This book gives an account of Britain's rise and fall over the past 200 years, painting a provocative picture of a once great nation reduced to a European statelet. Jeremy Black demonstrates that the Britain we know today and which has shaped our identity has outgrown the industrial and commercial e[...]

This work contains an unprecedented wealth of over 550 full-colour illustrations, including specially commissioned uniforms, battle plans and campaign maps. It is an expert guide to the weapons, equipment, deployment, tactics and motivation of the national forces of the day, as well as fascinating d[...]

The war of 1914-1918 was a military, political and social disaster. No other war changed the map of Europe so dramatically and more than 15 million people were killed. The dramatic political and social changes of the period were mirrored in the uniforms of the armed forces, and the contrast between [...]

The War of 1812 was a dramatic conflict in American and British history. This book presents an account of the War of 1812, a crucial turning point in Anglo-American history. It makes a contribution by looking beyond the British perspective to present the events as a war of survival for Canada and th[...]

War is a subject of universal interest that continues to haunt our future as much as it has disfigured our past. Since the Gulf War public discourse in the West on the future of war has often seemed intoxicated by the new military technology and the prospect of a new paradigm of warfare as an instru[...]

The definitive introductory study of war; Professor Black introduces the subject in a broad manner, ranging across historical time periods and geographical boundaries.[...]

Contesting History is an authoritative guide to the positive and negative applications of the past in the public arena and what this signifies for the meaning of history more widely. Using a global, non-Western model, Jeremy Black examines the employment of history by the state, the media, the natio[...]

In the eighteenth century, England became the richest and most powerful country in the world. This book presents a rounded portrait of English culture in the eighteenth century. It talks about the taste in architecture; the wealth of cultural activity; the patronage of and market for books, art, arc[...]

Everyone thinks they know London. Its landmarks have been used in a hundred films, its skyline and riverscape instantly recognizable. For London has been at the centre of the nation s and even the world s attention, on and off, for two thousand years. Yet familiarity does not necessarily bring enlig[...]

In A History of Diplomacy, historian Jeremy Black challenges the conventional account of the development of diplomacy, devoting more attention to non-Western traditions and to the medieval West than is usually the case. By the nineteenth century a system of diplomacy was increasingly formalized. Bla[...]

Hur bedömer lärare elevens kunskaper? Hur anpassar lärarna undervisningen till den enskilde elevens förmågor? Hur blir eleverna själva medvetna om sitt eget lärande?
Detta är några viktiga frågor som denna skrift behandlar med fokus på formativ bedömning - som idag även benämns bed[...]