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Nuclear Apartheid
The Quest for American Atomic Supremacy from World War II to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
After World War II, an atomic hierarchy emerged in the noncommunist world. Washington was at the top, followed over time by its NATO allies and then Israel, with the postcolonial world completely shut out. An Indian diplomat called the system "nuclear apartheid."
Drawing on recently...
by Thomas Vance
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
The essential mind-mysteries are the subject of Vance's poems. Themes of mutability, maturation, discovery, and delight are projected through brilliant archetypal imagery controlled and perfected by a striking technical assurance. The poems are concentrated and sometimes demanding, but they are never...
The Elusive Quest
America's Pursuit of European Stability and French Security, 1919-1933
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Leffler argues that American officials did not disregard European developments after World War I but, rather, they sought to settle the war debt and reparations controversies, to stabilize European currencies, and to revive European markets. Leffler bridges the gap between revisionist and traditionalist...
In Quest of Identity
Patterns in the Spanish American Essay of Ideas, 1890-1960
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
This book examines an important type of Spanish-American essay--one that deals with the problems of a developing civilization--and places its focus on the history of ideas rather than on literature per se, pointing up the hemispheric pattern of intellectual development in most of the major Spanish-American...
Adventure Carolinas
Your Go-To Guide for Multi-Sport Outdoor Recreation
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
Have you ever wanted to take up a new outdoor sport but thought, "Not me" or "Where do I begin"? In this unique take-it-with-you guide, outdoors and fitness writer Joe Miller introduces you to sixteen adventure sports in the Carolinas, from water to land and through all four seasons. No matter where...
by Bertram D. Wolfe
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
Disillusioned by communism as a young man, Wolfe devoted his life to the study and writing of Russian history. These essays show how clearly he understood the precious quality of freedom and the durability of despotism as it is experienced under totalitarian governments. His analyses of the contemporary...
Mirror and Veil
The Historical Dimension of Spenser's Faerie Queene
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Spenser not only dedicated The FAerie Queene to Queen Elizabeth but asserted that his romantic epic was in some sense about her rule and her realm. The informed attention that O'Connell gives to the relationship between Spenser's reflections on contemporary history and his moral design makes this...
The Mediating Nation
Late American Realism, Globalization, and the Progressive State
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
By the early twentieth century, as Woodrow Wilson would later declare, the United States had become both the literal embodiment of all the earth's peoples and a nation representing all other nations and cultures through its ethnic and cultural diversity. This idea of connection with all peoples, Nathaniel...
Nature's State
Imagining Alaska as the Last Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
An engaging blend of environmental theory and literary studies, Nature's State looks behind the myth of Alaska as America's "last frontier," a pristine and wild place on the fringes of our geographical imagination. Susan Kollin traces how this seemingly marginal space in American culture has in fact...
Rascally Signs in Sacred Places
The Politics of Culture in Nicaragua
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
David Whisnant provides a comprehensive analysis of the dynamic relationship between culture, power, and policy in Nicaragua over the last 450 years. Spanning a broad spectrum of popular and traditional expressive forms--including literature, music, film, and broadcast media--the book explores the...
Latin American Democracies
Colombia, Costa Rica, Venezuela
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Using the cases of Columbia, Costa Rica, and Venezuela, Peeler compares the evolution and maintenance of liberal democratic regimes in the Latin American context. These regimes are shown to be products of the normal Latin American political processes, under particular conditions that have permitted...
Mapping the Cold War
Cartography and the Framing of America’s International Power
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
In this fascinating history of Cold War cartography, Timothy Barney considers maps as central to the articulation of ideological tensions between American national interests and international aspirations. Barney argues that the borders, scales, projections, and other conventions of maps prescribed...
Claudian's In Eutropium
Or, How, When, and Why to Slander a Eunuch
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
From A.D. 395 to 404, Claudian was the court poet of the Western Roman Empire, ruled by Honorius. In 399 the eunuch Eutropius, the grand chamberlain and power behind the Eastern Roman throne of Honorius's brother Arcadius, became consul. The poem In Eutropium is Claudian's brilliantly nasty response....
The Bourgeois Epoch
Marx and Engels on Britain, France, and Germany
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
Richard Hamilton provides an in-depth critique of the writngs of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels on Britain, France, and Germany. Hamilton contends that the validity of their principal historical claims has been assumed more often than investigated, and he reviews the logic of their historical arguments,...