Jeremy Black
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
©2017.
Language
English
Description
"Historian Jeremy Black traces naval warfare from the 1860s into the future. He focuses on the interplay of technological development, geopolitics, and resource issues to provide a dynamic account of strategy and warfare worldwide. Through a global frame, he assesses not only leading powers but all those involved in naval conflict."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"What if there had been no World War I or no Russian Revolution? What if Napoleon had won at Waterloo in 1815, or if Martin Luther had not nailed his complaints to the church door at Wittenberg in 1517, or if the South had won the American Civil War? The questioning of apparent certainties or 'known knowns' can be fascinating and, indeed, 'What if?' books are very popular. However, this speculative approach, known as counterfactualism, has had limited...
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"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 the late 2010s, assessing James Bond in terms of the greatly changing world order of the Bond years-a lifetime that stretches from 1953, when the first novel appeared, to the present. Black argues that the Bond novels-the Fleming books as well as the...
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Strategy has existed as long as there has been organised conflict. In this new account, Jeremy Black explores the ever-changing relationship between purpose, force, implementation and effectiveness in military strategy and its dramatic impact on the development of the global power system. Taking a 'total' view of strategy, Black looks at leading powers - notably the United States, China, Britain and Russia - in the wider context of their competition...
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Throughout history, warfare has transformed social, political, cultural, and religious aspects of our lives. We tell tales of wars-past, present, and future-to create and reinforce a common purpose. In this engaging overview, Jeremy Black examines war as a global phenomenon, looking at the First and Second World Wars as well as those ranging from Han China and Assyria, Imperial Rome, and Napoleonic France to Vietnam and Afghanistan. Black explores...
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Explores the parallel histories of Sherlock Holmes and England during the Victorian era. Black traces the evolution of Arthur Conan Doyle's plots and characters as culture and society changed dramatically in his lifetime"--
Author
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The First World War was marked by an exceptional expansion in the use and production of military cartography. But World War II took things even further, employing maps, charts, reconnaissance, and the systematic recording and processing of geographical and topographical information on an unprecedented scale. As Jeremy Black-one of the world's leading military and cartographic historians-convincingly shows in this lavish full-color book, it is impossible...
Author
Publisher
Sirius international (Editions)
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Leading historian Jeremy Black brings together the continent's common threads of history from the end of the ice ages until the present day. A History of Europe is a masterful narrative which takes readers on a journey through the vast sweep of European history. It examines events as diverse as the rise of the Roman Empire, the brutal Viking raids, the cultural explosion of the Renaissance period, the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the rise...
Author
Publisher
Conway
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
William Shakespeare's lifetime (1564-1616) spanned the reigns of the last of the Tudors, Elizabeth I and the first of the Stuart kings, James I and the changing times and political mores of the time were reflected through his plays. This book looks at the England in which Shakespeare worked through maps and illustrations that reveal the way that he and his contemporaries saw their land and their place in the world. It also explores the locations of...
Author
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"From their origins in eighteenth-century England, railroads spread across the globe, changing everything in their path, from where and how people grew and made things to where and how they lived and moved. Railroads rewrote not only the geography of the world but also the history of maps and mapping. The needs of train companies and their users--both passengers and freight companies--have continued to shape the maps we consult and consume down to...
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