This Is America

A Short History of the United States
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-1-61472-571-8
Verlag: Berkshire Publishing Group LLC

Buch, Englisch, 228 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 357 g

Reihe: This World of Ours

The Internet in China provides unique and much-needed historical background on the communications revolution and technological developments that have transformed Chinese society, creating new conflicts and new opportunities for the nation's half billion "netizens." This convenient handbook covers the role of the Internet in business and economy, governance and politics, civil society, and social welfare. More than forty international experts, many of them Chinese, write about community-building and social networking, online dating and romance, government regulation, education and entertainment, and phenomena specific to China, including the Great Firewall and microblogging.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Campbell, Duncan A.

Levinson, David

Über Autor(innen)

Duncan A. Campbell is Assistant Professor of History at National University in La Jolla, California, USA. Before that he was a lecturer in American Studies at the University of Wales Swansea, UK. He is the author of English Public Opinion and the American Civil War (2003) and Unlikely Allies: Britain, America and the Victorian Origins of the ""Special Relationship"" (2007). In 2014 he co-edited Berkshire Publishing's This Is America: A Short History of the United States. He is, additionally, co-editor of The 1980s: A Critical and Transitional Decade (2011) and The American Civil War (2000) in the Helm Literary Sources and Documents series. His research interests lie in comparative history, especially that of the nineteenth-century Atlantic World.