GCSE History AQA B : modern world history. Teacher guide.

Este recurso para el profesor sigue la estructura del libro del alumno, que prepara para el examen del General Certificate Secondary Education (GCSE). Contiene notas para el docente, planificación de clases y hojas de trabajo diferenciadas pero que pueden personalizarse y adaptarse a cada clase. Se acompaña de un CD-ROM.

GCSE Modern World History : Revision Guide.

Este libro prepara para los alumnos de historia cuyo objetivo es conseguir el General Certificate Secondary Education (GCSE). Los orígenes de la Primera Guerra Mundial, la política de Hitler y los orígenes de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, los orígenes de la Guerra Fría, la crisis de la Guerra Fría, el comunismo, la dictadura de Stalin, la Alemania de Hitler, la evolución de los EEUU, la guerra del Vietnam, las crisis de Marruecos y sus efectos, son algunos de los temas tratados en el libro con ilustraciones y esquemas.

GCSE Modern world history.

Guía de bolsillo para la revisión de los temas clave en el área de historia del mundo moderno para el examen GCSE (General Certificate of Secondary Education) con cuatrocientas preguntas rápidas y sus respuestas, organizadas en secciones temáticas y con consejos de examen. Los temas cubiertos son: Primera Guerra Mundial, tratados de paz 1918-1923, búsqueda de la paz y la estabilidad 1920-1939, caída del orden internacional en 1939, orígenes de la Guerra Fría 1945-1955, crisis de los misiles de Cuba, guerra de Vietnam, control soviético en la Europa del Este 1948-1989, fin de la Guerra Fría, terrorismo desde 1969, la guerra de Irak.

Edexcel GCSE Modern World History: Revision Guide.

Es un recurso para la preparación del examen del General Certificate Secondary Education (GCSE) que reúne una serie de temas que ayudan a clarificar el contenido de las unidades temáticas. Los temas tratados son: ¿Por qué la guerra estalló en 1914? (rivalidad internacional), el acuerdo de paz: 1918-28, ¿Por qué la guerra estalló en 1939? (relaciones internacionales)¿Cómo se desarrolló la guerra fría?, las tres crisis de la guerra fría: Berlin, Cuba y Checoslovaquia, ¿Por qué la guerra fría finalizó?, la invasión de Afganistán, Alemania (1918-39), Rusia (1917-39), USA (1919-41), la guerra y la transformación de la sociedad británica.

Evaluation of a modern-analogue methodology for reconstructing Australian palaeoclimate from pollen

Quantitative palaeoclimate reconstructions are widely used to evaluate climatemodel performance. Here, as part of an effort to provide such a data set for Australia, we examine the impact of analytical decisions and sampling assumptions on modern-analogue reconstructions using a continent-wide pollen data set. There is a high degree of correlation between temperature variables in the modern climate of Australia, but there is sufficient orthogonality in the variations of precipitation, summer and winter temperature and plant–available moisture to allow independent reconstructions of these four variables to be made. The method of analogue selection does not affect the reconstructions, although bootstrap resampling provides a more reliable technique for obtaining robust measures of uncertainty. The number of analogues used affects the quality of the reconstructions: the most robust reconstructions are obtained using 5 analogues. The quality of reconstructions based on post-1850 CE pollen samples differ little from those using samples from between 1450 and 1849 CE, showing that European post settlement modification of vegetation has no impact on the fidelity of the reconstructions although it substantially increases the availability of potential analogues. Reconstructions based on core top samples are more realistic than those using surface samples, but only using core top samples would substantially reduce the number of available analogues and therefore increases the uncertainty of the reconstructions. Spatial and/or temporal averaging of pollen assemblages prior to analysis negatively affects the subsequent reconstructions for some variables and increases the associated uncertainties. In addition, the quality of the reconstructions is affected by the degree of spatial smoothing of the original climate data, with the best reconstructions obtained using climate data froma 0.5° resolution grid, which corresponds to the typical size of the pollen catchment. This study provides a methodology that can be used to provide reliable palaeoclimate reconstructions for Australia, which will fill in a major gap in the data sets used to evaluate climate models.

NATO and the environment: the committee on the challenges of modern society

Launched with considerable fanfare in 1969, the Committee on the Challenges of Modern Society (CCMS) was supposed to bring new life to NATO by both re-energising public support and engaging with a variety of themes, issues and partners well beyond the alliance’s traditional scope. The first aim of this article is to go beyond the careful media operation that surrounded the launch of the CCMS and to examine the scepticism and resistance of some European partners, particularly the British. The second aim is to demonstrate that NATO started to think in terms of crisis management, disaster relief and environmental disasters well before 1989. The sheer military strength of the alliance and of its partners did remain central – and notably came back to the forefront in 1979 – but the alliance did start to see itself as a geopolitical player and to consider engagement beyond its strictly defined geographical area as early as 1969.

Historical Consciousness and Historical Media : A History Didactical Approach to Educational Media

This paper presents a theoretical approach to analysing educational media using the concept of historical consciousness. The concept of historical consciousness is defined and operationalised and its relevance for analysis of historical media discussed. One aspect of the theoretical framework proposed is then applied in an analysis of a history textbook account. The analysis finds that while the framework may be applied in analysis of textbooks, its results regarding historical consciousness are tentative and in need of further investigation from the perspective of how its users perceive and appropriate the textbook account. Still, it is argued that the framework proposed may be useful since it specifies how a historical consciousness may be manifested and what methodological approaches that can be used when analysing it.