American Catholic: The Politics of Faith During the Cold War, Hardcover - D. G. Hart

Reducere. American Catholic places the rise of the United States' political conservatism in the context of ferment within the Roman Catholic Church. How did ...

Reducere. Between 1942 and 1945, the U.S. government wrongfully imprisoned thousands of Japanese American citizens and profited from their labor. Japanese Am...

Reducere. This book opens up new perspectives on the history of Béla Bartók's music in the 20th century. It joins a growing literature on music and the cultu...

Morgan and his contributors develop the concept of the Information Regime as a way to understand the use, abuse, and control of information in East...

The American theater was not ignorant of the developments brought on by World War II, and actively addressed and debated timely, controversial topi...

Reducere. An examination of the use of modernism in the twentieth-century battle for US hegemony, through the activities of the CIA-funded Congress for Cultu...

Publisher: VDM VerlagAuthor(s): Antonio GarrastazuNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2008Dimensions: 151 x 226 x 17Cover type: Paperback / softb...

Reducere. For nearly a half century, from 1945 to 1991, the United States and the Soviet Union maneuvered to achieve global hegemony. Each forged political a...

Reducere. When Strategies of Containment was first published, the Soviet Union was still a superpower, Ronald Reagan was president of the United States, and ...

A compelling and timely account of the corruption, corporatization, and militarization of science in the United States.Publisher: Haymarket BooksAu...

Reducere. In At Penpoint Monica Popescu traces the development of African literature during the second half of the twentieth century to address the intertwin...

Reducere. In 1959, the Bolshoi Ballet arrived in New York for its first ever performances in the United States. The tour was part of the Soviet-American cult...

Twelve Japanese scholars of American studies tell their stories of how they encountered ""America"" and came to dedicate their careers to studying ...

DescriptionIn this readable and highly original book, John J. Curley presents the first synthetic account of global art during the Cold War. Throug...

DescriptionBetween the end of the Second World War and the collapse of Communism confrontation with the Soviet Union was an everyday reality. As pa...

In the Cold War era, the confrontation between capitalism and communism played out not only in military, diplomatic, and political contexts, but al...

Reducere. Revisiting an influential Cold War-era art competitionIn 1952 the ICA London organized an international competition around the theme of "The Unknow...

Reducere. *Includes pictures *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading The spy novel emerged from the intrigues of the mid-20th centu...

Reducere. *Includes pictures *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading The spy novel emerged from the intrigues of the mid-20th centu...

Reducere. A personal journey through some of the darkest moments of the cold war and the early days of television newsMarvin Kalb, the award-winning journali...

Reducere. The collapse of the Soviet Union ushered in American global hegemony in world affairs. In the post-Cold War period, both Democrat and Republican go...

Part biography of a wartime adventurer, part detective story, and part faith journey, this intriguing book from New York Times journalist and bests...

Reducere. The story of the 'Siren of the Shenandoah' in her own wordsIsabella Maria Boyd (1844-1900) was one of the most famous and notorious female Confeder...

Reducere. The subject of The Anti-Communist Manifestos is four influential books that informed the great political struggle known as the Cold War: Darkness a...

Reducere. As secretary of state, James A. Baker III played a critical role on the world stage in the final years of the Cold War as the Soviet Union unravele...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

In a brilliant new interpretation, Campbell Craig and Fredrik Logevall reexamine the successes and failures of America's Cold War. This provocative...

Reducere. On April 16, 1861, President Abraham Lincoln issued a blockade of the Confederate coastline. The largely agrarian South did not have the industrial...

Reducere. In this penetrating analysis of the role of political leadership in the Cold War's ending, Archie Brown shows why the popular view that Western eco...

DescriptionHow socialist architects, planners, and contractors worked collectively to urbanize and develop the Global South during the Soviet eraIn...

Publisher: C Hurst & Co Publishers LtdAuthor(s): Danny OrbachNumber of pages: 340Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 242 x 168 x 35Cover type: Hardba...

Reducere. In the early years of the Cold War, the United States mounted expansive public diplomacy programs in the Global South, including initiatives with t...

Reducere. In this first book-length environmental history of the American Civil War, Lisa M. Brady argues that ideas about nature and the environment were ce...

Reducere. In a narrative-redefining approach, Engaging the Evil Empire dramatically alters how we look at the beginning of the end of the Cold War. Tracking ...

Reducere. How did Southern Catholics, under international religious authority and grounding unlike Southern Protestants, act with regard to political commitm...

In The Politics of Taste Ana Mar a Reyes examines the works of Colombian artist Beatriz Gonz lez and Argentine-born art critic, Marta Traba, who ch...

Reducere. Dr. Philip G. Zimbardo's ground-breaking studies have found that there are more than 84 million shy people in America today, including such "secret...

Reducere. From Liberty to Magnolia: In Search of the American Dream vividly recounts the journey of an African-American woman from rural, segregated Mississi...

Reducere. Between 1775 and 1783, some 200, 000 Americans took up arms against the British Crown. Just over 6, 800 of those men died in battle. About 25, 000 ...

Publisher: Leonaur LtdAuthor(s): Henry M CistNumber of pages: 216Publication date: 2009Dimensions: 138 x 215 x 16Cover type: Paperback / softbackRe...