Projects Abroad and the Invention of Mass Overseas Volunteering
This book explores the origins and development of mass overseas volunteering through the story of Projects Abroad, the world’s first company to combine being a business with large-scale youth volunteering overseas. Written by the founder himself, it examines how a single entrepreneurial idea transformed international volunteering, youth travel, and development work across the globe.
The book offers insights into the creation and growth of a pioneering global business and the challenges of turning an unconventional idea into a successful enterprise. It explores how mass overseas volunteering disrupted the self-satisfied worlds of charities and governments involved with international development aid and introduced new ideas into youth travel and tourism. Through detailed case studies and candid accounts of both mistakes and achievements, the book shows how the reality of mass overseas volunteering overcame establishment obstacles and gave young people new opportunities worldwide.
Projects Abroad and the Invention of Mass Overseas Volunteering is intended for students and academics, as well as for professionals in tourism, travel, and entrepreneurship. It will also appeal to readers interested in international development aid and its associated charity sector and to a whole generation of volunteers and tourists.
Geography and Political Power: The Geography of Nations and States
Focusing on the relationship between geography and power, this book, originally published in 1990, isolates five sources of political power – might, right, nationhood, legality and legitimacy – and demonstrtes the centrality of geography to the argument of each case.
The author stresses the value of geographical expertise to political decision-making and illustrates this through the use of case—studies. His analysis of the sources of power goes deep into an understanding of politics and explores the implications for geography of political thought.
Manny Shinwell: A Biography
Discover the gripping life story of Emmanuel “Manny” Shinwell, the radical street agitator who became the architect of modern British governance. Peter Slowe uncovers the complex man behind Britain’s most enduring political career, charting a 101-year journey that mirrors the rise, evolution, and transformation of the British Labour movement.
From his harsh childhood in London’s Jewish East End to his fiery days as a militant trade union leader in Glasgow, Shinwell’s life was defined by conflict, charisma, and conviction. Slowe provides unprecedented access to personal papers and private insights, revealing how a convicted wartime rioter transitioned into a formidable Secretary of State for War and the Minister of Fuel and Power during Britain’s crucial post-WWII reconstruction.
Fields of Death: Battle Scenes of the First World War
“Shell-fire was hellish all afternoon. . . the heat was intense. . . crouching in the trench, hugging the forward side, one could feel every moment small stones and lumps of earth ricochet off one’s helmet. Now and then one would be almost smothered by the parapet being blown in. The dirt flying about and the fumes from the lyddite added to our discomfiture.
During a bombardment one developed a craze for two water and cigarettes. Few could ever eat under an intense bombardment, especially on the Somme, where every now and then a shell would blow pieces of mortality, or complete bodies, which had been putrefying in no man’s land, slap into one’s trench. Shell-fire, too, always stirred up swarms of black flies, of which there was an absolute plague on the Somme battlefields. . .” —Captain Francis Hitchcock, Guillemont, 1916 An original and highly detailed approach to the history of World War I, combining contemporary accounts with a modern-day guide to the battlefields of the Western Front. This fascinating anthology provides a more authentic picture than any textbook could ever hope to give of the courage and the daily life of the men who served during World War I.