The Shock of the Old: Technology and Global History Since 1900, Paperback

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 ...

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

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...

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...

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

Reducere. Patrick Carr Launches a New Suspense-filled Fantasy EpicWhen one man is brutally murdered and the priest he works for mortally wounded on the stree...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

Reducere. Your husband cheated on you, and now you don't recognize yourself.You used to be so together, so trusting. Now you're falling apart and doing thing...

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 ...

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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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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 ...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

The first synoptic history of the postwar Royal Society, one of the most prestigious and influential bodies in the history of science. Drawing on i...

Focuses on large and problematic groups from Western Europe's past (the Irish in the United Kingdom, the Poles in Germany, and the Italians in Fran...

This book follows the emergence and transformation of the watch industry throughout the world from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the p...

One of the most famous and controversial works by possibly the highest profile historians of the twentieth century.

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Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdIllustration(s): 3 Halftones, black and whiteNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2012Dimensions: 155 x 234 x 22Cov...

The revised and fully updated edition of the seminal, sweeping history of post-colonial Africa.Illustrations: 3 x 8pp mono plates