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Author : José Harris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UVA:X002498500
Author : Jose Harris
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1994-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780140125481
An audio collection of some of the best ghost stories ever written, which make perfect evening listening � for the brave� Here are apparitions, mysterious deaths and strange, inexplicable visions to chill the blood. The stories range from those by masters of the genre like Sheridan Le Fanu and Ambrose Bierce to classic writers such as Emile Zola and Rudyard Kipling. Some are frightening, some poignant, others leave a lingering taste of unease. Read by Nigel Davenport, Rula Lenska, Andrew Sachs and David Rintoul, the stories included are: �Angeline, or the Haunted House� by Emile Zola; �The Moonlit Road� by Ambrose Bierce; �My Adventure in Norfolk� by A. J. Alan; �The Return of Imray� by Rudyard Kipling; �Mrs Lunt� by Hugh Walpole; �The Open Window� by Saki, and �An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street� by Sheridan Le Fanu.
Author : John Hughes-Wilson,Cathryn M Corns
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781474603195
Three hundred and fifty-one men were executed by British Army firing squads between September 1914 and November 1920. By far the greatest number, 266 were shot for desertion in the face of the enemy. The executions continue to haunt the history of the war, with talk today of shell shock and posthumous pardons. Using material released from the Public Records Office and other sources, the authors reveal what really happened and place the story of these executions firmly in the context of the military, social and medical context of the period.
Author : Jonathan Strauss
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780823251322
Private Lives, Public Deaths draws on classical studies, Hegel, and modern philosophical analyses to describe how Sophocle's tragedy Antigone expresses a key concern of ancient Greek culture: the value of a living individual.
Author : Alan G. V. Simmonds
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136629969
The First World War appears as a fault line in Britain’s twentieth-century history. Between August 1914 and November 1918 the titanic struggle against Imperial Germany and her allies consumed more people, more money and more resources than any other conflict that Britain had hitherto experienced. For the first time, it opened up a Home Front that stretched into all parts of the British polity, society and culture, touching the lives of every citizen regardless of age, gender and class: vegetables were even grown in the gardens of Buckingham Palace. Britain and World War One throws attention on these civilians who fought the war on the Home Front. Harnessing recent scholarship, and drawing on original documents, oral testimony and historical texts, this book casts a fresh look over different aspects of British society during the four long years of war. It revisits the early war enthusiasm and the making of Kitchener’s new armies; the emotive debates over conscription; the relationships between politics, government and popular opinion; women working in wartime industries; the popular experience of war and the question of social change. This book also explores areas of wartime Britain overlooked by recent histories, including the impact of the war on rural society; the mobilization of industry and the importance of technology; responses to air raids and food and housing shortages; and the challenges to traditional social and sexual mores and wartime culture. Britain and World War One is essential reading for all students and interested lay readers of the First World War.
Author : Michael H. Whitworth
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2009-04-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780199556083
Political and social change during Woolf's lifetime led her to address the role of the state and the individual. Michael H. Whitworth shows how ideas and images from contemporary novelists, philosophers, theorists, and scientists fuelled her writing, and how critics, film-makers, and novelists have reinterpreted her work for later generations.
Author : Clarke E. Cochran
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317650300
Religious crosses the spheres of both the private life and the public institution. In a liberal democracy, public and private interests and goals prove to be inseparable. Clarke Cochran’s interdisciplinary study brings political theory and the sociology of religion together in a fresh interpretation of liberal culture. First published in 1990, this analysis begins with a reassessment of the nature of the "public" and the "private" in relation to the political. The controversy over religion and politics is examined in light of such contested issues of political life as sexuality, abortion, and the changing nature of the family. Clarifying a number of debates central to contemporary society, this timely reissue will be of particular value to students with an interest in the relationship between religious, society, and politics.
Author : Chris Locke
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781003802150
This book charts the journey of British General Practitioners (GPs) towards professional self-realisation through the development of a political consciousness manifested in a series of bruising encounters with government. GPs are an essential part of the social fabric of modern Britain but as a group have always felt undervalued, clashing with successive governments over the terms on which they offered their services to the public. Explaining the background to these disputes and the motives of GPs from a sociological perspective, this research casts new light on some defining moments in the creation of the modern British state, from National Health Insurance to the National Health Service, and the history of the British medical profession. It examines these events from the point of view of the professionals intimately involved in and affected by them, using both established sources, like Ministry of Health records, an in-depth analysis of rarely studied records of professional bodies, and previously unresearched archive material. The result is a fascinating account of conflict and cooperation, and of heroic, and less-than-heroic, defiance of political authority, involving interactions between complex personalities and competing ideologies. Scholarly yet readable, this book will be of interest to the general reader as much as to medical practitioners and historians.
