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Welfare and Social Policy in Britain Since 1870: Essays in Honour of Jose Harris by Lawrence Goldman
€120.74This collection of twelve essays reviews the history of welfare in Britain over the past 150 years. It focuses on the ideas that have shaped the development of British social policy, and on the thinkers who have inspired and also contested the welfare... -
China in the Twentieth Century by Paul Bailey 9780631203285 [USED COPY]
RRP: €54.68€2.89This overview of twentieth-century history in China tells the story of a fascinating country undergoing political revolutions and social and cultural upheaval.About the Author Paul J. Bailey is Reader in East Asian History at the University of Edinburgh... -
China in the Twentieth Century Paul John Bailey (University of Edinburgh) 9780631203285
RRP: €54.68€47.73This overview of twentieth-century history in China tells the story of a fascinating country undergoing political revolutions and social and cultural upheaval.About the Author Paul J. Bailey is Reader in East Asian History at the University of Edinburgh... -
Socialism as a Secular Creed: A Modern Global History by Andrei Znamenski 9781498557320
RRP: €45.22€40.35Andrei Znamenski argues that socialism arose out of activities of secularized apocalyptic sects, the Enlightenment tradition, and dislocations produced by the Industrial Revolution. He examines how, by the 1850s, Marx and Engels made the socialist creed... -
First World War Nursing: New Perspectives Alison S. Fell 9781138952614
RRP: €45.21€39.72This book brings together a collection of works by scholars who have produced some of the most innovative and influential work on the topic of First World War nursing in the last ten years. The contributors employ an interdisciplinary collaborative... -
Carson's Silent Spring: A Reader's Guide by Joni Seager 9781441130662
€32.05Silent Spring is a watershed moment in the history of environmentalism, credited with launching the modern environmental movement. In synthesizing a jumble of scientific and medical information into a coherent argument, Carson successfully challenged... -
Britain, France and the Decolonization of Africa: Future Imperfect? by Andrew W. M. Smith 9781911307754
RRP: €17.85€16.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911307754Author Andrew W. M. SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 430g -
The Central Asian Revolt of 1916: A Collapsing Empire in the Age of War and Revolution Alexander Morrison (Fellow & Tutor in History) 9781526129420
RRP: €107.10€76.66The 1916 Revolt was a key event in the history of Central Asia, and of the Russian Empire in the First World War. This volume is the first comprehensive re-assessment of its causes, course and consequences in English for over sixty years. It draws... -
The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Sixties by Jonathan Leaf 9781596985728
RRP: €23.74€15.22Get ready to break on through to the other side as critically-acclaimed playwright and journalist Jonathan Leaf reveals the politically incorrect truth about one of the most controversial decades in history--the 1960s. Life was more "square" than... -
Salvation and Catastrophe: The Greek-Turkish War, 1919–1922 by Konstantinos Travlos 9781498585071
RRP: €133.28€116.80The Greek-Turkish War of 1919-1923-also known as the Western Front of the Turkish War of Liberation and the Asia Minor Campaign-was one of the key aftershocks of the First World War. Internationally better known for its aftermath, the Compulsory... -
How to Enjoy Paris in 1842 by Francis Herve 9781843312666
RRP: €11.89€11.44'How to Enjoy Paris in 1842' covers a wide range of subjects, from the history of the great city to contemporary commerce, conveyed by a witty, often satirical narrative reminiscent of Jonathan Swift. The author guides the reader on a leisurely walk... -
Russia Under the Last Tsar: Opposition and Subversion, 1894-1917 by Anna Geifman 9781557869951
RRP: €57.06€50.73This collection provides scholars and students with a wide-ranging overview of the issues, events and personalities of the two turbulent decades before the 1917 revolution in Russia.About the AuthorAnna Geifman was born in 1962 in Leningrad, USSR. In... -
In the Shadow of the Rising Sun: Shanghai under Japanese Occupation by Christian Henriot 9780521103343
RRP: €45.21€37.73The authors of this 2004 volume consult Chinese and Western archival materials to examine the Chinese War of Resistance against the Japanese in the Shanghai area. They argue that the war in China was a nationalistic endeavour carried out without an... -
Remembering Katyn by Alexander Etkind 9780745655772
