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  • FRENCH DIVORCE FICTION FROM THE REVOLUTION TO THE FIRST WORLD WAR
    NICHOLAS WHITE
    "One of the primary social changes ushered in by the French Revolution was the legalization of divorce in 1792. Diluted by the Civil Code and suppressed by the Restoration, divorce was only fully established in France by the Loi Naquet of 1884. French Divorce Fiction from the Revolution to the First World War tracks the part played by novels in this conflict between the secular...

    $1,240.00

  • THE INTERNATIONAL ORDER OF ASIA IN THE 1930S AND 1950S
    NICHOLAS J. WHITE
    This book reconsiders the nature and formation of Asia's economic order during the 1930s and 1950s in light of the new historiographical developments in Britain and Japan. Recently several Japanese economic historians have offered a new perspective on Asian history, arguing that economic growth was fuelled by the phenomenon of intra-Asian trade which began to grow rapidly arou...

    $1,480.00

  • DECOLONISATION
    NICHOLAS WHITE
    This updated Seminar Study provides an overview of the process of British decolonisation. The eclipse of the British Empire has been one of the central features of post-war international history. At the end of the Second World War the empire still spanned the globe and yet by the mid-1960s most of Britain’s major dependencies had achieved independence. Concisely and accessibly,...

    $1,120.00

  • BRITISH BUSINESS IN POST-COLONIAL MALAYSIA, 1957-70
    NICHOLAS J. WHITE
    This book explores the limits of the idea of 'neo-colonialism' - the idea that in the period immediately after independence Malaya/Malaysia enjoyed only a 'pseudo-independence', largely because of the entrenched and dominant position of British business interests allied to indigenous elites. The author argues that, although British business did indeed have a strong position in ...

    $1,460.00