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Introduction - Multi-domain deception / by Christopher M. Rein -- The Belfort ruse: the American deception plan for the Battle of St. Mihiel, 1918 / by Lieutenant Colonel Mark E. Grotelueschen -- From Beersheba to Megiddo: British deception operations during the Palestine Campaign, 1917-1918 / by Major Brian J. Dohan -- Operation BERTRAM: British deception at El Alamein / by Gary W. Linhart -- Operations BARCLAY, CASCADE, and MINCEMEAT: Allied deception in the Mediterranean, 1943 / by Gregory S. Hospodor -- Operation KREML: German strategic deception on the Eastern Front in 1942 / by Alan P. Donohue -- Red star resurgent: Soviet deception operations at Stalingrad, 1942-1943 / by First Lieutenant Kyle B. Vautrinot -- Operation BAGRATION: maskirovka at its height, summer 1944 / by Curtis S. King -- Deceive, divert, and delay: Operation FORTITUDE in support of D-Day / by Scott C. Farquhar -- Chinese deception and the 1950 intervention in the Korean War / by Joseph G.D. Babb -- From maneuvers to war: the Egyptian deception plan on the eve of the 1973 war / by Tal Tovy -- Target San Carlos: British deception during the repossession of the Falkland Islands / by Steven Paget -- Deception in the desert: deceiving Iraq in Operation DESERT STORM / by Donald P. Wright -- Conclusion - The future of military deception operations / by Conrad C. Crane.

Western Christians in the twentieth century viewed Islam through a lens of social and political concerns that would have appeared novel to their medieval and early-modern predecessors. Concerns about the predicament of secular 'modernity' infused Christian discourse with distinct assumptions that shaped engagement with Islam in fundamentally new ways. J. N. D. (Norman) Anderson (1908-94), a highly influential British Christian scholar of Islam, embodied this new orientation in his commitment to 'modernize' Islam. Anderson's engagement with Islam as a missionary, intelligence agent, scholar of Islamic law and advisor to various Muslim governments, spanned multiple decades and continents. As well as shaping Western understandings of Islamic law and its application, he was involved in debates about the end of the British Empire and the transformation of Christian missions following formal decolonization. Because of Anderson's location at the intersection of so many different debates concerning Islam, his life provides unique insights into the ways in which Christians reconfigured their response to Islam in the last century. Given Christianity's continued influence on British and American ideas about Islam, this study provides crucial insight into the persistent focus on 'modernizing' and 'secularizing' Islam today

"In the early 20th century, the 'problem' of interracial relations between British colonials and natives was a hotly debated topic in British India. One Scottish missionary's solution was to isolate and raise the mixed-race children of British tea planters and local women in an institution in Kalimpong, in the foothills of the Himalayas, before permanently resettling them--far from their maternal homeland--as workers in New Zealand. Historian Jane McCabe leads us through a compelling research journey that began with uncovering the story of her own grandmother, Lorna Peters, one of 130 adolescents resettled in New Zealand under the scheme between 1908 and 1938. Using records from the 'Homes' in Kalimpong and in-depth interviews with other descendants in New Zealand, she crafts a compelling, evocative, and unsentimental yet moving narrative--one that not only brings an untold part of imperial history to light, but also transforms previously broken and hushed family histories into an extraordinary collective story. This book attends to both the affective dimension of these traumatic familial disruptions, and to the larger economic and political drivers that saw government and missionary schemes breaking up Anglo-Indian families--schemes that relied on future forgetting"--Provided by publisher

Media representations of the "other" Europeans : common themes and points of divergence / Katarzyna Molek-Kozakowska and Jan Chovanec -- Orbán's Hungary : the othering of liberal Western Europe / Christopher Bridge -- Togetherness or othering? : Community and comunita in the UK and Italian press / Charlotte Taylor -- The European "stranger" in Le Monde's headline discourse / Élisabeth Le -- Profiling of new Europeans in the British conservative press : a case study of the Daily Telegraph / Jolanta Szymańska -- Construing the other : on the ideology-laden construals of Europeans in the Guardian / Przemysław Wilk -- Discursive legitimation of criminalization and victimization of sub-Saharan immigrants in Spanish El País and ABC newspapers / María Martínez Lirola -- Negotiating an identity : the mediated discursive self-representation of the Polish immigrant community in the UK / Katarzyna Molek-Kozakowska -- Representations of Eastern Europeans in the UK in reader comments of two British online newspapers / Małgorzata Paprota -- Othering others : right-wing populism in UK media discourse on "new" immigration / Grace E. Fielder and Theresa Catalano -- The othering of Roma migrants in British and Czech online news discussion forums / Jan Chovanec -- The Roma as ultimate European minority and ultimate outsider? : the framing of the Roma in newspapers following a human-rights violation / Chloë Delcour and Lesley Hustinx -- Othering in Estonian online discussions about refugees / Liisi Laineste.

