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The Indonesian Tragedy
1st Edition
By Brian May
January 19, 2026
First published in 1978, The Indonesian Tragedy is a controversial book that argues that Indonesia’s lack of economic development is due to the blind attempt to force a Western economic model on a population, whose culture and psychology are unsuited to it. The author demonstrates the ‘Indonesian ...
The Industrial Muse: A Study of Nineteenth Century British Working-Class Literature
1st Edition
By Martha Vicinus
January 19, 2026
First published in 1974, The Industrial Muse is a study of the literary achievements of the working class. The focus is upon the cultural environment and assumptions of self-educated writers, their literary preoccupations and careers, and the content, form and structure of their writings. This ...
The Industrial Revolution 1750–1850: An Introductory Essay
1st Edition
By H.L. Beales
January 19, 2026
The Industrial Revolution (1958) examines the various interpretations of early industrialization in Britain. It assesses and synthesises the many writings on the industrial revolution to produce an insightful essay that spans the theories and thinking on the subject....
The Inspector General: Sir Jeremiah Fitzpatrick and Social Reform, 1783-1802
1st Edition
By Oliver MacDonagh
January 19, 2026
Sir Jeremiah Fitzpatrick (c.1740-1810) was the first inspector general of prisons and lunacy inspector in Ireland and the first and only inspector of health to HM land forces in Great Britain. He also inspected convict vessels bound for New South Wales and the East India Company‘s troop ships, ...
The Inward Gaze: Masculinity and Subjectivity in Modern Culture
1st Edition
By Peter Middleton
January 19, 2026
First published in 1992, The Inward Gaze looks at men’s fantasies and self-images from a wide range of texts (notably boy’s superhero comics, modernist literary classics, and a Freudian case-study) to discuss the theories of subjectivity, masculinity, and emotion. The author explores the split ...
The Irish Administration: 1801-1914
1st Edition
By R. B. McDowell
January 19, 2026
The developments and achievements of the Irish administration, overshadowed by the more spectacular aspects of Irish history have received comparatively little attention. But Irish conditions in the 19th Century encouraged and compelled the state to exert itself on a more extensive front than in ...
The Irish Convention: 1917-18
1st Edition
By R. B. McDowell
January 19, 2026
Although largely regarded as a failure, the Irish Convention of 1917, might, had it been successful, have resulted in a totally different Ireland to the one which has emerged. It was an attempt to solve the apparently intractable Irish Question. This book, originally published in 1970, describes ...
The Knowledge Elite and the Failure of Prophecy
1st Edition
By Eva Etzioni-Halevy
January 19, 2026
First published in 1985, The Knowledge Elite and the Failure of Prophecy presents a demystification of the role of the Knowledge Elite, or the role many intellectuals have purported to play in modern, Western, society. The author debunks their role as self-proclaimed prophets in charge of ...
The Latin American Peasant
1st Edition
By Andrew Pearse
January 19, 2026
First Published 1975, The Latin American Peasant is not a historian’s book, the presentation is rather sociological in that it seeks to explain the working out of a process of social transformation and the social forces which are released by the pursuit of common interests by social entities such ...
The Latter Prophets
1st Edition
By T. Henshaw
January 19, 2026
Originally published in 1958, this book gives a concise account of the canonical prophets, viewed in the light of modern scholarship. After introductory chapters on the prophetic literature, the historical background and the latest archaeological discoveries of the prophetic period, the rise of ...
The Latvian Republic: The Struggle for Freedom
1st Edition
By Herbert A. Grant Watson
January 19, 2026
First published in 1965, The Latvian Republic is based on the official British documents, partly on German and other writings of the period and of the author’s own experiences on a mission to Baltic Provinces in 1919. Throughout the centuries of foreign domination and the determination of their ...
The Liberation of Work: The Elimination of Strikes and Strife in Industry through associative Organization of Enterprise
1st Edition
By Folkert Wilken
January 19, 2026
First published in 1969, The Liberation of Work considers how to ‘liberate’ work, so that It flows freely, happily, creatively, with a minimum of hindrance and frustration. Professor Wilken does not consider the problem of work primarily as a problem of economics: he regards it as an intensely ...