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16 produkter
Neither Confirm nor Deny
How the Glomar Mission Shielded the CIA from Transparency
Inbunden, 2023
1246 kr
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Winner, 2024 Book Award, Society for History in the Federal GovernmentIn 1974, the Hughes Glomar Explorer, ostensibly an advanced deep-sea mining vessel owned by reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes, lowered a claw-like contraption to the floor of the Pacific Ocean. This high-tech venture was only a …
Neither Confirm nor Deny
How the Glomar Mission Shielded the CIA from Transparency
Häftad, 2023
317 kr
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Winner, 2024 Book Award, Society for History in the Federal GovernmentIn 1974, the Hughes Glomar Explorer, ostensibly an advanced deep-sea mining vessel owned by reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes, lowered a claw-like contraption to the floor of the Pacific Ocean. This high-tech venture was only a …
The World Awheel
Americans in the First Global Bicycle Age
Inbunden, 2027
1069 kr
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At the end of the nineteenth century, the United States was enraptured by the bicycle. As their nation rose in power and influence, many Americans understood their world at home and abroad from the seat of a bicycle. Nathan Cardon offers a new account of the turn-of-the-century bicycle boom, …
The World Awheel
Americans in the First Global Bicycle Age
Häftad, 2027
273 kr
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At the end of the nineteenth century, the United States was enraptured by the bicycle. As their nation rose in power and influence, many Americans understood their world at home and abroad from the seat of a bicycle. Nathan Cardon offers a new account of the turn-of-the-century bicycle boom, …
The Feminist Pacific
International Women's Networks in Hawai'i, 1820–1940
Inbunden, 2024
1246 kr
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As competing American, European, and later Japanese imperial and colonial ambitions spread across the ocean in the nineteenth century, Honolulu emerged as a transnational hub for the exchange of ideas. Rumi Yasutake reveals the pivotal role of women’s organizing in this era of rapid globalization, …
The Feminist Pacific
International Women's Networks in Hawai'i, 1820–1940
Häftad, 2024
317 kr
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As competing American, European, and later Japanese imperial and colonial ambitions spread across the ocean in the nineteenth century, Honolulu emerged as a transnational hub for the exchange of ideas. Rumi Yasutake reveals the pivotal role of women’s organizing in this era of rapid globalization, …
Days of Opportunity
The United States and Afghanistan Before the Soviet Invasion
Inbunden, 2023
1423 kr
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Honorable Mention, 2025 Charles H. Norchi Prize, Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and IrelandLong before the 1979 Soviet invasion, the United States was closely concerned with Afghanistan. For much of the twentieth century, American diplomats, policy makers, businesspeople, and experts took …
Days of Opportunity
The United States and Afghanistan Before the Soviet Invasion
Häftad, 2023
361 kr
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Honorable Mention, 2025 Charles H. Norchi Prize, Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and IrelandLong before the 1979 Soviet invasion, the United States was closely concerned with Afghanistan. For much of the twentieth century, American diplomats, policy makers, businesspeople, and experts took …
Inlands
Empires, Contested Interiors, and the Connection of the World
Av Robert S. G. Fletcher, Alec Zuercher Reichardt
Inbunden, 2024
1290 kr
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Conventional narratives of empires and globalization focus on oceans and coasts, supposing that global connections are seaborne and that historical change proceeds inward from port cities into continental expanses. This book offers a new perspective, examining key inland areas around the world to …
Inlands
Empires, Contested Interiors, and the Connection of the World
Av Robert S. G. Fletcher, Alec Zuercher Reichardt
Häftad, 2024
335 kr
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Conventional narratives of empires and globalization focus on oceans and coasts, supposing that global connections are seaborne and that historical change proceeds inward from port cities into continental expanses. This book offers a new perspective, examining key inland areas around the world to …
Smoke on the Water
Incineration at Sea and the Birth of a Transatlantic Environmental Movement
Av Dario Fazzi
Inbunden, 2023
1210 kr
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Winner, 2025 Sisam Prize for the Best Monograph in Environmental History, Italian Society for Environmental HistoryThe U.S. government, military, and industry once saw ocean incineration as the safest and most efficient way to dispose of hazardous chemical waste. Beginning in the late 1960s, toxic …
Smoke on the Water
Incineration at Sea and the Birth of a Transatlantic Environmental Movement
Av Dario Fazzi
Häftad, 2023
308 kr
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Winner, 2025 Sisam Prize for the Best Monograph in Environmental History, Italian Society for Environmental HistoryThe U.S. government, military, and industry once saw ocean incineration as the safest and most efficient way to dispose of hazardous chemical waste. Beginning in the late 1960s, toxic …
Agrarian Superpower
Food, Development, and the Global Ascendancy of the United States
Inbunden, 2026
1290 kr
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The United States’ superpower status is often associated with its industrial, financial, and military might. Yet its global power after the Second World War hinged in part on something often seen as backward: agriculture. In contrast to Britain, the predominant global power of the nineteenth …
Agrarian Superpower
Food, Development, and the Global Ascendancy of the United States
Häftad, 2026
326 kr
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The United States’ superpower status is often associated with its industrial, financial, and military might. Yet its global power after the Second World War hinged in part on something often seen as backward: agriculture. In contrast to Britain, the predominant global power of the nineteenth …
Saving Apartheid
White Internationalism at the End of the Cold War
Inbunden, 2026
1334 kr
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During the 1980s, as global antiapartheid sentiment grew, an international coalition of far-right activists arose to preserve racial hierarchy in South Africa and beyond. This groundbreaking book tells the story of how a transatlantic pro-apartheid movement attempted to defend white rule in South …
Saving Apartheid
White Internationalism at the End of the Cold War
Häftad, 2026
343 kr
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During the 1980s, as global antiapartheid sentiment grew, an international coalition of far-right activists arose to preserve racial hierarchy in South Africa and beyond. This groundbreaking book tells the story of how a transatlantic pro-apartheid movement attempted to defend white rule in South …
