Most Popular Books by David Howarth

South Africa in Transition utilises new theoretical perspectives to describe and explain central dimensions of the democratic transition in South Africa during the late 1980s and early 1990s, covering changes in the politics of gender and education, the political discourses of the ANC, NP and the white right, constructions of identity in South Africa''s black townships and rural areas, the role of political violence in the transition, and accounts of the democratization process itself.

The occupation of Western Europe and Scandinavia in the spring of 1940 crippled Britain''s ability to gather intelligence information. After the Germans invaded Norway, many Norwegians knew that small boats were constantly sailing from the Shetland Islands to land weapons, supplies, and agents and to rescue refugees. In The Shetland Bus, David Howarth, who was second in command of the Shetland base, recounts the hundreds of trips made by fishing boats in the dark of Arctic winter to resist the Nazi onslaught. For the Norwegians who remained in Norway, the Shetland Bus--as this dangerous operation became known--fortified them both physically and spiritually. Nothing but war would have made seamen attempt such dangerous journeys. Some stretched two thousand miles in length and lasted as long as three weeks in boats only fifty to seventy-five feet long. Fishing boats crossing the North Sea were sometimes attacked and sunk in minutes, hundreds of miles from a friendly ship or shore. Their crews had no hope of being saved. But to "take the Shetland Bus" meant escape when capture became the only other option. The Shetland Bus is the amazing true-life account of storms, attacks, danger, and the heroic efforts of brave men.

The problem of banks being ''too big to fail'' was the defining regulatory issue of the global financial crisis. However, attempts to tackle the problem by separating retail banking from higher risk trading activities - known as structural reform - proved to be highly divisive and contributed to significant regulatory divergence. In this book, David Howarth and Scott James explain this variation by examining the politics of bank structural reform across six key jurisdictions: the United States, the European Union, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, and the Netherlands. Integrating political economy and public policy approaches, they develop a novel ''comparative financial power'' framework to analyse how financial industry influence is mediated by two factors: first, whether bank lobbying is unified and centralized (cooperative financial power) or divided and fragmented (competitive financial power); and second, policy makers'' use of venue shifting to depoliticize contentious policy issues. The book explains that the US and UK governments implemented major reforms because the banking industry was divided and faced significant opposition. However, venue shifting to an independent committee led to durable reform in the UK, while political polarization in the US contributed to contested reform. By contrast, the French and German governments balanced unified bank lobbying and political pressures to act by pursuing limited symbolic reforms; the Dutch government deflected the issue through delegation to multiple commissions (no reform); while political stalemate at the EU level resulted from early venue shifting and concerted pan-European bank lobbying. The book makes a major contribution to scholarship on the political economy of finance and business power.

The establishment of Banking Union represents a major development in European economic governance and European integration history more generally. Banking Union is also significant because not all European Union (EU) member states have joined, which has increased the trend towards differentiated integration in the EU, posing a major challenge to the EU as a whole and to the opt-out countries. This book is informed by two main empirical questions. Why was Banking Union - presented by proponents as a crucial move to ''complete'' Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) - proposed only in 2012, over twenty years after the adoption of the Maastricht Treaty? Why has a certain design for Banking Union been agreed and some elements of this design prioritized over others? A two-step explanation is articulated in this study. First, it explains why euro area member state governments moved to consider Banking Union by building on the concept of the ''financial trilemma'', and examining the implications of the single currency for euro area member state banking systems. Second, it explains the design of Banking Union by examining the preferences of member state governments on the core components of Banking Union and developing a comparative political economy analysis focused on the configuration of national banking systems and varying national concern for the moral hazard facing banks and sovereigns created by euro level support mechanisms.

Presenting the findings of a major Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) project into urban austerity governance in eight cities across the world, this book offers comparative reflections on the myriad experiences of collaborative governance and its limitations.

In May of 1588, on the order of Spain''s King Philip, 30,000 soldiers and sailors armed with arquebus and musket set out to sea. There were sixty-five galleons and other major ships of war, twenty-five urcas, and many more smaller vessels. A larger fleet had never before been assembled. In "The Voyage of the Armada," David Howarth brilliantly conveys the drama of the Spanish Armada''s progress and brings to life the personalities of the men who influenced its course, from the dogmatic and irrational Philip II to Don Juan Martinez de Recalde, a veteran of many sea campaigns, to Don Pedro and Don Diego de Valdes, who were cousins but also bitter enemies, to the Spanish soldiers and sailors who unquestioningly ventured into unknown seas to confront their fates. In 1884, almost three hundred years after the Armada, Cesareo Fernandez Duro, a Spanish naval captain, published one hundred and ninety-nine letters and documents of the sixteenth century that he had discovered in the royal archives. The general public, however, remained ignorant of much of this material portraying the events of the Armada from the Spanish perspective. Basing his narrative on previously unexplored Spanish sources, David Howarth shows that there is always another side to every conflict. Illustrated with lavish maps and portraits of some of the more notable characters involved, "The Voyage of the Armada" recounts the adventures of these brave men as they go from battles to storms to wrecks and then, finally -- for the lucky ones -- return home.

This book analyses the strategies used by public authorities to expand the UK aviation industry in relation to growing political opposition and the negative impact of flying on local communities and climate change. Its genealogical investigations show how governmental practices and technologies designed to depoliticise aviation and expand airports have generally failed to constitute an effective political will to counter community resistance and environmental protest. Criticising the dominant logics of UK airport expansion, the authors promote a radical rethinking of our attitudes to aviation in terms of sufficiency, degrowth and alternative hedonism, laying the ground for a more sustainable future.

