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  • Braver Men Walk Away

    de Peter Gurney ...
    First published in 1993 and now available as an ebook. The bestselling story of one man’s fight against terrorism.Extraordinary courage, steely professionalism and ruthless determination are vital for the bomb-disposal man who risks his life daily to save others. Peter Gurney MBE, GM & Bar is such a man. In this compelling account of a career on the front line of the fight against crime and ... Leer más

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  • National Service Life Stories

    Masculinity, Class, and the Memory of Conscription in Britain

    de Peter Gurney, Matthew Grant, Joel Morley ...
    National service was a defining feature for a generation of young men in post-war Britain. Around 2.3 million of them were called up between the end of World War Two and 1963, when conscription ended. However, national service was forgotten almost before it had ended, a process aided subsequently by professional historians who have been reluctant to assess its longer-term influence on British ... Leer más

    $116.99 USD

  • Contemporary Thought on Nineteenth Century Socialism

    Edición de Peter Gurney ...
    Series series Routledge Historical Resources
    This second volume considers various socialist impulses and developments after the collapse of the Owenite movement in Britain. Interventions by some leading Christian Socialists will illuminate one important tendency; publications by O’Brien another less vital strand. Central to this volume, however, will be far less well-known pamphlets, book extracts and articles in the periodical press by ... Leer más

    $77.99 USD

  • The Making of Consumer Culture in Modern Britain

    de Peter Gurney ...
    CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE AWARD WINNER 2018It is commonly accepted that the consumer is now centre stage in modern Britain, rather than the worker or producer. Consumer choice is widely regarded as the major source of self-definition and identity rather than productive activity. Politicians vie with each other to fashion their appeal to 'citizen-consumers'.When and how did these profound ... Leer más

    $38.99 USD

  • Wanting and having

    Popular politics and liberal consumerism in England, 1830–70

    de Peter Gurney ...
    Nineteenth-century England witnessed the birth of capitalist consumerism. Early department stores, shopping arcades and provision shops of all kinds proliferated from the start of the Victorian period, testimony to greater diffusion of consumer goods. However, while the better off enjoyed having more material things, masses of the population were wanting even the basic necessities of life during ... Leer más

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  • The Penguin Social History of Britain

    English Society in the Eighteenth Century

    de Roy Porter ...
    A portrait of 18th century England, from its princes to its paupers, from its metropolis to its smallest hamlet. The topics covered include - diet, housing, prisons, rural festivals, bordellos, plays, paintings, and work and wages. ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Ireland in the 1950s: News From A New Republic

    de Tom Garvin ...
    The 1950s was a decade of international economic recovery in the United States and most of Western Europe after the disasters of World War II. There was just one exception. The Irish economy actually contracted in those years, and over four hundred thousand people, out of a population of fewer than three million, emigrated. Tom Garvin's survey of the 1950s is based largely on a close reading of ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Double Lives

    A History of Working Motherhood

    de Helen McCarthy ...
    SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2021Shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2021Longlisted for the HWA Non-Fiction Crown 2021'Fabulous' - The Times'A milestone in women's history' - Observer'Groundbreaking ... a fascinating read' - HeraldIn Britain today, three-quarters of mothers are in employment and paid work is an un... ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • Sources and Debates in Modern British History

    1714 to the Present

    Edición de Ellis Wasson ...
    Designed to complement the author's A History of Modern Britain, this collection of primary sources illuminates and augments the study of modern Britain with coverage of political, imperial, and economic history as well as class and cultural issuesFeatures a broad range of documents, in a well-structured and easy-to-use format, including important, well-known documents and lesser-known excerpts ... Leer más

    $46.00 USD

  • Class Struggle and the Industrial Revolution

    Early Industrial Capitalism in Three English Towns

    de John Foster ...
    Class Struggle and the Industrial Revolution represents both a continuation of, and a stark contrast to, the impressive tradition of social history which has grown up in Britain in the last two decades. Its use of sophisticated quantitative techniques for the dissection of urban social structures will serve as a model for subsequent research workers. This work examines the impact of ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

  • The Birth of Industrial Britain

    1750-1850

    de Kenneth Morgan ...
    Series series Seminar Studies
    The Industrial Revolution had a profound and lasting effect on socioeconomic and cultural conditions in Britain.The Birth of Industrial Britain examines the impact of early industrialisation on British society in the century before 1850, coinciding with Britains transition from a late pre-industrial economy to one based on industrialisation and urbanisation.This fully revised and updated second ... Leer más

    $58.99 USD

  • The British Conservative Party and One Nation Politics

    de Dr. David Seawright ...
    Won the 2011 Prize for best publication on Conservatives and Conservatism awarded by the specialist group 'Conservatives and Conservatism' of the UK Political Studies Association. ... Leer más

    $42.99 USD