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Sir John Fisher's Naval Revolution

By: Nicholas A. Lambert

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Sir John Fisher's Naval Revolution

By: Nicholas A. Lambert

This volume explores the intrigue and negotiations between the Admiralty and domestic politicians and social reformers before World War I. It also explains how Britain's naval leaders responded to non-military, cultural challenges under the direction of Adimiral Sir John Fisher.

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Univ of South Carolina Press

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1570034923

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9781570034923

Planning Armageddon

British Economic Warfare and the First World War

By: Nicholas A. Lambert

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Planning Armageddon

British Economic Warfare and the First World War

By: Nicholas A. Lambert

Before the First World War, the British Admiralty conceived a plan to win rapid victory in the event of war with Germany-economic warfare on an unprecedented scale.This secret strategy called for the state to exploit Britain's effective monopolies in banking, communications, and shipping-the essential infrastructure underpinning global trade-to create a controlled implosion of the world economic system. In this revisionist account, Nicholas Lambert shows in lively detail how naval planners persuaded the British political leadership that systematic disruption of the global economy could bring about German military paralysis. After the outbreak of hostilities, the government shied away from full implementation upon realizing the extent of likely collateral damage-political, social, economic, and diplomatic-to both Britain and neutral countries. Woodrow Wilson in particular bristled at British restrictions on trade. A new, less disruptive approach to economic coercion was hastily improvised. The result was the blockade, ostensibly intended to starve Germany. It proved largely ineffective because of the massive political influence of economic interests on national ambitions and the continued interdependencies of all countries upon the smooth functioning of the global trading system. Lambert's interpretation entirely overturns the conventional understanding of British strategy in the early part of the First World War and underscores the importance in any analysis of strategic policy of understanding Clausewitz's "political conditions of war.

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Harvard University Press

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0674061497

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9780674061491

Jutland

The Unfinished Battle

By: Nicholas Jellicoe

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Jutland

The Unfinished Battle

By: Nicholas Jellicoe

“A compelling, dramatic account of the Royal Navy's last great sea battle.” —Robert K. Massie, Pulitzer Prize–winning and New York Times–bestselling author of Dreadnought More than a century later, historians still argue about this controversial and misunderstood World War I naval battle off the coast of Denmark. It was the twentieth century’s first engagement of dreadnoughts—and while it left Britain in control of the North Sea, both sides claimed victory and decades of disputes followed, revolving around senior commanders Admiral Sir John Jellicoe and Vice Admiral Sir David Beatty. This book not only retells the story of the battle from both a British and German perspective based on the latest research, but also helps clarify the context of Germany’s inevitable naval clash and the aftermath after the smoke had cleared.

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322

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Seaforth Publishing

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1848323239

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9781848323230

The War Lords and the Gallipoli Disaster

How Globalized Trade Led Britain to Its Worst Defeat of the First World War

By: Nicholas A. Lambert

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The War Lords and the Gallipoli Disaster

How Globalized Trade Led Britain to Its Worst Defeat of the First World War

By: Nicholas A. Lambert

An eye-opening interpretation of the infamous Gallipoli campaign that sets it in the context of global trade. In early 1915, the British government ordered the Royal Navy to force a passage of the Dardanelles Straits-the most heavily defended waterway in the world. After the Navy failed to breach Turkish defenses, British and allied ground forces stormed the Gallipoli peninsula but were unable to move off the beaches. Over the course of the year, the Allied landed hundreds of thousands of reinforcements but all to no avail. The Gallipoli campaign has gone down as one of the great disasters in the history of warfare. Previous works have focused on the battles and sought to explain the reasons for the British failure, typically focusing on First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill. In this bold new account, Nicholas Lambert offers the first fully researched explanation of why Prime Minister Henry Asquith and all of his senior advisers--the War Lords--ordered the attacks in the first place, in defiance of most professional military opinion. Peeling back the manipulation of the historical record by those involved with the campaign's inception, Lambert shows that the original goals were political-economic rather than military: not to relieve pressure on the Western Front but to respond to the fall-out from the massive disruption of the international grain trade caused by the war. By the beginning of 1915, the price of wheat was rising so fast that Britain, the greatest importer of wheat in the world, feared bread riots. Meanwhile Russia, the greatest exporter of wheat in the world and Britain's ally in the east, faced financial collapse. Lambert demonstrates that the War Lords authorized the attacks at the Dardanelles to open the straits to the flow of Russian wheat, seeking to lower the price of grain on the global market and simultaneously to eliminate the need for huge British loans to support Russia's war effort. Carefully reconstructing the perspectives of the individual War Lords, this book offers an eye-opening case study of strategic policy making under pressure in a globalized world economy.

