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The Authorised History of British Defence Economic Intelligence
A Cold War in Whitehall, 1929-90
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2018
This book is the first history of UK economic intelligence and offers a new perspective on the evolution of Britain's national intelligence machinery and how it worked during the Cold War.
British economic intelligence has a longer pedigree than the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC) and was...
Subjects and Sovereign
Bonds of Belonging in the Eighteenth-Century British Empire
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
In the aftermath of the Seven Years' War, when a variety of conquered and ceded territories became part of an expanding British Empire, crucial struggles emerged about what it meant to be a "British subject." Individuals in Grenada, Quebec, Minorca, Gibraltar, and Bengal debated the meanings and rights...
The Imperial History Wars
Debating the British Empire
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
The history of the British Empire, a subject that had slipped into obscurity when the empire came to an end, has since made a stunning comeback, generating a series of heated debates about the causes, character, and consequences of empire. In this volume Dane Kennedy offers a wide-ranging assessment...
Prostitution, Race and Politics
Policing Venereal Disease in the British Empire
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
In addition to shouldering the blame for the increasing incidence of venereal disease among sailors and soldiers, prostitutes throughout the British Empire also bore the burden of the contagious diseases ordinances that the British government passed. By studying how British authorities enforced these...
by Michael Parrish Lee
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2016
This book is about food, eating, and appetite in the nineteenth-century British novel. While much novel criticism has focused on the marriage plot, this book revises the history and theory of the novel, uncovering the “food plot” against which the marriage plot and modern subjectivity take shape....
by Nicholas Mason
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Literary Advertising and the Shaping of British Romanticism investigates the entwined histories of the advertising industry and the gradual commodification of literature over the course of the Romantic Century (1750–1850). In this engaging and detailed study, Nicholas Mason argues that the seemingly...
The Victories Of The British Armies — Vol. I
With Anecdotes Illustrative Of Modern Warfare. By the author of "Stories of Waterloo".
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2013
The British Army gained a coalesced identity and a European reputation from its exploits in the Peninsular War against the much vaunted French army. A veteran of the fighting himself, Sir William recounts the exploits and deeds of the British army from the battle-fields strewn across Portugal and...
by James Henry Skene
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
A fascinating view of the Crimean War from an aide to the controversial Stratford Canning, ambassador ambassador to the Ottoman empire.
Stratford Canning, 1st Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe, KG, GCB, PC (1786-1880) was a British diplomat and politician, best known as the longtime British Ambassador...
by James Muldoon
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2017
This book contributes to the increasing interest in John Adams and his political and legal thought by examining his work on the medieval British Empire. For Adams, the conflict with England was constitutional because there was no British Empire, only numerous territories including the American colonies...
The Rise of Animals and Descent of Man, 1660–1800
Toward Posthumanism in British Literature between Descartes and Darwin
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
The Rise of Animals and the Descent of Man illuminates compelling historical connections between a current fascination with animal life and the promotion of the moral status of non-human animals as ethical subjects deserving our attention and respect, and a deep interest in the animal as agent in...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
How did social, cultural and political events in Britain during the 1990s shape contemporary British Fiction?
From the fall of the Berlin Wall to the turn of the millennium, the 1990s witnessed a realignment of global politics. Against the changing international scene, this volume uses events...
by Heather Ellis
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
This book offers the first in-depth study of the masculine self-fashioning of scientific practitioners in nineteenth and early twentieth-century Britain. Focusing on the British Association for the Advancement of Science, founded in 1831, it explores the complex and dynamic shifts in the public image...
Ethics in British Children's Literature
Unexamined Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
Featuring close readings of selected poetry, visual texts, short stories and novels published for children since 1945 from Naughty Amelia Jane to Watership Down, this is the first extensive study of the nature and form of ethical discourse in British children's literature.
Ethics in British...
by Astrid Bracke
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
The challenge of rapid climate change is forcing us to rethink traditional attitudes to nature. This book is the first study to chart these changing attitudes in 21st-century British fiction. Climate Crisis and the 21st-Century British Novel examines twelve works that reflect growing cultural awareness...