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8 produkter
Gotham on the Verge
The Remaking of a Modern Global American City
Av Johanna Fernández, Kim Phillips-Fein m. fl.
Häftad, 2027
338 kr
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Post-1960s New York City is often imagined as exceptional—too big, too singular, too creative to fit prevailing trajectories of American history. Gotham on the Verge challenges that mythology. In seventeen essays, leading and emerging historians show late-twentieth-century New York not as an …
Shaped by the State
Toward a New Political History of the Twentieth Century
Av Brent Cebul, Lily Geismer m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
343 kr
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American political history has been built around narratives of crisis, in which what “counts” are the moments when seemingly stable political orders collapse and new ones rise from the ashes. No doubt the history of American politics is filled with such moments—the Great Depression and the New …
Alan Brinkley
A Life in History
Av David Greenberg, Moshik Temkin m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
280 kr
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Few American historians of his generation have had as much influence in both the academic and popular realms as Alan Brinkley. His debut work, the National Book Award–winning Voices of Protest, launched a storied career that considered the full spectrum of American political life. His books give …
City of Fortune
Inequality and the Making of Contemporary New York
Inbunden, 2026
393 kr
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Postwar New York City famously expired in a tableau of burning Bronx tenements, subway graffiti and crushing debt. The city reemerged from the ashes to reach new heights, whether in stock averages or the gleaming pencil towers punctuating midtown. But at ground level the city’s basic …
City of Ambition
FDR, LaGuardia, and the Making of Modern New York
Häftad, 2014
404 kr
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City of Ambition is a brilliant history of the New Deal and its role in the making of modern New York City. The story of a remarkable collaboration between Franklin Roosevelt and Fiorello La Guardia, this is a case study in creative political leadership in the midst of a devastating depression. …
Gotham on the Verge
The Remaking of a Modern Global American City
Av Johanna Fernández, Kim Phillips-Fein m. fl.
Inbunden, 2027
1145 kr
Kommande
Post-1960s New York City is often imagined as exceptional—too big, too singular, too creative to fit prevailing trajectories of American history. Gotham on the Verge challenges that mythology. In seventeen essays, leading and emerging historians show late-twentieth-century New York not as an …
Shaped by the State
Toward a New Political History of the Twentieth Century
Av Brent Cebul, Lily Geismer m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
986 kr
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American political history has been built around narratives of crisis, in which what “counts” are the moments when seemingly stable political orders collapse and new ones rise from the ashes. No doubt the history of American politics is filled with such moments—the Great Depression and the New …
City of Ambition
FDR, La Guardia, and the Making of Modern New York
Inbunden, 2013
270 kr
Tillfälligt slut
City of Ambition is a brilliant history of the New Deal and its role in the making of modern New York City. The story of a remarkable collaboration between Franklin Roosevelt and Fiorello La Guardia, this is a case study in creative political leadership in the midst of a devastating depression. …
