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  • A Dictionary of Contemporary World History

    by Christopher Riches, Jan Palmowski ...
    This authoritative dictionary provides expansive coverage on the most important people, organizations, events, movements, and ideas from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present day. This new edition has been updated to reflect recent developments and contains new entries on people, organizations and events that have come to prominence, or had a major impact, in the last year. Recent ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • A Dictionary of Writers and their Works

    by Christopher Riches, Michael Cox ...
    Series series Oxford Quick Reference Online
    Over 3,200 entries An essential guide to authors and their works that focuses on the general canon of British literature from the fifteenth century to the present. There is also some coverage of non-fiction such as biographies, memoirs, and science, as well as inclusion of major American and Commonwealth writers. This online-exclusive new edition adds 60,000 new words, including over 50 new ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • A Guide to Countries of the World

    by Christopher Riches, Peter Stalker ...
    Series series Oxford Quick Reference Online
    This authoritative A–Z provides a wealth of up-to-date information on every country in the world, including dependent territories. Each entry provides a brief history of the country and outlines its political, economic, and social issues. A quick-reference fact box provides comparative information on land area, people, language, religion, life expectancy, GDP, gender equality, and environmental ... Read more

    $13.29 USD

  • A Dictionary of Political Biography

    Edited by Christopher Riches, Dennis Kavanagh ...
    Series series Oxford Quick Reference Online
    Originally compiled by an expert team of contributors, this dictionary covers all the major figures in world politics of the twentieth century. Authoritative and wide-ranging, it describes and assesses the lives of more than 1,100 men and women who have shaped political events across the world. Each entry includes an account of the background, career, and achievements of the individual concerned, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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    Political Leadership in the Modern Age

    by Archie Brown ...
    From one of the world's preeminent political historians, a magisterial study of political leadership around the world from the advent of parliamentary democracy to the age of Obama.All too frequently, leadership is reduced to a simple dichotomy: the strong versus the weak. Yet, there are myriad ways to exercise effective political leadership -- as well as different ways to fail. We blame our ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

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  • Twentieth Century History For Dummies

    by Seán Lang ...
    The 20th Century brought revolutionary changes to our world and our lives: the human population of the world tripled, space travel became reality, two world wars and a host of other conflicts were fought, and huge advances in science, technology and communication resulted in the globalised world we know today.Enormous steps were made in wiping out widespread discrimination, from the women’s ... Read more

    $12.00 USD

  • External Mission

    The ANC in Exile, 1960-1990

    by Stephen Ellis ...
    Nelson Mandela's release from prison in February 1990 was one of the most memorable moments of recent decades. It came a few days after the removal of the ban on the African National Congress; founded a century ago and outlawed in 1960, it had transferred its headquarters abroad and opened what it termed an External Mission. For the thirty years following its banning, the ANC had fought ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Nigeria

    A New History of a Turbulent Century

    by Richard Bourne ...
    'If you want to understand Nigeria's history in one succinct go, this is a very good choice.'Noo Saro-WiwaKnown as the African Giant, Nigeria's story is complex and often contradictory. How, despite the ravages of colonialism, civil war, ongoing economic disappointment and most recently the Boko Haram insurgency, has the country managed to stay together for a hundred years? Why, despite an ... Read more

    $23.89 USD

  • US Foreign Policy since 1945

    by Alan Dobson, Alan P. Dobson, Steve Marsh, Steve Marsh ...
    Series series The Making of the Contemporary World
    US Foreign Policy since 1945 is an essential introduction to postwar US foreign policy. It combines chronologic and thematic chapters to provide an historical account of US policy and to explore key questions about its design, control and effects.New features of this second edition include:expanded coverage of the Cold Warnew chapters on the post-Cold War eraa chronology and a new conclusion that ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • World Politics since 1945

    by Peter Calvocoressi ...
    The most lucid, comprehensive, intelligent and reliable account of post-war modern history on the market. Teaching PoliticsThe book compels admiration for its thoroughness, its scope, the masterly ordering of its immense material. The Sunday TimesThe ninth edition of this enormously successful standard work has been expanded to take into account the developments of the last 10 years, including the ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • The World Since 1945

    An International History

    by Mark Gilbert, Professor P. M. H. Bell ...
    A masterly synthesis of the history of the contemporary world, The World Since 1945 offers the ideal introduction to the events of the period between the end of the Second World War and the present day. P. M. H. Bell and Mark Gilbert balance a clear narrative with in-depth analysis to guide the reader through the aftermath of the Second World War, the Cold War, decolonization, Détente and the Arab ... Read more

    $34.79 USD

  • The United States and Western Europe Since 1945

    From "Empire" by Invitation to Transatlantic Drift

    by Geir Lundestad ...
    Based on new and existing research by a world-class scholar, this is the first book in twenty years to examine the dynamics of the entire American-West European relationship since 1945. The relationship between the United States and Western Europe has always been crucial and recent events dictate that it is becoming ever more so. In this important new work, Geir Lundestad analyses the balance ... Read more

    $55.79 USD