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Twentieth-Century Britain

by Alfred F. Havighurst. 576 pgs.

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Contributors:

   Alfred F. Havighurst

Publisher:

   Harper & Row

Place of Publication:

  New York  

Publication Year:

  1966
Subjects:   Great Britain--History--20th Century
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books on: (Great Britain History 20th Century)  - 17430 results

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1.
Great Britain: the Lion at Home: A Documentary History of Domestic Policy, 1689-1973 - Vol. 3
Book by Joel H. Wiener; Chelsea House Publishers, 1974
Subjects: Great Britain--History--18th Century--Sources, Great Britain--History--19th Century--Sources, Great Britain--History--20th Century--Sources
...History -- 18th century -- Sources. 2. Great Britain -- History -- 19th century -- Sources. 3. Great Britain -- History -- 20th century -- Sources. I. Title. DA470.W48 942 74-7447 ISBN 0-8352-0776-5 Contents VOLUME III...
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Conscription and Democracy: The Draft in France, Great Britain, and the United States
Book by George Q. Flynn; Greenwood Press, 2002
Subjects: Draft--France--History--20th Century, Draft--Great Britain--History--20th Century, Draft--United States--History--20th Century
...in France, Great Britain, and the...Draft-France-Historv-2llth century. 2. I)raft...Britain-Historv-20th century...raft-United States History 20th century...century. Great Britain, France...wars in the 20th century. These three...Throughout history, politicians...wars of the 20th century forced almost...States and Great Britain codified...
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Cold War, Crisis and Conflict: The History of the Communist Party of Great Britain, 1951-68
Book by John Callaghan; Lawrence & Wishart, 2003
Subjects: Communist Party Of Great Britain--History--20th Century, Great Britain--Politics And Government--1945-1964
...Conflict: The History of the Communist...Party of Great Britain 1951-68...consider how a history of the Communist Party of Great Britain might be...society of great friends...strategy in Britain, socialist...and the history of the British...
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War, Culture, and the Media: Representations of the Military in 20th Century Britain
Book by Ian Stewart, Susan L. Carruthers; Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1996
Subjects: Mass Media And War--Great Britain, War In Mass Media
...military in 20th century Britain. - (Studies in...media and war - Great Britain 2.War...and military history / Nigel De Lee...the military in 20th century Britain, with representations...those in military history and war-toys...
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Cultural Marxism in Postwar Britain: History, the New Left, and the Origins of Cultural Studies
Book by Dennis Dworkin; Duke University Press, 1997
Subjects: Culture--Study And Teaching--Great Britain--History--20th Century, Great Britain--History--20th Century--Historiography, Great Britain--Intellectual Life--1945-, Historiography--Great Britain--History--20th Century, Marxist Anthropology--Great Britain, Right And Left (Political Science), Socialism--Great Britain
...I was in Great Britain in 1984...member of the History Department...seventeenth-century English revolution...was a very great and penetrating...teaching history. 48 Though...frequently in Britain than in the...nineteenth century and included...unknown in Britain. "Such accepted...applicable to history as to geology...twentieth century, was subject...and were a great stimulus...
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1.
Consumerism in 20th Century Britain: The Search for a Historical Movement
Journal article by Ben Fine; Review of Social Economy, Vol. 63, 2005
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Consumerism in 20th Century Britain: The Search for a Historical Movement (Book)--Book reviews
...Ben Fine Consumerism in 20th Century Britain: The Search for a Historical Movement...offer "the first comprehensive history of consumerism as an organised...realm of private consumption to the great advantage of working people. Not...
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Jay Winter. Remembering War: The Great War between History and Memory in the 20th Century
Journal article by Daniel Todman; Biography, Vol. 30, 2007
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Remembering War: The Great War Between History and Memory in the 20th Century (Book)--Book reviews
...Great War between History and Memory in the 20th Century. New Haven: Yale...that centurys great conflicts are...demographic impact on Britain, through to more...Remembering War: The Great War between History and Memory in the 20th Century, is the result...
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Nervous Breakdown in 20th-Century American Culture
Journal article by Megan Barke, Rebecca Fribush, Peter N. Stearns; Journal of Social History, Vol. 33, 2000
Subjects: Neurasthenia--History
...necessary." Or, from Great Britain: "competent and...Nervous breakdowns history and its continued...about worry in the 20th century. Purely professional...eds., Emotional History of the United States...Constructing a 20th-Century Emotional Style...
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Social Integration in 20th Century Europe: Evidences from Hungarian Family Development
Journal article by Bela Tomka; Journal of Social History, Vol. 35, 2001
Subjects: Domestic relations--Hungary, Family--Research, Hungarians--Social aspects, Hungary--Social aspects, Social integration--Hungary
...comparative study of Hungarian family history, which might offer us a better insight into the characteristics of the 20th century Hungarian family development, an...the Netherlands, Ireland, and Great Britain; Scandinavia to Denmark, Norway...
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Crowds and Leisure: Thinking Comparatively across the 20th Century
Journal article by Gary Cross; Journal of Social History, Vol. 39, 2006
Subjects: Leisure--Analysis, Leisure--History, Leisure--Social aspects, Social history--Analysis, Social history--Study and teaching, Social sciences and history--Analysis, Social sciences and history--Study and teaching
...for Social History Research This comparative century-long approach...the US and Britain. We showed...fates in the 20th century...crowds in the 20th century. Department of History University...Welfare State: Britain and France...Fun. 16. History of Coney...Bennett, Century of Fun, 21-5...Christian Britain (London...
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magazine articles on: (Great Britain History 20th Century)  - 803 results

