Alan Bush, Modern Music, and the Cold War. The Cultural Left in Britain and the Communist Bloc, Hardback - Joanna Bullivant

The first major study of Alan Bush, this book provides new perspectives on music and communism in twentieth-century Britain and the Communist Bloc....

DescriptionThis is a very British story from more than 50 years ago. It is a story of remarkable technological ambition from a different country th...

Why would an American girl-child, born into a good, Irish-Catholic family in the thick of the McCarthy era - a girl who, when she came of age, ente...

Anthropology At the Dawn of the Cold War. The Influence of Foundations, McCarthyism and the CIA - Dustin M. Wax

This book historicises Anglo-American queer theory by excavating a rival epistemology that advanced a communist sexuality during the Cold War. It p...

The conflict played out between communism and capitalism for most of the second half of the twentieth century came quickly to be termed the Cold War.

Reducere. A "constantly captivating...well-researched and often moving" (The Wall Street Journal) history of Checkpoint Charlie, the famous military gate on ...

The books detects the struggle of Communism and anti-Communism as a key feature for the making of the political system in post-WWII democratic Ital...

Publisher: DamianiAuthor(s): Richard HornikIllustration(s): 130 Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 192Publication date: 2022Dimensions:...

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With a foreword by William Boyd, Checkpoint Charlie is a vivid and poignant exploration of the history surrounding the Berlin Wall through the lens...

A compulsive page-turner about the battle for Berlin and control of the Western world in the aftermath of the Second World War from 'the master of ...

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Reducere. *Includes pictures *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading The spy novel emerged from the intrigues of the mid-20th centu...

Reducere. *Includes pictures *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading The spy novel emerged from the intrigues of the mid-20th centu...

Discover a fresh approach to Pearson Edexcel GCSE History, developed by bestselling author Ben Walsh while working with hundreds of students and te...

Reducere. DescriptionA powerful, fascinating, and groundbreaking history of Checkpoint Charlie, the famous military gate on the border of East and West Berli...

An unconventional and illuminating new history of British landscape art in the post-war period

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Reducere. An examination of the use of modernism in the twentieth-century battle for US hegemony, through the activities of the CIA-funded Congress for Cultu...

Contributor(s): Author: Aldo MarchesiThis book examines the emergence, development, and demise of a network of organizations of young leftist milit...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Kate GuthrieIllustration(s): 14 music examples, 10 b-w illustrationsNumber of pages: 306Collect...

Publisher: Steerforth PressAuthor(s): Peter ShinkleIllustration(s): 16 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 416Publication date: 2022Dimensio...

This book offers a bold re-interpretation of the prevailing narrative that US foreign policy after the Cold War was a failure. In chapters that ret...

Successfully cover Unit Group 2 with the right amount of depth and pace. This bespoke series from the leading History publisher follows our proven ...

A sweeping, groundbreaking epic that combines military with social history, to illuminate the ways in which Great Britain and its people were perma...

Power. Glory. Death. Courage. How well do we know the story of the Second World War?

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Brigid CohenIllustration(s): 19 halftones, 1 tablesNumber of pages: 376Collection: New Materia...

'Frances Stonor Saunders has almost single-handedly started off a branch of sub-history; the cultural cold war. Who Paid The Piper? is an extraordi...

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Presents a social analysis of new music dissemination at the Warsaw Autumn International Festival of Contemporary Music, one of the most important ...

Publisher: VDM VerlagAuthor(s): Antonio GarrastazuNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2008Dimensions: 151 x 226 x 17Cover type: Paperback / softb...

A treatment of cinema's long and fraught relations with the monstrous symbols of Soviet communism

Reducere. One of the world's greatest comics characters, the ever-fearless Asterix, continues to battle supposedly unbeatable odds to protect his tiny villag...

Reducere. One of the world's greatest comics characters, the ever-fearless Asterix, continues to battle supposedly unbeatable odds to protect his tiny villag...

Dropping the Torch: Jimmy Carter, the Olympic Boycott, and the Cold War - Nicholas Evan Sarantakes

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Reducere. The subject of The Anti-Communist Manifestos is four influential books that informed the great political struggle known as the Cold War: Darkness a...

Longlisted for the 2021 National Book Award for Nonfiction The Cold War was not just a contest of power. It was also about ideas, in the broadest s...

Martin Walker's account of over forty years of global confrontation between the US and Russia is a masterly narrative of the Cold War's twists and ...

Countering Terrorism in Britain and France: Institutions, Norms and the Shadow of the Past - Dr Frank Foley

An 'Irish Cuba' - on Britain's doorstep? This book studies perceptions of the Soviets' influence over Irish revolutionaries during the Cold War. Th...

Drawing from perspectives from within the everyday life of basic organizations and the practices of the party apparatuses, Communist Parties Revisi...

Transforming Military Power since the Cold War: Britain, France, and the United States, 1991–2012 - Theo Farrell, Sten Rynning, Terry Terriff

The book is for scholars and students from across the humanities who wish to understand the varieties of liturgical culture in medieval Britain and...

This is the story of the USAF Tactical Air Command units that were resident in the United Kingdom during the Cold War from 1952 to 1992. An extensi...

Publisher: TransworldAuthor(s): Tim TatePublication date: 2021Dimensions: 153 x 234 x 36Cover type: PaperbackRedescopera farmecul lecturii si alege...

'[W]ell researched and thought-provoking... John Mulqueen haswritten an important book and has certainly contributed to rendering theTroubles less ...

Reducere. Dr. Claude R. Foster, internationally acclaimed scholar of the German Reformation, a historian, a traveler, a poet. In Connections, he serves as a ...