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Who was Who at Waterloo A Biography of the Battle

Who was Who at Waterloo A Biography of the Battle

Everyone knows about the Battle of Waterloo – or do they?This book presents the battle as never before: through the personal stories of over 150 people present at the battle or its immediate aftermath. A reference book a biographical dictionary and a myth-busting expose Who was Who at Waterloo is an indispensable guide to history's most famous battle. Arranged in alphabetical order and with entries highlighted throughout the text like links in a website the book boasts a colourful cast of soldiers politicians peasants surgeons artists novelists poets scientists entrepreneurs and more. It provides many sorties into nineteenth century culture politics medicine and science. It also provides a thorough look at the sources identifying myths irregularities and cover-ups. The book demonstrates how little we can really know about Waterloo. And yet it also demonstrates just how much can be said about the battle's participants. | Who was Who at Waterloo A Biography of the Battle

GBP 175.00
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To Die Gallantly The Battle Of The Atlantic

To Die Gallantly The Battle Of The Atlantic

German U-boats known as iron coffins terrorized Allied ships during World War II and were responsible for thousands of deaths. This volume published to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Battle of the Atlantic brings together historians from both sides of the ocean to discuss this important campaign. As well as offering new insights into both familiar and more neglected aspects the book reflects the human dimension of the conflict paying tribute to the whole spectrum of personnel involved - planners and strategists spies and code-breakers naval officers and crews merchant sailors and civilians. | To Die Gallantly The Battle Of The Atlantic

GBP 36.99
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The Battle of the Atlantic and Signals Intelligence U–Boat Situations and Trends 1941–1945

The Battle of the Atlantic and Signals Intelligence U–Boat Situations and Trends 1941–1945

This book contains the U-boats situations and trends written by the staff of the Admiralty’s Operational Intelligence Centre during the Second World War. Based largely on communications intelligence the U-boat situations and trends were designed to inform a small number of senior officers and high officials of the latest events and developments in the Allied war against the U-boats. The Battle of the Atlantic and the war against the U-boats was the longest and the most complex naval battle in history. In this huge conflict which sprawled across the oceans of the world the U-boats sank 2 828 Allied merchant ships while the Allies destroyed more than 780 German U-boats. These documents relate on a weekly and in some cases a daily basis exactly what the Allies knew concerning the activities of the U-boats during the Battle of the Atlantic. | The Battle of the Atlantic and Signals Intelligence U–Boat Situations and Trends 1941–1945

GBP 66.99
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The Battle of the Atlantic and Signals Intelligence U–Boat Situations and Trends 1941–1945

The Battle of the Atlantic and Signals Intelligence U–Boat Situations and Trends 1941–1945

This book contains the U-boats situations and trends written by the staff of the Admiralty’s Operational Intelligence Centre during the Second World War. Based largely on communications intelligence the U-boat situations and trends were designed to inform a small number of senior officers and high officials of the latest events and developments in the Allied war against the U-boats. The Battle of the Atlantic and the war against the U-boats was the longest and the most complex naval battle in history. In this huge conflict which sprawled across the oceans of the world the U-boats sank 2 828 Allied merchant ships while the Allies destroyed more than 780 German U-boats. These documents relate on a weekly and in some cases a daily basis exactly what the Allies knew concerning the activities of the U-boats during the Battle of the Atlantic. | The Battle of the Atlantic and Signals Intelligence U–Boat Situations and Trends 1941–1945

GBP 44.99
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Labour's Battle in the U.S.A he Fight for Industrial Unionism

Labour's Battle in the U.S.A he Fight for Industrial Unionism

First published in 1938. This study of the labour crisis in the USA consists of interviews with leaders and members of labour unions unorganised workers businessmen and those in positions of public responsibility. The author explores the foundations of the crisis and examines the possible issues that he predicted the US labour force were going to encounter. This title will be of interest to scholars and students of political and labour history. | Labour's Battle in the U. S. A he Fight for Industrial Unionism

