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34 produkter
The Oxford Illustrated History of the United States
Inbunden, 2026
388 kr
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The story of the United States, from Revolutionary War to Donald TrumpThe Oxford Illustrated History of the United States offers a completely fresh account of the founding and development of the American republic. Lavishly illustrated, drawing upon the latest scholarship, and with a more …
Have a Nice Doomsday: Why Millions of Americans Are Looking Forward to the End of the World
Häftad, 2007
237 kr
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Have a Nice Doomsday
Why Millions of Americans are Looking
E-bok, 2009
83 kr
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In Have a Nice Doomsday , Nicholas Guyatt searches for the truth behind a startling statistic: 50 million Americans have come to believe that the apocalypse will take place in their lifetime. They''re convinced that, any day now, Jesus will snatch up his followers and spirit them to heaven. The …
Have a Nice Doomsday
Why millions of Americans are looking forward to the end of the world
Häftad, 2008
176 kr
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Journeying to the dusty heartlands of America's Bible Belt, Nicholas Guyatt goes in search of the truth behind a startling statistic: 50 million Americans believe the apocalypse will take place in their own lifetimes.They're convinced that, any day now, Jesus will snatch up his followers and spirit …
Bind Us Apart
How Enlightened Americans Invented Racial Segregation
E-bok, 2016
242 kr
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The surprising and counterintuitive origins of America''s racial crisisWhy did the Founding Fathers fail to include blacks and Indians in their cherished proposition that "all men are created equal"? The usual answer is racism, but the reality is more complex and unsettling. In Bind Us Apart, …
Bind Us Apart
How Enlightened Americans Invented Racial Segregation
E-bok, 2016
235 kr
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The surprising and counterintuitive origins of America''s racial crisisWhy did the Founding Fathers fail to include blacks and Indians in their cherished proposition that "all men are created equal"? The usual answer is racism, but the reality is more complex and unsettling. In Bind Us Apart, …
Bind Us Apart
How Enlightened Americans Invented Racial Segregation
Inbunden, 2016
313 kr
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The surprising and counterintuitive origins of America's racial crisisWhy did the Founding Fathers fail to include blacks and Indians in their cherished proposition that "all men are created equal"? The usual answer is racism, but the reality is more complex and unsettling. In Bind Us Apart, …
Bind Us Apart
How Enlightened Americans Invented Racial Segregation
Inbunden, 2016
500 kr
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Why did the Founding Fathers fail to include blacks and Indians in their cherished proposition that all men are created equal"? The usual answer is racism, but the reality is more complex and unsettling. In Bind Us Apart , historian Nicholas Guyatt argues that, from the Revolution through the Civil …
Providence and the Invention of the United States, 1607-1876
Häftad, 2007
475 kr
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Nicholas Guyatt offers a completely new understanding of a central question in American history: how did Americans come to think that God favored the United States above other nations? Tracing the story of American providentialism, this book uncovers the British roots of American religious …
Providence and the Invention of the United States, 1607-1876
Inbunden, 2007
921 kr
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Nicholas Guyatt offers a completely new understanding of a central question in American history: how did Americans come to think that God favored the United States above other nations? Tracing the story of American providentialism, this book uncovers the British roots of American religious …
Jefferson's Wolf
A Founding Father's Troubling Answer to the Problem of Slavery
Av Christa Dierksheide, Nicholas Guyatt
Inbunden, 2026
271 kr
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A decisive reassessment of Thomas Jefferson’s long-debated views on slavery, showing that his chief antislavery strategy was racial exclusion: the removal of emancipated Black people from the United States.Toward the end of his life, Thomas Jefferson made his most famous statement about American …
American Revolution at 250
Twenty-Four Historians Reflect on the Founding
Av Francis D Cogliano, Teresa Pollack m. fl.
