The Forging of the American Empire, Paperback - Sidney Lens

Reducere. This is the story of a nation--the United States--that has conducted more than 160 wars and other military ventures while insisting it loves peace....

Trevor Royle does for Culloden what Juliet Barker did for Agincourt, bringing us the definitive account of the battle and its wider role in the cre...

Reducere. Born in the wake of World War II, RAND quickly became the creator of America's anti-Soviet nuclear strategy. A magnet for the best and the brightes...

Reducere. In this elegantly written and far-reaching narrative, acclaimed author Gerard Koeppel tells the astonishing story of the creation of the Erie Canal...

Reducere. Not only is one of the most famous pieces of ancient Greek art-the celebrated gold and ivory statuette of the Snake Goddess-almost certainly modern...

One of The Christian Science Monitor's ten best books of JuneAn innovative biography of Edgar Allan Poe--highlighting his fascination and feuds wit...

Reducere. This book revolutionises our understanding of race. Building upon the insight that races are products of culture rather than biology, Colin Kidd de...

Reducere. Mexico of five centuries ago was witness to one of the most momentous encounters between human societies, when a group of Spaniards led by Hernando...

Why has democracy flourished in the Federal Republic of Germany? This book illuminates the pivotal role played by the half million veterans of the ...

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Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Richard VinenNumber of pages: 592Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 164 x 242 x 41Cover type: HardbackRedesco...

DescriptionAn astonishing trilogy of books, collected in one volume, documenting the tumultuous first half of the 20th century in Spain The Forging...

Reducere. With its rich foundation stories, Philadelphia may be the most important city in America's collective memory. By the middle of the eighteenth centu...

Reducere. Description1968 was a particularly tumultuous year in American history. The escalating war in Vietnam, the riots during the Democratic Convention, ...

Reducere. Description"One of the best thrillers I have read this year."--Books and Movie Reviews (re Any Means Necessary) In the much-anticipated debut of a ...

Reducere. Description"One of the best thrillers I have read this year."--Books and Movie Reviews (re Any Means Necessary) In the much-anticipated debut of a ...

Reducere. During the 1960s and '70s, Mexican Americans began to agitate for social and political change. From their diverse activities and agendas there emer...

DescriptionIn 1995, the People's Republic of China resurrected a Qing-era law mandating that the reincarnations of prominent Tibetan Buddhist monks...

Reducere. Visionary solutions for a community ripe for transformational change--from fourteen leading innovators of Jewish life."Jewish Megatrends offers a v...

This compelling look at the wellsprings of cultural vitality during one of the most dehumanizing experiences in history provides a fresh perspectiv...

Reducere. In Heretics and Colonizers, Nicholas B. Breyfogle explores the dynamic intersection of Russian borderland colonization and popular religious cultur...

The attacks of September 11, 2001, were accomplished through an amazing orchestration of logistics and personnel. Crossing the Rubicon discovers an...

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Reducere. The poems of Sidney Lanier continue to find an admiring audience more than a century after his death. Though his poetry evokes both the landscape a...

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Reducere. As recently as 1940, contact lenses did not exist for Americans. Invisible Vision is the hidden story of the man who brought them into existence, t...

The six American philosophers of technology whose work is profiled in this introduction to the field - Albert Borgmann, Hubert Dreyfus, Andrew Feen...

Reducere. Police are popularly understood as the "thin blue line" that "serves and protects" us from violence and crime in the pursuit of justice. In Policin...

DescriptionThrough the Lens: A Book of Short Stories is about stories that derive from the heart and were inspired by God, life experiences, and le...

Reducere. As recently as 1940, contact lenses did not exist for Americans. Invisible Vision is the hidden story of the man who brought them into existence, t...

Reducere. "The most eloquent, understanding, and yet very candid biography of Fr mont that has appeared to date"--Howard R. Lamar, Yale UniversityThe career ...

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Thulani Davis provides a sweeping rethinking of Reconstruction by tracing how the four million people newly freed from bondage created political or...

Naoki Sakai examines the decline of US hegemony in Japan and East Asia and its impact on national identity and legacies of imperialism.Publisher: D...

Reducere. In this groundbreaking book, Sidney J. Blatt proposes that psychological development is a lifelong personal negotiation between the two fundamental...

By delving into the complex, cross-generational exchanges that characterize any political project as rampant as empire, this thought-provoking stud...

Reducere. Cuba's geographic proximity to the United States and its centrality to U.S. imperial designs following the War of 1898 led to the creation of a uni...

Reducere. Thomas Jefferson believed that the American revolution was a transformative moment in the history of political civilization. He hoped that his own ...