Since the turn of the millennium, the British media has been awash with stories of bankers and financiers caught engaging in acts of corporate wrongdoing and financial skullduggery. But just how different are these crimes to those committed in the past? And, is the threat of financial fraud greater today than in bygone years? In this book, Matthew Hollow begins answering these questions by providing an in-depth historical overview of some of the most significant frauds that took place in the British financial sector between 1919 and 1939. Using extensive archival evidence, he reveals the variety of tactics that were employed by interwar fraudsters to conceal their underhand transactions and dupe the British public into handing over their money. He goes on to explore the different factors that motivated these fraudsters many of whom had previously had blemish-free records to engage in these acts of deception and deceit. Rogue Banking is a unique resource for history and finance researchers and students, both in the UK and around the world, who are interested in questions relating to corporate fraud and white-collar crime. This book's interdisciplinary approach also makes it an accessible and informative tool for professionals in accountancy, management and criminology.

Over the last decade, the notion of counter-insurgency (COIN) has risen to prominence as the dominant paradigm in American and British thinking about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Despite the high level of attention paid to the subject by military analysts, the broader theoretical and historical factors which underpin counter-insurgency have received comparatively little critical scrutiny. This volume addresses the gap in existing scholarship by exploring and challenging several critical aspects of the prevailing orthodoxy on COIN. This critical reappraisal of counter-insurgency thinking and practice brings together a number of international academics and practitioners, providing a pluralistic insight on the effectiveness of counter-insurgency operations from military, academic, media and civilian administrative perspectives. It also combines US and British insights into the theory and practise of twenty-first century COIN. With the continuing relevance of 'big third party' COIN to Western engagement in future wars of choice, this book provides an important and timely analysis of an issue which will continue to impact American and British security policy and future interventions. This book will appeal to scholars of Military Studies, Strategic Studies, Security Studies and International Relations and to practitioners and policy-makers working in the field of counter-insurgency.

UK Monetary Policy from Devaluation to Thatcher, 1967-1982 charts the course of monetary policy in the UK from the 1960s to the early 1980s. It shows how events such as the 1967 sterling devaluation, the collapse of Bretton Woods, the stagflation of the 1970s and the International Monetary Fund loan of 1976 all shaped policy. It challenges the existing historiography by showing the Bank of England and the UK Treasury experimenting with money supply 'targets' nearly a decade before the Thatcher government placed monetarism at the heart of economic policy. By misreading the monetary history of the 1970s, the Thatcher government subjected the UK economy to a recession of unnecessary depth and severity that required the monetary policy U-turn of the 1981 budget, the most controversial in post-war British history. Fiscal policy was tightened ₆ to the bewilderment of much of the economics profession; monetary policy was loosened -- to the relief of British business. This rebalancing allowed personal consumption, through increased household debt, to become the engine of growth in the 1980s. This failure to heed the lessons of 1970s monetary policy, and the subsequent increase in personal debt, has had profound long-term consequences for the shape of the British economy.

Sir Alexander Grantham became Governor of Hong Kong in 1947 and served until 1957. His term of office saw rapid reconstruction and growing prosperity after World War II. Civil war and revolution in China drove hundreds of thousands of refugees into the British colony, while tense relations between Britain and the new People's Republic gave rise to difficult and potentially explosive incidents in Hong Kong. Plans for democratic reform were quietly dropped as Grantham instead crafted an authoritarian form of government that combined strong leadership with gradual social reform - a system that lasted almost to the end of colonial rule. In this elegant memoir, first published by the Hong Kong University Press in 1965, Grantham describes his thirty-five years in the British colonial service, which began in Hong Kong in 1922 and ended here in 1957; he also held senior positions in Bermuda, Jamaica, Nigeria and the South Pacific. Only a few of Hong Kong's former governors have published anything about their terms of office here, but Grantham's stands out as the most interesting and substantial. Via Ports is an important first-hand account of the workings of Britain's colonial system. It also contains vivid, often amusing anecdotes about life behind the scenes in Government House during the long twilight of the British Empire.

