Spencer Mawby analyses the conflicts between the British government and Caribbean nationalists over regional integration, the Cold War, immigration policy and financial aid in the decades before Jamaica, Trinidad and the other territories of the Anglophone Caribbean became independent.
Metropolitan Railway Appendix to the Working Time Table, August 1921 (Dragonwheel Speciality Reprints)
Hitler's 'National Community' provides a new and updated examination of German society under the Nazis, analyzing and synthesizing a generation of scholarship to offer new insight into the key debates surrounding the subject. Beginning with a focus on Nazi attempts to forge a new national identity and awareness, the book goes on to consider the role and fate of all those excluded from this new national community. Author Lisa Pine interweaves her analysis of society with a consideration of cultur...
Men, Women, and Books; a Selection of Sketches, Essays, and Critical Memoirs, From His Uncollected Prose Writings; v.1 c.1
by Leigh 1784-1859 Hunt
The Descendants of John J. Christner / [Mr. and Mrs. David R. Bontrager ... Et Al].
by Anonymous
In 1970 homosexuality was illegal, God Save the Queen was our national anthem and women pretended to be married to access the pill. By the end of the decade conscription was scrapped, tertiary education was free, access to abortion had improved, the White Australia policy was abolished and a woman read the news on the ABC for the first time. The Seventies was the decade that shaped modern Australia. It was the decade of 'It's Time', stagflation and the Dismissal, a tumultuous period of economic...
The first half of the twentieth century witnessed a revolution in contraceptive behaviour as the large Victorian family disappeared. This book offers a new perspective on the gender relations, sexual attitudes, and contraceptive practices that accompanied the emergence of the smaller family in modern Britain. Kate Fisher draws on a range of first-hand evidence, including over 190 oral history interviews, in which individuals born between 1900 and 1930 described their marriages and sexual relat...
Can't Anybody Here Play This Game?: The Improbable Saga of the New York Mets' First Year
by Jimmy Breslin
Case Studies and the Dissemination of Knowledge
by Professor of History Joy Damousi
Germany in the Loud Twentieth Century (Germany in the Loud Twentieth Century)
Germany in the Loud Twentieth Century seeks to understand recent German history and contemporary German culture through its sounds and musics, noises and silences, using the means and modes of the emerging field of Sound Studies. German soundscapes present a particularly fertile field for investigation and understanding, Feiereisen and Hill argue, due to such unique factors in Germany's history as its early and especially cacophonous industrialization, the sheer loudness of its wars, and the po...
A fascinating work of detective history, The Black Death traces the causes and far-reaching consequences of this infamous outbreak of plague that spread across the continent of Europe from 1347 to 1351. A fascinating work of detective history, The Black Death traces the causes and far-reaching consequences of this infamous outbreak of plague that spread across the continent of Europe from 1347 to 1351. Drawing on sources as diverse as monastic manuscripts and dendrochronological studies (which m...
Few writers have had a greater impact upon British society than Charles Dickens. His stories, and, in particular, his many memorable characters, highlighted the life of the forgotten poor and disadvantaged within society at a time when Britain was the leading economic and political power in the world. Dickens' portrayal of the poor, such as Oliver Twist daring to ask for more food in the parish workhouse, and Bob Cratchit struggling to provide for his family at Christmas, roused much sympathy a...
As a small boy David Nobbs survived the Second World War unscathed, until his bedroom ceiling fell on him when the last bomb to be dropped on Britain by the Germans landed near his home. It was the nearest he came to the war, but National Service would later make him one of Britain's most reluctant soldiers. It was an unforgettable and often unpleasant experience.As a struggling writer, David was catapulted into the thrilling world of satire at the BBC when he rang THAT WAS THE WEEK THAT WAS wit...
The History of Anti-Semitism: Suicidal Europe, 1870-1933 v.4 (The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization)
by Leon Poliakov
This volume covers the period 1870-1933. Anti-Semitic propaganda in the years after the emancipation of the Jews drew upon an exaggerated belief in their financial, political, or intellectual successes and had as its principal theme the domination, imminent if not already achieved, of the Christian by the Jewish world. Europeans showed an increasing tendency to give a sinister interpretation to all kinds of Jewish activity, to the extent of seeing every social cataclysm, especially war and revol...