Modern History 1750-1945

Aerial Propaganda explores the combined role of the French and British Governments and Armies in creating and distributing millions of aerial newspapers and leaflets aimed at the French population trapped behind German lines. Drawing on extensive research and primary sources the book highlights a pr..

Disability is often mentioned in discussions of slave health, mistreatment and abuse, but constructs of how "able" and "disabled" bodies influenced the institution of slavery has gone largely overlooked. This book uncovers a history of disability in African American slavery from the primary record, ..

Written by a team of eminent historians, these essays explore how ten twentieth-century intellectuals and social reformers sought to adapt familiar Victorian values to modern conditions of democracy, feminism and mass culture...

Written by a team of eminent historians, these essays explore how ten twentieth-century intellectuals and social reformers sought to adapt familiar Victorian values to modern conditions of democracy, feminism and mass culture...

Focusing on three of the defining moments of the twentieth century - the end of the two World Wars and the collapse of the Iron Curtain - this volume presents a rich, interdisciplinary collection of authoritative essays, covering a wide range of thematic, regional and methodological perspectives. By..

This volume, originally published in 1930, discusses the economics of Russian agriculture during the early 20th century. It analyzes the economic influences which were at work and brought about its transformation. ..

This volume brings together scholars working on this period of dramatic technical, commercial and political change in agriculture, from the end of the Second World War to the emergence of the Common Agricultural Policy in the early 1960s. Their work is structured around four themes: the changes in t..

Drawing on archival as well as secondary sources, the book examines key themes within the sphere of air power in the maritime environment. Providing an essentially chronological study that encompasses the period of the First World War up to the present day, it explores international thinking and pra..

Drawing on archival as well as secondary sources, the book examines key themes within the sphere of air power in the maritime environment. Providing an essentially chronological study that encompasses the period of the First World War up to the present day, it explores international thinking and pra..

Each volume in this new series is a collection of seminal articles on a theme of central importance in the study of transport history, selected from the leading journal in the field. Each contains between ten and a dozen articles selected by a distinguished scholar, as well as an authoritative new i..

This book explores the economic and business history of the British machine tool industry through the rise and fall of its leading player, Alfred Herbert Ltd, providing a valuable insight into a key British manufacturing industry, and contributing to the debate over Britain's alleged decline as a ma..

Despite the sense of increased affluence and social progress that was prevalent in Britain during the 1950s and 1960s, there was simultaneously, a parallel feeling that the nation was in decline and being economically outstripped by its international competitors. Whilst the study of Britain's post..