GBP 31.99
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Aerial Dance A Guide to Dance with Rope and Harness

Aerial Dance A Guide to Dance with Rope and Harness

Aerial Dance: A Guide to Dance with Rope and Harness provides an introduction for the beginning aerialist. It covers rigging equipment advice on optimal conditioning and a step-by-step guide to technique including anatomical references space and time considerations and elements of force when working with and against gravity. Specific movements and choreography are framed anatomically and together reflect the pattern and order of an aerial technique class. Challenges inherent to this type of dancing are discussed as well as wellness instruction and methods of altering these techniques for intermediate and advanced dancing. A companion website hosts video that corresponds with the technique and phrasing in the book. | Aerial Dance A Guide to Dance with Rope and Harness

GBP 34.99
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Military Courts Civil-Military Relations and the Legal Battle for Democracy The Politics of Military Justice

Military Courts Civil-Military Relations and the Legal Battle for Democracy The Politics of Military Justice

The interaction between military and civilian courts the political power that legal prerogatives can provide to the armed forces and the difficult process civilian politicians face in reforming military justice remain glaringly under-examined despite their implications for the quality and survival of democracy. This book breaks new ground by providing a theoretically rich global examination of the operation and reform of military courts in democratic countries. Drawing on a newly created dataset of 120 countries over more than two centuries it presents the first comprehensive picture of the evolution of military justice across states and over time. Combined with qualitative historical case studies of Colombia Portugal Indonesia Fiji Brazil Pakistan and the United States the book presents a new framework for understanding how civilian actors are able to gain or lose legal control of the armed forces. The book’s findings have important lessons for scholars and policymakers working in the fields of democracy civil-military relations human rights and the rule of law. | Military Courts Civil-Military Relations and the Legal Battle for Democracy The Politics of Military Justice

GBP 38.99
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Universal Jurisdiction in International Criminal Law The Debate and the Battle for Hegemony

Universal Jurisdiction in International Criminal Law The Debate and the Battle for Hegemony

With the sensational arrest of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet in 1998 the rise to prominence of universal jurisdiction over crimes against international law seemed to be assured. The arrest of Pinochet and the ensuing proceedings before the UK courts brought universal jurisdiction into the foreground of the fight against impunity and the principle was read as an important complementary mechanism for international justice –one that could offer justice to victims denied an avenue by the limited jurisdiction of international criminal tribunals. Yet by the time of the International Court of Justice’s Arrest Warrant judgment four years later the picture looked much bleaker and the principle was being read as a potential tool for politically motivated trials. This book explores the debate over universal jurisdiction in international criminal law aiming to unpack a practice in which international lawyers continue to disagree over the concept of universal jurisdiction. Using Martti Koskenniemi’s work as a foil this book exposes the argumentative techniques in operation in national and international adjudication since the 1990s. Drawing on overarching patterns within the debate Aisling O’Sullivan argues that it is bounded by a tension between contrasting political preferences or positions labelled as moralist (ending impunity) and formalist (avoiding abuse) and she reads the debate as a movement of hegemonic and counter-hegemonic positions that struggle for hegemonic control. However she draws out how these positions (moralist/formalist) merge into one another and this produces a tendency towards a middle position that continues to prefer a particular preference (moralist or formalist). Aisling O’Sullivan then traces the transformation towards this tendency that reflects an internal split among international lawyers between building a utopia (court of humanity) and recognizing its impossibility of being realized. | Universal Jurisdiction in International Criminal Law The Debate and the Battle for Hegemony

GBP 42.99
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Israel’s Securitization Dilemma BDS and the Battle for the Legitimacy of the Jewish State

Israel’s Securitization Dilemma BDS and the Battle for the Legitimacy of the Jewish State

