Volume: 46 Issue: 11
Contents of History Today, November 1996 |
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Joachim Radkau reviews the power revolutions of steam, electricity and oil - harbingers of dramatic change in technology and social expectations. |
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Andrea Wolter-Abele looks at how machines and industrial society provoked new concepts of creativity. |
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Speed and utopias – Vladimir Pankov on the brilliant novelties and blind alleys of the Futurists |
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From pigeon post to the Internet - Dagmar Lorenz on how the communications revolution has produced the global village. |
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Mikulas Teich looks at the impact of scientific transformations since 1900, and how these changes have produced a new world culture and global organisation. |
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Uwe Oster on the motorway prototype that Hitler hijacked. |
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Michael Bonavia on the long-delayed link between Britain and the Continent. |
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Rudolf Kippenhahn on how astronomy has altered our vision of the universe - from 10th-century Cairo to the Big Bang. |
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Asa Briggs comments on the historical division of time, and whether such landmarks as centuries and millennia hold any real meaning. |
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Roy Porter charts the whirlwind of medical triumphs that promised limitless progress in human health and our more sober reflections on the eve of the third... |
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Igor Slepnev on the fin de siecle project that yoked together the Russias of Europe and Asia. |
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Theo Barker on how 150 years of innovations in global movement have transformed what we eat, think and wear |
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Vasily Andreev on how far War (and the fear of it) has fuelled innovation this century. |
