Contentiously asserts that Ricardo stands in a continuous analytical line leading from Adam Smith to Alfred Marshall. This book provides the material necessary to evaluate this provoking contributio... more »

This classic textbook critically explores the relationship between politics, the media and democracy in the United Kingdom, America and other contemporary societies.

Gender and Power in Britain is a new history of Britain from the early modern period to the present, focusing on gender and power in political, social, cultural and economic life.

Focusing on warfare in Africa since 1950, ranging from the highly sophisticated, to the spears of the Rwandan genocide. The text explores two themes: that in North Africa warfare has been a matter o... more »

This set brings together for the first time British Liberal Party General Election Manifestos, dating back to 1900, including the most recent General Election manifestos of 1997.

Provides a fascinating enquiry into the particular type of nationalism France embraces. It explores the value system of the movement and explains the way in which Front National ideology has been fo... more »

Examines the development of communism within the context of ancient Chinese civilization, exploring its nature and how it diverged from the Soviet model.

The theoretical arguments and ethnographic perspectives of this book place it at the cutting edge of contemporary anthropological scholarship on identity with respect to the study of ethnicity, nati... more »

This is a study of the nature and extent of the education of women at this time in the context of both Protestant and Catholic ideological debates. This book offers wider insights into the controls ... more »

This text seeks to move beyond the limitations of "critical pedagogy" in modern education, drawing on perspectives such as poststructuralism, postmodernism, cultural studies and feminism - all subje... more »

Warfare in the first half of the 20th century was fundamentally and irrovocably altered by the birth and subsequent development of air power. This work assesses the role of air power in changing the... more »

Franklin D. Roosevelt, America's longest serving president, is considered one of the most important political figures of the 20th century. This book assesses his personality and his political and ec... more »

The most ambitious and wide-ranging single volume history available on Eastern Europe, this book offers a thematic historical survey and analysis of the formative processes of change which have shap... more »

In Liberalism and Pluralism the author explores the challenges conflicting values, interests and identities pose to liberal democracy.

Providing a much-needed insight into Victorian attitudes, including that of Christian morality, this book makes a distinctive contribution to the history of crime, social welfare and the family.more »

Combines the benefits of local detailed area study (South East England in the 1980s) with a broader analysis of issues of place, identity and political critique.

Combines general theoretical discussions of the principles of cultural pluralism, nationalism, and minority identities with informative studies of specific local histories and political conflicts.more »

Compellingly demonstrates the relationship between sensory and gender orders, highlighting the gender politics behind such sensory constructs as the male gaze and the female touch.

In 1688, Britain was invaded, its army and navy unable to prevent the overthrow of the government. 1815, it was the strongest power in the world with the largest empire. This book assesses the mili... more »

The Place of Media Power focuses on an area neglected in previous studies of the media: the meetings between ordinary people and the media.

This book re-evaluates the architectural history of Nazi Germany and looks at the development of the forced-labour concentration camp system.

This detailed book provides a compelling insight into how attitudes to states such as nervous anxiety and hysteria have changed over the past century. The evolution of approaches to and the deifniti... more »

Fully revised and updated, this comprehensive text draws on a wealth of new material to shed light on the mechanisms, structure and realities of the Cabinet system in Britain from 1945 to the presen... more »

An introductory analysis of the genre which suggests that auto/biography is, in fact, based on fictions, both about the person and about what is possible to know about any one individual. more »

Explores the breadth of British sci-fi films through readings of key films, examining the factors that shaped them, and the concerns they reflect, through the postwar boom years to the more sporadic... more »