RRP: €20.22€17.98Katyn the Soviet massacre of over 21,000 Polish prisoners in 1940 has come to be remembered as Stalin s emblematic mass murder, an event obscured by one of the most extensive cover-ups in history. Yet paradoxically, a majority of its victims perished far... -
The Invention of Politics in Colonial Malaya: Contesting Nationalism and the Expansion of the Public Sphere by Anthony Milner 9780521003568
RRP: €40.45€36.79This book, first published in 1995, is a study of political debate in an important Southeast Asian society. It re-examines the formative period in Malay nationalism and argues against using nationalism as the paradigm of analysis. By interrogating key... -
The World Since 1945: A History of International Relations by Wayne C. McWilliams
€37.20New emphasis on the impacts of globalization, events in the Middle East, and political and economic changes in East Asia - as well as new information and maps throughout - are among the features of this thoroughly revised edition of The World Since 1945... -
From the May Fourth Movement to Communist Revolution: Guo Moruo and the Chinese Path to Communism by Xiaoming Chen 9780791471388
RRP: €29.49€25.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791471388Author Xiaoming ChenFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
The 60s: The Story of a Decade by The New Yorker Magazine 9780812983319
RRP: €26.18€19.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812983319Author The New Yorker MagazineFormat PaperbackPage Count 720Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
British Battle Planning in 1916 and the Battle of Fromelles: A Case Study of an Evolving Skill by Roger Lee 9780367598983
RRP: €47.59€41.72Despite the substantial output of revisionist scholarship over the last decade reappraising the performance of the British Army on the Western Front during the First World War, there still remains a stubborn perception that its commanders were... -
Conflict and Stability in the German Democratic Republic by Andrew I. Port 9780521744171
RRP: €47.59€39.58Why did the German Democratic Republic last for so long - longer, in fact, than the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich combined? This book looks at various political, social, and economic conflicts at the grass roots of the GDR in an attempt to answer... -
Britain and Indian Nationalism: The Imprint of Amibiguity 1929-1942 by D. A. Low 9780521550178
RRP: €83.30€75.81India's struggle for independence was arguably the most momentous of the twentieth century, and central to it was the generation of powerful nationalist forces. In a series of detailed studies Anthony Low shows how the ambiguity of the British position... -
Horse of a Different Color: Reminiscences of a Kansas Drover by Ralph Moody 9780803282179
RRP: €15.46€14.01"Ralph Moody's story is a perfect example of rural American enterprise in the early 1920s...this book is a glorious recollection of Pre-Dust Bowl, pre-Depression days and is highly recommended." Library JournalHorse of a Different Color ends the "roving... -
Red Wings Over the Yalu: China, the Soviet Union, and the Air War in Korea by Xiaming Zhang 9781585443406
RRP: €39.21€27.07The Korean conflict was a pivotal event in China's modern military History, constituting an important experience for the newly formed People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF), not only as a test case for this fledgling service but also in the later... -
The Austro-Hungarian Army and the First World War by Graydon A. Tunstall 9780521199346
RRP: €99.95€90.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780521199346Author Graydon A. TunstallFormat HardbackImprint Cambridge University PressPublisher Cambridge University Press -
Beyond Versailles: Sovereignty, Legitimacy, and the Formation of New Polities after the Great War by Marcus Payk 9780253040916
RRP: €33.31€28.73The settlement of Versailles was more than a failed peace. What was debated at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919-1920 hugely influenced how nations and empires, sovereignty, and the international order were understood after the Great War-and into the... -
The Ship of Dreams: The Sinking of the Titanic and the End of the Edwardian Era by Gareth Russell
RRP: €22.60€14.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501176739Author Gareth RussellFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Atria BooksWeight(grams) 358gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 140mm * 30mm -
Bookleggers and Smuthounds: The Trade in Erotica, 1920-1940 by Jay A. Gertzman
RRP: €36.89€33.03Between the two world wars, at a time when both sexual repression and sexual curiosity were commonplace, New York was the center of the erotic literature trade in America. The market was large and contested, encompassing not just what might today be... -
