Facing Britain
Title | Facing Britain PDF eBook |
Author | Ralph Goertz |
Publisher | |
Pages | 220 |
Release | 2021-11-18 |
Genre | Photography |
ISBN | 9783753300627 |
A fascinating glimpse into Britain's rich documentary traditions This comprehensive view of an overlooked subject brings together leading postwar British documentary photographers, including Mike Abrahams, Meredith Andrews, Rachel Louise Brown, John Davies, Ken Grant, Daniel Meadows, Roy Mehta, Peter Mitchell, David Moore, Tish Murtha, John Myers, Martin Parr and many more.
Big Cats
Title | Big Cats PDF eBook |
Author | Rick Minter |
Publisher | Whittles |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 9781849950428 |
Right across Britain, people are reporting large feral cats resembling panthers, pumas and lynx. How have these cats established themselves? What are their territories, how are they breeding and are numbers viable? This book reviews the evidence and considers the implications of Britain's large cats, for people and for wildlife.
Britain Faces Europe
Title | Britain Faces Europe PDF eBook |
Author | Robert L. Pfaltzgraff, Jr. |
Publisher | University of Pennsylvania Press |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 2016-11-11 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1512805920 |
Transformations of thought among British foreign policy makers since World War II have motivated this new study. For the first time in its history, during the postwar decade, Britain began to abandon its worldpower outlook and to turn toward a European consensus, substituting regional interests for its global perspective. The author asks: How does a people so attuned to worldwide interests and commitments reconcile itself to such drastically altered circumstances as those that followed World War II? How does a people that has historically viewed with hostility the unification of continental Europe develop as a top foreign priority participation in the European integration movement? The book focuses on the response of the British Government to changing international and domestic forces, including elite groups at home. Britain Faces Europe is the first book to examine both the development of British policy and the evolution of attitudes in the British private sector toward European integration between 1957 and 1967. Drawing on public documents and interviews, the author traces the movement of British policy toward a more European outlook. Investigating publications of interest groups such as the National Farmers Union, the Trades Union Congress, the Confederation of British Industry, and such Europe-oriented groups as Federal Union and the United Kingdom Council for Europe, the author traces the development of support for Common Market membership in the private sector. Developing attitudes in representative British newspapers and journals and those of parliamentary parties art described. Publications and statements of "anti-European organizations and public opinion polls are also examined. Important elements of the study for all students and observers of world affairs are its examination of British expectations from European integration and its assessment of the British Common Market case from propositions about integration drawn from theoretically-oriented literature. The book is an innovation in approach in that other studies have focused almost exclusively on descriptions of official policy without major reference to either the private sector or theories of integration at the international level.
Brit(ish)
Title | Brit(ish) PDF eBook |
Author | Afua Hirsch |
Publisher | Random House |
Pages | 447 |
Release | 2018-02-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1473546893 |
From Afua Hirsch - co-presenter of Samuel L. Jackson's major BBC TV series Enslaved - the Sunday Times bestseller that reveals the uncomfortable truth about race and identity in Britain today. You're British. Your parents are British. Your partner, your children and most of your friends are British. So why do people keep asking where you're from? We are a nation in denial about our imperial past and the racism that plagues our present. Brit(ish) is Afua Hirsch's personal and provocative exploration of how this came to be - and an urgent call for change. 'The book for our divided and dangerous times' David Olusoga
Becoming British
Title | Becoming British PDF eBook |
Author | Thom Brooks |
Publisher | Biteback Publishing |
Pages | 236 |
Release | 2016-05-24 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1785900153 |
From Syrian asylum seekers to super-rich foreign investors, immigration is one of the most controversial issues facing Britain today. Politicians kick the subject from one election to the next with energetic but ineffectual promises to 'crack down', while newspaper editors plaster it across front pages. But few know the truth behind the headlines; indeed, the almost daily changes to our complex immigration laws pile up so quickly that even the officials in charge struggle to keep up. In this clear, concise guide, Thom Brooks, one of the UK's leading experts on British citizenship - and a newly initiated British citizen himself - deftly navigates the perennially thorny path, exploding myths and exposing absurdities along the way. Ranging from how to test for 'Britishness' to how to tackle EU 'free movement', Becoming British explores how UK immigration really works - and sparks a long-overdue debate about how it should work. Combining expert analysis with a blistering critique of the failings of successive governments, this is the definitive guide to one of the most hotly disputed issues in the UK today. Wherever you stand on the immigration debate, Brooks's wryly observed account is the essential road map.
An Overall View of International Economic Questions Facing Britain, the United States, and Canada During the 1970's
Title | An Overall View of International Economic Questions Facing Britain, the United States, and Canada During the 1970's PDF eBook |
Author | Harry Gordon Johnson |
Publisher | London : British-North American Committee |
Pages | 48 |
Release | 1970 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN |
Essay on economic relations problems that will face the UK, the USA and Canada during the 1970s - examines the need for international cooperation and covers trade liberalisation strategy, monetary policies, taxation, the expanding role of multinational enterprises, etc.
Blair's Britain, 1997–2007
Title | Blair's Britain, 1997–2007 PDF eBook |
Author | Anthony Seldon |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 19 |
Release | 2007-09-20 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1139468987 |
Tony Blair has dominated British political life for more than a decade. Like Margaret Thatcher before him, he has changed the terms of political debate and provoked as much condemnation as admiration. At the end of his era in power, this book presents a wide-ranging overview of the achievements and failures of the Blair governments. Bringing together Britain's most eminent academics and commentators on British politics and society, it examines the effect of the Prime Minister and his administration on the machinery of government, economic and social policy and foreign relations. Combining serious scholarship with clarity and accessibility, this book represents the authoritative verdict on the impact of the Blair years on British politics and society.