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The Avoidable War

The Dangers of a Catastrophic Conflict between the US and Xi Jinping's China

AvKevin Rudd

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

298 kr

The relationship between the US and China, the world's two superpowers, is peculiarly volatile. It rests on a seismic fault-of cultural misunderstanding, historical grievance, and ideological incompatibility. No other nations are so quick to offend and be offended. Their militaries play a dangerous game of chicken, corporations steal intellectual property, intelligence satellites peer, and AI technicians plot. The capacity for either country to cross a fatal line grows daily. Kevin Rudd, a former Australian prime minister who has studied, lived in, and worked with China for more than forty years, is one of the very few people who can offer real insight into the mindsets of the leadership whose judgment will determine if a war will be fought. The Avoidable War demystifies the actions of both sides, explaining and translating them for the benefit of the other. Geopolitical disaster is still avoidable, but only if these two giants can find a way to coexist without betraying their core interests through what Rudd calls "managed strategic competition." Should they fail, down that path lies the possibility of a war that could rewrite the future of both countries, and the world.

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Den förgyllda eran : USA 1870-1913 och varför historien rimmar med nutiden

AvLennart Pehrson

Inbunden, Svenska, 2026

279 kr

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Den förgyllda eran - The Gilded Age - är en av de mest dramatiska och motsägelsefulla perioderna i USA:s historia. Mellan 1870 och 1913 förvandlas landet i rasande fart. Järnvägar dras över kontinenten, stål- och oljeimperier byggs upp och landet kliver fram som global stormakt. John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie och J.P. Morgan samlar enorma förmögenheter – samtidigt som miljoner invandrare trängs i städernas slum och klyftorna mellan rik och fattig når historiska nivåer.

Det är en tid av hänsynslös kapitalism, politisk korruption och aggressiv nationalism. Tullar höjs, främlingsfientliga rörelser växer och misstron mot eliterna breder ut sig. Samhället glänser – men bara på ytan.

I Den förgyllda eran skildrar Lennart Pehrson, mångårig USA-korrespondent och Augustnominerad författare, denna dramatiska period i amerikansk historia. Samtidigt visar han varför epoken känns kusligt bekant. När Donald Trump talar om att återupprätta Amerikas "gyllene era" är det just denna tid han syftar på.

Detta är en berättelse om hur USA blev världens rikaste nation – och om de konflikter och motsättningar som fortfarande formar landet.

1929

The Inside Story of The Greatest Crash in Wall Street History

AvAndrew Ross Sorkin

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

302 kr

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A #1 international bestseller Named a BEST BOOK OF 2025 in The Financial Times, Economist, New Statesman, Bloomberg, TIME, Washington Post and The New York Times One of Barack Obama’s favourite books of 2025'One of the best narrative histories I've read' Wall Street Journal From the bestselling author of Too Big to Fail, “the definitive history of the 2008 banking crisis,”* comes a spellbinding narrative of the most infamous stock market crash in history one with ripple effects that still shape our society todayIn 1929, the world watched in shock as the unstoppable Wall Street bull market went into a freefall, wiping out fortunes and igniting a depression that would reshape a generation. But behind the flashing ticker tapes and panicked traders, another drama unfolded—one of visionaries and fraudsters, titans and dreamers, euphoria and ruin.With unparalleled access to historical records and newly uncovered documents, New York Times bestselling author Andrew Ross Sorkin takes readers inside the chaos of the crash, behind the scenes of a raging battle between Wall Street and Washington and the larger-than-life characters whose ambition and naivety in an endless boom led to wreckage. The dizzying highs and brutal lows of this era eerily mirror today’s world—where markets soar, political tensions mount, and the fight over financial influence plays out once again.This is not just a story about money. 1929 is a tale of power, psychology, and the seductive illusion that “this time is different.” It’s about disregarded alarm bells, financiers who fell from grace, and skeptics who saw the crash coming—only to be dismissed until it was too late.Hailed as a landmark book, Too Big to Fail reimagined how financial crises are told. Now, with 1929, Sorkin delivers an immersive, electrifying account of the most pivotal market collapse of all time—with lessons that remain as urgent as ever. More than just a history, 1929 is a crucial blueprint for understanding the cycles of speculation, the forces that drive financial upheaval, and the warning signs we ignore at our peril.*The Atlantic Monthly

Londres 38 : en berättelse om Augusto Pinochet, Walther Rauff och rättvisan

AvPhilippe Sands

Inbunden, Svenska, 2025

249 kr

Den 16 oktober 1998 arresteras Augusto Pinochet oväntat i London. Åklagaren menar att den forne diktatorns immunitet inte gäller. Händelsen blir en världsnyhet. En av de advokater som kontaktas i ärendet är Philippe Sands, som ska komma att representera Human Rights Watch, efter att han avböjt att bistå Pinochet. Det är startskottet för en undersökning som senare leder Sands till adressen Londres 38 i Santiago. Efter Pinochets kupp 1973 var det en ökänd byggnad – den som fördes dit för förhör återvände sällan. Men spåren leder också till nazisten och krigsförbrytaren Walther Rauff, som flydde till Chile och senare erbjöd juntan sina tjänster. På något sätt hänger allt samman i denna personliga detektivberättelse om den vindlande vägen till en möjlig rättvisa för diktaturens offer.

