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Trade Paperback : $45.00 Buy	Affluence and Authority A Social History of Twentieth-Century Britain John Benson Bloomsbury USA Affluence and Authority provides a wide-ranging, well-informed, and accessible interpretation of British social history during a century of profound and unprecedented, economic, political, cultural, demographic and ideological upheaval.

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Allies in War

Britain and America Against the Axis Powers, 1940-1945

Mark A. Stoler Bloomsbury USA

Award-winning historian Mark Stoler offers a complete diplomatic and military history of the U.S. and Britain during World War II. By examining the war and the unique relationship between Churchill and Roosevelt, Stoler emphasizes the unprecedented co-operation between Britain and the USA, but also challenges the standard Churchillian view of the ease of this historic alliance.

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Balkan Ghosts

A Journey Through History

Robert D. Kaplan Picador

"With remarkable clarity, [Kaplan] explains problems that all sides have lived with throughout the long history of the Balkan peninsula . . . Kaplan succeeds in presenting the everyday experience of different Balkan communities in a vivid and significant way. Balkan Ghosts offers the complexity, brutality, and beauty in traveling in both the past and the present."—The Seattle Times

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The Birth of Biopolitics

Lectures at the Collège de France, 1978--1979

Lectures at the Collège de France

Michel Foucault Picador

This course thus raises questions of political philosophy and social policy that are at the heart of current debates about the role and status of neo-liberalism in twentieth century politics. A remarkable feature of these lectures is their discussion of contemporary economic theory and practice, culminating in an analysis of the model of Homo oeconomicus.

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Trade Paperback : $23.00 Buy	Blood and Belonging Journeys into the New Nationalism Michael Ignatieff Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks Until the end of the Cold War, the politics of national identity was confined to isolated incidents of ethnics strife and civil war in distant countries. Now,...

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Blowback, Second Edition

The Costs and Consequences of American Empire

American Empire Project

Chalmers Johnson; With a New Introduction on Blowback in the Post-9/11 World A Metropolitan/Holt Paperbacks Book

"Stunning . . . No one has exposed the shortsightedness, hubris, corruption, and instability of our country's imperial overreach with such impassioned incisiveness. Blowback is a wake-up call for America."—John W. Dower, author of Embracing Defeat, winner of the Pulitzer Prize

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Britain and Europe 1789-2005

Keith Robbins Bloomsbury USA

Britain and Europe 1789-2005 examines Britain's evolving role from the English and European viewpoints of politicians, diplomats, historians and travelers in the centuries since the French Revolution. It also reviews the foreign policy of the United Kingdom and its relations with European countries during its imperial domination of the global and in the aftermath. The book studies historical perceptions, experiences and assumptions that preceded and still exist and influence Britain's participation in the European Union.

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Britain in the First Millennium

Edward James Bloomsbury USA

This survey of medieval Britain presents the events comprising the two great invasions from Continental Europe as a coherent narrative. From the first century BC through the Norman Conquest it covers events across the whole of Britain, from Cornwall to the Shetlands, providing the European context for events in England while also examining the many ways Britain differed from the rest of Europe.

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The Careless State

Wealth and Welfare in Britain Today

Paul Taylor Bloomsbury USA

This book considers the social and economic damage wrought by neo-liberalism, both in Britain and beyond. Paul Taylor analyses the effects of the increasing inequalities of income and wealth in recent years, concluding that a wide range of problems for the middle sections of society can be traced to the appearance of a class of the 'uber-rich', the example they set and the demands they make. He examines the government's failure to deal effectively with these problems in general and within the context of the global financial meltdown, especially with regard to its effects in the UK and USA, and places that crisis in the context of wider developments.

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Children in Custody

Anglo-Russian Perspectives

Mary McAuley Bloomsbury USA

Despite their very different histories, societies, political and legal systems, Russia and the UK stand out as favoring a punitive approach to young law breakers, imprisoning many more children than any other European countries. The book is a unique study of how attitudes to youth crime and criminal justice, the political environment and the relationship between state and society have interacted to influence the treatment of young offenders. It is also the first study to compare the UK with Russia, placing their policies in a European context to reveal how other European countries manage to put many fewer children behind bars.

Trade Paperback : $30.00 Buy	Churchill A Life Martin Gilbert Holt Paperbacks Distilled from years of meticulous research and documentation, filled with material unavailable when the earliest books of the official biography's eight...

