Defending the realm?

Defending the realm?Britain is often revered for its extensive experience of waging small wars. Its long imperial history is littered with high profile counter insurgency campaigns, thus marking it out as the worlds most seasoned practitioner of this type of warfare. This is the first book to detail the tactical and operational dynamics of Britains small wars, arguing that the militarys use of force was more heavily constrained by wider strategic and political

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Elena Grosskopf grew up on the Austrian-Italian border and escaped to England with her brother during Mussolini's antisemitic regime

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A lively analysis of how mistakes in economic policy-making are increasingly made for political reasons and typically in the run up to a crisis when the constraints on the economy are ignored

A ground-breaking collection of essays by leading and emerging scholars

the United States

The book examines the evolution of the predicament symbolised by the setting of the Doomsday Clock at a few minutes to midnight in the context of the Anthropocene Era from 1763

This book reveals the desperate plight of the poor

It traces the various campaigns for a poor law from the later eighteenth century

A classic in the field of political economy

Connectionism is a new information-processing paradigm which attempts to imitate the architecture and process of the brain and brings together researchers from disciplines as diverse as Computer Science

national identity and the ‘English Question’