Author : Jose Harris
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1994-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780141941578
The late nineteenth century and Edwardian era, suggests Jose Harris in this book, represent a sharp break with the early years of Queen Victoria's reign. Indeed, despite the intense upheavals of two world wars, it was the beliefs, social structures and oppositional forces established between 1870 and 1914 which dominated British life right up until the 1960s.
Author : David Cannadine
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0231096674
Although politicians in Britain are now calling for a "classless society," can one conclude, as do many scholars, that class does not matter anymore? Cannadine uncovers the meanings of class for such disparate figures as Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and Margaret Thatcher and identifies the moments when opinion shifted, such as the aftermath of the French Revolution and the rise of the Labour Party in the early twentieth century.
Author : Mark Bevir
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2010-04-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781400836857
Democratic Governance examines the changing nature of the modern state and reveals the dangers these changes pose to democracy. Mark Bevir shows how new ideas about governance have gradually displaced old-style notions of government in Britain and around the world. Policymakers cling to outdated concepts of representative government while at the same time placing ever more faith in expertise, markets, and networks. Democracy exhibits blurred lines of accountability and declining legitimacy. Bevir explores how new theories of governance undermined traditional government in the twentieth century. Politicians responded by erecting great bureaucracies, increasingly relying on policy expertise and abstract notions of citizenship and, more recently, on networks of quasi-governmental and private organizations to deliver services using market-oriented techniques. Today, the state is an unwieldy edifice of nineteenth-century government buttressed by a sprawling substructure devoted to the very different idea of governance--and democracy has suffered. In Democratic Governance, Bevir takes a comprehensive look at governance and the history and thinking behind it. He provides in-depth case studies of constitutional reform, judicial reform, joined-up government, and police reform. He argues that the best hope for democratic renewal lies in more interpretive styles of expertise, dialogic forms of policymaking, and more diverse avenues for public participation.
Author : Ute Astrid Tellmann
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780231544078
Life and Money uncovers the contentious history of the boundary between economy and politics in liberalism. Ute Tellmann traces the shifting ontologies for defining economic necessity. She argues that our understanding of the malleability of economic relations has been displaced by colonial hierarchies of civilization and the biopolitics of the nation. Bringing economics into conversation with political theory, cultural economy, postcolonial thought, and history, Tellmann gives a radically novel interpretation of scarcity and money in terms of materiality, temporality, and affect. The book investigates the conceptual shifts regarding economic order during two moments of profound crisis in the history of liberalism. In the wake of the French Revolution, Thomas Robert Malthus’s notion of population linked liberalism to a sense of economic necessity that stands counter to political promises of equality. During the Great Depression, John Maynard Keynes’s writings on money proved crucial for the invention of macroeconomic theory and signaled the birth of the managed economy. Both periods, Tellmann shows, entail a displacement of the malleability of the economic. By tracing this conceptual history, Life and Money opens up liberalism, including our neoliberal present, to a new sense of economic and political possibility.
Author : Pat Thane
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107040915
A clear, comprehensive survey of British history from 1900 to the present, integrating political, economic, social and cultural history.
Author : Steve Sturdy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134467921
Medicine is concerned with the most intimate aspects of private life. Yet it is also a focus for diverse forms of public organization and action. In this volume, an international team of scholars use the techniques of medical history to analyse the changing boundaries and constitution of the public sphere from early modernity to the present day. In a series of detailed historical case studies, contributors examine the role of various public institutions - both formal and informal, voluntary and statutory - in organizing and coordinating collective action on medical matters. In so doing, they challenge the determinism and fatalism of Habermas's overarching and functionalist account of the rise and fall of the public sphere. Of essential interest to historians and sociologists of medicine, this book will also be of value to historians of modern Britain, historical sociologists, and those engaged in studying the work of Jürgen Habermas.
Author : Julia Stapleton
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 0719055113
"Political intellectuals and public identities in Britain since 1850 will be of interest to scholars and advanced undergraduates in the fields of political thought and British intellectual and cultural history. It will also be of interest to a wider community of writers and commentators on the politics of English and British national identity."--BOOK JACKET.
