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Understanding Urban Tourism
Image, Culture and Experience
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2003
Despite the formidable growth of urban tourism there has been little of the critical engagement that one would expect from the social sciences: the rich potential of contemporary social science for urban tourism has yet to be realised. Martin Selby's exciting new textbook makes available to practitioners...
Suppressing Illicit Opium Production
Successful Intervention in Asia and the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2016
Conventional analysis of the illicit opium market suggests that source country interventions have at best achieved minimal results. Yet there do exist countries that have eliminated, or significantly reduced, the illicit production of opium from their territory. Drawing on a wide range of academic,...
Brexit
How Britain Left Europe
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
HOW COULD THIS HAVE HAPPENED?
On 23 June 2016, UK voters elected to leave the European Union. The result was perhaps the biggest bombshell in modern British political history. In this new and updated edition of Denis MacShane's bestselling history of the UK's relationship with Europe, the former Europe...
Let's Stay Together
Why Yes to Europe
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
From the bestselling author of BREXIT comes a personal and passionate plea for voting 'Remain' on 23rd June.
Denis MacShane, former Minister for Europe, is alarmed that the referendum debate so far has been too polite, too restrained.
Now is the time for the gloves to come off, he insists.
The result is a small book with a hugely important message.
Transnational Television in Europe
Reconfiguring Global Communications Networks
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2009
Today transnational TV networks count among television's most prestigious brands and rank among Europe's leading TV channels. This is the first, dynamically told story of the extraordinary journey of transnational television in Europe from struggling origins to its present day boom. It is based on...
Political Manipulation and Weapons of Mass Destruction
Terrorism, Influence and Persuasion
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2017
Concerns about CBRN (Chemical, Biological, Radioactive, Nuclear) weapons have featured prominently in both political debates and media reporting about the ongoing threat from al Qaeda since 9/11. This book provides a chronological account of al Qaeda's efforts to acquire a CBRN weapon capability,...
by Rudyard Kipling
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2014
Kipling may be best known as a commentator on the British Empire, but he was also a vivid observer and chronicler of the sea - and of ships and all who sailed in them. For him the sea was the glue which bound the British Empire together. To reach distant lands, you needed to sail. So Kipling wrote...
The Amritsar Massacre
The Untold Story of One Fateful Day
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
At approximately 5:10pm on 13 April 1919, Brigadier-General 'Rex' Dyer, led a small party of soldiers through the centre of Amritsar into a walled garden known as the Jallianwala Bagh. He had been informed that an illegal political meeting was taking place and had come to disperse it. Dyer's men entered...
A Modern History of Hong Kong
1841-1997
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2007
This major history of Hong Kong tells the remarkable story of how a cluster of remote fishing villages grew into an icon of capitalism. The story began in 1842 with the founding of the Crown Colony after the First Anglo-Chinese war - the original 'Opium War'. As premier power in Europe and an expansionist...
Chasing the Chinese Dream
Stories from Modern China
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
China is undergoing the biggest and fastest societal and economic change in human history. Driving this dizzying transformation is the idea of the 'Chinese Dream', the promise that in the new China, anyone can make it. Journalist and writer Nick Holdstock has travelled the length of this huge country...
The Popes and Britain
A History of Rule, Rupture and Reconciliation
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
When the British thought of themselves as a Protestant nation their natural enemy was the pope and they adapted their view of history accordingly. In contrast, Rome's perspective was always considerably wider and its view of Britain was almost invariably positive, especially in comparison to medieval...
The Presidency of Bill Clinton
The Legacy of a New Domestic and Foreign Policy
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
The presidency of Bill Clinton has an intrinsic historical significance: a marker of generational change, as he was the first 'baby boomer' to reach the White House; the first president whose personal life received no less attention than his policies; and the first Democrat to win re-election since...
Foreign Policy in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Security, Diplomacy and Trade
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2017
South Africa is the most industrialized power in Africa. It was rated the continent's largest economy in 2016 and is the only African member of the G20. It is also the only strategic partner of the EU in Africa. Yet despite being so strategically and economically significant, there is little scholarship...
Leningrad 1943
Inside a City Under Siege
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
The 900-day German Siege of Leningrad is the most powerful testimony to the immeasurable cruelty and horror of World War II. As the sole British correspondent to have been in the city during the blockade, Alexander Werth presents a harrowing firsthand account of the savagery and destruction wrought...