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KORTE, BARBARA & RALF SCHNEIDER [ED.]. War and the Cultural Construction of Identities in Britain. Amsterdam-Atlanta., Rodopi., 2002.
ISBN: 978-90-420-1259-2.

Original publisher's sewn paperback, pictorial frontcover, 8vo; 282pp., 15 contributors, illustrations, footnotes, bibliography, index, notes contributors. Contents: Barbara Korte & Ralf Schneider: Introduction. 1. Barbara Korte. Wars and 'British' Identities - From Norman Conquerors to Bosnian Warriors. An Overview of Cultural Representations. 2. Diana Condell. The History and Role of the Imperial War Museum. 3. Fritz Kemmler. Facts and Fictions - The Norman Conquest. 4. Ute Engel. The Bayeux Tapestry and All That - Images of War and Combat in the Arts of Medieval England. 5. Bernhard Klein. 'Tales of Iron Wars' - Shakespeare and the Uncommon Soldier. 6. Thomas Rommel. 'Lines Suggested by the War in the Crimea' - Florence Nightingale and the Role of the Individual Soldier. 7. Paul Goetsch. The Fantastic in Poetry of the First World War. 8. Eveline Kilian. " What does 'our country' mean to me an outsider? " - Virginia Woolf, War and Patriotism. 9. Jenni Calder. World War and Women - Advance and Retreat. Christopher Harvie. Men Who Pushed and Went - West Britain, War and Fiction, 1914-1926. 10. Claudia Sternberg. The Tripod in the Trenches - Media Memories of the First World War. 11. Paul Addison. National Identity and the Battle of Britain. 12. Helge Nowak. Britain, Britishness and the Blitz - Public Images, Attitudes and Visions in Times of War. 13. Silvia Mergenthal. England's Finest - Battle Fields and Football Grounds in John King's Football Novels. 14. Dorothea Flothow. 'Britons' at War - A Selective Chronology. Very fine copy - as new. Volume 59: Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft. The British have been involved in numerous wars since the Middle Ages. Many, if not all, of these wars have been re-constructed in historical accounts, in the media and in the arts, and have thus kept the nation's cultural memory of its wars alive. Wars have influenced the cultural construction and reconstruction not only of national identities in Britain; personal, communal, gender and ethnic identities have also been established, shaped, reinterpreted and questioned in times of war and through its representations. Coming from Literary, Film and Cultural Studies, History and Art History, the contributions in this multidisciplinary volume explore how different cultural communities in the British Isles have envisaged war and its significance for various aspects of identity-formation, from the Middle Ages through to the 20th century.

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Alka Mehta,B.L. Grover Illustrator: . A New Look at Modern Indian History: (From 1707 to the Modern Times) S. Chand & Company Ltd. 2010 ISBN: 9788121905329

