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Author : Aaron Wilkes
Publisher : Folens Limited
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History, Modern
ISBN : 1843034115
Author : Aaron Wilkes,James Ball
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2009-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1850083479
This gripping and intriguing Student Book combines an enquiry-led approach with factual narrative. Written by experienced Head of History, Aaron Wilkes in an approachable and understandable style, including: relevant and fascinating facts, interesting and motivating activities, and specific sections to extend or reinforce learning. Content has been thoroughly researched and revised in this popular 2nd ediiton.
Author : Aaron Wilkes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2005-01
Category : History, Modern
ISBN : 1843034123
Full support for teaching 20th Century Britain to 11 to 14-year-olds. This copiable teacher book supports many of the approaches identified in the Foundation Subject Strand of the National Strategy for KS3. Ideal for a mixed group, this new colourful and attractive approach combines an understanding for good history teaching which delivers knowledge and skills.
Author : Allucquère Rosanne Stone
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0262691892
Human communication has traditionally revealed important aspects of identity such as gender, age and race. However, such information is now often masked by computer-mediated communications. This text examines the various ways modern technology is challenging conventional notions of gender identity.
Author : Gabrielle Hecht
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2009-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780262266178
How it happened that technological prowess and national glory (or “radiance,” which also means “radiation” in French) became synonymous in France as nowhere else. In the aftermath of World War II, as France sought a distinctive role for itself in the modern, postcolonial world, the nation and its leaders enthusiastically embraced large technological projects in general and nuclear power in particular. The Radiance of France asks how it happened that technological prowess and national glory (or “radiance,” which also means “radiation” in French) became synonymous in France as nowhere else. To answer this question, Gabrielle Hecht has forged an innovative combination of technology studies and cultural and political history in a book that, as Michel Callon writes in the new foreword to this edition, “not only sheds new light on the role of technology in the construction of national identities” but is also “a seminal contribution to the history of contemporary France.” Proposing the concept of technopolitical regime as a way to analyze the social, political, cultural, and technological dynamics among engineering elites, unionized workers, and rural communities, Hecht shows how the history of France's first generation of nuclear reactors is also a history of the multiple meanings of nationalism, from the postwar period (and France's desire for post-Vichy redemption) to 1969 and the adoption of a “Frenchified” American design. This paperback edition of Hecht's groundbreaking book includes both Callon's foreword and an afterword by the author in which she brings the story up to date, and reflects on such recent developments as the 2007 French presidential election, the promotion of nuclear power as the solution to climate change, and France's aggressive exporting of nuclear technology.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004490147
The British have been involved in numerous wars since the Middle Ages. Many, if not all, of these wars have been re-constructed in historical accounts, in the media and in the arts, and have thus kept the nation's cultural memory of its wars alive. Wars have influenced the cultural construction and reconstruction not only of national identities in Britain; personal, communal, gender and ethnic identities have also been established, shaped, reinterpreted and questioned in times of war and through its representations. Coming from Literary, Film and Cultural Studies, History and Art History, the contributions in this multidisciplinary volume explore how different cultural communities in the British Isles have envisaged war and its significance for various aspects of identity-formation, from the Middle Ages through to the 20th century.
Author : Aaron Wilkes
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2010-05-10
Category : Commonwealth countries
ISBN : 1850085501
The Rise & Fall of the British Empire, a guide to the history of the British Empire, is one of four new in-depth titles with all the fantastic features you expect from our best-selling KS3 History series. Take your students' learning even further with the new KS3 History Depth Study titles. Designed to support the best-selling KS3 History resources, these textbooks give a more detailed insight into British and world history, allowing teachers to delve deeper into topics and themes of particular interest.
Author : Matthew J. Costello
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2009-03-01
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781441108593
What Cold War-era superheroes reveal about American society and foreign policy Physicist Bruce Banner, caught in the nuclear explosion of his experimental gamma bomb, is transformed into the rampaging green monster, the Hulk. High school student Peter Parker, bitten by an irradiated spider, gains its powers and becomes Spiderman. Reed Richards and his friends are caught in a belt of cosmic radiation while orbiting the Earth in a spacecraft and are transformed into the Fantastic Four. While Stan Lee suggests he clung to the hackneyed idea of radioactivity in creating Marvel's stable of superheroes because of his limited imagination, radiation and the bomb are nonetheless the big bang that spawned the Marvel universe. The Marvel superheroes that came to dominate the comic book industry for most of the last five decades were born under the mushroom cloud of potential nuclear war that was a cornerstone of the four-decade bipolar division of the world between the US and USSR. These stories were consciously set in this world and reflect the changing culture of cold War (and post-cold War) America. Like other forms of popular entertainment, comic books tend to be very receptive to cultural trends, reflect them, comment on them, and sometimes inaugurate them. Secret Identity Crisis follows the trajectory of the breakdown of the cold War consensus after 1960 through the lens of superhero comic books. Those developed by Marvel, because of their conscious setting in the contemporary world, and because of attempts to maintain a continuous story line across and within books, constitute a system of signs that reflect, comment upon, and interact with the American political economy. This groundbreaking new study focuses on a handful of titles and signs that specifically involve political economic codes, including Captain America, the Invincible Iron Man, Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD, the Incredible Hulk to reveal how the American self was transformed and/or reproduced during the late Cold War and after.
