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The Forgotten Appeasement of 1920 Lloyd George Lenin and Poland

The Forgotten Appeasement of 1920 Lloyd George Lenin and Poland

The Forgotten Appeasement of 1920 examines a turning point in East European history: the summer of 1920 when Lenin’s Soviet Russia decided to challenge the Versailles system and launch a military attack on the continent. The outcome of this attack might have been the occupation of all of Poland and East Central Europe and a Red Army sweep further west. This book probes the British–Soviet negotiations and diplomatic operations behind the scenes. Professor Nowak uses hitherto unexamined documents from Russian and British archives to show how (and why) top British politicians were ready to accept a new Russian imperial control over the whole of Eastern Europe. Nowak unravels this previously untold story of that first and forgotten appeasement stopped only by the Polish military victory over the Red Army. His excellent historical craftsmanship and new sources contribute to the book’s quality filling up a lacuna in contemporary historiography. This book will appeal to researchers of geopolitical affairs and the Great Powers the history of Poland and the political mentality of Western elites. It will also be of interest to university students and tutors scholars of history and international relations and – thanks to the book’s brisk and fascinating narrative – amateur historians and history aficionados. | The Forgotten Appeasement of 1920 Lloyd George Lenin and Poland

GBP 120.00
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The Economic Consequences of the Peace

The Economic Consequences of the Peace

John Maynard Keynes then a rising young economist participated in the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 as chief representative of the British Treasury and advisor to Prime Minister David Lloyd George. He resigned after desperately trying and failing to reduce the huge demands for reparations being made on Germany. The Economic Consequences of the Peace is Keynes' brilliant and prophetic analysis of the effects that the peace treaty would have both on Germany and even more fatefully the world. A popular lecturer of economics at Cambridge University and editor of the Economic Journal Keynes made The Economic Consequences of the Peace a major step in his career. It was translated into a dozen languages and sold 100 000 copies in six months. Taken seriously even by those who were opposed to his claims the book helped lift economics to a new higher level of recognition and acceptance. This volume with its insightful portraits of Lloyd George Georges Clemenceau and Woodrow Wilson remains one of the great works of political economy of our time. In a penetrating introduction written for this new edition David Felix explores Keynes' reasons for writing the book analyzes the author's arguments and paints an historical backdrop of the period during which it was written.

GBP 130.00
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Mies van der Rohe

Mies van der Rohe

The career and built works of this enigmatic and fascinating architect are carefully charted from his early work on housing design and high-rise offices in Berlin to his later and most famous work in Chicago Detroit Montreal and New York. Original illustrations from the architect's archives complement the excellent text. Spon's ARCHITECTURE COLLECTION presents the work of historic and contemporary masters of architecture in clear well-illustrated text accessible to non-specialists. This appealing series of monographs now available in English is launched by books on two great historic figures of the century Frank Lloyd Wright and Mies van der Rohe and two award-winning contemporary architects Sir Norman Foster and Alvaro Siza.

GBP 130.00
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Aspects of British Policy and the Treaty of Versailles Of War and Peace

Aspects of British Policy and the Treaty of Versailles Of War and Peace

Aspects of British Policy and the Treaty of Versailles looks at some key issues involving British policy and the Treaty of Versailles one of the twentieth century’s most controversial international agreements. The book discusses the role of experts and the Danzig Question at the Paris Peace Conference; the establishment of diplomatic history as a field of academic research; and the role of David Lloyd George and his Vision of Post-War Europe. Contributors also look at the restitution of cultural objects in German possession and after the war the Treaty’s impact on both Britain’s enemy Germany and its ally France revealing how it profoundly affected the European balance of power. Aspects of British Policy and the Treaty of Versailles will be of great interest to scholars of diplomatic history as well as modern history and international relations more generally. The chapters were originally published as a special issue of Diplomacy & Statecraft. | Aspects of British Policy and the Treaty of Versailles Of War and Peace

GBP 130.00
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The Progress of a Biographer

The Progress of a Biographer

First published in 1949 The Progress of a Biographer follows a general principle that there are absolute truths which an individual can in some degree apprehend and live by but which churches and institutions can only obscure and pervert. This principle is followed for the sketches in this book most of which were written between the end of World War II and the spring of 1948. The subjects range from P. G. Wodehouse to Karl Marx from W. B. Yeats to Thackeray and from Rainer Maria Rilke to Lloyd George. Believing that to understand a man’s work one must form a coherent impression of the man the author has tried to suggest the leading characteristics and governing impulses of his subjects. His intention has been to clarify rather than to criticise though doubtless the affect may sometimes be one of criticism falling short of clarification. The book will be of interest to students across disciplines but will particularly appeal to students of English literature.

