Facing Britain

Facing Britain
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 220
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ISBN-10 : 3753300624
ISBN-13 : 9783753300627
Rating : 4/5 (24 Downloads)

Synopsis Facing Britain by : Ralph Goertz

A fascinating glimpse into Britain's rich documentary traditions This comprehensive view of an overlooked subject brings together leading postwar British documentary photographers, including Mike Abrahams, Meredith Andrews, Rachel Louise Brown, John Davies, Ken Grant, Daniel Meadows, Roy Mehta, Peter Mitchell, David Moore, Tish Murtha, John Myers, Martin Parr and many more.

Big Cats

Big Cats
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Publisher : Whittles
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 1849950423
ISBN-13 : 9781849950428
Rating : 4/5 (23 Downloads)

Synopsis Big Cats by : Rick Minter

Right across Britain, people are reporting large feral cats resembling panthers, pumas and lynx. How have these cats established themselves? What are their territories, how are they breeding and are numbers viable? This book reviews the evidence and considers the implications of Britain's large cats, for people and for wildlife.

Britain Faces Europe

Britain Faces Europe
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Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages : 244
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ISBN-10 : 9781512805925
ISBN-13 : 1512805920
Rating : 4/5 (25 Downloads)

Synopsis Britain Faces Europe by : Robert L. Pfaltzgraff, Jr.

Transformations of thought among British foreign policy makers since World War II have motivated this new study. For the first time in its history, during the postwar decade, Britain began to abandon its world­power outlook and to turn toward a European consensus, substituting regional interests for its global perspective. The author asks: How does a people so attuned to worldwide interests and commitments reconcile itself to such drastically altered circumstances as those that followed World War II? How does a people that has historically viewed with hostility the unification of continental Europe develop as a top foreign priority participation in the European integration movement? The book focuses on the response of the British Government to changing international and domestic forces, including elite groups at home. Britain Faces Europe is the first book to examine both the development of British policy and the evolution of attitudes in the British private sector toward European integration between 1957 and 1967. Drawing on public documents and interviews, the author traces the movement of British policy toward a more European out­look. Investigating publications of interest groups such as the National Farmers Union, the Trades Union Congress, the Confederation of British Industry, and such Europe-­oriented groups as Federal Union and the United Kingdom Council for Europe, the author traces the development of support for Common Market membership in the private sector. Developing attitudes in representative British newspapers and journals and those of parliamentary parties art described. Publications and statements of "anti-European organizations and public opinion polls are also examined. Important elements of the study for all students and observers of world affairs are its examination of British expectations from European integration and its assessment of the British Common Market case from propositions about integration drawn from theoretically-oriented literature. The book is an innovation in approach in that other studies have focused almost exclusively on descriptions of official policy without major reference to either the private sector or theories of integration at the international level.

Brit(ish)

Brit(ish)
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Publisher : Random House
Total Pages : 447
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ISBN-10 : 9781473546899
ISBN-13 : 1473546893
Rating : 4/5 (99 Downloads)

Synopsis Brit(ish) by : Afua Hirsch

From Afua Hirsch - co-presenter of Samuel L. Jackson's major BBC TV series Enslaved - the Sunday Times bestseller that reveals the uncomfortable truth about race and identity in Britain today. You're British. Your parents are British. Your partner, your children and most of your friends are British. So why do people keep asking where you're from? We are a nation in denial about our imperial past and the racism that plagues our present. Brit(ish) is Afua Hirsch's personal and provocative exploration of how this came to be - and an urgent call for change. 'The book for our divided and dangerous times' David Olusoga

Becoming British

Becoming British
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Publisher : Biteback Publishing
Total Pages : 236
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ISBN-10 : 9781785900150
ISBN-13 : 1785900153
Rating : 4/5 (50 Downloads)

Synopsis Becoming British by : Thom Brooks

From Syrian asylum seekers to super-rich foreign investors, immigration is one of the most controversial issues facing Britain today. Politicians kick the subject from one election to the next with energetic but ineffectual promises to 'crack down', while newspaper editors plaster it across front pages. But few know the truth behind the headlines; indeed, the almost daily changes to our complex immigration laws pile up so quickly that even the officials in charge struggle to keep up. In this clear, concise guide, Thom Brooks, one of the UK's leading experts on British citizenship - and a newly initiated British citizen himself - deftly navigates the perennially thorny path, exploding myths and exposing absurdities along the way. Ranging from how to test for 'Britishness' to how to tackle EU 'free movement', Becoming British explores how UK immigration really works - and sparks a long-overdue debate about how it should work. Combining expert analysis with a blistering critique of the failings of successive governments, this is the definitive guide to one of the most hotly disputed issues in the UK today. Wherever you stand on the immigration debate, Brooks's wryly observed account is the essential road map.

