This study critically surveys the changing and highly contoversial literature surrounding the American Civil War era, from contemporary interp retations up to the present.
An approach to contemporary Latin America, this volume brings together a diverse range of experts to discuss people and the core significance in the region.
This 50-year overview examines both the evolution of Britain's welfare state, and the varying attitudes towards it. The text concentrates on the five core services of the welfare state: health care, education, social security and the personal social services.
A study of Georges Melies, who directed, edited, produced, designed and starred in over 500 films between 1896 and 1912. Elizabeth Ezra explodes several myths about Melies's role in film history and locates the roots of modern narrative cinema in Melies's work.
The 2005 rioting in France’s suburbs caught the world’s attention and exposed the limits of the Republic’s integration policies concerning its ‘immigrant-origin’ populations. This book focuses on one of these groups – the French-born descendants of North African immigrants. -- .
Examines the reasons behind the variation in the electoral fortunes of the West European parties of the extreme right in the period since the late 1970s. -- .
This book provides an outline history of English spelling from the Anglo-Saxon' adoption of the Roman alphabet to the present day.
This is the first book-length study to chart how the dramatic events of 30 generations ago have been understood, shaped and manipulated by writers in successive... Læs mere
This wide-ranging collection surveys the diversity and energy of Irish literature over the last two decades, a period marked by major cultural, social and... Læs mere
Leading historians and policy advisors explore the implications of incorporating historical sensibilities into key development policy issues. -- .
When the personal became political it changed British politics for ever. Gay men and the left, available in paperback for the first time, explores the enormous impact that gay politics had on the landscape of post-war Britain. -- .
This book tells the story of the Greek resistance to Axis occupation during the Second World War and in particular the life... Læs mere