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Geography comes before history. Islands cannot have the same history as continental plains. The United Kingdom is a European country, but not the same kind of European country as Germany, Poland or Hungary. For most of the 150 centuries during which Britain has been inhabited it has been on the edge, culturally and literally, of mainland Europe. In this succinct book, Tombs shows that the decision to leave the EU is historically explicable – though not made historically inevitable – by Britain’s very different historical experience, especially in the twentieth century, and because of our more extensive and deeper ties outside Europe.
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A fascinating study of the root motivations behind the political activities and philosophies of Putin’s government in Russia
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‘Engrossing and deeply troubling’ – The Bookseller. Why is the world so dangerous now? Former senior British diplomat Arthur Snell reveals the role of the United Kingdom in raising tension and creating global flashpoints around the world. He looks at British interventions from Kosovo to Iraq to Afghanistan, as well as policy on Russia, Saudi Arabia, USA, India and China.
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In this revealing, funny, and inspiring memoir, seven-time New York Times bestselling author and former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright – among the world’s most admired and tireless public servants – reflects on the challenge of continuing one’s career far beyond the normal age of retirement.
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A first-hand account of life and conditions in Ukraine, since Crimea’s annexation by Russia in March 2014.
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The ‘duty of care’ which the state owes to its citizens is a phrase much used, but what has it actually meant in Britain historically? And what should it mean in the future, once the immediate Covid crisis has passed? In ‘A Duty of Care’, Peter Hennessy divides post-war British history into BC (before Corona) and AC (after Corona). He looks back to beginnings when, during wartime, Sir William Beveridge identified the ‘five giants’ on the road to recovery: want, disease, ignorance, squalor and idleness and laid the foundations for the modern welfare state. Hennessy examines the attack on the giants after the war and asks what the giants are now, and calls for ‘a new Beveridge’ to build a consensus for post-corona Britain with the ambition and on the scale that was achieved in the decades after the Second World War.
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When our ancestors came down from the trees, they brought the trees with them and remade the world.
‘A stunning book on the incalculable debt humanity owes wood?’ John Carey, The Sunday Times
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The magisterial life of the woman whose family’s personal intrigues, romances and political rivalries have shaped much of post-war British history.
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‘Renegades’ is a candid, revealing, and entertaining dialogue between President Barack Obama and legendary musician Bruce Springsteen that explores everything from their origin stories and career-defining moments to their country’s polarized politics and the growing distance between the American Dream and the American reality. Filled with full-colour photographs and rare archival material, it is a compelling and beautifully illustrated portrait of two outsiders – one Black and one white – looking for a way to connect their unconventional searches for meaning, identity, and community with the American story itself.
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‘Impressive ? Fascinating’ Sunday Times
‘An authoritative history’ Financial Times
‘Gripping and richly researched’ Rana Mitter
A superb new history of the rise of China and the fall of Hong Kong to authoritarian rule.
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Here is an essential, comprehensive account of what white feminism is – and an empowering manifesto for revolution. Feminism is supposed to be the fight for the freedom and equality of women. And in the past 200 years it has made incredible gains: paving the way for women to advance economically, handing them back control of their own bodies, and advocating for their needs and their experiences. Eye-opening, timely and impossible to ignore, ‘Against White Feminism’ traces the connections between feminism and white supremacy from the earliest stirrings of the women’s suffrage movement to the ‘fourth wave’ we see today, demonstrating how an idea based on equality has been corrupted by prejudice and exploitation from the start.
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It is impossible to understand the last 75 years of British and American history without understanding the Anglo-American relationship, and specifically the bonds between presidents and prime ministers. FDR of course had Churchill; JFK famously had Macmillan, his consigliere during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Reagan found his ideological soul mate in Thatcher, and George W. Bush found his fellow believer, in religion and in war, in Tony Blair. In a series of shrewd and absorbing character studies, Ian Buruma takes the reader on a journey through the special relationship via the fateful bonds between president and prime minister.