GBP 99.99
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Betsy Mix Cowles Champion of Equality

Betsy Mix Cowles Champion of Equality

Betsy Mix Cowles (a champion of equality whose circle of acquaintances included Frederick Douglass Abby Kelley and William Lloyd Garrison) is a brilliant example of what an educated and independent woman can accomplish. A staunch defender of abolitionism Cowles also took up the cause of women's rights and dedicated her life to the advocacy of women's access to education equal rights and independence in the pre-Civil War era. The life of this devoted social reformer illuminates the struggles and historical developments relating to abolitionism and the fledgling women's movement during one of the most contentious periods in American history. About the Lives of American Women series: Selected and edited by renowned women's historian Carol Berkin these brief biographies are designed for use in undergraduate courses. Rather than a comprehensive approach each biography focuses instead on a particular aspect of a woman's life that is emblematic of her time or which made her a pivotal figure in the era. The emphasis is on a 'good read' featuring accessible writing and compelling narratives without sacrificing sound scholarship and academic integrity. Primary sources at the end of each biography reveal the subject's perspective in her own words. Study questions and an annotated bibliography support the student reader. | Betsy Mix Cowles Champion of Equality

GBP 130.00
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Critics and Crusaders Political Economy and the American Quest for Freedom

Critics and Crusaders Political Economy and the American Quest for Freedom

The quest for freedom has always been a defining characteristic of the American people. That neither constitutionalism nor capitalism has secured complete freedom for every person is demonstrated by media announcements of slavery oppression exploitation and a variety of shortcomings in the economic system. That said and as this volume seeks to demonstrate through a history of radical commentaries there have always been bold spirits who fight for such ambitious heights. With changing times freedom meant different things to those who worked for it. This book in its broadest sense is a history of libertarianism. Each of the libertarians in this full study extending from William Lloyd Garrison to Eugene V. Debs fought for the ideal of political economy as a practical ideal. In so doing these major figures at the margins of power expanded the entire field of human rights. Charles A. Madison concludes that radicalism became an ideology in the search for freedom. The zeal and activity of these figures did much to attain the political freedom and economic well- being that Americans are inclined to take for granted. These individual chapters are set in frames supplied by background sketches of the movements each group led and the whole is an attempt to depict and re-evaluate America's social progress without the rigor or formality of impersonalized history. | Critics and Crusaders Political Economy and the American Quest for Freedom

GBP 130.00
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Tanners of Taiwan Life Strategies and National Culture

Tanners of Taiwan Life Strategies and National Culture

Tanners of Taiwan is an ethnography of identity construction set in the leather-tanning communities of Southern Taiwan. Through life history analysis and ethnographic observation Simon examines what it means to be Chinese - or alternatively Taiwanese - in contemporary Taiwan. Under forty years of martial law from 1947 to 1987 the Chinese Nationalist Party tried to create a Chinese identity in Taiwan through ideological campaigns that reached deep into families schools and workplaces. They justified their rule through a development narrative that Chinese culture and good policy contributed to the prosperity of the Taiwan miracle. These ideological claims and cultural identities however have never been fully accepted in Southern Taiwan. This ethnography is the first to document from the ground level how those claims have been contested and how a new Taiwanese identity has been constructed since democratization. Tanners of Taiwan provides more than a description of workplaces in Taiwan. Looking at the different perspectives of tanners women managers and workers it demonstrates how cultural and other identities are constructed through dynamics of power and political economy. A small affordable case studies book to be assigned with a core textbook in introductory anthropology courses. Shows how the US reader is connected to the seemingly distant lives of Taiwanese tanners. Simon follows hides from the US to tanneries in Taiwan then elsewhere to be made into shoes and other leather goods and then back to the consumer in the US - demonstrating concretely the notion of global interconnectedness. Anchored in personal observation and ethnographic detail the book makes very tangible such otherwise abstract notions as national identity and global integration. | Tanners of Taiwan Life Strategies and National Culture

GBP 130.00
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Comfort and Contemporary Culture The problems of the ‘good life’ on an increasingly uncomfortable planet

Comfort and Contemporary Culture The problems of the ‘good life’ on an increasingly uncomfortable planet

To be comfortable stands as an aspiration of the times; to be comfortable defines what it means to live ‘the good life’. We talk about such things as maintaining a comfortable home a comfortable lifestyle and a comfortable retirement. We seek out comforts in the relationships we sustain the leisure practices we enact and the possessions we accumulate. We look for promises of comfort in the words of a close friend and our next pair of shoes. Furnished in the home optionally outfitted in cars scrutinised in holiday brochures and brushed up against in the clothes we wear comfort is there marking distinctions and framing decisions about what it means to live well. But by consuming comfort in the ways that we do we do ourselves harm and limit our only planet of its capacity to provide for the requirements of life. This is a world that grows ever more uncomfortable because of comfort and when linked to consumption and excess indulgence and apathy it occurs that comfort carries effects that have existential consequence. Utilising analyses of popular culture and ethnographic accounts of everyday life Comfort and Contemporary Culture works through case study accounts of comfort’s enactment to pose questions around what it means to live now. Comfort and Contemporary Culture poses alternative renderings of the idea of comfort to return the concept to its earliest roots in notions of confortāre. The revisioning of what we take as comfort requires urgent attention with the ecological social and intrapersonal implications of comfort’s current excesses demonstrative of this need. This book will be relevant reading for students and scholars of cultural studies and sociology cultural anthropology social geography and studies of community. | Comfort and Contemporary Culture The problems of the ‘good life’ on an increasingly uncomfortable planet

GBP 130.00
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