This book explores the decision of the British Empire to import Chinese labour to southern Africa despite the already tense…

An analysis of the production and consumption of the communications of Make Poverty History , a high profile episode of…

In Lost in the American City , Jeremy Tambling looks at European reactions to America and American cities in the…

Georgian Bloomsbury completes the literary history of Old Bloomsbury that began with Victorian Bloomsbury (1987) and…

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A history of power politics from the construction of the German battlefleet to Gorbachev's 'new thinking'. The unwillingness…

More than most writers, Robert Louis Stevenson requires a Literary Life. Fascination with Stevenson's life (the 'Stevenson…

This first biography of John Erskine views him in the larger contexts of the mass culture and expanded commercialism that…

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The Greater War is an international history of the First World War. Comprising of thirteen chapters this collection of…

James Crossland's work traces the history of the International Committee of the Red Cross' struggle to bring humanitarianism…

Governing Military Technologies in the 21st Century is one of the first books to tackle the big five technological threats…

This book is the first full length history of the all-female National Federation of Women Workers (1906-21) led by the…

Interpreting the German-Polish relationship according to a paradigm of 'synthesis' between nations, this book examines the…

A study of the history of modern insomnia, this book explores how poets, journalists, and doctors of the Victorian period…

From the response to the 1917 Revolution, through military intervention in the Civil War, alliance in World War II and forty…

This book studies the print culture of the nineteenth century as it shaped the meanings and the cultural significance of…

Through a detailed study of Mayy Ziy?dah's literary salon, Boutheina Khaldi sheds light on salon and epistolary culture in…

Produkt Performing Age in Modern Drama - Lipscomb, Valerie Barnes zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Palgrave Macmillan.…

The book presents a new history of the first enlargement of the EU. It charts the attempts by the European Commission to…

Colonial Girlhood in Literature, Culture and History, 1840-1950 explores a range of real and fictional colonial girlhood…

This is a study of the parliamentary history of the Whigs during the Age of Reform, describing the extent to which both Grey…

The Bush administration was remarkably successful in dominating the debate over why we had to go to war with Iraq, but it…

It is during the nineteenth-century, the age of machinery, that we begin to witness a sustained exploration of the literal…

During the American Civil War, several newspapers remained Confederate sympathizers despite their locations being occupied…

Produkt History of Catholic Intellectual Life in Scotland, 1918-1965 - Williamson, Clifford a Williamson, Clifford zakoupíte…

Following the Second World war, South Africa claimed that the League of Nations mandate to administer Namibia had lapsed…

This book project traces the thought of several Roman Catholic Modernists (and one especially virulent anti-Modernist) as…

Memory of War in France examines France in the era of world war through the unconventional eyes of the veteran, activist and…

We inhabit a textually super-saturated and increasingly literate world. This volume encourages readers to consider the…

China now faces the difficult choice of whether to pursue a food self-sufficiency policy or further integrate its…

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Ten years after the end of the war in Bosnia, ethnicity continues to matter and the country remains dependent on…

Sir Philip Gibbs was one of the most widely read English journalists of the first half of the twentieth century. This…

No play in the history of the American stage has been as ubiquitous and as widely viewed as Uncle Tom's Cabin. This book…

In the 17th century, the elite household (kap?) became the focal point of Ottoman elite politics and socialization. It was a…

Philip Larkin, one of England's greatest and most popular twentieth-century poets, is nonetheless widely regarded as a…

Given the weaknesses of mainstream democratisation since the 1980s, the authors present a cutting edge examination of…

For nearly four centuries, Americans have debated the government's proper role in developing the economy. A Short History of…

While the arms race of the post-war period has been widely discussed, Purcell explores the under-acknowledged but critical…

In the first major study of the twentieth-century American protest novel, Drake examines a group of authors who…

This book, the first to study women's historical involvement in postwar reconciliation, examines how patriarchy and the…

Analyzing action at the Holocaust memorial in Berlin, this first ethnography of the site offers a fresh approach to studying…

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Drawing on examples from Britain, France, and the United States, this book examines how scholars and scholarship found…

Ghost stories are always in conversation with novelistic modes with which they are contemporary. This book examines examples…

The decade after 1815 was a period of cultural instability, in which literature was redefined in response to a mass…

This book is the first examination of the Cuban military in the context of Cuba's political and economic challenges in the…

German veterans of the Great War were among Europe's mostvolatile population when they returned to a defeated nation in…

This is a rich yet succinct account of an underexplored story: the consequences of the Great War for the region which…

Produkt English Fiction and Drama of the Great War, 1918-39 - Onions, John zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Palgrave…

For a full month in the autumn of 1812 the 2,000-strong garrison of the fortress the French had constructed to overawe the…