Key Features of Modern History

ISBN: 9780195565683

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Fourth Edition

Bruce Dennett, Stephen Dixon

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Key Features of Modern History Fourth Edition has been completely revised and updated and offers comprehensive coverage of the Preliminary and HSC content for Modern History students in full colour. The stimulating and accessible narrative, incorporating the latest historiography and scholarship, includes a wide range of new written and visual sources, and student tasks and activities.

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New and expanded personality studies: Leni Riefenstahl, Albert Speer, Leon Trotsky, J. Edgar Hoover, Ho Chi Minh, Yasser Arafat, Douglas MacArthur
New chapters on Historical Investigation and Assassinations: The Death of President Kennedy
Extensively updated research and historiography throughout each chapter
Accessible and student-friendly approach
A complete course for Preliminary and HSC years in one volume
New full colour design
Student e-book on CD

Preliminary Course – Mandatory Core and Options
1. Yankees and Confederates in the American States: Case study
2. Bismarck and the Unification of the German States: Case study
3. The Decline and Fall of the Romanov Dynasty: Case study
4. Assassinations: The Death of President Kennedy: Case study
5. The Origins of the Arab–Israeli Conflict 1880s–1947: Case study
6. The World at Beginning of the Twentieth Century: Core
7. The Historical Investigation: Core

HSC Course – Mandatory Core and Options
8. The First World War 1914–1919: Core
9. The United States of America 1919–1941 National study Personality: J. Edgar Hoover
10. Russia and the Soviet Union 1917–1941 National study Personality: Leon Trotsky
11. Germany 1918–1939 National study Personalities: Albert Speer and Leni Riefenstahl
12. The Cold War 1945–1991 International study in peace and conflict
13. The Arab–Israeli Conflict 1948–1996 International study in peace and conflict Personality: Yasser Arafat
14. Conflict in the Pacific 1937–1951 International study in peace and conflict Personality: Douglas MacArthur
15. Conflict in Indochina 1954–1979 International study in peace and conflict Personality: Ho Chi Minh
16. Conflict in Europe 1935–1945 International study in peace and conflict

FREE SAMPLE teaching and learning resource: video podcast

WWW1 CORE
Controversies about WW1

The Reasons for Allied Victory (13.5 MB)
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FREE SAMPLE teaching and learning resource: video podcast

WWW1 CORE
Controversies about WW1

FREE exam revision video podcasts

Key Features of Modern History is supported by free, password-protected video podcasts for exam revision.

If Key Features of Modern History is on your booklist or your teacher has purchased a full class set, you are invited to access this material. If you require a password, contact your sales representative or send an email to: salesec.au@oup.com to receive your password.