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Nuclear Power Policies in Britain
The Quandaries of Neoliberalism
Lucie de Carvalho
This book analyses Britain’s most recent nuclear project launched in the mid-2000s against a backdrop of rising international concerns about energy security and climate change mitigation. This case study offers insight into the public policy dynamics at work in British nuclear policies and confronts them to the prevailing neoliberal doctrine.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785277283
October 2022
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£125.00 / $125.00This book analyses Britain’s most recent nuclear project launched in the mid-2000s against a backdrop of rising international concerns about energy security and climate change mitigation. This case study offers insight into the public policy dynamics at work in British nuclear policies and confronts them to the prevailing neoliberal doctrine.
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Britain’s Empires
A History, 1600-2020
James Heartfield
A history of the many different British Empires – the Old Colonial System (1600-1776), the Empire of Free Trade (1776-1870), the New Imperialism (1870-1945), Decolonisation (1945-1990) and the era of humanitarian intervention (1990-2020). Britain’s Empires aims to tell the story of the colonial past as one marked by change and reinvention.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839987243
July 2022
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£150.00 / $150.00A history of the many different British Empires – the Old Colonial System (1600-1776), the Empire of Free Trade (1776-1870), the New Imperialism (1870-1945), Decolonisation (1945-1990) and the era of humanitarian intervention (1990-2020). Britain’s Empires aims to tell the story of the colonial past as one marked by change and reinvention.
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British Foreign Office Documents on the Macedonian Question, 1919-1941
Edited by Ilko Drenkov
consultant editor Ivan Metodiev Petrov, Lynnette G. LeonardA collection of original British Foreign Office documents on the Macedonian Question accompanied with a professional preface introducing the problem.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785277252
March 2021
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£125.00 / $125.00A collection of original British Foreign Office documents on the Macedonian Question accompanied with a professional preface introducing the problem.
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The Life and World of Francis Rodd, Lord Rennell (1895-1978)
Geography, Money and War
Philip Boobbyer
This book is a biographical study of the geographer/explorer and banker Francis Rodd, Lord Rennell (1895-1978), who during World War II became an important figure in wartime military administration. In 1943, during the Allied invasion of Italy, he was head of AMGOT (Allied Military Government of Occupied Territories).
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785276620
January 2021
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£125.00 / $125.00This book is a biographical study of the geographer/explorer and banker Francis Rodd, Lord Rennell (1895-1978), who during World War II became an important figure in wartime military administration. In 1943, during the Allied invasion of Italy, he was head of AMGOT (Allied Military Government of Occupied Territories).
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Assassination in Colonial Cyprus in 1934 and the Origins of EOKA
Reading the Archives against the Grain
Andrekos Varnava
This book explores the assassination of Antonios Triantafyllides, a leading Cypriot lawyer and politician, in British colonial Cyprus in January 1934. It places the event into its broadest possible context and sifts through all the evidence in order to reach a plausible answer to this mysterious cold case.
Anthem Press
Paperback
9781785275524
January 2021
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£24.99 / $24.99This book explores the assassination of Antonios Triantafyllides, a leading Cypriot lawyer and politician, in British colonial Cyprus in January 1934. It places the event into its broadest possible context and sifts through all the evidence in order to reach a plausible answer to this mysterious cold case.
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Changes in Attitudes to Immigrants in Britain, 1841-1921
From Foreigner to Alien
Ben Braber
This book reviews changes in attitudes to immigrants in Britain and the language used to put these feelings into words between 1841 and 1921.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785276347
November 2020
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£125.00 / $125.00This book reviews changes in attitudes to immigrants in Britain and the language used to put these feelings into words between 1841 and 1921.
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Bridging Boundaries in British Migration History
In Memoriam Eric Richards
Edited by Marie Ruiz
This memorial book honours the legacy of Eric Richards’s work in an interplay of academic essays and personal accounts of Eric Richards. Following the Eric Richards methodology, it combines micro- and macro-perspectives of British migration history and covers topics such as diasporas, religious, labour and wartime migrations.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785275173
September 2020
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£125.00 / $125.00This memorial book honours the legacy of Eric Richards’s work in an interplay of academic essays and personal accounts of Eric Richards. Following the Eric Richards methodology, it combines micro- and macro-perspectives of British migration history and covers topics such as diasporas, religious, labour and wartime migrations.
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British Battles 493–937
Mount Badon to Brunanburh
Andrew Breeze
British Battles 493–937 revolutionizes our understanding of early British history by correctly locating for the first time conflicts from Mount Badon to Brunanburh.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785272233
February 2020
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£125.00 / $125.00British Battles 493–937 revolutionizes our understanding of early British history by correctly locating for the first time conflicts from Mount Badon to Brunanburh.
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Adult Responses to Popular Music and Intergenerational Relations in Britain, c. 1955–1975
Gillian A. M. Mitchell
‘Adult Reactions to Popular Music and Inter-generational Relations in Britain, 1955–1975’ constitutes a thematic examination of the pervasive assumption that ‘the older generation’ reacted in a largely negative fashion to music styles popular with British young people from the 1950s to the mid-1970s (including rock ’n’ roll, skiffle, ‘beat’ and rock music) and that the music invariably exacerbated inter-generational tensions.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783089000
February 2019
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£115.00 / $115.00‘Adult Reactions to Popular Music and Inter-generational Relations in Britain, 1955–1975’ constitutes a thematic examination of the pervasive assumption that ‘the older generation’ reacted in a largely negative fashion to music styles popular with British young people from the 1950s to the mid-1970s (including rock ’n’ roll, skiffle, ‘beat’ and rock music) and that the music invariably exacerbated inter-generational tensions.
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The British National Daily Press and Popular Music, c.1956–1975
Gillian A.M. Mitchell
‘The British National Daily Press and Popular Music, c.1956–1975’ examines the reactions of the national daily press to music styles popular with British youth from the mid-1950s to the early 1970s (including rock ’n’ roll, skiffle, ‘beat group’ and rock music) and challenges the perception that a one-dimensionally negative and inflammatory reaction contributed to the generation of ‘moral panic’ around popular music.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783089093
February 2019
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£79.95 / $79.95‘The British National Daily Press and Popular Music, c.1956–1975’ examines the reactions of the national daily press to music styles popular with British youth from the mid-1950s to the early 1970s (including rock ’n’ roll, skiffle, ‘beat group’ and rock music) and challenges the perception that a one-dimensionally negative and inflammatory reaction contributed to the generation of ‘moral panic’ around popular music.