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1.
The Great 20th-Century Handoff: Great Britain to America
Magazine article by John O'Sullivan; National Review, Vol. 57, December 19, 2005
Subjects: Americans--Political activity, Conservatism--Forecasts and trends, Globalization--Forecasts and trends, Periodical publishing--Rites, ceremonies and celebrations, United Kingdom--History, United Kingdom--Political aspects, United States--History, United States--Political aspects
...Century Handoff: Great Britain to America. by John...helped it install the great Reagan presidency, and...significant achievements of the 20th century. All of NRs editors and...century itself recedes into history, however, the totalitarian...
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A Necessary History Lesson: Patrick Buchanan's Churchill, Hitler, and the Unnecessary War Teaches a History Lesson That Warns America Not to Follow the Same Path Britain Took in the Early 20th Century
Magazine article by Thomas Woods; The New American, Vol. 24, August 4, 2008
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Churchill, Hitler, and the Unnecessary War: How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World (Book)--Book reviews
...Teaches a History Lesson That...Same Path Britain Took in the Early 20th Century. by...really a great man conservatives...need for Great Britain and France...official history in 1948 he...than just a history lesson. Buchanan...same path Britain trod in the early 20th century." The United...
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Money and Power: America and Europe in the 20th Century
Magazine article by Kathleen Burk; History Today, Vol. 43, March 1993
Subjects: History--20th century, United States history--1901-1953, World politics--Economic aspects
...Barbarian Sentiments: How the American Century Ends (Hill Wang, 1989); Robert...Kathleen Burk is Lecturer in History at University College, London and...with Alec Cairncross) of |Goodby Great Britain: The 1976 IMF Crisis (Yale, 1992...
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The 20th-Century Scientific-Technical Revolution
Magazine article by Mikulas Teich; History Today, Vol. 46, November 1996
Subjects: Science and civilization--History, Science--History, Technology and civilization--History, Technology--History
The 20th-century Scientific...to see the history of the world...preceded in Britain homologous...It was the Great War, the economic...of twentieth-century scientific...the latters history (as yet to...on August 20th, 1968, put...
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The Early 20th Century
Magazine article; History Today, Vol. 53, May 2003
Subjects: Flight--Bibliography, History--Bibliography, Women--Bibliography
...late-19th- and early 20th-century campaign to gain...Front: An Oral History of Life in Britain During the First...Britain in the Great War and the services...A Cultural History of Madrid: Modernism...from the early 20th century to the 1930s...
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The First Great Work of the 21st Century ; 1)gotterdammerung: Here Are All the Hells of Theological Imagination, Even of Michelangelo, Brought into and beyond the Killing Fields of the 20th Century, beyond Warsaw and Stalingrad, beyond Pol Pot and Bosnia 2) Improving: Left, a Watercolour Attributed to Hitler, Reworked by the Chapmans, and, Right, One of 17 Victorian Portraits with Faces Similarly Altered
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), June 6, 2008
The First Great Work of the 21st Century ; 1)gotterdammerung...Fields of the 20th Century, beyond...the irrel-evant history of the toysoldier...of art madein Britain at the end of the last century, then Fucking...gathering of 17 19th-century portraits of...
