If you want to learn from the leading lights of today's revolution in documentary filmmaking Maxine Baker has written the guide you need to own. You'll discover the many different and innovative approaches to documentary form and style arising from the use of innovative new technology. A tribute to the mavericks of creativity, inside you will find interviews and advice from groundbreaking documentary makers from the UK, USA and Europe as well as extensive listings of useful worldwide contacts and organisations. Any and every fan of the documentary will experience anew the passion and wonder of the Factual Film.
Mercenaries, Pirates, and Sovereigns - State-building and Extraterritorial Violence in Early Modern Europe
The contemporary organization of global violence is neither timeless nor natural, argues Janice Thomson. It is distinctively modern. In this book she examines how the present arrangement of the world into violence-monopolizing sovereign states evolved over the six preceding centuries.
Europe Since 1914: Encyclopedia of the Age of War and Reconstruction (5 Volume set)
This set presents Europe's major historical events between 1914 and 2005 and explores the political, military, social, cultural, and technological transformations of this period. Additionally, the encyclopedia examines Europe's global influence and European unification. Edited by two professors of history at Yale University, it is the companion to Europe 1789 to 1914: Encyclopedia of the Age of Industry and Empire (2006).
First published to wide critical acclaim in 1992, The Two Cities has become an essential text for students of medieval history. For the second edition, the author has thoroughly revised each chapter, bringing the material up to date and taking the historiography of the past decade into account.
This survey provides all the facts and background information that students need, and is defined into straightforward thematic chapters. It makes extensive use of primary sources, and makes new trends in research accessible to students. Its fresh approach gives students the most rounded, lively and integrated view of the high Middle Ages available.
This new regional political guide covers issues such as the European Union, common currency, NATO and the challenges of security and expansion, immigration, counterterrorism, and important sub-regional issues - unemployment rates in Eastern Europe, religious an labor tensions in France, and much more. This new regional political guide covers issues such as the European Union, common currency, NATO and the challenges of security and expansion, immigration, counterterrorism, and important sub-regional issues - unemployment rates in Eastern Europe, religious an labor tensions in France, and much more.
