24 de mai. de 2023 · Undeniably Vision of Britain is a stunning illustration of the major technical achievement of the GBH-GIS Project team in linking a number of visual and textual sources into an overarching database, and presenting it all in an accessible way.
23 de mai. de 2023 · Identifying his formative years as those spent in various locales of empire – Australia, North Africa, and India – she argues that Powell developed in his late 20s and early 30s a thoroughly Tory vision of Britain and the world, which he then sought to defend and preserve as global politics and Western society changed around him ...
26 de mai. de 2023 · In Charles's 1989 book A Vision of Britain, and in speeches and essays, he has been critical of modern architecture, arguing that traditional designs and methods should guide contemporary ones.
26 de mai. de 2023 · Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World. Book: Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World. Niall Ferguson. London, Allen Lane, 2003, ISBN: 713996153X; 417pp.; Price: £25.00.
22 de mai. de 2023 · An overview of the United Kingdom, including key dates and facts about this European country
26 de mai. de 2023 · What is clear from this book is that Napoleon was a subject of controversy in Britain, and had an influence on British political discourse, in ways that we do not see repeated today in the face of the pervading fear in the English-speaking world – terrorism and the threat of radical Islam.
24 de mai. de 2023 · The ambitious scope of The Culture of Nature in Britain 1680–1860 justifies a comparison with such magisterial works as Keith Thomas’ Man and the Natural World, Donald Worster’s Nature’s Economy, and Raymond Williams’ The City and the Country.