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  • An East End Legacy

    Essays in Memory of William J Fishman

    Edited by Colin Holmes, Anne J Kershen ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Radical History and Politics
    An East End Legacy is a memorial volume for William J Fishman, whose seminal works on the East End of London in the late nineteenth century have served as a vital starting point for much of the later work on the various complex web of relations in that quarter of the capital.A variety of leading scholars utilise the insight of Fishman’s work to present a wide range of insights into the historical ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Searching for Lord Haw-Haw

    The Political Lives of William Joyce

    by Colin Holmes ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Fascism and the Far Right
    Searching for Lord Haw-Haw is an authoritative account of the political lives of William Joyce. He became notorious as a fascist, an anti-Semite and then as a Second World War traitor when, assuming the persona of Lord Haw-Haw, he acted as a radio propagandist for the Nazis. It is an endlessly compelling story of simmering hope, intense frustration, renewed anticipation and ultimately catastrophic ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Anti-Semitism in British Society, 1876-1939

    by Colin Holmes ...
    This is the first detailed study of anti-semitism, as an ideology, among the British. First published in 1979, it concentrates on the crucial period between 1876 and 1939 when, against a background of Jewish immigration, war or the threat of war, and social and economic unrest, hostility towards the Jewish community reached its peak. Colin Holmes identifies the main strands of anti-semitic thought ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • A Tolerant Country?

    Immigrants, Refugees and Minorities

    by Colin Holmes ...
    In this book, first published in 1991, Colin Holmes examines responses to those immigrants and refugees who have been coming to Britain since the late nineteenth century as well as the perception and treatment of British-born minorities. He attempts to explain the hostility which these groups have encountered and reveals behind complex feelings and circumstances which have often gone unrecognised. ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Immigrants and Minorities in British Society

    by Colin Holmes ...
    This book, first published in 1978, examines the debate over immigration into Britain and raises the important point that the existence in the country of immigrant and minority groups is nothing new. Britain has, in fact, attracted newcomers throughout most of its history and it is to remedy the deficiency of research and knowledge about these early immigration processes that the present volume ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • John Bull's Island

    Immigration and British Society, 1871-1971

    by Colin Holmes ...
    There is a strong but unreliable view that immigration is a marginal and recent phenomenon. In fact, immigrants and refugees have come to Britain throughout its recorded history. In this book, first published in 1988, Colin Holmes looks at this period in depth and asks: who were the newcomers and why were they coming? What were the distinctive features of their economic and social lives in Britain ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

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    Thunder Road

    by Colin Holmes ...
    Narrated by Grover Gardner ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 43 min

    In this gamble, more than a few poker chips are at stake.When an Army Air Force Major vanishes from his Top Secret job at the Fort Worth airbase in the summer of 1947, down-on-his-luck former Ranger Jefferson Sharp is hired to find him, because the Major owes a sizable gambling debt to a local mobster. The search takes Sharp from the hideaway poker rooms of Fort Worth's Thunder Road, to the barren ... Read more

    $22.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Oxygen Farmer

    by Colin Holmes ...
    Narrated by Keith Szarabajka ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 41 min

    Sabotage, murder, cover-ups. Just another day on the Moon.After 35 years of living on the Moon, cranky old oxygen farmer Millennium Harrison has stumbled onto a hidden facility in the shadows of the Slayton Ridge Exclusion Zone with a radiation leak and a deadly secret. Mil's discovery leads to the death of a young astronaut, sabotage, murder, and cover-ups that may go all the way to the Chief ... Read more

    $22.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Russia and the Seduction of the British Left

    by Giles Udy ...
    The Labour Party welcomed the Russian Revolution in 1917: it paved the way for the birth of a socialist superpower and ushered in a new era in Soviet governance. Labour excused the Bolshevik excesses and prepared for its own revolution in Britain.In 1929, Stalin deported hundreds of thousands of men, women and children to work in labour camps. Subjected to appalling treatment, thousands died. When ... Read more

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  • Sewing Freedom

    Philip Josephs, Transnationalism & Early New Zealand Anarchism

    by Jared Davidson ...
    Sewing Freedom is the first in-depth study of anarchism in New Zealand during the turbulent years of the early 20th century-a time of wildcat strikes, industrial warfare, and a radical working class counter-culture. Interweaving biography, cultural history, and an array of archival sources, this engaging account unravels the anarchist-cum-bomber stereotype by piecing together the life of Philip ... Read more

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  • The Dictionary of Labour Quotations

    by Stuart Thomson ...
    Anyone who has an interest in Labour or the left needs a copy of this brilliant compendium of left-leaning quotations. The collection features all the best quotes from all the great thinkers, whether they were reactionary or revolutionary, campaigning or policy-making, thinking aloud or writing it all down. The likes of Marx, Miliband, Attlee and Aristotle stand side by side in this neat reference ... Read more

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  • Romancing the Revolution

    The Myth of Soviet Democracy and the British Left

    by Ian Bullock ...
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