This author specializes in detailed and accessible historical narratives. Their work focuses on the social and political forces that shaped modern Britain. Bringing a deep scholarly insight and thorough research to their writing, their contributions offer clarity and a way to understand complex historical events for a wider audience.
This book is a social, economic, political, and cultural assessment of Jamaica over the past millennium. Exploring themes such as race, slavery, empire, poverty, and colonialism in an accessible way, this authoritative work will appeal to all readers interested in the Atlantic world.
Focusing on David Lloyd George, the book explores the British Liberal Party's journey through revival and triumph to division and decline from the late 19th to the 20th century. It highlights Lloyd George's pivotal role as a transformative figure during this significant political era, offering insights into the party's evolution and the broader historical context.
This comprehensive and widely acclaimed study of British history since 1945 has been has been expanded to include a new chapter looking at the conflict over Brexit. This edition contains some further updating.
A Memoir of Friendship and Beauty in the Viet Nam War
Exploring the complexities of memory, this memoir intertwines truth with the nuances of personal experience. The author acknowledges the unreliability of recollections, illustrating how time can distort events while still conveying their emotional significance. By rearranging details and using fictional techniques, the memoirist aims to present a more profound understanding of past experiences, such as escorting Miss Missouri in Vietnam. This reflective narrative reveals how memories, even when inaccurate, can encapsulate deeper truths about safety and personal connections.
From 1501, when the first slaves arrived in Hispaniola, until the nineteenth century, some twelve million people were abducted from west Africa and shipped across thousands of miles of ocean - the infamous Middle Passage - to work in the colonies of the New World. Perhaps two million Africans died at sea. Why was slavery so widely condoned, during most of this period, by leading lawyers, religious leaders, politicians and philosophers? How was it that the educated classes of the western world were prepared for so long to accept and promote an institution that would later ages be condemned as barbaric? Exploring these and other questions - and the slave experience on the sugar, rice, coffee and cotton plantations - Kenneth Morgan discusses the rise of a distinctively Creole culture; slave revolts, including the successful revolution in Haiti (1791-1804); and the rise of abolitionism, when the ideas of Montesquieu, Wilberforce, Quakers and others led to the slave trade's systemic demise. At a time when the menace of human trafficking is of increasing concern worldwide, this timely book reflects on the deeper motivations of slavery as both ideology and merchant institution.
The eventful life, scholarly work and political and personal experience of Wales's leading historian, reflecting on the challenges and achievements which have peppered his long and successful career.
This is an integrated range of studies focusing on Wales by a long-established and internationally-recognised academic authority and member of the House of Lords on the advance of democracy and the evolving idea of national identity in modern Britain.
Focusing on the socioeconomic and cultural transformation in Britain before 1850, this book explores the profound effects of early industrialization on ordinary lives. It highlights population growth, urbanization, and changes in work practices, while examining the educated middle class's evolving attitudes towards the working class. The text documents workers' harsh realities, popular protests, and the inadequacies of poor relief, all set against a backdrop of limited political change. This updated edition includes comprehensive pedagogical resources to aid understanding.
Personally enigmatic and often described as difficult to work with, Fritz Reiner was nevertheless renowned for the dynamic galvanization of the orchestras he led, a nearly unrivalled technical ability, and high professional standards. This book is a portrait of a man who was both his own worst enemy and one of the true titans of his profession.