I imprint: 1291 books
Beyond the Malachite Hills
A Life of Colonial Service and Business in the New Africa
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2009
What hope is there for Africa? Since the heady and hopeful days of decolonisation the story seems to be one of unrelenting disaster - revolution; brutal military dictatorship; ethnic conflict - even genocide; civil war; state-threatening corruption; economic failure; and, in places, the complete breakdown...
Raising Dust
A Cultural History of Dance in Palestine
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2010
Dance in Palestine has a history as complex and contentious as the land itself. Dismissed as bacchantic madness by Bible tourists in the 19th Century, revived and glorified by Zionists, Pan-Arabists and Palestinian Nationalists in the 20th Century, and rejected by Islamic Reformists in the 21st Century...
Civil War and Democracy in West Africa
Conflict Resolution, Elections and Justice in Sierra Leone and Liberia
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2011
In the aftermath of explosive civil wars in Africa during the 1990s and 2000s, the establishment of multi-party elections has often been heralded by the West as signaling the culmination of the conflict and the beginning of a period of democratic rule. However, the outcomes of these elections are...
Mapping the Holy Land
The Foundation of a Scientific Cartography of Palestine
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Mapping the Holy Land provides a unique study of the cartography of the Holy Land during the formative period of its development. Through a detailed study of the work of three of the leading figures of the era - Augustus Petermann, Physical Geographer Royal to Queen Victoria; cartographer Charles...
The Dark Heart of Hitler's Europe
Nazi Rule in Poland Under the General Government
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
After the German and Soviet attack on Poland in 1939, vast swathes of Polish territory, including Warsaw and Kraków, fell under Nazi occupation in an administration which became known as the 'General Government'. The region was not directly incorporated into the Reich but was ruled by a German regime,...
by Stephen Conway
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
The American war against British imperial rule (1775-1783) was the world's first great popular revolution. Ideologically defined by the colonists' formal Declaration of Independence in 1776, the struggle has taken on something a mythic character, especially in the United States. From the Boston Tea...
Oil Shock
The 1973 Crisis and its Economic Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2016
The 'Oil Shock' of 1973 - the shift from the era of low-priced oil to the era of high-priced oil - was a turning point in the history of the 20th century. This book provides an analysis of the crisis and its global political and economic impact. It features contributions from a range of perspectives...
The Politics of Race in Britain and South Africa
Black British Solidarity and the Anti-Apartheid Struggle
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2015
The postwar government of South Africa, led by H.F. Verwoerd, implemented wide-ranging racial segregation laws, beginning the open policy of apartheid in one of Africa's most prosperous and internationally influential states. During the apartheid era, the British government faced an uneasy dilemma:...
International Politics and the Northern Ireland Conflict
The USA, Diplomacy and the Troubles
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2016
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come? The end of life has never meant the extinction of hope. People perpetually have yearned for, and often been terrified by, continuance beyond the horizon of mortality. Ranging across time and space, Philip Almond here takes his readers on a remarkable...
The Dresden Firebombing
Memory and the Politics of Commemorating Destruction
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
The firebombing of Dresden marks the terrible apex of the European bombing war. In just over two days in February 1945, over 1,300 heavy bombers from the RAF and the USAAF dropped nearly 4,000 tonnes of explosives on Dresden's civilian centre. Since the end of World War II, both the death toll and...
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.