I imprint: 1291 books
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...
Club Government
How the Early Victorian World was Ruled from London Clubs
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
The book phenomenon of 'Club Government' in the mid-nineteenth century, when many of the functions of government were alleged to have taken place behind closed doors, in the secretive clubs of London's St. James's district, has not been adequately historicized. Despite 'Club Government' being referenced...
Media and Public Shaming
Drawing the Boundaries of Disclosure
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2013
The media today are frequently in conflict with people in the public eye – be they politicians and celebrities – over the disclosure of private information and behaviour. Historically, journalists have had latitude to 'name and shame' malfeasance of public officials and criminal behaviour, but...
John Bright
Statesman, Orator, Agitator
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
John Bright was one of the greatest British statesmen of the nineteenth century. In a series of Punch cartoons in 1878, Bright featured alongside Disraeli and Gladstone as among the most influential politicians of the age. However, his profound contribution to British politics and society has been...
Death and Survival in Urban Britain
Disease, Pollution and Environment, 1800-1950
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
The narratives of disease, hygiene, developments in medicine and the growth of urban environments are fundamental to the discipline of modern history. Here, the eminent urban historian Bill Luckin re-introduces a body of work which, published together for the first time, along with new material and...