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The First World War transformed modern politics. No example demonstrates this more powerfully than the enactment and use of emergency powers by all belligerents. Wartime governments passed extensive emergency legislation that allowed them to pursue their war efforts...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2025-03-19
Format(s) : PDF
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This book provides the first detailed historical account of British public opinion and party policy towards European integration from 1973 (the year in which the UK joined the European Community) to 2016 (the year in which the UK voted to leave the European Union). It...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-03-18
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Imperial expositions held in fin-de-siècle London, Paris and Berlin were knots in a world wide web. Conceptualizing expositions as meta-media, Fleeting Cities constitutes a transnational and transdisciplinary investigation into how modernity was created and displayed,...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-03-11
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The First World War transformed modern politics. No example demonstrates this more powerfully than the enactment and use of emergency powers by all belligerents. Wartime governments passed extensive emergency legislation that allowed them to pursue their war efforts...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2025-03-03
Format(s) : ePub
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This book brings together its contributors to study the figure of Seignelay Colbert de Castlehill, born in Inverness on 13th August 1735 into a Presbyterian family and who died in London, an anti-Concordant bishop and leader of the ‘Little Church’ on 15th July 1811....
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-03-01
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National service was a defining feature for a generation of young men in post-war Britain. Around 2.3 million of them were called up between the end of World War Two and 1963, when conscription ended. However, national service was forgotten almost before it had ended, a...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2025-02-05
Format(s) : PDF
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In recent decades, scholars have uncovered the vital contributions made by non-elite figures, including women, artisans, and indigenous peoples, to the development of early modern natural philosophy. This Palgrave Pivot argues that children, too, quite...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-01-31
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History tells us that the Second World War broke Britain as a great power, diminishing its military strength, ruining its economy, and precipitating a striking wave of decolonization. Nationalists and new superpowers dominated the post-war landscape, and the country was...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2025-01-29
Format(s) : PDF
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National service was a defining feature for a generation of young men in post-war Britain. Around 2.3 million of them were called up between the end of World War Two and 1963, when conscription ended. However, national service was forgotten almost before it had ended, a...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2025-01-25
Format(s) : ePub
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History tells us that the Second World War broke Britain as a great power, diminishing its military strength, ruining its economy, and precipitating a striking wave of decolonization. Nationalists and new superpowers dominated the post-war landscape, and the country was...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2025-01-13
Format(s) : ePub
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This open access book addresses a question fundamental to the histories of empire and Africa: at the point of the colonial encounter, how was knowledge made? How did different communities, with little or no prior contact, construct meaning about one another? Amidst huge...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2024-12-27
Collection :
Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
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Drawing on a wide range of primary sources, this book explains what made skin newsworthy in Victorian Britain. It represents a unique contribution to the media history of the human body by delving into the cultural and historical underpinnings of wound representation in...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2024-12-05
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«How can we read twenty-first-century African literatures in Portuguese so that we can properly understand the voices telling us of their particular situation today? In The Late Postcolonial Condition Emanuelle Rodrigues dos Santos deftly shows us how to adjust our...
Editeur : Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution : 2024-12-05
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What did British citizens really feel about the political system, their role in it, and the people who represented them? Everyday Politics, Ordinary Lives examines British democracy from below, investigating how electors understood politics and how they viewed its...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2024-12-04
Format(s) : PDF
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This book explores representations of the extensive violence that characterised British exploratory and colonising forays into the Pacific Ocean in the long eighteenth century, both between Europeans and Indigenous peoples and amongst Europeans themselves. It explores...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2024-11-26
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The nature and purpose of elementary education featured prominently in English periodicals throughout the nineteenth century. This book’s central argument is that the periodical press provided a unique cultural space for literary and intellectual contributions to...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2024-09-30
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Trust the power of cognitive science to help students to understand more, remember more and feel more confident about their exams.This textbook is guaranteed to make learning more effective. The approach was created by author and teacher Dale Banham, who has amazing...
Editeur : Hodder Education
Parution : 2024-09-05
Format(s) : ePub
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This book provides a detailed study of approved schools for girls, which operated in England and Wales between 1933-1973. Through original archival research, it traces shifting perceptions of, and policy responses to, girls’ delinquency and vulnerability during a period...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2024-08-12
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The Spiritual Lives and Manuscript Cultures of Eighteenth-Century English Women explores the vital and unexplored ways in which women's life writings acted to undergird, guide, and indeed shape religious communities. Through an exploration of various significant but...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2024-07-12
Format(s) : PDF
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At the beginning of the twentieth century, for many English men and women of Welsh origin the idea of being in some part 'Welsh' reaffirmed their own understanding of what it meant to 'be British'. Wales in England, 1914-1945 is the first cultural history of this...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2024-07-04
Format(s) : PDF
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