United States category: 34172 books
Empire's Workshop
Latin America, the United States, and the Rise of the New Imperialism
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2006
An eye-opening examination of Latin America**'s role as proving ground for** U.S. imperial strategies and tactics
In recent years, one book after another has sought to take the measure of the Bush administration's aggressive foreign policy. In their search for precedents, they invoke the Roman...
History of the United States of America, Volume 4 (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
From the Discovery of the Continent
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
Volume four of George Bancroft’s master work, the History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent, follows the development of America. It covers, among other events, Hillsborough’s administration of the colonies, the approach of the revolution, the Boston Massacre, Samuel Adams, and the Boston Tea Party.
History of the United States of America, Volume 5 (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
From the Discovery of the Continent
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
Volume five of George Bancroft’s magnificent History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent covers, among other events, British dominion in the East Indies, Congress’ attempt to avoid war in 1775—including their petitions to the king—the “first act of independence,” and the rights of man.
A Glorious Defeat
Mexico and Its War with the United States
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2008
The war that was fought between the United States and Mexico from 1846 to 1848 was a major event in the history of both countries: it cost Mexico half of its national territory, opened western North America to U.S. expansion, and brought to the surface a host of tensions that led to devastating civil...
by David A. Clary
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2009
A war that started under questionable pretexts. A president who is convinced of his country’s might and right. A military and political stalemate with United States troops occupying a foreign land against a stubborn and deadly insurgency.
The time is the 1840s. The enemy is Mexico. And the...
The Mexican-American War (Vol. 1&2)
The Relations Between the U.S. And Mexico, Attitudes on the Eve of War, the Preliminaries of the Conflict, the California Question, the War in American Politics, the Foreign Relations of the War
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
This eBook edition of "The Mexican-American War" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. This two-volume edition was written by an American historian Justin Harvey Smith, specialist on the Mexican-American War. For his exceptional...
by Gordon S. Brown
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2015
When separatist revolts erupted in Spain’s American colonies in the early 1800s, opinion in the United States was undecided as to what position to take. Proximity and America’s own anti-colonial ethos favored sympathy with the rebel cause, yet U.S. strategic interests during the tumultuous Napoleonic...
The Brink
President Reagan and the Nuclear War Scare of 1983
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
“An informative and often enthralling book…in the appealing style of Tom Clancy” (Kirkus Reviews) about the 1983 war game that triggered a tense, brittle period of nuclear brinkmanship between the United States and the former Soviet Union.
What happened in 1983 to make the Soviet Union...
The Original Rush Limbaugh
Lawyer, Legislator, and Civil Libertarian
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2012
Born at the end of the nineteenth century into a farming family of modest means in southeastern Missouri, Rush Hudson Limbaugh Sr. led a distinguished professional life as an attorney, legislator, and special ambassadorial representative of the United States. Today his descendants...
Lynching Reconsidered
New Perspectives in the Study of Mob Violence
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
The history of lynching and mob violence has become a subject of considerable scholarly and public interest in recent years. Popular works by James Allen, Philip Dray, and Leon Litwack have stimulated new interest in the subject. A generation of new scholars, sparked by these works and earlier monographs,...
The Nixon Memo
Political Respectability, Russia, and the Press
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2019
An absorbing example of political journalism, The Nixon Memo is a case study of Richard Nixon's relentless quest for political rehabilitation. At issue is the key role of this former president of the United States (best known for his involvement in the famous "watergate" scandal) in the...
by Jerome R. Corsi, Ph.D
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2012
A shocking investigation revealing why greedy oil companies are lying to the American people.At the end of World War II, U.S. intelligence agents confiscated thousands of Nazi documents on what was known as the Fischer-Tropsch Processa series of equations developed by German chemists unlocking the...
by David Gardner Chardavoyne
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
A chronological history of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, from its beginnings in the 1830s to the present.
Americans at the Gate
The United States and Refugees during the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2008
Unlike the 1930s, when the United States tragically failed to open its doors to Europeans fleeing Nazism, the country admitted over three million refugees during the Cold War. This dramatic reversal gave rise to intense political and cultural battles, pitting refugee advocates against determined opponents...