This book examines how the Zionist movement and later the state of Israel have dealt with various longstanding efforts to delegitimize Israel’s standing in the international community including by the Arab League Boycott the United Nations and the Boycott Divest and Sanctions (BDS) movement. Through historical and archival research as well as discourse analysis of legal and governmental documents public statements of Israeli officials and interviews with Israeli policy makers this book argues that Israel has constructed perceived and real challenges to its legitimacy as ontological threats that undermine its national security and has securitized its Jewish identity in response to these threats. As a result the state has adopted extraordinary measures often marked by illiberalism. Rather than enhance Israel’s international legitimacy these measures have undermined it further especially among liberal audiences in the West whose support is critical for Israel’s continued international legitimacy. Therefore Israel is locked in a securitization dilemma—where actions taken to enhance its security through increased legitimacy result in further delegitimization. Highlighting the ways this securitization dilemma is at the heart of Israeli policymaking today—particularly in the context of the recent BDS movement—this book brings into focus key problems that Israel faces as it attempts to combat delegitimization movements against its self-constructed identity as a Jewish state. This book will be of great interest to students scholars and policy makers engaged with critical security studies and delegitimization Israeli studies and Jewish identity and policymaking in the Middle East. | Israel’s Securitization Dilemma BDS and the Battle for the Legitimacy of the Jewish State

GBP 38.99
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The Global Muslim Brotherhood in Britain Non-Violent Islamist Extremism and the Battle of Ideas

The Global Muslim Brotherhood in Britain Non-Violent Islamist Extremism and the Battle of Ideas

Since 2011 with the British Government’s counter-radicalisation strategy Prevent non-violent Islamist groups have been considered a security risk for spreading a divisive ideology that can lead to radicalisation and violence. More recently the Government has expressed concerns about their impact on social cohesion entryism and women’s rights. The key protagonists of non-violent Islamist ‘extremism’ allegedly include groups and individuals associated with the Muslim Brotherhood and Jama’at-i-Islami. They have been described as part of the ‘global Muslim Brotherhood’ but do they constitute a singular phenomenon a social movement?This book shows that such groups and individuals do indeed comprise a movement in Britain one dedicated to an Islamic ‘revival’. It shows how they are networked organisationally bonded through ideological and cultural kinship and united in a conflict of values with the British society and state. Using original interviews with prominent revivalist leaders as well as primary sources the book also shows how the movement is not so much ‘Islamist’ in aspiring for an Islamic state but concerned with institutionalising an Islamic worldview and moral framework throughout society. The conflict between the Government and the global Muslim Brotherhood is apparent in a number of different fields including education governance law and counterterrorism. But this does not simply concern the direction of Government policy or the control of state institutions. It most fundamentally concerns the symbolic authority to legitimise a way of seeing thinking and living. By assessing this multifaceted conflict the book presents an exhaustive and up-to-date analysis of the political and cultural fault lines between Islamic revivalists and the British authorities. It will be useful for anyone studying Islam in the West government counter-terrorism and counter-extremism policy multiculturalism and social cohesion. | The Global Muslim Brotherhood in Britain Non-Violent Islamist Extremism and the Battle of Ideas

GBP 44.99
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Long Day at Shiloh

Long Day at Shiloh

Originally published in 1981 Long Day at Shiloh recreates the first twenty-four hours of one of the crucial battles of the American Civil War: the Battle of Shiloh. In a series of short cinematic takes the book transports readers to Pittsburg Landing and into the lives of the men in the Union camp. It provides close views into the imagined thoughts and actions of individual soldiers on the eve of battle and depicts their attack by Confederate troops on April 6 1862. Long Day at Shiloh is a detailed historical novel offering insight into the events trials losses frustrations and exhilarations of combat during the Battle of Shiloh as the author has imagined them.

