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Transformation of the World
A Global History of the Nineteenth Century
Häftad, 2015
406 kr
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A monumental history of the nineteenth century, The Transformation of the World offers a panoramic and multifaceted portrait of a world in transition. Jurgen Osterhammel, an eminent scholar who has been called the Braudel of the nineteenth century, moves beyond conventional Eurocentric and …
American Empire
A Global History
Inbunden, 2018
359 kr
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A new history of the United States that turns American exceptionalism on its head American Empire is a panoramic work of scholarship that presents a bold new global perspective on the history of the United States. Drawing on his expertise in economic history and the imperial histories of Britain …
Forging Global Fordism
Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, and the Contest over the Industrial Order
Häftad, 2023
333 kr
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A new global history of Fordism from the Great Depression to the postwar eraAs the United States rose to ascendancy in the first decades of the twentieth century, observers abroad associated American economic power most directly with its burgeoning automobile industry. In the 1930s, in a bid to …
Final Act
The Helsinki Accords and the Transformation of the Cold War
Häftad, 2020
306 kr
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The definitive account of the historic diplomatic agreement that provided a blueprint for ending the Cold WarThe Helsinki Final Act was a watershed of the Cold War. Signed by thirty-five European and North American leaders at a summit in Finland in the summer of 1975, the document presented a …
End of Ambition
The United States and the Third World in the Vietnam Era
Häftad, 2024
253 kr
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A groundbreaking new history of how the Vietnam War thwarted U.S. liberal ambitions in the developing world and at home in the 1960sAt the start of the 1960s, John F. Kennedy and other American liberals expressed boundless optimism about the ability of the United States to promote democracy and …
End of Ambition
The United States and the Third World in the Vietnam Era
Inbunden, 2021
403 kr
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A groundbreaking new history of how the Vietnam War thwarted U.S. liberal ambitions in the developing world and at home in the 1960sAt the start of the 1960s, John F. Kennedy and other American liberals expressed boundless optimism about the ability of the United States to promote democracy and …
Reforming the World
The Creation of America's Moral Empire
Av Ian Tyrrell
Inbunden, 2010
622 kr
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Reforming the World offers a sophisticated account of how and why, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, American missionaries and moral reformers undertook work abroad at an unprecedented rate and scale. Looking at various organizations such as the Young Men's Christian Association …
New Deal
A Global History
Inbunden, 2016
456 kr
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The New Deal: A Global History provides a radically new interpretation of a pivotal period in US history. The first comprehensive study of the New Deal in a global context, the book compares American responses to the international crisis of capitalism and democracy during the 1930s to responses by …
Great American Mission
Modernization and the Construction of an American World Order
Häftad, 2011
350 kr
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The Great American Mission traces how America's global modernization efforts during the twentieth century were a means to remake the world in its own image. David Ekbladh shows that the emerging concept of modernization combined existing development ideas from the Depression. He describes how …
Other Alliance
Student Protest in West Germany and the United States in the Global Sixties
Häftad, 2011
668 kr
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Using previously classified documents and original interviews, The Other Alliance examines the channels of cooperation between American and West German student movements throughout the 1960s and early 1970s, and the reactions these relationships provoked from the U.S. government. Revising the …
Alabama in Africa
Booker T. Washington, the German Empire, and the Globalization of the New South
Häftad, 2012
350 kr
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In 1901, the Tuskegee Institute, founded by Booker T. Washington, sent an expedition to the German colony of Togo in West Africa, with the purpose of transforming the region into a cotton economy similar to that of the post-Reconstruction American South. Alabama in Africa explores the politics of …
Line in the Sand
A History of the Western U.S.-Mexico Border
Häftad, 2012
333 kr
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Line in the Sand details the dramatic transformation of the western U.S.-Mexico border from its creation at the end of the Mexican-American War in 1848 to the emergence of the modern boundary line in the first decades of the twentieth century. In this sweeping narrative, Rachel St. John explores …
For the Many
American Feminists and the Global Fight for Democratic Equality
Inbunden, 2021
491 kr
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A history of the twentieth-century feminists who fought for the rights of women, workers, and the poor, both in the United States and abroadFor the Many presents an inspiring look at how US women and their global allies pushed the nation and the world toward justice and greater equality for all. …
Age of Garvey
How a Jamaican Activist Created a Mass Movement and Changed Global Black Politics
Av Adam Ewing
Inbunden, 2014
544 kr
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Jamaican activist Marcus Garvey (1887-1940) organized the Universal Negro Improvement Association in Harlem in 1917. By the early 1920s, his program of African liberation and racial uplift had attracted millions of supporters, both in the United States and abroad. The Age of Garvey presents an …
1970s
A New Global History from Civil Rights to Economic Inequality
Häftad, 2013
298 kr
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The 1970s looks at an iconic decade when the cultural left and economic right came to the fore in American society and the world at large. While many have seen the 1970s as simply a period of failures epitomized by Watergate, inflation, the oil crisis, global unrest, and disillusionment with …
