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This title demonstrates the value of media studies broadly conceived. General readers and scholars alike will find Peters's artfully engaging style, his flair for aphoristic turns of phrase, encyclopedic range, and prescient wisdom delightful to read.
Still, with its far more thorough look at the 2000's major events and trends than such single volume overviews as Eric Bargeron's American Decades 2000–2009 or David Robson's Decade of the 2000s, this title makes a richer resource both for young researchers and for general readers whose personal memories of the era may have turned hazy.
Still, since academic interest in, and U.S. involvement with, Latin America has intensified in recent years, reference collections supporting serious academic study of our neighbors to the south will find no better way to update and expand the information available in older titles such as David W. Dent's Historical Dictionary of U.S.-Latin American Relations (Greenwood, 2005) than to purchase this set.
Despite basing her presentation at least as much on academic sources as on recent history, MacNair writes with sufficient force and clarity to keep general readers, even young ones, engaged: "To keep any horror going, it helps to think of it as numbers and abstract principles on a page." Furthermore, aside from the problem of a large bibliography shoveled into a single alphabetical list, the unusually broad scope of her analysis will provide a valuable intellectual structure for further study of the roots and branches of war and peace at all levels, from the individual to worldwide.
The work of an international legion of over 600 contributors was shepherded by Badie (political science & international relations, Sciences Po, Paris), Dirk Berg-Schlosser (political science, Philipps-Univ...
Bruns (Almost History), former deputy executive director of national historical publications and records commission at the National Archives; David L...
Prolific writer Albala (Food and Faith in Christian Culture; Food in Early Modern Europe) and an army of food scholars and experts here tackle the monumental task of summarizing the world's dietary culture in 154 alphabetically organized entries covering Africa and the Middle East, the Americas, Asia and Oceania, and Europe...