GBP 27.99
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The Battle for Bodies Hearts and Minds in Postwar Greece Social Worker Charles Schermerhorn in Thessaloniki 1946–1951

The Battle for Bodies Hearts and Minds in Postwar Greece Social Worker Charles Schermerhorn in Thessaloniki 1946–1951

The previously unpublished memoir of social worker Charles Schermerhorn offers new and eye-opening source material pertaining to the epicenter of the early Cold War: northern Greece. This book brings this memoir to light to enrich the discussion about the Greek Civil War and the late 1940s through the highly perceptive views of a firsthand observer of the turmoil. Schermerhorn’s writings speak most compellingly to the power of human agency amid adverse sociopolitical circumstances. His memoir takes a child-centered and social-historical approach to controversial events filling a great void in our knowledge. This book looks at a single mid-twentieth-century crisis in multidimensional ways as a moral material social and institutional calamity that mobilized a motley crew of actors from new humanitarian aid organizations to press agents from soldiers to destitute repeat-refugees from fledgling modern missionaries to foreign diplomats and economic strategists. It was Schermerhorn’s unique achievement to interact with them all seeking common ground in the arduous task of trying to improve living conditions for children and rural families. But he also realized how easily foreign aid could become a tool of political power and expediency. Focusing on the Greek Civil War this book will interest readers studying the Cold War the heated peripheries of proxy wars and the devastating social fallout of conflicts raging in areas hidden from public view. The global history of humanitarian crises is a burgeoning field and Schermerhorn was the first to place Greek children and villagers who themselves left hardly any sources behind at the center of this urgent and ever-relevant debate. | The Battle for Bodies Hearts and Minds in Postwar Greece Social Worker Charles Schermerhorn in Thessaloniki 1946–1951

GBP 130.00
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Landscapes of Trauma The Psychology of the Battlefield

Landscapes of Trauma The Psychology of the Battlefield

Integrating trauma studies with historical research and social psychology Landscapes of Trauma examines a range of battlefields from across history including Waterloo the Battle of Sedan the Battle of the Ebro and the Battle of Normandy to bring to light what these battlefields say about our collective and individual psyches. Hunt explores how war shapes the nature of trauma not only by its innate horror but also by the historical and societal contexts it is fought in from the cultural and social conventions of the period to the topography of the settings. This book provides a deep analysis of how war is experienced and remembered in different eras and by different generations. Moving beyond the clinical concept of post-traumatic stress disorder Hunt discusses how trauma can be understood socially and historically as well as through the lens of individual suffering. This book also investigates the psychological foundations of memorialisation remembrance and commemoration that shape the legacy of the battles discussed. Using interviews with veterans their letters journals and diaries as well as literary and historical sources Hunt locates the battlefield as a place where humans explore the parameters of human behaviour thought and emotion. This book is in important resource for students and scholars interested in the psychology of trauma and war as well as military history. | Landscapes of Trauma The Psychology of the Battlefield

GBP 36.99
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Atlas of the English Civil War

Atlas of the English Civil War

Originally published in 1985 the English Civil War is a subject which continues to excite enormous interest throughout the world. This atlas consists of over fifty maps illustrating all the major - and many of the minor - bloody campaigns and battles of the War including the campaigns of Montrose the battle of Edgehill and Langport. Providing a complete introductory history to the turbulent period it also includes maps giving essential background information; detailed accompanying explanations; a useful context to events. | Atlas of the English Civil War

GBP 29.99
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Israel's Military Operations in Gaza Telegenic Lawfare and Warfare

Israel's Military Operations in Gaza Telegenic Lawfare and Warfare

Civilians in Gaza and Israel are caught up in complex violent situations that have overstepped conventional battle lines. Both sides of the conflict have found ways to legitimate the use of violence and continually swap accusations of violations of domestic and international humanitarian laws. Israel’s Military Operations in Gaza provides an ideological critique of the legal military and social media texts that have been used to legitimate historical incursions into the Gaza with special focus on Operation Protective Edge. It argues that both the Palestinians and the Israelis have deployed various forms of ‘telegenic’ warfare. They have each used argumentative rhetorics based on competing interpretations of events and are locked in a battle to convince international audiences and domestic constituencies of the righteousness of their causes. This critical genealogical study analyses a range of texts and images from selfies circulated near the Gaza border to judicial opinions produced by the High Court of Israel. With its multidisciplinary approach and original analysis of the Israel/Gaza situation this book will be of interest to students and scholars of Middle East studies and the Arab-Israeli conflict as well as security studies and communication studies. | Israel's Military Operations in Gaza Telegenic Lawfare and Warfare

