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This highly topical and authoritative history examines the changing fortunes of the Liberals from the landslide victory of 1906, through the divisions and decline of the interwar years, to the repeated revivals in the forty years after Orpington in 1962. This concise survey examines not only the el... More

Doing more with less is a skill mastered by entrepreneurs. Budgets are tight, deadlines are short, and time is of the essence. Entrepreneurial project managers use these parameters to their benefit. Hurdling over obstacles with the bare minimum of effort makes their projects and teams stand out. Foc... More

This new publication, a sister volume to the highly-acclaimed Routledge Guide to British Political Archives, provides a wide-ranging survey of the non-governmental archive sources for historians of post-war Europe. It provides, within a single volume, a rich treasure trove of resources drawn from th... More

This major new reference work provides an authoritative and wide-ranging guide to archive sources now becoming available for British political history since 1945. With a user-friendly layout, the book presents a comprehensive range of 1,500 personal papers from leading statesmen, backbench politici... More

The Routledge Companion to Christian History is an indispensable aid for anyone seeking comprehensive coverage of the facts in clear, concise and easy to use language. It covers: all key events in the Christian calendar from the persecution of the Roman Empire to the fall of Communism and the ris... More

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The Routledge Companion to Britain in the Nineteenth Century, 1815–1914 is an accessible and indispensable compendium of essential information on the Victorian and Edwardian eras. Using chronologies, maps, glossaries, an extensive bibliography, a wealth of statistical information and nearly two hun... More

'One of the most relentlessly brilliant studies of twentieth-century Britain ... these young historians have found a marvellous theme and stuck to it. Theirs is the glory!' Professor Arthur Marwick, HistoryThe 1930s - remembered as the decade of dole queues and hunger marches, mass unemployment, th... More

In a world where we take for granted the ability to communicate instantly across vast distances and time, world history has come of age. We increasingly reflect on history from a position which no longer privileges Europe or the West, and from a global perspective which ranges from the Pacific Rim ... More

A History of British Elections since 1689 represents a unique single-volume authoritative reference guide to British elections and electoral systems from the Glorious Revolution to the present day. The main focus is on general elections and associated by-elections, but Chris Cook and John Stevenson ... More

This compact and highly accessible work of reference covers the broad sweep of events as Europe transformed during the period from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment. This Companion examines the centuries that saw the Reformation and Counter-Reformation, the expansion of Europe and the beginnings... More

The Routledge Companion to World History since 1914 is an outstanding compendium of facts and figures on World History. Fully up-to-date, reliable and clear, this volume is the indispensable source of information on a thorough range of topics such as: the Arab-Israeli conflict anti-semitism and ... More

The Routledge Companion to Modern European History since 1763 is a compact and highly accessible work of reference covering the broad sweep of events from the last days of the ancient regime to the ending of the Cold War, and from the reshaping of Eastern Europe to the radical expansion of the Europ... More

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The Slump: Britain in the Great Depression takes an illuminating look back at the 1930s - the decade of depression and economic crisis in the twentieth century. Contains a new introduction, framing the historical narrative in the light of recent scholarship and discussing relevant new research ... More

This compact and accessible reference work provides all the essential facts and figures about major aspects of modern British history from the death of Queen Anne to the end of the 1990s. The Longman Handbook of Modern British History has been extended to include a fully-revised bibliography (reflec... More

The twentieth century was one of constant upheaval across Europe. The continent saw wars, revolutions and the collapse of empires and a range of leading figures from Stolypin and Stalin to Chirac, Schroder and Putin. This book provides a detailed yet wide-ranging guide to the turbulent events of twe... More

Finding or maintaining a source of sustained and profitable growth has become the number one concern of most CEOs, and pushing the boundaries of the core business into "adjacencies" is the strategy of choice for most companies. Outlining the book's promise to provide a practical framework, using com... More

Repeatability is the essence of mastery and control, and the discovery of a repeatable formula, one of the most critical elements in the growth of a company, drives profitable growth. This chapter tackles visualizing the ideal adjacency moves, focusing on the characteristic of repeatability--a trait... More

The companies best able to pursue growth opportunities are equally aware of the need to impose rules and structure on their own decision-making process, advocating a decision process that pays particular attention to leadership economics and market control in new adjacencies, a robust profit pool, a... More

Even the most attractive growth opportunity can turn unattractive, unrealistic, or even destructive when bolted onto the wrong core business, or onto the right business at the wrong time. Building growth on a core business that is prepared to support it, and for which the new adjacency moves might e... More

The many CEOs interviewed for this book all stressed the organizational challenges of adjacency expansion. Based primarily on case examples and direct comments from senior executives who have grappled with these organizational concerns, this chapter examines issues related to the execution of adjace... More

The primary reason that companies die or tumble into extended periods of value destruction is not because their market suddenly disappears or becomes uniformly unprofitable. Rather, it is because those companies failed to adapt, failed to redefine their core, and were overtaken by competitors. This ... More

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All companies must grow to survive--but only one in five growth strategies succeeds. In Profit from the Core, strategy expert Chris Zook revealed how to grow profitably by focusing on and achieving full potential in the core business. But what happens when your core business provides insufficient ne... More