Reconstruction Amendments

The Essential Documents, Volume 1

AvKurt T Lash,Kurt T. Lash

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

2 914 kr

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Ratified in the years immediately following the American Civil War, the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution--together known as the Reconstruction Amendments--abolished slavery, safeguarded a set of basic national liberties, and expanded the right to vote, respectively. This two-volume work presents the key speeches, debates, and public dialogues that surrounded the adoption of the three amendments, allowing us to more fully experience how they reshaped the nature of American life and freedom.Volume I outlines a broad historical context for the Reconstruction Amendments and contains materials related to the Thirteenth Amendment, which abolished slavery, while Volume 2 covers the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments on the rights of citizenship and enfranchisement. The documents in this collection encompass a sweeping range of primary sources, from congressional debates to court cases, public speeches to newspaper articles. As a whole, the volumes meticulously depict a significant period of legal change even as they illuminate the ways in which people across the land grappled with the process of constitutional reconstruction. Filling a major gap in the literature on the era, The Reconstruction Amendments will be indispensable for readers in politics, history, and law, as well as anyone seeking a better understanding of the post-Civil War basis of American constitutional democracy.

Reconstruction Amendments

The Essential Documents, Volume 2

AvKurt T Lash,Kurt T. Lash

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

2 265 kr

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Ratified in the years immediately following the American Civil War, the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution--together known as the Reconstruction Amendments--abolished slavery, safeguarded a set of basic national liberties, and expanded the right to vote, respectively. This two-volume work presents the key speeches, debates, and public dialogues that surrounded the adoption of the three amendments, allowing us to more fully experience how they reshaped the nature of American life and freedom.Volume I outlines a broad historical context for the Reconstruction Amendments along with materials related to the Thirteenth Amendment, which abolished slavery, while Volume II covers the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments on the rights of citizenship and enfranchisement. The documents in this collection encompass a sweeping range of primary sources, from congressional talks to court cases, public speeches to newspaper articles. As a whole, the volumes meticulously depict a significant period of legal change even as they illuminate the ways in which people across the land grappled with the process of constitutional reconstruction. Filling a major gap in the literature on the era, The Reconstruction Amendments will be indispensable for readers in politics, history, and law, as well as anyone seeking a better understanding of the post-Civil War basis of American constitutional democracy.

Mordet på John F. Kennedy

AvBengt Liljegren

Häftad, Svenska, 2025

215 kr

John F. Kennedy fick bara vara USA:s president i 1 037 dagar innan han mördades i Dallas den 22 november 1963, men hans status som politisk ikon och mansideal har bestått. Trots att det gått mer än sextio år betraktar många mordet fortfarande som olöst. Hur historien hade sett ut om Kennedy fått leva och valts till en andra mandatperiod får vi aldrig veta. Däremot går det utifrån det enorma källmaterialet att rekonstruera händelseförloppet kring mordet, liksom mördarens väg till brottsplatsen. Konspirationsteorierna kring mordet är många, somliga mer fantasifulla än andra. Finns där någon substans eller handlar det om fria fantasier?

Historikern Bengt Liljegren ger här en rafflande skildring av John F. Kennedys sista timmar i livet, jakten på mördaren och det efterspel som följde.

Imorgon är jag långt härifrån : ett avskedsbrev till USA

AvMartin Gelin

Inbunden, Svenska, 2024

255 kr

“Martin Gelin förklarar varför det är så lätt att förälska sig i USA, och så svårt att leva där. Det är en fängslande personlig analys och livsresa från ett land där demokratin håller på att vittra sönder”Britt-Marie Mattsson, DN

“En välkomponerad sorgesång över en trasig nation.”Expressen

“Detta är en angelägen granskning av den politiska utvecklingen i USA. Författaren är kunnig och påläst och genom sin eleganta språkbehandling lockar boken till sträckläsning.”BTJ

"Det är avväpnande och nyanserat. Inkännande och nyfiket."Uppsala Nya Tidning“Den är medryckande, bildande och kul.”Göteborgs posten

"Det här är en kort berättelse om ett stort land. Den handlar om varför det är så lätt att förälska sig i USA och så svårt att leva här."

