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Alex Danchev
A collection of 100 manifestos from the last 100 years is cacophony of voices from such diverse movements as Futurism, Dadaism, Surrealism, Destructivism, and Stuckism, taking in along the way…
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Specialists from the fields of international relations, history and politics consider what the 20th century’s salient characteristics have been, what else is ending as the century ends, and whether Churchill…
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This is a collection of work on the Falklands Conflict by the leading authorities in the field, British and Argentine. The themes of the volume are defence and diplomacy, and…
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This is a collection of important new work on the Falklands Conflict by the leading authorities in the field, British and Argentine. Contributors include Peter Beck, Peter Calvert, Lawrence Freedman…
A remarkable biography of the cultural icon, Paul Cezanne.
A translation of the correspondence of Paul Cezanne, known as the father of modern art. This book paints a picture of Cezanne as a singular thinker and an uncompromising seeker…
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How can works of the imagination help us to understand good and evil in the modern world? In this new collection of essays, Alex Danchev treats the artist as a…
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This text offers a sustained demonstration of the way in which works of art can help us to explore the most difficult ethical and political issues of our time: war…
This book, newly available in paperback, offers a sustained demonstration of the way in which works of art can help us to explore the most difficult ethical and political issues…
The first major biography for our time, from the celebrated biographer of Cezanne.
Alex Danchev,Sarah Whitfield
This book examines the meaning of the 2003 Iraq war for democratic politics. It shuns simplistic analysis and provides a nuanced and critical overview of this key moment in global…
Invading Iraq in 2003 has proved the most deeply divisive political decision of recent times. Examines the consequences of the war for global politics on democratic politics at both national…
Alex Danchev,Thomas Halverson
An international investigation of an international conflict.
International Perspectives on the Gulf Conflict is a collection of work on the conflict by authorities in the field. This is an international investigation of an international conflict.
Lord Alanbrooke
The first complete and unexpurgated war diaries of Field Marshall Lord Alanbrooke - the most important and the most controversial military diaries of the modern era. ‘Superb’ SPECTATOR ‘Marvellous’ IRISH…
The first complete and unexpurgated publication of the diaries of Lord Alanbrooke, who during World War II was Chief of the Imperial General Staff of the British Empire and Churchill’s…
John Elderfield
Paul Cezanne (1839 - 1906) painted almost 200 portraits, including twenty - six of himself and twenty - nine of his wife . This book presents twenty - four ‘highlights’…
