Power and Authority in the Modern World: Investigating and Interpreting the Sources

Power and Authority in the Modern World: Investigating and Interpreting the Sources was been written for the HSC Modern History Core, a unit that explores the National Socialist regime in Germany, the origins and consequences of two global conflicts and the world’s attempts to avert war.

Students engage with secondary literature before and as they investigate and interpretate the sources.

Students enact the historical skills of analysis and use sources, interpretation, investigation and research, and explain and communicate their historical findings.

Students use the historical concepts of continuity and change, perspectives, significance, causation, and contestability to interpret the past.

Key Features 

• Accomplished author team 
• Alignment with the NSW Modern History Syllabus 
• Extracts from key historical sources, including treaties, legislation, speeches, ideological tracts, photographs and propaganda 
• Extracts from classic and contemporary historical interpretations 
• Activities tailored to the historical skills and concepts, including the Analysis and use of sources, historical interpretation, historical investigation and research, and explanation and communication 
• Content consolidation activities scaffold students on the journey from remembering to evaluation and creation 
• diagrams, maps, whole book glossary, up-to-date research

Contents

• Chapter 1: The peace treaties and their consequences
• Chapter 2: The rise of dictatorships after World War I
• Chapter 3: Nazism: The path to power 1919–1934
• Chapter 4: The Nazi State
• Chapter 5: Life in Nazi Germany
• Chapter 6: The search for peace and security in the world 1919–46