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  • To Lose an Empire
    Jeremy Black
    Bringing strategy, foreign policy, domestic and imperial politics together, this book challenges the conventional understanding as to why the British Empire, at perhaps the height of its power, lost control of its American colonies. Critiquing the traditional emphasis on the value of alliance during the Seven Years’ War, and the consequences of British isolation during the War ...
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    128,39 €

  • England in the Age of Shakespeare
    Jeremy Black
    How did it feel to hear Macbeth's witches chant of "double, double toil and trouble" at a time when magic and witchcraft were as real as anything science had to offer? How were justice and forgiveness understood by the audience who first watched King Lear; how were love and romance viewed by those who first saw Romeo and Juliet? In England in the Age of Shakespeare, Jeremy ...
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    27,83 €

  • The English Press
    Jeremy Black
    In this succinct one-volume account of the rise and fall of the English press, Jeremy Black traces the medium’s history from the emergence of the country’s newspaper industry to the Internet age. The English Press focuses on the major developments in the world of print journalism and sets the history of the press in wider currents of English history, political, social, economic...
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    128,42 €

  • The World at War, 1914-1945
    Jeremy Black
    This text provides an innovative global military history that joins three periods—World War I, the interwar years, and World War II. Jeremy Black offers a comprehensive survey of both wars, comparing continuities and differences. He traces the causes of each war and assesses land, sea, and air warfare as separate dimensions. ...
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    132,78 €

  • The World at War, 1914-1945
    Jeremy Black
    This text provides an innovative global military history that joins three periods—World War I, the interwar years, and World War II. Jeremy Black offers a comprehensive survey of both wars, comparing continuities and differences. He traces the causes of each war and assesses land, sea, and air warfare as separate dimensions. ...
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    52,51 €

  • War and Its Causes
    Jeremy Black
    This interdisciplinary book assesses the causes of war, considering what war actually is—key for understanding its causes. Black marshals global examples from the fifteenth century to the present, analyzing the three main types of war—between cultures, within cultures, and civil—emphasizing the social and cultural factors leading to conflict. ...
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    39,11 €

  • War and Its Causes
    Jeremy Black
    This interdisciplinary book assesses the causes of war, considering what war actually is—key for understanding its causes. Black marshals global examples from the fifteenth century to the present, analyzing the three main types of war—between cultures, within cultures, and civil—emphasizing the social and cultural factors leading to conflict. ...
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    120,76 €

  • Exeter’s University
    Jeremy Black / Jeremy Prof. Black
    Tracing the development of the University of Exeter over the six decadessince it was granted its royal charter in 1955, this book tells the historyof the institution and its community. Includes interviews with leading university figures, contributions from former students, and a postscript looking to the future. ...
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    35,42 €

  • Exeter’s University
    Jeremy Black / Jeremy Prof. Black
    Tracing the development of the University of Exeter over the six decadessince it was granted its royal charter in 1955, this book tells the historyof the institution and its community. Includes interviews with leading university figures, contributions from former students, and a postscript looking to the future. ...
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    126,30 €

  • Land Warfare since 1860
    Jeremy Black
    This book provides a global history of contemporary land warfare. Black argues that although it has always been critical to the outcome of conflicts worldwide, land warfare has become undervalued in comparison to air power in modern military thinking. Ultimately, he contends, there is no substitute for the control provided by boots on the ground. ...
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    127,52 €

  • Land Warfare since 1860
    Jeremy Black
    This book provides a global history of contemporary land warfare. Black argues that although it has always been critical to the outcome of conflicts worldwide, land warfare has become undervalued in comparison to air power in modern military thinking. Ultimately, he contends, there is no substitute for the control provided by boots on the ground. ...
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    52,80 €

  • Combined Operations
    Jeremy Black
    This book provides the first broad history of the evolution of combined operations since antiquity. Jeremy Black provides a balanced assessment of strategic, operational, and technical developments over time, considering both the potential and the limitations of amphibious and airborne warfare—past, present, and future. ...
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    127,65 €

  • Combined Operations
    Jeremy Black
    This book provides the first broad history of the evolution of combined operations since antiquity. Jeremy Black provides a balanced assessment of strategic, operational, and technical developments over time, considering both the potential and the limitations of amphibious and airborne warfare—past, present, and future. ...
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    50,16 €

  • War in the World
    Jeremy Black
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    57,52 €

  • Plotting Power
    Jeremy Black
    Military strategy takes place as much on broad national and international stages as on battlefields. In a brilliant reimagining of the impetus and scope of eighteenth-century warfare, historian Jeremy Black takes us far and wide, from the battlefields and global maneuvers in North America and Europe to the military machinations and plotting of such Asian powers as China, Japan,...
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    41,61 €

