Vanessa Smith 
Intimate Strangers [EPUB ebook] 
Friendship, Exchange and Pacific Encounters

Ruling England, now in its second edition, is a key text for students wishing to understand the complexities of medieval kingship in England from 1042–1217. Beginning just before the Norman Conquest, …

The attacks and blockade on Yemen by the Saudi-led multinational coalition have killed thousands and triggered humanitarian disaster. The longstanding conflict in the country between the Huthi rebels …

Kenneth Younger was the number two man in the Foreign Office during the final period of the Attlee government, a crucial point in post-war history. Now, his papers have been collected for the first t …

This volume offers an account of some key activities of the Allied secret services and their German counterparts in Sweden during World War II. It also describes in some detail Swedish wartime legisl …

The denial of equal educational opportunities to women is arguably one of the great injustices in British history. In Willingly to School, Mary Cathcart Borer charts the gradual reversal of this ineq …

With original archival documents and interviews from the US and Europe, Michelle Frasher brings the reader into the negotiating room with American, German, and French officials as they confronted the …

This collection of essays examines the lives and thoughts of three interrelated Southern groups – enslaved rebels, conservative white reformers, and white revolutionaries -presenting a clear and coge …

Armed with pistols and wearing jackboots, Bishop Henry Compton rode out in 1688 against his King but in defence of the Church of England and its bishops. His actions are a dramatic but telling indica …

The essays in this book focus on the controversies concerning Britain”s economic performance between the mid-nineteenth century and the First World War. The overriding theme is that Britain”s own r …

This work concentrates on tracing the evolution of the so-called ‘red menace’ phenomenon as a means of demonstrating the correlation between growing American paranoia and the success of the anticommu …