Plain, Honest Men: The Making of the American Constitution, Paperback

Reducere. Ronald Dworkin argues that Americans have been systematically misled about what their Constitution is, and how judges decide what it means. The Con...

Reducere. A rich narrative portrait of post-revolutionary America and the men who shaped its political futureThough the American Revolution is widely recogni...

Reducere. What did the U.S. Constitution originally mean, and who has understood its meaning best? Do we look to the intentions of its framers at the Federal...

Reducere. Against the backgrounds of World War II, the Cold War, the construction of Pax Americana, the Cuban missile crisis, the Kennedy assassination, and ...

Reducere. Making a New American Constitution explores the grave flaws in the United States Constitution that obstruct reforms urgently needed for national un...

Featuring an amazing cast of historical figures, this is the story of how President Theodore Roosevelt led an American sports and fitness revolutio...

Freewheeling sexuality and gender experimentation defined the social and moral landscape of 1890s San Francisco. Middle class whites crafting titil...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Destin JenkinsIllustration(s): 26 halftones, 10 tablesNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 20...

DescriptionIn full and intricate detail, featuring an amazing cast of characters from the worlds of politics, athletics, entertainment and more, th...

Reducere. "A terrific biography....The dramatic story of how the American army that beat the British was forged has never been better told than in this remar...

Reducere. In this provocative reinterpretation of one of the best-known events in American history, Woody Holton shows that when Thomas Jefferson, George Was...

The emergence of slavery in the District of Columbia profoundly transformed constitutional interpretation. Gilhooley's account of this interaction,...

Reducere. DescriptionThis gorgeous, paperback version of the The Constitution of the United States is printed on high quality paper and the perfect size to c...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Susan (University of Auckland, New Zealand) WatsonNumber of pages: 336Collection: Contemporary Studi...

The Making of the Modern Christmas - J. M. Golby

This book details the conditions leading to the failure of constitution making and constitutional reform in Turkey, and offers lessons that can be ...

The period leading up to the foundation of the United States of America was a period in which a contentious debate permeated the colonies. A growin...

Reducere. DescriptionThomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence, and James Madison, "Father of the Constitution, " were two of the most impo...

Publisher: Scarecrow PressAuthor(s): John R. VileIllustration(s): Illustrations, unspecified; Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Phot...

From television documentaries and a steady output of critical works to retrospective art exhibitions and Austin Powers, the sixties fascinate us. T...

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...

The Making of the Cape Verdean is a book written about Cape Verdeans who migrated from the Cape Verde Islands in the late 1800's to the 1970's to N...

Reducere. The concept of the farmer and shopkeeper pulling rifles off pegs on the wall to fight the British has been the typical image of the American minute...

Reducere. DescriptionDebates over constitutional rights impact you every day as an American citizen. But do you know what the U.S. Constitution actually says...

Reducere. The Making of America: The Substance and Meaning of the Constitution, Hardcover

Reducere. Americans revere their Constitution. However, most of us are unaware how tumultuous and improbable the drafting and ratification processes were. As...

Reducere. In the summer of 1974 the movie Death Wish stunned audiences with its powerful story of an enraged businessman who hits the streets with a handgun ...

Reducere. DescriptionThe fundamental fact about our Constitution is that it is old -- the oldest written constitution in the world. The fundamental challenge...

Reducere. Here, for the first time, in a brilliant, panoramic portrait by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb, is the definiti...

A compelling account of the crucial year in post-war history, in the tradition of Margaret MacMillan's award-winning and bestselling }The Peacemake...

The Making of the Modern Admiralty: British Naval Policy-Making, 1805–1927 - C. I. Hamilton

Description During and after World War I, over one million Ottoman Greeks were expelled from Turkey, a watershed moment in Greek history that resul...

Reducere. 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 ...

"Hypnotic....It is ever tempting to try to fathom his restless spirit and his determination to challenge fate."--Janet Maslin, New York Times Werne...

Reducere. ``White unites a novelist's knack of dramatization and a historian's sense of significance with a synthesizing skill that grasps the reader by the ...

After its early introduction into the English colonies in North America, slavery in the United States lasted as a legal institution until the passa...

Latin American Constitutions provides a comprehensive historical study of constitutionalism in Latin America from the independence period to the pr...

The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more lands and people in twenty-five years than the Romans did in four hundred. In nearly every coun...