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Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
Choice Outstanding Academic Title of 2016
Investigates the causes, conduct, and consequences of the recent American wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
Understanding the United States’ wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is essential to understanding the United States in the first decade of the...
America's Captives
Treatment of POWs from the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
Notwithstanding the long shadows cast by Abu Ghraib and Guantnamo, the United States has been generally humane in the treatment of prisoners of war, reflecting a desire to both respect international law and provide the kind of treatment we would want for our own troops if captured. In this first comprehensive...
The Ecocentrists
A History of Radical Environmentalism
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Disenchanted with the mainstream environmental movement, a new, more radical kind of environmental activist emerged in the 1980s. Radical environmentalists used direct action, from blockades and tree-sits to industrial sabotage, to save a wild nature that they believed to be in a state of crisis....
P.A.T.C.O. and Reagan: an American Tragedy
The Air Traffic Controllers' Strike of 1981
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2011
P.A.T.C.O. AND REAGAN: AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY - The Air Traffic Controllers' Strike of 1981 - documents those ominous days leading up to, including, and after the fateful strike and consequent firing of over 11,000 federal employees by the President of the United States in August, 1981. Relying on primary...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The Oxford Handbook of the American Revolution draws on a wealth of new scholarship to create a vibrant dialogue among varied approaches to the revolution that made the United States. In thirty-three essays written by authorities on the period, the Handbook brings to life the diverse multitudes of...
Mestizos Come Home!
Making and Claiming Mexican American Identity
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano has described U.S. and Latin American culture as continually hobbled by amnesia—unable, or unwilling, to remember the influence of mestizos and indigenous populations. In Mestizos Come Home! author Robert Con Davis-Undiano documents the great awakening of Mexican...
The End of the American Era
U.S. Foreign Policy and the Geopolitics of the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Refuting the conventional wisdom that the end of the Cold War cleared the way for an era of peace and prosperity led solely by the United States, Charles A. Kupchan contends that the next challenge to America’s might is fast emerging. It comes not from the Islamic world or an ascendant China, but...
The Age of Illusions
How America Squandered Its Cold War Victory
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2020
A thought-provoking and penetrating account of the post-Cold war follies and delusions that culminated in the age of Donald Trump from the bestselling author of The Limits of Power.
When the Cold War ended with the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Washington establishment felt it had prevailed...
by Patricia Schultz
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
Covering the U.S.A. and Canada like never before, and for the first time with full-color photographs, here are 1,000 compelling, essential, offbeat, utterly unforgettable places. Pristine beaches and national parks, world-class museums and the Just for Laughs festival, mountain resorts, salmon-rich...
Freedom's Cap
The United States Capitol and the Coming of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
The modern United States Capitol is a triumph of both engineering and design. From its 9-million-pound cast-iron dome to the dazzling opulence of the President's Room and the Senate corridors, the Capitol is one of the most renowned buildings in the world. But the history of the U.S. Capitol is also...
by Kerry Silverton
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Our 200 page illustrated travel guide will take you to the world-famous city of New Orleans. In New Orleans, you'll find the roots of jazz as well as a blossoming culture made possible by the contributions of French, Spanish, African, American, Irish, Haitian, German, Jewish, Italian, and Vietnamese...
Fierce Enigmas
A History of the United States in South Asia
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
The two-hundred-year history of the United States' involvement in South Asia--the key to understanding contemporary American policy in the region
South Asia looms large in American foreign policy. Over the past two decades, we have spent billions of dollars and thousands of human lives in the...
YOSEMITE by John Muir (Illustrated Edition)
The Yosemite, Our National Parks, Features of the Proposed Yosemite National Park, A Rival of the Yosemite, The Treasures of the Yosemite, Yosemite Glaciers, Yosemite in Winter & Yosemite in Spring
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
When the well-known naturalist and environmentalist, John Muir finally settled in San Francisco, he immediately left for a week-long visit to Yosemite, a place he had only read about. He was overwhelmed with what he saw and he led a successful movement to establish this large national park encompassing...
by Doug Gelbert
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2011
There is no better way to see America than on foot. And there is no better way to appreciate what you are looking at than with a walking tour. Whether you are preparing for a road trip or just out to look at your own town in a new way, a downloadable walking tour is ready to explore when you are.
Each...