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  • British Ambassadors in Soccer Kit or Transnational Actors?

    Football League Clubs on Close Season Foreign Tours, 1900-1939

    by Peter J. Beck, Matthew Taylor ...
    Series series Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives
    This book explores the fascinating evolution of close-season foreign tours conducted by Football League clubs between 1900 and 1939, a period when these tours became a cornerstone of the British footballing calendar transforming the nature and role of the close season.During the close season, clubs ventured beyond British fields to play abroad, serving as footballing missionaries spreading the ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

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  • International Football as Cultural Diplomacy

    Britain Versus the Dictators in the 1930s

    by Peter J. Beck ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Sports History
    Drawing on wide-ranging archival research, this authoritative new history examines the cultural diplomatic role played by British football in international affairs, British foreign policy, and international football during the 1930s.For British governments, soccer diplomacy emerged as a favoured instrument of soft power when facing Hitler’s Germany, Mussolini’s Italy, Hirohito’s Japan, and Stalin ... Read more

    $89.99 CAD

  • The War of the Worlds

    From H. G. Wells to Orson Welles, Jeff Wayne, Steven Spielberg and Beyond

    by Professor Peter J. Beck ...
    First published in 1897, H.G. Wells's alien invasion narrative The War of the Worlds was a landmark work of science fiction and one that continues to be adapted and referenced in the 21st century.Chronicling the novel's contexts, its origins and its many multi-media adaptations, this book is a complete biography of the life – and the afterlives – of The War of the Worlds. Exploring the original ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • The International Politics of Antarctica (Routledge Revivals)

    by Peter J. Beck ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1986, this book considers the nature of international interest in Antarctica and the positions of those involved. It looks at the significance of the historical dimension, the development of the treaty system, the management of marine and mineral resources, the role of the United Nations and the impact of such non-governmental organisations as Greenpeace International. The ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD

  • Scoring for Britain

    International Football and International Politics, 1900-1939

    by Peter J. Beck ...
    Series series Sport in the Global Society
    This work studies the links between international football and politics in Britain between 1900 and 1939. It shows how the British government saw sport as an instrument of policy and cultural propaganda. ... Read more

    $116.79 CAD

  • The Falkland Islands as an International Problem (Routledge Revivals)

    by Peter J. Beck ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Although the Falklands War of 1982 had a decisive outcome in respect to the restoration of British control, it failed to resolve the basic cause of the war: the Anglo-Argentine dispute over sovereignty. Relations between the two countries remain unstable, whilst a series of events throughout the past three decades have emphasised the sensitive and important nature of the international problem ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

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  • Churchill on Europe

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  • John Buchan

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  • The Lawn Road Flats

    Spies, Writers and Artists

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  • Rebuilding Post-War Britain

    Latvian, Lithuanian and Estonian Refugees in Britain, 1946–51

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