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The Cold War

An International History 1947-1991

S.J. Ball Bloomsbury USA

"The author displays extensive knowledge and sound judgment of the policies of nations whose histories are so rich and complex that many historians could spend a lifetime of study before uttering the kind of sensible pronouncements that Ball repeatedly makes . . . [A] valuable contribution to the Cold War corpus, as a reference text, as a possible course textbook, and as a model for all bold enough to write about international history."—Canadian Journal of History

Hardcover : $30.00 Buy	The Courage of Truth Lectures at the Collège de France Michel Foucault; Edited by Arnold I. Davidson; Translated by Graham Burchell Palgrave Macmillan “[Foucault] has an alert and sensitive mind that can ignore the familiar surfaces of established intellectual codes and ask new questions . . . [He] gives dramatic quality to the movement of culture.”—The New York Review of Books

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The Crises of Empire

Decolonization and Europe's Imperial Nation States, 1918-1975

Martin Thomas, L. J. Butler, Bob Moore Bloomsbury USA

This examination of the forces that precipitated the twentieth century collapse of all Europe's late colonial empires includes the fate of the British, French, Dutch, Belgian and Portuguese colonial empires. Investigated individually and comparatively, it addresses an important historic topic and synthesizes conventional thought on imperialism and comparative decolonization. It also offers new perspectives in contemporary European history, international politics and the legacies of colonialism across the developing world.

Trade Paperback : $59.95 Buy	Critical Companion to the Russian Revolution 1914-1921 Edited by Edward Acton, Vladimir Cherniaev, and William Rosenberg Bloomsbury USA "[This] truly impressive work is an invaluable addition to studies of the Russian Revolution, a book one hopes will find its way into all college and university libraries as well as into public libraries and personal collections."—Slavic Review

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Critical Writings

New Edition

F. T. Marinetti; Edited by Günter Berghaus; Translated by Doug Thompson Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

"The volume compiles writings not previously available in English alongside fresh translations of his better-known works. This is all very nice, but if you're like me, the first thing you want to know when perusing any Marinetti edition is, 'Is the essay about sculpted meat included?' Happily it is."—Philadelphia Weekly

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Trade Paperback : $45.00 Buy	The East German Dictatorship Problems and Perspectives in the Interpretation of the GDR Corey Ross Bloomsbury USA "An outstanding resource for students of the history of the G. D. R and its postcommunist transformation . . . An extraordinarily useful tool for understanding the shifting views of the G.D.R."—German Studies Review

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The Ebbing of European Ascendancy

An International History of the World 1914-1945

Sally Marks Bloomsbury USA

In the decades between the World Wars, the global power structure was transformed. The once great European powers were no longer ascendant, even if they had not yet acknowledged it, and the U.S., a regional power as of 1914, now belonged to a new category: "superpower." What happened in this short period to usher in such a dramatic change? The Ebbing of European Ascendancy explores the crucial factors, including the international history of the period in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America, as single interlocking whole to clearly examine one of the most dramatic, worldwide power shifts in the last century.

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The End of the Cold War Era

The Transformation of the Global Security Order

Historical Endings

Saki Dockrill Bloomsbury USA

Between 1989 and 1991 the world witnessed a series of dramatic changes: the end of communism in Central and Eastern Europe, the reunification of Germany, the end of the superpower nuclear arms race, the demise of East-West rivalries in the Third World, and, finally, the break-up of the Soviet Union, all of which effectively ended the Cold War. End of the Cold War Era investigates the many unanswered questions posed by sudden end of the Cold War and extracts essential lessons from our recent past in three major areas: Europe, superpower relations, and the Third World.

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England in Conflict 1603-1660

Kingdom, Community, Commonwealth

Derek Hirst Bloomsbury USA

In his new text, Derek Hirst, one of the foremost living historians of seventeenth-century England, has created a wholesale revision of his classic Authority and Conflict and draws on a decade of new research that has appeared since the original book to produce a wholly fresh work. Centered around ambiguities of community in early modern England, the text enlivens debates over revisionism, Puritanism, the church, and witchcraft while at the same time making sense of the complexities of crisis and continuity.

Trade Paperback : $45.00 Buy	England's Population A History since the Domesday Survey Andrew Hinde Bloomsbury USA

Trade Paperback : $45.00 Buy	Europe 1600-1789 Arnold History of Europe Anthony Upton Bloomsbury USA "Recommended for undergraduates and for general audiences interested in the larger sweep of history."—CHOICE

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Five Germanys I Have Known

Fritz Stern Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

"[Stern's] impressive book combines haunted childhood memories with learned insights and reflections . . . Engrossing, finely composed."—Amos Elon, The New York Review of Books

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For the Soul of Mankind

The United States, the Soviet Union, and the Cold War

Melvyn P. Leffler Hill and Wang

"With a keen eye for telling detail, a concern for the choices of individual leaders, and careful judgments, Leffler generates a narrative that carries the reader along as it develops important new ideas. This landmark study transcends many of our standard arguments about the Cold War to focus on what it was really about. Driving much of the maneuvering for security and advantage was the struggle over which political system could meet people’s needs and produce a better society."—Robert Jervis, Columbia University

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