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State of Emergency: The Way We Were (urspr publ 2010; utgåvan 2011)

av Dominic Sandbrook (Författare)

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This book gives a comprehensive description of the architecture of microprocessors from simple in-order short pipeline designs to out-of-order superscalars. It discusses topics such as: • The policies and mechanisms needed for out-of-order processing such as register renaming, reservation stations, and reorder buffers • Optimizations for high performance such as branch predictors, instruction scheduling, and load-store speculations • Design choices and enhancements to tolerate latency in the cache hierarchy of single and multiple processors • State-of-the-art multithreading and multiprocessing emphasizing single chip implementations Topics are presented as conceptual ideas, with metrics to assess the performance impact, if appropriate, and examples of realization. The emphasis is on how things work at a black box and algorithmic level. The author also provides sufficient detail at the register transfer level so that readers can appreciate how design features enhance performance as well as complexity.… (mer)
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Titel:State of Emergency: The Way We Were
Författare:Dominic Sandbrook (Författare)
Info:Penguin Books (2011), 768 pages
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Taggar:1970s, Politics, British History, Social History

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State of Emergency: The Way We Were: Britain, 1970-1974 av Dominic Sandbrook (2010)

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A brilliant and evocative account of both politics and societal change in the early 1970s in Britain.

As with any account of that period there is a emphasis although it is not an due on the economics and difficulties of the time that people faced due to mismanagement, industrial relations, and political manoeuvring.

Very readable and whether Dominic Sandbrook is talking about Doctor Who all the machinations of the Labour Party factionalism, he remains a fascinating author.

Highly recommended and I would be using it and listening to other books in the series ( )
  aadyer | Jul 26, 2022 |
Dominic Sandbrook has that happy knack of combining his considerable scholarship with accessibility. This large book is actually merely the first instalment of what would have been an immense book, detailing British history during the 1970s. Such is the wealth of material available to him, that he had to opt instead for two volumes.

While the basic frame of the book follows the political history during that turbulent period, he consolidates that with detailed consideration of the cultural and sociological context. There is scarcely n aspect of British life in the early 1970s that doesn’t some under his pellucid gaze.

What rapidly becomes clear is that, although the book only covers four years, there was so much going on. The period was bookended by two general elections that would yield surprise results. I was just seven years old in 1970, so have no valuable recollection of the general election. In 1970, no one, least of all Edward Heath himself, really expected that the Conservatives might win the election. Harold Wilson’s government had, like so many Labour administrations of recent years, subsided into internal wrangling, with personality clashes among the front benchers spilling over into policy disputes. His Conservative rivals, however, were also divided, and lacked any clear economic vision, and Wilson had chosen to cut and run, hoping to secure a third term. Sandbrook covers the election campaign with great verve, conveying Harold Wilson’s surprise and disappointment at the outcome.

Heath’s four years as Prime Minister would see major upheavals, all of which reverberated through subsequent history to a greater degree than could reasonably have been expected. He is probably now best remembered for having clashed with the miners, and taking Britain into the Stygian gloom of the three-day week and lengthy power cuts. On a more positive point, he also succeeded, where previous Labour and Conservative governments had failed, at gaining admission into the European Economic Community, negotiating membership from 1 January 1973.

Although the prism of memory renders an image of him in constant strife against the trade unions, he actually had a better relationship with most of the union leadership than his Labour predecessor. Indeed, many people on the right of the party came almost to suspect him of crypto-Socialism. Even Joe Gormley, the relatively moderate national leader of the miners’ union, got on well with Heath, and attempted to maintain constructive relations with him, though these were undermined by the scheming of his more extreme colleagues Mick McGahey, leader of the Scottish miners, and Arthur Scargill, leader of the Yorkshire chapter.

Sandbrook’s analysis shows that Heath’s greatest weakness was his inability to deal with people. Far too prickly, he simply couldn’t communicate, and could never be comfortable in company. He was, also, incredibly unlucky. All the way through his administration he was overtaken by external events over which he had no control (such as the sudden outbreak of war in the Middle East and the consequential surge in oil and petrol prices around the world).

Sandbrook’s analysis of the industrial strife, and in particular the miners’ strikes, is very clear. He encapsulates complex concepts and sequences of events in a lucid and easily absorbed manner. Obviously, writing with the pellucid focus lent by hindsight helps, but he manages his material with great dexterity.

He also knows how to strike the right balance between the factual accounts of the political machinations with insights into the changing cultural and social horizons, offering diverting chapters on the rise of feminism, the lengthening shadow of unemployment and the grimmer aspects of professional football.

