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13 produkter
Shock Of The Old
Technology and Global History since 1900
Häftad, 2019
178 kr
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'It's rare for a book to make you see the world differently, but this ... does exactly that on almost every page' GuardianStandard histories of technology give tired accounts of the usual inventions, inventors, and dates, framing technology as the inevitable march of progress. They split history …
Rise and Fall of the British Nation
A Twentieth-Century History
Häftad, 2019
225 kr
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'Forget almost everything you thought you knew about Britain ... You will not find a better informed history' David Goodhart, Evening Standard'A striking new perspective on our past' Piers Brendon, Literary ReviewFrom the acclaimed author of Britain's War Machine and The Shock of the Old, a bold …
Shock Of The Old
Technology and Global History since 1900
E-bok, 2011
158 kr
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''It''s rare for a book to make you see the world differently, but this ... does exactly that on almost every page'' GuardianStandard histories of technology give tired accounts of the usual inventions, inventors, and dates, framing technology as the inevitable march of progress. They split history …
Britain's War Machine
Weapons, Resources and Experts in the Second World War
Häftad, 2012
171 kr
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GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEARThe familiar image of the British in the Second World War is that of the plucky underdog taking on German might. David Edgerton's bold, compelling new history shows the conflict in a new light, with Britain as a very wealthy country, formidable in arms, ruthless in pursuit …
Britain's War Machine
Weapons, Resources and Experts in the Second World War
E-bok, 2011
136 kr
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GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEARThe familiar image of the British in the Second World War is that of the plucky underdog taking on German might. David Edgerton's bold, compelling new history shows the conflict in a new light, with Britain as a very wealthy country, formidable in arms, ruthless in pursuit …
England and the Aeroplane
Militarism, Modernity and Machines
E-bok, 2013
108 kr
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The story of the strange mixture of romanticism, militarism and technology that has made planes so important to England, from the brilliant author of Britain's War MachineThe history of England and the aeroplane is one tangled with myths - of 'the Few' and the Blitz, of boffins, flying machines, …
Rise and Fall of the British Nation
A Twentieth-Century History
E-bok, 2018
125 kr
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From the acclaimed author of Britain's War Machine and The Shock of the Old, a bold reassessment of Britain's twentieth century.Itis usual to see the United Kingdom as an island of continuity in an otherwiseconvulsed and unstable Europe; its political history a smooth sequence ofadministrations, …
Britain's War Machine: Weapons, Resources, and Experts in the Second World War
Inbunden, 2011
1313 kr
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Science, Technology and the British Industrial 'Decline', 1870-1970
Häftad, 1996
468 kr
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The place of science and technology in the British economy and society is widely seen as critical to our understanding of the British 'decline'. There is a long tradition of characterising post-1870 Britain by its lack of enthusiasm for science and by the low social status of the practitioners of …
Warfare State
Britain, 1920-1970
Häftad, 2005
569 kr
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A challenge to the central theme of the existing histories of twentieth-century Britain, that the British state was a welfare state, this book argues that it was also a warfare state, which supported a powerful armaments industry. This insight implies major revisions to our understanding of …
Warfare State
Britain, 1920-1970
Inbunden, 2005
1887 kr
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A challenge to the central theme of the existing histories of twentieth-century Britain, that the British state was a welfare state, this book argues that it was also a warfare state, which supported a powerful armaments industry. This insight implies major revisions to our understanding of …
Minds at War
How great artists and their work were shaped by the First World War
Av Sara LeFanu, David Edgerton m. fl.
Ljudbok, 2022
159 kr
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The complete BBC Radio 3 series exploring how great creative minds responded to the First World War in individual works of art and scholarship World War I saw an unprecedented loss of life in Western Europe, and destruction on a scale no one alive had ever seen. All those who experienced it were …
