British category: 24621 books
by Major Rob B. McClary
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
The United States’ current strategic environment is increasingly complex, with security, economic, and humanitarian interests around the world. Consequently, the United States’ military may be called upon at any time to perform missions ranging from peacekeeping to total war, in environments ranging...
British and Irish diasporas
Societies, cultures and ideologies
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
People from the British and Irish Isles have, for centuries, migrated to all corners of the globe.Wherever they went, the English, Irish, Scots, Welsh, and and even sub-national, supra-regional groups like the Cornish, co-mingled, blended and blurred. Yet while they gradually integrated into new lives...
Public Health in the British Empire
Intermediaries, Subordinates, and the Practice of Public Health, 1850-1960
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Over the last several decades, historians of public health in Britain’s colonies have been primarily concerned with the process of policy making in the upper echelons of the medical and sanitary administrations. Yet it was the lower level staff that formed the backbone of public health systems in...
by David French
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
First published in 1990, this title examines British defence policy from 1688 onwards; the year in which Britain was successfully invaded for the final time, and which marked a generation of warfare that lasted until 1714, during which Britain came to be known as a major European power. David French...
European Recovery and the Search for Western Security, 1946-1948
Documents on British Policy Overseas, Series I, Volume XI
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
This volume documents the British Government’s response from mid-1946 to early 1948 to the twin challenges of economic recovery and the search for a meaningful Western security framework in the face of the increasing polarisation of Europe into Eastern and Western spheres of influence.
Although...
The Postwar Legacy of Appeasement
British Foreign Policy Since 1945
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2014
Focusing on the Cold War and the post-Cold War eras, R. Gerald Hughes explores the continuing influence of Appeasement on British foreign policy and re-evaluates the relationship between British society and Appeasement, both as historical memory and as a foreign policy process.
The Postwar...
British Working-Class Fiction
Narratives of Refusal and the Struggle Against Work
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
British Fiction and the Struggle Against Work offers an account of British literary responses to work from the 1950s to the onset of the financial crisis of 2008/9. Roberto del Valle Alcalá argues that throughout this period, working-class writing developed new strategies of resistance against the...
by Iain E. Johnston-White
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2016
This book is the first comprehensive study of the British Commonwealth in the Second World War. Britain and its Dominions, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, formed the most durable, cooperative and interchangeable alliance of the war. Iain E. Johnston-White looks in depth at how the...
Britannia's Embrace
Modern Humanitarianism and the Imperial Origins of Refugee Relief
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2015
On the eve of the American Revolution, the refugee was, according to British tradition, a Protestant who sought shelter from continental persecution. By the turn of the twentieth century, however, British refuge would be celebrated internationally as being open to all persecuted foreigners. Britain...
by Stefan Küpper
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2010
Essay from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, University of Reading (English Department), course: Colonial Explorations, language: English, abstract: Early industrialization, overproduction at home and the resulting economical pressure to...
The Nineteenth Century
The British Isles 1815-1901
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2000
The complete Short Oxford History of The British Isles (series editor: Professor Paul Langford) will cover the history of the British Isles from the Roman Era to the present in eleven volumes. In each, experts write to their strengths tackling the key issues including society, economy, religion, politics,...
Gunfire!
British Artillery in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
This book provides an insight into how artillery resources were established, developed and employed during the Second World War, using the British Royal Artillery as an example.
Beginning with an overview of the nature and state of readiness of the Royal Artillery on the outbreak of war, the...
Is There a British Chalcolithic?
People, Place and Polity in the later Third Millennium
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2012
The Chalcolithic, the phase in prehistory when the important technical development of adding tin to copper to produce bronze had not yet taken place, is not a term generally used by British prehistorians and whether there is even a definable phase is debated. Is there a British Chalcolithic? brings...
RAFFERTY & LLEWELLYN SERIES BOXED SET BOOKS 1 to 4
British Detective Series
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2014
A Little Laughter. A Little Mayhem. A Little MURDER . . .
RAFFERTY & LLEWELLYN SERIES BOXED SET eBOOKS 1 TO 4
Dead Before Morning #1
Down Among the Dead Men #2
Death Line #3
The Hanging Tree #4
DEAD BEFORE MORNING
British Detective Joe Rafferty and his partner, Sergeant Dafyd...