This is accessible history of the highest calibre, and I am eager to move on to the next volume. ( )
  Eyejaybee | Nov 22, 2017 |
This isn't a straight book about politics, it covers the upheaval and troubled years of the early 1970's but also pop culture, TV and environmental issues.

It jumps about though events but this didn't bother me, it's written in a way that I could relate too.

I was too young to recall the reality of the early 70's so it was a good book to dive in with. It's readable and entertaining and gave me a good background into the time where my parents were busy raising a family. I'll be purchasing the follow up on my Kindle which sees us up to 1979.
  paperlesspages | Apr 23, 2016 |
This is the first of Sandbrook’s series on modern Britain I’ve picked up, partly through good word of mouth and partly as I’ve been looking for a good popular history series on the period. I started with the early 70s as it’s fascinated me; the period that shaped the world I was born into. It ends up as exactly the book I’ve been looking for, the story as told by an intelligent history of my generation, history now beginning to congeal around the time as we can properly set it in context.

There are two tricks Sandbrook has which render this a compelling read. The first is obvious from other volumes – he divides modern British history into governments, hence this follows volumes on the Macmillan and Wilson regimes and is followed by one on the Callaghan/Wilson one. It allows a natural shape to events (though when it contributes to a greater understanding and context he’s admirably willing to go outside the dates in question). The second is always to show how events are embedded in popular culture, acknowledging the nostalgia histories of shows such as ‘I Heart The 70s’, though he’s careful to avoid the sugar-coated revisionism of those series., Such insights as pop culture could bring are always used to emphasise and illuminate his arguments instead, though his fanboy love of Doctor Who does show though. Not that I’m complaining there.

What really surprised is how contemporary Sandbrook makes all these troubles seem – there are good cases for paralleling Heath with Gordon Brown and even Cameron’s current regime on many issues, particularly economic ones. And many of the issues facing the UK in that decade have come round the track again (or never really gone away). We like to think our problems are unique but Sandbrook ably demonstrates that this is rarely the case and we could learn from even recent history. He perhaps lacks any startling conclusions (bar an excellent musing that the hooliganism bedevilling football in the 70s and 80s was actually down to affluence) but finds virtue in thoroughness, adeptly bringing characters and issues of the time to life as easily as he illustrates more abstract concepts. Editorialising is kept to a minimum, though occasionally a little heavy-handed – one comment in the chapter on sport rides awfully close to the simplistic terrace goading of ‘always the victims, it’s never your fault’.

Historically it’s admirably fair too, never brushing over Heath’s faults but acknowledging that in terms of the events he couldn’t control he was extraordinarily unlucky even if his government didn’t always cope with them well. In fact, that’s the main lesson to be drawn here. No matter how shrewd we may be, how competent or incompetent there’s so little in anyone’s control it’s preposterous to ascribe sole blame to one regime. It’s a book long proof of MacMillan’s attributed response to the question of what Prime Minsters most feared – ‘events, dear boy, events’. Whether he said it or not, Heath’s reign was a perfect demonstration of that, from the death of his initial appointment as Chancellor to the events of the weeks leading up to the election. Heath brought much of his trouble on himself, but still deserves a more sympathetic view than Thatcherite revisionism tends to allow. Ultimately brought down by his own faults and unwillingness to change, this plays out as a political tragedy. As this is real life though, and more a soap opera than a one off play, it ends on a cliffhanger, the credits rolling with Wilson returning to Number Ten...

I know what happens next, but I still want to see what Sandbrook makes of it. ( )
  JonArnold | Jan 18, 2015 |
The only problem I had with this book is that I couldn't put it down. Sandbrook's dissection of the first five years of the 70s is every bit as detailed and gripping as Never Had It So Good and White Heat. Again, I'm left impatiently waiting for the next installment. ( )
  planetmut | Oct 25, 2011 |
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This book gives a comprehensive description of the architecture of microprocessors from simple in-order short pipeline designs to out-of-order superscalars. It discusses topics such as: • The policies and mechanisms needed for out-of-order processing such as register renaming, reservation stations, and reorder buffers • Optimizations for high performance such as branch predictors, instruction scheduling, and load-store speculations • Design choices and enhancements to tolerate latency in the cache hierarchy of single and multiple processors • State-of-the-art multithreading and multiprocessing emphasizing single chip implementations Topics are presented as conceptual ideas, with metrics to assess the performance impact, if appropriate, and examples of realization. The emphasis is on how things work at a black box and algorithmic level. The author also provides sufficient detail at the register transfer level so that readers can appreciate how design features enhance performance as well as complexity.

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