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David Waddington Memoirs: Dispatches From Margaret Thatcher's Last Home Secretary

by David Waddington

As a lynchpin of Margaret Thatcher’s final Cabinet, David Waddington was at the heart of British politics at the passing of arguably the most defining government of the twentieth century. His memoirs are a...

Extraordinary: An End of Life Story Without End

by Michele Tamaren & Michael Wittner

A spiritual memoir & love story about a man who became a health and a teacher in his mid-nineties as his own life was coming to completion. Herman Liss, an Orthodox Jew, was described by a Christian mystic with...

Lillian Gilbreth: Redefining Domesticity

by Julie Des Jardins

An accessible, engaging examination of Lillian Gilbreth, whose research in efficiency and human factors changed the way factories are run, how domestic tasks are completed, and how consumers are “sold” on...

Historical Dictionary of Republic of the Congo

by John F. Clark & Samuel Decalo

The fourth edition of the Historical Dictionary of Republic of the Congo provides a comprehensive set of references on the country’s history, politics, economics, and culture. It traces the careers of the...

Hadrian's Wall and the End of Empire: The Roman Frontier in the 4th and 5th Centuries

by Rob Collins

There is no synthetic or comprehensive treatment of any late Roman frontier in the English language to date, despite the political and economic significance of the frontiers in the late antique period. Examining...

Japan's Outcaste Abolition: The Struggle for National Inclusion and the Making of the Modern State

by Noah Y. McCormack

The Tokugawa Shogunate, which governed Japan for two and a half centuries until the mid-1860s, classed people into hierarchically ranked status groups (mibun). The early Tokugawa rulers legally established these...

The End of the First Indochina War: A Global History

by James Waite

The French withdrawal from Vietnam in 1954 was the product of global pressures and triggered significant global consequences. By treating the war as an international issue, this book places Indochina at the...

An American Insurrection: The Battle of Oxford, Mississippi, 1962

by William Doyle

In 1961, a black veteran named James Meredith applied for admission to the University of Mississippi — and launched a legal revolt against white supremacy in the most segregated state in America. Meredith’s...

Refugees and Borders in South Asia: The Great Exodus of 1971

by Antara Datta

The crisis in East Pakistan in 1971, which preceded the birth of Bangladesh, led to ten million refugees crossing the border into India. This book argues that this massive influx of refugees within a few short...

The Afghan Papers: Committing Britain to War in Helmand, 2005-06

by Michael Clarke

In 2006, British forces entered the Helmand Province of Afghanistan in what would become one of the defining military campaigns of the decade. At great cost in blood and treasure, the UK waged a protracted counter-insurgency...

The Global Partnership Against WMD: Success and Shortcomings of G8 Threat Reduction since 9/11

by Alan Heyes, Wyn Q Bowen & Hugh Chalmers

The 9/11 terrorist attacks prompted a new urgency in efforts to deal with chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear proliferati on. The potential acquisition and use by terrorist groups of such weaponry...

Popularizing National Pasts: 1800 to the Present

by Stefan Berger, Chris Lorenz & Billie Melman

Popularizing National Pasts is the first truly cross-national and comparative study of popular national histories, their representations, the meanings given to them and their uses, which expands outside the...

Stardom and the Aesthetics of Neorealism: Ingrid Bergman in Rossellini's Italy

by Ora Gelley

In this exciting new book, Gelley considers the collaboration between Rossellini and Ingrid Bergman in light of the neorealist aesthetic. This study re-examines the director's postwar works in relation to the...

The Routledge Handbook of Modern Turkey

by Metin Heper & Sabri Sayari

In recent years, there has been growing interest in Turkey, stemming from the country's developing role in regional and global politics, its expanding economic strength, and its identity as a predominantly Muslim...

Disability in Eighteenth-Century England: Imagining Physical Impairment

by David M. Turner

This is the first book-length study of physical disability in eighteenth-century England. It assesses the ways in which meanings of physical difference were formed within different cultural contexts, and examines...

Neutrality in Twentieth-Century Europe: Intersections of Science, Culture, and Politics after the First World War

by Rebecka Lettevall, Geert Somsen & Sven Widmalm

Whether in science or in international politics, neutrality has sometimes been promoted, not only as a viable political alternative but as a lofty ideal - in politics by nations proclaiming their peacefulness,...

Anglo- Irish Relations and the Northern Ireland Conflict

by Eamonn O'Kane

This book is the first in-depth analysis of the interaction between the British and Irish governments and the role they have played in seeking to resolve the conflict in Northern Ireland since 1980.

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Hard Fighting: Israel in Lebanon and Gaza

by David E. E. Johnson

Like Israel in 2006, the United States today is likely ill prepared for hybrid warfare. To identify lessons that the U.S. military might learn from the Israeli experience in Lebanon, the author examines the...

United States and Mexico: Ties That Bind, Issues That Divide

by Emma Aguila, Alisher Akhmedjonov & Ricardo Basurto-Davila

This binational reference for U.S. and Mexican policymakers presents the interrelated issues of Mexican immigration to the United States and Mexico's economic and social development. Differences in economic...

The Generalship of Muhammad: Battles and Campaigns of the Prophet of Allah

by Russ Rodgers

There are many biographies of the Prophet, and they tend to fall into three categories: pious works that emphasize the virtues of the early Islamic community, general works for non-Muslim or non-specialist readers,...