Author: Stuart Macintyre
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: concise, histories, cambridge, australia, history
Number of Pages: 356
Published: 2004-12-27
List price: $29.99
ISBN-10: 0521601010
ISBN-13: 9780521601016
This revised edition of a comprehensive single-volume Australian history reference incorporates the most recent historical research and contemporary debate on relevant issues. In addition to frontier violence between European settlers and Aborigines and the Stolen Generations, the volume covers the Sydney Olympics, the refugee crisis and the "Pacific solution."Book DescriptionThis is the most up-to-date single-volume Australian history available. This revised edition incorporates the most recent historical research and contemporary historical debates on frontier violence between European settl
Author: Christopher Dugga
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: concise, histories, cambridge, italy, history
Number of Pages: 334
Published: 1994-05-27
List price: $28.99
ISBN-10: 0521408482
ISBN-13: 9780521408486
Since its creation in 1861, Italy has struggled to develop an effective political system and a secure sense of national identity. This concise history covers the period from the fall of the Roman Empire in the west to the present day, but focuses on the difficulties Italy has faced in forging a nation state during the past two centuries. The opening chapters consider the geographical and cultural obstacles to unity, and survey the long centuries of political fragmentation in the peninsula since the sixth century. It was this legacy of fragmentation that Italy’s new rulers had to strive t
Author: Richard Clogg
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: concise, histories, cambridge, greece, history
Number of Pages: 308
Published: 2002-07-15
List price: $25.99
ISBN-10: 0521004799
ISBN-13: 9780521004794
This book provides a concise, illustrated introduction to the history of modern Greece, from the first stirrings of the national movement in the late eighteenth century to the present day. It is designed to provide a basic introduction for general and academic readers with little or no prior knowledge of the subject. A Concise History of Greece has been revised and now includes a new final chapter that covers Greek history and politics to the present day. Richard Clogg is a Fellow of St. Anthony’s College, Oxford and was formerly Professor of Modern Balkan History, University of London.
Author: Stuart Macintyre
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: concise, histories, cambridge, australia, history
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2009-06-29
List price: $78.99
ISBN-10: 0521516080
ISBN-13: 9780521516082
Australia is the last continent to be settled by Europeans, but it also sustains a people and a culture tens of thousands years old. For much of the past 200 years the newcomers have sought to replace the old with the new. This book tells how they imposed themselves on the land, and brought technology, institutions and ideas to make it their own. It relates the advance from penal colony to a prosperous free nation and illustrates how, as a nation created by waves of newcomers, the search for binding traditions was long frustrated by the feeling of rootlessness, until it came to terms with its
Author: David Kirby
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: concise, histories, cambridge, finland, history
Number of Pages: 362
Published: 2006-07-24
List price: $26.99
ISBN-10: 0521539897
ISBN-13: 9780521539890
Few countries in Europe have undergone such rapid social, political and economic changes as Finland has during the last fifty years. David Kirby here sets out the fascinating history of this northern country, for centuries on the east-west divide of Europe, a country not blessed by nature, most of whose inhabitants still earned a living from farming fifty years ago, but which today is one of the most prosperous members of the European Union. He shows how this small country was able not only to survive in peace and war but also to preserve and develop its own highly distinctive identity, neith
Author: Herbert S. Klein
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: concise, histories, cambridge, bolivia, history
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2003-02-03
List price: $27.99
ISBN-10: 052100294X
ISBN-13: 9780521002943
A comprehensive survey of Bolivia’s economic, social, cultural, and political evolution from the arrival of early man in the Andes to the present, A Concise History of Bolivia highlights fundamental changes since the National Revolution of 1952 and the return of democracy in 1982 and its present day consequences. These changes include the introduction of universal education and the rise of the mestizos and Indian populations to political power for the first time in the nation’s history. Herbert S. Klein is Professor of Latin American History at Columbia University and has recen
Author: Jon Klancher
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: concise, culture, literature, romantic, companion, companions
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 2009-04-07
List price: $109.95
ISBN-10: 0631233555
ISBN-13: 9780631233558
A Concise Companion to the Romantic Age provides new perspectives on the relationships between literature and culture in Britain from 1780 to 1830 Provides original essays from a variety of multi-disciplinary scholars on the Romantic eraIncludes fresh insights into such topics as religious controversy and politics, empire and nationalism, and the relationship of Romanticism to modernist aestheticsRanges across the Romantic era’s literary, visual, and non-fictional genres
