By Duncan Campbell,David Levinson
As the stability of worldwide political and financial energy shifts, this e-book can help US voters see their place of origin extra truly and should provide humans somewhere else a extra nuanced view of the "beautiful kingdom" — the literal translation of 美国 ("Měiguó"), the identify for the U.S. in Chinese.
In seven brief chapters, and no more than 250 pages, the reader will research the necessities concerning the state often known as "America" — from prehistory and early cost throughout the twenty-first century, by way of an outline of the foremost innovations and debates that proceed to form the USA. scholars and academics will locate this concise paintings an immense relief to higher figuring out of the USA and its evolving place in international affairs.
Other titles within the sequence are established in excessive faculties and faculties, and feature been praised through eminent students and through company leaders together with invoice Gates, founding father of Microsoft.
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