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British Responses to Genocide
The British Foreign Office and Humanitarianism in the Ottoman Empire, 1918-1923
Av Amy E. Grubb, Elisabeth Hope Murray
Häftad, 2023
671 kr
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This book examines British responses to genocide and atrocity in the Ottoman Empire during the aftermath of World War I. The authors analyze British humanitarianism and humanitarian intervention through the advice and policies of the Foreign Office and British government in London and the actions …
Milton Keynes in British Culture
Imagining England
Av Lauren Pikó
Inbunden, 2019
2592 kr
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The new town of Milton Keynes was designated in 1967 with a bold, flexible social vision to impose "no fixed conception of how people ought to live." Despite this progressive social vision, and its low density, flexible, green urban design, the town has been consistently represented in British …
Winston Churchill
At War and Thinking of War before 1939
Av B.J.C. McKercher, Antoine Capet
Inbunden, 2019
2592 kr
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Although remembered and even lauded in the public mind as the British prime minister during the Second World War who played a major role in Allied victory over the Axis Powers and Japan, Winston Churchill had a life and political career before 1939 conditioned by fighting other wars and, in …
English Gentlemen and World Soccer
Corinthians, Amateurism and the Global Game
Av Chris Bolsmann, Dilwyn Porter
Häftad, 2020
668 kr
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The significance of the Corinthians Football Club, founded in 1882, has been widely acknowledged by historians of football and by sports historians generally. As a ’super club’ comprising the best amateur talent available they were an important formative influence on football in Britain from the …
Chartism, Commemoration and the Cult of the Radical Hero
Inbunden, 2019
2592 kr
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Chartism, the British mass movement for democratic and social rights in the 1830s and 1840s, was profoundly shaped by the radical tradition from which it emerged. Yet, little attention has been paid to how Chartists saw themselves in relation to this diverse radical tradition or to the ways in …
Sport and the Home Front
Wartime Britain at Play, 1939-45
Häftad, 2020
668 kr
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Sport and the Home Front contributes in significant and original ways to our understanding of the social and cultural history of the Second World War. It explores the complex and contested treatment of sport in government policy, media representations and the everyday lives of wartime citizens. …
Sport and the Home Front
Wartime Britain at Play, 1939-45
Inbunden, 2020
2592 kr
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Sport and the Home Front contributes in significant and original ways to our understanding of the social and cultural history of the Second World War. It explores the complex and contested treatment of sport in government policy, media representations and the everyday lives of wartime citizens. …
British Politics, Society and Empire, 1852-1945
Essays in Honour of Trevor O. Lloyd
Häftad, 2021
728 kr
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This book draws together essays on modern British history, empire, liberalism and conservatism in honour of Trevor O. Lloyd, Emeritus Professor of Modern British history at the University of Toronto for some thirty years beginning in the 1960s. With Lloyd best known for his two histories of the …
Women, Mission and Church in Uganda
Ethnographic encounters in an age of imperialism, 1895-1960s
Häftad, 2019
819 kr
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This volume recounts the experiences of female missionaries who worked in Uganda in and after 1895. It examines the personal stories of those women who were faced with a stubbornly masculine administration representative of a wider masculine administrative network in Westminster and other outposts …
Credit and Power
The Paradox at the Heart of the British National Debt
Inbunden, 2020
2592 kr
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This book reveals the surprising role that credit, money created ex nihilo by financiers, played in raising the British government’s war loans between 1793 and 1815. Using often overlooked contemporary objections to the National Debt a startling paradox is revealed as it is shown how the …
Deprivation, State Interventions and Urban Communities in Britain, 1968–79
Häftad, 2019
954 kr
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Focusing on a series of policy initiatives from the late 1960s through to the end of the 1970s, this book looks at how successive governments tried to address growing concerns about urban deprivation across Britain. It provides unique insights into policy and governance and into the socio-economic …
Private Secretaries to the Prime Minister
Foreign Affairs from Churchill to Thatcher
Av Andrew Holt, Warren Dockter
Häftad, 2019
954 kr
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The importance of the Prime Minister in British foreign policy decision-making has long been noted by historians. However, while much attention has been given to high-level contacts between leaders and to the roles played by the premiers themselves, much less is known about the people advising and …
Liberal Reform and Industrial Relations: J.H. Whitley (1866-1935), Halifax Radical and Speaker of the House of Commons
Av John A. Hargreaves, Keith Laybourn m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
713 kr
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J.H. Whitley came from an established business family in Halifax, where he engaged in youth work and municipal politics before becoming MP for Halifax from 1900 to 1928. He was a Liberal Radical who worked with Labour, gave his name to the industrial councils of the First World War, was Speaker of …
Neoliberal Thought and Thatcherism
‘A Transition From Here to There?’
