Welfare Policy in Britain

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary History in Context
• The welfare state arouses controversy whether attention is focused on its recent past or future development. Leading experts in welfare history draw t... Lees meer

Containing Germany

S Mawby

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary History in Context
• This book presents a radical reappraisal of British policy towards West German rearmament until the Federal Republic's incorporation into NATO and con... Lees meer

United States Foreign Policy Towards Cambodia, 1977-92

Christopher Brady

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary History in Context
• This book analyses the foreign policy of the United States towards Cambodia by examining the belief system of the key players. It covers the invasion ... Lees meer

Hong Kong, Empire and the Anglo-American Alliance

A Whitfield

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary History in Context
• The surrender of Hong Kong to the Japanese in December 1941 started the collapse of British power in the Far East. Disproportionate to its small size,... Lees meer

The Myth of Consensus

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary History in Context
• This groundbreaking collection of essays challenges the notion that early postwar Britain was characterised by a consensus between the major political... Lees meer

Labour's European Dilemmas

R Broad

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary History in Context
• For thirty years the Labour Party was wracked by conflict over membership of the European Community, swinging back and forth, pro and anti, when in an... Lees meer

Containing Germany

S Mawby

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary History in Context
• This book presents a radical reappraisal of British policy towards West German rearmament until the Federal Republic's incorporation into NATO and con... Lees meer

British Foreign Policy, 1955-64

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary History in Context
• In 1945 Britain was still a world power. Increasingly, however, it had to adapt its international commitments to the financial limitations, technologi... Lees meer

Twentieth-Century Anglo-American Relations

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary History in Context
• New research by several leading political historians creates a detailed and diverse study of Anglo-American relations in the twentieth century. Declas... Lees meer

Macmillan, Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis

L Scott

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary History in Context
• In October 1962, the world went to the brink of Armageddon. This study provides a new archive-based account of the Cuban missile crisis, providing the... Lees meer

The Politics of the Independence of Kenya

K Kyle

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary History in Context
• As with his critically acclaimed book on Suez, Keith Kyle revisits as a scholar ground that he first covered as a print and television journalist. Aft... Lees meer

How the Troubles Came to Northern Ireland

P Rose

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary History in Context
• This book draws upon recently released official documents and interviews with many key politicians and civil servants of the period to examine the fai... Lees meer

British Social Movements Since 1945

A Lent

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary History in Context
• Since 1945, Britain's political and cultural landscape has been transformed by social movements campaigning on issues of gender, race, disability, sex... Lees meer

The Myth of Consensus

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary History in Context
• This groundbreaking collection of essays challenges the notion that early postwar Britain was characterised by a consensus between the major political... Lees meer

Kennedy, MacMillan and the Cold War

N Ashton

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary History in Context
• Nigel J. Ashton analyses Anglo-American relations during a crucial phase of the Cold War. He argues that although policy-makers on both sides of the A... Lees meer

The EEC Crisis of 1963

O Bange

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary History in Context
• This fresh look at the 1963 crisis in the western alliance following de Gaulle's veto of the British EEC application uses much new unpublished source ... Lees meer

Threatening Europe

James Ellison

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary History in Context
• This book is the first to concentrate on the British attempt to place the EEC within a larger Free Trade Area. It is also the first to use recently re... Lees meer

Kennedy, MacMillan and the Cold War

N Ashton

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary History in Context
• Nigel J. Ashton analyzes Anglo-American relations during a crucial phase of the Cold War. He argues that although policy-makers on both sides of the A... Lees meer

The Political Culture of the Left in Affluent Britain, 19 51-64

L Black

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary History in Context
• Exploring relationships between politics, the people and social change, this book assesses the fortunes mainly of Labor, but also of the Communist Par... Lees meer

Containing Germany

S Mawby

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary History in Context
• This book presents a radical reappraisal of British policy towards West German rearmament until the Federal Republic's incorporation into NATO and con... Lees meer

Northcliffe's Legacy

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary History in Context
• General Editor's Preface Notes on the Contributors Introduction Northcliffe's Legacy; C.Seymour-Ure Northcliffe: Proprietor as Journalist; J.Chalaby P... Lees meer

Using Europe, Abusing the Europeans

W Kaiser

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary History in Context
• Preface to the 1999 Reprint General Editor's Foreword Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction Building and Defending a British Europe, 194... Lees meer

The Northern Ireland Question in British Politics

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary History in Context
• Whilst there are any number of books on the subject of Northern Ireland, few provide much guidance on how it has been handled by Westminster and White... Lees meer

Thatcher's Diplomacy

P Sharp

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary History in Context
• A wide-ranging, readable and controversial assessment of Thatcher's foreign policy throughout her years in office, 1979-90. Successive chapters cover ... Lees meer