the cornerstone of European defence for the past sixty-five years: the North Atlantic Treaty signed in April 1949.
The story begins at the end of 1947, when the British Foreign Secretary, Ernest Bevin,...
The Nordic Countries: From War to Cold War, 1944-51
Documents on British Policy Overseas, Series I, Vol. IX
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2011
This book is a collection of diplomatic documents describing the development of British relations with the Nordic countries between the end of the Second World War and the defeat of the Labour Government in 1951.
The end of the Second World War brought hopes of building a new society in Western...
A Hard Local War
The British Army and the Guerrilla War in Cork 1919-1921
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2017
Following years of discontent over Home Rule and the Easter Rising, the deaths of two Royal Irish Constabulary policemen in Soloheadbeg at the hands of the IRA in 1919 signalled the outbreak of war in Ireland. The Irish War of Independence raged until a truce between the British Army and the IRA in...
Turning Point 1917
The British Empire at War
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
For the British Empire and its allies of the Great War, 1917 was a year marked by crises. But here and there glimmers of light pierced the gloom. Soldiers began solving the problems posed by trench warfare. The dominions asserted themselves in the councils of imperial power. And the US finally entered...
Masters and servants
Cultures of empire in the tropics
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Masters and servants explores the politics of colonial mastery and domestic servitude in the neighbouring British colonies of Singapore and Darwin. Through an exploration of master-servant relationships within British, white Australian and Chinese homes, this book illustrates the centrality of the...
White Fury
A Jamaican Slaveholder and the Age of Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2018
The sugar planter Simon Taylor, who claimed ownership of over 2,248 enslaved people in Jamaica at the point of his death in 1813, was one of the wealthiest slaveholders ever to have lived in the British empire. Slavery was central to the eighteenth-century empire. Between the seventeenth and the nineteenth...
Psychoanalysis in Britain, 1893–1913
Histories and Historiography
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
Historians and biographers of psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, psychology, medicine and culture, even Wikipedia, believe Ernest Jones discovered Freud in 1904 and had become the first English-speaking practitioner of psychoanalysis by 1906. Psychoanalysis in Britain, 1893–1913 offers radically different...
The Experimental Imagination
Literary Knowledge and Science in the British Enlightenment
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Challenging the "two cultures" debate, The Experimental Imagination tells the story of how literariness came to be distinguished from its epistemological sibling, science, as a source of truth about the natural and social worlds in the British Enlightenment. Tita Chico shows that early science...
by Marcio Hemerique Pereira
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
Scientific Essay from the year 2009 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: A, , course: MA - English Studies, language: English, abstract: Abstract: This essay attempts to increase awareness of the scope of the letter, A Letter to the Women of England on the Injustice...