Modern British Histories – serie
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Scenic Calculations
Landscape Architects and Rural Industrialisation in Post-war Britain
Av Moa Carlsson
Häftad, 2026
679 kr
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Landscape architects radically transformed the rural geography of post-war Britain. Through large-scale projects such as power stations, oil infrastructure and land reclamation work, pioneering practitioners turned industrial planning into a process of creating amenity landscapes for public …
Practical Utopia
The Many Lives of Dartington Hall
Av Anna Neima
Häftad, 2024
451 kr
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Dartington Hall was a social experiment of kaleidoscopic vitality, set up in Devon in 1925 by a fabulously wealthy American heiress, Dorothy Elmhirst (née Whitney), and her Yorkshire-born husband, Leonard. It quickly achieved international fame with its progressive school, craft production and …
Nation of Petitioners
Petitions and Petitioning in the United Kingdom, 1780–1918
Häftad, 2025
519 kr
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Between 1780 and 1918, over one million petitions from across the four nations were sent to the House of Commons. A Nation of Petitioners is the first study of this nineteenth-century heyday of petitioning in the United Kingdom. It explores how ordinary men and women engaged with politics in an era …
Outrage in the Age of Reform
Irish Agrarian Violence, Imperial Insecurity, and British Governing Policy, 1830-1845
Häftad, 2024
442 kr
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In the 1830s, as Britain navigated political reform to stave off instability and social unrest, Ireland became increasingly influential in determining British politics. This book is the first to chart the importance that Irish agrarian violence - known as 'outrages' - played in shaping how the …
Outrage in the Age of Reform
Irish Agrarian Violence, Imperial Insecurity, and British Governing Policy, 1830-1845
Inbunden, 2022
1391 kr
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In the 1830s, as Britain navigated political reform to stave off instability and social unrest, Ireland became increasingly influential in determining British politics. This book is the first to chart the importance that Irish agrarian violence - known as 'outrages' - played in shaping how the …
Foreign Jack Tars
The British Navy and Transnational Seafarers during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
Av Sara Caputo
Inbunden, 2022
1391 kr
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The British Royal Navy of the French Wars (1793-1815) is an enduring national symbol, but we often overlook the tens of thousands of foreign seamen who contributed to its operations. Foreign Jack Tars presents the first in-depth study of their employment in the Navy during this crucial period. …
Foreign Jack Tars
The British Navy and Transnational Seafarers during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
Av Sara Caputo
Häftad, 2024
401 kr
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The British Royal Navy of the French Wars (1793-1815) is an enduring national symbol, but we often overlook the tens of thousands of foreign seamen who contributed to its operations. Foreign Jack Tars presents the first in-depth study of their employment in the Navy during this crucial period. …
Lifescapes
The Experience of Landscape in Britain, 1870-1960
Inbunden, 2023
511 kr
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Why does landscape matter to us? We rarely articulate the often highly individual ways it can do so. Drawing on eight remarkable unpublished diaries, Jeremy Burchardt demonstrates that responses to landscape in modern Britain were powerfully affected by personal circumstances, especially those …
Multiracial Britishness
Global Networks in Hong Kong, 1910-45
Av Vivian Kong
Inbunden, 2023
1509 kr
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What does it mean to be British? To answer this, Multiracial Britishness takes us to an underexplored site of Britishness - the former British colony of Hong Kong. Vivian Kong asks how colonial hierarchies, the racial and cultural diversity of the British Empire, and global ideologies complicate …
Multiracial Britishness
Global Networks in Hong Kong, 1910-45
Av Vivian Kong
Häftad, 2025
519 kr
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What does it mean to be British? To answer this, Multiracial Britishness takes us to an underexplored site of Britishness - the former British colony of Hong Kong. Vivian Kong asks how colonial hierarchies, the racial and cultural diversity of the British Empire, and global ideologies complicate …
Imperial Heartland
Immigration, Working-class Culture and Everyday Tolerance, 1917-1947
Inbunden, 2023
1771 kr
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Working-class Britons played a crucial role in the pioneering settlement and integration of South Asians in imperial Britain. Using a host of new and neglected sources, Imperial Heartland revises the history of early South Asian immigration to Britain, focusing on the northern English city of …
Imperial Heartland
Immigration, Working-class Culture and Everyday Tolerance, 1917-1947
Häftad, 2024
435 kr
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Working-class Britons played a crucial role in the pioneering settlement and integration of South Asians in imperial Britain. Using a host of new and neglected sources, Imperial Heartland revises the history of early South Asian immigration to Britain, focusing on the northern English city of …
Futures of Socialism
'Modernisation', the Labour Party, and the British Left, 1973-1997
Av Colm Murphy
Inbunden, 2023
1640 kr
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The transformation of the Labour Party by 1997 is among the most consequential political developments in modern British history. Futures of Socialism overhauls the story of Labour's modernisation and provides an innovative new history. Diving into the tumultuous world of the British left after …
Futures of Socialism
'Modernisation', the Labour Party, and the British Left, 1973-1997
Av Colm Murphy
Häftad, 2024
435 kr
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The transformation of the Labour Party by 1997 is among the most consequential political developments in modern British history. Futures of Socialism overhauls the story of Labour's modernisation and provides an innovative new history. Diving into the tumultuous world of the British left after …
Politics of the Past
Inter-war Memories and the Making of British Popular Politics, 1939-2009
Av David Cowan
Inbunden, 2024
1509 kr
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The inter-war period (1918-1939) is still remembered as a period of mass deprivation - the 'hungry thirties'. But how did this impression emerge? Thousands of conversations about life in the inter-war period - between parents and children around the dinner table; among workmates at the pub - shaped …
