Three decades before Alexander Graham Bell patented the telephone, and over a century before the modern office fax machine beeped into existence, a Scottish clockmaker named Alexander Bain was already transmitting rudimentary images over electrical wires.
In three decades, five American technology companies transformed from garage startups and university projects into institutions that shape how billions of people communicate, shop, learn, work, and form political opinions.
Every generation of Americans has inherited a country in the middle of an argument it did not start - and has been asked to carry that argument forward.
Seit den 1970er-Jahren stützt der Petrodollar die weltweite Dominanz der US-Währung – jede Barrel Öl, in Dollar gehandelt, festigte Amerikas geopolitische Macht.
History universally credits Alexander Graham Bell with the invention of the telephone, but the true mechanical foundation of voice transmission was laid by an obscure, brilliant inventor named Elisha Gray.
Die Psychiatriereform versprach Freiheit, doch hinterließ sie Leere: Bettenabbau und Deinstitutionalisierung katapultierten chronisch Kranke in Obdachlosigkeit, Substanzmissbrauch und Kriminalität.
Während die USA seit Jahrzehnten vom Status des Dollars als globaler Leitwährung profitieren, formiert sich im Schatten eine machtvolle Gegenbewegung: die BRICS-Staaten.
How did an exclusive, secretive vacation resort built for the wealthiest billionaires in the world directly cause the utter annihilation of an entire working-class American city?
Every great financial collapse in modern history carries, buried somewhere in its wreckage, the same evidence: a policy decision made too late, held too long, or calibrated for a world that no longer existed.
Venezuela zählt zu den rohstoffreichsten Ländern der Welt – und zugleich zu den schwersten politischen und wirtschaftlichen Krisenfällen der Gegenwart.
Franco Venturi, premier European interpreter of the Enlightenment, is still completing his acclaimed multi-volume work, a grand synthesis of Western history before the French Revolution as seen through the perceptive eyes of Italian observers.
Ancient writers distinguished between art and style, arguing that free imitation was a critical strategy that freed artists from servile copying of objects and blind submission to rules of style.
Embroiled in the political events surrounding World War I and the failed Hungarian revolutions of 1918-19, a number of intellectuals fled Hungary for Germany and Austria, where they essentially created Weimar culture.
Leopold von Ranke (1795-1886), generally recognized as the founder of the school of modern critical historical scholarship, and Jacob Burckhardt (1818-1897), the great Swiss proponent of cultural interpretation, are fathers of modern history--giants of their time who continue to exert an immense influence in our own.
Few issues attracted more attention in the nineteenth century than the "e;problem"e; of women's work, and few industries posed that problem more urgently than the booming garment industry in Paris.
Pursuing special experiences that take them to the brink of permanent madness or death, men and women in every age have "e;returned"e; to heal and comfort their fellow human beings--and these shamans have fascinated students of society from Herodotus to Mircea Eliade.
In vorliegendem Buch begibt sich der Autor Robert Lorenz auf die Spur des Schlesischen und seiner Konstrukteure an der Neiße in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart.
Nacidos originalmente como parte de la liturgia funeraria en Etruria, los combates de gladiadores fueron adquiriendo progresivamente a partir del siglo III a.
In 1958, Shepard Stone, then directing the Ford Foundation's International Affairs program, suggested that his staff "e;measure"e; America's cultural impact in Europe.
Franco Venturi, premier European interpreter of the Enlightenment, is still completing his acclaimed multivolume work Settecento Riformatore, a grand synthesis of Western history before the French Revolution as seen through the perceptive eyes of Italian observers.
This book addresses one of the least studied yet most pervasive aspects of modern life--the techniques and mechanisms by which official agencies certify individual identity.
In this volume a diverse group of leading historians analyzes the future needs of their craft and suggests the many ways in which scholars of the near future will interpret the events of earlier years.
In order to understand the transition between the revolutionary movement that propelled the Abbasids to power and the imperial government that later took root, Jacob Lassner studies those elements that served to shape the political attitudes and institutions of the emerging regime during its formative years.
International lawyers and distinguished scholars consider the question: Is it legally justifiable to treat the Vietnam War as a civil war or as a peculiar modern species of international law?
Professor Havens analyzes the efforts of Japanese antiwar organizations to portray the war as much more than a fire across the sea"e; and to create new forms of activism in a country where individuals have traditionally left public issues to the authorities.
This new and abridged edition of Scenarios of Power is a concise version of Richard Wortman's award-winning study of Russian monarchy from the seventeenth century until 1917.
A new international maritime order was forged in the early modern age, yet until now histories of the period have dealt almost exclusively with the Atlantic and Indian oceans.
