World
The modern world cannot be studied without examining the course, impact and legacy of two world wars, the resources in this section set out to look at both the First and Second World Wars in their global context. The section also includes the Cold War and its impact in Latin America, South-East Asia and parts of Africa. This period also sees the rise and fall of European imperialism and the changing nature of global politics and economics as technology brings different stories from so many parts of the world directly to us. Read more
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The cultural biography of opium in China
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The great British postwar exodus
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The origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
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The shortest war in history: The Anglo-Zanzibar War of 1896
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The world in 1913: friendly societies
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Volunteers to a man: an industrial workplace goes to war
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WWI and the flu pandemic
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War Plan Red: the American Plan for war with Britain
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Western Dress and Ambivalence in the South Pacific
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What Have Historians Been Arguing About... the British Empire and the age of revolutions in the global South
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What Have Historians Been Arguing About... the impact of the British Empire on Britain?
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What did ‘Mature Socialism’ mean for the Soviet Union?
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What difference has the opening (and closing) of archives after 1991 made to the historiography of the Cold War?
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What have historians been arguing about... decolonisation and the British Empire?
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What is interesting about the world wars?
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What is interesting about the Cold War?
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What is interesting about the interwar period?
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Why White Liberals Fail: United States politics in an election year
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Will China Democratise?
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Winston Churchill and the Islamic World: Early Encounters
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