The End of Victory Culture: Cold War America and the Disillusioning of a Generation - Tom Engelhardt

Reducere. DescriptionIn a substantial new afterword to his classic account of the collapse of American triumphalism in the wake of World War II, Tom Engelhar...

Reducere. A thought-provoking and penetrating account of the post-Cold war follies and delusions that culminated in the age of Donald Trump from the bestsell...

Reducere. "For decades, the United States ran covert operations into Tibet in an attempt to help Tibetan exiles take back their country from the Chinese. The...

Reducere. A history of America in World War II is told through the lives of an ethnically diverse group of ordinary Americans struggling for equality at home...

Reducere. Based on fieldwork at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory--the facility that designed the neutron bomb and the warhead for the MX missile--N...

Reducere. As secretary of state, James A. Baker III played a critical role on the world stage in the final years of the Cold War as the Soviet Union unravele...

In this magisterial and groundbreaking work, Csaba Bekes shares decades of his research to provide a sweeping examination of Hungary's internationa...

Reducere. In a narrative-redefining approach, Engaging the Evil Empire dramatically alters how we look at the beginning of the end of the Cold War. Tracking ...

From National Book Award Finalist and Sibert Honor Author Albert Marrin, a timely examination of Red Scares in the United States, including the Ros...

Leading historians and political scientists explore the changes and continuities in world politics that emerged from the end of the Cold War. Using...

Reducere. On 26 December, 1991, the hammer-and-sickle flag was lowered over the Kremlin for the last time. Yet, just six years earlier, when Mikhail Gorbach ...

Reducere. From Table of Contents: Overview of Romanian Emigration to America during Communism and Postcommunism. Changing Perspectives and Contemporary Re-Ad...

The Human Factor tells the dramatic story about the part played by political leaders - particularly the three very different personalities of Gorba...

Reducere. In this penetrating analysis of the role of political leadership in the Cold War's ending, Archie Brown shows why the popular view that Western eco...

As veteran author Tom Engelhardt argues, despite having a more massive, technologically advanced, and better-funded military than any other power o...

Back in the 1950s during the "Cold War" every new day beckoned the possibility of the end of the world. Kids grew up in the shadow of bomb shelters...

This biography of Beatriz Allende - revolutionary doctor and daughter of Salvador Allende - portrays what it means to live, love, and fight for cha...

Pan Am flight attendant Natalie is the only thing that stands between the KGB and their attempt to steal submarine secrets from the United States N...

After decades of bloodshed and political terror, many lament the rise of the left in Latin America. With Guatemala as the case study, this title ar...

The first study of Israeli foreign policy towards the Middle East and selected world powers, including China, India, the European Union and the US ...

A detailed examination of the events before and after the Battle of Angola, with several chapters covering the colonial struggle between Africa and...

Reducere. Latin America and the Global Cold War analyzes more than a dozen of Latin America's forgotten encounters with Africa, Asia, and the Communist world...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Paschalis (Utrecht University, The Netherlands) PechlivanisNumber of pages: 200Publication date: 2020Dime...

DescriptionFrom its inception, the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) provoked controversy. Today it is widely regarded as hav...

Reducere. New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice Robert P. Jones, CEO of the Public Religion Research Institute, spells out the profound political and cu...

Delving behind the headlines of history, this book showcases twenty brave Americans who showed exceptional leadership in the Spanish-American War, ...

Reducere. In this brilliant look at the rise of political Islam, the distinguished political scientist and anthropologist Mahmood Mamdani brings his expertis...

DescriptionGrace Kennan Warnecke's memoir is about a life lived on the edge of history. Daughter of one of the most influential diplomats of the tw...

A sweeping, lavishly illustrated one-volume history of the rise of American naval power during World War IIPublisher: Yale University PressAuthor(s...

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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 ...

Latinos are already the largest minority group in the United States, and experts estimate that by 2050, one out of three Americans will identify as...

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. Have you ever wondered how a man like Adolf Hitler could have come into power?How did he legally become a dictator by using a democratic process?Or...

There's a start and end to everything, war included. In this case, we'll be learning about how the cold war ended and what the contribution of the ...

The Great Cold War is arguably the most fascinating account yet written about the Cold War--and a timely enunciation of the lessons we need to lear...

FDR's Ambassadors and the Diplomacy of Crisis: From the Rise of Hitler to the End of World War II - David Mayers

DescriptionFor the first time since a 5th century Greek physician gave the name "cancer" (karkinos, in Greek) to a deadly disease first described i...

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. A bold new interpretation of the First World War and the birth of the American Century In the depths of the Great War, with millions dead and no en...

The internationally bestselling account of the transformative period that followed the Armistice in November 1918.

DescriptionAfrica finds itself at the centre stage of world politics in the twenty-first century. To truly determine its rising influence and role ...

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons IncAuthor(s): James A. FokNumber of pages: 512Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 161 x 236 x 37Cover type: HardbackRede...

DescriptionThis is a very British story from more than 50 years ago. It is a story of remarkable technological ambition from a different country th...

Volume five of this monumental series commences with coverage of the final fierce air-sea battles over the Aegean which preceded the advance northw...