Slavery and War in the Americas: Race, Citizenship, and State Building in the United States and Brazil, 1861-1870, Paperback - Vitor Izecksohn

Reducere. In this pathbreaking new work, Vitor Izecksohn attempts to shed new light on the American Civil War by comparing it to a strikingly similar campaig...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Roberto SabaIllustration(s): 17 b/w illus. 3 tables. 1 map.Number of pages: 392Collection: America ...

Reducere. Freedom National is a groundbreaking history of emancipation that joins the political initiatives of Lincoln and the Republicans in Congress with t...

Kareem Rabie examines how Palestine's desire to fully integrate its economy into global markets through large-scale investment projects represented...

Reducere. This new history of the Christian right does not stop at national or religious boundaries. Benjamin A. Cowan chronicles the advent of a hemispheric...

Reducere. This book examines the experiences of the British Army soldiers, or 'redcoats', who fought in North America and the West Indies between 1755 and 17...

The United States, the People's Republic of China, and Taiwan have danced on the knife's edge of war for more than seventy years. By mapping the hi...

This fascinating and well-constructed volume of essays builds understanding of the role and importance of music during periods of conflict and high...

Reducere. Resting on the belief that educators must be at the center of informing education policy, the contributors to this revised edition of the classic t...

Reducere. DescriptionThrough individual stories, essays, poetry, and critical analyses, Experiencing Race, Class, and Gender in the United States, Seventh Ed...

Revealing the origins of graduate folklore programs, as well as their accomplishments, challenges, and connections, Folklore in the United States a...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Deirdre K. (Associate Professor, University of California, Berkeley) MulliganNumber of pages: 352Collection: Inf...

Reducere. Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903) is best known for designing parks in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Chicago, Boston, and the grounds of the Capitol in Wash...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Ana MunizIllustration(s): 5 b-w illustrations, 4 maps and 5 tablesNumber of pages: 254Publicati...

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...

Mastering Emotions examines the interactions between slaveholders and enslaved people, and between White people and free Black people, to expose ho...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdNumber of pages: 220Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 155 x 231 x 16Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): Seung...

Reducere. Covering the U.S.A. and Canada like never before, and for the first time with full-color photographs, here are 1, 000 compelling, essential, offbea...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Cold War and Space Race, then keep reading...Two captivating manuscripts in one book: The Co...

Reducere. DescriptionRacism is a common occurrence for members of marginalized groups around the world. Getting Respect illuminates their experiences by comp...

How American and Canadian cities came to be governed differently - and what it means for the future.

Publisher: Rowman & LittlefieldAuthor(s): Lanfranco SennNumber of pages: 621Collection: Urban Institute PressPublication date: 1999Dimensions: 150 ...

Reducere. This ground-breaking book demonstrates that the decentralized decision-making processes characteristic of democracies are responsible for making th...

The Burmese army took political power in Burma in 1962 and has ruled the country ever since. The persistence of this government-even in the face of...

Kugel and Frijoles: Latino Jews in the United States analyzes the changing construction of race and ethnicity in the United States through the lens...

Reducere. DescriptionIn the years between the American Revolution and the U.S. Civil War, as legal and cultural understandings of citizenship became more rac...

DescriptionThis book examines race, religion, and politics in the United States, illuminating their intersections and what they reveal about power ...

"A groundbreaking synthesis of food studies, archival theory, and early American literature"--

Reducere. In the aftermath of World War II, American policymakers turned to the task of rebuilding Europe while keeping communism at bay. In Germany, formall...

Reducere. Combining rigorous academic scholarship with the experience of a senior Pentagon policymaker, Mara E. Karlin explores the key national security iss...

This thorough account of the postwar search for 150 suspected Nazi collaborators in the United States explains how they immigrated into the United ...

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. Faint traces of Indigenous people and their histories abound in American media, memory, and myths. Indigeneity often remains absent or invisible, h...

This book explores how breastfeeding is both promoted and made difficult in the United States, while the use of formula is simultaneously shamed an...

Reducere. DescriptionReverend Nehemiah Adams (February 19, 1806 - October 6, 1878) was an American clergyman and writer. Biography: He was born in Salem, Mas...

Reducere. Why are unions weaker in the US than in Canada, two otherwise similar countries? This difference has shaped politics, policy, and levels of inequal...

DescriptionA best-selling text thoroughly updated, including new chapters on the last 30 years"An excellent study that will help historians appreci...

Oil and Sovereignty explores the national and international strategies formulated to deal with the first oil crises in 1973-1974, as steadily incre...

Reducere. DescriptionThis reader brings together 78 primary documents that capture the diversity of experiences of Americans who lived through World War II, ...

This five-part book addresses the basics of strokes; an east-west comparison of stroke rehabilitation between Japan and the US, advice and help for...

How did political parties in the United States and Britain transition from clientelism to programmatic party organization? This book argues that ch...

Reducere. The first book to show that immigration laws in the US have always been motivated by racial exclusion and the desire to save the idea of a white Am...

Contributor(s): Author: Su'ad Abdul KhabeerInterviews with young, black Muslims in Chicago explore the complexity of those with identities formed a...

The 400th anniversaries of Don Quixote in 2005 and 2015 sparked worldwide celebrations that brought to the fore its ongoing cultural and ideologica...

Within two weeks the French troops had mutinied, leaving the Western Front practically undefended. In the same month, Lenin arrived in Moscow on th...

During its heyday in the 19th century, the African slave trade was fueled by the close relationship of the US and Brazil. This work tells the story...

Reducere. Peter Dale Scott's brilliantly researched tour de force illuminates the underlying forces that drive U.S. global policy from Vietnam to Colombia an...