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Civil War and Slavery Reconsidered
Negotiating the Peripheries
Av Laura R. Sandy, Marie S. Molloy
Inbunden, 2019
2585 kr
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Following the suggestion of the historian Peter Parish, these essays probe "the edges" of slavery and the sectional conflict. The authors seek to recover forgotten stories, exceptional cases and contested identities to reveal the forces that shaped America, in the era of "the Long Civil War," …
Conservative Movement and the Vietnam War
The Other Side of Vietnam
Inbunden, 2019
2585 kr
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The Vietnam War was the central political issue of the 1960s and 1970s. This study by Seth Offenbach explains how the conflict shaped modern conservatism. The war caused disputes between the pro-war anti-communists right and libertarian conservatives who opposed the war. At the same time, Christian …
Exploring the Next Frontier
Vietnam, NASA, Star Trek and Utopia in 1960s and 70s American Myth and History
Häftad, 2019
757 kr
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The 1960s and early 70s saw the evolution of Frontier Myths even as scholars were renouncing the interpretive value of myths themselves. Works like Joe Haldeman’s The Forever War exemplified that rejection using his experiences during the Vietnam War to illustrate the problematic consequences of …
America's Vietnam War and Its French Connection
Av Frank Cain
Häftad, 2019
757 kr
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That America was drawn into the Vietnam War by the French has been recognized, but rarely explored. This book analyzes the years from 1945 with the French military reconquest of Vietnam until 1963 with the execution of the French-endorsed dictator, Ngo Dinh Diem, demonstrating how the US should not …
Perceptions of China and White House Decision-Making, 1941-1963
Spears of Promise, Shields of Truth
Inbunden, 2019
2585 kr
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This book assesses and evaluates the decision-making behavior of United States presidents and their chief advisers from Roosevelt to Kennedy pertaining to China. Seeking to dispel with the notion that each administration sought policy outcomes on the basis of a rational decision-making model, …
Liberal Dilemma
The Pragmatic Tradition in the Age of McCarthyism
Inbunden, 2019
2585 kr
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This volume explores the response of liberals to rightwing attacks during the Red Scare of the late 1940s and early 1950s, establishing it as a defensive approach aimed at warding off efforts to conflate liberalism with communism, but not at striking back at the opposing ideology of conservatism …
Famine Irish and the American Racial State
Häftad, 2019
757 kr
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Accounts of Irish racialization in the United States have tended to stress Irish difference. Famine Irish and the American Racial State takes a different stance. This interdisciplinary, transnational work uses an array of cultural artifacts, including novels, plays, songs, cartoons, government …
Reagan’s “Boys” and the Children of the Greatest Generation
U.S. World War II Memory, 1984 and Beyond
Inbunden, 2019
2585 kr
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During the 1980s and 1990s, aging Baby Boomer parents constructed a particular type of memory as they attempted to laud their own parents’ wartime accomplishments with the label "The Greatest Generation." This book is the first to tell the entire story of this particular type of U.S. World War II …
Overseers of Early American Slavery
Supervisors, Enslaved Labourers, and the Plantation Enterprise
Inbunden, 2020
2585 kr
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Enmeshed in the exploitative world of racial slavery, overseers were central figures in the management of early American plantation enterprises. All too frequently dismissed as brutal and incompetent, they defy easy categorisation. Some were rogues, yet others were highly skilled professionals, …
Brief History of the Subordination of African Americans in the U.S.
Of Handcuffs and Bootstraps
Av Alexander Polikoff, Elizabeth Lassar
Inbunden, 2020
2585 kr
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This "brief history" presents the essential story of the subordination of African Americans in the U.S., captured in a 1968 cartoon by Pulitzer-prize-winning cartoonist John Fischetti. The drawing is of a black man handcuffed to a wall with cuffs labeled "White Racism." The caption reads, "Why …
Education and the Racial Dynamics of Settler Colonialism in Early America
Georgia and South Carolina, ca. 1700–ca. 1820
Inbunden, 2020
2585 kr
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This is the first historical monograph to demonstrate settler colonialism’s significance for Early America. Based on a nuanced reading of the archive and using a comparative approach, the book treats settler colonialism as a process rather than a coherent ideology. Spady shows that learning was a …
Unfamiliar America
Essays in American Studies
Av Ari Helo, Mikko Saikku
Inbunden, 2020
2585 kr
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This collection focuses on conceptions of the unfamiliar from the viewpoint of mainstream American history: aliens, immigrants, ethnic groups, and previously unencountered ideas and ideologies in Trumpian America. The book suggests bringing historical thinking back to the center of American …
Unfamiliar America
Essays in American Studies
Av Ari Helo, Mikko Saikku
Häftad, 2022
727 kr
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This collection focuses on conceptions of the unfamiliar from the viewpoint of mainstream American history: aliens, immigrants, ethnic groups, and previously unencountered ideas and ideologies in Trumpian America. The book suggests bringing historical thinking back to the center of American …
George W Bush Administration Propaganda for an Invasion of Iraq
The Absence of Evidence
Inbunden, 2021
2825 kr
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Hartenian’s history of George W Bush propaganda for an invasion of Iraq returns the administration’s approach to its conceptual origins. Hartenian places "evidence" in the center of his analysis, showing that Rumsfeld’s "the absence of evidence is not evidence of absence" meant that no evidence was …
George W Bush Administration Propaganda for an Invasion of Iraq
The Absence of Evidence
Häftad, 2023
667 kr
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Hartenian’s history of George W Bush propaganda for an invasion of Iraq returns the administration’s approach to its conceptual origins. Hartenian places "evidence" in the center of his analysis, showing that Rumsfeld’s "the absence of evidence is not evidence of absence" meant that no evidence was …