Introduction / Mohammad S. Seddon & Fauzia Ahmad -- Muslim youth : negotiating local and global contexts -- The phenomenon of dual nihilism among the British Muslim youth of Bradford / Saeed a. Khan -- Why is Hizb-ut Tahrir influential in Britain and Uzbekistan but not in Turkey and Egypt? / Ihsan Yilmaz -- Identity and belonging -- Muslim migrant youth: descriptive factors related to acculturation and psychosocial adaptation / M. Taqi Tirmazi, Altaf Husain, Fatima Mirza & Tasanee R. Walsh -- Religion, language or ethnicity? hybridised youth identity among the Afghan Ismaili community in Germany / Yahia Baiza -- Turning to my religion / M. G. Khan -- Education and new media -- Growing up under lockdown or educational pioneers? Challenging stereotypes of British Muslim women in higher education / Fauzia Ahmad -- Muslim youth at university: a critical examination of the British higher education system / Seyfeddin Kara -- Muslim youth and citizenship education: idealism, islam and prospects for successful citizenship education / Nader al-Refai & Christopher Bagley -- Methodologies of engaging -- activity and alterity: youth work with Muslim girls / Gill Cressey -- Youth work and islam: a growing tradition / Brian Belton -- Training muslim youths to be khateebs arif fitzsimon -- Engaging with young muslims: some paradigms from the Quran and Sunnah Mohammad S. Seddon.

The first substantial interdisciplinary, cross-genre critique of Margaret Thatcher and her cultural 'afterlife', exploring Thatcher's legacy across a range of areas including public policy, broadcast media, film, poetry, architectural design, political cartoons and literature, Thatcher& After explores the persistent reappearances of Margaret Thatcher, Britain's most loved and reviled Prime Minister, in contemporary British culture. Twenty years after Thatcher left office, Britain is still struggling to come to terms with her legacy. This exciting and original volume reads Thatcher's moment as a profound and powerful rupture in British political and cultural life and argues that there is an afterlife to Thatcher and Thatcherism that requires address and even redress in the present. The urgent goal of this volume is to restore a Thatcherite past to a present that is increasingly forgetful and celebratory of Thatcher and to resist the growing conservatism in British life. Its contributors provide strategies and opportunities to resist in the present, however belatedly, Thatcherism's all-pervasive policies - policies that can be seen problematically even at the core of New Labour's ideologies. Through a range of essays, scholars of literature, cultural studies, media studies, film and drama question what it means to be living in a post-Thatcher world

In May 1835 in a Sydney courtroom, a slight, balding man named John Dow stood charged with forgery. The prisoner shocked the room by claiming he was Edward, Viscount Lascelles, eldest son of the powerful Earl of Harewood. The Crown alleged he was a confidence trickster and serial impostor. Was this really the heir to one of Britain's most spectacular fortunes? Part Regency mystery, part imperial history, A Swindler's Progress is an engrossing tale of adventure and deceit across two worlds—British aristocrats and Australian felons—bound together in an emerging age of opportunity and individualism, where personal worth was battling power based on birth alone. The first historian to unravel the mystery of John Dow and Edward Lascelles, Kirsten McKenzie illuminates the darker side of this age of liberty, when freedom could mean the freedom to lie both in the far-flung outposts of empire and within the established bastions of British power. The struggles of the Lascelles family for social and political power, and the tragedy of their disgraced heir, demonstrate that British elites were as fragile as their colonial counterparts. In ways both personal and profound, McKenzie recreates a world in which Britain and the empire were intertwined in the transformation of status and politics in the nineteenth century