USA är ett land fullt av anständiga människor som gång på gång misslyckas med att skapa ett anständigt samhälle. Det skriver Martin Gelin i sitt avskedsbrev till USA.

Han flyttade till New York i september 2001. Det blev början på en turbulent tid i amerikansk politik, där han rapporterat från varje hörn av USA för svenska och internationella medier i två decennier, en period då han såg landets demokrati långsamt vittra sönder.I fyra hyllade reportageböcker och tusentals artiklar har han skildrat landets politiska utmaningar, samtidigt som han själv blivit allt mer rotad i USA, gift sig med en amerikan, fått barn, köpt bostadsrätt - och blivit amerikansk medborgare.Imorgon är jag långt härifrån är en levande och personlig skildrig över två decennier av bitterljuv kärlek till allt det amerikanska, inte minst New York och hemkvarteret i Brooklyn.

"MARTIN GELIN är fantastisk på miljöbeskrivningar och dessutom är en stilist av rang råder det ingen tvekan om."ETCOm Den vita stormen:"Vilken mörk och underbar bok detta är. Det kommer att bli svårt att hitta en mer påläst, sympatisk och angelägen granskning av det hotade demokratiska projekt som kallas USA."Joseph O'Neill, författare"Magnetisk skildring av rasismen i USA. Svensk facklitteratur har fått en klassiker."Göran Greider, Dagens Nyheter"Folkbilding för vår tid."ExpressenOm tidigare böcker:"Den som på svenska vill orientera sig om dagens oroliga och polariserade USA-politik kan inte ha en bättre ciceron."Dagens Nyheter"Tveklöst den viktigaste bok som har skrivits om internet på svenska."Svenska Dagbladet

Den vita stormen : rasismens historia och USA:s fall

AvMartin Gelin

Pocket, Svenska, 2024

89 kr

“Det känns som om varje ord Martin Gelin har skrivit om USA har lett fram till denna engagerade uppgörelse med den amerikanska rasismens historia och konsekvenser. Folkbildning för vår tid.”Hynek Pallas, Expressen.

"Det här är årets bok."Journalisten

"Det är kunskapsrikt, det är viktigt, det är skakande läsning"Aftonbladet

"Magnetisk skildring av rasismen i USA --- svensk facklitteratur har fått en klassiker"Göran Greider, DN

Redan under inbördeskriget förstod president Abraham Lincoln att USA måste tämja rasismen, eller gå under som nation. 160 år senare är hans farhågor på väg att besannas.När Kapitolium i Washington i januari 2021 stormades av tusentals republikaner, nationalister och högerextremister var det en attack på själva idén om USA som mångfaldens demokrati. Det är nu lättare att föreställa sig slutet på USA än att föreställa sig slutet på nationalismen, skriver Martin Gelin i Den vita stormen.

Han har ägnat två decennier åt att resa i USA och prata med amerikaner om hur rasismen präglar landets politik. I boken färdas vi från Thomas Jeffersons slavgods Monticello till dagens massfängelser i Arizona, möter amerikanska högerextremister på pilgrimsfärd i Budapest och besöker Kalifornien där det gryr en ny vision om ett annat, mer tolerant USA.Det är en berättelse om vad som händer när ett samhälle inte vågar ta itu med sin rasistiska historia."--- en färgstark och mycket beläst översikt över rasismenshistoria i det amerikanska samhället."BTJ

Covert Regime Change

America's Secret Cold War

AvLindsey A. O'Rourke

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

335 kr

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O'Rourke's book offers a onestop shop for understanding foreignimposed regime change. Covert Regime Change is an impressive book and required reading for anyone interested in understanding hidden power in world politics.― Political Science Quarterly States seldom resort to war to overthrow their adversaries. They are more likely to attempt to covertly change the opposing regime, by assassinating a foreign leader, sponsoring a coup d'État, meddling in a democratic election, or secretly aiding foreign dissident groups.In Covert Regime Change, Lindsey A. O'Rourke shows us how states really act when trying to overthrow another state. She argues that conventional focus on overt cases misses the basic causes of regime change. O'Rourke provides substantive evidence of types of security interests that drive states to intervene. Offensive operations aim to overthrow a current military rival or break up a rival alliance. Preventive operations seek to stop a state from taking certain actions, such as joining a rival alliance, that may make them a future security threat. Hegemonic operations try to maintain a hierarchical relationship between the intervening state and the target government. Despite the prevalence of covert attempts at regime change, most operations fail to remain covert and spark blowback in unanticipated ways.

Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond

AvGene Kranz

Häftad, Engelska, 2009

259 kr

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Imorgon är jag långt härifrån : ett avskedsbrev till USA

AvMartin Gelin

Pocket, Svenska, 2025

89 kr

“En välkomponerad sorgesång över en trasig nation.”Expressen

“Detta är en angelägen granskning av den politiska utvecklingen i USA. Författaren är kunnig och påläst och genom sin eleganta språkbehandling lockar boken till sträckläsning.”BTJ

"Det är avväpnande och nyanserat. Inkännande och nyfiket."Uppsala Nya Tidning“Den är medryckande, bildande och kul.”Göteborgs posten

"Det här är en kort berättelse om ett stort land. Den handlar om varför det är så lätt att förälska sig i USA och så svårt att leva här."

USA är ett land fullt av anständiga människor som gång på gång misslyckas med att skapa ett anständigt samhälle. Det skriver Martin Gelin i sitt avskedsbrev till USA.

American Labyrinth

Intellectual History for Complicated Times

AvRaymond Haberski,Andrew Hartman

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

436 kr

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American Labyrinth contains a stimulating and useful collection of essays by historians reflecting on American intellectual history.... As a whole, the book convinces the reader that the field of intellectual history is enjoying a renaissance. The book will be especially prized by intellectual historians, but historians of many different persuasions will find these essays rewarding too.â•ChoiceIntellectual history has never been more relevant and more important to public life in the United States. In complicated and confounding times, people look for the principles that drive action and the foundations that support national ideals. American Labyrinth demonstrates the power of intellectual history to illuminate our public life and examine our ideological assumptions.This volume of essays brings together 19 influential intellectual historians to contribute original thoughts on topics of widespread interest. Raymond Haberski Jr. and Andrew Hartman asked a group of nimble, sharp scholars to respond to a simple question: How might the resources of intellectual history help shed light on contemporary issues with historical resonance? The answers-all rigorous, original, and challenging-are as eclectic in approach and temperament as the authors are different in their interests and methods. Taken together, the essays of American Labyrinth illustrate how intellectual historians, operating in many different registers at once and ranging from the theoretical to the political, can provide telling insights for understanding a public sphere fraught with conflict.In order to understand why people are ready to fight over cultural symbols and political positions we must have insight into how ideas organize, enliven, and define our lives. Ultimately, as Haberski and Hartman show in this volume, the best route through our contemporary American labyrinth is the path that traces our practical and lived ideas.

Gales of November

The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald

AvJohn U. Bacon

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

322 kr

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For three decades following World War II, the Great Lakes overtook Europe as the epicenter of global economic strength. The region was the beating heart of the world economy, possessing all the power and prestige Silicon Valley does today. And no ship represented the apex of the American Century better than the 729-foot-long Edmund Fitzgerald—the biggest, best, and most profitable ship on the Lakes.But on November 10, 1975, as the “storm of the century” threw 100 mile-per-hour winds and 50-foot waves on Lake Superior, the Mighty Fitz found itself at the worst possible place, at the worst possible time. When she sank, she took all 29 men onboard down with her, leaving the tragedy shrouded in mystery for a half century.In The Gales of November, award-winning journalist John U. Bacon presents the definitive account of the disaster, drawing on more than 100 interviews with the families, friends, and former crewmates of those lost. Bacon explores the vital role Great Lakes shipping played in America’s economic boom, the uncommon lives the sailors led, the sinking’s most likely causes, and the heartbreaking aftermath for those left behind—"the wives, the sons, and the daughters,” as Gordon Lightfoot sang in his unforgettable ballad.Focused on those directly affected by the tragedy, The Gales of November is both an emotional tribute to the lives lost and a propulsive, page-turning narrative history of America’s most-mourned maritime disaster.

