Concise History of the World Since 1945. States and Peoples, Paperback - W. M. Spellman

This lively synthesis of global history since the end of World War II offers a gripping account of an interdependent world and the challenges facin...

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All About Africa! About All African States and Peoples, Paperback

Panoramica prin scop si comparativa prin abordare, lucrarea lui W.M. Spellman stabileste legaturi intre monarhia ca idee si practica, intr-o variet...

If you were asked when America became polarized, your answer would likely depend on your age: you might say during Barack Obama's presidency, or wi...

Presents history of global change from 1945 onwards. This title explores therapid changes in the Middle East, the end of apartheid in South Africa ...

Prize-winning British historian tells the story of the English-speaking peoples in the 20th century - 'Magnificently provoking' New Statesman

New B-format paperback - The Baltic Story recounts the shared history of the countries around the Baltic, from the events of a thousand years ago t...

When Columbus landed in 1492, the New World was far from being a vast expanse of empty wilderness: it was home to some seventy-five million people....

The second half of the twentieth century was dominated by the unfolding drama of the Cold War, from the Berlin blockade to the fall of the Berlin W...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): David (Lecturer, University College Cork, Ireland) FitzgeraldIllustration(s): 13 bw illusNumber of p...

2015 Recipient of the American Book Award The first history of the United States told from the perspective of indigenous peoples Today in the Unite...

-A comprehensive survey of international affairs from the end of the Second World War, through to the Cold War and up to the present day---Provided...

Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone and historian Peter Kuznick examine the dark side of American history from the beginning of the twentieth centu...

Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers IncAuthor(s): Wayne C. McWilliamsNumber of pages: 620Publication date: 2014Dimensions: 230 x 154 x 34Cover type...

Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone and historian Peter Kuznick examine the dark side of American history from the beginning of the twentieth centu...

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Reducere. The Kinzua Dam has cast a long shadow on Seneca life since World War II. The project, formally dedicated in 1966, broke the Treaty of Canandaigua o...

Reducere. How a new American identity was forged by immigration and expansion a century ago.In Barbarian Virtues, Matthew Frye Jacobson offers a keenly argue...

Reducere. "Cullen's strength comes from his understanding of how the different strands of American society intertwine in imaginative, unpredictable ways ... ...

A comprehensive narrative, tracing the economic, social and political history of the islands of the Caribbean from the earliest times to the presen...

Reducere. Art Since 1900 introduces students to the key theoretical approaches to modern and contemporary art. A flexible year-by-year structure and extensiv...

Reducere. DescriptionRock 'n Roll is the first music to span generations. What youth enjoyed in the '20s was ignored in the '30s. Music from the '30s was ign...

Reducere. The Baltic region is frequently neglected in broader histories of Europe and its international significance can be obscured by separate treatments ...

Reducere. The devastation of the Second World War is coming to an end. As victory for the Grand Alliance draws close, the leaders of Great Britain, the Sovie...

DescriptionIn the same format as his best-selling books A History of the World in 100 Objects and Germany: Memories of a Nation--the acclaimed art ...

Explores high and popular culture; family, race, gender and class relations; sexual attitudes and material conditions; science and technology - the...

Reducere. Swansong 1945 chronicles the end of Nazi Germany through more than 1, 000 extracts from letters, diaries, and autobiographical accounts, written by...

Reducere. A companion to Oliver Stone's ten-part documentary series of the same name, this guide offers a people's history of the American Empire: "a critica...

This comprehensive and widely acclaimed study of British history since 1945 has been has been expanded to include a new chapter looking at the conf...

Reducere. In June 1944, the United States launched a crushing assault on the Japanese navy in the Battle of the Philippine Sea. The capture of the Mariana Is...

Beautiful Data is both a history of big data and interactivity, and a sophisticated meditation on ideas about vision and cognition in the second ha...

Experts analyse the impact of World War II on individual countries and regions, and how its legacy continues to shape political and military thinki...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Nicholas (Liverpool John Moores University, UK) WhiteIllustration(s): 1 Tables, black and whiteNumber of ...

Spanning more than 400 years, this classic bottom-up history examines the legacy of Indigenous peoples' resistance, resilience, and steadfast fight...

Reducere. Born out of violence and the aspirations of its early settlers, the United States of America has become one of the world's most powerful nations, e...

The Earth has entered a new age--the Anthropocene--in which humans are the most powerful influence on global ecology. Since the mid-twentieth centu...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Martin GilbertMartin Gilbert, author of the multivolume biography of Winston Churchill and other brilliant works of history...

Contemporary art is increasingly concerned with swaying the opinions of its viewier. To do so, the art employs various strategies to convey a polit...

"This history will endure; not only because Sir Winston has written it, but also because of its own inherent virtues - its narrative power, its fin...

The story of post-war Italy, from the silent assimilation of fascists into society after 1945 to the Berlusconi era, is represented as a story of e...

Reducere. In June 1944, the United States launched a crushing assault on the Japanese navy in the Battle of the Philippine Sea. The capture of the Mariana Is...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: John Charles ChasteenBorn in Blood and Fire, Fourth Edition has been extensively revised to heighten emphasis on current cu...

Reducere. This balanced history offers a concise, readable introduction to Nazi Germany. Combining compelling narrative storytelling with analysis, Joseph W....

Explores the history of Hong Kong from the early 1800s through the post-1997 handover, when this former colony became a Special Administrative Regi...

Reducere. In The Other World, French dramatist Cyrano de Bergerac tells of his fictional attempts to reach a lunar civilization that sees the Earth as its ow...

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