This edited collection draws together new historical writing on the Commonwealth. It features the work of younger scholars, as well as established academics, and highlights themes such as law and sovereignty, republicanism and the monarchy, French engagement with the Commonwealt…
This book is a major contribution to the comparative histories of crime and criminal justice, focusing on the legal regimes of the British empire during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Its overarching theme is the transformation and convergence of criminal justice …
Indhold: The military and political context (Interwar ; Mobilisation) ; The great crisis of empire (Defeat in the West ; The Middle East ; The Far East ; The great imperial morale crisis) ; Transformation (Victory in North Africa ; New Guinea and Burma) ; The limits of attrition…
Inter-war -- Mobilisation -- Defeat in the West -- The Middle East -- The Far East -- The great imperial morale crisis -- Victory in North Africa -- New Guinea and Burma -- The Mediterranean -- Remobilisation -- Cassino -- Transformation in the jungle -- D-Day -- Normandy -- The…
"In citizen armies, it matters enormously that soldiers should, as Oliver Cromwell put it, know what they fight for and love what they know; the fundamentals of victory or defeat 'often have to be sought far from the battlefield, in political, social, and economic factors'. This…
"At the outset of World War 1 the British had some 110 assorted aircraft, used mostly in the visual reconnaissance role. With the advent of faster and more agile single-seaters, the Allies and their adversaries raced to outdo each other in the creation of genuinely effective fi…
"At the outset of World War 1 the British had some 110 assorted aircraft, used mostly in the visual reconnaissance role. With the advent of faster and more agile single-seaters, the Allies and their adversaries raced to outdo each other in the creation of genuinely effective fig…
"Privatising the Public University: The Case of Law is the first full-length critical study examining the impact of the dramatic reforms that have swept through universities over the last two decades. Drawing on extensive research and interviews in Australia, New Zealand, the UK…
