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Author: Bruce Dennett Publisher: ISBN: 9780195565683 Category : History, Modern Languages : en Pages : 0
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Key Features of Modern History Fourth Edition has been completely revised and updated and offers comprehensive coverage of the Preliminary and HSC content for Modern History students in full colour. The stimulating and accessible narrative, incorporating the latest historiography and scholarship, includes a wide range of new written and visual sources, and student tasks and activities.
Author: Bruce Dennett Publisher: ISBN: 9780195565683 Category : History, Modern Languages : en Pages : 0
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Key Features of Modern History Fourth Edition has been completely revised and updated and offers comprehensive coverage of the Preliminary and HSC content for Modern History students in full colour. The stimulating and accessible narrative, incorporating the latest historiography and scholarship, includes a wide range of new written and visual sources, and student tasks and activities.
Author: Paul E. Ceruzzi Publisher: MIT Press ISBN: 9780262532037 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 468
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From the first digital computer to the dot-com crash—a story of individuals, institutions, and the forces that led to a series of dramatic transformations. This engaging history covers modern computing from the development of the first electronic digital computer through the dot-com crash. The author concentrates on five key moments of transition: the transformation of the computer in the late 1940s from a specialized scientific instrument to a commercial product; the emergence of small systems in the late 1960s; the beginning of personal computing in the 1970s; the spread of networking after 1985; and, in a chapter written for this edition, the period 1995-2001. The new material focuses on the Microsoft antitrust suit, the rise and fall of the dot-coms, and the advent of open source software, particularly Linux. Within the chronological narrative, the book traces several overlapping threads: the evolution of the computer's internal design; the effect of economic trends and the Cold War; the long-term role of IBM as a player and as a target for upstart entrepreneurs; the growth of software from a hidden element to a major character in the story of computing; and the recurring issue of the place of information and computing in a democratic society. The focus is on the United States (though Europe and Japan enter the story at crucial points), on computing per se rather than on applications such as artificial intelligence, and on systems that were sold commercially and installed in quantities.
Author: Bernie Howitt Publisher: ISBN: 9780190311896 Category : Higher School Certificate Examination (N.S.W.) Languages : en Pages : 497
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New South Wales most trusted Modern History series has been updated for the 2018 Modern History Stage 6 syllabus. Key Features of Modern History 2 5E Year 12 offers complete support for teachers and their students in 2018 and beyond, providing unparalleled depth and coverage in an easy-to-read, easy-to-understand and easy-to-master format. Key features include: *Explicit alignment to the Modern History Stage 6 syllabus *In-depth and appropriately levelled content developed by trusted expert teachers *Simplified chapter structure with content organised into manageable double-page topics *Clear, unambiguous language supported by plenty of visuals *obook assess provides comprehensive student and teacher digital support, including answers to every question in the book, videos, teacher notes, exam preparation support and more *Innovative and intuitive chapter features such as Focus questions, Key concepts and skills, Learning goals and Understanding and using the sourcesCheck your learning questions for each topic allow students to review and expand on what they have learned *A Profile feature included for each chapter allows for more in-depth learning about a historically significant person, event or phenomenon.
Author: K. J. Mason Publisher: ISBN: 9780170244091 Category : Germany Languages : en Pages : 176
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GERMANY 1918-1948 has been developed especially for senior secondary students of History and is part of the Nelson Modern History series. Each book in the series is based on the understanding that History is an interpretive study of the past by which you also come to better appreciate the making of the modern world. The Stahlhelm (steel helmet) was introduced to the German Army in early 1916 as a protective helmet. Replacing earlier cloth and leather headgear such as the Pickelhaube, the Stahlhelm has become a potent symbol of German militarism in the first half of the 20th century. During the 1920s the right-wing veteran's organisation, Der Stahlhelm, Bund der Frontsoldaten, which became the paramilitary wing of the German National People's Party and was later absorbed into the SA, used the helmet as both its name and symbol. With the establishment of the Third Reich, the Stahlhelm continued to be used by the German Wehrmacht but it was also used by the Schutzstaffel, the SS, as shown here in a photograph taken at the Nuremberg Party rally in 1938. Developing understandings of the past and present in senior History extends on the skills you learnt in earlier years. As senior students you will use historical skills, including research, evaluation, synthesis, analysis and communication, and the historical concepts, such as evidence, continuity and change, cause and effect, significance, empathy, perspectives and contestability, to understand and interpret societies from the past. The activities and tasks in GERMANY 1918-1948 have been written to ensure that you develop the skills and attributes you need in senior History subjects.
