GCSE Reading List - History

 GCSE History 2009
ALL PRICES ARE PROVISIONAL UNTIL PUBLICATION

AQA/A
Nelson pg 6 NOT PUBLISHED UNTIL 2010

 

Unit 1 choose one

  • Medicine Through Time

Medicine :10 000BC-500AD Prehistoric, Egypt, Greece, Rome.

500-1700 Medieval, Islamic

1700-present day

Surgery and Anatomy : dates as above

Public Health : pre 1750, 1750-1900, since 1900

  • Media Through Time

Development Of Media : 3000BC-1450 Writing, 3000BC-1920 Print, 1920-1950 Radio & Cinema, 1950-1980 Television, 1980-present day Digital/Interactive/Multi-Choice

Controlling Mass Media : pre 1750, 1750-1900, 1900-present day

Social and Political Impact of Mass Media : dates as above

Hodder pg21 SHP Medicine & Health Through Time

9780340986714 13.99 Sept 09

9780340986738 75.00 Sept 09 (teacher resource)

 

Folens pg2 Medicine Through Time

FD4617 12.99 June 09

 

 

Unit 2 Plus ONE of these:

  • The American West, 1840-1895 Plains, Indians, settlers, Mormons, cattle-ranching, railways, farming, law & order, effect of arrival of white people and resolution of Indian ‘problem’

 

  • Britain, 1815-1851Reform of electoral system, Chartism, trade unions, poor law, population change 1815-1851, social reform, railways

 

  • Elizabethan England, 1558-1603 Queen & government, the poor, Puritanism, Catholicism, theatre, ships & seamen, armada

 

  • Germany, 1919-1945 Nazi rise to power, control & opposition, German economy & society, race & youth, culture & propaganda

Folens pg2 Germany 1918-1945

FD4594 12.99 June 09

AQA/B

Heinemann pg 21 AQA GCSE Modern World History Student Book with ActiveBook CD-ROM 9780435510442 £16.99 (Spring 09)

Active Revise 9780435510442 £7.99 (Autumn 09)

AQA GCSE Modern World History Teacher Guide 9780435510428 £100.00 (Spring 09)

ActiveTeach CD-ROM 9780435510435 (Spring 09)

Hodder pg 14 AQA GCSE Modern World History Student Book 9780340981818 £16.99 (June 09)

Teacher Resource 9780340986691 £75.00 (June 09)

All the following

Unit 1: International relations: Conflict and peace in the 20th century

(3 questions pre-1939, 3 questions post-1945 to be answered)

  • Origins of the First World War

  • Peacemaking 1918-1919 & the league of nations

  • Hitler’s foreign policy & origins of the Second World War

  • Origins of the Cold War 1945-1955

  • Crises of the Cold War 1955-1970

  • Failure of détente & collapse of Communism 1970-1991

Nelson pg 6 International Relations in the 20th Century Student Book

9781408503010 12.99 (Summer 09)

Hodder pg 14 International Relations 1900-2005 CD-ROM 9780340990490 £300 + VAT (June 09)

 

Unit 2: 20th Century depth study

(1 question from Section A, 2 questions from Section B to be answered)

Section A:

  • Tsardom to Communism, Russia 1914-1924

  • Weimar Germany 1919-1929

  • The roaring twenties, USA 1919-1929

Section B:

  • Stalin’s dictatorship, USSR 1924-1941

  • Hitler’s Germany 1929-1939

  • Depression and the new deal, USA 1929-1941

  • Race relations in the USA 1955-1968

  • USA and Vietnam, failure abroad and at home 1964-1975

  • Britain, the challenge in Northern Ireland, 1960-1986

  • The Middle East 1956-1971

Nelson pg 6 20th Century Depth Studies Student Book

9781408503218 12.99 (Summer 09)

Hodder pg 14 Modern world Depth Study CD-ROM

9780340990506 £300 + VAT (Oct 09)

 

 

Folens pg 4 The USA 1919-1941 FC8307 9.99 (old)

CD-ROMs FC8315 99.99 + VAT

 

Unit 3: Historical enquiry, British History (coursework)

Nelson pg 6 Historical Enquiry Student Book 9781408503225 9.99 (summer 09)

Hodder pg 14 20th Century British Depth Studies CD-ROM 9780340990513 £300 + VAT

Edexcel/A Making Of The Modern World

Edexcel pg 4 OR Heinemann pg 16 : History A Making Of The Modern World Student Book 9781846903700 £18.50 (Spring 2009)

Controlled Assessment teacher Guide 9781846905155 £50 (Summer 09)

ActiveTeach CD-ROM 9781846903830 £325 + VAT (Summer 09)

  

Unit 1 : Peace and War: International Relations 1900-1991

Students should select three of the following six sections

Hodder pg 14 International Relations 1900-2005 CD-ROM 9780340990490 £300 + VAT (June 09)

 

  • Section 1: Why did war break out? International rivalry 1900–14

 

  • Section 2: The peace settlement 1918–28

 

  • Section 3: Why did war break out? International relations 1929–39

 

  • Section 4: How did the Cold War develop? 1943–56

 

  • Section 5: Three Cold War crises: Berlin, Cuba and Czechoslovakia c1957–69

 

  • Section 6: Why did the Cold War end? The invasion of Afghanistan (1979) to the collapse of the Soviet Union (1991).

 

Unit 2: Modern World Depth Study

Students should select one of the following three options:

Hodder pg 14 Modern world Depth Study CD-ROM

9780340990506 £300 + VAT (Oct 09)

  • Option 2A: Germany 1918–39

 

  • Option 2B: Russia 1917–39

 

  • Option 2C: The USA 1919–41.

