This text considers attitudes towards peace and resistance to war, from pre-1945 to 1990. It looks at the opposition to nuclear weapons and testing, the spread of the peace protest, opposition to all forms of militarism, protest against war in Vietnam and more recently the Gulf.

This text analyses the installation, development, operation and eventual downfall of its (very different) communist regimes, and the transition to the freedoms and uncertainties of the post-Soviet world.

Under the leadership of Clement Attlee, the Labour governments of 1945-1951 presided over major changes both at home and abroad. In this volume, Kevin Jeffreys examines the Attlee governments' performance, the impact at the time and the course they set for subsequent administrations.

This volume examines the impact on the wider world of the end of the European empires and their replacement by a new international order dominated by East-West rivalries.

An examination of the post-war independence processes in more than forty colonies in Africa.