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Reeds Storm Handbook
How to survive rough weather
Häftad, 2026
175 kr
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The essential pocket guide to preparing for and coping with storms and heavy weather conditions at sea.Sailing in high winds and large waves is a daunting prospect for almost all sailors. Preparation of boat and crew is the key to surviving a storm. This handy aid-memoire contains the essentials of …
Heavy Weather Sailing 8th edition
Inbunden, 2022
549 kr
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For over 50 years Heavy Weather Sailing has been regarded as the ultimate international authority on surviving storms at sea aboard sailing and motor vessels.In this book, former Commodore of the Ocean Cruising Club Martin Thomas brings together a wealth of expert advice from many of the great …
Oxford Handbook of the Ends of Empire
Av Andrew Thompson, Martin Thomas
E-bok, 2018
1699 kr
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The Oxford Handbook of the Ends of Empire offers the most comprehensive treatment of the causes, course, and consequences of the ends of empire in the twentieth century. The volume''s contributors convey the global reach of decolonization, with chapters analysing the empires of Western Europe, …
Oxford Handbook of the Ends of Empire
Av Andrew Thompson, Martin Thomas
E-bok, 2018
1699 kr
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The Oxford Handbook of the Ends of Empire offers the most comprehensive treatment of the causes, course, and consequences of the ends of empire in the twentieth century. The volume''s contributors convey the global reach of decolonization, with chapters analysing the empires of Western Europe, …
Arguing about Empire
Imperial Rhetoric in Britain and France, 1882-1956
Av Richard Toye, Martin Thomas
E-bok, 2017
286 kr
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Arguing about Empire analyses the most divisive arguments about empire between Europe''s two leading colonial powers from the age of high imperialism to the post-war era of decolonization. Focusing on the domestic contexts underlying imperial rhetoric, Arguing about Empire adopts a case-study …
Fight or Flight
Britain, France, and their Roads from Empire
E-bok, 2014
252 kr
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Although shattered by war, in 1945 Britain and France still controlled the world''s two largest colonial empires, with imperial territories stretched over four continents. And they appeared determined to keep them: the roll-call of British and French politicians, soldiers, settlers and writers who …
Fight or Flight
Britain, France, and their Roads from Empire
E-bok, 2014
252 kr
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Although shattered by war, in 1945 Britain and France still controlled the world''s two largest colonial empires, with imperial territories stretched over four continents. And they appeared determined to keep them: the roll-call of British and French politicians, soldiers, settlers and writers who …
Arguing about Empire
Imperial Rhetoric in Britain and France, 1882-1956
Av Richard Toye, Martin Thomas
E-bok, 2019
286 kr
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Arguing about Empire analyses the most divisive arguments about empire between Europe''s two leading colonial powers from the age of high imperialism to the post-war era of decolonization. Focusing on the domestic contexts underlying imperial rhetoric, Arguing about Empire adopts a case-study …
Oxford Handbook of Late Colonial Insurgencies and Counter-Insurgencies
Av Gareth Curless, Martin Thomas
E-bok, 2024
1983 kr
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The lethality of conflicts between insurgent groups and counter-insurgent security forces has risen markedly since the Second World War just as those of conventional, or inter-state wars have declined. For several decades, conflicts within states rather than between them have been the prevalent …
Oxford Handbook of Late Colonial Insurgencies and Counter-Insurgencies
Av Gareth Curless, Martin Thomas
E-bok, 2023
1983 kr
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The lethality of conflicts between insurgent groups and counter-insurgent security forces has risen markedly since the Second World War just as those of conventional, or inter-state wars have declined. For several decades, conflicts within states rather than between them have been the prevalent …
The Oxford Handbook of the Ends of Empire
Av Martin Thomas, Andrew Thompson
Inbunden, 2018
2776 kr
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The Oxford Handbook of the Ends of Empire offers the most comprehensive treatment of the causes, course, and consequences of the ends of empire in the twentieth century. The volume's contributors convey the global reach of decolonization, with chapters analysing the empires of Western Europe, …
Arguing about Empire
Imperial Rhetoric in Britain and France, 1882-1956
Av Martin Thomas, Richard Toye
Inbunden, 2017
1253 kr
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Arguing about Empire analyses the most divisive arguments about empire between Europe's two leading colonial powers from the age of high imperialism to the post-war era of decolonization. Focusing on the domestic contexts underlying imperial rhetoric, Arguing about Empire adopts a case-study …
Arguing about Empire
Imperial Rhetoric in Britain and France, 1882-1956
Av Martin Thomas, Richard Toye
Häftad, 2019
405 kr
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Arguing about Empire analyses the most divisive arguments about empire between Europe's two leading colonial powers from the age of high imperialism to the post-war era of decolonization. Focusing on the domestic contexts underlying imperial rhetoric, Arguing about Empire adopts a case-study …
The Oxford Handbook of Late Colonial Insurgencies and Counter-Insurgencies
Av Martin Thomas, Gareth Curless
Inbunden, 2023
2525 kr
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The lethality of conflicts between insurgent groups and counter-insurgent security forces has risen markedly since the Second World War just as those of conventional, or inter-state wars have declined. For several decades, conflicts within states rather than between them have been the prevalent …
The Oxford Handbook of the Ends of Empire
Av Martin Thomas, Andrew Thompson
Häftad, 2023
746 kr
