History: Reference (e.g. encyclopedias and dictionaries)

An essential resource for anyone interested in U.S. history and politics, this two-volume encyclopedia covers the major forces that have shaped American politics from the founding to today. Broad in scope, the book addresses both the traditional topics of political history--such as eras, institutions, political parties, presidents, and founding documents--and the wider subjects of current scholarship, including military, electoral, and economic events, as well as social movements, popular culture, religion, education, race, gender, and more. Each article, specially commissioned for this book.

With over 2800 entries, this dictionary provides informative and analytical entries on the most important people, organizations, events, movements, and ideas that have shaped the world we live in. Covering the period from 1900 to the present day, this fully revised and updated edition presents a global perspective on recent history, with a wide range of new entries from Tony Abbott, the European migration crisis, and ISIS to Narendra Modi, Hassan Rouhani, and UKIP. All existing entries have been brought up to date.

Introduction -- Decisions, decisions -- Ambience -- Housing -- Jobs -- Crime -- Transportation -- Education -- Health care -- Recreation -- Climate -- Putting it all together -- Appendix A. Metropolitan areas by state -- Appendix B. People -- Appendix C. Metropolitan area place finder.

The scope of this series-as its title hints-is truly vast and the number of volumes continues rising to above seventy at present. The works on religion are the most numerous...The philosophies stretch from Ancient Greek Philosophy, to Medieval Philosophy, to the philosophies of Leibniz, Nietzsche, Hegel and others....This includes a list of acronyms, chronology and introduction up front and appendixes and bibliography in the back but the the core of the book is the -dictionary+ with literally hundreds of entries on important persons, places and events, concepts and institutions, holy books for the religions, philosophical treatises for the philosophies, and declarations or platforms for the movements, organizations, institutions, activities, and issues.

The books are written by experts in the area or country that is covered. All contain well-written brief histories of the country and chronologies that, though they cover historical time periods, heavily feature more recent events. Brief A-Z entries cover the main people, politics, social issues, foreign affairs, institutions, and policies that make the country unique.