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Foreign Policy at the Periphery
The Shifting Margins of US International Relations since World War II
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
As American interests assumed global proportions after 1945, policy makers were faced with the challenge of prioritizing various regions and determining the extent to which the United States was prepared to defend and support them. Superpowers and developing nations soon became inextricably linked...
The Death Penalty in the United States
A Complete Guide to Federal and State Laws, 2d ed.
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013
The death penalty landscape has changed considerably since the 1998 first edition of this book. For example, six states that had the death penalty—Connecticut, Illinois, Maryland, New Jersey, New Mexico and New York—no longer impose the punishment. Some of the changes set out in this second edition...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2013
Four military reports provide a unique perspective on the Libyan military operation launched by President Obama in 2011, known as Operation Odyssey Dawn.
Libya's Operation Odyssey Dawn: Command and Control - Events in Libya from January through April 2011 and the related coalition operation,...
The Greatest Presidents of the 19th Century
The Lives of Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, and Ulysses S. Grant
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2012
*Includes dozens of pictures of the presidents and important people, places, and events in their lives.*Includes a Table of ContentsThe 19th century was the pivotal era in American history, determining how a new nation would overcome its most divisive issues and become a superpower in the 20th century....
A Nation Divided
United We Stand, Divided We Fall
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2017
...It's November 9, 2016 and America is A Nation Divided amongst "We the People." We are called to topple the worldly structures, protected by corrupted foundations, deceptively and quietly waging war with truth. By dissecting and addressing fallacies amongst mainstream media, and the global elitist’s...
Buying into the Regime
Grapes and Consumption in Cold War Chile and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2014
Buying into the Regime is a transnational history of how Chilean grapes created new forms of consumption and labor politics in both the United States and Chile. After seizing power in 1973, Augusto Pinochet embraced neoliberalism, transforming Chile’s economy. The country became the world's leading...
Illicit Love
Interracial Sex and Marriage in the United States and Australia
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Illicit Love is a history of love, sex, and marriage between Indigenous peoples and settler citizens at the heart of two settler colonial nations, the United States and Australia. Award-winning historian Ann McGrath illuminates interracial relationships from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth...
by Thomas Jefferson
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
Thomas Jefferson (1743 – 1826) was an American Founding Father who was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and later served as the third President of the United States from 1801 to 1809. Previously, he was elected the second Vice President of the United States, serving under...
Prestatehood Legal Materials
A Fifty-State Research Guide, Including New York City and the District of Columbia, Volumes 1 & 2
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Explore the controversial legal history of the formation of the United States
Prestatehood Legal Materials is your one-stop guide to the history and development of law in the U.S. and the change from territory to statehood. Unprecedented in its coverage of territorial government, this book...
The Special Relationship Between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and the United States of America
The "Blood Brothers": Beware of the European Union
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
The Special Relationship between Britain and America is not based on sentiments or any value. It is not a political pendulum that swings high or low depending upon the chemistry between an American President and a British Prime Minister. The Anglo-American relationship is grounded on an Eternal Truth....
by Henry L. Williams
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
A Judicious Collection of the Best Stories and Anecdotes of the Great President, many Appearing Here for the First Time in Book Form. According to Wikipedia: "Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 ?-April 15, 1865) was the sixteenth President of the United States, serving from March 4, 1861 until his assassination....
by Helen Nicolay
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
According to Wikipedia: "Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 ? April 15, 1865) was the sixteenth President of the United States, serving from March 4, 1861 until his assassination. As an outspoken opponent of the expansion of slavery in the United States, Lincoln won the Republican Party nomination in...
by Various, Paul Leicester Ford
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
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The English speaking people have been a race of pamphleteers. Whenever a question—religious, political, military or personal—has interested the general public, it has occasioned a war of pamphlets, which, however partisan and transitory, were in a manner...
Militarism in a Global Age
Naval Ambitions in Germany and the United States before World War I
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2012
At the turn of the twentieth century, the United States and Germany emerged as the two most rapidly developing industrial nation-states of the Atlantic world. The elites and intelligentsias of both countries staked out claims to dominance in the twentieth century. In Militarism in a Global Age, Dirk...