British History Books

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   The English Press in the Eighteenth Century (Routledge Revivals)

   By Jeremy Black

   First published in 1987, this is a comprehensive analysis of the rise of the British Press in the eighteenth century, as a component of the understanding of eighteenth century political and social history. Professor Black considers the reasons for the growth of the "print culture" and the relations...

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-60983-8 | Paperback (Routledge)

2. Churchill

   By Robert Pearce

   Winston Churchill was arguably the most important figure in British history in the twentieth century. He held a large number of ministerial offices between 1900 and 1964, including the premiership in 1940- 45 and 1951- 55. He was certainly the most controversial politician of his era, not least on...

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-18913-2 | Paperback (Routledge)

3. Bilderberg People: Inside the Exclusive Global Elite

   By Ian Richardson, Andrew Kakabadse, Nada Kakabadse

   Bilderberg People explores the hidden mechanisms of influence at work in the private world, and personal interactions, of the transnational power elite. It is not concerned with conspiracy theories; instead it is about certain fundamental forces that shape the world in which we live. These forces,...

   May 2011 | 978-0-415-57635-2 | Paperback (Routledge)

4. Victoria's Daughters: The Schooling of Girls in Britain and Ireland 1850–1914

   By Jane McDermid

   Between 1850 and 1914 the Victorian concept of gender was under construction. Social and sexual stability was expected to provide a foundation for national identity. This book analyzes the interrelation of gender and class with national identity, offering a study of girls' schooling in Britain...

   May 2011 | 978-0-415-18196-9 | Hardback (Routledge)

5. English Historical Documents, 1914–1957

   By John Stevenson

   English Historical Documents is the most ambitious, impressive and comprehensive collection of primary documents on English history ever published. The volumes were published between 1953 and 1977 and have become landmark publications in their own fields. This exciting new volume covers...

   May 2011 | 978-0-415-47603-4 | Hardback (Routledge)

6. Irish Political Prisoners 1920

   By Sean McConville

   May 2011 | 978-0-415-35096-9 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   The Historical Revolution (Routledge Revivals): English Historical Writing and Thought 1580-1640

   By Frank Smith Fussner

   First published in 1962, Frank Smith Fussner's introduction to the revolution in English historical writing and thought during the period of the renaissance and reformation (1580-1640) is an influential and thoroughly-researched work. It offers an introduction not only to the context of the...

   May 2011 | 978-0-415-60248-8 | Paperback (Routledge)

8. Britain and World War I

   By Alan G.V. Simmonds

   April 2011 | 978-0-415-45539-8 | Paperback (Routledge)

9. Technology and the Mid-Victorian Royal Navy: Ironclads and Naval Innovation

   By Howard J. Fuller

   A revealing new examination of Palmerstonian diplomacy during the pivotal decade of the 1860s, the evolution of the modern capital ship and the real nature of ‘empire’, ‘technology’ and ‘seapower’. In contrast to the standard image of the mid-Victorian Royal navy as all-powerful, Howard Fuller...

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-37004-2 | Hardback (Routledge)

10. Representing Enslavement and Abolition in Museums

    Edited by Laurajane Smith, Geoff Cubitt, Kalliopi Fouseki, Ross Wilson

    The year 2007 marked the bicentenary of the Act abolishing British participation in the slave trade. Though the occasion was heralded by the then Prime Minister Tony Blair as being 'everyone's bicentenary', it was marked in practice by debates and critical exchanges which related both to the...

    February 2011 | 978-0-415-88504-1 | Hardback (Routledge)