Shock Of The Old. Technology and Global History since 1900, Paperback - David Edgerton

The overlap between periods of technological development that are misleadingly delineated is explored in this investigation of the use of invention...

Reducere. From the books of H.G. Wells to the press releases of NASA, we are awash in cliched claims about high technology's ability to change the course of ...

For an element so firmly fixed in American culture, the frontier myth is surprisingly flexible. How else to explain its having taken two such diffe...

The second half of the twentieth century was dominated by the unfolding drama of the Cold War, from the Berlin blockade to the fall of the Berlin W...

Prize-winning British historian tells the story of the English-speaking peoples in the 20th century - 'Magnificently provoking' New Statesman

Reducere. Art Since 1900 introduces students to the key theoretical approaches to modern and contemporary art. A flexible year-by-year structure and extensiv...

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Over 150 of the 20th century's most significant poems.Publisher: Quercus PublishingAuthor(s): Michael SchmidtNumber of pages: 224Publication date: ...

Ideas defer to no border--least of all the idea of belonging. So where does one belong, and what does belonging even mean, when a border inscribes ...

Aims to bring to life the great dramas of modern France - the two cataclysmic wars - the Algerian disaster, and the student and worker revolt of 19...

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DescriptionThe city of a thousand minarets is also the city of eclectic modern constructions, turn-of-the-century revivalism and romanticism, concr...

Classic text on this subject, now revised, updated, expanded and redesigned for this third edition. There are many new illustrations too, including...

The only one-volume introduction to modern and post-modern art from Latin America, perhaps the most exciting and rewarding art scene in the world t...

Guidance Note 5: Protection Against Electric Shock provides a core element of safety for specifiers, designers, contractors and inspectors. It incl...

This Companion explores women's work in music since 1900 across a broad range of musical genres and professions, including the classical tradition,...

Interior design experienced an extraordinary amount of changes in taste and style during the twentieth century. From William Morris and the Arts an...

Reducere. On October 4, 1957, the day Leave It to Beaver premiered on American television, the Soviet Union launched the space age. Sputnik, all of 184 pound...

Reducere. Until the publication of this book, historians had largely neglected the effects of technology on the course of human history. Political, economic,...

Using a wide range of prosecution and trial records, along with more recent newspaper coverage of court proceedings, this book furnishes a fascinat...

A new edition of this hugely successful international survey covering all aspects of fashion, organized around crucial shifts in style and major wo...

Includes the developments in the study and practice of art. With a clear year-by-year structure, this book presents 130 articles, each focusing on ...

Reducere. Just as U. S. soldiers and diplomats pulled out of Afghanistan, supposedly concluding their role and responsibility in the two-decade conflict, the...

Reducere. For more than 5, 000 years the Ancestral Puebloans--Native Americans who flourished long before the first contact with Europeans--occupied the Four...

For half a century, statisticians, pundits and politicians have warned that population growth is spiraling out of control, threatening to overwhelm...

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Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): James MeyerIllustration(s): 140 color + 60 b/w illus.Number of pages: 288Publication date: 2022Dime...

A history of Europe since Napoleon, covering the main topics of that period.

Engineering Rules is a riveting global history of the people, processes, and organizations that created and maintain this nearly invisible infrastr...

A compendium of the most innovative and influential residential buildings in the United States since 1900.

A World at Sea sharpens and expands our understanding of how the maritime world contributed to global transformations in the early modern world, fr...

DescriptionWinner of the 2011 Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize Drawing on folklore, literature and popular culture, this book links tales ...

The shock of history: we live it, neither knowing or comprehending it. France, Europe, and the world have entered into a new era of thought, attitu...

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Examines key issues for students and professionals interested in and working with global construction project organisations. It focuses on managing...