American Exceptionalism and Civil Religion: Reassessing the History of an Idea, Paperback - John D. Wilsey

Reducere. Ever since John Winthrop told his fellow colonists in 1630 that they were about to establish a City upon a Hill, the idea of having a special place...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Cosimo (University of Salento, Italy) PerrottaNumber of pages: 270Publication date: 2020Dimensions: 155 x...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Shiraz MaherNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2017Dimensions: 201 x 139 x 20Cover type: Paperback / soft...

A worldwide survey on the idea of utopia, from classical mythology to contemporary science fiction.

A major new history of the century-long debate over what a Jewish state should beMany Zionists who advocated for the creation of a Jewish state env...

From later antiquity to the close of the 18th century, most educated men accepted without question a traditional view of the plan and structure of ...

A powerful dissection of a core American myth.Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Ian TyrrellNumber of pages: 288Publication date:...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Tyler StovallIllustration(s): 31 b/w illus.Number of pages: 440Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 24...

Benoit Godin is a Professor at the Institut national de la recherche scientifique, Montreal.

Started in the wake of George Zimmerman's 2013 acquittal in the death of Trayvon Martin, the #BlackLivesMatter movement has become a powerful and u...

When John Foster Dulles died in 1959, he was given the largest American state funeral since Franklin Delano Roosevelt's in 1945. President Eisenhow...

Reducere. EUREKA! Great things happen when science crosses history! Discover the all-true stories of your favorite inventions with this new multicultural STE...

DescriptionWithin the history of African American struggle against racist oppression that often verges on dystopia, a hidden tradition has depicted...

Publisher: New Village PressAuthor(s): Aviva RahmaniIllustration(s): 12 color illustrations, 6 b/w illustrationsNumber of pages: 336Publication dat...

Shiraz Maher charts the intellectual underpinnings of salafi-jihadism from its origins in the mountains of the Hindu Kush to the jihadist insurgenc...

Immensely entertaining and illustrated with 180 colour and black-&-white artworks, The History of London is an engaging and highly informative expl...

Reducere. When Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address in 1863, he had broader aims than simply rallying a war-weary nation. Lincoln realized that t...

Reducere. In Millenarian Dreams and Racial Nightmares, John H. Matsui argues that the political ideology and racial views of American Protestants during the ...

If you want to discover the captivating history of the Battle of Antietam, then keep reading...On September 17th, 1862, US President Abraham Lincol...

A comprehensive history of the struggle to define womanhood in America, from the seventeenth to the twenty-first centuryPublisher: Yale University ...

The American Civil War: A Racial Reckoning provides a concise but comprehensive overview of the American Civil War, placing race at the center of t...

Awards🏆Winner (2002) - Bancroft Prize - (History)Contributor(s): Author: David W. BlightNo historical event has left as deep an imprint on America'...

Reducere. DescriptionThe American Century began in 1941 and ended on January 20, 2017. While the United States remains a military giant and is still an econo...

Reducere. It was in Hampton Roads, Virginia, that hundreds gained their freedom. The teeming wharves were once a major station on the Underground Railroad, a...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Adam D. ShprintzenVegetarianism has been practiced in the United States since the country's founding, yet the early years o...

The conventional history of nations, even continents, is a history of warfare.

Reducere. Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History for 1993In the first and most reliable biography of Daniel Boone in more than fifty years, a...

Herrin, Illinois, has seen many dramatic events unfold in the nearly two hundred years since it was a bell-shaped prairie on the frontier. Now, Her...

This book is the result of 45 years of part-time research into the Shropshire Speake families. It describes the history of the author's family thro...

Publisher: The Mercier Press LtdAuthor(s): John O'DonovanIllustration(s): 14 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 128Publication date: 2022Di...

Reducere. People associate the South Bronx with gangs, violence, drugs, crime, burned-out buildings, and poverty. This is the message that has been driven in...

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons IncAuthor(s): KD DicksonNumber of pages: 480Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 187 x 547 x 30Cover type: Paperback / so...

Reducere. DescriptionExplore the Deadliest War in American History No other war in the history of the United States has sparked as much debate and conflict a...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the United States of America, then keep reading...Eight captivating manuscripts in one book: The...

Herein The African American Civil Rights Movement is presented with 538 pages of primary documents after the civil war. Take a first-hand look into...