Love's Next Meeting: The Forgotten History of Homosexuality and the Left in American Culture, Hardcover - Aaron Lecklider

How queerness and radical politics intersected--earlier than you thought. Well before Stonewall, a broad cross section of sexual dissidents took ad...

Analysing a range of sources, including sexology texts, early cinema, and African American literature, the author argues that the emerging understa...

Reducere. Explore the Captivating Life of Aaron Burr and His Duel with Alexander HamiltonBased on his early achievements, Aaron Burr Jr. should have become a...

When Titanic foundered in April 1912, the world's focus was on the tragedy of the passengers who lost their lives. Ever since, in films, dramatisat...

Darfur's Sorrow: The Forgotten History of a Humanitarian Disaster - M. W. Daly

Reducere. DescriptionA provocative, must-read investigation that both appreciates the importance of--and punctures the hype around--big-time contemporary Ame...

Reducere. The Cambridge History of the American Civil War provides the most comprehensive analysis to date of the American Civil War. With contributions from...

Explores the aspects of left-wing culture, activities and ideas at a time when social democracy was in crisis. This book also situates the crisis o...

Reducere. It was the final speech of a long day, August 28, 1963, when hundreds of thousands gathered on the Mall for the March on Washington for Jobs and Fr...

DescriptionIn this edited collection, Gioia Woods and her contributors bring together histories, biographies, close readings, and theories about th...

The American prison system has gone off the rails. Originally started in the country by King George III, the pre-American Revolutionary prisons wer...

Reducere. This book explores the foundations of our republic, bringing the reader "up close" to ten men from Pennsylvania and Delaware who each played a cruc...

DescriptionLeft for Dead at Nijmegen recalls the larger-than-life experiences of an American paratrooper, Gene Metcalfe, who served in the 82nd Air...

Refuting the common perception that the American left has a religion problem, Vaneesa Cook highlights an important but overlooked intellectual and ...

Reducere. The most famous duel in American history dramatized by leading nonfiction picture book illustrator, Don Brown.Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton wer...

Reducere. A crown jewel of New Left historiography, this overview of U.S. Marxism was hailed on its first publication for its nuanced storytelling, balance a...

DescriptionA fascinating journey through the origins of American tourism In the early nineteenth century, thanks to a booming transportation indust...

For many Americans of both right and left political persuasions, the Russian bear is more of a bugbear. On the right, the country is still mentally...

Reducere. Nasrullah arrived in Kentucky in 1950 and forever changed the modern American thoroughbred. Bred in royalty by the Aga Kahn, Nasrullah's journey fr...

Reducere. *Includes pictures*Includes a bibliography for further reading "The carrying of Negroes among the Indians has all along been thought detrimental, a...

Reducere. *Includes pictures*Includes a bibliography for further reading "The carrying of Negroes among the Indians has all along been thought detrimental, a...

This social history explores the aftermath of the tragedy, looking at themes such as poverty, bereavement, grief and survival.Publisher: Pen & Swor...

Reducere. DescriptionThis title is a comprehensive resource for understanding all aspects of the American flag and its relationship to the American people. T...

Reducere. The full story of the first and only time American and Soviets fought side-by-side in World War II At the conference held in in Moscow in October 1...

Reducere. How have the fall of the USSR and the long dominance of Putin reshaped Russian politics and culture? Ilya Budraitskis, one of the country's most pr...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Don JordanAuthor: Michael WalshWhite Cargo is the forgotten story of the thousands of Britons who lived and died in bondage...

Reducere. On the eve of the Civil War, the estimated value of the U.S. enslaved population exceeded $3 billion--triple that of investments nationwide in fact...

Reducere. Chicago Heights was long the seat of one of the major street crews of the Chicago Outfit, but its importance has often been overlooked and misunder...

Reducere. DescriptionWith Stand by Me, Jim Downs rewrites the history of gay life in the 1970s, arguing that the decade was about much more than sex and marc...

Publisher: Prometheus BooksAuthor(s): Zara StoneIllustration(s): 31 Illustrations including: - 31 Halftones, Black & White including Black and Whit...

American soldiers overseas during World War II were famously said to be "overpaid, oversexed, and over here." But the assaults, rapes, and other br...

Reducere. This volume, written by the highly acclaimed 19th century historian Joel Tyler Headley, explores the vital, but often neglected, role of ministers ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. Using historic recipes with modern twists from renowned mixologists, Greg and Nicole Priebe present Maryland s golden age of the cocktail. Recipe c...