Trading with the Enemy: Britain, France, and the 18th-Century Quest for a Peaceful World Order (Shovlin John)(Pevná vazba)

Trading with the Enemy: Britain, France, and the 18th-Century Quest for a Peaceful World Order (Shovlin John)(Pevná vazba)

Britain and France waged war eight times in the century following the Glorious Revolution, a mutual antagonism long regarded as a 'Second Hundred Years' War.' Yet officials on both sides also initiated ententes, free trade schemes, and colonial bargains intended to avert future conflict. What drove

Liberal Leviathan: The Origins, Crisis, and Transformation of the American World Order (Ikenberry G. John)(Paperback)

A new vision for the American world order In the second half of the twentieth century, the United States engaged in the most ambitious and far-reaching liberal order building the world had yet seen. This liberal international order has been one of the most successful in history in providing

My War in the SOE - Behind Enemy Lines in France and Burmah with the Special Operations Executive (Verlander Harry)(Pevná vazba)

The Quest for Security: Sovereignty, Race, and the Defense of the British Empire, 1898-1931 (Tumblin Jesse)(Pevná vazba)

The British Empire entered the twentieth century in a state of crisis, with many in the legal establishment fearing that the British constitution could no longer cope with the complexity of imperial institutions. At the same time, the military establishment feared the empire was becoming impossible

Writing and constructing the self in Great Britain in the long eighteenth century (Baker John)(Pevná vazba)

This volume explores the various ways the 'self' was perceived, fashioned and written in the course of the long eighteenth century in Great Britain. Following a chronological narrative which highlights the problematic and intriguing nature of what we call the 'self' across time and from different

Kings of Georgian Britain (Curzon Catherine)(Pevná vazba)

For over a century of turmoil, upheaval and scandal, Great Britain was a Georgian land. From the day the German-speaking George I stepped off the boat from Hanover, to the night that George IV, bloated and diseased, breathed his last at Windsor, the four kings had presided over a changing nation

An Open World: How America Can Win the Contest for Twenty-First-Century Order (Lissner Rebecca)(Pevná vazba)

In this ambitious and incisive book, Lissner and Rapp-Hooper outline a new vision for American grand strategy and international order that will advance American interests in the face of political polarization, technological innovation and diffusion, and major global power shifts that empower rivals

The Quest for Shakespeare's Garden (Strong Roy)(Pevná vazba)

Published in association with the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, The Quest for Shakespeare's Garden traces the origins of garden history and the Elizabethan garden, as well as telling the story of the Bard's own garden in Stratford-upon-Avon. Beautifully presented, the text is accompanied by

Fight or Flight: Britain, France, and the Roads from Empire (Thomas Martin)(Pevná vazba)

Although shattered by war, in 1945 Britain and France still controlled the world's two largest colonial empires, with imperial territories stretched over four continents. And they appeared determined to keep them: the roll-call of British and French politicians, soldiers, settlers and writers who

Britain and Africa in the Twenty-First Century: Between Ambition and Pragmatism (Beswick Danielle)(Pevná vazba)

Britain and Africa in the twenty-first century offers the first book-length study of how Britain's relationship with Africa has fared since the fall of the 1997-2010 New Labour

King Stephen and the Anarchy: Civil War and Military Tactics in Twelfth-Century Britain (Peers Chris)(Pevná vazba)

The Anarchy, the protracted struggle between Stephen of Blois and the Empress Matilda for the English crown between 1135 and 1154, is often seen as a disastrous breakdown in one of the best-governed kingdoms of medieval Europe. But perhaps the impact of the conflict has been overstated, and its

Searchers - The Quest for the Lost of the First World War (Sackville-West Robert)(Pevná vazba)

Gold (Bloomfield Michael John)(Pevná vazba)

The quest for gold sounds like something from the past, but gold remains a highly prized and impactful resource within the global economy. From the insatiable demand for gold in the electronics that permeate our day to day, to the environmental desolation driven by gold mining in the Amazon, the

