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Exam board: AQA; OCR Level: AS/A-level Subject: History First
teaching: September 2015 First exams: Summer 2016 (AS); Summer 2017
(A-level) Put your trust in the textbook series that has given
thousands of A-level History students deeper knowledge and better
grades for over 30 years. Updated to meet the demands of today's
A-level specifications, this new generation of Access to History
titles includes accurate exam guidance based on examiners' reports,
free online activity worksheets and contextual information that
underpins students' understanding of the period. > Develop
strong historical knowledge: In-depth analysis of each topic is
both authoritative and accessible > Build historical skills and
understanding: Downloadable activity worksheets can be used
independently by students or edited by teachers for classwork and
homework > Learn, remember and connect important events and
people: An introduction to the period, summary diagrams, timelines
and links to additional online resources support lessons, revision
and coursework > Achieve exam success: Practical advice matched
to the requirements of your A-level specification incorporates the
lessons learnt from previous exams > Engage with sources,
interpretations and the latest historical research: Students will
evaluate a rich collection of visual and written materials, plus
key debates that examine the views of different historians
Exam board: Pearson Edexcel; OCR Level: AS/A-level Subject: History
First teaching: September 2015 First exams: Summer 2016 (AS);
Summer 2017 (A-level) Put your trust in the textbook series that
has given thousands of A-level History students deeper knowledge
and better grades for over 30 years. Updated to meet the demands of
today's A-level specifications, this new generation of Access to
History titles includes accurate exam guidance based on examiners'
reports, free online activity worksheets and contextual information
that underpins students' understanding of the period. > Develop
strong historical knowledge: In-depth analysis of each topic is
both authoritative and accessible > Build historical skills and
understanding: Downloadable activity worksheets can be used
independently by students or edited by teachers for classwork and
homework > Learn, remember and connect important events and
people: An introduction to the period, summary diagrams, timelines
and links to additional online resources support lessons, revision
and coursework > Achieve exam success: Practical advice matched
to the requirements of your A-level specification incorporates the
lessons learnt from previous exams > Engage with sources,
interpretations and the latest historical research: Students will
evaluate a rich collection of visual and written materials, plus
key debates that examine the views of different historians
Exam board: AQA; Pearson Edexcel Level: AS/A-level Subject: History
First teaching: September 2015 First exams: Summer 2016 (AS);
Summer 2017 (A-level) Put your trust in the textbook series that
has given thousands of A-level History students deeper knowledge
and better grades for over 30 years. Updated to meet the demands of
today's A-level specifications, this new generation of Access to
History titles includes accurate exam guidance based on examiners'
reports, free online activity worksheets and contextual information
that underpins students' understanding of the period. - Develop
strong historical knowledge: in-depth analysis of each topic is
both authoritative and accessible - Build historical skills and
understanding: downloadable activity worksheets can be used
independently by students or edited by teachers for classwork and
homework - Learn, remember and connect important events and people:
an introduction to the period, summary diagrams, timelines and
links to additional online resources support lessons, revision and
coursework - Achieve exam success: practical advice matched to the
requirements of your A-level specification incorporates the lessons
learnt from previous exams - Engage with sources, interpretations
and the latest historical research: students will evaluate a rich
collection of visual and written materials, plus key debates that
examine the views of different historians
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Hitler (Hardcover)
Michael Lynch
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Adolf Hitler is the most notorious political figure of the
twentieth century. The story of his life, how he became a dictator,
and how he managed to convince so many to follow his cause is a
subject of perennial fascination.
Balancing narrative and analysis, this biography employs a
chronological approach to describe the main features of Hitler s
career. Set against the background of developments in Germany and
Europe during his lifetime, the text tells the extraordinary story
of how an Austrian layabout rose to become F hrer of the Third
Reich.
The chapters incorporate into their narrative the major debates
surrounding Hitler s ideas, behaviour and historical significance.
Particular attention is paid to his experience as a soldier in 1914
-18 and to the reasons why his original left-wing sympathies
transmuted into Nazism. Arguments over the real character of Hitler
s dictatorship are analysed and a measured assessment is offered on
the disputed issues of how far Hitler initiated the Third Reich s
domestic and foreign policies himself and to what extent he was
controlled by events. His destructive leadership of wartime Germany
is now a subject of close scrutiny among historians and the book s
final chapters deal with this theme and offer a set of reflections
on Hitler s relationship with the German people and his legacy to
the German nation.
