The Great Broadening: How the Vast Expansion of the Policymaking Agenda Transformed American Politics, Paperback - Bryan D. Jones

DescriptionBeginning in the late 1950s and continuing through the 1970s, the United States experienced a vast expansion in national policy making. ...

Reducere. "I have a dream." When those words were spoken on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963, the crowd stood, electrified, as Martin Lut...

The epic story of London's major railway stations, by Britain's bestselling transport historian.Publisher: Atlantic BooksAuthor(s): Christian Wolma...

DescriptionHow American westward expansion was governmentally engineered to promote the formation of a white settler nationWestward expansion of th...

Reducere. We think we know the story of women's suffrage in the United States: women met at Seneca Falls, marched in Washington, D.C., and demanded the vote ...

The epic story of London's major railway stations, by Britain's bestselling transport historian.Illustrations: 1x8pp colour plates, 1x8pp b/w plate...

Capture the perfect portrait even if it's with a selfie in this updated edition of a classic text, now with all-new photography.

Reducere. Private foundations have been the dynamo of social change since their invention at the beginning of the last century. Yet just over 10 percent of t...

Multilingualism depoliticizes policymaking in the EUPublisher: The University of Michigan PressAuthor(s): Nils RingeNumber of pages: 288Publication...

DescriptionThe generational and social thinking changes that caused an unprecedented shift toward support for gay marriage How did gay marriage--so...

Reducere. When it appeared in 1949, the first edition of Ray Allen Billington's Westward Expansion set a new standard for scholarship in western American his...

This book traces a history of bilingual education in the US, unveiling the role of politics in policy development and implementation. It introduces...

Reducere. Theodore J. Karamanski's sweeping maritime history demonstrates the far-ranging impact that the tools and infrastructure developed for navigating t...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Steven G. EpsteinIllustration(s): 7 halftones, 4 line drawings, 2 tablesNumber of pages: 400Pu...

What do you think of when you hear about an African American Republican? Are they heroes fighting against the expectation that all blacks must vote...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: James N. GregoryBetween 1900 and the 1970s, twenty million southerners migrated north and west. Weaving together for the fi...

The first section of this Element reviews the history of LGBTQ rights in the region since the 1960s. The second section reviews explanations for th...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Steven G. EpsteinIllustration(s): 7 halftones, 4 line drawings, 2 tablesNumber of pages: 400Pu...

Winner of the Littleton-Griswold PrizeWinner of the Ralph Waldo Emerson AwardWinner of the Order of the Coif AwardWinner of the David J. Langum Sr....

Kirwin R. Shaffer examines the Caribbean anarchist networks of the early 1900s and demonstrates how transnational networks of radicals linked the C...

Roland Allen was one of the most influential mission thinkers of the twentieth century. As a High Church Anglican, he had great respect and value f...

Ten years after the landmark legislation, Ezekiel Emanuel leads a crowd of experts, policy-makers, doctors, and scholars as they evaluate the Affor...

Reducere. A New York Times Bestseller and New York Times Notable Book Robert Merry's brilliant and highly acclaimed history of a crucial epoch in U.S. histor...

Reducere. American Catholic places the rise of the United States' political conservatism in the context of ferment within the Roman Catholic Church. How did ...

DescriptionIn Flawed Capitalism, David Coates draws on his vast experience of economy and society in both the U.S. and the UK to examine the econom...

Reducere. Florida has long been a beacon for retirees, but for many, the American dream of owning a home there was a fantasy. That changed in the 1950s, when...

This volume examines how the political, economic and social changes of the Great Depression impacted on Hollywood and how it responded to them.

This book highlights, scrutinizes, and deploys Bernstein's philosophical research as it has intersected and impacted American and European philosop...

Reducere. In this "compulsively readable exploration of the tangled world of Christian origins" (Publishers Weekly), religious historian James Tabor illumina...

DescriptionImmanuel Wallerstein's highly influential, multi-volume opus, The Modern World-System, is one of this century's greatest works of social...

Reducere. Where Black people live has long been an important determinant of their ability to participate in political processes. The Great Migration signific...

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 ...

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 ...

Providing an in-depth study of the construction of foreign policy in developing countries, Martin Mullins takes an original line of both a post-pos...

This beautifully illustrated catalogue-celebrating the 70th anniversary of the Bob Jones Collection-presents a fascinating survey of religious Euro...

Reducere. What if preachers were as contagiously joyful in their preaching as Louis Armstrong was in his playing and singing? As rich in their sermonic rende...

Engstrom and Roberts show how politicians use ballot design to influence voting and elections. This book is of interest to the broad community of s...