The World Since 1945: A Concise History by Keith Robbins
RRP: €29.74€29.33Keith Robbins' accessible and stimulating account of world history since 1945 provides a framework for making sense of the political and social developments of the period. The focus is firmly on global political interaction. The underlying theme of the... -
We All Lost the Cold War by Richard Ned Lebow
RRP: €83.30€74.39Drawing on recently declassified documents and extensive interviews with Soviet and American policy-makers, among them several important figures speaking for public record for the first time, Ned Lebow and Janice Stein cast new light on the effect of... -
The Radio Right: How a Band of Broadcasters Took on the Federal Government and Built the Modern Conservative Movement by Paul Matzko
RRP: €45.21€31.30In the past few years, trust in traditional media has reached new lows. Many Americans disbelieve what they hear from the "mainstream media," and have turned to getting information from media echo chambers which are reflective of a single party or... -
American Prophets: Seven Religious Radicals and Their Struggle for Social and Political Justice by Albert J. Raboteau 9780691181127
RRP: €20.22€15.58A "powerful text" (Tavis Smiley) about how religion drove the fight for social justice in modern AmericaAmerican Prophets sheds critical new light on the lives and thought of seven major prophetic figures in twentieth-century America whose social... -
The Cambridge History of the First World War by Dr Jay Winter
RRP: €139.23€119.93Volume 2 of The Cambridge History of the First World War offers a history of the war from a predominantly political angle and concerns itself with the story of the state. It explores the multifaceted history of state power and highlights the ways in... -
An Iron Wind: Europe Under Hitler by Peter Fritzsche 9781541698826
RRP: €19.03€15.36'A profoundly significant exploration of how Europeans--both Germans and those under German occupation--struggled to make sense of the conflict.' - Richard Overy, Wall Street JournalIn An Iron Wind, historian Peter Fritzsche draws on first-person... -
The Postwar Origins of the Global Environment: How the United Nations Built Spaceship Earth by Perrin Selcer
RRP: €73.78€57.38In the wake of the Second World War, internationalists identified science as both the cause of and the solution to world crisis. Unless civilization learned to control the unprecedented powers science had unleashed, global catastrophe was imminent. But... -
Justice in Asia and the Pacific Region, 1945-1952: Allied War Crimes Prosecutions by Yuma Totani
RRP: €27.36€21.53This book explores a cross-section of war crimes trials that the Allied powers held against the Japanese in the aftermath of World War II. More than 2,240 trials against some 5,700 suspected war criminals were carried out at 51 separate locations across... -
Holocaust Remembrance: The Shapes of Memory Geoffrey Hartman (Yale University) 9781557863676
RRP: €46.35€40.70The recording, explanation and the inescapable task of judging great wrongs in the past presents historians with their most difficult assignment. For those who have either lived through such injustice or have been in some way responsible for it the... -
Germany'S Other Modernity: Munich and the Making of Metropolis, 1895-1930 by Leif Jerram 9780719095382
RRP: €23.79€17.28This book is about what it meant to build a city in Germany at the turn of the twentieth century. It explores the physical spaces and mental attitudes that shaped lives, restructured society and conditioned beliefs about the past and expectations for the... -
Caritas: Neighbourly Love and the Early Modern Self by Katie Barclay 9780198868132
RRP: €102.34€92.83Caritas, a form of grace that turned our love for our neighbour into a spiritual practice, was expected of all early modern Christians, and corresponded with a set of ethical rules for living that displayed one's love in the everyday. Caritas was not... -
State Failure in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Crisis of Post-Colonial Order by Catherine Scott 9780755601080
€40.73How should failed states in Africa be understood? Catherine Scott here critically engages with the concept of state failure and provides an historical reinterpretation. She shows that, although the concept emerged in the context of the post-Cold War new... -
Decolonization and African Society: The Labor Question in French and British Africa by Frederick Cooper 9780521566001
RRP: €45.21€42.16This detailed and authoritative volume changes our conceptions of 'imperial' and 'African' history. Frederick Cooper gathers a vast range of archival sources in French and English to achieve a truly comparative study of colonial policy toward the...