The massive expansion of global aviation, its insatiable demand for airport capacity and its growing contribution to carbon emissions make it a critical societal problem. Alongside traditional concerns about noise and air pollution, airport politics has been connected to the problems of climate change and peak oil. Yet it is still thought to be a driver of economic growth and connectivity in an increasingly mobile world. The politics of airport expansion in the United Kingdom provides the first in-depth analysis of the protest campaigns and policymaking practices that have marked British aviation since the construction of Heathrow Airport. Grounded in documentary analysis, interviews and policy texts, it constructs and employs poststructuralist policy analysis to chart rival groups and movements seeking to shape public policy. This book will appeal to people interested in the history of aviation and airports in Britain, local campaigns and environmental protests, and the politics of climate change.

New to Hart Publishing, this is the seventh edition of the classic casebook on tort, the first of its kind in the UK, and for many years now a bestselling and very popular text for students. This new edition retains all the features that have made it such a popular and respected text, with extensive commentary, questions and notes supplementing the selection of cases and statutes which form the core of the book. Taking a broadly contextual approach, the book addresses all the main topics in tort law, is up-to-date, doctrinally sound, stimulating and highly readable.

This unprecedented survey contains contributions from renowned scholars and illustrates the work of the Spanish masters Velázquez, El Greco, Goya and Picasso, and the British artists David Wilkie, David Roberts, John Phillip, Arthur Melville and David Bomberg This lavishly illustrated book celebrates the impact of Spanish culture on British art and collecting from the 1790s to the 1930s - the Napoleonic period to the Spanish Civil War. Spain is now a familiar and much-loved part of the British view of Europe, but in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries it was still relatively unknown. This book captures the excitement of this era, a time when Spain''s architecture, customs, fashions and painting were ''discovered'' and created a sensation in Britain. This unprecedented survey contains contributions from renowned scholars and illustrates the work of the Spanish masters Velázquez, El Greco, Murillo, Goya and Picasso, and the British artists David Wilkie, David Roberts, John Frederick Lewis, John Phillip, Arthur Melville and David Bomberg. AUTHOR: Dr David Howarth is a Reader in History of Art, Edinburgh University. He specialises in Spanish art and culture. and has also written extensively on the material culture of early modern Britain. He is co-guest curator (with Paul Stirton) of the forthcoming National Galleries of Scotland, 2009 International Festival exhibition, The Discovery of Spain. Paul Stirton is a Senior Lecturer in History of Art at the University of Glasgow, and visiting Professor at the Bard Graduate Center, New York. He is author (with Juliet Kinchin) of ''Is Mr Ruskin Living too Long?'': Selected Writings of E.W. Godwin, Oxford, 2005. Michael Jacobs is a writer, art histiorian and hispanist. His many books include The Good and Simple Life: Artist colonies in Europe and America, Andalucia. He is a Senior Honorary Research Fellow of the Hispanics Department of the University of Glasgow. Dr Claudia Heide is a Visiting Lecturer in History of Art at Edinburgh University. She specialises in Islamic Spain. She co-edited a series of essays (Edinburgh University Press forthcoming) on Pascual Gayangos, the nineteenth century Spanish antiquarian and Arabist. Dr Nicholas Tromans is a Senior Lecturer in History of Art at Kingston University and a world authority on the Scottish painter Sir David Wilkie about whom he published a monograph entitled: David Wilkie: Painter of Everyday Life (Edinburgh University Press, 2007). He was recently catalogue editor for the Tate Britain exhibition on British Orientalist painting. Dr Hilary Macartney is a Lecturer in the Department of the Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds. She is the world authority on Sir William Stirling Maxwell, the Victorian pioneer British art historian of Spanish painting. She has published extensively in both Britain and Spain on aspects of Spanish art and culture. ILLUSTRATIONS 140 colour & 20 b/w illustrations

The Battle of Waterloo was one of the great British victories. This guide to the battlefield was written by one of the greatest experts on the Battle.

Nosotros morimos solos relata una de las historias de huida más emocionantes que surgieron de los desafíos y las miserias de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. En marzo de 1943, un equipo de comandos noruegos expatriados navegó desde el norte de Reino Unido hacia la Noruega ártica ocupada por los nazis para organizar y suministrar la resistencia noruega. Pero fueron traicionados y los nazis les tendieron una emboscada. De todos los miembros del equipo, solo sobrevivió uno: Jan Baalsrud, que se vio inmerso en una de las aventuras más terribles que se hayan registrado sobre los supervivientes de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Esta es la increíble y apasionante historia de cómo escapó. Congelado, cegado por la nieve y perseguido por los nazis, Baalsrud se arrastró hasta llegar a un pequeño pueblo de pescadores ártico. Estaba cerca de la muerte, delirante y prácticamente lisiado, pero los aldeanos, arriesgando sus vidas, estaban decididos a salvarlo y, a través de hazañas imposibles, lo hicieron. Un relato épico de supervivencia, solidaridad y resistencia, de uno de los episodios históricos más increíbles de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, que narra el testarudo coraje de un hombre que se negó a morir en circunstancias que hubieran matado a noventa y nueve hombres de cada cien.