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  • The Co-operative College and a Century of Social Change

    Internationalism, Co-operativism and Learning

    by Tom Woodin, Keith Vernon, Linda Shaw ...
    Series series Palgrave Studies in Adult Education and Lifelong Learning
    This open access book explores the Co-operative College’s distinctive adult educational tradition over the past century as it provided education for co-operative leaders, employees and members in addition to developing a range of wider educational initiatives and ideas internationally. The Co-operative College is a British educational charity established in 1919, founded on co-operative principles ... Read more

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  • Universities and the State in England, 1850-1939

    by Keith Vernon ...
    Series series Woburn Education Series
    The question of the relationships between universities and the state is one of considerable current concern and debate. This book studies the development of the modern university system in England from the mid-nineteenth century to the outbreak of the Second World War, focusing on the role of the state. In this formidabe study, the author covers a range of key areas, including:* a review of the ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

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    Israel: A Prince with God (Unabridged)

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    by FREDERICK BROTHERTON MEYER ...
    Narrated by Josephine Alden, Linda Marti, Keith Bliss, Vernon Coley ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 3 min

    An old-world story this! In its strange Eastern dress, it appears to be as remote from us as the garb of an Arab, or the barter of an Oriental Bazaar. And yet human life is much the same, whenever and wherever lived. Our critics complain of our poring over these timeworn pages of ancient biography, but, with all deference to them, we feel bound to say that we learn better how to live, we inhale ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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    The Political Force Transforming Britain

    by Ailsa Henderson, Richard Wyn Jones ...
    Until the Brexit referendum, there was widespread doubt as to whether English nationalism existed at all, at least beyond a small fringe. Since then, it has come to be regarded an obvious explanation for the vote to Leave the European Union. Subsequent opinion polls have raised doubts about the extent of continuing English commitment to the Union of the United Kingdom itself. Yet even as ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • Governing Britain

    Power, Politics and the Prime Minister

    by Patrick Diamond ...
    Series series Policy Network
    Number Ten Downing Street and the Cabinet Office are at the apex of power in British government, but relatively little is known about the day to day functioning of these great institutions of state. With an unprecedented level of access, and wide-ranging interviews from former ministers, senior civil servants and political advisers, Patrick Diamond examines the administrative and political ... Read more

    $26.49 USD

  • The Remaking of the British Working Class, 1840-1940

    by Andrew Miles, Mike Savage ...
    Series series Historical Connections
    Mike Savage and Andrew Miles provide a comprehensive introduction to the working class in Britain in the years after 1840. This textbook: * Includes a provocative, timely and clear defence of class analysis * Breaks new ground in showing how social mobility and urban change affected working class formation * Demonstrates how the history of the working class is politically reconstructed * Shows how ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Parliamentary reform at Westminster

    by Alexandra Kelso ...
    The Labour government elected in 1997 pledged to reform the Westminster parliament by modernising the House of Commons and removing the hereditary peers from the House of Lords. Events have consequently demonstrated the deep controversy that accompanies such attempts at institutional reconfiguration, and have highlighted the shifting fault lines in executive-legislative relations in the UK, as ... Read more

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  • The Rise of Professional Society

    England Since 1880

    by Harold Perkin ...
    The Rise of Professional Society lays out a stimulating and controversial framework for the study of British society, challenging accepted paradigms based on class analysis. Perkins argues that the non-capitalist "professional class" represents a new principle of social organization based on trained expertise and meritocracy, a "forgotten middle class" conveniently overlooked by classical social ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Devolution and British Politics

    by Michael Oneill ...
    Devolution has transformed the British Polity in the last decade. Taking this profound change as its theme, Devolution and British Politics is an up-to date, comprehensive and effective review of the origins and development of the devolution process.Devolution in British Politics offers a de-centralised assessment of British politics and encourages critical thinking regarding contemporary ... Read more

    $84.99 USD

  • Women and Work in Britain since 1840

    by Gerry Holloway ...
    Series series Women's and Gender History
    The first book of its kind to study this period, Gerry Holloway's essential student resource works chronologically from the early 1840s to the end of the twentieth century and examines over 150 years of women’s employment history.With suggestions for research topics, an annotated bibliography to aid further research, and a chronology of important events which places the subject in a broader ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Theories of International Relations and Northern Ireland

    Edited by Timothy J. White ...
    This book uses the case of Northern Ireland to evaluate theoretical approaches in international relations. It investigates the process of negotiation that led to the signing of the Good Friday or Belfast Agreement and the continuing challenges to peace reconciliation in Northern Ireland. Incorporating the work of leading scholars, it explores a wide range of topics, including the function of ... Read more

    $93.59 USD

  • Despised

    Why the Modern Left Loathes the Working Class

    by Paul Embery ...
    The typical contemporary Labour MP is almost certain to be a university-educated Europhile who is more comfortable in the leafy enclaves of north London than the party’s historic heartlands. As a result, Labour has become radically out of step with the culture and values of working-class Britain.Drawing on his background as a firefighter and trade unionist from Dagenham, Paul Embery argues that ... Read more

    $18.00 USD