Reforming the World
The Creation of America's Moral Empire
Av Ian Tyrrell
Häftad, 2013
315 kr
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Reforming the World offers a sophisticated account of how and why, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, American missionaries and moral reformers undertook work abroad at an unprecedented rate and scale. Looking at various organizations such as the Young Men's Christian Association …
Foreign Relations
American Immigration in Global Perspective
Häftad, 2015
244 kr
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Histories investigating U.S. immigration have often portrayed America as a domestic melting pot, merging together those who arrive on its shores. Yet this is not a truly accurate depiction of the nation's complex connections to immigration. Offering a brand-new global history of the subject, …
Agrarian Crossings
Reformers and the Remaking of the US and Mexican Countryside
Inbunden, 2017
429 kr
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In the 1930s and 1940s, rural reformers in the United States and Mexico waged unprecedented campaigns to remake their countrysides in the name of agrarian justice and agricultural productivity. Agrarian Crossings tells the story of how these campaigns were conducted in dialogue with one another as …
Age of Garvey
How a Jamaican Activist Created a Mass Movement and Changed Global Black Politics
Av Adam Ewing
Häftad, 2016
333 kr
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Jamaican activist Marcus Garvey (1887-1940) organized the Universal Negro Improvement Association in Harlem in 1917. By the early 1920s, his program of African liberation and racial uplift had attracted millions of supporters, both in the United States and abroad. The Age of Garvey presents an …
Final Act
The Helsinki Accords and the Transformation of the Cold War
Inbunden, 2018
491 kr
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The first in-depth account of the historic diplomatic agreement that served as a blueprint for ending the Cold War The Helsinki Final Act was a watershed of the Cold War. Signed by thirty-five European and North American leaders at a summit in Finland in the summer of 1975, the agreement presented …
New Deal
A Global History
Häftad, 2017
402 kr
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The New Deal: A Global History provides a radically new interpretation of a pivotal period in US history. The first comprehensive study of the New Deal in a global context, the book compares American responses to the international crisis of capitalism and democracy during the 1930s to responses by …
Forging Global Fordism
Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, and the Contest over the Industrial Order
Inbunden, 2020
473 kr
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A new global history of Fordism from the Great Depression to the postwar eraAs the United States rose to ascendancy in the first decades of the twentieth century, observers abroad associated American economic power most directly with its burgeoning automobile industry. In the 1930s, in a bid to …
Global Development
A Cold War History
Inbunden, 2019
403 kr
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In the Cold War, "development" was a catchphrase that came to signify progress, modernity, and economic growth. Development aid was closely aligned with the security concerns of the great powers, for whom infrastructure and development projects were ideological tools for conquering hearts and minds …
American Mirror
The United States and Brazil in the Age of Emancipation
Av Roberto Saba
Inbunden, 2021
394 kr
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How slave emancipation transformed capitalism in the United States and BrazilIn the nineteenth century, the United States and Brazil were the largest slave societies in the Western world. The former enslaved approximately four million people, the latter nearly two million. Slavery was integral to …
American Empire
A Global History
Häftad, 2019
253 kr
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A new history of the United States that turns American exceptionalism on its headAmerican Empire is a panoramic work of scholarship that presents a bold new global perspective on the history of the United States. Taking readers from the colonial era to today, A. G. Hopkins shows how, far from …
American Mirror
The United States and Brazil in the Age of Emancipation
Av Roberto Saba
Häftad, 2024
271 kr
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How slave emancipation transformed capitalism in the United States and BrazilIn the nineteenth century, the United States and Brazil were the largest slave societies in the Western world. The former enslaved approximately four million people, the latter nearly two million. Slavery was integral to …
Global Development
A Cold War History
Häftad, 2022
298 kr
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In the Cold War, "development" was a catchphrase that came to signify progress, modernity, and economic growth. Development aid was closely aligned with the security concerns of the great powers, for whom infrastructure and development projects were ideological tools for conquering hearts and minds …
Machine Has a Soul
American Sympathy with Italian Fascism
Av Katy Hull
Inbunden, 2021
403 kr
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A historical look at the American fascination with Italian fascism during the interwar periodIn the interwar years, the United States grappled with economic volatility, and Americans expressed anxieties about a decline in moral values, the erosion of families and communities, and the decay of …
Machine Has a Soul
American Sympathy with Italian Fascism
Av Katy Hull
Häftad, 2025
244 kr
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A historical look at the American fascination with Italian fascism during the interwar periodIn the interwar years, the United States grappled with economic volatility, and Americans expressed anxieties about a decline in moral values, the erosion of families and communities, and the decay of …
Agrarian Crossings
Reformers and the Remaking of the US and Mexican Countryside
Häftad, 2020
298 kr
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In the 1930s and 1940s, rural reformers in the United States and Mexico waged unprecedented campaigns to remake their countrysides in the name of agrarian justice and agricultural productivity. Agrarian Crossings tells the story of how these campaigns were conducted in dialogue with one another as …
