Cold War Resistance: The International Struggle Over Antibiotics, Hardcover - Marc Landas

In June 1941 a pair of British scientists boarded a plane for America with World War II raging all around them. They carried a precious commodity--...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Louis FischerNumber of pages: 256Collection: Routledge Library Editions: The Economics and Politics of Oi...

DescriptionIn 1949, as Cold War tensions in Europe mounted, French intellectual and former Buchenwald inmate David Rousset called upon fellow conce...

Reducere. Much of the confusion about a central event in United States history begins with the name: the Civil War. In reality, the Civil War was not merely ...

Reducere. Anne McCarty Braden (1924-2006) rejected her segregationist, privileged past to become one of the civil rights movement's staunchest white allies. ...

Reducere. "For decades, the United States ran covert operations into Tibet in an attempt to help Tibetan exiles take back their country from the Chinese. The...

Reducere. Description1989 explores the momentous events following the fall of the Berlin Wall and the effects they have had on our world ever since. Based on...

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

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Reducere. The Seminole Struggle: A History of America's Longest Indian War, Hardcover

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Cold War and Space Race, then keep reading...Two captivating manuscripts in one book: The Co...

Rough Draft draws the curtain on the race and class inequities of the Selective Service during the Vietnam War. Amy J. Rutenberg argues that policy...

In this magisterial and groundbreaking work, Csaba Bekes shares decades of his research to provide a sweeping examination of Hungary's internationa...

Media Representations of African American Athletes in Cold War Japan addresses the cross-cultural dialogue between Black America and Japan that was...

Reducere. Explore the Cold War and Get a Deeper Understanding of the Korean and Vietnam WarTwo captivating manuscripts in one book: Korean War: A Captivating...

Reducere. An in-depth look at a crucial, little-known World War II episode--the failed Allied policy in Yugoslavia and its ramifications in the Balkans and b...

Reducere. The Civil War forced America finally to confront the contradiction between its founding values and human slavery. At the center of this historic co...

Lisa Yoneyama argues that the efforts intensifying since the 1990s to bring justice to the victims of Japanese military and colonial violence have ...

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...

DescriptionWhen Hitler invaded Poland, Virginia Hall was traveling in Europe. Which was dangerous enough, but as fighting erupted, instead of retur...

American political thought has been shaped by those who fought back against social inequality, economic exclusion, the denial of political represen...

Reducere. A bold firsthand account of one of the persistent Arab uprisings, in Yemen At its beginning in 2007, the Southern Movement in South Yemen was a loo...

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...

What really happened when the world's two greatest superpowers went head to head during the Cold War? We Now Know is a major reappraisal of the str...

Reducere. April 2020 will mark the 80th Anniversary of the fall of France to Nazi Germany, and the establishment of the provisional government of the Vichy s...

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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Michel WentingIllustration(s): Black & white and colour photos.Number of pages: 64Collection: EliteP...

The Great Cold War is arguably the most fascinating account yet written about the Cold War--and a timely enunciation of the lessons we need to lear...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Carole K. FinkIllustration(s): 20 Line drawings, black and white; 18 Halftones, black and white; 38 Illus...

Why would an American girl-child, born into a good, Irish-Catholic family in the thick of the McCarthy era - a girl who, when she came of age, ente...

It is often taken as a simple truth that the Civil War and the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution ended slavery in the United States. In the ...

The dramatic, untold true story of the extraordinary women recruited by Britain's elite spy agency to help pave the way for Allied victory in World...

Considers how NATO and its member states used sport as a diplomatic arena during the height of the Cold War, and how international sport responded ...

Leading defence analyst Norman Friedman offers a fully illustrated account of the Cold War, taking on various aspects of the uncertain period.

Reducere. In this pioneering study of the long and arduous struggle for civil rights in South Carolina, longtime journalist Claudia Smith Brinson details the...

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. This collection studies Asia as a second front in the Cold War, examining U.S.-Soviet rivalry in terms of the foreign policies of China, Japan, Nor...

Reducere. In 1968 two young Vietnamese sisters flee to Saigon after their village on the Mekong River is attacked by American forces and burned to the ground...

War and Resistance in the Philippines, 1942-1944 repairs the fragmentary and incomplete history of events in the Philippine Islands between the sur...

Reducere. The idea of the United States as a nation of immigrants is at the core of the American narrative. But in 1924, Congress instituted a system of ethn...

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

Back in the 1950s during the "Cold War" every new day beckoned the possibility of the end of the world. Kids grew up in the shadow of bomb shelters...

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. What if I told you that all the research needed to end the disease of cancer forever has already been completed? Would you believe it? Well now you...

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Successfully cover Unit Group 2 with the right amount of depth and pace. This bespoke series from the leading History publisher follows our proven ...

In this World War II military history, Rommel's army is a day from Cairo, a week from Tel Aviv, and the SS is ready for action. Espionage brought t...