In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of Us Global Power

DescriptionIn 1941 the magazine publishing titan Henry R. Luce urged the nation's leaders to create an American Century. But in the post-World-War-...

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 classic history of banking and trade in the medieval period, combining superb research and analysis with graceful writing.The Medici Bank was the...

On the Border is the compelling tale of a football club sited in the most volatile place on Earth. The book explores the radicalisation of Beitar J...

DescriptionA major new work of feminism on the history and persistence of patriarchal hierarchies from the MacArthur Award-winning economist In thi...

Reducere. The roots of modern capitalism go back to the Italian banking system of the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance. In the fifteenth century, the Med...

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Reducere. The Rise and Decline of the Redneck Riviera traces the development of the Florida-Alabama coast as a tourist destination from the late 1920s and ea...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Rise and Decline of the Redneck Riviera traces the development of the Florida-Alabama coast as a tourist destination from the late 1...

Understanding US culture through the post-apocalyptic novel This book explores the post-apocalyptic novel in American literature from the 1940s to ...

Reducere. The United States has been shaped by three sweeping political revolutions: Jefferson's "revolution of 1800, " the Civil War, and the New Deal. Each...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of Cambodia, then keep reading...Did you know that Cambodia is home to Angkor Wat, the world's larg...

Tracing how the issue of unauthorized migration consumed Arizona state politics from 2003 to 2010, this book provides new perspective on why policy...

The American Revolution is universally seen as a colossal defeat of the powerful British Empire by colonial rebels. Yet the British emerged from th...

Of Limits and Growth offers new perspectives on environmentalism, post-1945 international history, and the origins of sustainability.

Reducere. The American labor movement isn't dead. It's just moving from the bargaining table to the streets. In A New American Labor Movement, William Scheue...

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How capitalism first promoted fossil fuels with the rise of steam power The more we know about the catastrophic implications of climate change, the...

One of the most important books on political regimes written in a generation.--Steven Levitsky, New York Times-bestselling author of How Democracie...

A new understanding of how and why early democracy took hold, how modern democracy evolved, and what this teaches us about the futureHistorical acc...

Publisher: Anthem PressAuthor(s): John Rennie ShortNumber of pages: 182Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 160 x 235 x 20Cover type: HardbackRedescop...

Reducere. Writing during the Great Depression, William Z. Foster describes burning injustices in the economic orthodoxy, and predicts the gradual emergence o...

Reducere. In 1912, white land developers founded Idlewild, an African American resort community in western Michigan. Over the following decades, the town bec...

Reducere. In the century after the Civil War, an economic revolution improved the American standard of living in ways previously unimaginable. Electric light...

In the century after the Civil War, an economic revolution improved the American standard of living in ways previously unimaginable. Electric light...

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Reducere. The British Empire was the largest in all history: the nearest thing to world domination ever achieved. By the eve of World War II, around a quarte...

Land of Desire: Merchants, Power, and the Rise of a New American Culture, Paperback

Publisher: New York University PressAuthor(s): Renee Knake JeffersonIllustration(s): 15 b/w illustrationsNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 2022...

Reducere. The Future of War makes a brilliant case that the twenty-first century, even more than the twentieth, will be the American century, and that Americ...

This book offers a broad and deep examination of the dynamics of US imperialism. Petras analyzes imperialism not only as economic domination, showi...

Presents US History from 1900 to 1945. This work features a historical narrative that looks at the period from the 1890s to 1945. It is a synthesis...

The Rise of Global Powers: International Politics in the Era of the World Wars - Anthony D'Agostino

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Reducere. God as Trinity is at the core of the mystery and otherness of the divine nature of God. It has also been a frequent barrier to those who hold to th...

Reducere. This book shows how Ford's first large automotive plant-the Crystal Palace-transformed the sleepy village of Highland Park, Michigan, into an indus...

Reducere. In this engagingly written biography, Tamara Plakins Thornton delves into the life and work of Nathaniel Bowditch (1773-1838), a man Thomas Jeffers...

Publisher: HarperCollinsAuthor(s): Douglas CenturyNumber of pages: 416Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 152 x 230 x 31Cover type: PaperbackRedescop...

This book examines the thinking of early twentieth-century US foreign policy makers and their advisors, including business leaders and economists -...

Reducere. "The story of the future is written in the past."-Lord Acton, 1877. Did you know Greek philosopher Plato predicted democracy would degenerate into ...

This book traces an unexpected journey to Latin America for South Asian literature in English. It shows how this encounter fundamentally shaped the...

Reducere. Lisbon had a pivotal role in the history of World War II, though not a gun was fired there. The only European city in which both the Allies and the...

Reducere. To argue against the widely proclaimed idea of American decline, as this book does, might seem a lonely task. After all, the problems are real and ...

Reducere. A thrillingly panoramic and incredibly timely account of the rise of Islam, from the acclaimed author of Rubicon and Persian Fire. The evolution of...

Vexing social issues such as the opioid epidemic, criminal violence, and chronic unemployment are the target of social programs Americans fund with...