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King of Britain for sixty years and the last king of what would become the United States, George III inspired both hatred and loyalty and is now best known for two reasons: as a villainous tyrant for America's Founding Fathers, and for his madness, both of which have been portrayed on stage and screen.In this concise and penetrating biography, Jeremy Black turns away from the image-making and back to the archives, and instead locates George's ...

An examination of the British Army during the long 18th century, how it became a world-operating force and its part in imperial expansion and preservation.

A concise history of the Pacific, which emphasises the very different physical and human environments both of the four quadrants of the ocean and of the coastal islands - the Aleutians, Japan and New Zealand - and the continental coastlines. The emphasis is on the countries' interactions with the ocean, through trade, migration and fishing.

A brilliantly concise history of London, with a distinctive perspective focusing on the city in its national and, more importantly, international contexts, rather than London itself. Why did London become the foremost international city, how did it sustain that position, and what is happening to it now?

The most current and insightful look at the politics and culture of the Bond world as the last Daniel Craig movie hits theaters.This book presents an insightful and thoroughly entertaining exploration of the political context of the Bond books and films. Jeremy Black offers a historian's interpretation from the perspective of 2020 and the latest Bond film, assessing James Bond in terms of the greatly changing world order of the Bond years-a li...

Casting aside conventional narratives of The Great War, Jeremy Black returns to a vast range of original sources and investigates not only the key events of the war, but its consequences in restructuring the old order. Black also considers the struggle not only in its historical context, but also how it has been remembered and memorialised, especially as the generation who experienced it firsthand are passing away.Now in paperback, this book h...

A distinguished team of 26 military historians reveal the decisive conflicts that have shaped world history from the 5th century BC to the 21st century. The course of history rarely changes so swiftly and decisively as on the battlefield. In this masterly overview, an international team of historians reconstructs and analyzes seventy key clashes from 490 BC to the 21st century and appraises their impact on the world order. Their studies encomp...

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Bringing strategy, foreign policy, domestic and imperial politics together, this book challenges the conventional understanding as to why the British Empire, at perhaps the height of its power, lost control of its American colonies. Critiquing the traditional emphasis on the value of alliance during the Seven Years' War, and the consequences of British isolation during the War of American Independence, Jeremy Black shows that this rests on a m...

Bringing strategy, foreign policy, domestic and imperial politics together, this book challenges the conventional understanding as to why the British Empire, at perhaps the height of its power, lost control of its American colonies. Critiquing the traditional emphasis on the value of alliance during the Seven Years' War, and the consequences of British isolation during the War of American Independence, Jeremy Black shows that this rests on a m...

A concise guide to the captivating history of the Atlantic ocean Over the centuries the Atlantic has become one of the most important oceans for transport and trade in the world and has borne witness to major historic events. Looking back at those who have journeyed across it over time, renowned historian Jeremy Black unearths the stories, both of triumph and of tragedy, that led to the Atlantic becoming the ocean for the world.Beginning with ...

A concise and wonderfully readable history of Germany through the ages In A Brief History of Germany, renowned historian Jeremy Black questions how the country we know today came to be, chronicling the events that shaped its past, present and future in a fascinating new way. Black chronicles the defining moments of centuries gone by and unlocks the places and people that formed Germany with stories of its society and culture. Whether you're pl...

Life, Society, Family, Economy, and Politics in early and mid-Victorian England mediated through the life and writings of arguably the nation's greatest novelist

A concise history of France from prehistory to the present, recounting the great events and personalities and exploring France's cultural and political influence today.

A concise yet comprehensive history of the Caribbean's long and fascinating history, from pre-contact civilisations to the present day Intended for travellers, but of inestimable value to anyone looking for an overview of the Caribbean, this brief yet comprehensive history is focused on the past few centuries. It includes the states on the Caribbean's continental shores, as the history of the region does not make much sense without factoring i...

A concise, accessible account of strategy and the Second World War. How the war was won . . . and lost. In 1941, the Second World War became global, when Nazi Germany attacked the Soviet Union, Japan attacked the United States at Pearl Harbor, and Germany declared war on the United States.In this timely book, which fills a real gap, Black engages with the strategic issues of the time - as they developed chronologically, and interacted - and re...

In this highly original work Jeremy Black, one of world's leading military and cartographic historians, shows how fundamental maps were to the conflict as he charts its historical sweep across each of the major theatres.

From the Great Exhibition's showcasing of British national achievement in 1851 to the opening ceremonies of the Olympics in Stratford in 2012 and on to Brexit, an insightful exploration of the transformation of modern BritainThis revised and updated fourth and final volume in the concise Brief History of Britain series begins in the specially-constructed Crystal Palace, three times the length of St Paul's Cathedral, in Hyde Park at the beginni...

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This toolkit will help COFAs and anyone working in the accounts department of a law firm to implement and oversee systems to ensure compliance with the SRA Accounts Rules.