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Norman Bel Geddes
American Design Visionary
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Norman Bel Geddes has long been considered the 'founder' of American industrial design. During his long career he worked on everything from theatre design, world fairs and cars to houses and product and packaging design.
Nicolas P. Maffei's magisterial biography draws on original material from...
by Professor Helen M. Gunter
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
An Intellectual History of School Leadership Practice and Research presents a detailed and critical account of the ideas that underpin the practice of educational leadership, through drawing on over 20 years of research into those who generate, popularise and use those ideas. It moves from abstracted...
MasterClass in History Education
Transforming Teaching and Learning
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
MasterClass in History Education draws on international research and practice to present effective and engaging approaches for history teachers who want to explore the ways in which reading, research and reflection can support the development of history teaching and learning in the classroom.
At...
by Tim Edensor
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
The Millennium Dome, Braveheart and Rolls Royce cars. How do cultural icons reproduce and transform a sense of national identity? How does national identity vary across time and space, how is it contested, and what has been the impact of globalization upon national identity and culture?This book examines...
Kindergarten Narratives on Froebelian Education
Transnational Investigations
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Kindergarten Narratives on Froebelian Education showcases the latest scholarship and historical understandings concerning the casting of the kindergarten idea abroad: across cultures, continents and centuries.
Each chapter reveals previously unknown narratives of intrepid endeavour, political...
by Jane Lydon
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
With their power to create a sense of proximity and empathy, photographs have long been a crucial means of exchanging ideas between people across the globe; this book explores the role of photography in shaping ideas about race and difference from the 1840s to the 1948 Declaration of Human Rights....
Remembering Child Migration
Faith, Nation-Building and the Wounds of Charity
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Between 1850 and 1970, around three hundred thousand children were sent to new homes through child migration programmes run by churches, charities and religious orders in the United States and the United Kingdom. Intended as humanitarian initiatives to save children from social and moral harm and...
by Dr Rhodri Hayward
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Conflicting models of selfhood have become central to debates over modern medicine. Yet we still lack a clear historical account of how this psychological sensibility came to be established.
Psychology and Medicine in Modern Britain will remedy this situation by demonstrating that there is...
Children
Ethnographic Encounters
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
Conducting ethnographic fieldwork with children presents anthropologists with particular challenges and limitations, as well as rewards and insights.
Children: Ethnographic Encounters presents ten vivid accounts of researchers' experiences of working with children across a variety of cultural...
Europe's Utopias of Peace
1815, 1919, 1951
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Europe's Utopias of Peace explores attempts to create a lasting European peace in the aftermath of the Napoleonic wars and the two world wars. The book charts the 250 year cycle of violent European conflicts followed by new utopian formulations for peace. The utopian illusion was that future was predictable...
Transforming Occupation in the Western Zones of Germany
Politics, Everyday Life and Social Interactions, 1945-55
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2018
Transforming Occupation in the Western Zones of Germany provides an in-depth transnational study of power politics, daily life, and social interactions in the Western Zones of occupied Germany during the aftermath of the Second World War.
Combining a history from below with a top-down perspective,...
German Modernities From Wilhelm to Weimar
A Contest of Futures
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
What was German modernity? What did the years between 1880 and 1930 mean for Germany's navigation through a period of global capitalism, imperial expansion, and technological transformation?
German Modernities From Wilhelm to Weimar brings together leading historians of the Imperial and Weimar...
Another Marx
Early Manuscripts to the International
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
Following the break-up of the Soviet Union, Marx was regarded as a thinker doomed to oblivion about whom everything had already been said and written. However, the international economic crisis of 2008 favoured a return to his analysis of capitalism, and recently published volumes of the Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe...
Gender, Sex and the Shaping of Modern Europe
A History from the French Revolution to the Present Day
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Through a blend of history and historiography, Gender, Sex and the Shaping of Modern Europe provides a clear and concise introduction to gender history in the region. The detailed examples and engaging language make this a useful overview for students not only of gender history, but also of European...