Following Britain and the Ocean Road, Ian Friel expertly navigates the history of Britain and the sea from the Middle Ages to modern times. With Breaking Seas, Broken Ships, we…

Grossly unsanitary living conditions, cruel and abusive treatment by camp officials, the withholding of medical treatment - these were common experiences for refugees imprisoned at internment camps in Britain and…

Focusing on four principal areas in which TV organizes and presents popular music, this book investigates a diverse range of musical genres and styles, factual and fictional programming, historical and…

This work shows how the 19th-century’s steam railway epitomized modernity’s relentlessly onrushing advance. Ian Carter delves into the cultural impact of train technology, and how this was represented in British…

A selection from over twenty years of reporting and writing that sets out to deal with Britain - from national disasters to football matches to obesity.

In 1950, just five years after the end of World War II, Britain and America again went to war–this time to try and combat the spread of communism in East…

As recently as the early 1970s, scholars were able to argue conclusively for the existence of West Indian poetry as distinct from the English canon.

"In the wake of Brexit, Ian Morris chronicles the eight-thousand-year history of Britain's relationship to Europe as it has changed in the context of a globalizing world"--Provided by publisher.