Politics of the Past
Inter-war Memories and the Making of British Popular Politics, 1939-2009
Av David Cowan
Häftad, 2025
479 kr
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The inter-war period (1918-1939) is still remembered as a period of mass deprivation - the 'hungry thirties'. But how did this impression emerge? Thousands of conversations about life in the inter-war period - between parents and children around the dinner table; among workmates at the pub - shaped …
Working-Class Raj
Colonialism and the Making of Class in British India
Häftad, 2025
519 kr
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Focusing on the military men, railway workers, and wives and children of the British working-class who went to India after the Rebellion of 1857, Working-Class Raj explores the experiences of these working-class men and women in their own words. Drawing on a diverse collection of previously unused …
Working-Class Raj
Colonialism and the Making of Class in British India
Inbunden, 2023
1509 kr
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Focusing on the military men, railway workers, and wives and children of the British working-class who went to India after the Rebellion of 1857, Working-Class Raj explores the experiences of these working-class men and women in their own words. Drawing on a diverse collection of previously unused …
Brotherhood of Barristers
A Cultural History of the British Legal Profession, 1840-1940
Av Ren Pepitone
Inbunden, 2024
1477 kr
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How did ideas of masculinity shape the British legal profession and the wider expectations of the white-collar professional? Brotherhood of Barristers examines the cultural history of the Inns of Court - four legal societies whose rituals of symbolic brotherhood took place in their supposedly …
Brotherhood of Barristers
A Cultural History of the British Legal Profession, 1840-1940
Av Ren Pepitone
Häftad, 2025
479 kr
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How did ideas of masculinity shape the British legal profession and the wider expectations of the white-collar professional? Brotherhood of Barristers examines the cultural history of the Inns of Court - four legal societies whose rituals of symbolic brotherhood took place in their supposedly …
Scenic Calculations
Landscape Architects and Rural Industrialisation in Post-war Britain
Av Moa Carlsson
Inbunden, 2026
1588 kr
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Landscape architects radically transformed the rural geography of post-war Britain. Through large-scale projects such as power stations, oil infrastructure and land reclamation work, pioneering practitioners turned industrial planning into a process of creating amenity landscapes for public …
Love, Class and Empire
An English Family Saga in the Middle East
Häftad, 2025
552 kr
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Early twentieth-century Persia and the Persian Gulf presented a largely blank slate to the British, best known only as a vital conduit to India and a site of contest - the 'great game' - with the Russian Empire. As oil discoveries and increasing trade brought new attention, the expanding telegraph …
Love, Class and Empire
An English Family Saga in the Middle East
Inbunden, 2025
1693 kr
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Early twentieth-century Persia and the Persian Gulf presented a largely blank slate to the British, best known only as a vital conduit to India and a site of contest - the 'great game' - with the Russian Empire. As oil discoveries and increasing trade brought new attention, the expanding telegraph …
Race on Screen
Audience Racism in Twentieth-Century Britain
Häftad, 2026
448 kr
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What did audiences want when it came to 'race' on screen in twentieth-century Britain? This was the question that drove producers and makers of film and television as they competed for viewers, and organisations such as the BBC and ITV developed a new field of 'audience research' to address it. …
Race on Screen
Audience Racism in Twentieth-Century Britain
Inbunden, 2026
1526 kr
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What did audiences want when it came to 'race' on screen in twentieth-century Britain? This was the question that drove producers and makers of film and television as they competed for viewers, and organisations such as the BBC and ITV developed a new field of 'audience research' to address it. …
Charity After Empire
British Humanitarianism, Decolonisation and Development
Inbunden, 2026
558 kr
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Why did charity become the outlet for global compassion? Charity After Empire traces the history of humanitarian agencies such as Oxfam, Save the Children and Christian Aid. It shows how they obtained a permanent presence in the alleviation of global poverty, why they were supported by the public …
Thatcher's Progress
From Social Democracy to Market Liberalism through an English New Town
Av Guy Ortolano
Inbunden, 2019
639 kr
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During the quarter of a century after the Second World War, the United Kingdom designated thirty-two new towns across England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. Why, even before selling council houses or denationalising public industries, did Margaret Thatcher's government begin to privatise …
Thatcher's Progress
From Social Democracy to Market Liberalism through an English New Town
Av Guy Ortolano
Häftad, 2024
451 kr
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During the quarter of a century after the Second World War, the United Kingdom designated thirty-two new towns across England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. Why, even before selling council houses or denationalising public industries, did Margaret Thatcher's government begin to privatise …
The Life and Death of the Shopping City
Public Planning and Private Redevelopment in Britain since 1945
Häftad, 2024
442 kr
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How have British cities changed in the years since the Second World War? And what drove this transformation? This innovative new history traces the development of the post-war British city, from the 1940s era of reconstruction, through the rise and fall of modernist urban renewal, up to the …
Managing Mobility
The British Imperial State and Global Migration, 1840–1860
Inbunden, 2024
1442 kr
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Between 1840 and 1860 the British Empire expanded rapidly in scale, with rampant annexation of territory and ruthless suppression of rebellion. These decades also witnessed an unprecedented movement of people across the Empire and around the world, with over 2.6 million emigrants leaving Britain in …
