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British cinema in the 1980s: issues and themes
W. John HillIn recent years the role and identity of British cinema has undergone numerous changes and this book traces the ways in which British society, the British film industry, and British films have interacted in the 1980s.
The British Constitution
Anthony KingThe book is a Bagehot for the twenty-first century - the product of a lifetime's reflection on British politics and essential reading for anyone interested in how the British system has changed and how it is likely to change in future.
Two Decades in British Politics: Essays to Mark Twenty-one ...
Preview... 1969-90 Bill Jones Lynton J. Robins. 2 Stephen Ingle ... with a restatement of the nature of British party politics. The nature of the British party system To begin, we All you never wanted to know about British political parties Stephen Ingle.
The Longman Anthology of British Literature
David DamroschThe Compact Edition of the first new anthology of British Literature in 25 years, The Longman Anthology of British Literature, Compact Edition presents the varieties of British literature within the dynamic cultural landscape of the British ...
Surveying Northern British Columbia: A Photojournal of Frank ...
Jay SherwoodSurveying Northern British Columbia sets out to recognize--and celebrate--Frank Swannell as British Columbia's most famous pioneer surveyor and his important place within the history of British Columbia.
Developments in British Politics 8
Patrick DunleavyNew features in this edition include a wide ranging analysis of key debates on British politics and an assessment of the likely shape of British politics after Tony Blair.
A Dictionary of British Institutions: A Students' Guide
John OaklandThis succinct guide provides easy access to selected central British institutional terms which are widely employed in contemporary British life. It is cross-referenced with a comprehensive index and appendices.
Making Another World Possible: Anarchism, Anti-capitalism ...
Peter RyleyAs Carissa Honeywell points out, 'unlike other anarchist writers within this community (of political exiles) he wrote in English and directed his arguments to British readers'. If not a British writer, he was integral to the British milieu and found ...
British Defence Choices for the Twenty-First Century
Michael ClarkeBritish defense policy experts discuss the role of defense in British foreign policy and the problem of assessing national priorities.
British General Staff: Reform and Innovation
Preview(London: Hutchinson,1924),vol.1,pp. 250–8, 263– 74; see also Tyler,British Army, p. 149. 49. Ian Malcolm Brown, British Logistics on the Western Front, 1914–1919 (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1998), pp. 41–75; see also Roberston,From Private ...
Rational choice and British politics: an analysis of ...
More editionsThis study explores the course of British parliamentary politics over 150 years. It combines social science and analytical narrative history to analyse turning points in British politics, such as the repeal of the Corn Laws.
New British Classics
Gary RhodesIn a series of special features spread through the book, Gary looks at the social and culinary traditions that have shaped British food. Features include such institutions as: The Great British Breakfast, Afternoon Tea and Christmas.
Beware the British Serpent: The Role of Writers in British ...
Robert L. Calder... the manip— ulation of polling data, and the covert influencing of American elec — tion campaigns — has been described by historian Thomas E. Mahl in his Desperate Deception: British Covert Operations in the United States, 1939—44.
Natural Science and the Origins of the British Empire
Sarah IrvingRepresents a history of the British Empire that takes account of the sense of empire as intellectual as well as geographic dominion: the historiography of the British Empire, with its preoccupation of empire as geographically unchallenged ...
Rational Choice and British Politics: An Analysis of ...
Iain McLeanThis study explores the course of British parliamentary politics over 150 years. It combines social science and analytical narrative history to analyse turning points in British politics, such as the repeal of the Corn Laws.
Integrated Developmental and Life-Course Theories of Offending
PreviewDavid P. Farrington, O.B.E. (Officer of the British Empire) is professor of psychological criminology at the Institute of Criminology, Cambridge University. He is a fellow of the British Academy, of the Academy of medical Sciences, of the British ...
After Sir Joshua: Essays on British Art and Cultural History
Richard Wendorf"Published for The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, The Yale Center for British Art."
Imperial Meridian: The British Empire and the World 1780-1830
C. A. BaylyIn this impressive and ambitious survey Dr Bayly studies the rise, apogee and decline of what has come to be called `the Second British Empire' -- the great expansion of British dominion overseas (particularly in Asia and the Middle East) ...
The Transformation of British Naval Strategy: Seapower and ...
James Davey22 DanielA. Baugh,BritishNavalAdministration in theAge ofWalpole (New York, 1965). Baugh, Naval Administration 1715–1750. Gradish, The Manning of the British Navy, p. 209. 23 For example see Morriss, Foundations of British Maritime ...
The British "intervention" in Transcaspia, 1918-1919
Charles Howard EllisColonel Ellis shows how the two contrasting versions arose, and throws light on the strange episode of the twenty-six Bolshevik Commissars supposedly shot on British orders, and in the presence of British officers, in the desert to the east ...
British Breweries: An Architectural History
Lynn PearsonDavid W. Gutzke, Alcohol in the British Isles from Roman Times to 1996: An Annotated Bibliography (Greenwood Press, Westport, Connecticut, 1996). David W. Gutzke, 'Rhetoric and Reality: The Political Influence of British Brewers, ...
Femininity in the Frame: Women and 1950s British Popular Cinema
Melanie Bell... of an earlier article that ap- peared as 'Fatal femininity in post-war British film: investigating the British femme' in H. Hanson and C. O'Rawe (eds) The Femme Fatale: Images, Histories, Contexts (Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, ...
The Concise Encyclopedia of American Radio
PreviewDuffy, Dennis J., Imagine Please: Early Radio Broadcasting in British Columbia, Victoria, British Columbia: Sound and Moving Image Division, Province of British Columbia, Ministry of Provincial Secretary and Government Services, Provincial ...
Feeling British: Sympathy and National Identity in Scottish ...
Evan GottliebFeeling British argues that the discourse of sympathy both encourages and problematizes a sense of shared national identity in eighteenth-century and Romantic British literature and culture.
Household Gods: The British and Their Possessions
Deborah CohenAt what point did the British develop their mania for interiors, wallpaper, furniture, and decoration? Richly illustrated, 'Household Gods' chronicles 100 years of British interiors, focusing on class, choice, shopping and possessions.
Black British Literature: Novels of Transformation
Mark SteinIn this fascinating book, Mark Stein examines black British literature, centering on a body of work created by British-based writers with African, South Asian, or Caribbean cultural backgrounds.
Growing Up British in British Columbia: Boys in Private School
Jean BarmanIn this book Jean Barman explains the appeal of the British model of education, re-creates the ethos of private school life, and analyzes the effect of these schools on the social fabric of the province.
BRITISH WAR FILMS, 1939 - 45
S. P. MackenzieBritish War Films, 1939-45 is an account of the feature films produced during the war, rather than government documentaries and official propaganda, making the book an important index of British morale and values at a time of desperate ...
American Civil Wars: The United States, Latin America, ...
PreviewFor a recent examination of this literature, see Jay Sexton, “The United States in the British Empire,” in The Oxford History of the British Empire, Companion Series : British North America in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, ed.
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