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Product Description: Resurgent Adventures with Britannia builds upon Wm. Roger Louis's stimulating and acclaimed series, Adventures with Britannia, and draws upon a distinguished array of writers and scholars - historians, political scientists, journalists, novelists, biographers, and English literature specialists - to guide the reader through a fascinating labyrinth of British culture, history, and politics...read more

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9781780760582 | Tauris Academic Studies, December 15, 2011, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: Resurgent Adventures with Britannia builds upon Wm.

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Product Description: The latest volume in Wm. Roger Louis's acclaimed ""Adventures with Britannia"" series takes the reader on a highly engaging excursion through British life and intellectual biography.  Collecting the interpretations of outstanding writers on the literature and history of modern Britain, Ultimate Adventures with Britannia deals with a rich variety of themes -- some familiar, many unexpected...read more

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9781848851528 | Tauris Academic Studies, January 15, 2010, cover price $58.00 | About this edition: The latest volume in Wm.

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Product Description: A rich and varied collection from leading scholars and writers, edited with skill and sensitivity by one of the greatest historians of empire. It provides a vivid vignette of modern cultural, literary, intellectual and political life...read more

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9781845116934 | Tauris Academic Studies, January 8, 2008, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: A rich and varied collection from leading scholars and writers, edited with skill and sensitivity by one of the greatest historians of empire.

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9781845117115 | Tauris Academic Studies, January 8, 2008, cover price $27.00 | About this edition: A rich and varied collection from leading scholars and writers, edited with skill and sensitivity by one of the greatest historians of empire.

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Product Description: Pax Britannica to Pax Americana is the story of the British Empire from its late-nineteenth century flowering to its present extinction. Louis traces the British Empire from the scramble for Africa, the turbulent imperial history of the Second World War in Asia, and the mid-20th century rush to independence to the Suez crisis, the icon of empire's end...read more

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9781845113476 | Tauris Academic Studies, July 10, 2007, cover price $29.00 | About this edition: Pax Britannica to Pax Americana is the story of the British Empire from its late-nineteenth century flowering to its present extinction.

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Distinguished historians survey events and themes of recent and contemporary times, looking forward to what the future might bring. Chapters take a global overview of the century as a whole from a variety of perspectives and also chart the century's course region by region. Illustrated in colour and black and white with a detailed chronology.
By Michael Howard (editor) and William Roger Louis (editor)

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9780192803788 | Reissue edition (Oxford Univ Pr, October 12, 2006), cover price $26.50 | About this edition: Distinguished historians survey events and themes of recent and contemporary times, looking forward to what the future might bring.

How did great academics come to love their subjects? How do they see their roles as educators? Addressing the questions, this series of autobiographies focusses on the forces that drive some of America's bright minds. It is useful to those interested in history and the methods and philosophy of its teaching.

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9781845111984 | Tauris Academic Studies, May 25, 2006, cover price $110.00

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9781845111991 | Tauris Academic Studies, May 20, 2006, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: How did great academics come to love their subjects?

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Here is a colorful collection of writings by well known scholars and critics on modern Britain's literature and history. From British personalities, politics, and culture, to Britain's interaction with other societies, the subjects are wide-ranging and sometimes surprising. Niall Ferguson examines the origins of the first World War; Avi Shlaim reasseses the Balfour Declaration; Geoffrey Wheatcroft writes about Evelyn Waugh; David Cannadine revisits C.P. Snow's Two Cultures; and much more.

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9781845110826 | Tauris Academic Studies, September 3, 2005, cover price $65.00

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9781845110925 | Tauris Academic Studies, July 22, 2005, cover price $32.00 | About this edition: Here is a colorful collection of writings by well known scholars and critics on modern Britain's literature and history.

This book brings together the interpretations of outstanding writers on the literature, politics, and history of modern Britain. It deals with a rich variety of themes, some familiar, many unexpected, taking the reader on a highly engaging excursion through British life and intellectual biography. Its scope covers not only the personalities, politics, and culture of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, but also the interaction of British society with other societies throughout the world.

