Overton Park: A People's History, Paperback - Brooks Lamb

About the AuthorBrooks Lamb is currently the conservation projects manager for rural lands at The Land Trust for Tennessee. A graduate of Rhodes Co...

A vivid people's history, based on original source material, of the twelve months leading up to the outbreak of the war nobody wanted in 1939, perf...

Reducere. Containing just the twentieth-century chapters from Howard Zinn's bestselling A People's History of the United States, this revised and updated edi...

What life was like for ordinary French and English people, embroiled in a devastating century-long conflict that changed their world The Hundred Ye...

Paperback edition of the book which presents a diverse range of letters written to Barack Obama when he was president. Includes interviews with Oba...

DescriptionThe Iraqi city of Fallujah has become an epicenter of geopolitical conflict, where foreign powers and non-state actors have repeatedly w...

Publisher: The New PressAuthor(s): Howard ZinnNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 125 x 181 x 21Cover type: Paperback / softbackR...

DescriptionA People's History of Scotland looks beyond the kings and queens, the battles and bloody defeats of the past. It captures the history th...

In 1904, Assiniboine Park was conceived as a people's playground, a place devoid of commercial amusements where all classes of Winnipeggers could r...

Reducere. This latest addition to The New Press's People's History series offers an incisive account of the war America lost, from the perspective of those w...

Reducere. A dramatic, multi-vocal account of the personal agonies and ecstasies that played out within the walls of Ellis Island, as told by Poland's greates...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Sofi ThanhauserNumber of pages: 400Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 163 x 242 x 39Cover type: HardbackRedes...

Reducere. Revealing a little-known part of North American history, this lively guide tells the fascinating tale of the settlement of the St. Lawrence Valley....

In Hope and Glory Stuart Maconie goes in search of the days that shaped the Britain we live in today.

Reducere. Recent bouts of gentrification and investment in Detroit have led some to call it the greatest turnaround story in American history. Meanwhile, act...

Pristine lawns, tennis whites, strawberries and cream, tennis is synonymous with the upper echelons of society, but scratch beneath the surface and...

Reducere. With a new introduction by Anthony Arnove, this updated edition of the classic national bestseller reviews the book's thirty-five year history and ...

Reducere. With a new introduction by Anthony Arnove, this updated edition of the classic national bestseller reviews the book's thirty-five year history and ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Hernaan HornaAuthor: Herman HornaThe history of Latin America has been written principally with a top-down approach that fo...

Reducere. DescriptionIn this ambitious and wildly original debut--part social-political satire, part international mystery--a new virus turns people into som...

A monumental work of popular history, making the case that the Beeb is as much of a National Treasure as the NHS.Publisher: Profile Books LtdAuthor...

Description"Resplendent.... A masterwork of history."--Ron Jacobs, CounterpunchIn eyewitness testimonies and hundreds of remarkable photographs, Th...

The origin of capitalism and modern industrialism--and, not unrelated, the birthplace of Marxism--modern Europe provided the perfect conditions for...

Reducere. The mystery of Chinatown as foreign yet familiar has been long established in the American imagination. Visitors come to expect this, looking for "...

The first true people's history of modern India, told through a seven-year, 9, 000-mile journey along its many contested borders Sharing borders wi...

Reducere. DescriptionDownwind is an unflinching tale of the atomic West that reveals the intentional disregard for the inhabitants and the environment in nuc...

Since being elected president in 1998, Hugo Chávez has become the face of contemporary Venezuela and, more broadly, anticapitalist revolution. Geor...

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An innovative illustrated history of the Second World War, told with the help of personal stories from across the globe.Publisher: Thames & Hudson ...

Reducere. Most historians, both ancient and modern, have viewed the Late Republic of Rome through the eyes of its rich nobility. In The Assassination of Juli...

Reducere. The seafood industry on the coast of Mississippi has attracted waves of immigrants and other workers--oftentimes folks who were either already acqu...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Clifford ConnerWe all know the history of science that we learned from grade school textbooks: How Galileo used his telesco...

DescriptionNever before published, an extraordinarily inspiring and radical conversation between Howard Zinn and PBS/NPR journalist Ray Suarez, whe...

Reducere. The acclaimed sweeping history of a nation at war with itself, told here for the first time by the people who lived it Bottom-up history at its ver...

Reducere. Over the centuries, the Hmong have called many places home, including China, Laos, Vietnam, Thailand, and most recently France, Australia, and the ...

Publisher: Bookmarks PublicationsAuthor(s): John NewsingerNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 2013Dimensions: 211 x 135 x 22Cover type: Paperback...

Reducere. We Stand on Guard for Whom? is the first book to present a history of the Canadian military from the perspective of its victims. In his eleventh bo...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Eugene LindenNumber of pages: 336Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 163 x 241 x 35Cover type: HardbackRedesco...

Reducere. The Grassroots Movements That Preserved Jesus's Message of Social Justice for 2, 000 Years and Their Impact on the Church TodayFor too long, the hi...

Reducere. An abridged classroom edition of Howard Zinn's bestselling history of the United States, with teaching materials to accompany each chapter. Like Vo...

Reducere. In the autumn of 1938, Europe believed in the promise of peace. But only a year later, the fateful decisions of just a few men had again led Europe...

Reducere. In the autumn of 1938, Europe believed in the promise of peace. But only a year later, the fateful decisions of just a few men had again led Europe...

Reducere. Despite dire predictions in the late twentieth century that public libraries would not survive the turn of the millennium, their numbers have only ...

Upon its first publication in 2001 as the inaugural volume in The New Press People's History series, edited by the late Howard Zinn, Ray Raphael's ...

Reducere. DescriptionAs The Gritty Berkshires makes clear, Massachusetts' westernmost county is not just art museums, music festivals and beautiful scenery. ...

No introductory work of American history has had more influence over the past forty years than Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United State...

Reducere. DescriptionBefore the dawn of rock 'n' roll, the accordion ranked among North America's most popular instruments. Arriving in the arms of immigrant...

The first comprehensive history of London's Queen's ParkPublisher: The History Press LtdAuthor(s): Steve CrabbIllustration(s): 12 Plates, black and...

DescriptionIn the United States, Chicago provided Socialism with a soapbox for firebrand speechmaking, a home for political exiles and a springboar...

Reducere. With My Own Eyes tells the history of the nineteenth-century Lakotas. Susan Bordeaux Bettelyoun (1857-1945), the daughter of a French-American fur ...