British economic interests and the international order of Asia in the 1930s / Shigeru Akita -- British imperialism in Asia and Anglo-Japanese relations, 1930s-1950s / Yoichi Kibata -- The formation of an industrialization-oriented monetary order in East Asia / Kaoru Sugihara -- The Korean-centric Japanese Imperium and the transformation of the international system from the 1930s to the 1950s / Bruce Cumings -- Sterling, Hong Kong, and China in the 1930s and 1950s / Catherine R. Schenk -- Malaya and the sterling area reconsidered : continuity and change in the 1950s / Nicholas J. White -- Japan's commercial penetration of South and Southeast Asia and the cotton trade negotiations in the 1930s : maintaining relations between Japan, British India, and the Dutch East Indies / Naoto Kagotani -- China's relations with the international monetary system in the 20th century : historical analysis and contemporary implication / Tomoko Shiroyama -- China's economic development and the international order of Asia, 1930s-50s / Toru Kubo -- Continuity and discontinuity from the 1930s to the 1950s in Northeast China : the "miraculous" rehabilitation of the Anshan Iron & Steel Company immediately after the Chinese civil war / Toshiro Matsumoto -- The survival of economic elites during regime transition : government-merchant cooperation in Taiwan's trade With japan, 1950-1961 / Man-houng Lin

China, British imperialism and the myth of the 'opium plague' / Frank Dik'tter, Lars Laamann, and Xun Zhou -- Developing habits : opium and tobacco in the Indonesian archipelago, c. 1619-c. 1794 / George Bryan Souza -- Early British encounters with the Indian opium eater / Richard Newman -- "Cannot we induce the people of England to eat opium?" The moral economy of opium in colonial India / John F. Richards -- Opium and the trading world of western India in the early nineteenth century / Amar Farooqui -- Dangerous drinks and the colonial state : "illicit" gin prohibition and control in colonial Nigeria / Chima J. Korieh -- Empire and excise : drugs and drink revenue and the fate of states in South Asia / Marc Jason Gilbert -- Powders, potions and tablets : politics, science and the purity of drugs in British India, 1890 to 1939 / Patricia Barton -- Colonial Africa and the international politics of cannabis : Egypt, South Africa, and the origins of global control / James H. Mills -- "A grave danger to the peace of the East" : opium and imperial rivalry in China, 1895-1920 / William O. Walker III -- 'Wolf by the ears' : the dilemmas of imperial opium policymaking in the 20th century / William B. McAllister -- The trade-off : Chinese opium and American philanthropy, 1815-1860 / Kelly Gray

To date, critical analysis of the EMU project has largely been advanced from the centre-right spectrum of British politics. Comparable questions from the centre-left have failed to find a coherent voice. Although, the European fault-line cannot be characterized as a neat Left-Right issue there are noticeable divisions in opinion across British business, the trade union movement and within the Labour Party. Offering a unique insight into this key debate from the 'centre-left', eurosceptic view point, this book provides a rigorous analysis of all the salient economic and political issues of concern, such as: * the economics of a single currency * employment and social implications * sovereignty * political determination. The arguments presented in this volume highlight the emergence of a coherent alternative to deepening economic integration as a platform to build a just and equitable society. Contributions are drawn from leading academics, trade union leaders and prominent politicians, both from the Labour Party and the wider progressive Left in British politics. This informative and thought provoking book will be indispensable reading for students and practitioners in economics, politics and international relations, as well as those interested in this highly contentious topic.

To date, critical analysis of the EMU project has largely been advanced from the centre-right spectrum of British politics. Comparable questions from the centre-left have failed to find a coherent voice. Although, the European fault-line cannot be characterized as a neat Left-Right issue there are noticeable divisions in opinion across British business, the trade union movement and within the Labour Party. Offering a unique insight into this key debate from the 'centre-left', eurosceptic view point, this book provides a rigorous analysis of all the salient economic and political issues of concern, such as: * the economics of a single currency * employment and social implications * sovereignty * political determination. The arguments presented in this volume highlight the emergence of a coherent alternative to deepening economic integration as a platform to build a just and equitable society. Contributions are drawn from leading academics, trade union leaders and prominent politicians, both from the Labour Party and the wider progressive Left in British politics. This informative and thought provoking book will be indispensable reading for students and practitioners in economics, politics and international relations, as well as those interested in this highly contentious topic.