Covers major figures and events in Vietnam and the United States from 1945 to 1975. Includes French colonialism, the First Indochina War, U.S. Cold War policy, Ngo Dinh Diem and the Republic of Vietnam, John F. Kennedy and the first U.S. involvement, Lyndon B. Johnson and Americanization, the Tet Offensive, the U.S. antiwar movement, Richard M. Nixon and Vietnamization, and U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam.
Covers major figures and events in the United States from 1920 to 1940. Includes politics in the 1920s, the Roaring Twenties and the Jazz Age, Prohibition and conservatism, the great stock market crash, FDR and the New Deal, and the effects and demise of the New Deal.
The Nothing that Is: A Natural History of Zero
Kaplan elucidates expertly the history and uses of the symbol for nothing at all not only in math, and the history of math and science, but also in historical linguistics, medieval metaphysics, accounting, pedagogy and literary interpretation.
This brilliantly lucid and concise study traces China's history and culture from Neolithic times to the present, working into an integrated and authoritative narrative that covers centuries of politics, warfare and government, science and technology, economics and commerce, religion, philosophy, and the arts. Most valuable of all, Dr. Morton illuminates the essential Chinese design, the underlying mental set of the people and the society. He has given approximately equal treatment to all premodern periods, as each has its importance in the evolving history of the Chinese experience, and has illustrated the work with numerous photographs, maps, paintings and drawings and quotations from the literature.
Newly updated and revised, China: Its History and Culture, Fourth Edition, also carefully examines the crucial social and economic changes that have taken place in China over the last decade.
"A wonderful job! So lucid, beautifully written, with great range and insight. This will set a new standard for short general histories of China."--Michael Gasster, professor emeritus of history at Rutgers University
"Simple, concise, factual, and yet comprehensive, penetrating and readable."
New Approaches to European History is an important textbook series, which provides concise but authoritative surveys of
major themes and problems in European history since the Renaissance. Written at a level and length accessible to advanced
school students and undergraduates, each book in the series addresses topics or themes that students of European history
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to which increasing numbers of school and college courses are devoted. A particular effort is made to consider the wider international
implications of the subject under scrutiny. To aid the student reader, scholarly apparatus and annotation is light, but each work has full supplementary bibliographies and notes for further reading: where appropriate, chronologies, maps, diagrams, and other illustrative material are also provided.
The Nothing that Is: A Natural History of Zero
