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Turkey
A Modern History
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
Turkey's economy is a complex mix of modern industry, a traditional agricultural sector, and a rapidly growing private sector. At the same time the country is positioning itself and preparing for entry into the European Union. That Turkey should meet her national economic goals is, therefore, particularly...
A Forgotten Man
The Life and Death of John Lodwick
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2018
John Lodwick (1916-1959) was one of the great novelists of the early twentieth century. Yet his novels, and indeed his own extraordinary life story, have been virtually lost to the mists of time. Geoffrey Elliott here, for the first time, pieces together Lodwick's eventful life, from his youth in...
Beyond Turkey's Borders
Long-Distance Kemalism, State Politics and the Turkish Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
In an increasingly connected world, the engagement of diasporic communities in transnationalism has become a potent force. Instead of pointing to a post-national era of globalised politics, as one might expect, Banu Senay argues that
expanding global channels of communication have provided states...
Jane Austen's England
A Walking Guide
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
It is impossible to fully appreciate Jane Austen without experiencing the landscapes which inspired her. Jane Austen's England - the first book of its kind - takes the reader on a series of walking tours into the very heart of her world. These fifteen picturesque walks describe the country houses,...
Ancient Greece and American Conservatism
Classical Influence on the Modern Right
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2018
US conservatives have repeatedly turned to classical Greece for inspiration and rhetorical power. In the 1950s they used Plato to defend moral absolutism; in the 1960s it was Aristotle as a means to develop a uniquely conservative social science; and then Thucydides helped to justify a more assertive...
Triple-Axis
Iran's Relations with Russia and China
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2018
The most significant challenge to the post-Cold War international order is the growing power of ambitious states opposed to the West. Iran, Russia and China each view the global structure through the prism of historical experience. Rejecting the universality of Western liberal values, these states...
Sweet and Bitter Island
A History of the British in Cyprus
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2010
On a sweltering day in July 1878, the men of the 42nd Royal Highlanders - the Black Watch - waded ashore at Larnaca Bay to begin the British occupation of Cyprus. Today, Britons on sunbeds colonise the same stretch of sand, the latest visitors to an island which has long held a special place in the...
3D Warhol
Andy Warhol and Sculpture
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Rain machines; alarmed kosher pickle jars filled with gemstones; replica cornflakes boxes; 'disco décor'; time capsules; art bombs; birthday presents; perfume bottles and floating silver pillows that are clouds; paintings that are also films; museum interventions; collected and curated projects;...
by Ralph Buck, Nicholas Rowe, Toni Shapiro-Phim
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
The South China Sea has a rich and turbulent history. Today territorial disputes in the region - including China, Taiwan, Vietnam, Philippines and Indonesia - make it potentially one of the most dangerous points of conflict in Asia and millions of people have crossed its waters in search of safer...
Fashion and Popular Print in Early Modern England
Depicting Dress in Black-Letter Ballads
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2017
Fashion featured in black-letter broadside ballads over a hundred years before fashion magazines appeared in England. In the seventeenth century, these single-sheet prints contained rhyming song texts and woodcut pictures, accessible to almost everyone in the country. Dress was a popular subject for...
The Greek Civil War
Strategy, Counterinsurgency and the Monarchy
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
The Greek Civil War (1946–9) was one of the few instances in the post-World War II era of a clear-cut and permanent victory by right-wing government forces over an insurgent communist movement. Spyridon Plakoudas here explores the factors which ultimately caused the downfall of the communist insurgency...
by Claire Elise Katz
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
How Jewish is modern Jewish philosophy? The question at first appears nonsensical, until we consider that the chief issues with which Jewish philosophers have engaged, from the Enlightenment through to the late 20th century, are the standard preoccupations of general philosophical inquiry. Questions...
Greece, the Decade of War
Occupation, Resistance and Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2016
During the 1940s Greece was torn apart twice, first by World War II and second by Civil War.Beginning in 1941, the occupation of Greece by Germany was intensely brutal. Children starved on the streets of Athens. The Jewish population was decimated in the Holocaust. Heroic acts of resistance - performed...
Myth Making in the Soviet Union and Modern Russia
Remembering World War II in Brezhnev’s Hero City
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
The 1943 battle to free the Soviet Black Sea port of Novorossiisk from German occupation was fought from the beach head of Malaia zemlia, where the young Colonel Leonid Brezhnev saw action. Despite widespread scepticism of the state's appropriation and inflation of this historical event, the heroes...