Houses designed by Brian Housden, Patrick Gwynne, Robert Harvey and John Penn are considered in seven essays by leading architects, art historians and curators.
This four-volume encyclopedia offers some 550 alphabetical entries detailing historical developments in the United States following World War II. Broadly speaking, the topics covered include arts and
This book explores the conditions under which non-state armed groups (NSAGs) participate in post-war security and political governance. The text offers a comprehensive approach to post-war security tr
Butler sheds light on how American political leaders sell the decision to intervene with military force to the public and how a just war frame is employed in US foreign policy. He provides three post-
An analysis of the war in Afghanistan, as well as pre- and post-war actions, examines the failures in U.S. and British foreign policies that led to Osama bin Laden's escape at Tora Bora and lackluster
Ernest Hemingway witnessed many of the seminal conflicts of the twentieth century—from his post as a Red Cross ambulance driver during World War I to his nearly twenty-five years as a war corresponden
As described in the introduction, "[This] book deals with the employment of war on three levels: the post-memory of conflict, the structure of enmity and its cultural construction, as well as the embe
In this masterpiece of sports reportage, Washington Post staff writer Mark Maske?one of the most respected journalists working both on and off the field?draws on unprecedented access to produce a behi
The term "Brutalism" is used to describe a form of architecture that appeared, mainly in Europe, from around 1945-1975, and aroused extremes of emotion and debate. This book continues t
After World War Two the rapid advance of communism and associated political instability threatened Great Britain's interest in the Far East. From 1948 until around 1967, troops were deployed th
These evocative images of London were taken in the years immediately following World War II, mainly from 1945 to 1953, and are the work of Douglas Whitworth, who took many photographs of people, place
In the years following World War II the health and well-being of the nation was of primary concern to the British government. The essays in this collection examine the relationship between health and
This book, first published in 1981, sets out the critical reaction to some fifty key post-war productions of the British theatre, as gauged primarily through the contemporary reviews of theatre critic
