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Born in Blood: Violence and the Making of America
Born in Blood investigates one of history's most violent undertakings: The United States of America. People the world over consider violence in the United States as measurably different than that...
America's Midlife Crisis: The Future of a Troubled Superpower
America's Midlife Crisis examines the culture of America at a crucial point in its history and development. Along the way something happened to the fundimental nature of American culture: a...
The Next Civil War: Dispatches from the American Future
"Should be required reading for anyone interested in preserving our 246-year experiment in self-government." - The New York Times Book Review * "Well researched and eloquently presented." - The Atlantic...
Continental Divide: Values and Institutions of the United States and
Representing social and political research, the theoretical foundations of "Continental Divide" are drawn from diverse sources - historical accounts, interpretations of literature and other creative arts, quantitative analyses by social...
Venture Of Faith: A Centenary History St John's College, The University Of Queensland
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodA century of faith, scholarship, and community comes alive in Venture of Faith: A Centenary History of St John's College, The University of Queensland, a...
The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States
Originally published in 2000, The Right to Vote was widely hailed as a magisterial account of the evolution of suffrage from the American Revolution to the end of the twentieth...
Born in Blood: Violence and the Making of America
Born in Blood investigates one of history's most violent undertakings: The United States of America. People the world over consider violence in the United States as measurably different than that...
The Cultural Front: The Laboring of American Culture in the Twentieth
As garment workers, longshoremen, autoworkers, sharecroppers and clerks took to the streets, striking and organizing unions in the midst of the Depression, artists, writers and filmmakers joined the insurgent social...
Blood Money: Why the Powerful Turn a Blind Eye While China Kills
AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIt's often said that China is in a cold war with America. The reality is far worse: the war is hot, and the body...
The Week: A History of the Unnatural Rhythms That Made Us Who We Are
An investigation into the evolution of the seven-day week and how our attachment to its rhythms influences how we live "[Henkin] scours American literature, diaries, periodicals, menus and other ephemera...
Reckless Endangerment: How Outsized Ambition, Greed, and Corruption
In "Reckless Endangerment", Gretchen Morgenson, the star business columnist of "The New York Times", exposes how the watchdogs who were supposed to protect the country from financial harm were actually...
The Unwinding: Thirty Years of American Decline
Just over a decade into the new millennium, America is beset by a sense of crisis. The seismic shifts that occurred in the space of a generation have created a...
Neither Snow Nor Rain: A History of the United States Postal Service
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The United States Postal Service is a wondrous American creation. Seven days a week, its army of 300,000 letter carriers delivers 513 million pieces of mail, forty percent of the...
The Trump Indictments: The 91 Criminal Counts Against the Former President of the United States
Author: Ali VelshiFormat: Paperback, 135mm x 203mm, 263g, 320 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers Inc, United States, 2023 Edited and introduced by MSNBC's Ali Velshi, The Trump Indictments collects the complete charging...
Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age
Using a vast swath of data spanning the past six decades, Unequal Democracy debunks many myths about politics in contemporary America, using the widening gap between the rich and the...
Language of the Heart
The book titled Language of the Heart by the author Anthony James. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Good and Plenty: The Creative Successes of American Arts Funding
Americans agree about government arts funding in the way the women in the old joke agree about the food at the wedding: it's terrible - and such small portions! Americans...
Empire in Retreat: The Past, Present, and Future of the United States
A sweeping history of the United States through the lens of empire-and an incisive look forward as the nation retreats from the global stage A respected authority on international relations...
American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis
Author: Adam HochschildFormat: Paperback, 152mm x 229mm, 440g, 432 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers Inc, United States, 2023 National Bestseller * One of the year's most acclaimed works of nonfictionA BEST BOOK...
WEST
The book titled WEST by the author Unknown. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
The American Scene
After living abroad for 20 years, Henry James returned to his native America and travelled down the East Coast from Boston to Florida. This a journal describing his feelings on...
Cycles of American History
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The book titled Cycles of American History by the author Arthur M. Schlesinger. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Jovial Bigotry: Max O'Rell and the Transnational Debate over Manners
This book revisits the debate over manners and morals that raged in France, Britain and the United States in the late nineteenth century. It was in essence a debate about...
Trotskyism In The United States: Historical Essays and
In the new edition of this definitive work on the history of the revolutionary socialist current in the United States that came to be identified as "American Trotskyism," Paul Le...
Pierre Fatumbi Verger: United States of America 1934 & 1937
Pierre Fatumbi Verger is considered one of the most outstanding photographers of the twentieth century as well as a recognized researcher in the field of African Diaspora and religion studies....
The Literature of the United States
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This new edition updates the study of American literature with the inclusion of poets from Hart Crane and E.E.Cummings to John Ashbery and A.R. Ammons and novelists from William Burroughs...
The Literature of the United States
The book titled The Literature of the United States by the author Marcus Cunliffe. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
The United States Enters The Pacific
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Author: LefredmanBinding: PaperbackPublished: Angus & Robertson, 1969Condition:Book: FairJacket: N/APages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Bumped spine and edges. Tight pages.An historical study. Inc the US and Australia; the US and China;...
American People: Vol 1
The book titled American People: Vol 1 by the author Professor of History Gary B Nash (University of California Los Angeles). This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for...
The Age of Clinton: America in the 1990s
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The 1990s was a decade of extreme change. Shifts in culture, politics, and technology radically altered the way Americans did business, expressed themselves, and thought about their role in the...
The Assault on Intelligence: American National Security in an Age of
A blistering critique of the forces threatening the American intelligence community, beginning with the President of the United States himself, in a time when that community's work has never been...
The Truths We Hold: An American Journey
From the U.S. Vice President, the New York Times bestseller about the core truths that unite us and the shared values that will see us into the future. Read the...
Indomitable Will: Turning Defeat into Victory from Pearl Harbor to
Some of the worst military disasters in U.S. history occurred between Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 and the Battle of Midway in June 1942. During this period, the American...
A Little History of the United States
A character-filled history that brings the American saga to life "This is a little history with a big heart, meant to be savored more than studied, read out loud like...
Presidents of the United States
From George Washington to Bill Clinton, this book contains a collection of portraits and potted biographies of 42 of America's Presidents. The pictures have all been taken from the National...
The Void, Grid & Sign
What Barry Lopez did in expanding our vision of the frozen North in Arctic Dreams, William Fox has done in broadening our perceptions of the desert expanses of the West's...
American History: A Survey
The book titled American History: A Survey by the author Richard Nelson Current. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
The Road To Tahrir Square: Eqypt and the United States from the Rise
When protesters in Egypt began to fill Cairo's Tahrir Square on January 25th--and refused to leave until their demand that Hosni Mubarak step down was met--the politics of the region...
War Without Mercy: Liberty or Death in the American Revolution
"Robust and focused" - The Wall Street Journal "History at its insightful and mesmerizing best" - Nathaniel Philbrick Drawing on vivid contemporary accounts, this is a fascinating exploration of how...
Beautiful American Vegetable Gardens
Dorra provides a celebration of 24 well-tend ed, productive gardens and introduces us to the gardeners re sponsible for them. Some vegetable gardens have been dressed up with fruit trees...