Author : Kenneth O. Morgan
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 14,67 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
This book examines the pattern of political and social change in Britain during the period of the Lloyd George coalition government 1918-22, and provides a reassessment of this major administration and its importance for its personality, David Lloyd George.
Author : Ian S. Lustick
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 43,62 MB
Release : 2018-07-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1501731947
No detailed description available for "Unsettled States, Disputed Lands".
Author : Christena Cleveland
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 30,80 MB
Release : 2013-10-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0830864954
Despite Jesus' prayer that all Christians "be one," divisions have been epidemic in the body of Christ. Though we may think we know why this happens, Christena Cleveland says we probably don't. Learn the hidden reasons behind conflict and divisions, the unseen dynamics at work that tend to separate us from others. Here are the tools we need to build bridges.
Author : David Powell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 29,97 MB
Release : 2004-09-09
Category : History
ISBN : 1134266952
This accessible new study provides a much-needed guide to the pivotal period of British history between 1910 and 1935. Combines an up-to-date synthesis of previous work with a re-appraisal of the main personalities, themes and events of the period.
Author : Kenneth O. Morgan
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 31,25 MB
Release : 2015-08-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1783163240
The Welsh background, educational experience and personal life of Wales’s leading historian The wide range of his historical writing on Welsh history, British history, Labour history, Contemporary history and biography (including books on Lloyd George, Keir Hardie, James Callaghan and Michael Foot) Insight into life in an Oxford college, and work as a university Vice-Chancellor in Wales at a critical time. His career as a working Labour member of the House of Lords and a major member of the Labour Party, and his hopes for the future
Author : Paul Addison
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 32,50 MB
Release : 2013-01-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0571296408
'The best one-volume study of Churchill yet available.' David Cannadine, Observer 'Magisterial.' Vernon Bogdanor, New Statesman 'A tour de force... A masterly chronicle of Churchill as a domestic figure rather than as the bulldog wartime leader, and one of the most subtle portraits of him as a politician. Addison revises the view of Churchill as uninterested and out of his depth in domestic affairs, painting instead a nuanced picture of a canny parliamentarian. Churchill changed parties twice but managed to accomplish the change, writes Addison, 'with exceptional dexterity', making it appear as if he were maintaining his principles while the parties changed theirs... Addison's most interesting assertion is that the rise of Hitler saved Churchill from drifting into right-wing irrelevance. Most impressively, Addison doesn't settle for easy classifications, admitting that 'Churchill... is a man of whom almost everything that can be said is true in part.'' Kirkus Review
Author : Tien-Lung Liu
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 30,29 MB
Release : 1999-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1789205891
The role of the state in capitalist societies has been a bone of considerable contention among scholars. The two founding fathers of sociology held radically opposing views on this subject which were reflected in the numerous debates over subsequent decades to this day. Yet, no answer has been found to the vexing question: on whose side is the state in capitalist societies? The author examines current theories and, comparing Britain and Germany, shows that they are unable to explain the contradictory social and industrial policies in these two countries during the twentieth century. Based on in-depth archival and secondary sources the author offers an alternative theoretical framework, one that focuses on the interactions among historical contingencies, the global cultural context, and political processes.
Author : John Higley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 37,89 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780521424226
A distinguished group of scholars examine recent transitions to democracy and the prospects for democratic stability in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, the Dominican Republic, Peru, Portugal, Spain and Uruguay. They also assess the role of elites in the longer-established democratic regimes in Columbia, Costa Rica, Italy, Mexico and Venezuela. The authors conclude that in independent states with long records of political instability and authoritarian rule, democratic consolidation requires the achievement of elite 'consensual unity' - that is, agreement among all politically important elites on the worth of existing democratic institutions and respect for democratic rules-of-the-game, coupled with increased 'structural integration' among those elites. Two processes by which consensual unity can be established are explored - elite settlement, the negotiating of compromises on basic disagreements, and elite convergence, a more subtle series of tactical decisions by rival elites which have cumulative effect, over perhaps a generation.
Author : George A. Reisch
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 47,62 MB
Release : 2019-04-16
Category : History
ISBN : 1438473680
The Politics of Paradigms shows that America's most famous and influential book about science, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions of 1962, was inspired and shaped by Thomas Kuhn's political interests, his relationship with the influential cold warrior James Bryant Conant, and America's McCarthy-era struggle to resist and defeat totalitarian ideology. Through detailed archival research, Reisch shows how Kuhn's well-known theories of paradigms, crises, and scientific revolutions emerged from within urgent political worries—on campus and in the public sphere—about the invisible, unconscious powers of ideology, language, and history to shape the human mind and its experience of the world.
Author : James E Cronin
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 24,12 MB
Release : 2024-10-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1040151221
First Published in 1982, Social Conflict and the Political Order in Modern Britain offers a selection of work on British social history done by scholars working in a distinctly American context. The authors strongly feel that the way forward in social history is not some retreat into still more detailed, apolitical history, nor a move away from social analysis back towards a study of the purely political. Rather, it seems that the most fruitful path to follow is to build upon the strengths and achievements of the previous social history with a view towards theorizing its political significance while struggling to create a new kind of political history that will be more integrally social. The book brings important themes like Britain and the social movements; strikes and the urban hierarchy in English industrial towns; British dockers during First World War; the British Labour and the Cold War; and rethinking labour history and the importance of work. This is a must read for scholars and researchers of labour history, British history, social history and history in general.
