Author : Royal Historical Society
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 31,88 MB
Release : 2003-03-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521815604
The Transactions of the Royal Historical Society publish an annual collection of major articles representing some of the best historical research by some of the world's most distinguished historians.
Author : Royal Historical Society
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 47,36 MB
Release : 2003-01-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521815611
Publishes general papers and a section on English politeness: conduct, social rank and moral virtue.
Author : Daniela Baratieri
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 28,93 MB
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1135043965
This volume takes a comparative approach, locating totalitarianism in the vastly complex web of fragmented pasts, diverse presents and differently envisaged futures to enhance our understanding of this fraught era in European history. It shows that no matter how often totalitarian societies spoke of and imagined their subjects as so many slates to be wiped clean and re-written on, older identities, familial loyalties and the enormous resilience of the individual (or groups of individuals) meant that the almost impossible demands of their regimes needed to be constantly transformed, limited and recast.
Author : George H. Cassar
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 10,42 MB
Release : 2011-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780857288653
‘Lloyd George at War, 1916–1918’ refutes the traditional view that Lloyd George was the person most responsible for winning the Great War. Cassar’s careful analysis shows that while his work on the home front was on the whole good, he was an abysmal failure as a strategist and nearly cost Britain the war.
Author : E. Wesley Reynolds
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 39,18 MB
Release : 2022-03-10
Category : History
ISBN : 1350247235
This book argues that coffeehouses and the coffee trade were central to the making of the Atlantic world in the century leading up to the American Revolution. Fostering international finance and commerce, spreading transatlantic news, building military might, determining political fortunes and promoting status and consumption, coffeehouses created a web of social networks stretching from Britain to its colonies in North America. As polite alternatives to taverns, coffeehouses have been hailed as 'penny universities'; a place for political discussion by the educated and elite. Reynolds shows that they were much more than this. Coffeehouse Culture in the Atlantic World 1650-1789, reveals that they simultaneously created a network for marine insurance and naval protection, led to calls for a free press, built tension between trade lobbyists and the East India Company, and raised questions about gender, respectability and the polite middling class. It demonstrates how coffeehouses served to create transatlantic connections between metropole Britain and her North American colonies and played an important role in the revolution and protest movements that followed.
Author : American Historical Association
Publisher :
Page : 1386 pages
File Size : 39,68 MB
Release : 1907
Category : Historiography
ISBN :
Author : Zachary Twamley
Publisher : Zachary Twamley
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 50,3 MB
Release : 2022-02-13
Category : History
ISBN : 1919629858
On 4 August 1914, Britain declared war on Germany, and entered the First World War. It may be tempting to view the conflict as inevitable, or to see British intervention as unavoidable, but the truth was not so simple. Britons had long loathed the prospect of a continental war, and were assured that their nation had a free hand in Europe. Yet, in the first days of August, the debate abruptly changed. This was not simply a question of war, the British Government insisted. Instead, it was a matter of honour. If Britain stayed neutral, her friends would never trust her again; the country’s prestige would plummet; the national honour would be destroyed. ‘National honour,’ David Lloyd George proclaimed, ‘is a reality, and any nation that disregards it is doomed!’ What did these ideas mean, and why did they resonate so effectively with the British public? As Twamley details in this study – based on his award-winning masters’ dissertation – the importance of national honour to the decision-makers of 1914 has been largely overlooked. It is now time to address such shortcomings in the debate, and to place Britain’s pivotal decision for war in its proper cultural and ideological context.
Author : M. Johnson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 40,81 MB
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1137274131
Militarism has traditionally been regarded as a phenomenon of the political right. As this book demonstrates, however, various groups on the political left in Britain during the years before the Great War were able to accommodate, and even assimilate, militaristic ideas, sentiments, and policies to a remarkable degree.
Author : Jessica Wärnberg
Publisher : Icon Books
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 48,28 MB
Release : 2023-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1837731071
In Rome the echoes of the past resound clearly in its palaces and monuments, and in the remains of the ancient imperial city. But another presence has dominated Rome for 2,000 years -the pope, whose actions and influence echo down the ages. In this epic tale, historian Jessica Wärnberg tells, for the first time, the story of Rome through the lens of its popes, illuminating how these remarkable (and unremarkable) men have transformed lives and played a crucial role in deciding the fate of the city. Emerging as the anonymous leader of a marginal cult in the humblest quarters of the city, less than 300 years later the pope sat enthroned in a gilt basilica, endorsed by the emperor himself. Eventually, the Roman pontiff would supplant even the emperors, becoming the de facto ruler of Rome and pre-eminent leader of the Christian world. Shifting elegantly between the panoramic and the personal, the spiritual and the profane, this is a fresh and often surprising take on a city, a people and an institution that is at once familiar and elusive.
Author : John Ramsden
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 47,5 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780231131063
Man of the Century is the often surprising story of how Winston Churchill, in the last years of his life, carefully crafted his reputation for posterity, revealing him to be perhaps the twentieth century's first, and most gifted, "spin doctor." Ramsden draws on fresh material and extensive research on three continents to argue that the statesman's force of personality and romantic, imperial notion of Britain has contributed directly to many of the political debates of the last decades--including American involvement in Vietnam and the role of the Anglo-American alliance in promoting and protecting a certain vision of world order.
