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by Daniel Darvay
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2016
This book explores the complex relationship between British modernism and the Gothic tradition over several centuries of modern literary and cultural history. Illuminating the blind spots of Gothic criticism and expanding the range of cultural material that falls under the banner of this tradition,...
The Idea of Infancy in Nineteenth-Century British Poetry
Romanticism, Subjectivity, Form
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
This book radically refigures the conceptual and formal significance of childhood in nineteenth-century English poetry. By theorizing infancy as a poetics as well as a space of continual beginning, Ruderman shows how it allowed poets access to inchoate, uncanny, and mutable forms of subjectivity and...
The Complexion of Race
Categories of Difference in Eighteenth-Century British Culture
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
In the 1723 Journal of a Voyage up the Gambia, an English narrator describes the native translators vital to the expedition's success as being "Black as Coal." Such a description of dark skin color was not unusual for eighteenth-century Britons—but neither was the statement that followed:...
The British National Health Service
State Intervention in the Medical Marketplace, 1911-1948
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
First published in 1991, this book charts the inception of the British National Health Service from 1911 to 1948. It pays specific attention to the struggle of doctors to achieve work control in the medical marketplace during this turbulent time. With particular focus on the medical profession, it...
Between Empire and Continent
British Foreign Policy before the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Prior to World War I, Britain was at the center of global relations, utilizing tactics of diplomacy as it broke through the old alliances of European states. Historians have regularly interpreted these efforts as a reaction to the aggressive foreign policy of the German Empire. However, as Between...
by Yumna Siddiqi, , Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2007
Focusing on late nineteenth- and twentieth-century stories of detection, policing, and espionage by British and South Asian writers, Yumna Siddiqi presents an original and compelling exploration of the cultural anxieties created by imperialism. She suggests that while colonial writers use narratives...
by John C. Mitcham
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
The first comprehensive account of the cultural and racial origins of the imperial security partnership between Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa. Drawing on research from every corner of the globe, John C. Mitcham merges studies of diplomacy, defense strategy, and politics...
On the Edge of Empire
Four British Plans for North East India, 1941–1947
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
In the closing years of the British rule in India, a secret plan was conceived and discussed at the highest circles for a crown colony comprising the hill areas of North East India and the tribal areas of Burma. The plan could not be implemented largely because it came up for discussion in the closing...
British Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War
The British Battalion in the International Brigades, 1936-1939
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2004
During the Spanish Civil War of 1936-1939 almost 2,500 men and women left Britain to fight for the Spanish Republic. This book examines the role, experiences and contribution of the volunteers who fought in the British Battalion of the 15 International Brigadesasking:
* Who were these volunteers?
*...
British Foreign Policy 1874-1914
The Role of India
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2003
A challenging analysis of British Foreign Policy is provided at a time when Britain possessed the biggest Empire that humankind has ever known. In this Empire India had a unique position, comprising 97 per cent of Britain's Asiatic Empire. All British statesmen deemed it essential to maintain their...
Victoria Falls and Colonial Imagination in British Southern Africa
Turning Water into Gold
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2017
This is the first full- length historical analysis of Victoria Falls. The text offers a critical examination of Victoria Falls providing new insight into the British Southern African project and reveals how Victoria Falls became one of the first modern African tourist destinations. This book makes...
British Marxism and Cultural Studies
Essays on a living tradition
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
A comprehensive exploration of the profound influence of Marxist ideas on the development of Cultural Studies in Britain, this volume covers a century of Marxist writing, balancing synoptic accounts of the various schools of Marxist thought with detailed analyses of the most important writers. Arguing...
The Labour Party, Denis Healey and the International Socialist Movement
Rebuilding the Socialist International during the Cold War, 1945–1951
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2018
This book describes how, after the Second World War, the Labour Party assumed leadership of the International Socialist Movement, thanks to the achievements of the Attlee Government. International Secretary Denis Healey guided the reconstruction of the Socialist International through the early Cold...
by Prof Robert Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
This book is both a concise history of British universities and their place in society over eight centuries, and a penetrating analysis of current university problems and policies as seen in the light of that history. It explains how the modern university system has developed since the Victorian era,...