Gotham

A History of New York City to 1898

AvMike Wallace,Edwin G. Burrows

Häftad, Engelska, 2001

313 kr

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To European explorers, it was Eden, a paradise of waist-high grasses, towering stands of walnut, maple, chestnut, and oak, and forests that teemed with bears, wolves, racoons, beavers, otters, and foxes. Today it is the city of Broadway and Wall Street, the Empire State Building and the Statue of Liberty, and the home of millions of people, who have come from every corner of the nation and the globe.In "Gotham", Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace have produced a monumental work of history,on ethat ranges from the Indian tribes that settled in and around the island of Manna-hata, to the consolidation of the five boroughs into Greater New York in 1898. Readers will relive the tumultuous early years of New Amsterdam under the Dutch West India Company, Peter Stuyvesant's despotic regime, Indian wars, slave resistance and revolt, the Revolutionary War and the defeat of Washington's army on Brooklyn Heoghts, the destructive seven years of British occupation, New York as the nation's first capital, the duel between Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton, the Erie Canal and the coming of the railroads, the growth of the city as a port and financial centre, the infamous draft riots of the Civil War, the great flood of immigrants, the rise of mass entertainment such as vaudeville and Coney Island, the building of the Brooklyn Bridge and the birth of the skyscraper. Here too is a cast of thousands - the rebel Jacob Leisler and the reformer Joanna Bethune; Clement Moore, who saved Greenwich village from the city's grid street plan; Herman Melville, who painted disillusioned portraits of city life; and Walt Whitman, who hapily celebrated that same life. We meet Boss Tweed and his nemesis, cartoonist Thomas Nast; Emma Goldman and Nellie Bly; Jacob Riis and Horace Greely; police commissioner Theodore Roosevelt; Colonel Waring and his "white angels"(who revolutionised the sanitation department); millionaires John Jacob Astor, Cornelius Vanderbilt, August Belmont and William Randolph Hearst; and hundreds more who left their mark on this great city.The events and people who crowd these pages guarantee that this is no mere local history. It is in fact a portrait of the heart and soul of America, and a book that will mesmerise everyone interested in the peaks and valleys of American life as found in the greatest city on earth.

Che Guevara

A Revolutionary Life

AvJon Lee Anderson

Häftad, Engelska, 1997

227 kr

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With unprecedented access to the Cuban Government's archives and total co-operation from Che's widow, Aleida March, as well as access to hitherto unpublished documents, including several of Che's personal diaries, this biography of one of history's most fascinating figures by critically-acclaimed New York Times journalist Jon Lee Anderson is truly definitive and monumental - not least because its creation solved a twenty-eight-year-old mystery: the whereabouts of Che Guevara's body...'Masterly and absorbing' -- The Sunday Times'Brilliantly evoked... The portrait is now as complete as it will ever be' -- The Times Literary Supplement'Absorbing and convincing... an indispensable work of contemporary history' ? Guardian'Probably the best biography I have read' -- ***** Reader review'It's hard to imagine that this work can be bettered' -- ***** Reader review'Simply outstanding' -- ***** Reader review'A terrific read and genuinely the type of book you can't put down after you start reading......' -- ***** Reader review***************************************************************A myth in his own lifetime; an international martyr-figure upon his death; a revolutionary fighter; a military strategist; a social philosopher; an economist; a medical doctor; a friend and confidant of Fidel Castro.Che Guevara's dream was an epic one - to unite Latin America and the rest of the developing world through armed revolution, and to end once and for all the poverty, injustice and petty nationalisms that had bled it for centuries. In the end Che failed in his quest but he is recognized as that one-in-a-million personality who just might have pulled it off.Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life shuttles between the revolutionary capitals of Havana and Algiers to the battlegrounds of Bolivia and the Congo; from the halls of power in Moscow and Washington to the exile havens of Miami, Mexico and Guatemala, in a gripping tale of revolution, international intrigue and covert operations. It has an epic sweep as it evokes an era of tumultuous change, describing major events like the Bay of Pigs invasion, the October Missile crisis and Kennedy's assassination, weaving in a cast of historic personalities including Castro, Kennedy, Kruschev, Mao Tse-tung, Jean Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir.With its painstaking research, never-before-seen documentation and compelling narrative, this is really the ultimate biography of a unique man.

Silent Spring

AvRachel Carson

Inbunden, Engelska, 2002

345 kr

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Fifth Sun

A New History of the Aztecs

AvCamilla Townsend

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

237 kr

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In November 1519, Hernando Cortés walked along a causeway leading to the capital of the Aztec kingdom and came face to face with Moctezuma. That story--and the story of what happened afterwards--has been told many times, but always following the narrative offered by the Spaniards. After all, we have been taught, it was the Europeans who held the pens. But the Native Americans were intrigued by the Roman alphabet and, unbeknownst to the newcomers, they used it to write detailed histories in their own language of Nahuatl. Until recently, these sources remained obscure, only partially translated, and rarely consulted by scholars. For the first time, in Fifth Sun, the history of the Aztecs is offered in all its complexity based solely on the texts written by the indigenous people themselves. Camilla Townsend presents an accessible and humanized depiction of these native Mexicans, rather than seeing them as the exotic, bloody figures of European stereotypes. The conquest, in this work, is neither an apocalyptic moment, nor an origin story launching Mexicans into existence. The Mexica people had a history of their own long before the Europeans arrived and did not simply capitulate to Spanish culture and colonization. Instead, they realigned their political allegiances, accommodated new obligations, adopted new technologies, and endured. This engaging revisionist history of the Aztecs, told through their own words, explores the experience of a once-powerful people facing the trauma of conquest and finding ways to survive, offering an empathetic interpretation for experts and non-specialists alike.

