Product Description: A gripping narrative of the most critical years in modern Ireland's history, from Charles Townshend The protracted, terrible fight for independence pitted the Irish against the British and the Irish against other Irish. It was both a physical battle of shocking violence against a regime increasingly seen as alien and unacceptable and an intellectual battle for a new sort of country...read more

Product Description: The U.S.-led conquest and occupation of Iraq have kept that troubled country in international headlines since 2003. For America’s major Coalition ally, Great Britain, however, this latest incursion into the region played out against the dramatic backdrop of imperial history: Britain’s fateful invasion of Mesopotamia in 1914 and the creation of a new nation from the shards of war...read more

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Marking the 90th anniversary of the Irish rebellion, this book takes an account of what really happened in Dublin during Easter, in 1916. It also attempts to answer such questions as: what did the rebels actually hope to achieve? What did the British think they were doing? And, how were the events interpreted by ordinary people across Ireland?

A history of modern warfare discusses the techniques, technology, and theory of warfare from the seventeenth century to today's high-tech weaponry.

Product Description: There has long been a need for a straightforward but vigorous account of twentieth-century Ireland. Some books begin in or about 1922, which makes it difficult to contextualise the conflicts of the 1920s, conflicts that have remained central to the structure of politics in Ireland...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A complete, illustrated history of modern warfare discusses the techniques, technology, and theory of warfare from the seventeenth century to today's high-tech weaponry, and illuminates such historical eras as Napoleon's empire and the U.S. Civil War. UP.

Product Description: In recent years, such episodes as the death of Blair Peach, the Miners' Strike, the Scarman Report, and the Ponting and Stalker affairs have raised serious doubts as to whether the "British trick" of maintaining law and order by consensus is still feasible...read more

Product Description: These essays by leading scholars of Northern Irish politics and Anglo-Irish relations explore the possibility of and prospects for political consensus in Ireland. The contributions embrace a number of approaches--historical, legal, sociological, and political--and examine the context and consequences of particular political initiatives and constitutional changes over the last fifteen years in Northern Ireland...read more