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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Radiating the Revolution: Agitation in the Russian Civil War 1917-21
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The origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
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Bertrand Russell's Role in the Cuban Missile Crisis
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The Uses of History in the Twenty First Century
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Joseph Priestley's American Dream
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‘Savages and rattlesnakes’ Washington, District of Columbia: A British Diplomat's view 1823-5
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The Gallipoli Memorial, Eltham
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The Duke whose life began and ended in a barn
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'The Generous Turk': Some Eighteenth-Century Attitudes
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Eighteenth-century Britain and its Empire
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Britain and the Formation of NATO
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The Press and the Public during the Boer War 1899-1902
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Photography in Korea, The Hermit Kingdom
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War Plan Red: the American Plan for war with Britain
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Jawaharlal Nehru: The Last Viceroy?
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Stalin, Propaganda, and Soviet Society during the Great Terror
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British Cooperation with the Zionist Agency in Palestine 1940-42
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Western Dress and Ambivalence in the South Pacific
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The Handing Back of Hong Kong: 1945 and 1997
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The Military Historian and the Popular Image of the Western Front, 1914-1918
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