Michael Lynch provides a balanced guide to this most difficult
of figures that will be enlightening for students and general
readers alike
The contributors to this volume take up the theme of instructed and
instructive actions. Harold Garfinkel, the founder of
ethnomethodology, initiated the study of instructed actions as a
way to elucidate the embodied production of social order in real
time. Studies of instructions and the actions of following them
provide empirical content to the classical theoretical issue of how
rules, norms, and other normative guidelines are conveyed,
understood, and used for producing social actions and structures.
The studies in this volume address novel technologies of instructed
action and non-obvious ways in which ordinary actions turn out to
be instructive for participants in immediate situations of action
and interaction. In some cases, the studies address specialized
practical, artistic, and recreational activities, in others they
address commonplace modes of action and interaction. In all cases
they focus on how the manifest organization of specific activities
are organized with and without explicitly formulated instructions.
This book will appeal to scholars across the social sciences with
interests in ethnomethodological approaches to research by
contributing to understandings of how specific actions are
instructed and instructive in the circumstances in which they are
produced.
Exam Board: AQA, Edexcel, OCR & WJEC Level: A-level Subject:
History First Teaching: September 2015 First Exam: June 2016 Give
your students the best chance of success with this tried and tested
series, combining in-depth analysis, engaging narrative and
accessibility. Access to History is the most popular, trusted and
wide-ranging series for A-level History students. This title: -
Supports the content and assessment requirements of the 2015
A-level History specifications - Contains authoritative and
engaging content - Includes thought-provoking key debates that
examine the opposing views and approaches of historians - Provides
exam-style questions and guidance for each relevant specification
to help students understand how to apply what they have learnt This
title is suitable for a variety of courses including: - AQA: The
Transformation of China, 1937-1997 - Edexcel: Mao's China, 1949-76
Originally published in 1987, this volume filled a notable gap in
Scottish urban history and considers the place of Scottish towns in
urban life during the 16th and 17th Centuries. The first part of
the book is based on studies of individual burghs (Aberdeen,
Dundee, Edinburgh and Perth) drawing extensively on archival
material. The second part includes a discussion of the pressure put
upon the burghs by the town between 1500 and 1650, a process which
contributed to the destruction of the medieval burgh and examines
the burgh during the Scottish Revolution. The impact of war and
plague on Scottish towns in the 1640s is also analysed and much
emphasis is given to the relationship between town and country.
Originally published in 1987, this volume filled a notable gap in
Scottish urban history and considers the place of Scottish towns in
urban life during the 16th and 17th Centuries. The first part of
the book is based on studies of individual burghs (Aberdeen,
Dundee, Edinburgh and Perth) drawing extensively on archival
material. The second part includes a discussion of the pressure put
upon the burghs by the town between 1500 and 1650, a process which
contributed to the destruction of the medieval burgh and examines
the burgh during the Scottish Revolution. The impact of war and
plague on Scottish towns in the 1640s is also analysed and much
emphasis is given to the relationship between town and country.
Exam Board: AQA, Edexcel, OCR & WJEC Level: A-level Subject:
History First Teaching: September 2015 First Exam: June 2016 This
is an OCR endorsed resource. Give your students the best chance of
success with this tried and tested series, combining in-depth
analysis, engaging narrative and accessibility. Access to History
is the most popular, trusted and wide-ranging series for A-level
History students. This title: - Supports the content and assessment
requirements of the 2015 A-level History specifications - Contains
authoritative and engaging content - Includes thought-provoking key
debates that examine the opposing views and approaches of
historians - Provides exam-style questions and guidance for each
relevant specification to help students understand how to apply
what they have learnt This title is suitable for a variety of
courses including: - OCR: Russia 1894-1941
This book revisits the arguments by which Harvey Sacks and Harold
Garfinkel opposed the widespread attempt in the social sciences to
construct disciplinary theories and methods in place of
common-sense knowledge of human action, and proposed instead an
alternative that would investigate the organised methods of natural
language use and common-sense reasoning that constitute social
orders - arguments that led to the establishment and proliferation
of ethnomethodology and conversation analysis. As the very
"constructive analysis" that they opposed has begun to be
incorporated into influential lines of research in ethnomethodology
and conversation analysis, the authors return to the founding
insights of the field and reiterate the importance of Garfinkel and
Sacks' original and controversial proposals for an "alternate"
sociology of practical action and practical reasoning. Showing how
constructive analysis has become entrenched in ethnomethodology and
conversation analysis and arguing for a need to "re-boot" these
approaches, this volume constitutes a call for a renewal of the
radical alternative proposed by Garfinkel and Sacks.
