Michael Partridge: 3 books
by Michael Partridge
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Gladstone is one of the most important political figures in modern British history. He held the office of Prime Minister four times during a turbulent and changing time in Britain's history.
Michael Partridge provides a new survey of Gladstone's life and career, placing him firmly in the context...
The Battle of Albuera 1811
Glorious Fields of Grief'
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2007
On 16 May 1811 a combined British, Portuguese and Spanish force commanded by the British general Beresford met the French army under Soult at Albuera in southern Spain. What followed was one of the bloodiest and most controversial battles of the Peninsular War. Yet despite the battle's significance...
Spaces of Danger
Culture and Power in the Everyday
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
These twelve original essays by geographers and anthropologists offer a deep critical understanding of Allan Pred’s pathbreaking and eclectic cultural Marxist approach, with a focus on his concept of “situated ignorance”: the production and reproduction of power and inequality by regimes of...