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House Divided
Sectionalism and Civil War, 1848-1865
Häftad, 1988
394 kr
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What caused the Civil War? Perhaps no question in American history has attracted more interest or sparked more debate. A House Divided presents a fresh and balanced interpretation that challenges the view of slavery as a largely artificial or symbolic issue in the conflict between two incompatible …
Liberty Under Law
The Supreme Court in American Life
Häftad, 1988
468 kr
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The two-hundredth anniversary of the U.S. Constitution and the intense debates surrounding the recent nominees to the Supreme Court have refocused attention on one of the most fundamental documents in U.S. history -- and on the judges who settle disputes over its interpretation. Liberty under Law …
American Anti-Communism
Combating the Enemy Within, 1830-1970
Av M. J. Heale
Häftad, 1990
356 kr
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This succinct and sensible history shows how fear of 'Reds' was linked in the nineteenth century to the destabilizing impact of industrialization and in the twentieth century to perceptions of global insecurity. An excellent concluding chapter explains the fading of anticommunism since the days of …
America's Welfare State
From Roosevelt to Reagan
Häftad, 1991
405 kr
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Describing the uneasy evolution of America's welfare programs, Berkowitz explains how Social Security became popular, why it almost went bankrupt, and why its long-term prospects for solvency remain uncertain. He also explores the question of national health insurance, noting that the U.S. …
Medicine in America
A Short History
Häftad, 1991
417 kr
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How did the challenge and the timetable of America's westward expansion affect American medical practice? What have the principles and obligations of American democracy brought to the character of American medicine? How have America's geography and climate, as well as its racial and economic …
Winning is the Only Thing
Sports in America since 1945
Av Randy Roberts, James S. Olson
Häftad, 1991
377 kr
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In Winning Is the Only Thing, Randy Roberts and James Olson take a hard look at the dark side of American sports. The scandals. The role of organized crime. How politicians and businessmen exploit the Olympics. Who gets rich and who goes broke. Why the fitness craze has nothing to do with fitness. …
Uneasy Partners
Big Business in American Politics, 1945-1990
Av Kim McQuaid
Häftad, 1994
347 kr
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"Businessmen are politicians in America," writes Kim McQuaid, "and politicians are businessmen." Today, in areas as diverse as home mortgages, high technology, and Smart Bombs, the private and public sectors are working together to perform tasks that each is unable to do alone. In Uneasy Partners …
America's Half-Century
United States Foreign Policy in the Cold War and After
Häftad, 1995
333 kr
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Did the United States "win" the Cold War? In its self-congratulatory euphoria, argues Thomas McCormick in this new edition of his highly acclaimed study, America neglected a twenty-year process of political and economic devolution-the real threat to global peace and prosperity. Revised andupdated …
Industrializing America
The Nineteenth Century
Av Walter Licht
Häftad, 1995
477 kr
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Previous books on the industrialization of America have focused either on the industrial revolution in the first half of the nineteenth century or on the rise of big industry in the second. In this groundbreaking study Licht provides a new perspective by focusing on industrialization first as a …
Debate over Vietnam
Häftad, 1995
452 kr
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David Levy's widely acclaimed Debate Over Vietnam examines the bitter national discussion that raged over the propriety, the necessity, and the morality of America's longest war. Levy begins with a brief history of Vietnam under foreign rule and recounts the growing American military presence--and …
Democracy and Diplomacy
The Impact of Domestic Politics in U.S. Foreign Policy, 1789-1994
Av Melvin Small
Häftad, 1996
347 kr
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From the Hamiltonian-Jeffersonian split over English and French policy in the 1790s to the Republican-Democratic clash over Haitian policy in the 1990s, Americans and foreign observers have been troubled-and often exasperated-by the extraordinary influence of U.S. domestic politics on matters of …
Culture of the Cold War
Häftad, 1996
347 kr
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"Without the Cold War, what's the point of being an American?" As if in answer to this poignant question from John Updike's Rabbit at Rest, Stephen Whitfield examines the impact of the Cold War-and its dramatic ending-on American culture in an updated version of his highly acclaimed study. In a new …
America's Right Turn
From Nixon to Clinton
Häftad, 1998
406 kr
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In America's Right Turn historian William Berman examines the political, cultural, and economic contexts in which Republican conservatives operated and explores the crisis of the liberal welfare state against the background of presidential politics. Berman demonstrates the key roles played by …
Discontented America
The United States in the 1920s
Häftad, 1999
426 kr
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It was a decade of great heroes like Babe Ruth and Charles Lindbergh, and of passive leaders like Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge. The exuberant freedom of flappers drinking bathtub gin and dancing the Charleston did little to counter such powers of oppression as the rapidly rising Ku Klux Klan. …
Republic of Mass Culture
Journalism, Filmmaking, and Broadcasting in America since 1941
Inbunden, 2006
650 kr
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The new edition of James L. Baughman's successful book The Republic of Mass Culture examines the advent of television and the impact it had on the established mass media-radio, film, newspapers, and magazines. When television captured the largest share of the mass audience by the late 1950s, rival …
Commonwealth of Hope