Inbunden, 2026
386 kr
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The preeminent historians of the founding era speak their mind on the anniversary of the United States' birthIn these powerful and personal essays, some of the most celebrated historians of the American Revolutionary era reflect on the meaning of 1776 to the nation in 2026, offering fresh insights …
Hated Cage
An American Tragedy in Britain’s Most Terrifying Prison
Häftad, 2023
138 kr
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‘Beguiling.’ The Times‘Compelling.’ Wall Street Journal‘A vivid portrait.’ Daily MailBuried in the history of our most famous jail, a unique story of captivity, violence and race.It's 1812 – Britain and America are at war. British redcoats torch the White House and six thousand American sailors …
Have a Nice Doomsday
Why millions of Americans are looking forward to the end of the world
E-bok, 2011
147 kr
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Journeying to the dusty heartlands of America's Bible Belt, Nicholas Guyatt goes in search of the truth behind a startling statistic: 50 million Americans believe the apocalypse will take place in their own lifetimes.They're convinced that, any day now, Jesus will snatch up his followers and spirit …
Hated Cage
An American Tragedy in Britain''s Most Terrifying Prison
E-bok, 2022
173 kr
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‘Beguiling.’ The Times ‘Compelling.’ Wall Street Journal ‘A vivid portrait.’ Daily Mail Buried in the history of our most famous jail, a unique story of captivity, violence and race. It''s 1812 – Britain and America are at war. British redcoats torch the White House and six thousand American …
Another American Century
The United States and the World since 9/11
Häftad, 2003
358 kr
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Did September 11th change everything? Is George W. Bush responsible for America's international isolation? Why did the United States declare 'war on terror', and what does this war mean for the future of the world?Nicholas Guyatt answers these questions with a sweeping and penetrating study of the …
First World Dreams
Mexico since 1989
Av Alexander S. Dawson, Nicholas Guyatt
Häftad, 2006
533 kr
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Mexicans have long dreamt of the First World, and in recent times it has landed with a thud. Under the guise of globalization, Mexico opened its borders, reformed its political system, and transformed its economy. The impacts have been paradoxical.In First World Dreams Alexander Dawson explores the …
The Burdens of Freedom: Eastern Europe Since 1989
Av Padraic Kenney, Nicholas Guyatt
Inbunden, 2006
1321 kr
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Burdens of Freedom
Eastern Europe since 1989
Av Padraic Kenney, Nicholas Guyatt
Häftad, 2006
533 kr
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From Estonia to Macedonia, this book is a history of 15 countries as they negotiate their transition from communism. For some, the story ends happily, with triumphant entry into the European Union in 2004.Others are caught in limbo, destroyed by nationalist politics, war and genocide, or crippled …
Destination in Doubt
Russia since 1989
Av Stephen Lovell, Nicholas Guyatt
Häftad, 2006
533 kr
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The enormously complex changes triggered by the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe were nowhere more ambiguous than in the heartland of the Soviet bloc, Russia itself. Here the population was divided on all the most fundamental questions of post-communist transition: economic reforms, the …
Living with Reform
China since 1989
Av Timothy Cheek, Nicholas Guyatt
Häftad, 2006
533 kr
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China is huge. China is growing more powerful. Yet China remains a great mystery to most people in the West. This contemporary history, based on the latest scholarly research, offers a balanced perspective of the continuing legacy of Maoism in the lives not only of China's leaders but China's …
Algeria since 1989
Between Terror and Democracy
Av James D. Le Sueur, Nicholas Guyatt
Häftad, 2010
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
372 kr
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Algeria's democratic experiment is seminal in post-Cold War history. The first Muslim nation to attempt the transition from an authoritarian system to democratic pluralism, this North African country became a test case for reform in Africa, the Arab world and beyond. Yet when the country looked …
Bipolar Orders
The Two Koreas since 1989
Av Hyung Gu Lynn, Nicholas Guyatt
Häftad, 2007
533 kr
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North Korea and South Korea are never far from the news headlines - one for the alleged danger it poses to the world, the other for its apparent capitalist success story. In Bipolar Orders, Hyung Gu Lynn analyzes the processes driving both countries since the 1980s.North Korea has experienced …
On the Move
The Caribbean since 1989
Av Alejandra Bronfman, Nicholas Guyatt
Häftad, 2007
533 kr
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The Caribbean stands out in the popular imagination as a 'place without history', a place which has somehow eluded modernity. Haiti is envisioned as being trapped in an endless cycle of violence and instability, Cuba as a 1950s time warp, Jamaicans as ganja-smoking Rastafarians, while numerous …
Impossible Peace
Israel/Palestine since 1989
Av Mark Levine, Nicholas Guyatt
Inbunden, 2008
1321 kr
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In 1993 luminaries from around the world signed the 'Oslo Accords' - a pledge to achieve lasting peace in the Holy Land - on the lawn of the White House. Yet things didn't turn out quite as planned. With over 1, 000 Israelis and close to four times that number of Palestinians killed since 2000, the …
Impossible Peace
Israel/Palestine since 1989
Av Mark Levine, Nicholas Guyatt
Häftad, 2008
474 kr
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In 1993 luminaries from around the world signed the 'Oslo Accords' - a pledge to achieve lasting peace in the Holy Land - on the lawn of the White House. Yet things didn't turn out quite as planned. With over 1, 000 Israelis and close to four times that number of Palestinians killed since 2000, the …
Dictatorship, Imperialism and Chaos
Iraq since 1989
Av Thabit A J Abdullah, Nicholas Guyatt
Häftad, 2006
533 kr
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Since 1989 the history of Iraq has been one of the world's most traumatic. In this book, Thabit Abdullah places the Iraqi people at the centre of changes which began with the invasion of Kuwait in 1990, and ended with the current American-led occupation.Battles for control of oil, the vacuum …
Power and Contestation
India since 1989
Av Nivedita Menon, Aditya Nigam m. fl.
Inbunden, 2007
1321 kr
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1989 marks the unraveling of India's 'Nehruvian Consensus' around the idea of a modern, secular nation with a self-reliant economy.Caste and religion have come to play major roles in national politics. Global economic integration has led to conflict between the state and dispossessed people, but …
Power and Contestation
India since 1989
Av Nivedita Menon, Aditya Nigam m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
533 kr
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1989 marks the unraveling of India's 'Nehruvian Consensus' around the idea of a modern, secular nation with a self-reliant economy.Caste and religion have come to play major roles in national politics. Global economic integration has led to conflict between the state and dispossessed people, but …
Throes of Democracy
Brazil since 1989
Av Doctor Bryan McCann, Nicholas Guyatt
Häftad, 2008
372 kr
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In the 1980s, Brazil emerged from two decades of military dictatorship and embarked on an experiment in full democracy for the first time in the nation's history Since then, Brazilians have sought to live up to the ideals of this experiment while negotiating dramatic economic and cultural …
