Contemporary America (Handbook to Life in America) - Hardcover

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ISBN 10: 0816071829 ISBN 13: 9780816071821

Verlag: Facts On File, 2009

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Changing International affairs and the forces of technological innovation shaped the lives of Americans in the last decades of the 20th century. While the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union gave rise to hopes of peaceful international relations, the Gulf War and the attacks of September 11, 2001 on the World Trade Center in New York shattered these aspirations. In the social sphere, cell phones, CDs, and the Internet completely transformed the ways by which people communicated and conveyed information. The election of an African-American man to the presidency marked the successful continuation of the struggle for equal civil rights, bolstering America's reputation as a radically changing place in this contemporary period.

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Dr. Rodney P. Carlisle is a professor emeritus of Rutgers University. He received his AB degree from Harvard College and his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. He most recently served as general editor of the award-winning Encyclopedia of Politics: The Left and Right (2005) and authored The Iraq War (2004).

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• Verlag: Facts On File
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0816071829
• ISBN 13: 9780816071821
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 291