United States category: 34172 books
by Edward Lama Wonkeryor
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2013
An overview of the involuntary and voluntary immigration of people of African nativity to the United States, with a discussion of the pre- and post-1960 African immigrant experience and useful statistics on the U.S. African immigrant population from the colonial era to 2011.
Woodrow Wilson
Ruling Elder, Spiritual President
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
When Woodrow Wilson was elected as a ruling elder in the Presbyterian Church in 1897, his preacher father allegedly remarked, "I would rather that he held that position than be president of the United States." Fifteen years later he was both. Easily one of the most religious presidents in American...
by Donald E. Weatherbee
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2008
Southeast Asia consists of the countries of Brunei, Burma, Cambodia, East Timor, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. Historically, U.S. policy and diplomacy with Southeast Asia is defined by U.S. interests in the region, whether it's maintaining free lanes...
by Tom Lansford
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
This title was first published in 2002. This detailed examination of the role of the Transatlantic Alliance in support of the America-led military and intelligence operations against the Taliban and the Al-Qaida network since the terrorist attacks on the United States provides the first in-depth analysis...
Ambivalent Nation
How Britain Imagined the American Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2018
In Ambivalent Nation, Hugh Dubrulle explores how Britons envisioned the American Civil War and how these conceptions influenced their discussions about race, politics, society, military affairs, and nationalism. Contributing new research that expands upon previous scholarship focused on establishing...
by Tim Clancey, Simon Mosley, John Spiller
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2004
This book takes a new approach to teaching and learning early US history from 1763 to 2001 at A level. It meets the needs of teachers and students studying for today's revised AS and A2 exams.
In a unique style, The United States, 1763-2001 focuses on the key topics within the period. Each...
America for Americans
A History of Xenophobia in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2019
An award-winning historian reframes our continuing debate over immigration with a compelling history of xenophobia in the United States and its devastating impact
The United States is known as a nation of immigrants. But it is also a nation of xenophobia. In America for Americans, Erika Lee...
Haunting Legacy
Vietnam and the American Presidency from Ford to Obama
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2012
The United States had never lost a war-that is, until 1975, when it was forced to flee Saigon in humiliation after losing to what Lyndon Johnson called a "raggedy-ass little fourth-rate country." The legacy of this first defeat has haunted every president since, especially on the decision...
History of Banking in the United States
Beginning and Development (Vol.1)
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2016
This book presents the beginning and development of Banks in the United States.
“The term "bank" was used in the American colonies from the very beginning of the settlement, in the sense of a pile or heap. The first bills of credit, as they were called by a seventeenth century expression,...
by John Adams
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
In this second volume of A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America, John Adams continues his argument against Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot and his theories of “collecting all authority into one center.”
Delving into the Italian republics of the middle age,...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2006
Whether rising up from fiery leaders such as Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez and Cuba’s Fidel Castro or from angry masses of Brazilian workers and Mexican peasants, anti U.S. sentiment in Latin America and the Caribbean today is arguably stronger than ever. It is also a threat to U.S. leadership in the...
by Tarek Hussein, Mike McMullen
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2018
We decided to write about the topic of introducing this country to you. You have made a great choice. You chose to come here, and I believe you have made a great first step towards achieving better things in your life. You have to be ready and responsible for the consequences. You can have a great...
Liberty and Union
A Constitutional History of the United States, volume 2
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
This, the second of two volumes of Liberty and Union, is a comprehensive constitutional history of the United States from the Progressive Era of the early twentieth century to the most recent decisions of the Supreme Court on contemporary constitutional issues.
Written in a clear and engaging...
Liberty and Union
A Constitutional History of the United States, concise edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
This, the concise edition of Liberty and Union, is an abridged constitutional history of the United States, designed for short single-semester courses, comprising the key topics from Volumes 1 and 2.
Written in a clear and engaging narrative style, it successfully unites thorough chronological...