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South Sudan
The Untold Story from Independence to Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2016
In July 2011, South Sudan was granted independence and became the world's newest country. Yet just two-and-a-half years after this momentous decision, the country was in the grips of renewed civil war and political strife. Hilde F. Johnson served as Special Representative of the Secretary-General...
Maverick Spy
Stalin's Super-Agent in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
A few years before he died James MacGibbon confessed to his close family that he had spied for the Soviet Union during World War II. At the end of the war MI5 suspected him of espionage and interrogated him but he did not confess. Nevertheless they kept James, his wife Jean and their young family...
Other Cinemas
Politics, Culture and Experimental Film in the 1970s
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
The 1970s was an enormously creative period for experimental film. Its innovations and debates have had far-reaching and long-lasting influence, with a resurgence of interest in the decade revealed by new gallery events, film screenings and social networks that recognise its achievements. Professor...
Imperial Control in Cyprus
Education and Political Manipulation in the British Empire
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
In Protectorate Cyprus, education was one of the most effective tools of imperial control and political manipulation used by the British. This book charts the cultural and educational aspects of British colonial rule in Cyprus and analyses what these policies reveal about the internal struggles on...
The New Emperors
Power and the Princelings in China
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
China has become the powerhouse of the world economy and home to 1 in 5 of the world's population, yet we know almost nothing of the people who lead it. How does one become the leader of the world's newest superpower? And who holds the real power in the Chinese system? In The New Dragons, the noted...
The History of Genocide in Cinema
Atrocities on Screen
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
The organization 'Genocide Watch' estimates that 100 million civilians around the globe have lost their lives as a result of genocide in only the past sixty years. Over the same period, the visual arts in the form of documentary footage has aided international efforts to document genocide and prosecute...
America, Hitler and the UN
How the Allies Won World War II and Forged a Peace
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2010
On 1 January 1942, Churchill and Roosevelt issued a 'Declaration by United Nations' with 24 other states, forging a military alliance based on human rights principles that included China, India and the Soviet Union. This marked the beginning of the UN in a real and tangible form. Yet today many people...
Madrid
The History
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
At the heart of the Castilian plateau, far from the coastal towns and ports of Spain, sits the great city of Madrid. Perched some 2,200 feet above the distant sea, it is at once the loftiest and also the most enigmatic of Europe's capitals: hard to decipher for the Spanish and for foreigners alike.
Its...
Franco
Anatomy of a Dictator
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2017
On 20th November 1975, General Francisco Franco died in Madrid, just before his 83rd birthday. At the time of his death he had been the head of a dictatorial regime with the title of 'Caudillo' for almost 40 years. In this book, Enrique Moradiellos redraws Franco in three dimensions - Franco, the...
Reagan
American Icon
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
The Reagan era is usually seen as an era of unheralded prosperity, and as a high-watermark of Republican success. President Ronald Reagan's belief in “Reaganomics”,his media-friendly sound-bites and “can do”personality have come to define the era.However, this was also a time of domestic protest...
Israel and the Cold War
Diplomacy, Strategy and the Policy of the Periphery at the United Nations
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
In the wake of its creation in 1948, the state of Israel was confronted with the challenge of establishing foreign relations with key players in the region, in the face of opposition from most of the Arab states. Howard Patten explores the genesis and development of Israel's foreign relations with...
Iran in the Middle East
Transnational Encounters and Social History
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Iran's interaction with its neighbours is a topic of wide interest. But while many historical studies of the country concentrate purely on political events and high-profile actors, this book takes the opposite approach: writing history from below, it instead focuses on the role of everyday lives....
by Colin Storer
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
It is impossible to understand the history of modern Europe without some knowledge of the Weimar Republic. The brief fourteen-year period of democracy between the Treaty of Versailles and the advent of the Third Reich was marked by unstable government, economic crisis and hyperinflation and the rise...
Left Without a Future?
Social Justice in Anxious Times
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013
The roots of the recent financial crisis can be found in the substantial changes which have affected British economy and society over the last three decades. In economic terms, the UK has transformed from a predominantly industrial to one led by services and creative industries, whilst society has...