The first full-length scholarly history of the British fire service, 1800-1978, this book scrutinizes how firemen created a professional public... Læs mere
Eglantyne Jebb was a teacher, social investigator and founder of the Save the Children Fund. Her 'Declaration of the Rights... Læs mere
Many studies of fictions of city life take the flâneur as the characteristic metropolitan type and streets and plazas as... Læs mere
A collections of essays in honour of Branko Horvat, an economist and social thinker of great international reputation from former... Læs mere
In north Namibia the availability of continuous series of parish record data since the 1920s offer... Læs mere
Operating from outside their homelands, exile armies have been an understudied phenomenon in history and international politics. This collection of essays covers the experience of exiled... Læs mere
Taking Britain and Italy as comparative cases, the author explores the extent to which dominant notions of family life differed in postwar Britain and Italy and the implications this had on the development of family policy in these two countries.
Historians in the United States have argued that the ideals of the American Revolution have had an enduring significance outside their own country. The essays in this volume... Læs mere
This book is the most up-to-date account of research based on the Behavioural Perspective Model of consumer choice. Foxall's contribution is explored in relation to marketing... Læs mere
Europe's Greece evaluates Greece's European membership and finds that it has been largely successful. Despite its reputation as a southern laggard with very little... Læs mere
This study explores a new understanding of modernism and ethnicity as put forward in the transnational and diasporic writings of Anzia Yezierska, Zora Neale Hurston, and Jean Rhys.