Holiday Camps in Twentieth-century Britain

This book tells the fascinating story of the Butlin and Warner holiday camp chains that emerged in the 1930s. The camps became a cultural phenomeno...

This introductory book offers a coherent history of twentieth century crime and the law in Britain, with chapters on topics ranging from homicide t...

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 ...

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

This introductory book offers a coherent history of twentieth century crime and the law in Britain, with chapters on topics ranging from homicide t...

The celebrated music writer looks back on how great British music has often had a connection with the landscape. Takes in the work of musicians div...

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

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

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...

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

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

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCIllustration(s): 3 bw illusNumber of pages: 320Collection: Critical Perspectives in South Asian HistoryPublicat...

This widely acclaimed book, first published in 1974, was a classic from its first day in print. Written in a direct, inviting way by Harry Braverma...

Contributor(s): Author: Furio JesiTranslator: Richard BraudeIn the decades before the rise of the Third Reich, "Secret Germany" was a phrase used b...

Based on twelve case studies (Senegal, Mali, Nigeria, Niger, Chad, Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania, Zanzibar and the Comoros), this book ...

Publisher: Edinburgh University PressAuthor(s): Gavin (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) RaeNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2021Dimensions: ...

Examines the relationships forged between police officers and the diverse urban and rural communities in which they have lived and worked in Scotla...

This book recounts the history of journalism in Ireland from the 1880s to today, using previously un-consulted records to explore how changing prac...

Taking literary food studies in a new direction to explore the connections between what or how one eats and what one is. Focusing primarily on four...

Nico Israel argues that spirals illuminate the torsions of history and geopolitics within modernity. Taking the form of the spiral not only as his ...

Reducere. Popular perceptions of American writers as either godless radicals or God-fearing reactionaries overlook a vital tradition of Christian leftist tho...

Reducere. Each year in France approximately 1.5 million people practice naturisme or naturism, an activity more commonly referred to as nudism. Because of Fr...

"[This book] charts the transformation of one of the world's great religions during an age marked by world wars, genocide, nationalism, decolonizat...

Reducere. "An invaluable reminder of the purposes and possibilities of modern art. Exemplary." -- Kirkus ReviewsIn 1911, modernist painter Wassily Kandinsky ...

Reducere. Two brothers grow up on the Jewish streets of Warsaw. At the turn of the twentieth century, Adolphe leaves to seek work and start a family in Switz...

Reducere. The hugely popular Japanese artist Takehisa Yumeji (1884-1934) is an emblematic figure of Japan's rapidly changing cultural milieu in the early twe...

Publisher: Four Courts Press LtdNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 165 x 240 x 34Cover type: HardbackEditor(s): Felix M. LarkinR...

Premii in 2009Oscar pentru: Cea mai buna realizare cinematografica, Cea mai buna scenografie Cele mai bune efecte vizuale. Globul de Aur pentru: Ce...

DescriptionDuring states of emergency, normal rules and rights are suspended, and force can often prevail. In these precarious intervals, when the ...

In this brilliant guide to modern European political ideas and thinkers spans the twentieth century, the author illuminates both the twentieth-cent...

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Beginning with an interpretation of the Third Reich's sexual politics and ending with the revisions of Germany's past facilitated by communism's co...

Death comes to everyone, and in the late-medieval morality play of Everyman the familiar skeleton forces the universalized central figure to come t...

English radicalism has been a persistent and important, though minority, strand in English political culture since at least the English Civil War. ...