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  • Secrecy and Science

    A Historical Sociology of Biological and Chemical Warfare

    de Brian Balmer ...
    It is no secret that twentieth-century Britain was governed through a culture of secrecy, and secrecy was particularly endemic in military research and defence policy surrounding biological and chemical warfare. More generally, it is hard to exaggerate the role of secrecy in all past biological and chemical warfare programmes and several recent historical surveys of biological and chemical warfare ... Leer más

    $76.99 USD

  • Science Policies and Twentieth-Century Dictatorships

    Spain, Italy and Argentina

    Edición de Amparo Gómez, Antonio Fco. Canales, Brian Balmer ...
    Series series Science, Technology and Culture, 1700-1945
    Making a fresh contribution to the political history of science, this book explores the connections between the science policies of three countries that each experienced considerable political upheaval in the twentieth century: Spain, Italy and Argentina. By focussing on these three countries, the contributors are able to present case studies that highlight the characteristics and specificities of ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD

  • Absence in Science, Security and Policy

    From Research Agendas to Global Strategy

    Edición de Brian Balmer, Brian Rappert ...
    Series series Global Issues
    This book explores the absent and missing in debates about science and security. Through varied case studies, including biological and chemical weapons control, science journalism, nanotechnology research and neuroethics, the contributors explore how matters become absent, ignored or forgotten and the implications for ethics, policy and society.The chapter 'Sensing Absence: How to See What Isn't ... Leer más

    $80.99 USD

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  • Routledge Companion to Intelligence Studies

    Edición de Robert Dover, Claudia Hillebrand, Michael Goodman ...
    The Routledge Companion to Intelligence Studies provides a broad overview of the growing field of intelligence studies.The recent growth of interest in intelligence and security studies has led to an increased demand for popular depictions of intelligence and reference works to explain the architecture and underpinnings of intelligence activity. Divided into five comprehensive sections, this ... Leer más

    $84.99 USD

  • Foreign Policy Decision Making Under The Geisel Government

    de Letícia Pinheiro ...
    Series series Coleção Política Externa Brasileira
    This thesis seeks to provide an explanation for the contents of three foreign policy decisions implemented under the government of General Ernesto Geisel (1974-1979). It does so by analyzing the decision-making process which led Brazil: 1) to abstain in the Meetings of Consultation of American Foreign Ministers for voting the lifting of sanctions against Cuba; 2) to restore diplomatic relations ... Leer más

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  • Secret Science

    A Century of Poison Warfare and Human Experiments

    de Ulf Schmidt ...
    From the early 1990s, allegations that servicemen had been duped into taking part in trials with toxic agents at top-secret Allied research facilities throughout the twentieth century featured with ever greater frequency in the media. In Britain, a whole army of over 21,000 soldiers had participated in secret experiments between 1939 and 1989. Some remembered their stay as harmless, but there were ... Leer más

    $16.19 USD

  • Mañana es San Perón

    A Cultural History of Perón's Argentina

    de Mariano Ben Plotkin ...
    The regime of Juan Perón is one of the most studied topics of Argentina's contemporary history. This new book—an English translation of a highly popular, critically acclaimed Spanish language edition—provides a new perspective on the intriguing Argentinian leader. Mariano Plotkin's cultural approach makes Perón's popularity understandable because it goes beyond Perón's charismatic appeal and ... Leer más

    $45.99 USD

  • MI6 and the Machinery of Spying

    Structure and Process in Britain's Secret Intelligence

    de Philip Davies ...
    Series series Studies in Intelligence
    This book examines the structural development of the Secret Intelligence Service from its inception to the end of the Cold War. ... Leer más

    $70.99 USD

  • Remembering Pinochet's Chile

    On the Eve of London 1998

    de Steve J. Stern, Walter D. Mignolo, Sonia Saldívar-Hull, Irene Silverblatt ...
    Series Libro 1 - Latin America Otherwise
    During the two years just before the 1998 arrest in London of General Augusto Pinochet, the historian Steve J. Stern had been in Chile collecting oral histories of life under Pinochet as part of an investigation into the form and meaning of memories of state-sponsored atrocities. In this compelling work, Stern shares the recollections of individual Chileans and draws on their stories to provide a ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • The Ascent of the Detective

    Police Sleuths in Victorian and Edwardian England

    de Haia Shpayer-Makov ...
    The figure of the detective has long excited the imagination of the wider public, and the English police detective has been a special focus of attention in both print and visual media. Yet, while much has been written in the last three decades about the history of uniformed policemen in England, no similar work has focused on police detectives. The Ascent of the Detective redresses this by ... Leer más

    $56.69 USD

  • Shooting to Kill?

    Policing, Firearms and Armed Response

    de Peter Squires, Peter Kennison ...
    Shooting to Kill? Policing, Firearms and Armed Response explores the dilemma of armed response policing in the UK, and policing in a gun culture.Offers the first critical exploration of the ACPO code of guidance on Police Use of Firearms and other tactical manualsIncludes interviews with senior police firearms managers and critical case studies of police firearms incidentsFeatures the first in ... Leer más

    $41.00 USD

  • Catalan Nationalism

    Francoism, Transition and Democracy

    de Montserrat Guibernau ...
    Series series Routledge Studies on Contemporary Spain
    Are the Catalans content with the outcome of the Spanish transition to democracy? Is there a future for Catalan nationalism within the EU? How does globalization impact upon the survival and development of nations without states such as Catalonia? Will increasing numbers of immigrants transform regional identities? Has devolution fostered secessionism in Catalonia? These are some of the key ... Leer más

    $82.99 USD