Product Description: After thirteen years in power, Labour suddenly returned to being the party of opposition in 2010. This new edition of A History of the British Labour Party brings us up-to-date, examining Gordon Brown's period in office and the Labour Party under the leadership of Ed Miliband...read more

Product Description: Political parties formed the cornerstone of the liberal democracy for which Britain claimed it was fighting in the Second World War. However, that conflict represented the most sustained challenge to the British party system during the twentieth century...read more

Product Description: The relationship between the British Communist Party and Soviet communism is complex and controversial. The opening of many new archival sources since the collapse of the Soviet Union has allowed Andrew Thorpe to shed new light on this fascinating history...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The story of old Acadia is reborn! On a cold winter night, an old woman gathers her grandchildren at her feet and recounts the story of the Acadia she once knew. From the stirring simplicity of the Acadians’ daily community to their exile from the only home they’d ever known, this spellbinding and deeply personal tale grants new life to a rich culture that exists only in the faintest of memories...read more

Product Description: The Communist International was formed in Moscow in 1919 as a factory of world revolution, but was dissolved in 1943 without having led a single successful working-class uprising. This comprehensive new collection of essays uses many of the newly available Russian and East European sources to look again at the history of this most fascinating of political phenomena...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The Communist International was formed in Moscow in 1919 as a factory of world revolution, but was dissolved in 1943 without having led a single successful working-class uprising. This comprehensive new collection of essays uses many of the newly available Russian and East European sources to look again at the history of this most fascinating of political phenomena...read more

This is an aid to anyone interested in the history and politics of Britain in the first half of the 20th century. Purpose built for student needs, it is a practical desk-companion for continuous use on a key phase in the history of Britain. It covers only 31 years - but they are years of such unprecedented change that they link two different worlds, from the imperial certainties of the Edwardian Age to the global anxieties fo the Atom Bomb and the Cold War. It includes: a Chronology of the main political events of the period; lists of ministries, office holders and elections; detailed accounts of political parties; notes on legislation and local government; information and statistics on social issues, including population, education, health, gender, sexuality, crime, the news media and religion; information on economic issues, including trade, prices, unemployment, agriculture, industry, finance, the unions and transport; the main developments in foreign and imperial affairs, and accounts of the two world wars and concise biographies of the key figures of the age.

Product Description: Historical debate about the 1930s has been sharply polarized. Some see the decade as a period of growing prosperity administered by sane and responsible governments. For others, it was a period of grinding poverty and high unemployment, blighted by weak and indecisive governments...read more

Product Description: The British general election of 1931 marked the culmination of a period of political and economic crisis, and has long been regarded as a watershed in twentieth-century British history. In the summer of 1931, a struggling Labour government collapsed: its leader, Ramsay MacDonald, stayed on to form a National government supported mainly by Conservatives and Liberals...read more

Product Description: The period between the two World Wars saw the emergence of authoritarian and totalitarian regimes in most European countries, and the development of powerful communist and fascist movements in most others. The book examines the reasons why such movements did not flourish in Britain...read more