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Changing Enemies
In January 1941, the twenty-four year old Noel Annan was assigned to Military Intelligence in Whitehall, where for the next four years he was to be involved in the crucial work of interpreting information supplied by a network of agents throughout occupied Europe and by the Ultra code-breakers at Bletchley Park. From Winston Churchill to Bomber Harris to the great minds at Bletchley, he describes in superbly characterised detail the people and the problems involved in this unusual and difficult work, which was to play such a vital role in the Allied victory. "" ""Immediately after the war in Europe ended, Noel Annan was seconded to the British Zone in defeated Germany to help rebuild the cou...
Our Age
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The Dons: Mentors, Eccentrics and Geniuses (Text Only)
A wonderfully engaging and entertaining history of the great dons of the last two hundred years, by one of our leading historians of ideas.
Leslie Stephen
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Our Age
The generation that made post-war Britain.
Roxburgh of Stowe
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The Dons
This collection illustrates the brilliance and eccentricities of the greatest figures of British university life. It also explains why the dons matter, and the role they have played in the shaping of British higher education.
Changing Enemies
This book details how Britain defeated Germany during World War Two, and then goes on to portray the Allied planning, or lack of it, for post-war Germany and the immediate German renaissance. Annan was influential in British intelligence at the time.
Modern Peoplehood
"[A] most impressive achievement by an extraordinarily intelligent, courageous, and—that goes without saying—'well-read' mind. The scope of this work is enormous: it provides no less than a comprehensive, historically grounded theory of 'modern peoplehood,' which is Lie’s felicitous umbrella term for everything that goes under the names 'race,' 'ethnicity,' and nationality.'" Christian Joppke, American Journal of Sociology "Lie's objective is to treat a series of large topics that he sees as related but that are usually treated separately: the social construction of identities, the origins and nature of modern nationalism, the explanation of genocide, and racism. These multiple themes are for him aspects of something he calls 'modern peoplehood.' His mode of demonstration is to review all the alternative explanations for each phenomenon, and to show why each successively is inadequate. His own theses are controversial but he makes a strong case for them. This book should renew debate." Immanuel Wallerstein, Yale University and author of The Decline of American Power: The U.S. in a Chaotic World
European Elites and Ideas of Empire, 1917-1957
Explores European civilisation as a concept of twentieth-century political practice and the project of a transnational network of European elites. This title is available as Open Access.