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Oxford University Press

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019754522X

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9780197545225

The English Radical Imagination

Culture, Religion, and Revolution, 1630-1660

By: Nicholas McDowell

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The English Radical Imagination

Culture, Religion, and Revolution, 1630-1660

By: Nicholas McDowell

The English Radical Imagination addresses current critical assumptions about the nature of radical thought and expression during the English Revolution. Through a combination of biographical and literary interpretation, it revises the representation of radical writers in this period asignorant and uneducated 'tub preachers'. This representation has become a critical orthodoxy since Christopher Hill's seminal study, The World Turned Upside Down (1972). Despite the reservations of so-called 'revisionist' historians about the misleading implications of Hill's work, culturalhistorians and literary critics have continued to view radical texts as authentic artefacts of a form of early modern popular culture. This book challenges the divide between 'elite' and 'popular' culture in the seventeenth century. While research has revealed that the rank and file of the more organized radical movements was composed of the lower 'middling sort' of people who had little or no access to the elite intellectualculture of the period, some of the most important and most discussed radical writers had been to university in the 1620s and 1630s. Chapters 1-2 investigate how critics - especially those sympathetic to the radicals - have tended to repeat hostile contemporary stereotypes of the ideologists andpublicists of radicalism as 'illiterate Mechanick persons'. The failure to recognize the elite cultural background of these writers has resulted in a failure to acknowledge the range of their intellectual and rhetorical resources and, consequently, in a misrepresentation of the sophistication ofboth their ideas and their writing. Chapters 3-5 are case studies of some of the most important and innovative radical writers. They show how these writers use their experience of an orthodox humanist education for the purposes of satire and ridicule and how they interpret texts associated with orthodox ideologies and culturalpractices to produce heterodox arguments. Radical prose of the English Revolution thus emerges as a more complex literary phenomenon than has hitherto been supposed, lending substance to recent claims for its admission to the traditional literary canon.

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Oxford University Press

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0199260516

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9780199260515

Priest-Indian Conflict in Upper Peru

The Generation of Rebellion, 1750-1780

By: Nicholas A. Robins

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Priest-Indian Conflict in Upper Peru

The Generation of Rebellion, 1750-1780

By: Nicholas A. Robins

This detailed volume offers an unprecedented exploration of incendiary conditions that stoked The Great Rebellion of 1780-1782 in Upper Peru (Bolivia). That revolt claimed tens of thousands of lives and traumatized imperial psyches for decades to come. It was, in effect, one of the most de vastating political and human disasters in Latin American colonial history. Using extensive archival research, Nicholas Robins delves into the fractious relations between Indian communities and their clergy and the role that such tensions played as a major causal factor of the rebellion. Among the grievous economic and social issues were the use of forced Indian labor, land encroachment, colonial relations with native leaders, and collection of Indian tithes and first fruits. Powerful case histories offer rare insights into the daily exercise of power in colonial Andean villages. Compelling archival evidence provides a riveting portrait of clerical abuse in rural villages and reveals how Indian peoples challenged and resisted ruling powers with varying degrees of success. Robins’ substantial documentation is enriched by a wealth of often colorful detail, making it an excellent choice for studies in Colonial Latin America n history and indigenous Latin American communities.

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Syracuse University Press

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0815631421

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9780815631422

Annals and Antiquities of the Counties and County Families of Wales

Vol. II

By: Thomas Nicholas

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Annals and Antiquities of the Counties and County Families of Wales

Vol. II

By: Thomas Nicholas

Reprint of the original, first published in 1872. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

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3382146282

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9783382146283

Understanding Anthony Powell

By: Nicholas Birns

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Understanding Anthony Powell

By: Nicholas Birns

Nicholas Birns provides a fresh examination of the British writer's career and growing reputation in this introduction to his work. Birns takes a global view of Powell's corpus, situating his works in context and explaining his place among Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene, and Henry Green, in the second generation of British modernists. Birns explains how Powell and his compatriots pioneered a "next wave" modernism in which experimentation and traditional narrative combined in a sustainable mode.

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Univ of South Carolina Press

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1570035490

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9781570035494

Evolution

By: Nicholas H. Barton

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Evolution

By: Nicholas H. Barton

Evolution is designed to serve as the primary text for undergraduate courses in evolution. It differs from currently available alternatives in containing more molecular biology than is traditionally the case.

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CSHL Press

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0879696842

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9780879696849

Diana

A Princess and Her Troubled Marriage

By: Nicholas Davies

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Diana

A Princess and Her Troubled Marriage

By: Nicholas Davies

British journalist Davies discloses the personal secrets, hopes, and ambitions--as well as the problems--of the winsome, captivating Princess Diana, the real queen of the House of Windsor. "A compassionate story of two lonely people and an uneasy monarch".--Publishers Weekly. Includes a stunning new chapter.

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Bantam

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055356255X

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9780553562552

The Princess who Changed the World

By: Nicholas Davies

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The Princess who Changed the World

By: Nicholas Davies

A touching tribute to the life of Diana, "The Princess Who Changed the World" reveals how and why she made a difference in the lives of so many people everywhere. Tracing her life from a lonely childhood and royal marriage to her surprising divorce and tragic death, Nicholas Davies describes her acts of love and secret kindness that moved so many people and ultimately made her the "People's Princess".

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Blake Publishing

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1857822048

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9781857822045

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Planning Armageddon

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Jutland

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The War Lords and the Gallipoli Disaster

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The English Radical Imagination

The English Radical Imagination

Priest-Indian Conflict in Upper Peru

Priest-Indian Conflict in Upper Peru

Annals and Antiquities of the Counties and County Families of Wales

Annals and Antiquities of the Counties and County Families of Wales

Understanding Anthony Powell

Understanding Anthony Powell

Evolution

Evolution

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Diana

The Princess who Changed the World

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