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Food and War in Twentieth Century Europe

by Ina Zweiniger-Bargielowska & Rachel Duffett

Wars cannot be fought and sustained without food and this unique collection explores the impact of war on food production, allocation and consumption in Europe in the era of total war. The analysis ranges from...


Transformations of Retailing in Europe after 1945

by Ralph Jessen & Lydia Langer

The volume focuses on processes of transformation in the retail business in several European countries mainly during the second half of the 20th Century. After World War II, structures, practices and the culture...


The Indian Army, 1939-47: Experience and Development

by Alan Jeffreys & Patrick Rose

This volume examines the Indian Army between the outbreak of war in 1939 and the partition of India in 1947. With contributions from many of those at the forefront of the study of the Indian Army and Commonwealth...


Proud Servant: The Memoirs of a Career Ambassador

by Ellis Briggs

Ellis O. Briggs (1899-1976) entered the Foreign Service of the United States in 1925. During the next 37 years he was ambassador to seven countries; the Dominican Republic, Uruguay, Czechoslovakia, Korea, Peru,...


'Only Nixon': His Trip to China Revisited and Restudied

by James C. Humes & Jarvis D. Ryals

This book shares the observations made in 1998 by Chinese Foreign Service experts, who had planned meetings of President Nixon with Mao Tse-tung and Chou En-lai, during interviews by the authors and Edward Nixon,...


'The Army Isn't All Work': Physical Culture and the Evolution of the British Army, 1860-1920

by James D. Campbell

This book documents the origins and development of formal physical training in the late Victorian Army and the ways in which the Army's gymnastic training evolved into a vital building block of the process of...


The Explorer's Roadmap to National-Socialism: Sven Hedin, Geography and the Path to Genocide

by Sarah K. Danielsson

Whilst terms such as Lebensraum are commonly associated with National-Socialist ideology of the 1930s and 40s, ideas of racial living space were in fact generated in the previous decades by an international...


Enacting Brittany: Tourism and Culture in Provincial France, 1871-1939

by Patrick Young

Efforts to preserve, display and promote Breton cultural differences in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries marked a significant advance in heritage tourism, and a departure from what is commonly...


Profiles in Humanity: The Battle for Peace, Freedom, Equality, and Human Rights

by Warren I. Cohen

This compelling book tells the inspirational stories of men and women who fought for peace, freedom, equality, and human rights throughout the twentieth century. Often at great personal risk, they did what they...


Collaboration in the Pharmaceutical Industry: Changing Relationships in Britain and France, 1935-1965

by Viviane Quirke

Examining the issue of  'British decline' after the war, this fascinating text describes the evolution of cooperation in Britain and France, and argues that the relationship between these two countries helped...


The Politics of Religion in Soviet-Occupied Germany: The Case of Berlin-Brandenburg 1945-1949

by Sean Brennan

This book analyzes the relationship between Soviet military authorities, the East German Communists, and the leadership of the Protestant and Catholic Churches in the Soviet zone of Germany, especially its central...


The Limits of Detente: The United States, the Soviet Union, and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1969-1973

by Craig Daigle

In the first book-length analysis of the origins of the October 1973 Arab-Israeli War, Craig Daigle draws on documents only recently made available to show how the war resulted not only from tension and competing...


Titanic: A Fresh Look at the Evidence by a Former Chief Inspector of Marine Accidents

by John Lang

In The Titanic Revisited John Lang brings his expertise as a naval investigator to reexamine the sinking of the Titanic on her maiden voyage in April 1912, which became one of the defining moments of the twentieth...


From Ration Book to ebook: The Life and Times of the Post-War Baby Boomers

by Paul Feeney

Were you born in the 1940s and raised in the '50s? Were you a teenager in the '60s and did you leave home in the '70s? How has life changed through the '80s and '90s? And how did we end up here, in the second...


Framing China: Media Images and Political Debates in Britain, the USA and Switzerland, 1900-1950

by Ariane Knüsel

In this ground-breaking book, Knüsel examines how China was portrayed in political debates and the media in Britain, the USA and Switzerland between 1900 and 1950. By focusing on the political, economic, cultural...


The Pan-German League and Radical Nationalist Politics in Interwar Germany, 1918-39

by Barry A. Jackisch

Through an examination of the Pan-German League, one of Germany's most prominent radical nationalist groups, and its connections to a range of right-wing organisations between 1918 and 1939, this study provides...


Sir James Dewar, 1842-1923: A Ruthless Chemist

by J.S. Rowlinson

Sir James Dewar was a major figure in British chemistry for around 40 years. He held the posts of Jacksonian Professor of Natural Philosophy at Cambridge (1875-1923) and Fullerian Professor of Chemistry at the...


The Southern Flank in Crisis, 1973-1976: Series III, Volume V: Documents on British Policy Overseas

by Keith Hamilton & Patrick Salmon

A fascinating collection of British foreign policy documents covering reactions in Whitehall to political change and revolution in the Mediterranean basin from 1973 to 1976.

This volume contains many previously...


Japan's Siberian Intervention, 1918-1922: 'A Great Disobedience Against the People'

by Paul E. Dunscomb

The first complete narrative of Japan's Siberian Intervention in either Japanese or English placing the intervention in the context of the evolution of Japanese imperialism and of its domestic politics. It represents...


Alan S. Milward and a Century of European Change

by Fernando Guirao, Frances Lynch & Sigfrido M. Ramirez Perez

The main purpose of the book is to introduce the work of Alan S. Milward and to acknowledge the full magnitude of his scientific contribution to contemporary British and European history. The book is a collection...