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  • Race and Labour in Twentieth-Century Britain

    by Kenneth Lunn ...
    This collection of essays was put together with a view to furthering the study of the history of immigration into Britain. Naturally enough, a good deal of attention in recent years has been directed at 'race relations' in Britain from the 1960s onwards. As Peter Fryer's study, Staying Power (1984), has shown, there is a rich and important history of black settlement before these years and its ... Read more

    $92.06 CAD

  • The Politics of Marginality

    Race, the Radical Right and Minorities in Twentieth Century Britain

    Edited by Tony Kushner, Kenneth Lunn ...
    Immigration to Britain has rarely achieved the levels experienced by the US, but it is nevertheless true of all periods that immigrants, refugees and soujourners have been continually present'. While we may have the beginnings of a history of immigration, ethnicity and race in Britain, there is a lack of historiographical awareness in the subject. The essays in this collection, ranging from ... Read more

    $96.18 CAD

  • British Fascism

    Essays on the Radical Right in Inter-War Britain

    Edited by Kenneth Lunn, Richard C. Thurlow ...
    The continuing interest in the history, ideas, structure and development of fascism in Britain in the twentieth century appears to show little sign of diminishing. This collection of essays, first published in 1980, deals in some depth with new evidence and interpretations of the phenomenon of British fascism and provides a reassessment of some of the major issues that have caused controversy, ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • History of Work and Labour Relations in the Royal Dockyards

    Edited by Ann Day, Kenneth Lunn ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Employment and Work Relations in Context
    Focusing on the work and labour history of shipyard workers in the Royal Dockyards, this text examines the question of state employment and the specific characteristics of that pattern of industrial relations. It encompasses discussions of the nature of work and resistance to forms of authority. Particular forms of control are available to the employer which are absent from the experience of the ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

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  • This Great Calamity: The Great Irish Famine

    The Irish Famine 1845-52

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    English Rebel

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  • Independence or Union

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  • Class Struggle and the Industrial Revolution

    Early Industrial Capitalism in Three English Towns

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  • The Social and Political Thought of George Orwell

    A Reassessment

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