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The Oxford Handbook of the Ends of Empire offers the most comprehensive treatment of the causes, course, and consequences of the ends of empire in the twentieth century. The volume's contributors convey the global reach of decolonization, with chapters analysing the empires of Western Europe, …
Fight or Flight
Britain, France, and their Roads from Empire
Inbunden, 2014
552 kr
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Although shattered by war, in 1945 Britain and France still controlled the world's two largest colonial empires, with imperial territories stretched over four continents. And they appeared determined to keep them: the roll-call of British and French politicians, soldiers, settlers and writers who …
Dictionary of Social Work: The Definitive A to Z of Social Work and Social Care
Av John Pierson, Martin Thomas
Häftad, 2010
378 kr
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"This updated and revised version of a very popular and well received book provides a key quick reference work for students, and new and experienced practitioners. The succinct résumés of current issues and their implications for practice and policy help readers to get to grips with the wide range …
Dictionary of Social Work: the Definitive a to Z of Social Work and Social Care
Av John Pierson, Martin Thomas
E-bok, 2010
365 kr
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"This updated and revised version of a very popular and well received book provides a key quick reference work for students, and new and experienced practitioners. The succinct résumés of current issues and their implications for practice and policy help readers to get to grips with the wide range …
Expedition into Empire
Exploratory Journeys and the Making of the Modern World
Häftad, 2019
787 kr
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Expeditionary journeys have shaped our world, but the expedition as a cultural form is rarely scrutinized. This book is the first major investigation of the conventions and social practices embedded in team-based exploration. In probing the politics of expedition making, this volume is itself a …
Embassies in Crisis
Studies of Diplomatic Missions in Testing Situations
Av Rogelia Pastor-Castro, Martin Thomas
Häftad, 2022
727 kr
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Embassies are integral to international diplomacy, their staff instrumental to inter-governmental dialogue, strategic partnerships, trading relationships and cultural exchange. But Embassies are also discreet political spaces. Notionally sovereign territory ‘immune’ from local jurisdiction, in …
Violence and Colonial Order
Police, Workers and Protest in the European Colonial Empires, 1918-1940
Inbunden, 2012
1610 kr
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This is a pioneering, multi-empire account of the relationship between the politics of imperial repression and the economic structures of European colonies between the two World Wars. Ranging across colonial Africa, Southeast Asia and the Caribbean, Martin Thomas explores the structure of local …
End of Empires and a World Remade
A Global History of Decolonization
Inbunden, 2024
378 kr
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A capacious history of decolonization from the decline of empires to the era of globalizationEmpires, until recently, were everywhere. They shaped borders, stirred conflicts, and set the terms of international politics. With the collapse of empire came a fundamental reorganization of our world. …
End of Empires and a World Remade
A Global History of Decolonization
Häftad, 2026
254 kr
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A capacious history of decolonization from the decline of empires to the era of globalizationEmpires, until recently, were everywhere. They shaped borders, stirred conflicts, and set the terms of international politics. With the collapse of empire came a fundamental reorganization of our world. …
International Diplomacy and Colonial Retreat
Av Kent Fedorowich, Martin Thomas
Inbunden, 2000
2588 kr
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The problems investigated in this collection had lasting consequences not only in the field of colonialism but in international politics as well. Decolonization and the Cold War, which brought about the most significant changes to global policits after 1945, are treated together.
French Empire at War, 1940–1945
Häftad, 2007
382 kr
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The French empire at war draws on original research in France and Britain to investigate the history of the divided French empire – the Vichy and the Free French empires – during the Second World War.What emerges is a fascinating story. While it is clear that both the Vichy and Free French colonial …
French Empire Between the Wars
Imperialism, Politics and Society
Häftad, 2007
382 kr
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By considering the distinctiveness of the inter-war years as a discrete period of colonial change, this book addresses several larger issues, such as tracing the origins of decolonization in the rise of colonial nationalism, and a re-assessment of the impact of inter-war colonial rebellions in …
European Decolonization
Inbunden, 2007
1568 kr
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This collection brings together twenty-one key articles that explore the nature and impact of colonial withdrawal. Ranging across all the European colonial powers, the articles discuss various aspects of decolonization, including the role of political violence, changing popular attitudes to empire …
Loose
The Future of Business is Letting Go
E-bok, 2011
45 kr
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Google breaks the traditional rules of branding by changing its logo everyday. Doritos handed over the US premium advertising slot in the Superbowl to a couple of amateur filmmakers. The software industry is well used to ''living a life in beta.'' Even Pope Benedict XVI has embraced the inclusive, …
French Colonial Mind, Volume 1
Mental Maps of Empire and Colonial Encounters
Häftad, 2012
518 kr
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What made France into an imperialist nation, ruler of a global empire with millions of dependent subjects overseas? Historians have sought answers to this question in the nation's political situation at home and abroad, its socioeconomic circumstances, and its international ambitions. But all these …