White House and White Africa
Presidential Policy Toward Rhodesia During the UDI Era, 1965-1979
Av Eddie Michel
Häftad, 2020
727 kr
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This book offers an insightful analysis of presidential policy towards Rhodesia during the UDI era of 1965-1979. Michel provides an informative account of the stance adopted by the differing presidential administrations towards Salisbury and highlights the shifting alignment of the global and …
Civil War and Slavery Reconsidered
Negotiating the Peripheries
Av Laura R. Sandy, Marie S. Molloy
Häftad, 2020
727 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Following the suggestion of the historian Peter Parish, these essays probe "the edges" of slavery and the sectional conflict. The authors seek to recover forgotten stories, exceptional cases and contested identities to reveal the forces that shaped America, in the era of "the Long Civil War," …
Conservative Movement and the Vietnam War
The Other Side of Vietnam
Häftad, 2020
727 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The Vietnam War was the central political issue of the 1960s and 1970s. This study by Seth Offenbach explains how the conflict shaped modern conservatism. The war caused disputes between the pro-war anti-communists right and libertarian conservatives who opposed the war. At the same time, Christian …
After American Studies
Rethinking the Legacies of Transnational Exceptionalism
Häftad, 2019
727 kr
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After American Studies is a timely critique of national and transnational approaches to community, and their forms of belonging and trans/patriotisms. Using reports in multicultural psychology and cultural neuroscience to interpret an array of cultural forms—including literature, art, film, …
James Monroe, John Marshall and ‘The Excellence of Our Institutions’, 1817–1825
How Monroe’s Presidency Became 'An Important Epoch in the History of the Civilized World'
Inbunden, 2022
2585 kr
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When James Monroe became president in 1817, the United States urgently needed a national transportation system to connect new states and territories in the west with older states facing the Atlantic Ocean. In 1824, the Supreme Court declared that Congress had the power to regulate traffic on all …
Disinformation Age
The Collapse of Liberal Democracy in the United States
Inbunden, 2017
2825 kr
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The Disinformation Age, beginning in the present and going back to the American colonial period, constructs an original historical explanation for the current political crisis and the reasons the two major political parties cannot address it effectively. Commentators inside and outside academia …
Public Health and the US Military
A History of the Army Medical Department, 1818-1917
Inbunden, 2010
2585 kr
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Public Health and the US Military is a cultural history of the US Army Medical Department focusing on its accomplishments and organization coincident with the creation of modern public health in the Progressive Era. A period of tremendous social change, this time bore witness to the creation of an …
Origin of Organized Crime in America
The New York City Mafia, 1891–1931
Häftad, 2010
936 kr
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While the later history of the New York Mafia has received extensive attention, what has been conspicuously absent until now is an accurate and conversant review of the formative years of Mafia organizational growth. David Critchley examines the Mafia recruitment process, relations with Mafias in …
Origin of Organized Crime in America
The New York City Mafia, 1891–1931
Inbunden, 2008
2510 kr
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While the later history of the New York Mafia has received extensive attention, what has been conspicuously absent until now is an accurate and conversant review of the formative years of Mafia organizational growth. David Critchley examines the Mafia recruitment process, relations with Mafias in …
Redefining Irishness in a Coastal Maine City, 1770–1870
Bridget’s Belfast
Av Kay Retzlaff
Inbunden, 2021
2585 kr
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Redefining Irishness in a Coastal Maine City, 1770–1870: Bridget's Belfast examines how Irish immigrants shaped and reshaped their identity in a rural New England community. Forty percent of Irish immigrants to the United States settled in rural areas. Achieving success beyond large urban centers …
Redefining Irishness in a Coastal Maine City, 1770–1870
Bridget’s Belfast
Av Kay Retzlaff
Häftad, 2023
667 kr
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Redefining Irishness in a Coastal Maine City, 1770–1870: Bridget's Belfast examines how Irish immigrants shaped and reshaped their identity in a rural New England community. Forty percent of Irish immigrants to the United States settled in rural areas. Achieving success beyond large urban centers …
Perceptions of China and White House Decision-Making, 1941-1963
Spears of Promise, Shields of Truth
Häftad, 2021
727 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book assesses and evaluates the decision-making behavior of United States presidents and their chief advisers from Roosevelt to Kennedy pertaining to China. Seeking to dispel with the notion that each administration sought policy outcomes on the basis of a rational decision-making model, …
Reagan’s “Boys” and the Children of the Greatest Generation
U.S. World War II Memory, 1984 and Beyond
Häftad, 2021
727 kr
Lägg i varukorg
During the 1980s and 1990s, aging Baby Boomer parents constructed a particular type of memory as they attempted to laud their own parents’ wartime accomplishments with the label "The Greatest Generation." This book is the first to tell the entire story of this particular type of U.S. World War II …
Liberal Dilemma
The Pragmatic Tradition in the Age of McCarthyism
Häftad, 2021
727 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This volume explores the response of liberals to rightwing attacks during the Red Scare of the late 1940s and early 1950s, establishing it as a defensive approach aimed at warding off efforts to conflate liberalism with communism, but not at striking back at the opposing ideology of conservatism …
Education and the Racial Dynamics of Settler Colonialism in Early America
Georgia and South Carolina, ca. 1700–ca. 1820
Häftad, 2021
727 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This is the first historical monograph to demonstrate settler colonialism’s significance for Early America. Based on a nuanced reading of the archive and using a comparative approach, the book treats settler colonialism as a process rather than a coherent ideology. Spady shows that learning was a …
