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Exam board: OCRLevel: A LevelSubject: History First teaching: September 2015First exams: AS: Summer 2016, A Level: Summer 2017An OCR endorsed resourceSuccessfully cover Unit Group 2 with the right amount of depth and pace. This bespoke series from the leading History publisher follows our proven and popular approach for OCR A Level, blending clear course coverage with focused activities and comprehensive assessment support.- Develops understanding of the period through an accessible narrative th...

Exam Board: OCR Level: AS/A-level Subject: History First Teaching: September 2015 First Exam: Summer 2016Target success in OCR AS/A-level History with this proven formula for effective, structured revision; key content coverage is combined with exam preparation activities and exam-style questions to create a revision guide that students can rely on to review, strengthen and test their knowledge.- Enables students to plan and manage a successful revision programme using the topic-by-topic planner...

The relationship between education policy and local practices is at the core of research pertaining to the history of education. In this volume, the authors examine this issue from a multitude of perspectives, presenting a broad and comprehensive picture of schooling on international, national and local levels. Three issues of great significance, both in the history of schooling, and for educational policy - "School Finance", "School Reform" and "School Media" - are discussed in relation to five...

By analyzing many of Lincoln's most important speeches, The Mind and Art of Abraham Lincoln, Philosopher Statesman shows him to be a profound and systematic thinker who tries to get at the root of issues, not all of them strictly political. Lowenthal emphasizes Lincoln's manner of writing, which enables him to conceal his most radical thoughts, and pays special attention to the reasoning and artfulness with which he treats a wide variety of subjects. The book follows Lincoln from his Perpetuatio...

This updated edition of Teaching Global History challenges prospective and beginning social studies teachers to formulate their own views about what is important to know in global history and why. This essential text explains how to organize curriculum around broad social studies concepts and themes, as well as student questions about humanity, history, and the contemporary world. All chapters feature lesson ideas, a sample lesson plan with activity sheets, primary source documents, and helpfu...

First published in 1958, Detachment and the Writing of History collects essays and letters by Carl L. Becker in which the noted historian outlines his views on the study of history, the craft of the historian, the art of teaching, and the historical evolution of the idea of democracy. Together, these invaluable writings demonstrate Becker's conviction of the moral seriousness of the historian's calling and of the importance of history as a factor, at once intellectual and artistically imaginativ...

Build confidence and develop your students' exam skills with this student workbook filled with ready-prepared lesson solutions.This workbook for GCSE Schools History Project will help build your students' understanding of all key topics. For use either in class or for homework, this full-colour workbook provides instant lesson solutions for specialist and non-specialist teachers: stimulus materials on all the topics followed by sets of questions designed to develop and test skills. - Help your...

Many people know about the Boston Tea Party and 'the shot heard 'round the world' that began the American Revolution, but 16 months divided these two iconic events, a period that has nearly been lost to history. The Spirit of '74 fills in this gap in America's founding narrative, showing how in these mislaid months, step by step, real people made a revolution. This exciting text places America's founding moment in a rich and new historical context, both changing and deepening its meaning.

A pioneer in its field that has become a key text of contemporary historiography, this is a book that poses fundamental and disturbing questions about the use and abuse of history. Engaging and challenging, it confronts us with the many 'histories' that exist and have existed around the world, from the Zulu kingdoms to Communist China. The Use and Abuse of History takes as its starting point the way history is taught to children. The different narratives that constitute the histories of countri...

Winner of the Seaborg Award A History Book Club Selection On October 8, 1862, Union and Confederate forces clashed near Perryville, Kentucky, in what would be the largest battle ever fought on Kentucky soil. The climax of a campaign that began two months before in northern Mississippi, Perryville came to be recognized as the high water mark of the western Confederacy. Some said the hard-fought battle, forever remembered by participants for its sheer savagery and for their commanders' confusion,...

Die livlandische Standegesellschaft basierte aufgrund der uberwiegend agrarischen Strukturen auf dem System der Fronwirtschaft. Mit seiner zum Manifest gewordenen Schrift uber die Letten beschritt Garlieb Merkel in der Kritik an der Leibeigenschaft einen neuen Weg. Erstmals wurde ein Zusammenhang zwischen sozialer und nationaler Frage hergestellt. Durch die Nationalisierung der Letten und Esten wurde die standische Ordnung in ihren Grundfesten in Frage gestellt. Merkel setzte mit der Inanspruchn...

Die Politikwissenschaft an der Universitat Gottingen von 1789 bis 1830 ist bisher kaum erforscht. Das Fach umfasste die Politologie, Staats- und Volkswirtschaftslehre, Statistik und Geschichte. Anhand neuer Quellen wird hier eine -Ehrenrettung- ihrer Fachvertreter vorgenommen. Unter dem Eindruck der Franzosischen Revolution versuchte Georg Sartorius eine Adaption Edmund Burkes. Er machte sich um die Rezeption der klassischen Nationalokonomie von Smith bis Ricardo sowie als Historiker der Hanse v...

This book tells the story of a generation of American and Australian women who embodied - and challenged - the prescriptions of their times. In the 1950s and early 60s they went to colleges and universities, trained for professions and developed a life of the mind. They were also urged to embrace their femininity, to marry young, to devote themselves to husbands, children and communities. Could they do both? While they might be seen as a privileged group, they led the way for a multitude in the...

Bringing together a group of international researchers from two educational sub-disciplines - "History of Education" and "Intercultural Education" - the contributions to this volume provide insights into the (pre-)history of intercultural issues in education across a vast range of historical, national-geographical and political contexts. The anthology takes its readers on a fascinating journey around the globe, presenting case studies from Asia, Africa, Europe and America. The coherence of the j...

This volume focuses on the US domestic politics of the inter-war period. The central theme is the movement of the country from a period of apparent prosperity during 1923-1929 to the onset of depression and the New Deal, designed to bring about "relief, recovery and reform". The author not only centres on the role played by the Wall Street Crash in the depression, but also the transition and attendant tensions in society and the issue of whether the prosperity of the 1920s was "real".

This work is the first major reexamination in English of the rise of the world's pioneer modern research university. It presents an authoritative history of science, scholarship, and education, offering readers a background platform from which to confront looming issues about the future of higher education systems everywhere, but especially in the United States. The innovations of the new-model University of Berlin reached their highest point of development and influence on foreign adopters of "...

This practical workbook contains all the advice, guidance and resources new and student history teachers need to reflect on and develop their teaching practice, helping them to plan lessons across the subject in a variety of teaching situations. Helpful features include:case studiesexamples of pupils’ workexamples of existing good practicea range of tried-and-tested teaching strategies photocopiable resources and training materialsactivities in each chapter to help student history teachers anal...

This account of the complexities of international history between 1914 and 1945 focuses on the inter-war period, although it also covers international diplomacy during the two World Wars. Besides analyzing the negotiation and execution of the peace treaties of 1919-1920 and the drift towards war in the 1930s, this volume also examines the history of the League of Nations, the diplomacy of the Locarno Treaties and the international impact of Japanese expansion in the Far East. Features include: s...

Ensure your students have access to the authoritative and in-depth content of this popular and trusted A Level History series. For over twenty years Access to History has been providing students with reliable, engaging and accessible content on a wide range of topics. Each title in the series provides comprehensive coverage of different history topics on current AS and A2 level history specifications, alongside exam-style practice questions and tips to help students achieve their best. The s...