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The Growth of the British Civil Service: 1780-1939
1st Edition
By Emmeline W. Cohen
March 31, 2026
First published in 1941, The Growth of the British Civil Service: 1780-1939 by Emmeline W. Cohen offers a detailed historical analysis of the evolution of the British Civil Service. Spanning from the late eighteenth century to the early twentieth century, the book examines the structure, reforms, ...
The Impact of Plague: In Tudor and Stuart England
1st Edition
By Paul Slack
March 31, 2026
Plague, the epidemic disease whose ravages are the subject of this book, originally published in 1985, was both a personal affliction and a social calamity. It regularly decimated urban populations and totally disrupted social, economic and even political life. Paul Slack discusses the stresses ...
The Military Preparations of the Arab Community in Palestine: 1945–1948
1st Edition
By Haim Levenberg
March 31, 2026
After World War 2 the British government was faced with an acute dilemma in Palestine between the demands of the Jews and the Arabs. The Jews sought the immediate establishment of a Jewish State, while the Higher Arab Executive urged the need to curb further Jewish immigration and threatened armed ...
The Social History of Occupational Health
1st Edition
Edited
By Paul Weindling
March 31, 2026
Despite the immense literature on the social history of industrialization and workers’ political movements, there had been virtually no published work on the social history of health hazards and of work-related diseases. First published in 1985, The Social History of Occupational Health is the ...
The Worker Directors: A Sociology of Participation
1st Edition
By Peter Brannen, Eric Batstone, Derek Fatchett, Philip White
March 31, 2026
First published in 1976, The Worker Directors: A Sociology of Participation offers an exploration of industrial democracy and the role of worker participation in corporate decision-making. Drawing on extensive research and case studies, the authors delve into the emergence and implementation of ...
Youth Training and the Search for Work
1st Edition
Edited
By Denis Gleeson
March 31, 2026
Further education (FE) is no longer a peripheral part of the education system in Britain. The dramatic changes in the labour market and the resulting patterns of youth unemployment in the 1980s radically altered conceptions of FE and training. An increasing number of young people aged sixteen to ...
Zionism and the Palestinians
1st Edition
By Simha Flapan
March 31, 2026
Originally published in 1979, this book is a study of the roots of 20th century Israeli policy towards the Arabs. The point of departure is that Israeli political thinking was moulded during the pre-state period and in its crystallisation made a ritual of several basic concepts: (1) gradual ...
Athens or Jerusalem?: A Study in Christian Comprehension
1st Edition
By L. A. Garrard
March 09, 2026
‘What has Athens to do with Jerusalem? What agreement is there between the Academy and the Church?’ Tertullian’s outburst is still being echoed in some quarters, notably in the Biblical Theology School, which tries to minimize the influence of Greek thought on the Christian tradition. There are ...
Buddhist Civilization in Tibet
1st Edition
By Tulku Thondup Rinpoche
March 09, 2026
First published in 1987, Buddhist Civilization in Tibet is unique among works in English as it provides a whole range of information on Tibetan religion and literature, with extensive scholarly data, in a compact single volume. An invaluable reference book, it shows what is available within ...
Human Nature and Biocultural Evolution
1st Edition
By Joseph Lopreato
March 09, 2026
First published in 1984, Human Nature and Biocultural Evolution aims to delineate a theory of human nature, viewed as an interrelated set of genetically programmed behavioral predispositions, and a theory of biocultural evolution. The author’s approach is based on the hypothesis that innate ...
Local Government and Thatcherism
1st Edition
By Hugh Butcher, Ian G. Law, Robert Leach, Maurice Mullard
March 09, 2026
The 1980s witnessed an unprecedented series of initiatives aimed at transforming the role and manner of local government operations in Britain. First published in 1990, Local Government and Thatcherism provides a clear and up-to-date framework for understanding the impact of ‘Thatcherism’ on local ...
Modernization in Ghana and the U.S.S.R.: A Comparative Study
1st Edition
By Robert E. Dowse
March 09, 2026
First published in 1969, Modernization in Ghana and the U.S.S.R. examines the aspects of politics of modernization in two states—the U.S.S.R. and Ghana. One of the major contentions of the volume is that they faced a variety of similar problems and their responses to these had a great deal in ...