This volume includes an unpublished manuscript and selected
portions of five seminars by Harold Garfinkel - the founder of
ethnomethodology - on the topic of practices in the natural
sciences and mathematics. The volume provides a coherent and
sustained account of his program for the study of ordinary and
specialized social actions. Presenting broader theoretical and
methodological initiatives, as well as discussions and summaries of
exemplary studies of social phenomena within and beyond the
sciences, this work dates to the period in the 1980s during which
the field of Science and Technology Studies was taking shape, with
ethnomethodological studies of scientific practice forming a major
part of its development at the time. Aside from their historical
importance, the manuscript and seminars present a distinctive
perspective on the natural and social sciences that remains highly
original and pertinent to research on science, social science, and
everyday life today. Offering critical insights and proposals
relating to developments in Ethnomethodology and Conversation
Analysis, this volume will appeal to scholars of Sociology and
Science and Technology Studies with interests in the work of
Garfinkel. The Open Access version of this book, available at
www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative
Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
This volume includes an unpublished manuscript and selected
portions of five seminars by Harold Garfinkel - the founder of
ethnomethodology - on the topic of practices in the natural
sciences and mathematics. The volume provides a coherent and
sustained account of his program for the study of ordinary and
specialized social actions. Presenting broader theoretical and
methodological initiatives, as well as discussions and summaries of
exemplary studies of social phenomena within and beyond the
sciences, this work dates to the period in the 1980s during which
the field of Science and Technology Studies was taking shape, with
ethnomethodological studies of scientific practice forming a major
part of its development at the time. Aside from their historical
importance, the manuscript and seminars present a distinctive
perspective on the natural and social sciences that remains highly
original and pertinent to research on science, social science, and
everyday life today. Offering critical insights and proposals
relating to developments in Ethnomethodology and Conversation
Analysis, this volume will appeal to scholars of Sociology and
Science and Technology Studies with interests in the work of
Garfinkel. The Open Access version of this book, available at
www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative
Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
In the 1980s, philosophical, historical and social studies of
science underwent a change which later evolved into a turn to
practice. Analysts of science were asked to pay attention to
scientific practices in meticulous detail and along multiple
dimensions, including the material, social and psychological.
Following this turn, the interest in scientific practices continued
to increase and had an indelible influence in the various fields of
science studies. No doubt, the practice turn changed our
conceptions and approaches of science, but what did it really teach
us? What does it mean to study scientific practices? What are the
general lessons, implications, and new challenges? This volume
explores questions about the practice turn using both case studies
and theoretical analysis. The case studies examine empirical and
mathematical sciences, including the engineering sciences. The
volume promotes interactions between acknowledged experts from
different, often thought of as conflicting, orientations. It
presents contributions in conjunction with critical commentaries
that put the theses and assumptions of the former in perspective.
Overall, the book offers a unique and diverse range of perspectives
on the meanings, methods, lessons, and challenges associated with
the practice turn.