  • Naval Warfare
    Jeremy Black
    Tracing naval warfare from the 1860s into the future, noted historian Jeremy Black provides a dynamic account of strategy and warfare worldwide. He focuses on the interplay of technological development, geopolitics, and resource issues to assess not only the role of leading powers but all those involved in naval conflict. ...
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    52,77 €

  • Naval Warfare
    Jeremy Black
    Tracing naval warfare from the 1860s into the future, noted historian Jeremy Black provides a dynamic account of strategy and warfare worldwide. He focuses on the interplay of technological development, geopolitics, and resource issues to assess not only the role of leading powers but all those involved in naval conflict. ...
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    133,04 €

  • A History of the British Isles 4th edition
    Jeremy Black
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    127,60 €

  • Insurgency and Counterinsurgency
    Jeremy Black
    This timely book offers a world history of insurgencies and of counterinsurgency warfare. Jeremy Black moves beyond the conventional Western-centric narrative, arguing that it is crucial to ground contemporary experiences in Afghanistan and Iraq in a global framework. Unlike other studies that begin with the American and French revolutions, this book reaches back to antiquity t...
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    52,83 €

  • Insurgency and Counterinsurgency
    Jeremy Black
    This timely book offers a world history of insurgencies and of counterinsurgency warfare. Jeremy Black moves beyond the conventional Western-centric narrative, reaching back to antiquity to trace the pre-modern origins of war within states. His sweeping study will be essential reading for all students of military history. ...
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    133,09 €

  • The Cold War
    Jeremy Black
    The term the Cold War has had many meanings and interpretations since it was originally coined and has been used to analyse everything from comics to pro-natalist policies, and science fiction to gender politics. This range has great value, but also poses problems, notably by diluting the focus on war of a certain type, and by exacerbating a lack of precision in definition and ...
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    60,07 €

  • The Cold War
    Jeremy Black
    The term the Cold War has had many meanings and interpretations since it was originally coined and has been used to analyse everything from comics to pro-natalist policies, and science fiction to gender politics. This range has great value, but also poses problems, notably by diluting the focus on war of a certain type, and by exacerbating a lack of precision in definition and ...
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    206,41 €

  • A Short History of Britain
    Jeremy Black
    Covering over 2,000 years in under 200 pages, Jeremy Black takes the reader on a breathless tour of British history, providing invaluable context for students of any period. A truly British overview, this book covers all four constituent parts of the UK, as well as migration to and from Britain, and introduces questions of national identity and collective memory. The author beg...
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    46,04 €

  • A Short History of Britain
    Jeremy Black
    Covering over 2,000 years in under 200 pages, Jeremy Black takes the reader on a breathless tour of British history, providing invaluable context for students of any period. A truly British overview, this book covers all four constituent parts of the UK, as well as migration to and from Britain, and introduces questions of national identity and collective memory. The author beg...
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    147,96 €

  • Rethinking World War Two
    Jeremy Black
    History is both the past and our accounts of the past. In Rethinking World War Two, Jeremy Black explores the contesting accounts and interpretations of the war, critically examining the leading controversies surrounding the conflict, its aftermath and its ongoing significance in the modern world. The first half of the book considers controversies surrounding the course of th...
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    206,44 €

  • Contesting History
    Jeremy Black
    Contesting History is an authoritative guide to the positive and negative applications of the past in the public arena and what this signifies for the meaning of history more widely. Using a global, non-Western model, Jeremy Black examines the employment of history by the state, the media, the national collective memory and others and considers its fundamental significance in h...
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    47,01 €

  • Contesting History
    Jeremy Black
    Contesting History is an authoritative guide to the positive and negative applications of the past in the public arena and what this signifies for the meaning of history more widely. Using a global, non-Western model, Jeremy Black examines the employment of history by the state, the media, the national collective memory and others and considers its fundamental significance in h...
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    173,74 €

  • Beyond the Military Revolution
    Jeremy Black
    The seventeenth century has long been seen as a period of ’crisis’ or transition from the pre-modern to the modern world. This book offers a chance to explore this crisis from the perspective of war and military institutions in a way that should appeal to those doing global history.By placing 17th century warfare in a global context, Black challenges conventional chronologies a...
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    57,62 €

  • The Age of Total War, 1860-1945
    Jeremy Black
    What is total war? Definitions abound, but one thing is certain—the concept of total war has come to be seen as a defining concept of the modern age. In The Age of Total War, celebrated historian Jeremy Black explores the rise and demise of an era of total war, which he defines in terms of the intensity of the struggle, the range (geographical and/or chronological) of conflict,...
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    40,66 €

  • War
    Jeremy Black
    In this concise history of war, Jeremy Black ranges widely, giving due attention to non-western as well as western traditions. The history of war is inextricably bound to the history of the world. Through a detailed exploration of ’world-scale’ issues of warfare, presented within a chronological framework that spans human history, Jeremy Black skilfully illustrates this fact wh...
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    27,82 €


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