Affluence and Authority: A Social History of Twentieth-Century Britain

This timely history explores the entry, reception and resettlement of refugees across twentieth-century Britain. Focusing on four cohorts of refuge...

First published as part of the best-selling The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, Kenneth Morgan's Very Short Introduction to Twentieth-Centur...

This book provides a scholarly but accessible account of British regional development during the twentieth century, focusing on the emergence and d...

By examining the popular and vernacular discourse of stress, the book traces the ways in which stress became a ubiquitous condition of everyday lif...

Final volume of the seven-volume Cambridge History of the Book in Britain series, focusing on the twentieth century and beyond. The book is for stu...

Reducere. Our experiences of dying have been shaped by ancient ideas about death and social responsibility at the end of life. From Stone Age ideas about dyi...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

A study of the work of the popular historian and journalist, Sir Arthur Bryant (1899-1985). This work provides an understanding of the man and the ...

Reducere. DescriptionThe early years of the twentieth century were a difficult period for Big Business. Corporate monopolies, the brutal exploitation of labo...

The State of Freedom: A Social History of the British State since 1800 - Patrick Joyce

Publisher: Thames & Hudson LtdAuthor(s): Michael BirdIllustration(s): 63 Illustrations, black and white; 18 Illustrations, colorNumber of pages: 35...

In The Routledge Concise History of Twentieth-Century British Literature Ashley Dawson identifies the key British writers and texts, shaped by era-...

The first three editions of this bestselling book have established A Social History of the Media as a classic, providing a masterful overview of co...

Reducere. Using a wealth of contemporary Ottoman sources, this book recreates the social history of Istanbul, a huge, cosmopolitan metropolis and imperial ca...

This book is about a single, serpentine fact: late in 1976 a record called 'Anarchy in the UK' was issued in London, and this event launched a tran...

One of the most devastating portraits ever drawn of a human society - life in Hitler's Germany during the Third ReichPublisher: Orion Publishing Co...

Reducere. Containing just the twentieth-century chapters from Howard Zinn's bestselling A People's History of the United States, this revised and updated edi...

Contributor(s): Editor: Keith WrightsonThe rise of social history has had a transforming influence on the history of early modern England. It has b...

Reducere. The theme of this extraordinary book is the evolution of the modern conception of family life and the modern image; of the nature of children. Arie...

A comprehensive study of Iceland's social and historical development, from tiny fishing settlements to a global economic power. It is of interest t...

Reducere. The American family has undergone a series of transformations from its socially sanctified role as the center of society to today's private, indepe...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. DescriptionWhen the Chinese communists came to power in 1949, they promised to 'turn society upside down'. Efforts to build a communist society cre...

Reducere. In 1948, a war broke out that would result in Israeli independence and the erasure of Arab Palestine. Over twenty months, thousands of Jews and Ara...

The drum kit has provided the pulse of popular music from before the dawn of jazz up to the present day pop charts. Kick It, a provocative social h...

Americans love "this year's model, " relying on the "new" to be always "improved." Enthusiasm for the new, says Stanley Buder, is essential to Amer...

Reducere. A Social History of American Technology, Second Edition, tells the story of American technology from the tools used by its earliest inhabitants to ...

A revised and fully-updated new edition of this leading survey of the twentieth-century European economy. Ivan T. Berend provides an integrated, co...

Reducere. At the beginning of the twentieth century 'music' meant the 'art' tradition of Western Europe and North America; by the end of the century that was...

Hibbert tries to show by reference to history of punishments, to the reactions of those who suffered them or have been threatened by them, and to t...

Chinese Diasporas provides a concise and compelling new history of internal and external Chinese migration from the sixteenth century to the presen...

Kristen Richardson traces the social seasons of debutantes on both sides of the Atlantic, sharing their stories in their own words, through diaries...

Shellac and Swing! tells the story of the gramophone's 'golden age, ' when it helped to shape Britain's musical, social and political life and impa...

Publisher: Polity PressAuthor(s): Peter BurkeNumber of pages: 248Publication date: 2011Dimensions: 227 x 155 x 27Cover type: Paperback / softbackRe...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Fei-Hsien WangIllustration(s): 14 b/w illus. 8 tables.Number of pages: 368Collection: Studies of th...

Reducere. First substantial translation of Apollinaire's later works by an award-winning poet. Guillaume Apollinaire's final years exactly coincided with the...

Sean Damer provides a sustained critique of the Corporation of Glasgow's council housing policy and argues that it had the unintended consequence o...

Bounded by the Great War on one side and by the looming shadow of the Second World War on the other, the inter-war period has characteristically be...