 

Unit 3 : Modern World Source Enquiry

Students should select one of the following three options:

 

  • Option 3A: War and the transformation of British society c1903–28

 

  • Option 3B: War and the transformation of British society c1931–51

 

  • Option 3C: A divided union? The USA 1945–70.

 

Unit4 : Representations of History

  • Students should select one of the following 12 options:

 

  • CA1: Germany 1918–39

Hodder pg 14 Modern world Depth Study CD-ROM

9780340990506 £300 + VAT (Oct 09)

  • CA2: Russia 1917–39

 

  • CA3: USA 1919–41

 

  • CA4: China 1945–76

 

  • CA5: Vietnam 1960–75

 

  • CA6: Government and protest in the USA

  • 1945–70

 

  • CA7: The Indian subcontinent: The road to independence

  • 1918–47

 

  • CA8: Crime, policing and punishment in England c1880–1990

Hodder pg 14 20th Century British Depth Studies CD-ROM 9780340990513 £300 + VAT

  • CA9: Northern Ireland: 1968–99

 

  • CA10: The impact of war on Britain c1914–c1950 Or this option may have a local focus as CA10L

 

  • CA11: Change in British society 1955–75

 

  • CA12: Power and political transformation in Britain 1970–90.

 

Edexcel/B – Schools History Project - http://www.edexcel.com/quals/gcse/gcse09/history/b/Pages/default.aspx

  

Unit 1 Schools History Project Development Study

Select one option from

  • Option 1A Medicine and treatment

 

 

 

  • Option 1B Crime and punishment

 

 

  • Option 1C The changing nature of warfare

 

 

Edexcel pg7 - Medicine 1A & War 3A

Student Book 9781846904400 £14.99 (Spring 09)

Teacher Guide 9781846904455 £50 (Spring09)

ActiveTeach CD-ROM 9781846904523 £325 + VAT (Summer 09)

- Crime 1B & Protest 3B

Student Book 9781846904417 £14.99 (Spring 09)

Teacher Guide 9781846904462 £50 (Summer 09)

- Warfare 1C & Its Impact 3C

Student Book 97818469044204 £14.99 (Summer 09)

Teacher Guide 9781846904479 £50 (Summer 09)

Unit 2 Schools History Project Depth Study

Select one option from

  • Option 2A The transformation of British society c1815–c1851 23

  • Option 2B The American West c1840–c1895 26

  • Option 2C Life in Germany c1919–c1945

 

 

 

Edexcel pg 7 American West 9781846904431 £10.99 (Spring 09)

Life in Germany 9781846904448 £10.99 (Spring 09)

Unit 3 Schools History Project Source Enquiry

  • 3A The transformation of surgery c1845–c1918

 

 

 

  • 3B Protest, law and order in the twentieth century

 

 

  • 3C The impact of war on Britain c1914–c1950

 

 

  • 3D The work of the historian.

 

Edexcel pg7 - Medicine 1A & War 3A

Student Book 9781846904400 £14.99 (Spring 09)

Teacher Guide 9781846904455 £50 (Spring09)

ActiveTeach CD-ROM 9781846904523 £325 + VAT (Summer 09)

- Crime 1B & Protest 3B

Student Book 9781846904417 £14.99 (Spring 09)

Teacher Guide 9781846904462 £50 (Summer 09)

- Warfare 1C & Its Impact 3C

Student Book 97818469044204 £14.99 (Summer 09)

Teacher Guide 9781846904479 £50 (Summer 09)

Unit 4 Representations of History - Coursework

Select one of the following

Students should select one of the following 13 options:

  • CA1: Germany 1918–39

  • CA2: Russia 1917–39

  • CA3: USA 1919–41

  • CA4: China 1945–76

  • CA5: Vietnam 1960–75

  • CA6: Government and Protest in the USA 1945–70

  • CA7: The Indian subcontinent.The road to independence 1918–47

  • CA8: Crime, policing and punishment in England c1880–c1990

  • CA9: Northern Ireland: 1968–99

  • CA10: The impact of war on Britain c1914–c1950 (This option may have a local focus as (CA10L)

  • CA11: Change in British society 1955–75

  • CA12: Power and political transformation in Britain 1970–90

  • CA13L: History around us — a local community.

 

OCR/A – Full Course – School History Project 

Either

 

  • Medicine Through Time

 

OR

 

  • Crime and Punishment Through Time

 

Plus ONE of these

 

  • Elizabethan England

 

  • Britain 1815-1851

 

  • The American West 1840-1895

 

  • Germany c1919-1945

 

Plus ONE of these

 

  • Developments in British Medicine 1200-1945

 

  • Developments in Crime and Punishment 1200-1945

 

OCR/B – Full Course – Modern World 

Compulsory Aspects of International relations 1919-2005

  • The Inter-War Years 1919-39

  • The Cold War 1945-75

  • A New World? 1948-2005

Hodder pg 14 International Relations 1900-2005 CD-ROM 9780340990490 £300 + VAT (June 09)

 

Plus ONE of these Study in Depth

Hodder pg 14 Modern world Depth Study CD-ROM

9780340990506 £300 + VAT (Oct 09)

  • Germany 1918-1945

 

  • Russia 1905-1941

 

  • The USA 1919-1941

 

  • Mao’s China c1930-1976

 

  • The USA 1945-1975 – a land of freedom?

 

  • The causes and events of the First World War 1890-1914

 

  • The End of Empire 1919-1969

 

Plus ONE of these British Depth Study

Hodder pg 14 20th Century British Depth Studies CD-ROM 9780340990513 £300 + VAT

  • How far was British society changed 1890-1918

 

  • How far did British society change 1939-1975