Fighting for the United States, Executed in Britain. US Soldiers Court-Martialled in WWII, Hardback - Simon Webb

Explores a forgotten chapter in the history of the Second World War. The first book ever published to contain a detailed account of every American ...

DescriptionDuring the Second World War over half-a-million African troops served with the British Army as combatants and non-combatants in campaign...

Analyses decades of voting preferences, values, and policy preferences to debunk some of the myths about gender gaps in voting and policy preferenc...

Reducere. DescriptionThere are currently more than 200, 000 active-duty U.S. Marines and another 40, 000 in the reserves. These Marines depend on the skills ...

Reducere. Formed in 1866, the African-American army units known as Buffalo Soldiers acquired near-mythical status for their fortitude and courage. At the out...

Reducere. The definitive technical guide to the submarines of World War II, "The Fleet Type Submarine" was originally published in 1946. Originally classifie...

How did political parties in the United States and Britain transition from clientelism to programmatic party organization? This book argues that ch...

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In a comprehensive interdisciplinary analysis that extends from the Civil War to the present, this book seeks to isolate the underlying causes of p...

A path-breaking history of how the United States superseded Great Britain as the preeminent power in the Middle East, with urgent lessons for the p...

A compelling examination of French sculptor Auguste Rodin from the perspective of his enthusiastic American audiencePublisher: Yale University Pres...

The first book ever devoted solely to torture as practiced in Britain and its empire.

Reducere. This statistical report on the free Negro ownership of slaves was made possible in 1921 when the Director of the Association for the Study of Negro...

The graphic experience of British soldiers fighting in the Peninsular War told in their own words.Publisher: Pen & Sword Books LtdAuthor(s): Glover...

Publisher: University of Washington PressAuthor(s): Elizabeth FerrerIllustration(s): 43 Illustrations, color; 62 Illustrations, black and whiteNumb...

Reducere. This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base f...

DescriptionHow competing visions of world order in the 1940s gave rise to the modern concept of globalismDuring and after the Second World War, pub...

Explores the future of economic growth in the US, considering demographics, social insurance programs, technological progress, human capital, immig...

From historian and columnist in Leatherneck and Armor magazines, this is the exciting, personal account of a Marine fighter squadron in the South P...

Economists and Societies is the first book to systematically compare the profession of economics in the United States, Britain, and France, and to ...

Electronic eavesdropping once provoked protest and outrage. Now it is a mundane fact of life. How did we get here? The Listeners traces the spies a...

Marching across occupied France in 1944, American GI Leroy Stewart had neither death nor glory on his mind: he was worried about his underwear, whi...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Deirdre K. (Associate Professor, University of California, Berkeley) MulliganNumber of pages: 352Collection: Inf...

This book takes a critical view of the relationship between public discourse and culturally specific definitions of free speech to illuminate the w...

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DescriptionAn incisive, comparative study of the development of Post-World War II progressive politics in Britain, France, and the United States To...

Publisher: The Edwin Mellen Press LtdAuthor(s): James WolfeNumber of pages: 252Publication date: 2010Dimensions: 214 x 135 x 31Cover type: Hardback...

DescriptionVictory Without Peace concentrates on the U.S. Navy in European and Near Eastern waters during the post-World War I era. As participants...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Roberto SabaIllustration(s): 17 b/w illus. 3 tables. 1 map.Number of pages: 392Collection: America ...

Reducere. Combining rigorous academic scholarship with the experience of a senior Pentagon policymaker, Mara E. Karlin explores the key national security iss...

The risks in the later stages of careers comparing the welfare states of Germany and the United States since the 1980s.

Reducere. DescriptionThe Supreme Court has been the site of some of the great debates of American history, from child labor and prayer in the schools, to bus...

This edited collection focuses on the negotiation of national, geographic and cultural identities during the Second World War among the constituent...