Artist and Empire

Artist and Empire
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Publisher : Tate
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 1849763437
ISBN-13 : 9781849763431
Rating : 4/5 (37 Downloads)

Synopsis Artist and Empire by : Alison Smith

Through broad groupings within thematic chapters, leading scholars focus on how particular objects tell the history of life under British rule. Paintings by well-known artists such as John Singer Sargent and Sidney Nolan are illustrated alongside Benin bronze heads and Mughal miniatures in a survey that ranges from 16th century colonialism through to the projection of Britain's imperial might in the late 19th century to its decline in the post-war era.

An Overall View of International Economic Questions Facing Britain, the United States, and Canada During the 1970's

An Overall View of International Economic Questions Facing Britain, the United States, and Canada During the 1970's
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Publisher : London : British-North American Committee
Total Pages : 48
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015008556501
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Rating : 4/5 (01 Downloads)

Synopsis An Overall View of International Economic Questions Facing Britain, the United States, and Canada During the 1970's by : Harry Gordon Johnson

Essay on economic relations problems that will face the UK, the USA and Canada during the 1970s - examines the need for international cooperation and covers trade liberalisation strategy, monetary policies, taxation, the expanding role of multinational enterprises, etc.

Blair's Britain, 1997–2007

Blair's Britain, 1997–2007
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 19
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ISBN-10 : 9781139468985
ISBN-13 : 1139468987
Rating : 4/5 (85 Downloads)

Synopsis Blair's Britain, 1997–2007 by : Anthony Seldon

Tony Blair has dominated British political life for more than a decade. Like Margaret Thatcher before him, he has changed the terms of political debate and provoked as much condemnation as admiration. At the end of his era in power, this book presents a wide-ranging overview of the achievements and failures of the Blair governments. Bringing together Britain's most eminent academics and commentators on British politics and society, it examines the effect of the Prime Minister and his administration on the machinery of government, economic and social policy and foreign relations. Combining serious scholarship with clarity and accessibility, this book represents the authoritative verdict on the impact of the Blair years on British politics and society.

New British Fascism

New British Fascism
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 257
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ISBN-10 : 9781136665912
ISBN-13 : 1136665919
Rating : 4/5 (12 Downloads)

Synopsis New British Fascism by : Matthew Goodwin

This book examines the recent development of the far right in Britain against the backdrop of changing public attitudes toward race and immigration in Britain. Focusing in particular on the British National Party (BNP) which has been the most electorally successful far right party in British history, the book examines the worrying rise in support for extremist and racist ideas.

The Political Integration of Ethnic Minorities in Britain

The Political Integration of Ethnic Minorities in Britain
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Publisher : OUP Oxford
Total Pages : 252
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ISBN-10 : 9780191508073
ISBN-13 : 0191508071
Rating : 4/5 (73 Downloads)

Synopsis The Political Integration of Ethnic Minorities in Britain by : Anthony F. Heath

Britain has become increasingly diverse over the last fifty years and she has been fortunate to attract relatively highly educated immigrants with democratic values and positive perceptions of the British political system. But Britain's ethnic minorities have suffered prejudice, harassment and discrimination, while politicians increasingly argue that they have failed to integrate adequately into British society and accuse them of leading separate lives. In this book we set out to explore the extent and nature of the political rather than the economic integration of Britain's growing ethnic minority population. We consider what ethnic minorities in Britain think about and how they engage in British politics. This includes political knowledge and interest, political values and policy preferences, perceptions of parties, preferences for parties, what parties offer ethnic minorities, electoral registration, turnout and vote choice, other forms of political participation (such as signing petitions and demonstrations) and trust in political institutions and satisfaction with the democratic system. The book considers the ways in which ethnic minorities resemble or differ from the white British population, and differences between different minority groups. The analysis is based on the largest and broadest academic survey ever of the political attitudes and behaviour of Britain's main ethnic minority groups, the 2010 Ethnic Minority British Election Study, in conjunction with the nationally representative British Election Study and other surveys. The findings are based on complex statistical regression models but they are presented and interpreted for more general readers. To what extent does discrimination at work and social exclusion alienate ethnic minorities from the political process? Are those minorities who associate more with those from their own ethnic group less engaged politically? Are those who were born in Britain better integrated than immigrants? This study addresses these and related questions. Despite there being many reasons for minorities to disassociate themselves from British politics they engage in positive and constructive ways. But there are important differences between the nature of white British and ethnic minority political engagement and between different minority groups, and especially between immigrants and their descendants. As a result politicians and political parties should not take the political support of ethnic minorities for granted.