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  • Dixie's Great War

    World War I and the American South

    by John Giggie, Andrew Huebner, Jessica L Adler, Nancy K. Bristow, Jonathan H. Ebel, Jennifer D. Keene, Ross A. Kennedy, Derryn Moten, Michael S. Neiberg0, Martin T. Olliff1, Steven Trout2, Ruth Smith Truss3, Kara Dixon Vuic4, Chad L. Williams5, Jay M. Winter6 ...
    Series series War, Memory, and Culture
    Examining the First World War through the lens of the American SouthHow did World War I affect the American South? Did southerners experience the war in a particular way? How did regional considerations and, more generally, southern values and culture impact the wider war effort? Was there a distinctive southern experience of WWI?Scholars considered these questions during “Dixie’s Great War,” a ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Portraits of Remembrance

    Painting, Memory, and the First World War

    by Margaret Hutchison, Steven Trout, Martin Bayer, Philip D. Beidler, Laura Brandon, Heidi Cook, Peter Harrington, Marguerite Helmers, Mark Levitch0, Caroline Lord1, Andrew Nedd2, Elizabeth Richards Rivenbark3, Sandrine Smets4, Gizem Tongo5, Jay M. Winter6 ...
    Series series War, Memory, and Culture
    Interdisciplinary collection of essays on fine art painting as it relates to the First World War and commemoration of the conflictAlthough photography and moving pictures achieved ubiquity during the First World War as technological means of recording history, the far more traditional medium of painting played a vital role in the visual culture of combatant nations. The public’s appetite for the ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • Socialism and the Challenge of War (RLE The First World War)

    Ideas and Politics in Britain, 1912-18

    by Jay M. Winter ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: The First World War
    The First World War marks a crucial period in the history of the socialist wing of the British labour movement. This book is an account of the development of the political ideas and activities of some of the most influential British socialist thinkers of that time: Beatrice and Sidney Webb, R. H. Tawney and G. D. H. Cole. The first part of the book examines the state of the Labour movement and of ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

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  • Nineteenth-Century Britain

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Colin Matthew, Christopher Harvie ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    First published as part of the best-selling The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, Christopher Harvie and Colin Matthew's Very Short Introduction to Nineteenth-Century Britain is a sharp but subtle account of remarkable economic and social change and an even more remarkable political stability. Britain in 1789 was overwhelmingly rural, agrarian, multilingual, and almost half Celtic. By 1914, ... Read more

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  • The Reds

    The Communist Party of Australia from origins to illegality

    by Stuart Macintyre ...
    The only large-scale comprehensive account of an intriguing part of Australia's past.In 1920, 26 men and women met in a dingy hall in Sydney to create a new political party. They expected the overthrow of capitalism and the emancipation of humanity - here, and all around the world.Two decades later, when Australia joined the Second World War, the Commonwealth government suppressed the Communist ... Read more

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  • A History of International Thought

    From the Origins of the Modern State to Academic International Relations

    by Lucian Ashworth ...
    International thought is the product of major political changes over the last few centuries, especially the development of the modern state and the industrialisation of the world economy. While the question of how to deal with strangers from other communities has been a constant throughout human history, it is only in recent centuries that the question of ‘foreign relations’ (and especially ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • The Twilight Years

    The Paradox of Britain Between the Wars

    by Richard Overy ...
    From a leading British historian, the story of how fear of war shaped modern EnglandBy the end of World War I, Britain had become a laboratory for modernity. Intellectuals, politicians, scientists, and artists?among them Arnold Toynbee, Aldous Huxley, and H. G. Wells?sought a vision for a rapidly changing world. Coloring their innovative ideas and concepts, from eugenics to Freud?s unconscious, ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Liberalism at Large

    The World According to the Economist

    by Alexander Zevin ...
    The path-breaking history of modern liberalism told through the pages of one of its most zealous supportersIn this landmark book, Alexander Zevin looks at the development of modern liberalism by examining the long history of the Economist newspaper, which, since 1843, has been the most tireless—and internationally influential—champion of the liberal cause anywhere in the world.But what exactly is ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • John Buchan

    Model Governor General

    by J. William Galbraith ...
    An accomplished Scottish journalist, soldier, head of intelligence, and Member of Parliament, John Buchan (1875-1940) is best known for penning thrillers such as The Thirty-Nine Steps. However, as Canada's 15th governor general (1935-40), Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, played a significant leadership role as a statesman and diplomat.Buchan was the first governor general appointed after the 1931 ... Read more

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  • Myth and the Irish State

    by John M. Regan ...
    When we read a history we believe ourselves to be reading cold, hard, facts of the events that took place and how they occurred. But there is no real, truthful way to know the approach our historian has taken with the historical sources. This book deals with the uncertainty in writing history in the context of Irish history in particular. Regan argues in this book that the notion of elision, ... Read more

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  • The Making of Modern Irish History

    Revisionism and the Revisionist Controversy

    Edited by D. George Boyce, Alan O'Day ...
    This volume brings together distinguished historians of Ireland, each of whom tackles a key question, issue or event in Irish history since the eighteenth century and:* examines its historiography* assesses the context of new interpretations* considers the strengths and weaknesses of revisionist ideas* offers their own interpretation.Topics covered are not only of historical interest but, in the ... Read more

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  • Gladstone and Disraeli

    by Stephen J. Lee ...
    Series series Questions and Analysis in History
    Gladstone and Disraeli surveys and compares the careers of these two influential Prime Ministers. Stephen J. Lee examines how Gladstone and Disraeli emerged as leaders of the two leading parties and goes on to consider their time in power, analyzing many different aspects of their careers.Using a wide variety of sources and historiography, Lee compares and contrasts the beliefs of Gladstone and ... Read more

    $55.99 USD