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The Good, the Bad, and the Easily Forgotten; THE 20 PRIME MINISTERS OF THE 20TH CENTURY by Various Authors (Haus Publishing, [Pounds Sterling]9.99 Each, [Pounds Sterling]175 the Set
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), December 1, 2006
Subjects: Publishing industry
...overview of Britains political history in the 20th century here it is...basis, the four great memorable prime...be ranked by history? Since he promised to change Britain and reform politics...Disaster, as a Great Disappointment...
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Millennium People: I Saw Martin Luther King Buried. and Man Walk on the Moon. I Witnessed the Vietnam War, and Helped Dig Babies' Graves in Ethiopia. I Shed Tears at Dunblane. but Nothing Moved Me More Than the Funeral of DIANA; BY JOHN SMITH, OUR MOST CELEBRATED 'MAN OF THE PEOPLE' OF 20th CENTURY
Newspaper article by John Smith; The People (London, England), January 2, 2000
...four decades of the 20th Century burn brighter than...stimulating events. History was being made and...about his part in The Great Train Robbery...perfect epitaph for Britains own candle in the...missions abroad for Britain. But now the best...
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Millennium Weekend: ONE GIANT STEP; the 20th Century Can Easily Be Described as the Century of Science, Says Chief Feature Writer Jason Beattie
Newspaper article by Jason Beattie; The Birmingham Post (England), January 1, 2000
...one constant throughout history: the omnipresence of...the human race. The 20th century can easily be described...has chewed and spat out great swathes of our natural...for men and women. In Britain we even had a female...
5.
A Perpetual Victorian Age, a 20th Century without World Wars. Could It Really Have Happened If We'd Left It to a Woman?
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), October 30, 1996
...Victorian Age, a 20th Century without World...The `ifs of history - what some...Reformation in Britain. No Scottish...He had a great respect for...become King of Great Britain and Emperor...Think of that: a 20th century Europe...
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Great Britain
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...the early 20th cent. The...regions. History Until...1707, when Great Britain was created...Later in the century, trade in...literature on Great Britain are G. R...on British History, 1485 1945...Twentieth-Century Mind: History, Ideas and Literature in Britain (3 vol...
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Napoleon I
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...followed by an alliance in Feb., 1813. Great Britain and Sweden joined the coalition...was a potent factor in French history and helped make Napoleons nephew...opposition, if relatively mild by 20th-century standards, set an ominous precedent...
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Pound, Ezra Loomis
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...important influence in the shaping of 20th-century poetry, he was one of the most...that were to make him unpopular in Great Britain and the United States. During World...Cantos attempt to reconstruct the history of civilization. Pounds translations...
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Spain
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...usually suppressed with great brutality, became characteristic features of early-20th-century Spain. The church, which...industrialists profits. Great social and economic unrest...and in 1987 Spain and Great Britain forged an agreement that...
5.
Geography
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...geography, another 20th-century ramification...geography. History of Geographic...and to the great discoveries...Haggett of Great Britain being leading...Society (1830, Great Britain), the American...Thomson, History of Ancient...
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