Häftad, 2021
707 kr
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The premiership of Margaret Thatcher has been portrayed as uniquely ideological in its pursuit of a more market-based economy. A body of literature has been built on how a sharp turn to the right by the Conservative Party during the 1980s - inspired by the likes of Milton Friedman and Friedrich …
Weather, Migration and the Scottish Diaspora
Leaving the Cold Country
Inbunden, 2020
2201 kr
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Why did large numbers of Scots leave a temperate climate to live permanently in parts of the world where greater temperature extreme was the norm? The long nineteenth century was a period consistently cooler than now, and Scotland remains the coldest of the British nations. Nineteenth-century …
British Responses to Genocide
The British Foreign Office and Humanitarianism in the Ottoman Empire, 1918-1923
Av Amy E. Grubb, Elisabeth Hope Murray
Inbunden, 2022
2592 kr
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This book examines British responses to genocide and atrocity in the Ottoman Empire during the aftermath of World War I. The authors analyze British humanitarianism and humanitarian intervention through the advice and policies of the Foreign Office and British government in London and the actions …
Devil and the Victorians
Supernatural Evil in Nineteenth-Century English Culture
Inbunden, 2021
2894 kr
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In recent decades, there has been a growing recognition of the significance of the supernatural in a Victorian context. Studies of nineteenth-century spiritualism, occultism, magic, and folklore have highlighted that Victorian England was ridden with spectres and learned magicians. Despite this …
Diplomatic Identity in Postwar Britain
The Deconstruction of the Foreign Office "Type", 1945–1997
Inbunden, 2021
2592 kr
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This book seeks to understand the complex ways in which the Foreign Office adapted to the rise of identity politics in Britain as it administered British foreign policy during the Cold War and the end of the British Empire. After the Second World War, cultural changes in British society forced a …
Science, Utility and British Naval Technology, 1793–1815
Samuel Bentham and the Royal Dockyards
Inbunden, 2020
2592 kr
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During the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, the technology employed by the British navy changed not just the material resources of the British navy but the culture and performance of the royal dockyards. This book examines the role of the Inspector General of Naval Works, an Admiralty …
Independent Labour Party, 1914-1939
The Political and Cultural History of a Socialist Party
Häftad, 2022
728 kr
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Historians of political history are fascinated by the rise and fall of political parties and, for twentieth-century Britain, most obviously the rise of the Labour Party and the decline of the Liberal Party. What is often overlooked in this political development is the work of the Independent Labour …
Orchestrating Warfighting
A History of the British Army’s Corps and Divisions at War since 1914
Av Tim Bean, Edward Flint m. fl.
Inbunden, 2024
2592 kr
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Orchestrating Warfighting provides a detailed and wide-ranging examination of the employment of corps and divisions from the First World War through to the early twenty-first century.Division and corps formations have been at the forefront of the British Army’s prosecution of war since 1914. They …
Weather, Migration and the Scottish Diaspora
Leaving the Cold Country
Häftad, 2022
728 kr
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Why did large numbers of Scots leave a temperate climate to live permanently in parts of the world where greater temperature extreme was the norm? The long nineteenth century was a period consistently cooler than now, and Scotland remains the coldest of the British nations. Nineteenth-century …
Science, Utility and British Naval Technology, 1793–1815
Samuel Bentham and the Royal Dockyards
Häftad, 2022
728 kr
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During the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, the technology employed by the British navy changed not just the material resources of the British navy but the culture and performance of the royal dockyards. This book examines the role of the Inspector General of Naval Works, an Admiralty …
Credit and Power
The Paradox at the Heart of the British National Debt
Häftad, 2022
728 kr
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This book reveals the surprising role that credit, money created ex nihilo by financiers, played in raising the British government’s war loans between 1793 and 1815. Using often overlooked contemporary objections to the National Debt a startling paradox is revealed as it is shown how the …
Casino and Society in Britain
Häftad, 2022
728 kr
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This book is a study of the British casino industry and how it has been shaped by criminality, prohibition, regulation and liberalization since the beginning of the First World War.The reader will gain a detailed knowledge of the history, culture, identity and participants within the British casino …
Development of British Naval Aviation, 1914–1918
Inbunden, 2021
2592 kr
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The Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) revolutionized warfare at sea, on land, and in the air. This little-known naval aviation organization introduced and operationalized aircraft carrier strike, aerial anti-submarine warfare, strategic bombing, and the air defence of the British Isles more than 20 …
Development of British Naval Aviation, 1914–1918
Häftad, 2023
668 kr
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The Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) revolutionized warfare at sea, on land, and in the air. This little-known naval aviation organization introduced and operationalized aircraft carrier strike, aerial anti-submarine warfare, strategic bombing, and the air defence of the British Isles more than 20 …
British Aircraft Industry and American-led Globalisation
1943-1982
Inbunden, 2021
2592 kr
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Sakade challenges the narrative that the focus of British manufacturing went "from Empire to Europe" and argues rather that, following the Second World War, the key relationship was in fact trans-Atlantic.There is a commonly accepted belief that, during the twentieth century, British manufacturing …
British Aircraft Industry and American-led Globalisation
1943-1982
Häftad, 2023
713 kr
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Sakade challenges the narrative that the focus of British manufacturing went "from Empire to Europe" and argues rather that, following the Second World War, the key relationship was in fact trans-Atlantic.There is a commonly accepted belief that, during the twentieth century, British manufacturing …
Great Britain, the Dominions and the Transformation of the British Empire, 1907–1931
The Road to the Statute of Westminster
Inbunden, 2021
2592 kr
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The relations of Great Britain and its Dominions significantly influenced the development of the British Empire in the late 19th and the first third of the 20th century. The mutual attitude to the constitutional issues that Dominion and British leaders have continually discussed at Colonial and …
