Howard Jones: 47 books
Crucible of Power
A History of American Foreign Relations to 1913
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2009
Crucible of Power: A History of American Foreign Relations to 1913 presents a straightforward, balanced, and comprehensive history of American international relations from the American Revolution to 1913. Howard Jones demonstrates the complexities of the decision-making process that led to the rise...
Introducing Neuroeducational Research
Neuroscience, Education and the Brain from Contexts to Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
Amongst educators, scientists and policy-makers there is a growing belief that the field of education can benefit from an understanding of the brain. However, attempts to bring neuroscience and education together have often been hampered by crucial differences in concepts, language and philosophy....
Evolution of the Learning Brain
Or How You Got To Be So Smart...
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
How does learning transform us biologically?
What learning processes do we share with bacteria, jellyfish and monkeys?
Is technology impacting on our evolution and what might the future hold for the learning brain?
These are just some of the questions Paul Howard-Jones explores...
Death of a Generation:How the Assassinations of Diem and JFK Prolonged the Vietnam War
How the Assassinations of Diem and JFK Prolonged the Vietnam War
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2003
When John F. Kennedy was shot, millions were left to wonder how America, and the world, would have been different had he lived to fulfill the enormous promise of his presidency. For many historians and political observers, what Kennedy would and would not have done in Vietnam has been a source of...
Blue and Gray Diplomacy
A History of Union and Confederate Foreign Relations
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
In this examination of Union and Confederate foreign relations during the Civil War from both European and American perspectives, Howard Jones demonstrates that the consequences of the conflict between North and South reached far beyond American soil.
Jones explores a number of themes, including...
by Howard Jones
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2008
In The Bay of Pigs, Howard Jones provides a concise, incisive, and dramatic account of the disastrous attempt to overthrow Castro in April 1961. Drawing on recently declassified CIA documents, Jones deftly examines the train of missteps and self-deceptions that led to the invasion of U.S.-trained...
My Lai
Vietnam, 1968, and the Descent into Darkness
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
On the early morning of March 16, 1968, American soldiers from three platoons of Charlie Company (1st Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 11th Brigade, 23rd Infantry Division), entered a group of hamlets located in the Son Tinh district of South Vietnam, located near the Demilitarized Zone and known...
by Howard Jones
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2009
A young comic, deluded by new media technology, satirically incarnates a transhuman, Grasshopper, an erratic gadfly and reluctant 'Ant-messiah'. Hapless refugees, fleeing urban centers in the wake of social and economic collapse, survive amid criminal conspiracies, terrorist threats and rampaging marauders. One young couple learn that maddening escapades may reveal hidden cosmic dimensions.
Mutiny on the Amistad
The Saga of a Slave Revolt and Its Impact on American Abolition, Law, and Diplomacy
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 1997
This volume presents the first full-scale treatment of the only instance in history where African blacks, seized by slave dealers, won their freedom and returned home. Jones describes how, in 1839, Joseph Cinqué led a revolt on the Spanish slave ship, the Amistad, in the Caribbean. The seizure of...
"A New Kind of War"
America's Global Strategy and the Truman Doctrine in Greece
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 1997
America's experience in Greece has often been cited as a model by those later policymakers in Washington who regard the involvement as a "victory" for American foreign policy. Indeed, President Johnson and others referred to Greece as the model for America's deepening involvement in Vietnam during...
To the Webster-Ashburton Treaty
A Study in Anglo-American Relations, 1783-1843
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
The Webster-Ashburton Treaty of 1842, which led to the settlement of the Canadian boundary dispute, was instrumental in maintaining peace between Great Britain and the United States. Jones analyzes the events that aggravated relations to show the affect of America's states' rights policy, and he concludes...
The University and the New World
York University Invitation Lecture Series
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1962
This is the first volume in the Invitation Lecture Series of York University and it is an auspicious beginning. Three leaders in higher education in the United States here present their thoughts on challenging questions of enrolment, curriculum, and standards which today confront the ever expanding...
Union in Peril
The Crisis Over British Intervention in the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Jones studies the crisis in Anglo-American relations during the Civil War and its impact on the South's attempt to win foreign support during the crucial years of 1861 and 1862. He argues that the central issue was the possibility that Britain would grant diplomatic recognition to the Confederacy,...
by Howard Jones
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
First published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.