United States category: 34172 books
America Imagined
Explaining the United States in Nineteenth-Century Europe and Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
Why has "America" - that is, the United States of America - become so much more than simply a place in the imagination of so many people around the world? In both Europe and Latin America, the United States has often been a site of multiple possible futures, a screen onto which could be...
Women and Capital Punishment in the United States
An Analytical History
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
The history of the execution of women in the United States has largely been ignored and scholars have given scant attention to gender issues in capital punishment. This historical analysis examines the social, political and economic contexts in which the justice system has put women to death, revealing...
History of the United States of America, Volume 1 (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
From the Discovery of the Continent
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
Bancroft’s life work, the pioneering, monumental, multi-volume History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent, was notable for its Democratic, rather than Federalist, point of view. This volume covers, among many other events, Columbus’s discovery of the New World, a history...
America at War
Concise Histories of U.S. Military Conflicts From Lexington to Afghanistan
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
War—organized violence against an enemy of the state—seems part and parcel of the American journey. Indeed, the United States was established by means of violence as ordinary citizens from New Hampshire to Georgia answered George Washington’s call to arms.
Since then, war has become a...
The Road to OPEC
United States Relations with Venezuela, 1919-1976
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
On September 10, 1960, Venezuela spearheaded the formation of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (other original members included Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, and Kuwait). However, in a world abundantly supplied with oil, the United States could and did ignore Venezuelan suggestions that...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. This study investigates the historical record concerning the repatriation of American service members and the recovery of remains during World War II, Korea, and the Vietnam War. The issue...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
This Letort Paper analyzes the topic of Security Force Assistance (SFA) and provides some specific recommendations designed to improve U.S. performance. SFA may be a new term, but the activities themselves are familiar ones related to how the Department of Defense (DoD) works to train, advise, and...
by IntroBooks
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2018
The civil rights movement in the United States of America along with massive protest movements against all forms of racial discrimination and segregation that had occurred in the southern provinces of the United States of America that had come to its natural prominence during the time of the mid-1950s had shaped the given civil rights movement in the United States of America.
by E G Squier
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2012
Ancient Monuments of the United States is a brief survey of the remains of Native American Fortifications, Places of Worship, Sepulchral Mounds and other remains of the civilization that occupied the Eastern Seaboard and Mississippi Valley prior to European Colonization. Written in the mid 19th century...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2016
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this unique book informs us that naval and navy doctrine is not new and there is value today in reviewing the lessons of past doctrinal development experiences.Under the leadership of the Naval Doctrine Command's...
Privateers of the Americas
Spanish American Privateering from the United States in the Early Republic
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Privateers of the Americas examines raids on Spanish shipping conducted from the United States during the early 1800s. These activities were sanctioned by, and conducted on behalf of, republics in Spanish America aspiring to independence from Spain. Among the available histories of privateering, there...
by George Meade
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2012
When people think of Appomattox Court House, they think of Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee. Few remember that the commander of the Army of the Potomac at the end of the Civil War was not Grant but George Gordon Meade (December 31, 1815 November 6, 1872), a career United States Army officer and...
Origins of the War with Mexico
The Polk-Stockton Intrigue
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
In the spring of 1846 James K. Polk announced that the Mexican Army had invaded United States territory and had “shed American blood upon the American soil.” This political rhetoric, as Glenn W. Price establishes in Origins of the War with Mexico: The Polk-Stockton Intrigue, is part of the myth...
All In
The Spread of Gambling in Twentieth-Century United States
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
Gambling, the risky enterprise of chance, is one of America’s favorite pastimes. Office March Madness brackets, a day at the race track, a friendly wager, the random ridiculous Super Bowl prop bet, bingo night, or the latest media frenzy over the Powerball jackpot—all emphasize the ubiquity of...