Inclusive history education

Inclusion brings with it new challenges for the planning of history lessons. The increasing heterogeneity of the student body also demands new ways of differentiation and subject orientation from history teachers. This volume brings together ideas and practical examples to meet these challenges and provide teachers with guidance when designing history lessons in inclusive classes. The focus is …

Deep learning applications with practical measured results in electronics ind…

This book collects 14 articles from the Special Issue entitled “Deep Learning Applications with Practical Measured Results in Electronics Industries” of Electronics. Topics covered in this Issue include four main parts: (1) environmental information analyses and predictions, (2) unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and object tracking applications, (3) measurement and denoising techniques, and (4)…

Changing the rules: constitutional amendments in democracies

George Tsebelis presents a theoretical argument and supporting empirical evidence on the inverse relationship between constitutional rigidity\r\nand the frequency and significance of amendments, as well as their variance. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core

Island tinkerers: innovation and transformation in the making of Taiwan's com…

How Taiwan rose to global prominence in high tech manufacturing, from computer maker to the world's leading chip manufacturer. How did Taiwan, a former Japanese colony and the last fortress of the defeated Chinese Nationalists, ascend to such heights in high-tech manufacturing? In Island Tinkerers, Honghong Tinn tells the critical history of how hobbyists and enthusiasts in Taiwan, including…

Schooling the nation: education and everyday politics in Egypt

Telling the story of the Egyptian uprising through the lens of education, Hania Sobhy explores the everyday realities of citizens in the years before and after the so-called 'Arab Spring'. With vivid narratives from students and staff from Egyptian schools, Sobhy offers novel insights on the years that led to and followed the unrest of 2011. Drawing a holistic portrait of education in Egypt, sh…

Gods of the sea: whales and coastal communities in northeast Japan, c.1600-2019

Challenging common portrayals of Japan as a centuries-old whaling nation, Fynn Holm shows that many coastal communities in early modern Northeast Japan believed whales to be the incarnation of the god of the sea that brought fish to the shore, leading to violent anti-whaling protests that shocked the country

Tokens and social life in Roman imperial Italy

This is a unique and accessible introduction to an underutilised source, Roman tokens, with a focus on those found in Imperial Italy. It explains how tokens can illuminate all kinds of issues such as identity, entertainment, euergetism, imperial ideology, festivals, material culture and everyday life

Sisters in Peace : The Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom i…

Is preparing for war the best means of preserving peace? In Sisters in Peace, Kate Laing contends that this question has never been solely the concern of politicians and strategists. She maps successive generations of twentieth-century women who were eager to engage in political debate even though legislative and cultural barriers worked to exclude their voices. In 1915, during the First Wor…

The Spanish Lake

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37

ISBN/ISSN

9781920942175

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910.09164.SPA

Civil War settlers: Scandinavians, citizenship, and American empire, 1848-1870

Civil War Settlers is the first comprehensive analysis of Scandinavian Americans and their participation in the US Civil War. Based on thousands of sources in multiple languages, that have to date been inaccessible to most US historians, Anders Bo Rasmussen brings the untold story of Scandinavian American immigrants to life by focusing on their lived community experience and positioning it with…