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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....
Editeur :
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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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...
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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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This book explores students’ consumer practices and material desires in nineteenth-century Oxford. Consumerism surged among undergraduates in the 1830s and decreased by contrast from the 1860s as students learned to practice restraint and make wiser choices, putting a...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-09-01
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Why did killing a fox mean liberty? What did parish revels have to do with the Peterloo Massacre? What did animal cruelty have to do with the English constitution? What did the Factory Acts mean for modern football?
In This Sporting Life, Robert Colls explains sport...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-08-28
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Why did killing a fox mean liberty? What did parish revels have to do with the Peterloo Massacre? What did animal cruelty have to do with the English constitution? What did the Factory Acts mean for modern football?
In This Sporting Life, Robert Colls explains sport...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-08-28
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This book examines attitudes towards German held captive in Britain, drawing on original archival material including newspaper and newsreel content, diaries, sociological surveys and opinion polls, as well as official documentation and the archives of pressure groups...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-08-19
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“This monograph is an important contribution to our understanding of the varied fortunes of British Christianity during the twentieth century.”
- Rev Dr Andrew Atherstone, Tutor in Church History and Latimer...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-07-31
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This book explores the place of loyalty in the relationship between the monarchy and their subjects in late medieval and early modern Britain. It focuses on a period in which political and religious upheaval tested the bonds of loyalty between ruler and ruled. The era...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-06-30
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