British civic society at the end of empire POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Russian & Soviet

British civic society at the end of empire POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Russian & SovietThe end of the empire and the legacies of Britains imperial past have shaped how the British public interact with the outside world. This book shows how the international activities of civic associations in the 1960s can help us to understand the impact of decolonisation on the British publics sense of international responsibility.

This book addresses issues facing those interested in a multi-disciplinary approach to developing critical interventions in public space

The radical tone that echoes through the entire series of papers is unmistakable

through to those of Reid

from newspapers and institutional records to oral histories and autobiography

first published in French in 1851

consuls created forms of transfrontier legal authority

this study examines the romantic narratives of pirates in Somalia

No country has undergone a greater period of sustained and convulsive change than China in the twentieth century

the first of its kind

the author recreates and explores Shetland using its inhabitants’ material experience and personal testimony

The first detailed critical history of British Modernist sculpture’s interaction with modern biology

including commercialisation