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9781860649141 | Tauris Academic Studies, March 1, 2003, cover price $120.00

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9781860649158 | Tauris Academic Studies, February 22, 2003, cover price $33.00 | About this edition: This book brings together the interpretations of outstanding writers on the literature, politics, and history of modern Britain.

By Judith M. Brown (editor) and William Roger Louis (editor)

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9780198205647 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, December 23, 1999, cover price $165.00

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9780199246793 | Oxford Univ Pr, September 20, 2001, cover price $51.00

By William Roger Louis (editor), Alaine Low (editor) and Robin W. Winks (editor)

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9780199246809 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, September 20, 2001, cover price $66.00

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Surveys the people, movements, and events that have shaped modern history (view table of contents)
By Michael Howard (editor) and William Roger Louis (editor)

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9780198204282 | Oxford Univ Pr, December 1, 1998, cover price $63.00 | About this edition: Surveys the people, movements, and events that have shaped modern history

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9780192853707 | Oxford Univ Pr, October 26, 2000, cover price $22.50

Product Description: The Oxford History of the British Empire provides an assessment of the Empire in the light of recent scholarship and the progressive opening of historical records.

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9780195216585 | Oxford Univ Pr, January 1, 2000, cover price $229.95 | About this edition: The Oxford History of the British Empire provides an assessment of the Empire in the light of recent scholarship and the progressive opening of historical records.

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Product Description: Collecting the interpretations of outstanding writers on the literature and history of modern Britain, this book deals with a rich variety of themes, some familiar, many unexpected, taking the reader on a highly engaging excursion through British life and intellectual biography...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780292747098 | Univ of Texas Pr, January 1, 1999, cover price $37.95 | About this edition: Collecting the interpretations of outstanding writers on the literature and history of modern Britain, this book deals with a rich variety of themes, some familiar, many unexpected, taking the reader on a highly engaging excursion through British life and intellectual biography.

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Product Description: Assembling the reflections of prominent writers on the political and intellectual history of modern Britain, this book deals with a rich variety of themes, taking the reader on an excursion through British life and manners. The scope includes the personalities, politics and culture of England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland...read more

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9781860640025 | Univ of Texas Pr, September 1, 1995, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Assembling the reflections of prominent writers on the political and intellectual history of modern Britain, this book deals with a rich variety of themes, taking the reader on an excursion through British life and manners.

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9780198203179 | Oxford Univ Pr, October 1, 1995, cover price $39.01

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A look at the life and accomplishments of the former prime minister presents essays by twenty-nine renowned contributors that examine all phases of Churchill's life--from his youth in the aristocracy to his career in Parliament.

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9780393034097 | W W Norton & Co Inc, February 1, 1993, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: Essays examine Churchill's family life, foreign policy, social reforms, economic ideas, views on Zionism, and relationship with the monarchy and fellow statesmen

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A look at the man who played a pivotal role in the fall of Chamberlain and the rise of Churchill discusses Amery's role in the transfer of power in India, the movements for national independence in Asia and Africa, and more.

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9780393033939 | W W Norton & Co Inc, September 1, 1992, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Looks at the life of the man who played a vital role in the fall of Chamberlain and the rise of Churchill

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9780198201410 | Clarendon Pr, September 28, 1989, cover price $150.00

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9780198202417 | Clarendon Pr, April 1, 1991, cover price $99.00

Leading authorities here analyze the historic special relationship between Britain and the United States since 1945. The opening chapters trace the development of the alliance and discuss the "special relationship within the special relationship" between Churchill and Roosevelt, Eden and Eisenhower, Macmillan and Kennedy, and Thatcher and Reagan. The contributors go beyond traditional rhetorical appeals to common language and heritage and consider the military, political, and economic links that bind the two countries.

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9780198229254, titled "The 'Special Relationship': Anglo-American Relations Since 1945" | Clarendon Pr, February 19, 1987, cover price $165.00 | About this edition: Leading authorities here analyze the historic special relationship between Britain and the United States since 1945.

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9780198201830 | Oxford Univ Pr, September 1, 1989, cover price $29.95

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