Prime Minister. The Office And Its Holders Since 1945, Paperback - Peter Hennessy

Explores the formal powers of the Prime Minister and how each incumbent has made the job his or her own. Drawing on unparalleled access to many of ...

Publisher: Office of the Deputy Prime MinisterAuthor(s): Office of the Deputy Prime MinisterIllustration(s): figs, maps, tablesNumber of pages: 130...

At the end of the Second World War Britain was in flux. It was an age of rationing and rebuilding; when hope for a better future contrasted with th...

Marking the third centenary of the office of Prime Minister, this book tells its extraordinary story, explaining how and why it has endured longer ...

DescriptionPeter C. Caldwell and Karrin Hanshew's Germany Since 1945 traces the social, political and cultural history of Germany from the end of t...

Experts analyse the impact of World War II on individual countries and regions, and how its legacy continues to shape political and military thinki...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Alistair (Department of Energy and Climate Change, UK) PaulNumber of pages: 126Collection: The Making of ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: J. Jeremy WisnewskiJust when you thought paper couldn't be more exciting, this bookcomes your wayThis book--jammed full of ...

Reissued with a new foreword to mark the centenary of Harold Wilson's birth, Ben Pimlott's classic biography combines scholarship and observation t...

For a sparsely populated region on the edge of Europe, Scandinavia has attracted an unusual degree of interest during the twentieth century. This b...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Carali (Central Saint Martins, UK) McCallIllustration(s): 32 bw illusNumber of pages: 264Collection:...

DescriptionThe Knight's Cross (Ritterkreuz) was one of the highest decorations given for extreme acts of valor to all ranks of the German armed for...

In History and Its Objects, Peter N. Miller uncovers the forgotten origins of our fascination with exploring the past through its artifacts by high...

In the OXFORD HISTORY OF ART series, a look at innovative and avant-garde sculpture in relation to contemporary events, festivals, commissions and ...

The story of post-war Italy, from the silent assimilation of fascists into society after 1945 to the Berlusconi era, is represented as a story of e...

Presents history of global change from 1945 onwards. This title explores therapid changes in the Middle East, the end of apartheid in South Africa ...

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 ...

International Relations since 1945 is a comprehensive introduction to the global history of International Relations. The text has been fully update...

The Cambridge Companion to American Theatre since 1945 provides an overview and analysis of developments in the organization and practices of Ameri...

This is the first wide-ranging, cross-disciplinary overview of immigration to Scotland in recent history and its impact on both the newcomers and t...

Reducere. The first contemporary survey of postwar British women sculptors from modernism to the YBA'sThis publication focuses on postwar British women sculp...

Baltic Facades presents a new history of the Baltic area, one that dispels the myth of a single, coherent regional identity. Aldis Purs describes t...

This comprehensive and widely acclaimed study of British history since 1945 has been has been expanded to include a new chapter looking at the conf...

The second half of the twentieth century was dominated by the unfolding drama of the Cold War, from the Berlin blockade to the fall of the Berlin W...

Beautiful Data is both a history of big data and interactivity, and a sophisticated meditation on ideas about vision and cognition in the second ha...

The often-violent realities of international relations in the post-World War II era have challenged Winston Churchill's characterization of the Uni...

Reducere. The President, the Pope, and the Prime Minister is a sweeping, dramatic account of how three great figures changed the course of history. All of th...

Reducere. Art Since 1900 introduces students to the key theoretical approaches to modern and contemporary art. A flexible year-by-year structure and extensiv...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Nicholas (Liverpool John Moores University, UK) WhiteIllustration(s): 1 Tables, black and whiteNumber of ...

A major survey of the Japanese designers, artisans, manufacturers and technologies that have shaped the world of modern design.Illustrations: 100 I...

Reducere. DescriptionDavid Joselit traces and analyzes the contradictory formal, ideological, and political conditions during this period that made American ...

Revised and redesigned for the first time since 2001, this standard introduction to visual art in the postwar era examines the movements, trends, a...