Author: Professor John Marriott Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. ISBN: 1409483266 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 832
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Taking a broad, comparative approach to imperial experiences, this volume provides an authoritative survey of the latest research into the histories of modern empires. The focus is on the era of modern imperial history dating approximately from the early sixteenth century to the present. Such a periodization enables the volume to include the European experience of imperial expansion and settlement, important historical experiences outside the west such as those of Russia, Japan and China, the collapse of European empires attendant on decolonization in the post World War II period, and the contemporary example of North America. The companion is divided into three sections, 'Times', 'Spaces' and 'Themes' which allows chronological, geographical and thematical approaches to be successfully combined. In so doing this volume provides a unique research tool that will be invaluable to all students and scholars interested in the history of empires, imperialism and colonialism in the post-classical world.
Author: Ofer Gal Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1316510301 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 415
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"This book attempts to introduce to its readers major chapters in the history of science. It tries to present science as a human endeavor - a great achievement, and all the more human for it. In place of the story of progress and its obstacles or a parade of truths revealed, this book stresses the contingent and historical nature of scientific knowledge. Knowledge, science included, is always developed by real people, within communities, answering immediate needs and challenges shaped by place, culture, and historical events with resources drawn from their present and past. Chronologically, this book spans from Pythagorean mathematics to Newton's Principle. The book starts in the high Middle Ages and proceeds to introduce the readers to the historian's way of inquiry. At the center of this introduction is the Gothic Cathedral - a grand achievement of human knowledge, rooted in a complex cultural context, and a powerful metaphor for science. The book alternates thematic chapters with chapters concentrating on an era. Yet it attempts to integrate discussion of all different aspects of the making of knowledge: social and cultural settings, challenges and opportunities; intellectual motivations and worries; epistemological assumptions and technical ideas; instruments and procedures. The cathedral metaphor is evoked intermittently throughout, to tie the many themes discussed to the main lesson: that the complex set of beliefs, practices, and institutions we call science is a particular, contingent human phenomenon"--
Author: John Tosh Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317542002 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 411
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This classic introduction to the study of history invites the reader to stand back and consider some of its most fundamental questions - what is the point of studying history? How do we know about the past? Does an objective historical truth exist and can we ever access it? In answering these central questions, John Tosh argues that, despite the impression of fragmentation created by postmodernism in recent years, history is a coherent discipline which still bears the imprint of its nineteenth-century origins. Consistently clear-sighted, he provides a lively and compelling guide to a complex and sometimes controversial subject, while making his readers vividly aware of just how far our historical knowledge is conditioned by the character of the sources and the methods of the historians who work on them. The sixth edition has been revised and updated with key new material including: - a brand new chapter on public history - sections on digitised sources and historical controversy - discussion of topics including transnational history and the nature of the archive - an expanded range of examples and case studies - a comprehensive companion website providing valuable supporting material, study questions and a bank of primary sources. Lucid and engaging, this edition retains all the user-friendly features that have helped to make this book a favourite with both students and lecturers, including marginal glosses, illustrations and suggestions for further reading. Along with its companion website, this is an essential guide to the theory and practice of history.
Author: Bruce Dennett
Author: Bruce Dennett
Author: Bruce Dennett
Author: Paul E. Ceruzzi
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Author: K. J. Mason
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Author: Ofer Gal
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