Den vita stormen : rasismens historia och USA:s fall

AvMartin Gelin

Inbunden, Svenska, 2022

249 kr

Tillfälligt slut

"Det här är årets bok."Journalisten

"Det är kunskapsrikt, det är viktigt, det är skakande läsning"Aftonbladet

"Magnetisk skildring av rasismen i USA --- svensk facklitteratur har fått en klassiker"Göran Greider, DN

Honey Springs, Oklahoma

Historical Archaeology of a Civil War Battlefield

AvWilliam B. Lees

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

497 kr

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The sectional conflict between North and South was different in Indian Territory (now the state of Oklahoma). There, the Civil War was only a veneer over the competition among the United States, the Confederacy, and sovereign Indian Nations known as the Five Civilized Tribes whose citizens, in turn, had multiple motives that drove divided loyalties.Historians have long recognized the Battle of Honey Springs on July 17, 1863, for its unusual makeup of Black, Indian, and White combatants and as the most significant battle of the Civil War in Indian Territory. Honey Springs, Oklahoma: Historical Archaeology of a Civil War Battlefield is the first book to focus solely on this event. It is unique in that its discourse and conclusions flow from the convergence of three lines of evidence: written history (memory), scientific archaeological findings, and military terrain analysis of the landscape. This triangulation of sources offers a place for long overlooked perspectives and returns an otherwise missing voice to Native American and Black participants.One of the synthesizing questions addressed by author William B. Lees is how to explain rebel loss. Given the participants’ cultural diversity, the question has many answers; victory and defeat are, after all, in the eye of the beholder. Honey Springs, Oklahoma makes clear the location of skirmishing, the lopsided attack of Union troops on the right of the Confederate line, and precise locations of fighting during the rebel retreat. This analysis is the fulcrum in the re-envisioning of the agency of Native American participants. This groundbreaking study will provide new insights for students and scholars of historical archaeology, and military historians and general readers with an interest in the Civil War and its archaeological record will also benefit from Lees’s research into this important but heretofore little-studied engagement.

Ett onödigt krig : Historien om den största militära konflikten i Sydamerikas moderna historia

AvHans Danielsson

Inbunden, Svenska, 2023

207 kr

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Den militära konflikten mellan Bolivia och Paraguay 1932–1935 var den största i Sydamerikas moderna historia.Kriget borde ha kunnat undvikas. Det man stred om var en gigantisk, ogästvänlig ödemark i kontinentens hjärta, huvudsakligen obebodd och utan egentligt ekonomiskt värde. För detta område mobiliserade de båda fattiga länderna allt de hade av mänskliga och materiella resurser.Ändå saknades inte ansträngningar för att åstadkomma fred. Politiker och diplomater från Bolivia och Paraguay, liksom från omvärlden, engagerade sig i förhandlingar som vid flera tillfällen var nära att leda till en varaktig uppgörelse. Trots det gled länderna till synes obönhörligen mot en militär konfrontation.

Four Heavens

A New History of the Ancient Maya

AvDavid Stuart

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

293 kr

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From the world-leading expert on the Maya, a monumental history of a flourishing civilization across three millenniaThe Four Heavens brings to life the cultural and visual splendor of the ancient Maya, drawing on the oldest indigenous texts of the Americas and the latest archaeological discoveries to present an entirely new history of this spectacular civilization. Renowned historian and archaeologist David Stuart, who has made groundbreaking contributions to the decipherment of Maya hieroglyphics, shows how there was no single rise and fall of the Maya but a series of births and collapses over a breathtaking span of nearly three millennia.Maya history was seemingly lost forever when the first Europeans encountered the great ruins of ancient cities in what is today Mexico and Central America. Today, with the recent decipherment of their ancient writings, the story of the Maya can now be told from their perspective. Stuart traces the rapid emergence of permanent settlements in the rainforest, which gave rise to monumental architecture and a flourishing urbanism and ushered in the Classic period of Maya civilization beginning in the mid-second century CE. He reveals a world of majestic royal courts tightly bound together by marriages, shifting alliances, and warfare, much of it driven by the ambitions of two major dynasties, the Kanuls and Mutuls. Stuart describes how the long-standing rivalry between these two great houses shaped the fates of the surrounding kingdoms and may have set the stage for “the Great Rupture” of the ninth century, when the royal courts buckled under the weight of internal strife, social unrest, and environmental crisis, transforming Maya civilization yet again.With stunning illustrations, including many of Stuart’s own drawings and images, The Four Heavens is a work of momentous historical sweep, one that paints an unforgettable portrait of the Maya and the richly complex social, political, and cosmological worlds in which they lived.Available in Spanish from our partners at Grupo Planeta

