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Planning and Profits: British Naval Armaments Manufacture and the Military Industrial Complex, 1918-1941This book examines the relationship between the private naval armaments industry, businessmen and the British government defence planners between the wars. It reassesses the concept of the Military-Industrial Complex through the impact of disarmament upon private industry, the role of leading industrialists in supply...
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Bentley Mark VI & R-Type: Including the Bentley Continental and the Rolls-Royce Silver DawnA comprehensive celebration of the Bentley Mk VI. The Bentley Mk VI was the best-selling model produced by Rolls-Royce Ltd when motor car production resumed at Crewe after World War II. This model later evolved into the R-Type and the Bentley Continental, as well...
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Clifford Case and the Challenge of Liberal RepublicanismClifford P. Case was an exemplary "liberal Republican" during his 33 years in Congress, including 4 terms in the U.S. Senate. A strong advocate of civil and human rights, environmental protection, high ethical standards for public officials, and U.S. global leadership, Case was a...
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The End of Empire in the Gulf From Trucial States to United Arab EmiratesWith the end of the British Raj in 1947, the Foreign Office replaced the Government of India as the department responsible for the Persian Gulf, and would proceed to manage relations with the Trucial States (now the United Arab Emirates, UAE) until British withdrawal...
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The Shah's Imperial Celebrations of 1971: Nationalism, Culture and Politics in Late Pahlavi IranIn October 1971 Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran, held a celebration to commemorate the 2500th anniversary of the founding of the Persian Empire by Cyrus the Great. Dozens of heads of state descended on Persepolis for these Celebrations, where they were regaled to...
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Thomas Bernhard's AfterlivesIn his prose fiction, memoirs, poetry, and drama, Thomas Bernhard (1931-1989)--one of the 20th century's most uniquely gifted writers--created a new and radical style, seemingly out of thin air. His books never "tell a story" in the received sense. Instead, he rages on the...
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Agrarianism as Modernity in 20th-Century Europe: The Golden Age of the PeasantryWhilst Soviet communism and its relationship with modernity has been widely studied to date, the agrarian experiment in Eastern Europe has been relegated to the margins of historical analysis. In this comparative study, Alex Toshkov uncovers the history of agrarianism after the First World...
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Nineteenth-Century EuropeA core introductory textbook that provides students with an overview of the key issues in Europe's 'long nineteenth century', from the French Revolution in 1789 until the outbreak of the First World War in 1914. Telling the story of how Europeans entered politics in...
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Marx and Engels on Imperialism: Selected Journalism, 1856-62For a little over a decade after the ignominious collapse of the Revolution of 1848, Karl Marx worked as a professional journalist. Writing from London for newspapers in America and, eventually, on the Continent, he continued while living in exile the analysis of the...
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Anti-American Terrorism: From Eisenhower to Trump - A Chronicle of the Threat and Response: Volume III: The Clinton AdministrationA major international security concern that surfaced in the post-World War II period was the emergence and evolution of international terrorism. The dominant theme in the evolution of this threat has been anti-American terrorism. No other country has had its overseas interests subjected to...
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Coca-Cola, Black Panthers, and Phantom Jets: Israel in the American Orbit, 1967-1973In the late 1960s, Israel became more closely entwined with the United States not just as a strategic ally but also through its intensifying intimacy with American culture, society, and technology. Coca-Cola, Black Panthers, and Phantom Jets shows how transatlantic exchanges shaped national sentiments...
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Coalition Literature: Aesthetics on the Move in Midcentury Us Multiethnic WritingIn a series of incisive readings, Francisco E. Robles provides a literary history of midcentury US multiethnic literature, tracing the shift from coalitional aesthetics to multiculturalism by focusing on how migrancy and labor politics shape literary innovation. Along the way, Robles shows how writers...
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Geoffrey Hill and the Ends of PoetryThe idea of the end is an essential motivic force in the poetry of Geoffrey Hill (1932-2016). This book shows that Hill's poems are characteristically 'end-directed'. They tend towards consummations of all kinds: from the marriages of meanings in puns, or of words in...
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Instruments of International Order: Internationalism and Diplomacy, 1900-50This book explores the transformation of international relations in the first half of the twentieth century as internationalist schemes for doing world politics came to be practices and principles shared by diplomatic actors across the globe - instruments of international order.Author: Th W. BottelierPublisher:...
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Thomas Nashe and Literary PerformanceThomas Nashe is typically regarded as an urban author and a University wit, but his writings are inflected and shaped by regional travel, 'non-literary', non-elite works, and oral culture. The essays in this collection address Nashe's use of the past, his engagement with the...
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The Mediated Arctic: Poetics and Politics of Contemporary Circumpolar GeographiesThe mediated Arctic analyses the multiple relations between geography and cultural production that have long shaped - and are currently transforming - the circumpolar world. It explores how twenty-first-century cultural practitioners imagine and poeticise various elements of Arctic geography, and in doing so negotiate...
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Arendt's Solidarity: Anti-Semitism and Racism in the Atlantic WorldHannah Arendt's work inspires many to stand in solidarity against authoritarianism, racial or gender-based violence, climate change, and right-wing populism. But what if a careful analysis of her oeuvre reveals a darker side to this intellectual legacy? What if solidarity, as she conceives of...
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Mid-Century Women's Writing: Disrupting the Public/Private DivideThis book re-examines British women's writing in the mid-century and its relationship to public and domestic spaces.Author: Melissa DinsmanPublisher: Manchester University PressPublished: 07/23/2024Pages: 256Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.16lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.63dISBN: 9781526169778About the AuthorMelissa Dinsman is Associate Professor of English at York College,...
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New Sincerity: American Fiction in the Neoliberal AgeThe years 1989-2008 were an era of neoliberal hegemony in US politics, economy, and culture. Post*45 scholar Adam Kelly argues that American novelists who began their careers during these years-specifically the post-baby boom generation of writers born between the late 1950s and early 1970s-responded...
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Consuming Anxieties: Alcohol, Tobacco, and Trade in British Satire, 1660-1751Writers of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries--a period of vast economic change--recognized that the global trade in alcohol and tobacco promised a brighter financial future for England, even as overindulgence at home posed serious moral pitfalls. This engaging and original study explores...
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