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Cold War Geopolitics
Swiftly following World War Two, the Cold War between a Soviet-led alliance and an American-led one might appear to be a clearcut case of a continuity with Mackinder’s 1904 perspective. In practice, there was the significant intervening stage of the earlier ideological political contest of 1918-41 between the Soviet Union and a British anti-Communist system.
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Beyond the military revolution : war in the seventeenth-century world
\"The 17th century has been seen as a period of 'crisis' or transition from the pre-modern to the modern world. Jeremy Black explores this crucial period in world history from the perspective of war and military institutions. Genuinely global in range, the book engages with and challenges the idea of a \"military revolution.\"\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Maritime Security – Naval Strategy in the Twenty-First Century
The historical context is not the only one to consider when assessing maritime security today, but it is a context that offers an ability to assess long-term significance. This context can be approached in a number of ways, not least the rise and fall of maritime empires and its analytical value when considering China and America.
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England in the Age of Shakespeare
1. England in the Age of Shakespeare focuses on Shakespeare's plays (not the poetry) and explores everything from everyday life to the political, scientific, and religious climate of the era.
2. The topics covered are of perennial interest both in schools as well as for general audiences interested in learning more about what real life was like in Elizabethan England. Author Jeremy Black is a master of the sweeping introduction written for a general audience.
3. This book would be ideal for use in high school or college course adoption. The language throughout is aimed at a general reader, the pacing is quick, and the content is not loaded down with too many footnotes or academic digressions.
How did it feel to hear Macbeth's witches chant of \"double, double toil and trouble\" at a time when magic and witchcraft were as real as anything science had to offer? How were justice and forgiveness understood by the audience who first watchedKing Lear; how were love and romance viewed by those who first sawRomeo and Juliet? InEngland in the Age of Shakespeare, Jeremy Black takes readers on a tour of life in the streets, homes, farms, churches, and palaces of the Bard's era. Panning from play to audience and back again, Black shows how Shakespeare's plays would have been experienced and interpreted by those who paid to see them. From the dangers of travel to the indignities of everyday life in teeming London, Black explores the jokes, political and economic references, and small asides that Shakespeare's audiences would have recognized. These moments of recognition often reflected the audience's own experiences of what it was to, as Hamlet says, \"grunt and sweat under a weary life.\" Black's clear and sweeping approach seeks to reclaim Shakespeare from the ivory tower and make the plays' histories more accessible to the public for whom the plays were always intended.
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