Product Description: Using the Mesoamerican culture as a background for this fictitious adventure, Keith Robbins writes of the struggles and successes in life, the decisions we must take, and how they effect our life on earth and in the hereafter. This is a record of The Great Spirit Kulnik'unen's judgment of Chief Ahaw-Xwinik'ulhoy'nul (Xwinik) of the Mayan K'ulnikp'ipola Tribe...read more

This comprehensive dictionary of one of the world's greatest conflicts contains over 1,200 entries, combining facts, narrative and analysis, and covers all aspects of history's first global conflict such as :-*Actions from Achi Baba to the Zeebrugge raid, from the Falkland Islands to the Masurian lakes.*Campaigns from the Arab Revolt to Verdun, from East Africa to East Prussia.*Theaters of war from the Baltic to the Balkans, from Africa to the Arctic.*Fighters and commanders from Abdullah ibn Hussein to Sergeant York via Pershing, Pilsudski and Petain.*Forces from the Romanian Navy to the Royal Flying Corps.*Weapons and equipment from balloons and bayonets to Battleships and Big Bertha.*Tactics and strategies from submarine warfare to sniping, from the Schlieffen Plan to strategic bombing, breakthrough and blockade.*Politcs and diplomacy from Wilhelm II to Woodrow Wilson, from the July Crisis to Versailles.*Home Fronts from the Armenian massacres to the Amiens Dispatch, from Albania to Australia, from women to war socialism. (view table of contents)

Product Description: The 'British Isles' entered the twentieth century as a single state 'Great Britain and Ireland' with a 'British Empire' greater in extent and larger in population than the world had ever seen. The first fifty years saw vast change...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Keith Robbins account of world history since 1945 provides a framework for making sense of the political and social developments of the period. The underlying theme of the book is the tension between the world conceived as a unity and as a diversity. From this perspective, the author discusses the impulse towards globalization in the aftermath of World War II, the divisions inherent in the Cold War and the shifting allegiances and conflicts in the decades which followed. He ends with an assessment of our position with regard to world unity and disunity as the millennium approaches. (view table of contents)

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Product Description: This work is an exploration of the relationships of the constituent parts of Great Britain, to understand how England, Wales, and Scotland have interacted and influenced each other, and how the modern British policy and its distinctive institutions have emerged amongst them...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Appeasement - the cornerstone of Britain's foreign policy in the decade leading up to World War II - was widely praised in its own time for avoiding the catastrophe of war, but since 1939 has been almost universally condemned. This book seeks to understand the reasons for these contrasting assessments...read more

Product Description: While nineteenth-century Britain was committed to achieving national integration, it also hoped to maintain regional diversity. Keith Robbins looks at various aspects of life which served to unite or divide the nation, including religion, patterns of eating and drinking, the political system, commercial development, education, language, literature, and music...read more

Product Description: An updated second edition of a book first published in 1983. Originally stopping in 1975, the book now goes through to 1992, and includes the entire span of the Thatcher years, and the emergence of Europe as a central factor on the national agenda...read more

Product Description: These essays can all be said, in one way or another, to be concerned with the 'Identity of Britain' in the modern period. In the first group, the author considers how British historians have themselves reflected and shaped the national understanding of the British past...read more

Product Description: Protestant evangelicalism has been a major influence in the history of both American and northern European societies; underlying features and phenomena are surveyed.

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Product Description: While nineteenth-century Britain was committed to achieving national integration, it also hoped to maintain regional diversity. Keith Robbins looks at various aspects of life which served to unite or divide the nation, including religion, patterns of eating and drinking, the political system, commercial development, education, language, literature, and music...read more