Fourth Turning

What the Cycles of History Tell Us About America's Next Rendezvous with Destiny

AvWilliam Strauss,Neil Howe

Häftad, Engelska, 1997

189 kr

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Benjamin Franklin

An American Life

AvWalter Isaacson

Inbunden, Engelska, 2003

381 kr

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During his 84-year life Benjamin Franklin was America's best scientist, inventor, publisher, business strategist, diplomat, and writer. He was also one of its most practical political thinkers. America's first great publicist, he carefully crafted his own persona, portrayed it in public and polished it for posterity. In this riveting new biography Walter Isaacson provides readers with a full portrait of Franklin's public and private life - his loyal but neglected wife, his bastard son with whom he broke over going to war with England, his endless replacement families and his many amorous, but probably unconsummated, liaisons. But this is not just a biography of Benjamin Franklin but rather a fascinating look at American and European political history at that time. Isaacson examines the run up to the Revolutionary war, the intimate relations between Britain, France and the colonies and the decisive events that led to America's independence. Just as David McCullough brought life to the historic figure of John Adams, Isaacson portrays Franklin in the flesh, showing readers how this radical man helped define America's national character and personality.

Friare kan ingen vara : på spaning efter den amerikanska idén

AvGöran Rosenberg

Storpocket, Svenska, 2024

166 kr

"Häromveckan kom uppdaterade nyutgåvor av två välkända böcker om länderna som geopolitiken och kulturen just nu roterar kring. Göran Rosenbergs ”Friare kan ingen vara” och ”Det förlorade landet” är personliga analyser av modernitetens två stora, idéburna nationsprojekt: USA och Israel, som just nu tycks rasa ihop framför våra ögon. De hör också på rent estetiska grunder till den svenska sakprosans mest betydelsefulla verk." -Viktor Malm, Expressen

"Vad har hänt med Amerika?" är en fråga som många ställer sig idag. "Vilka idéer är det som driver Amerika?" var den fråga som Göran Rosenberg ställde sig i sin bok Friare kan ingen vara, som när den första gången utkom i början av 1990-talet väckte stor uppmärksamhet. "Nittiotalets viktigaste bok", skrev en svensk kritiker. "The best book about America written by a European in recent years", skrev en amerikansk kritiker. Friare kan ingen vara är en kombination av reportage och idéhistoria, berättelse och reflektion; en bok som ger perspektiv på Amerikas agerande i världen och på hemmaplan, som sätter in rasismen, isolationismen och antikommunismen i ett spännande historiskt perspektiv.

När Friare kan ingen vara nu ges ut igen är det i en uppdaterad och utvidgad upplaga där Göran Rosenberg dels följer upp några av berättelserna och händelserna i boken och dels i ett nyskrivet kapitel följer den amerikanska idéns dramatiska metamorfoser i den turbulenta epoken efter den 11 september 2001.

Abyss

World on the Brink, the Cuban Missile Crisis 1962

AvMax Hastings

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

119 kr

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A Times History Book of the Year 2022 From the #1 bestselling historian Max Hastings ‘the heart-stopping story of the missile crisis’ Daily Telegraph The 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis was the most perilous event in history, when mankind faced a looming nuclear collision between the United States and Soviet Union. During those weeks, the world gazed into the abyss of potential annihilation. Max Hastings’s graphic new history tells the story from the viewpoints of national leaders, Russian officers, Cuban peasants, American pilots and British disarmers. Max Hastings deploys his accustomed blend of eye-witness interviews, archive documents and diaries, White House tape recordings, top-down analysis, first to paint word-portraits of the Cold War experiences of Fidel Castro’s Cuba, Nikita Khrushchev’s Russia and Kennedy’s America; then to describe the nail-biting Thirteen Days in which Armageddon beckoned.Hastings began researching this book believing that he was exploring a past event from twentieth century history. He is as shocked as are millions of us around the world, to discover that the rape of Ukraine gives this narrative a hitherto unimaginable twenty-first century immediacy. We may be witnessing the onset of a new Cold War between nuclear-armed superpowers.To contend with today’s threat, which Hastings fears will prove enduring, it is critical to understand how, sixty years ago, the world survived its last glimpse into the abyss. Only by fearing the worst, he argues, can our leaders hope to secure the survival of the planet.

