Oil for Britain

Jonathan Kuiken

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Modern British History
• The period from 1957 to 1988 was transformative for the international oil industry. The United Kingdon, home to two major oil companies, British Petro... Lees meer

The Falklands/Malvinas Conflict

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Modern British History
• Taking place in 1982, a major event in both post-colonial history and the final phase of the Cold War, as well as a cultural touchstone for two differ... Lees meer

Violence and Crime in Nineteenth Century England

J Carter Wood

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Modern British History
• This book illuminates the origins and development of violence as a social issue by examining a critical period in the evolution of attitudes towards v... Lees meer

The Discourse of Repatriation in Britain, 1845-2016

Daniel Renshaw

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Modern British History
• Examining responses to migration and settlement in Britain from the Irish Famine up to Brexit, The Discourse of Repatriation looks at how concepts of ... Lees meer

Provincial Police Reform in Early Victorian England

Roger Swift

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Modern British History
• The establishment of 'new police' forces in early Victorian England has long attracted historical enquiry and debate, albeit with a general focus on L... Lees meer

Disability in Eighteenth-Century England

David M Turner

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Modern British History
• This is the first book-length study of physical disability in eighteenth-century England. It assesses the ways in which meanings of physical differenc... Lees meer

Diplomatic Identity in Postwar Britain

James Southern

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Modern British History
• This book seeks to understand the complex ways in which the Foreign Office adapted to the rise of identity politics in Britain as it administered Brit... Lees meer

Opening Schools and Closing Prisons

Andrew G Ralston

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Modern British History
• The book covers the period from 1812, when the Tron Riot in Edinburgh dramatically drew attention to the 'lamentable extent of juvenile depravity', up... Lees meer

The Chartist General

Edward Beasley

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Modern British History
• General Charles James Napier was sent to confront the tens of thousands of Chartist protestors marching through the cities of the North of England in ... Lees meer

Weather, Migration and the Scottish Diaspora

Graeme Morton

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Modern British History
• Why did large numbers of Scots leave a temperate climate to live permanently in parts of the world where greater temperature extreme was the norm? The... Lees meer

Transport and Its Place in History

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Modern British History
• Transport and mobility history is one of the most exciting areas of historical research at the present. As its scope expands, it entices scholars work... Lees meer

The British Aircraft Industry and American-led Globalisation

Takeshi Sakade

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Modern British History
• Sakade challenges the narrative that the focus of British manufacturing went "from Empire to Europe" and argues rather that, following the Second Worl... Lees meer

James Mill's Utilitarian Logic and Politics

Antis Loizides

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Modern British History
• James Mill's (1773-1836) role in the development of utilitarian thought in the nineteenth century has been overshadowed both by John Stuart Mill (1806... Lees meer

Winston Churchill

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Modern British History
• Although remembered and even lauded in the public mind as the British prime minister during the Second World War who played a major role in Allied vic... Lees meer

Liberal Reform and Industrial Relations: J.H. Whitley (1866-1935), Halifax Radical and Speaker of the House of Commons

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Modern British History
• J.H. Whitley came from an established business family in Halifax, where he engaged in youth work and municipal politics before becoming MP for Halifax... Lees meer

Deprivation, State Interventions and Urban Communities in Britain, 1968-79

Peter Shapely

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Modern British History
• Focusing on a series of policy initiatives from the late 1960s through to the end of the 1970s, this book looks at how successive governments tried to... Lees meer

Labour in the Suburbs

Michael Tichelar

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Modern British History
• This book is the first comprehensive economic, social and political study of the London suburb of Croydon from 1900 up to the present day. One of the ... Lees meer

The Development of British Naval Aviation, 1914-1918

Alexander Howlett

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Modern British History
• The Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) revolutionized warfare at sea, on land, and in the air. This little-known naval aviation organization introduced an... Lees meer

Sport and the Home Front

Matthew Taylor

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Modern British History
• Sport and the Home Front contributes in significant and original ways to our understanding of the social and cultural history of the Second World War.... Lees meer

The Mystique of Running the Public House in England

David W Gutzke

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Modern British History
• This book is the first scholarly study to explore economic relations between brewers and publicans in the brewing industry over a century. Based on ov... Lees meer

British Politics, Society and Empire, 1852-1945

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Modern British History
• This book draws together essays on modern British history, empire, liberalism and conservatism in honour of Trevor O. Lloyd, Emeritus Professor of Mod... Lees meer

Science, Utility and British Naval Technology, 1793-1815

Roger Morriss

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Modern British History
• During the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, the technology employed by the British navy changed not just the material resources of the Britis... Lees meer

The Chartist General

Edward Beasley

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Modern British History
• General Charles James Napier was sent to confront the tens of thousands of Chartist protestors marching through the cities of the North of England in ... Lees meer

Lord Dufferin, Ireland and the British Empire, c. 1820-1900

Annie Tindley

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Modern British History
• This book explores the life and career of Frederick Temple Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava (1826-1902). Dufferin was a lan... Lees meer