In the Shadows of the American Century

The rapid decline of the bastions of American power established over the twentieth century is the subject of this extensive historical analysis emp...

Reducere. A landmark anthology of full-length works by Black American women writers of the 19th century including Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Harriet Jacob...

Reducere. A landmark anthology of full-length works by Black American women writers of the 19th century including Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Harriet Jacob...

Reducere. A landmark anthology of full-length works by Black American women writers of the 19th century including Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Harriet Jacob...

Reducere. A landmark anthology of full-length works by Black American women writers of the 19th century including Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Harriet Jacob...

Reducere. Ever since the first pathways were cleared through Maine's forested wilderness, something we now call Bigfoot has haunted the edges of civilization...

French North America in the Shadows of Conquest is an interdisciplinary, postcolonial, and continental history of Francophone North America across ...

Reducere. A landmark anthology of full-length works by Black American women writers of the 19th century including Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Harriet Jacob...

Reducere. A landmark anthology of full-length works by Black American women writers of the 19th century including Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Harriet Jacob...

Reducere. An early masterwork among American literary treatments of miscegenation, Chesnutt's story is of two young African Americans who decide to pass for ...

Reducere. This special re-print edition of the USDA's "American Breeds of Beef Cattle" is a short guide to the Beef Cattle of America. First published by the...

Reducere. DescriptionThe 21st Century Turning Points series is a one-stop resource for understanding the people and events changing America today. The #MeToo...

Reducere. John J. Miller delivers the intriguing, never-before-told story of how Theodore Roosevelt saved American Football--a game that would become the nat...

Reducere. "A gem of historical scholarship!"--Vicki L. Ruiz, author of From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in Twentieth-Century AmericaHow do intimate rel...

Reducere. The Films of John Cassavetes: Pragmatism, Modernism, and the Movies is the first book to tell in detail the story of a maverick filmmaker who worke...

Reducere. Many Native Americans photographed by Edward S. Curtis (1868-1952) called him Shadow Catcher. But the images he captured were far more powerful tha...

More than just a five-digit grasping appendage, the extraordinary human hand is capable of a virtually infinite range of expression. Here are over ...

Reducere. Though the idea of UFOs piloted by extraterrestrials didn't truly begin to seep into the public consciousness until the late 1940s, people all acro...

Reducere. With the cloud of the Holocaust still looming over them, twin sisters Bronka and Johanna Lubinski and their parents arrive in the US from a Displac...

Reducere. In The Yamato Dynasty, Sterling Seagrave, who divulged the secrets of Mao Tse-tung and the ruthlessness of Chiang Kai-shek in the New York Times be...

Reducere. In the history of the twentieth century, the role of the military intelligence services in the competition among nations is still murky. Among the ...

Reducere. A fascinating examination of the role of lighting in ancient Egyptian culture Artificial lighting is one of the earliest tools used by humans. By t...

Reducere. "Ward Just is not merely America's best political novelist. He is America's greatest living novelist."--Susan Zakin, Lithub A Finalist for the Nati...