Author : Katherine R. Jolluck
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822970675
Katherine Jolluck tells the story of thousands of Polish women exiled to the Soviet Union in 1939-41, and examines the ways in which their efforts to maintain their identities as respectable women and patriotic Poles helped them survive.
Author : Michael Thad Allen,Gabrielle Hecht
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2001-05-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 026251124X
This collection explores how technologies become forms of power, how people embed their authority in technological systems, and how the machines and the knowledge that make up technical systems strengthen or reshape social, political, and cultural power. The authors suggest ways in which a more nuanced investigation of technology's complex history can enrich our understanding of the changing meanings of modernity. They consider the relationship among the state, expertise, and authority; the construction of national identity; changes in the structure and distribution of labor; political ideology and industrial development; and political practices during the Cold War. The essays show how insight into the technological aspects of such broad processes can help synthesize material and cultural methods of inquiry and how reframing technology's past in broader historical terms can suggest new directions for science and technology studies.The essays were written in honor of Thomas Parke Hughes and Agatha Chipley Hughes, whose spirit of inquiry they seek to continue. Contributors Janet Abbate, Michael Thad Allen, W. Bernard Carlson, Gabrielle Hecht, Erik P. Rau, Eric Schatzberg, Amy Slaton, John Staudenmaier, Edmund N. Todd, Hans Weinberger
Author : Jeffrey C. Alexander,Ron Eyerman,Bernard Giesen,Neil J. Smelser,Piotr Sztompka
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2004-03-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780520235953
Five sociologists develop a theoretical model of 'cultural trauma' & build a new understanding of how social groups interact with emotion to create new & binding understandings of social responsibility.
Author : Pauline Kusiak
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1382001685
Author : Ruha Benjamin
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781509526437
From everyday apps to complex algorithms, Ruha Benjamin cuts through tech-industry hype to understand how emerging technologies can reinforce White supremacy and deepen social inequity. Benjamin argues that automation, far from being a sinister story of racist programmers scheming on the dark web, has the potential to hide, speed up, and deepen discrimination while appearing neutral and even benevolent when compared to the racism of a previous era. Presenting the concept of the “New Jim Code,” she shows how a range of discriminatory designs encode inequity by explicitly amplifying racial hierarchies; by ignoring but thereby replicating social divisions; or by aiming to fix racial bias but ultimately doing quite the opposite. Moreover, she makes a compelling case for race itself as a kind of technology, designed to stratify and sanctify social injustice in the architecture of everyday life. This illuminating guide provides conceptual tools for decoding tech promises with sociologically informed skepticism. In doing so, it challenges us to question not only the technologies we are sold but also the ones we ourselves manufacture. Visit the book's free Discussion Guide here.
Author : Victoria Basham
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135016821
This book critically examines the significance of gender, race and sexuality to wars waged by liberal states. Drawing on original field-research with British soldiers, it offers insights into how their everyday experiences are shaped by, and shape, a politics of gender, race and sexuality that not only underpins power relations in the military, but the geopolitics of wars waged by liberal states. Linking the politics of daily life to the international is an intervention into international relations (IR) and security studies because instead of overlooking the politics of the everyday, this book insists that it is vital to explore how geopolitical events and practices are co-constituted, reinforced and contested by it. By utilising insights from Michel Foucault, the book explores how shared and collectively mediated knowledge on gender, race and sexuality facilitates certain claims about the nature of governing in liberal states and about why and how such states wage war against ‘illiberal’ ones in pursuit of global peace and security. The book also develops post-structural work in international relations by urging scholars interested in the linguistic construction of geopolitics to consider the ways in which bodies, objects and architectures also reinforce particular ideas about war, identity and statehood.
Author : Marit Hansen,Jaap-Henk Hoepman,Ronald Leenes,Diane Whitehouse
Publisher : Springer
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-02
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642551376
This book contains a range of keynote papers and submitted papers presented at the 7th IFIP WG 9.2, 9.5, 9.6/11.7, 11.4, 11.6 International Summer School, held in Nijmegen, The Netherlands, in June 2013. The 13 revised full papers and 6 keynote papers included in this volume were carefully selected from a total of 30 presentations and 11 keynote talks and were subject to a two-step review process. The keynote papers cover the dramatic global changes, including legislative developments that society is facing today. Privacy and identity management are explored in specific settings, such as the corporate context, civic society, and education and using particular technologies such as cloud computing. The regular papers examine the challenges to privacy, security and identity; ways of preserving privacy; identity and identity management and the particular challenges presented by social media.