Andrew John Thorpe

Acadian reminiscences, with the true story of Evangeline: Introd. by Andrew Thorpe

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The Failure of Political Extremism in Inter-War Britain (University of Exeter Press - Exeter Studies in History)

The period between the two World Wars saw the emergence of authoritarian and totalitarian regimes in most European countries, and the development of powerful communist and fascist movements in most others. The book examines the reasons why such movements did not flourish in Britain.

Longman Companion to Britain in the Era of the Two World Wars 1914-45, The (Longman Companions To History)

In the momentous period -- barely 30 years -- covered by this systematic reference/guide, the Edwardian world was transformed unrecognisably, through war, technological progress and social change, into the Nuclear Age. It saw the coming of mass democracy, the apogee of empire, the Depression, the th...

Parties at War: Political Organization in Second World War Britain

Political parties formed the cornerstone of the liberal democracy for which Britain claimed it was fighting in the Second World War. However, that conflict represented the most sustained challenge to the British party system during the twentieth century. War forced the suspension of normal electoral...

Britain in the 1930s: A Deceptive Decade

Were the 1930s in Britain a decade of growing prosperity, unprecedented levels of ownership and sane, competent government? Or was it a time of grinding poverty, long-term unemployment and political timidity? In this new book Andrew Thorpe cuts through the welter of dispute and mythology to provide ...

The Commercial Space Station: Methods and Markets

By 2016, the International Space Station will face retirement. What then? When colonizing space, NASA blazes the trails, but private industry must build the roads. For common citizens to inhabit space, there must be a station in near Earth orbit, only 400 miles high, where dedicated commercial activ...

A History of the British Labour Party, Third Edition (British Studies)

Thorpe's book is widely seen as the best single-volume study of the whole of the Labour party's history. Now thoroughly updated in the light of ongoing historiographical debates, this third edition brings the story up to the present with new and revised c

A History of the British Labour Party (British Studies Series)

Thorpe's book has established itself as the best single-volume study of the whole of the Labour party's history. Now updated in the light of recent debates, this fourth edition brings the story up to the present with a new final chapter on the Brown and Milliband years.

Synopses in Urology

The British General Election of 1931

History of the British Labour Party

A History of the British Labour Party

Britain in the 1930s: The Deceptive Decade

Britain in the 1930s: The Deceptive Decade

International Communism and the Communist International 1919-1943

The British Communist Party and Moscow, 1920-43