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The Politics of Curriculum Change
1st Edition
By Tony Becher, Stuart Maclure
January 19, 2026
Curriculum development occupied an increasingly important place on the educational scene in the mid 1960s, foreshadowing much of the national debate initiated by the Prime Minister of Britain in late 1976. The agencies for development take different forms in different countries, but the underlying ...
The Politics of the Italian Army 1861-1918
1st Edition
By John Whittam
January 19, 2026
First published in 1977, The Politics of the Italian Army provides a comprehensive overview of the role played by the army in Italian history and politics from 1861-1918. Divided into three major parts the book attempts to do three things: to observe some of the familiar sights of nineteenth and ...
The Power of the Prime Minister
1st Edition
By Humphry Berkeley
January 19, 2026
Originally published in 1968, the theme of this book is the decline of the influence of the House of Commons in general and the rise in particular in the power of the Prime Minister. The author looks behind the myths of how our constitution operates to describe what was actually happening in ...
The Privatised World
1st Edition
By Arthur Brittan
January 19, 2026
Unemployment and the economic crisis are the brutal facts of life in the everyday world around us. For many, the only retreat from this is to the privatized world of the suburbs, middle-class housing estates and high rise developments — a separate world in which the individual often feels entrapped...
The Process of Local Government Reform: 1966–74
1st Edition
By Bruce Wood
January 19, 2026
Originally published in 1976, this book examines how and why local government reforms came about and what influences, pressures and compromises were involved. At the time of publication it provided the most detailed account so far of the process by which the 1972 Local Government Act was approved ...
The Profession of Letters: A Study of the Relation of Author to Patron, Publisher and Public, 1780-1832
1st Edition
By A.S. Collins
January 19, 2026
Originally published in 1928, this is the companion volume which follows on from Authorship in the Days of Johnson. The book discusses the reading public and socio-economic effects on educational and recreational literacy from improved communications, the spread of radicalism and free-thinking and ...
The Psychology of Tragic Drama
1st Edition
By Patrick Roberts
January 19, 2026
First published in 1975, The Psychology of Tragic Drama offers an interpretation of some of the themes of both ancient and modern tragic drama through an investigation of the plays in the light of psychoanalytical ideas. In his introduction, the author explains and defends the application of ...
The Refugee in the Post-War World
1st Edition
By Jacques Vernant
January 19, 2026
First published in 1953, The Refugee in the Post-War World presents a comprehensive survey on the global refugee situation after the Second World War. Chapter I and II of Part I attempt a definition of what is meant by a refugee and states the problems to which the refugees give rise for the ...
The Rhodesian Problem: A Documentary Record 1923–1973
1st Edition
By Elaine Windrich
January 19, 2026
First published in 1975, The Rhodesian Problem presents a documentary record of Rhodesia from the establishment of the Crown colony in 1923 to the illegal declaration of independence in 1965 and the post-independence efforts for a settlement of the conflict. The documents chart the gradual ...
The Rise of Party in England: The Rockingham Whigs 1760–82
1st Edition
By Frank O'Gormann
January 19, 2026
The Rise of Party in England (1975) examines the English political party as an essential entity to the meaningful interpretation of political history. Parties are not separate from events but arise out of them, acquiring their definition from the attitudes and prejudices, the principles and the ...
The Rise of the Mediocracy
1st Edition
By David Tribe
January 19, 2026
First published in 1975, The Rise of the Mediocracy is exhaustive, disturbing, devastating, yet often very funny. It explodes the myth of meritocracy and the pretence of improved living standards. While the doom- boomers blame all our ills on trigger happy politicians, Arab oil sheikhs or polluting...
The Rise of the Pelhams
1st Edition
By John B. Owen
January 19, 2026
The Rise of the Pelhams (1957) looks at the important period between the fall of Walpole and the appointment of Henry Pelham as First Lord of the Treasury, and the ensuing Pelhamite administration – its establishment, peak and fall and its aftermath. Particular attention is paid to the rank and ...