The New Deal Response to Crisis
Av Alan Lawson
Häftad, 2006
443 kr
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Did the New Deal represent the true American way or was it an aberration that would last only until the old order could reassert itself? This original and thoughtful study tells the story of the New Deal, explains its origins, and assesses its legacy. Alan Lawson explores how the circumstances of …
Presidential Decisions for War
Korea, Vietnam, the Persian Gulf, and Iraq
Av Gary R. Hess
Häftad, 2009
390 kr
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Following World War II, Americans expected that the United States would wage another major war against a superpower. Instead, the nation has fought limited wars against much weaker states, such as North Korea, North Vietnam, and Iraq. This revised and updated edition of Presidential Decisions for …
America's Public Schools
From the Common School to "No Child Left Behind"
Inbunden, 2011
804 kr
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In this update to his landmark publication, William J. Reese offers a comprehensive examination of the trends, theories, and practices that have shaped America's public schools over the last two centuries. Reese approaches this subject along two main lines of inquiry-education as a means for …
New Worlds for All
Indians, Europeans, and the Remaking of Early America
Häftad, 2013
418 kr
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Although many Americans consider the establishment of the colonies as the birth of this country, in fact early America existed long before the arrival of the Europeans. From coast to coast, Native Americans had created enduring cultures, and the subsequent European invasion remade much of the land …
Twentieth-Century American City
Problem, Promise, and Reality
Häftad, 2016
394 kr
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Throughout the twentieth century, the city was deemed a problematic space, one that Americans urgently needed to improve. Although cities from New York to Los Angeles served as grand monuments to wealth and enterprise, they also reflected the social and economic fragmentation of the nation. Race, …
Moralists and Modernizers
America's Pre-Civil War Reformers
Av Steven Mintz
Häftad, 1995
269 kr
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The decades before the Civil War saw the first secular efforts in history to remake society through reform. Reformers launched unprecedented campaigns reform criminals and prostitutes, to educate the deaf and the blind, guarantee women's rights, and abolish slavery. Our modern systems of free …
Jacksonian Promise
America, 1815 to 1840
Häftad, 1996
302 kr
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In Jacksonian Promise historian Daniel Feller offers a fresh look at the United States in the tumultuous Age of Jackson. Viewing the era through the eyes of people who lived in it, Feller's account captures the optimism and energy that filled America after the War of 1812. His emphasis on …
Hollywood's High Noon
Moviemaking and Society before Television
Häftad, 1997
316 kr
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Over the last twenty-five years, the field of cinema studies has offered a dramatic reassessment of the history of film in general and of Hollywood in particular. Writers have drawn on the methodologies of a number of disciplines-literary criticism, sociology, psychology, women's studies, and …
Tradition Transformed
The Jewish Experience in America
Av Gerald Sorin
Häftad, 1997
302 kr
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Throughout American history, from the colonial era to the present, Jews have found America generally hospitable. Yet even in this relatively receptive country, which essentially replaced Israel as the "promised land," there have been vexing questions for Jews-questions about the costs of freedom …
Vietnam Shadows
The War, Its Ghosts, and Its Legacy
Häftad, 2000
316 kr
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Nearly a quarter-century after the fall of Saigon, the memory of America's defeat in Vietnam continues to haunt the national psyche. In Vietnam Shadows, former war correspondent Arnold Isaacs turns his reportorial eye to the conflict since Vietnam, covering the skirmishes and firefights of a …
America's Public Schools
From the Common School to "No Child Left Behind"
Inbunden, 2005
444 kr
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William J. Reese's history of public schools in America examines why citizens have repeatedly turned to the schools to improve society and how successive generations of reformers have tried to alter the curriculum and teaching practice to achieve their goals. Organized around two themes - education …
Republic of Mass Culture
Journalism, Filmmaking, and Broadcasting in America since 1941
Häftad, 2006
267 kr
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The new edition of James L. Baughman's successful book The Republic of Mass Culture examines the advent of television and the impact it had on the established mass media-radio, film, newspapers, and magazines. When television captured the largest share of the mass audience by the late 1950s, rival …
Commonwealth of Hope
The New Deal Response to Crisis
Av Alan Lawson
Inbunden, 2006
551 kr
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Did the New Deal represent the true American way or was it an aberration that would last only until the old order could reassert itself? This original and thoughtful study tells the story of the New Deal, explains its origins, and assesses its legacy. Alan Lawson explores how the circumstances of …
Presidential Decisions for War
Korea, Vietnam, the Persian Gulf, and Iraq
Av Gary R. Hess
Inbunden, 2009
625 kr
Tillfälligt slut
Following World War II, Americans expected that the United States would wage another major war against a superpower. Instead, the nation has fought limited wars against much weaker states, such as North Korea, North Vietnam, and Iraq. This revised and updated edition of Presidential Decisions for …
America's Public Schools
From the Common School to "No Child Left Behind"
Häftad, 2011
282 kr
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In this update to his landmark publication, William J. Reese offers a comprehensive examination of the trends, theories, and practices that have shaped America's public schools over the last two centuries. Reese approaches this subject along two main lines of inquiry-education as a means for …
