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This book examines British and Argentine media output in the prelude to and during the 1982 Falklands/Malvinas Conflict and acknowledges the aftermath and legacies of the media response.
This political history studies the phenomenal growth of the modern British state's interest in collecting, collating and deploying population data.
This book explores the life and career of the 1st marquess of Dufferin and Ava (1826-1902). It links the landowning and aristocratic culture he was born into with his experience of governing across the British Empire, in Canada, Egypt, Syria and India.
This book uses the Strategic-Relational Approach to explain how the Labour governments of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown integrated the United Kingdom into the US Ballistic Missile Defence systemto maintain national security and to uphold the 'Special Relationship' whilst recognising that voters were in general opposed to missile defence.
This book provides the definitive account of the making of the 1942 Beveridge Report and its influence on wartime and post-war social policy.
Respectability, Bankruptcy and Bigamy in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century Britain explores the vexed question of middle-class respectability in Victorian and Edwardian Britain.
Containing contributions exploring transport and mobility history after 1800, this volume of eclectic chapters shows how new subjects are explored, new sources are being encountered, considered and used, and how increasingly diverse and innovative methodological lenses are applied to both new and well-travelled subjects.
This book draws together essays on modern British history, empire, liberalism and conservatism in honour of Trevor O. Lloyd, Emeritus Professor of Modern British history at the University of Toronto for some thirty years beginning in the 1960s.
This book illuminates the origins and development of violence as a social issue by examining a critical period in the evolution of attitudes towards violence.
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