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Addicted to Failure
U.S. Security Policy in Latin America and the Andean Region
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2006
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This perceptive book critically explores why the United States continues to pursue failed policies in Latin America. What elements of the U.S. and Latin American political systems have allowed the Cold War, the war on drugs, and...
Clash of Crowns
William the Conqueror, Richard Lionheart, and Eleanor of Aquitaine—A Story of Bloodshed, Betrayal, and Revenge
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2012
Conflict between England and France was a fact of life for centuries, but few realize that its origins date from the time of the Vikings, when a Norse chieftain named Rollo established himself and his progeny in Normandy. In this compelling and entertaining history, Mary McAuliffe takes the reader...
American Artifacts of Personal Adornment, 1680-1820
A Guide to Identification and Interpretation
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2005
Bracelets, buckles, buttons, and beads. Clasps, combs, and chains. Items of personal adornment fill museum collections and are regularly uncovered in historical period archaeological excavations. But until the publication of this comprehensive volume, there has been no basic guide to help curators,...
Affairs of State
The Untold History of Presidential Love, Sex, and Scandal, 1789–1900
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
In recent years, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Eliot Spitzer, John Edwards, Newt Gingrich, Herman Cain, and countless other politicians have made headlines for their sexual scandals. But such stories are not new. Indeed, there is a long history of misbehavior in politics, including in the nation’s highest...
Genocide and the Geographical Imagination
Life and Death in Germany, China, and Cambodia
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
This groundbreaking book brings an important spatial perspective to our understanding of genocide through a fresh interpretation of Germany under Hitler, Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, and China’s Great Leap Forward famine under Mao. James A. Tyner's powerful analysis of these horrifying cases...
Hesitation Kills
A Female Marine Officer's Combat Experience in Iraq
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2011
This riveting memoir is the first book written by a female Marine about the war in Iraq and one of the only books written by a woman who has experienced combat firsthand. Deploying to Iraq in 2003, Jane Blair's aerial reconnaissance unit was assigned to travel ahead of and alongside combat units throughout...
by Mathieu Guidère
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
After the rise of the Islamic State in the Middle East and the new geopolitical landscape in this region, it is essential for the modern reader to understand the history that has allowed for and influenced these types of Islamic groups to form. Historical Dictionary of Islamic Fundamentalism acts...
Islamic Extremism
Causes, Diversity, and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2007
This accessible and deeply informed book examines the threat that Islamic extremists pose to America and provides a balanced and nuanced discussion of the link between Iraq and the war on terror. Explaining the basics of Islam and guiding the reader through the intricacies of each significant fundamentalist...
Periphery
Israel’s Search for Middle East Allies
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2015
Since its establishment after World War II, the State of Israel has sought alliances with non-Arab and non-Muslim countries and minorities in the Middle East, as well as Arab states geographically distant from the Arab-Israel conflict. The text presents and explains this regional orientation and its...
Samuel Adams
The Life of an American Revolutionary
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2011
Samuel Adams: The Life of an American Revolutionary vividly tells the story of a titan of America's greatest generation. Friend and foe alike considered Adams one of the greatest members of the generation that achieved American independence and crafted constitutions that made the ideal of republican...
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...
The Lost Indictment of Robert E. Lee
The Forgotten Case against an American Icon
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2018
History has been kind to Robert E. Lee. Woodrow Wilson believed General Lee was a “model to men who would be morally great.” Douglas Southall Freeman, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his four-volume biography of Lee, described his subject as “one of a small company of great men in whom there is...
by Gary J. Kornblith
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
Slavery and Sectional Strife in the Early American Republic, 1776–1821 focuses on slavery as a moral and political issue that threatened the unity and stability of the United States from the nation's inception. In tracing the story of slavery in America's history from 1776 through the Missouri Compromise,...
by Ralph Keen
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2008
The Christian Tradition, formerly published by Pearson/Prentice Hall, introduces students at the beginning of the third millennium to a religion that has evolved over and shaped two previous millennia. With particular focus placed on the social and cultural background to this tradition, the text provides...