Reasserting America in the 1970s

Reasserting America in the 1970sReasserting America in the 1970s brings together two areas of burgeoning scholarly interest. On the one hand, scholars are investigating the many ways in which the 1970s constituted a profound era of transition in the international order. The American defeat in Vietnam, the breakdown of the Bretton Woods exchange system and a string of domestic setbacks including Watergate, Three Mile Island and reversals during the Carter years all contributed to a

Victoria Wood

This book includes a very strong collection of original case studies addressing two key themes of the impact of neo-liberalism on union-state relations

When did politicians’ speeches stop being their own

and the media policies of the European Union in the age of transfrontier media operations

This book represents the single most significant attempt in print to supply the English ‘economy of makeshifts’ with a solid

A comparative study of the colleges established by Irish

the Norman expansion and their political and social organisation in the period between c

Gas and oil are pivotal to the functioning of modern societies

as well as hermeneutics

in media ranging from marble and glass to cardboard

investigating how they represent African history through the twin matrices of memory and trauma

The book looks at the amateur activities of female ‘home makers’ in search of creative outlets and married couples seeking to modernise their homes as well as the contributions of early professional (female) ‘interior decorators’