Workshops of Empire: Stegner, Engle, and American Creative Writing During the Cold War, Paperback

Reducere. Revisiting an influential Cold War-era art competitionIn 1952 the ICA London organized an international competition around the theme of "The Unknow...

Reducere. In the early years of the Cold War, the United States mounted expansive public diplomacy programs in the Global South, including initiatives with t...

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

Reducere. When Strategies of Containment was first published, the Soviet Union was still a superpower, Ronald Reagan was president of the United States, and ...

The Cold War examines the complex arguments which divided East and West following the Second World war, and analyses its eight major phases from th...

This book examines writing that has been created in isolation and confinement, and it explores the stories, characters and situations which have ar...

Reducere. A team of leading scholars examines the evolution of the Cold War from the Helsinki Conference of 1975 to the Soviet collapse in 1991. The authors ...

With Britain's empire collapsing and Stalin ascendent, U.S. officials set out to reconstruct Western Europe as a bulwark against communist authorit...

The extraordinary true story of the Stasi's poetry club: The Lives of Others crossed with Dead Poets Society.Publisher: Faber & FaberAuthor(s): Phi...

Reducere. This book opens up new perspectives on the history of Béla Bartók's music in the 20th century. It joins a growing literature on music and the cultu...

Reducere. The Clever Teens' Guide to the Cold War: The perfect guide for background reading or revision. From the end of World War Two to the collapse of the...

Charting the rise and fall of almost fifty years of global confrontation, this book highlights the impact of the Cold War on the culture of the tim...

Reducere. *Includes pictures *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading The spy novel emerged from the intrigues of the mid-20th centu...

Reducere. *Includes pictures *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading The spy novel emerged from the intrigues of the mid-20th centu...

Twelve Japanese scholars of American studies tell their stories of how they encountered ""America"" and came to dedicate their careers to studying ...

War of Words analyses Franco-British relations during the Second World War through the lens of rhetoric and empire. Through a comparative and trans...

Morgan and his contributors develop the concept of the Information Regime as a way to understand the use, abuse, and control of information in East...

The thrilling story of two Cold War spies, CIA case officer Jack Platt and KGB agent Gennady Vasilenko -- improbable friends at a time when they sh...

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...

A fresh, new study on the overlooked history of the backbone of the Cold War US Navy, the go-anywhere, do-anything frigate. Though they were never ...

This intellectual biography of Nikolai N. Bolkhovitinov (1930-2008), the prominent Russian historian who was a leading scholar of US history and Ru...

Clear Revise illustrated revision and practice for Edexcel GCSE History. Absolute clarity is the aim with a new generation of GCSE History revision...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Lauren HirshbergIllustration(s): 17 figures, 3 mapsNumber of pages: 386Collection: American Cro...

Publisher: C Hurst & Co Publishers LtdAuthor(s): Danny OrbachNumber of pages: 340Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 242 x 168 x 35Cover type: Hardba...

A compulsive page-turner about the battle for Berlin and control of the Western world in the aftermath of the Second World War from 'the master of ...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Peter E. DaviesNumber of pages: 96Collection: Combat AircraftPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 185 x...

Reducere. The loss of America in 1781 has traditionally been blamed on incompetent British military commanders and political leaders whose arrogant confidenc...

The first panoramic history of the Western world from the 1970s to the present day: Empire of Democracy is the story for those asking how we got to...

Reducere. In this first book-length environmental history of the American Civil War, Lisa M. Brady argues that ideas about nature and the environment were ce...

The American theater was not ignorant of the developments brought on by World War II, and actively addressed and debated timely, controversial topi...

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...

Russia, once seen as America's greatest adversary, is now viewed by the United States as a potential partner. This book traces the evolution of Ame...

Reducere. From the spymaster and inspiration for the movie Argo how a group of brilliant but under-supported CIA operatives developed breakthrough spy tactic...

Reducere. DescriptionIt is a little-known fact that in California during World War II, Italian Americans were subjected to an 8: 00 p.m. to 6: 00 a.m. curfew...

Reducere. Between 1775 and 1783, some 200, 000 Americans took up arms against the British Crown. Just over 6, 800 of those men died in battle. About 25, 000 ...

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 ...

Offers an uncommon and intimate account of the lives of two conscientious objectors. In 2013 Suzanne Kesler Rumsey discovered hundreds of letters e...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jian ChenThis comprehensive study of China's Cold War experience reveals the crucial role Beijing played in shaping the ori...

Reducere. Competitive authoritarian regimes in which autocrats submit to meaningful multiparty elections but engage in serious democratic abuse proliferated ...