GBP 27.99
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The Englishman's Chair Origins Design and Social History of Seat Furniture in England

The Englishman's Chair Origins Design and Social History of Seat Furniture in England

Originally published in 1964 The Englishman’s Chair is a history of English chairs written as a continuous story from the 15th to the 20th Century and because of the revealing powers inherent in chair-making and design it is also an unconventional footnote to English social history. The changes in taste and fashion the increase of skill the introduction of new materials and the long battle between dignity and comfort are discussed as is the impact that modern industrial designers have had on chair design. | The Englishman's Chair Origins Design and Social History of Seat Furniture in England

GBP 105.00
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Shipboard Life and Organisation 1731-1815

Shipboard Life and Organisation 1731-1815

The idea behind this volume according to its editor Brian Lavery was to give a rounded picture of life at sea during the age of sail. It concentrates on the daily routine of shipboard life rather than more dramatic events such as battles and mutiny. It supplements other volumes produced by the Navy Records Society notably Five Naval Journals 1789-1817 (vol 91 1951 ed H G Thursfield) and The Health of Seamen (vol 107 1965 ed C C Lloyd. )The selection begins in the second quarter of the eighteenth century because stated Brian Lavery ‘there are no suitable documents from earlier periods’ and closes in 1815 when the navy entered a new era with the advent of steam and a long period of peace. One of the most important aspects of shipboard life was that it was intensely self-contained especially in the later part of the age of sail. After the conquest of scurvy ships were able to stay at sea for many months at a time and the world-wide battle for empire caused them to make very long voyages often away from their home bases over a period of years. Even in port seamen often stayed on board and shore leave was not in any sense a right. This volume throws a spotlight on the way in which a crew of up to 850 men could be crammed into a small space for many months at a time and the ways in which they were fed clothed allocated space for eating and sleeping at the same time as they were organised for sailing and battle duties. It contains separate sections dealing with Admiralty Regulations Captain’s Orders Medical Journals discipline and punishment. It also includes an extensive glossary of the nautical terms and descriptions of the time. | Shipboard Life and Organisation 1731-1815

GBP 44.99
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The Unconscious in Shakespeare's Plays

The Unconscious in Shakespeare's Plays

Just as concerts emerge from the interaction of many instruments so our understanding of Shakespeare is enriched by different approaches to him. Psychoanalysis assumes that creative writers have the need to both reveal and conceal their own inner conflicts in their works. They leave residues in their works that if we pay attention can become building blocks that reveal aspects of the unconscious. Readers may find that the questions raised add to the pleasure of reading Shakespeare and that they deepens their understanding of his plays. Topics covered include the pivotal position of Hamlet the poet and his calling the Oedipus complex intrapsychic conflict the battle against paranoia and the homosexual compromise. By using psychoanalytic techniques in analyzing his plays and characters the author reveals more about Shakespeare's hidden motivations and mental health. | The Unconscious in Shakespeare's Plays

GBP 130.00
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Education and the US Government

Education and the US Government

Originally published in 1987 at a time when central government control of education in many countries was growing rapidly this book on the historical determinants of US educational legislation was of great relevance. The book looks in detail at the history of the relationship between the US Government and the provision of educational services. It assesses the contributions made to educational legislation by key political figures such as Franklin Washington and Jefferson. The author also examines in depth the role of congress and the president the relationship between the federal government and the state legislature and the role of the judiciary in education. An account of the hard-fought battle for the right to equal educational opportunities for the American Negro and the American Indian is of considerable interest. Finally the book compares the American educational system at the time with that of other countries. | Education and the US Government

GBP 29.99
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