Solidarity with Strings

The British Labour Movement’s Response to the Strikes of the West Indies 1934–1939

AvRoger Seifert

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

1 162 kr

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Between 1934 and 1939 a wave of violent strikes and riots swept across the Caribbean. Roger Seifert explores how British political parties, trade unions, and pressure groups of the labour movement responded to these colonial struggles. Using diverse primary sources, Seifert shows similarities between these disputes and solidarity (or otherwise) with Caribbean workers. The book explores deep ideological divisions on labour, colonialism, and political rights within the British left, which still shape politics today. A timely study of racism, empire, and class, this is essential reading for anyone interested in labour history, trade unionism, and global inequality.

No Haven

The Connecticut Mob and the Rise of America's Model City

AvPaul Bleakley

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

429 kr

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With Boston to the north and New York City to the south, Connecticut’s history of organized crime is often overlooked. This is the untold story of New Haven’s illegal past.One of America’s most historic and enduring cities, New Haven has wrangled with a perpetual identity struggle, torn between worlds that occasionally converged in chaos and violence. In the 1930s, Connecticut became a region where Mafia families like the Genoveses, Gambinos, Colombos, and Patriarcas shared turf—working together with enough profits to go around or descending into open war to rival that experienced in any major city. Central to this conflict were three men who were, at different times, cautious allies or sworn nemeses. Representing the Genoveses, Midge Renault reigned supreme thanks to his reputation for wanton violence. Meanwhile, Colombo capo Ralph “Whitey” Tropiano maintained a lower profile, which belied his reputation as a vicious killer. But it was his lieutenant, Billy “The Wild Guy” Grasso, who ultimately rose to the top after joining the New England Patriarca Family, enjoying a short rule that ended with a murder plot that left him on the wrong end of a bullet.

Empire of the Summer Moon

Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History

AvS.C. Gwynne

Häftad, Engelska, 2011

165 kr

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In the tradition of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, a stunningly vivid historical account of the forty-year battle between Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of the American West, centering on Quanah, the greatest Comanche chief of them all. Empire of the Summer Moon spans two astonishing stories. The first traces the rise and fall of the Comanches, the most powerful Indian tribe in American history. The second is the epic saga of the pioneer woman Cynthia Ann Parker and her mixed-blood son Quanah, who became the last and greatest chief of the Comanches. Although readers may be more familiar with the tribal names Apache and Sioux, it was in fact the legendary fighting ability of the Comanches that determined just how and when the American West opened up. Comanche boys became adept bareback riders by age six; full Comanche braves were considered the best horsemen who ever rode. They were so masterful at war and so skillful with their arrows and lances that they stopped the northern drive of colonial Spain from Mexico and halted the French expansion westward from Louisiana. White settlers arriving in Texas from the eastern United States were surprised to find the frontier being rolled backward by Comanches incensed by the invasion of their tribal lands. Against this backdrop Gwynne presents the compelling drama of Cynthia Ann Parker, a nine-year-old girl who was kidnapped by Comanches in 1836. She grew to love her captors and became infamous as the "White Squaw" who refused to return until her tragic capture by Texas Rangers in 1860. More famous still was her son Quanah, a warrior who was never defeated and whose guerrilla wars in the Texas Panhandle made him a legend. S. C. Gwynne's account of these events is meticulously researched, intellectually provocative, and, above all, thrillingly told.

Skymning i Amerika : berättelser om ett annat USA

AvMalin Ekman

Inbunden, Svenska, 2023

269 kr

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"Genom dessa politiska ökenlandskap leder Ekman läsaren med säker hand. Stilistiskt är hon saklig och noggrann med detaljer. Hennes blick är skarp, liksom förmågan att hitta de verkliga människorna vars röster förmår nyansera och sätta färg på berättelsen." Sara Martinsson, Dagens Nyheter

Attackerna på demokratin dominerar nyhetsflödet från USA. Men bortom Donald Trump och stormningen av kongressen i januari 2021 finns en parallell berättelse och den förklarar varför den konservativa rörelsen trots allt blivit så framgångsrik.

Det handlar om brottsstatistik, social misär och en liberal politik som misslyckats på väsentliga områden. Det handlar om nyhetsmedier och techbolag som väljer bort politiskt känsligt innehåll. Det handlar om hur radikal vänsterideologi, långt ifrån den breda medelklassens värderingar, rivit isär Demokraterna och blivit norm på många av elitens institutioner.

Det handlar om krossade amerikanska drömmar.

Malin Ekman är hyllad USA-korrespondent för Svenska Dagbladet. I Skymning i Amerika reser hon genom landet och fäster blicken på det som annars sällan ryms i rapporteringen. Aktivister som ockuperar stadsdelar i Seattle. Karteller som utnyttjar människor som drömmer om ett liv på den amerikanska sidan gränsen. Privatskolor på Manhattan där överklassens barn delas upp efter hudfärg i antirasismens namn.

Fram träder en annan berättelse om USA.