British category: 24621 books
by J.B.R. Nicholson
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2012
The British Army's involvement in the Crimean War of 1854-56 is often remembered only for the ill-advised 'charge of the Light Brigade' during the battle of Sevastopol as memorialized in Tennyson's poem. Nevertheless, the British Army, together with the French and Turkish armies, posed a formidable...
The Methuen Drama Book of Plays by Black British Writers
Welcome Home Jacko, Chiaroscuro, Talking in Tongues, Sing Yer Heart Out ..., Fix Up, Gone Too Far!
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
The Methuen Drama Book of Plays by Black British Writers provides an essential anthology of six of the key plays that have shaped the trajectory of British black theatre from the late-1970s to the present day. In doing so it charts the journey from specialist black theatre companies to the mainstream,...
by Mike Wells
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 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...
The Dispossessed State
Narratives of Ownership in Nineteenth-Century Britain and Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Do indigenous peoples have an unassailable right to the land they have worked and lived on, or are those rights conferred and protected only when a powerful political authority exists? In the tradition of John Locke and Thomas Hobbes, who vigorously debated the thorny concept of property rights, Sara...
Portraiture and British Gothic Fiction
The Rise of Picture Identification, 1764–1835
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Traditionally, kings and rulers were featured on stamps and money, the titled and affluent commissioned busts and portraits, and criminals and missing persons appeared on wanted posters. British writers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, however, reworked ideas about portraiture to promote...
by Christopher Smith
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
For 7,000 years after the last ice age, the people of the British Isles subsisted by hunting wild game and gathering fruits of the forest and foreshore. Belonging to the late Upper Palaelithic and Mesolithic periods, these hunter-gatherers have hitherto been viewed mainly in terms of stone tool typologies....
British Politics, 1910-1935
The Crisis of the Party System
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2004
This accessible new study provides a much-needed guide to the pivotal period of British history between 1910 and 1935, against the background of upheavals such as the First World War and the transition to full democracy as a consequence of the Reform Acts of 1918 and 1928. Combining an up-to-date...
by John D. Grainger
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2012
This very substantial, comprehensive dictionary contains entries on all the battles fought at sea by British fleets and ships since Anglo-Saxon times. Major battles, such as Trafalgar or Jutland, minor actions, often convoy and frigate actions, troop landings, bombardments and single ship actions...
Selling War
The British Propaganda Campaign against American "Neutrality" in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 1996
"British propaganda brought America to the brink of war, and left it to the Japanese and Hitler to finish the job." So concludes Nicholas Cull in this absorbing study of how the United States was transformed from isolationism to belligerence in the years before the attack on Pearl Harbor....
by Neil Oliver
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2018
"Everyone should have two copies - one for the car and one for the house to plan journeys. . . a reminder to think more about the places you pass and less about your route, because every British journey is through rich history." (Edward Stourton)
From much-loved historian Neil Oliver,...
Empire in Question
Reading, Writing, and Teaching British Imperialism
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
Featuring essays written by the influential historian Antoinette Burton since the mid-1990s, Empire in Question traces the development of a particular, contentious strand of modern British history, the “new imperial history,” through the eyes of a scholar who helped to shape the field. In her...
Colonizing Paradise
Landscape and Empire in the British West Indies
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
In Colonizing Paradise, historian Jefferson Dillman charts the broad spectrum of sentiments that British citizens and travelers held regarding their colonial possessions in the West Indies. Myriad fine degrees of ambivalence separated extreme views of the region as an idyllic archipelago or a nest...
Twentieth-Century British Theatre
Industry, Art and Empire
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2011
In this book, Claire Cochrane maps the experience of theatre across the British Isles during the twentieth century through the social and economic factors which shaped it. Three topographies for 1900, 1950 and 2000 survey the complex plurality of theatre within the nation-state which at the beginning...
by Adam Galamaga
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2011
Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: sehr gut, University of Frankfurt (Main) (Institut für England- und Amerikastudien), course: Memory of the Camps: The Holocaust in British Literature and Culture, language: English, abstract:...