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The People's Peace: Britain since 1945 is the first comprehensive study by a professional historian of British history from 1945 to the present day. It examines the transformation of post-war Britain from the planning enthusiasm of 1945 to the rise of New Labour. Its...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-07-29
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The People's Peace: Britain since 1945 is the first comprehensive study by a professional historian of British history from 1945 to the present day. It examines the transformation of post-war Britain from the planning enthusiasm of 1945 to the rise of New Labour. Its...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-07-29
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This book is an exploration of the way in which the characters in Rudyard Kipling’s short stories use superior knowledge, which often involves deception and the playing of practical jokes. There was early critical hostility to the stance adopted by Kipling’s characters,...
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NBN International
Parution :
2021-06-18
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Islands are not just geographical units or physical facts; their importance and significance arise from the human activities associated with them. The maritime routes of sailing ships, the victualling requirements of their sailors, and the strategic demands of seaborne...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-06-17
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Islands are not just geographical units or physical facts; their importance and significance arise from the human activities associated with them. The maritime routes of sailing ships, the victualling requirements of their sailors, and the strategic demands of seaborne...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-06-17
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This book is a study of British official attitudes towards the Danubian countries (Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Romania and Yugoslavia) from Hitler’s rise to power in 1933 to the year 1941, a period that marked serious but fruitless British political and economic efforts to...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-03-24
Collection :
Britain and the World
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This book explores national attitudes to remembering colonialism in Britain and France. By comparing these two former colonial powers, the author tells two distinct stories about coming to terms with the legacies of colonialism, the role of silence and the breaking...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-03-12
Collection :
Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
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Deniable Contact provides the first full-length study of the secret negotiations and back-channels that were used in repeated efforts to end the Northern Ireland conflict. The analysis is founded on a rich store of historical evidence, including the private papers of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-03-11
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An eye-opening interpretation of the infamous Gallipoli campaign that sets it in the context of global trade.
In early 1915, the British government ordered the Royal Navy to force a passage of the Dardanelles Straits-the most heavily defended waterway in the world....
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-02-05
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This handbook is the most comprehensive and up-to-date single volume on the history and memory of the Holocaust in Britain. It traces the complex relationship between Britain and the destruction of Europe’s Jews, from societal and political responses to persecution in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-01-19
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The Norman Conquest in English History, Volume 1: A Broken Chain? pursues a central theme in English historical thinking over seven centuries. Covering more than half a millennium, this first volume explains how and why the experience of the Norman Conquest prompted...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-12-02
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The Norman Conquest in English History, Volume 1: A Broken Chain? pursues a central theme in English historical thinking over seven centuries. Covering more than half a millennium, this first volume explains how and why the experience of the Norman Conquest prompted...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-12-02
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This book examines Britain and Norway in Europe from 1945 through to the former's departure from the European Union in 2020. It compares their European relations and investigates their bilateral relationship within the contexts of security, trade and, above all,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-12-01
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This book examines the 1583 voyage of Sir Humphrey Gilbert to North America.This was England's first attempt at colonization beyond the British Isles, yet it has not been subject to thorough scholarly analysis for more than 70 years. An exhaustive examination of the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-11-20
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This book highlights the pivotal roles of individuals in England’s complex sixteenth-century reformations. While many historians study broad themes, such as religious moderation, this volume is centred on the perspective that great changes are instigated not by themes,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-11-10
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England's Islands in a Sea of Troubles examines the jurisdictional disputes and cultural complexities inEngland's relationship with its island fringe from Tudor times to the eighteenth century, and traces island privileges and anomalies to the present. It tells a...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-10-30
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England's Islands in a Sea of Troubles examines the jurisdictional disputes and cultural complexities inEngland's relationship with its island fringe from Tudor times to the eighteenth century, and traces island privileges and anomalies to the present. It tells a...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-10-30
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'Written with both charm and elegance, The Real Crown Jewels of England is a triumphant tribute to some of England's original treasures . . . lovingly captures the magic of the places that underpin our national identity and is a chance to rejoice in that heritage'...
Editeur :
Constable
Parution :
2020-09-17
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Natural and Necessary Unions is a history for our time. It shows that the choice between 'union and independence' that shapes current debates about the future of the United Kingdom in the age of Brexit is a false one. Against the countervailing currents of hegemony and...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-09-11
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Natural and Necessary Unions is a history for our time. It shows that the choice between 'union and independence' that shapes current debates about the future of the United Kingdom in the age of Brexit is a false one. Against the countervailing currents of hegemony and...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-09-11
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