United States category: 34172 books
We the People: The Foundation & Evolution of the U.S. Constitution
The Formation of the Constitution, Debates of the Constitutional Convention of 1787, Constitutional Amendment Process & Actions by the U.S. Congress, Biographies of the Founding Fathers
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, ensure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2015
This is the most comprehensive collection of official documents and reports available in digital format about the controversy surrounding the Joint Task Force Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility (JTF-GTMO, GITMO) and the treatment of War on Terror enemy combatants. Each document is professionally converted...
by Lorenzo Meyer
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
From reviews of the Spanish edition:“Meyer’s perceptive commentary on Mexican power politics presents new insights into the petroleum lobbies in Mexico City and Washington. With unbiased empathy he shows the validity of Mexico’s complaints about foreigners’ deriving an overabundance of profit...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
While war in the Arctic appears unlikely at present, this thesis analyzes why an escalation of territorial and resource disputes in the Arctic up to and including the use of force cannot and should not be ruled out. This thesis examines the political, economic, and military interests of the main Arctic...
The United States and Southeast Asian Regionalism
Collective Security and Economic Development, 1945–75
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2018
The Nixon or Guam Doctrine of 1969 stressed the importance of progress towards regional cooperation and Asian collective security, indicating that Asian countries themselves should take the initiative in creating programs in which the United States could participate.
This book analyses the...
by Washington Irving
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2015
This carefully crafted ebook: “Life of George Washington (Illustrated)” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. George Washington (1732-1799) was the first President of the United States (1789–97), the Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army...
by Stephen Kinzer
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
A joint biography of John Foster Dulles and Allen Dulles, who led the United States into an unseen war that decisively shaped today's world
During the 1950s, when the Cold War was at its peak, two immensely powerful brothers led the United States into a series of foreign adventures whose effects...
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...
Crisis in the Southwest
The United States, Mexico, and the Struggle over Texas
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2002
The war between the United States and Mexico was decades in the making. Although Texas was an independent republic from 1836 to 1845, Texans retained an affiliation with the United States that virtually assured annexation at some point. Mexico's reluctance to give up Texas put it on a collision course...
The Massacre of Tlatelolco - The role of the United States in the incidents of 1968
The role of the United States in the incidents of 1968
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2006
Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject History - America, grade: A, San Diego State University (History Department), course: Modern Mexico, 29 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The Massacre of Tlatelolco on October the 2nd 1968 on the Plaza de las Tres Culturas is...
by U.S. Government
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2012
All Americans are familiar with the day that will live in infamy. On December 7, 1941, the Japanese conducted a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor (called Hawaii Operation or Operation AI by the Japanese Imperial General Headquarters (Operation Z in planning), carried out by the Imperial Japanese Navy against...
View of the Constitution of the United States
With Selected Writings
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1999
St. George Tucker’s View of the Constitution, published in 1803, was the first extended, systematic commentary on the United States Constitution after its ratification. Generations learned their Blackstone and their understanding of the Constitution through Tucker.
Clyde N. Wilson is Professor...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2004
Latinos are now the largest so-called minority group in the United States—the result of a growth trend that began in the mid-twentieth century—and the influence of Latin cultures on American life is reflected in everything from politics to education to mass cultural forms such as music and television....
War in the Chesapeake
The British Campaigns to Control the Bay, 1813-1814
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
In the early nineteenth century, the United States of America was far from united. The United States faced internal strife over the extent of governance and the rights of individual states. The United States’ relationship with their former colonial power was also uncertain. Britain impressed American...