Strangers on the Western Front: Chinese Workers in the Great War (Xu)(Pevná vazba)

During World War I, Britain and France imported workers from their colonies to labor behind the front lines. The single largest group of support labor came not from imperial colonies, however, but from China. Xu Guoqi tells the remarkable story of the 140,000 Chinese men recruited for the Allied

Imperial Paradoxes, 83: Training the Senses and Tasting the Eighteenth Century (Merrett Robert James)(Paperback)

At war for sixty years, eighteenth-century Britain and France experienced demographic, social, and economic exchanges despite their imperial rivalry. Paradoxically, this rivalry spurred their participation in scientific and industrial developments. Their shared interest in standards of living and

France, Britain, and the Struggle for the Revolutionary Western Mediterranean (Meeks Joshua)(Pevná vazba)

Introduction.- 1. The Western Mediterranean in the Age of Revolutions.- 2. Revolutionary Corsica, 1789-1793.- 3. Britain and the First Coalition in the Western Mediterranean, 1793.- 4. The Anglo-Corsican Kingdom, 1794-1796.- 5. The French Attack on Mediterranean Neutrality, 1794-1796.- 6. The

Open Houses: Poverty, the Novel, and the Architectural Idea in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Leckie Barbara)(Pevná vazba)

In the 1830s and '40s, a new preoccupation with the housing of the poor emerged in British print and visual culture. In response to cholera outbreaks, political unrest, and government initiatives, commentators evinced a keen desire to document housing conditions and agitate for housing reform

Mastering the Trade, Third Edition: Proven Techniques for Profiting from Intraday and Swing Trading Setups (Carter John)(Pevná vazba)

This updated edition of the classic guide to trading provides the edge you need to beat the competition in today's turbulent marketsNot long ago, the world was wondering if it would survive the 2008 financial crisis. Now, markets are at record highs--and traders in the know are doing better than

Capital of the Mind: How Edinburgh Changed the World (Buchan James)(Paperback)

In the early 18th century, Edinburgh was a filthy backwater town synonymous with poverty and disease. Yet by century's end, it had become the marvel of modern Europe, home to the finest minds of the day and their breathtaking innovations in architecture, politics, science, the arts, and economies -

The Lion and the Dragon: Britain's Opium Wars with China 1839-1860 (Simner Mark)(Pevná vazba)

During the middle of the 19th-Century, Britain and China would twice go to war over trade, and in particular the trade in opium. The Chinese people had progressively become addicted to the narcotic, a habit that British merchants were more than happy to feed from their opium-poppy fields in India

Global Bargaining: Unctad and the Quest for a New International Economic Order (Rothstein Robert L.)(Pevná vazba)

Negotiations on an international commodity policy have been the central issue on the North-South agenda for the past three years. They also can be seen as the first major effort to give substantive meaning to the Third World's desire not only for a new regime for the world's raw commodity trade but

Illuminating Natural History: The Art and Science of Mark Catesby (McBurney Henrietta)(Pevná vazba)

The life and art of the 18th-century naturalist Mark Catesby, and his pioneering work depicting the flora and fauna of North America, are explored in vibrant detail This book explores the life and work of the celebrated eighteenth-century English naturalist, explorer, artist and author Mark

Changing World Order : Why Nations Succeed or Fail - Ray Dalio

From the international bestselling author of Principles and legendary investor Ray Dalio, who has spent half a century studying global markets, The Changing World Order examines history's most turbulent economic and political periods to reveal why the times ahead will likely be radically different

Cooperation for a Peaceful and Sustainable World (Bo Chen)(Pevná vazba)

Over the years, a considerable amount of work has been conducted in the field of peace studies, conflict management, peace science in economics, sociology, anthropology and management. This title presents research by scholars with an emphasis on theoretical and mathematical constructs in the area