New Softcover . CONTENTS: The British Conquest of India : An Overview and Approach Triangular Struggles in North and South India Historical Forces and Factors for British Successes British Conquest of India-accidental or Planned? British Rule in India-A Blessing or a Curse? Select Opinions I. DECLINE AND DISINTEGRATION OF THE MUGHAL EMPIRE : 1. Later Mughal Emperors 2. Later Mughal Nobility 3. Parties at the Mughal Court 4. Role of the Saiyid Brothers in Later Mughal Politics 5. Estimate of the Saiyid Brothers 6. Select Opinions 7. The Rise of Mew States 8. Nizams of the Deccan 9. Oudh 10. Ruhelas and Bangash Pathans 11. Bengal 12. The Rajputs, the Jats, the Marathas 13. Foreign Invasions from the North-west 14. Nadir Shah's Invasion, 1738-39 15. Ahmad Shah Abdalils Invasions 16. Causes of the Downfall of the Mughal Empire 17. Select Opinions 18. Social and Economic Conditions in the Eighteenth Century II. ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE EARLY PESHWAS : 1. Balaji Vishwanath, 1713-20 2. Estimate of Balaji Vishwanath 3. Select Opinions 4. Baji Rao 1, 1720-40 5. Estimate of Baji Rao 6. Select Opinions 7. Balaji Baji Rao, 1740-61 8. Estimate of Balaji Rao 9. Select Opinions 10. The Third Battle of Panipat, 14 January 1761 11. Causes of Maratha Defeat 12. Political Significance of the Battle of Panipat III. MARATHA ADMINISTRATION UNDER THE PESHWAS : 1. The Raja of Satara 2. The Peshwa 3. The Central Administration 4. The Provincial and District Administration 5. Local or Village Administration 6. Town Administration 7. Administration of Justice 8. The Revenue Administration 9. The Maratha Military System 10. Employment of foreigners 11. Select Opinions IV. ANGLO-FRENCH RIVALRY IN THE CARNATIC : 1. The First Carnatic War 2. The Second Carnatic War 3. The Third Carnatic War 4. Causes for the Failure of the French 5. Select Opinions V. THE RISE OF THE ENGLISH POWER IN BENGAL : 1. The Black Hole 2. The Battle of Plassey 3. Importance of the Battle of Plassey 4. Deposition of Mir Jaffar 5. Treaty with Mir Kasim, September 1760 6. Mir Kasim as an Administrator 7. Mir Kasim and the East India Company 8. The Battle of Buxar and its Importance 9. Select Opinions on the Battle of Plassey 10. Select Opinions on the Battle of Buxar VI. CAREER AND ACHIEVEMENTS OF DUPLEIX : 1. Dupleix as an Administrator 2. Dupleix as a Diplomat 3. Dupleix as a Leader 4. Recal of Dupleix 5. Political Ideas of Dupleix 6. Dupleix's Place in History 7. Select Opinions VII. CLIVE'S SECOND GOVERNORSHIP OF BENGAL, 1765-67 : 1. Clive's Settlement with Oudh and Shah Alam II 2. Settlement of Bengal-The Dual System 3. Clive's Justification of the Dual System 4. Evil Effects of the Dual System 5. Clive's Administrative Reforms 6. Estimate of Clive 7. Select Opinions VIII. WARREN HASTINGS, 1772-85 : 1. Administrative Reforms 2. Revenue Reforms 3. Judicial Reforms 4. Commercial Reforms 5. The Regulating Act and Conflict in the Council 6. The Trial of Nand Kumar, 1775 7. External Relations Under Warren Hastings 8. Relations with Shah Alam II 9. Relations with Oudh 10. The Rohilla War 1774 11. The First Anglo-maratha War, 1776-82 12. The Second Anglo-mysore War, 1780-84 13. The Affairs of Chait Singh and Begums of Oudh 14. Estimate of Warren Hastings 15. Select Opinions IX. ADMINISTRATIVE REFORMS OF CORNWALLIS, 1786-93 : 1. Judicial Reforms 2. Police Reforms 3. Revenue and Commercial Reforms 4. Permanenet Settlement of Bengal, 1793 5. Cornwallis Completed the Work of Warrne Hastings 6. Estimated of Cornwallis 7. Select Opinions X. LORD WELLESLEY, 1798-1805 : 1. The Subsidiary Alliance System 2. Advantages of the Subsidiary Alliance System to the Company 3. Disadvantages of the Subsidiary Alliance System to Indian States 4. Wellesley and the French Mena Printed Pages: 591. 5th or later edition

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Airey Neave: Saturday at M.I.9, PEN & SWORD BOOKS, April 2010 ISBN: 1848843119
Saturday at M.I.9 is the inside story of the underground escape lines in occupied Northwest Europe which brought back to Britain over 4,000 Allied servicemen during World War Two. P Airey Neave, who in the last two years of the war was the chief organizer at M.I.9 gives his own unique account. He describes how the escape lines began in the first dark days of German occupation and how, until the end of the war, thousands of ordinary men and women made their own contribution to the Allied victory by hiding and feeding men and guiding them to safety. There isn't a page in the book which isn't exciting in incident, wise in judgment, and absorbing through its human involvement. Times Literary Supplement. P REVIEWS P There isn't a page in the book which isn't exciting in incident, wise in judgment, and absorbing through its human involvement. Times Literary Supplement.

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HARBUTT, FRASER J. The Cold War Era. Malden, MA, Blackwell, 2002.

Paperback. x,372 pp.; 22 cm. - "Problems in American History, 6" Text in English. As good as new. This concise historical narrative by a prize-winning Cold War historian covers the entire Cold War period from the Yalta Conference of 1945 to the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. This book analyzes the Cold War and the various ways that it impacted American life: how it stimulated the economy, was a primary agent of social cohesion (at least until the Vietnam War), greatly inflated presidential power, and was at all times a formidable cultural and intellectual presence. It shows that the Cold War's influence was sometimes palpable, as during the McCarthy years and the Vietnam 'conflict', and was at other times merely a backdrop, as during the civil rights movement and the loosening of cultural restraints in the 1960s. This book also explores the uneasy co-existence of the era's conservative American political structure and private realm of techno-business volatility and radical popular culture. For the student or scholar of American foreign relations, as well as general readers, this book is an excellent introductory overview of a crucially important period in American history. ISBN: 9781577180524

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