Joseph Rosenberg: 35 books
by Joseph Rosenberg
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2011
German: How to Speak and Write It (Beginners' Guides) by Joseph Rosenberg Ideal as an introduction, supplement, or refresher. Modern course, with strong phrase material and a wealth of pictorial and amusement aids.
German
How to Speak and Write It
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2013
This is probably the most delightful, useful, and comprehensive elementary book available for learning spoken and written German, with or without a teacher. Working on the principles that a person learns more quickly by example than by rule, the author has put together a book that abounds in immediately...
Financial Missionaries to the World
The Politics and Culture of Dollar Diplomacy, 1900–1930
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2004
Winner of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Robert H. Ferrell Book Prize
*Financial Missionaries to the World establishes the broad scope and significance of "dollar diplomacy"—the use of international lending and advising—to early-twentieth-century U.S....
A Date Which Will Live
Pearl Harbor in American Memory
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2003
December 7, 1941—the date of Japan’s surprise attack on the U.S. fleet at Pearl Harbor—is "a date which will live" in American history and memory, but the stories that will live and the meanings attributed to them are hardly settled. In movies, books, and magazines, at memorial sites...
Jewish Men Pray
Words of Yearning, Praise, Petition, Gratitude and Wonder from Traditional and Contemporary Sources
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
A celebration of Jewish men's voices in prayer—to strengthen, to heal, to comfort, to inspire from the ancient world up to our own day.
"An extraordinary gathering of men—diverse in their ages, their lives, their convictions—have convened in this collection to offer contemporary,...
Haunted by Empire
Geographies of Intimacy in North American History
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2006
A milestone in U.S. historiography, Haunted by Empire brings postcolonial critiques to bear on North American history and draws on that history to question the analytic conventions of postcolonial studies. The contributors to this innovative collection examine the critical role of “domains of the...
The Unpredictability of the Past
Memories of the Asia-Pacific War in U.S.–East Asian Relations
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2007
In The Unpredictability of the Past, an international group of historians examines how collective memories of the Asia-Pacific War continue to affect relations among China, Japan, and the United States. The contributors are primarily concerned with the history of international relations broadly conceived...
From Silver to Cocaine
Latin American Commodity Chains and the Building of the World Economy, 1500–2000
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2006
Demonstrating that globalization is a centuries-old phenomenon, From Silver to Cocaine examines the commodity chains that have connected producers in Latin America with consumers around the world for five hundred years. In clear, accessible essays, historians from Latin America, England, and the United...
From the Revolution to the Maquiladoras
Gender, Labor, and Globalization in Nicaragua
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2005
From the Revolution to the Maquiladoras is a major contribution to the study of globalization, labor, and women’s movements. Jennifer Bickham Mendez presents a detailed ethnographic account of the Nicaraguan Working and Unemployed Women’s Movement, “María Elena Cuadra” (mec), which emerged...
FDR and the Spanish Civil War
Neutrality and Commitment in the Struggle that Divided America
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2007
What was the relationship between President Franklin D. Roosevelt, architect of America’s rise to global power, and the 1936–39 Spanish Civil War, which inspired passion and sacrifice, and shaped the road to world war? While many historians have portrayed the Spanish Civil War as one of Roosevelt’s...
Emperors in the Jungle
The Hidden History of the U.S. in Panama
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2003
Emperors in the Jungle is an exposé of key episodes in the military involvement of the United States in Panama. Investigative journalism at its best, this book reveals how U.S. ideas about taming tropical jungles and people, combined with commercial and military objectives, shaped more than a century...
Projections of Power
The United States and Europe in Colonial Southeast Asia, 1919–1941
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2010
Throughout its history, the United States has been both imperialistic and anticolonial: imperialistic in its expansion across the continent and across oceans to colonies such as the Philippines, and anticolonial in its rhetoric and ideology. How did this contradiction shape its interactions with European...
The American Colonial State in the Philippines
Global Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2003
In 1898 the United States declared sovereignty over the Philippines, an archipelago of seven thousand islands inhabited by seven million people of various ethnicities. While it became a colonial power at the zenith of global imperialism, the United States nevertheless conceived of its rule as exceptional—an...
Crude Chronicles
Indigenous Politics, Multinational Oil, and Neoliberalism in Ecuador
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2004
Ecuador is the third-largest foreign supplier of crude oil to the western United States. As the source of this oil, the Ecuadorian Amazon has borne the far-reaching social and environmental consequences of a growing U.S. demand for petroleum and the dynamics of economic globalization it necessitates....