[PDF] Modern History eBook

Author : J. M. Roberts
Publisher : Duncan Baird Publishers
Page : 912 pages
File Size : 17,77 MB
Release : 2007
Category : History, Modern
ISBN : 9781844834525

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This account of developments in the modern era begins with the European Renaissance, and traces developments across the centuries of empire, industrial innovation, revolutions and world wars, through to the emergence of a fast-changing, inter-connected and non-Eurocentric world beset with environmental concerns.

Author : Phebe Marr
Publisher :
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 21,86 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813382142

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Uses United Nations reports, Iraqi government records, and interviews with Iraqi educators, writers, and ordinary citizens to present a history of modern Iraq, from the construction of the modern state in 1920 through today.

Author : Paul E. Ceruzzi
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 14,40 MB
Release : 2003-04-08
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780262532037

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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 : Martin Gilbert
Publisher : Rosetta Books
Page : 723 pages
File Size : 10,58 MB
Release : 2014-06-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0795337329

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A chronological compilation of twentieth-century world events in one volume—from the acclaimed historian and biographer of Winston S. Churchill. The twentieth century has been one of the most unique in human history. It has seen the rise of some of humanity’s most important advances to date, as well as many of its most violent and terrifying wars. This is a condensed version of renowned historian Martin Gilbert’s masterful examination of the century’s history, offering the highlights of a three-volume work that covers more than three thousand pages. From the invention of aviation to the rise of the Internet, and from events and cataclysmic changes in Europe to those in Asia, Africa, and North America, Martin examines art, literature, war, religion, life and death, and celebration and renewal across the globe, and throughout this turbulent and astonishing century.

Author : James L. McClain
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 760 pages
File Size : 40,70 MB
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393041569

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Japan: A Modern History provides a comprehensive narrative that integrates the political, social, cultural, and economic history of modern Japan from the investiture of Tokugawa Ieyasu in 1603 to the present.

Author : Michael Hiltzik
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 30,37 MB
Release : 2011-09-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1439154481

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From first to last the New Deal was a work in progress, a patchwork of often contradictory ideas.

Author : Colin Shindler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 19,22 MB
Release : 2013-03-25
Category : History
ISBN : 1107311217

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Colin Shindler's remarkable history begins in 1948, as waves of immigrants arrived in Israel from war-torn Europe to establish new cities, new institutions, and a new culture founded on the Hebrew language. Optimistic beginnings were soon replaced with the sobering reality of wars with Arab neighbours, internal ideological differences, and ongoing confrontation with the Palestinians. In this updated edition, Shindler covers the significant developments of the last decade, including the rise of the Israeli far right, Hamas's takeover and the political rivalry between Gaza and the West Bank, Israel's uneasy dealings with the new administration in the United States, political Islam and the potential impact of the Arab Spring on the region as a whole. This sympathetic yet candid portrayal asks how a nation that emerged out of the ashes of the Holocaust and was the admiration of the world is now perceived by many Western governments in a less than benevolent light.

Author : Daniel James Cole
Publisher : Laurence King Publishing
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 34,21 MB
Release : 2015-08-24
Category : Design
ISBN : 1780677979

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This exciting book explores fashion not simply from an aesthetic point of view but also as a manifestation of social and cultural change. Focusing on fashion from 1850, noted fashion historians Daniel James Cole and Nancy Deihl consider the evolution of womenswear, menswear, and childrenswear, decade by decade. The book looks at the dissemination of style and the mechanisms of change, at the relationship between fashion and the visual, applied, and performing arts, the intertwined relationship between fashion and popular culture, the impact of new materials and technology, and the growing globalization of style. With photographs of costume from museums and images from the fashion press including editorial photography, illustrations, and advertising, the book will include insights into icons of fashion and the clothes worn by “real people”, providing a valuable visual reference for the reader.

Author : Bernard Lewis
Publisher : Hoover Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 30,69 MB
Release : 2013-09-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0817912967

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Bernard Lewis looks at the new era in the Middle East. With the departure of imperial powers, the region must now, on its own, resolve the political, economic, cultural, and societal problems that prevent it from accomplishing the next stage in the advance of civilization. There is enough in the traditional culture of Islam on the one hand and the modern experience of the Muslim peoples on the other, he explains, to provide the basis for an advance toward freedom in the true sense of that word.