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Please note : you need to verify every book you want to send to your Kindle. Check your mailbox for the verification email from Amazon Kindle. The present volume, Turbulent Decade: A History of the Cultural Revolution, is based on the revised edition and has been masterfully edited and translated by D. Kwok in consultation with the authors. Following Professor Kwok's eloquent introduction and a short foreword in which the authors analyze the basic causes of the Cultural Revolution, Part One of the narrative focuses on the years In two short years, Mao managed to turn public opinion against Liu Shaoqi, president of the Republic, and launch the Cultural Revolution.

The reader is introduced to the Red Guards and encounters the cult of personality, the first resistance to the Cultural Revolution, the attack on Zhou Enlai, and the persecution and death of Liu Shaoqi. Part Two examines the rise and fall of Lin Biao during the years Lin's bid for power, which began with the consolidation of his personal clique in the army and mass-level persecution in the late stages of theCultural Revolution, ended in a failed coup and his death in an air crash.

Part Three follows Jiang Qing from to her arrest in for her part in instigating mass violence and the persecution of key figures, including Zhou Enlai.

During this period, the political fortunes of Deng. Inventors, businessmen, scientists, explorers all had their part to play in the story of the Industrial Revolution and in this Brief History Thomas Crump brings their story to life, and shows why it is a chapter in English history that can not be ignored.

Grayling, Financial Times'Provides an enduring sense of the extraordinary ingenuity that defines our relationship with nature. Crump writes with authority. Popular Books. Fear No Evil by James Patterson. Cram is NOT the Textbook. Accompanys: Virtually all of the testable terms, concepts, persons, places, and events from the textbook are included.

Cram Just the FACTS studyguides give all of the outlines, highlights, notes, and quizzes for your textbook with optional online comprehensive practice tests. Only Cram is Textbook Specific. Examines the late eighteenth-century preoccupation with the acquisition of old books, and the new historical discipline created by traders. The industrial revolution was the single most important development in human history over the past three centuries, and it continues to shape the contemporary world.

With new methods and organizations for producing goods, industrialization altered where people live, how they play, and even how they define political issues. By exploring. The Cultural Revolution was a watershed event in the history of the People's Republic of China, the defining decade of half a century of communist rule.

Before , China was a typical communist state, with a command economy and a powerful party able to keep the population under control. A fascinating and dramatic narrative, the book compels interest both as a history of an ancient civilization developing into a modern nation-state and as an account of how the Chinese as a people have struggled and continue to work to find their identity in the modern world.

Beginning in the last two decades of the reign of the Qianlong emperor , the book provides a baseline that allows readers to understand China's rapid decline in the nineteenth and part of the twentieth century, and extends into the present day, a time when China has the second largest economy in the world and aims to become a leading global power by The vast changes that have swept over China between these times are probed through the lens of the broad and important theme of "identities.