Modern History 1750-1945

Labour's Grass Roots..

Drawing upon a wealth of previously classified documents, the book reveals how the Admiralty and Air Ministry became interlocked in a bitter political struggle over which of their military strategies could best meet Britain's future foreign policy challenges. Providing an important and balanced over..

Drawing upon a wealth of previously classified documents, the book reveals how the Admiralty and Air Ministry became interlocked in a bitter political struggle over which of their military strategies could best meet Britain's future foreign policy challenges. Providing an important and balanced over..

Author of the enduringly popular Alice books, mathematician, Anglican cleric, and pioneer photographer, Lewis Carroll maintained a lifelong enthusiasm for the theatre. Lewis Carroll and the Victorian Stage is the first book to focus on Carroll's irresistible fascination with all things theatrical, f..

Bringing together works by Salvador Espriu, Juan Goytisolo, Mercè Rodoreda, Esther Tusquets, and Juan Marsa that portray memory as a disorienting narrative enterprise, Colleen Culleton suggests that the trope of the laberinto, used in all of the works she considers and translated into English as bot..

Anti-communism has long been a potent force in American politics, capable of gripping both government and popular attention. Nowhere is this more evident that the two great 'red scares' of 1919-20 and 1946-54; the latter generally - if somewhat inaccurately - termed McCarthyism. By focusing on the i..

Little 'Red Scares'..

Lives of the Philadelphia Engineers..

This book brings together new interdisciplinary perspectives on the Spanish Civil War, its victims, its contentious ending, and its aftermath. It was originally published as a special issue of Bulletin of Spanish Studies...

This book brings together new interdisciplinary perspectives on the Spanish Civil War, its victims, its contentious ending, and its aftermath. It was originally published as a special issue of Bulletin of Spanish Studies...

Adopting a legal history perspective, this study reveals how municipal authorities of the mid-Victorian period had few public law powers to regulate local conditions, or to provide services, and thus the more enterprising went direct to Parliament to obtain - at a price - the passing specific local ..

Adopting a legal history perspective, this study reveals how municipal authorities of the mid-Victorian period had few public law powers to regulate local conditions, or to provide services, and thus the more enterprising went direct to Parliament to obtain - at a price - the passing specific local ..