http://hdl.handle.net/2436/8717 Thu, 23 May 2013 09:02:46 GMT 2013-05-23T09:02:46Z http://hdl.handle.net/2436/27952 Title: Britain Authors: Durham, Martin Abstract: This book: What attracts women to far-right movements that appear to denigrate them? This question has vexed feminist scholars for decades, and has led to lively debates in the academy. During the 1980s, scholars produced many studies of women, gender, and fascism in twentieth-century Europe. This volume makes a major new contribution to those studies and casts fresh light on questions such as women's responsibility for the collapse of democracy in interwar Europe, the relationship between the women's movement and the extreme right, and the relationships between conceptions of national identity (especially racial conceptions) and gender. Bringing emerging scholarship on Central and Eastern Europe alongside that of more established Western European historiography on the topic, the essays cover Serbia, Croatia, Yugoslavia, Romania, Hungary, Latvia, and Poland in addition to Germany, Italy, France, Spain, and Britain, and conclude with a European-wide perspective. As a whole, the volume provides a compelling comparative examination of this important topic. Description: Originally published by Manchester University Press. Also published in the USA by Rutgers University Press. Wed, 01 Jan 2003 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2436/27952 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2436/27933 Title: British Government Policy in Northern Ireland, 1969-2000 Authors: Cunningham, Mike Abstract: This completely revised and updated second edition provides a comprehensive introduction to British government policy in Northern Ireland. It is a detailed study and looks at policy in four related areas - constitutional, security, economic and social - offering an overview of the questions of continuity and bipartisanship in British policy. For ease of reference, the book deals with these four policy areas chronologically by administration. The text is completely revised to cover the Major administration and the Labour administration up to 2000, including recent periods of intense legislative activity, such as the Good Friday Agreement, the reform of the Ulster Defence Regiment, and the reform of the Royal Ulster Constabulary. It will prove invaluable as an undergraduate textbook for modules on Northern Ireland, and as a reference source on government policy for students of British politics at undergraduate and postgraduate level. (Manchester University Press) Mon, 01 Jan 2001 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2436/27933 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2436/27932 Title: National and International Trade and the Midlands Economy Authors: Wanklyn, Malcolm Abstract: This book: In recent years, traditional interpretations of the processes of industrialisation in Britain have been superceded by a more subtle, macro-economic, gradualist understanding of industrialisation. In particular, commentators have now come to consider the importance of geography and the notion that historical change occurs in space as well as time. Concentrating on the Midlands, this book, drawing on a wealth of original research by an eminent collection of scholars, seeks to develop a fresh understanding of the complex range of urban industrial activity taking place in England during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Focusing on the concomitant urbanisation, it explains how regional urban systems both shaped and responded to processes of industrialisation and how urban systems influenced growth and raised the potential for development in particular locales. (Manchester University Press) Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2436/27932 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2436/27272 Title: Constructing East Germany: Interpretations of GDR History since Unification Authors: Dennis, Mike Abstract: This book: The system transformation after German unification in 1990 constituted an experiment on an unprecedented scale. At no point in history had one state attempted to redesign another without conquest, bloodshed or coercion but by treaties, public policy and bureaucratic processes. Unification was achieved by erasing the eastern political and economic model. However, in the meantime it has become clear that the same cannot be said about social transformation. On the contrary, social and cultural attitudes and differentiation have continued and resulted in deep divisions between West and East Germany. After unification, the injustices of politics seemed to have been replaced, in the eyes of most former GDR citizens, by unexpected injustices in the personal spheres of ordinary people who lost their jobs and faced unknown realities of deprivation and social exclusion. These are the main concerns of the contributors to this volume. Incorporating new research findings and published data, they focus on key aspects of economic, political, and social transformation in eastern Germany and compare, through case studies, each area with developments in the West. Thu, 01 Jan 2004 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2436/27272 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z