Exam board: AQA Level: AS/A-level Subject: History First teaching:
September 2015 First exams: Summer 2016 (AS); Summer 2017 (A-level)
Put your trust in the textbook series that has given thousands of
A-level History students deeper knowledge and better grades for
over 30 years. Updated to meet the demands of today's A-level
specifications, this new generation of Access to History titles
includes accurate exam guidance based on examiners' reports, free
online activity worksheets and contextual information that
underpins students' understanding of the period. - Develop strong
historical knowledge: In-depth analysis of each topic is both
authoritative and accessible - Build historical skills and
understanding: Downloadable activity worksheets can be used
independently by students or edited by teachers for classwork and
homework - Learn, remember and connect important events and people:
An introduction to the period, summary diagrams, timelines and
links to additional online resources support lessons, revision and
coursework - Achieve exam success: Practical advice matched to the
requirements of your A-level specification incorporates the lessons
learnt from previous exams - Engage with sources, interpretations
and the latest historical research: Students will evaluate a rich
collection of visual and written materials, plus key debates that
examine the views of different historians
"Argyle eased the warm loaf right and left""and downed swift
gulps of beer and venial sin""then lit into the bread now leavened
with""the corpse's cardinal mischiefs, then he said"""Six pence,
I'm sorry." And the widow paid him. "" "So opens the unsanctioned
priesthood of "The Sin-eater: A Breviary"--Thomas Lynch's
collection of two dozen, twenty-four line poems--a book of hours in
the odd life and times of Argyle, the sin-eater. Celtic and
druidic, scapegoat and outlier, a fixture in the funerary landscape
of former centuries, Argyle's doubt-ridden witness seems entirely
relevant to our difficult times. His "loaf and bowl," consumed over
corpses, become the elements of sacrament and sacrilege. By turns
worshipful and irreverent, good-humored and grim, these poems
examine the deeper meanings of Eucharist and grace, forgiveness and
faith, atonement and reconciliation. With photographs by Michael
Lynch and cover art by Sean Lynch, the author's sons.
Exam board: AQA; OCR Level: AS/A-level Subject: History First
teaching: September 2015 First exams: Summer 2016 (AS); Summer 2017
(A-level) Put your trust in the textbook series that has given
thousands of A-level History students deeper knowledge and better
grades for over 30 years. Updated to meet the demands of today's
A-level specifications, this new generation of Access to History
titles includes accurate exam guidance based on examiners' reports,
free online activity worksheets and contextual information that
underpins students' understanding of the period. - Develop strong
historical knowledge: in-depth analysis of each topic is both
authoritative and accessible - Build historical skills and
understanding: downloadable activity worksheets can be used
independently by students or edited by teachers for classwork and
homework - Learn, remember and connect important events and people:
an introduction to the period, summary diagrams, timelines and
links to additional online resources support lessons, revision and
coursework - Achieve exam success: practical advice matched to the
requirements of your A-level specification incorporates the lessons
learnt from previous exams - Engage with sources, interpretations
and the latest historical research: students will evaluate a rich
collection of visual and written materials, plus key debates that
examine the views of different historians
In this fully illustrated introduction, Dr Michael Lynch provides a
concise overview of the Chinese Civil War, a defining conflict in
world history. Between the end of World War II and the dawn of the
Cold War, one of the most important conflicts in modern history
reached its climax. In this illustrated history, bestselling
historian Dr Michael Lynch examines how the long struggle between
Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists and Mao Zedong's Communists exploded
into an intense, brutal and ruthlessly fought civil war. Delving
into the political background and complex ramifications of the
conflict, he assesses Mao and Chiang's millions-strong armies,
their strategies and commanders, and the critical campaigns that
won and lost China. By 1949 the Nationalist government was defeated
and in exile in Taiwan, and the new People's Republic of China was
ready to emerge as a major Cold War power. Updated and revised for
the new edition, with full-colour maps and new images throughout,
this is a concise study of one of the bloodiest conflicts of the
20th century and its significant repercussions, the issues around
which remain unresolved today.
This book revisits the arguments by which Harvey Sacks and Harold
Garfinkel opposed the widespread attempt in the social sciences to
construct disciplinary theories and methods in place of
common-sense knowledge of human action, and proposed instead an
alternative that would investigate the organised methods of natural
language use and common-sense reasoning that constitute social
orders - arguments that led to the establishment and proliferation
of ethnomethodology and conversation analysis. As the very
"constructive analysis" that they opposed has begun to be
incorporated into influential lines of research in ethnomethodology
and conversation analysis, the authors return to the founding
insights of the field and reiterate the importance of Garfinkel and
Sacks' original and controversial proposals for an "alternate"
sociology of practical action and practical reasoning. Showing how
constructive analysis has become entrenched in ethnomethodology and
conversation analysis and arguing for a need to "re-boot" these
approaches, this volume constitutes a call for a renewal of the
radical alternative proposed by Garfinkel and Sacks.
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