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Controlling Sex in Captivity
POWs and Sexual Desire in the United States during the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
Controlling Sex in Captivity is the first book to examine the nature, extent and impact of the sexual activities of Axis prisoners of war in the United States during the Second World War.
Historians have so far interpreted the interactions between captors and captives in America as the beginning...
Royal Spectacle
The 1860 Visit of the Prince of Wales to Canada and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2004
In 1860, Queen Victoria sent her eighteen-year-old son, Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, on a goodwill mission to Canada and the United States. The young heir-apparent (later King Edward VII) had not yet gained his reputation as a fashion setter and rake, but he nevertheless attracted enormous crowds...
The City-State of Boston
The Rise and Fall of an Atlantic Power, 1630-1865
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2019
A groundbreaking history of early America that shows how Boston built and sustained an independent city-state in New England before being folded into the United States
In the vaunted annals of America’s founding, Boston has long been held up as an exemplary “city upon a hill” and the...
Citizens of Convenience
The Imperial Origins of American Nationhood on the U.S.-Canadian Border
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2016
Like merchant ships flying flags of convenience to navigate foreign waters, traders in the northern borderlands of the early American republic exploited loopholes in the Jay Treaty that allowed them to avoid border regulations by constantly shifting between British and American nationality. In Citizens...
by Horace Curzon Plunkett
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
The Rural Life Problem of the United States Horace Curzon Plunkett, anglo-irish unionist (1854-1932) This ebook presents «The Rural Life Problem of the United States», from Horace Curzon Plunkett. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected. Table...
Ultimate Handbook Guide to Las Vegas : (United States) Travel Guide
Ultimate Handbook Guide to Las Vegas : (United States) Travel Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
The Ultimate Handbook Guide to Las Vegas : (United States) is your second passport to everything interesting and relevant. It provides you with up-to-date advice on what to see and what hidden discoveries await you.
Private Property and the Origins of Nationalism in the United States and Norway
The Making of Propertied Communities
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
In the eighteenth century, before a national political movement took hold in either the United States or Norway, both countries were agrarian societies marked by widespread private land ownership. Tracing the emergence and development of national ideology in each, Eirik Magnus Fuglestad argues that...
by Charles Nordhoff
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
The Communistic Societies of the United States Charles Nordhoff, american journalist, descriptive and miscellaneous writer (1830-1901)
This ebook presents «The Communistic Societies of the United States», from Charles Nordhoff. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly...
by Doug Mack
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
“To truly understand the United States, one must understand The Not-Quite States of America.” —Mark Stein, best-selling author of How the States Got Their Shapes
Everyone knows that America is 50 states and… some other stuff. The U.S. territories—American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico,...
Eisenhower 1956
The President's Year of Crisis--Suez and the Brink of War
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2011
A gripping tale of international intrigue and betray-al, Eisenhower 1956 is the white-knuckle story of how President Dwight D. Eisenhower guided the United States through the Suez Canal crisis of 1956. The crisis climaxed in a tumultuous nine-day period fraught with peril just prior to the 1956 presidential...
by Wayne H. Bowen
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
In the mid-1800s, Spain experienced economic growth, political stabilization, and military revival, and the country began to sense that it again could be a great global power. In addition to its desire for international glory, Spain also was the only European country that continued to use...
Bringing the War Home
The Weather Underground, the Red Army Faction, and Revolutionary Violence in the Sixties and Seventies
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2004
In this first comprehensive comparison of left-wing violence in the United States and West Germany, Jeremy Varon focuses on America's Weather Underground and Germany's Red Army Faction to consider how and why young, middle-class radicals in prosperous democratic societies turned to armed struggle...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2017
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. The Spanish American War was a turning point in the history of the United States Army. While the US Army was successful in its operational mission of defeating the Spanish in Cuba, the Philippines,...
The United States and the End of the Cold War
Implications, Reconsiderations, Provocations
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 1994
The Cold War ended with an exhilarating wave of events: the toppling of the Berlin Wall, the rise of the dissident poet Vaclav Havel, the revolution in Romania. Americans rejoiced at the dramatic conclusion of the long struggle. "But victories in wars--hot or cold--tend to unfocus the mind," writes...