Features an account on the history of software. By exploring the understanding of software and its history, this book explores the fundamental elements that make software what it is.
A study of representations of the non-Western world in European modernist cinema. It integrates theoretical discussion and textual analysis with primary source historical research, particularly into film reception. The case studies question received understandings of European film history.
This history of the early years of the Johns Hopkins University covers more than the establishment and development of this institution. It deals with a period of re-thinking and reassessment in higher education, when many of the fundamental problems of educational principle were tackled.
In his complete history of the barometer, the author documents the instrument's various permutations, the history of the scientific principles involved and the scientists who either helped or hindered progress, along with the experiments, controversies and refinements.
A history of the Vuelta a Espana that recounts the story of the Spanish cyclists, whose lives reflect the changes their country has undergone. The story of the Vuelta is also an account of a race trying to establish itself in an international calendar where the Tour de France and Giro d'Italia had the advantage of a clear head-start.
Addresses the multi-layered issue of camp, whose inexhaustible breadth of reference and theoretical relevance to the issues taken up by academic research in recent years have made it one of the most salient and challenging issues on the contemporary critical stage.
The Complexion of Race marks a decisive break with literary history's binary version of eighteenth-century British radical thought. -Journal of Social History