This collection of essays presents many of the newer, innovative, and stimu lating analytical approaches and methods used to study the history of Ameri can foreign relations. The essays highlight a variety of conceptual categor ies, including bureaucratic, dependency, and world-systems theories, corpor atist and national security models, culture, gender, and ideology. The book seeks to define the study of American relations, stimulate research in fre sh directions, and encourage cross-disciplinary thinking, especially betwee n historians and political scientists. View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. In America's Constitution, one of this era's most accomplished constitution al law scholars, Akhil Reed Amar, gives the first comprehensive account of one of the world's great political texts. Incisive, entertaining, and occas ionally controversial, this "biography" of America's framing document expla ins not only what the Constitution says but also why the Constitution says it. We all know this much: the Constitution is neither immutable nor perfect.... View More...
This complete revision looks at American foreign policy from 1938 to, rough ly, the end of the first Reagan administration in 1984. It revises the cove rage of postwar American foreign policy in the light of recent scholarship and current events - for example the Lebanon invasion by Marines in the mid -1950s receives increased coverage in the light of the American debacle the re in 1983. View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. From the New York Times bestselling author of Band of Brothers and D-Day, t he definitive book on Lewis and Clark's exploration of the Louisiana Purcha se, the most momentous expedition in American history and one of the great adventure stories of all time. In 1803 President Thomas Jefferson selected his personal secretary, Captain Meriwether Lewis, to lead a voyage up the Missouri River to the Rockies, o ver the mountains, down the Columbia River to ... View More...
The closing of a definitive two-volume history, First Ladies is the fascina ting examination of the modern role of the Presidents' wives. Enlisting the cooperation of all living First Ladies and gleaning new perspectives from interviews with their families, friends, and staffs, Carl Sferrazza Anthony reveals the remarkable influence of their office. From Jacqueline Kennedy's plan to begin an arts and humanities department to Lady Bird Johnson's impact on the environment; from Pat Nixon's diplomatic missions to Africa and South America to Betty Ford's controversial feminist views; from Rosalynn... View More...
Minor rubbing to covers, otherwise a crisp clean softcover, no markings thr oughout: Eds. from ed. 11 (1973)- cataloged as monographs by LC DLC. View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Pulitzer-Prize-winning author Bernard Bailyn brings us a book that combines portraits of American revolutionaries with a deft exploration of the ideas that moved them and still shape our society today. View More...
A crisp clean softcover. 'Barman's pungent analysis of what is, by any standard, an extraordinarily complicates political and constitutional history ... is a broad synthesis t hat will necessarily inform all subsequent efforts to make sense of the ori gins of the modern Brazilian state.'Canadian Journal of History Review "The author's selection of materials from the vast stock of primary sources and his judicious reanalysis of conflicting interpretations are impressive. . . . All this is set forth shrewdly and insightfully. . . . An excellent monograph, well conceived and executed, of great va... View More...
A history of the holiday and an "elegant, ironic, brief but deeply research ed meditation on what makes America America" (Financial Times). Holidays of all sorts are celebrated in the United States, many rooted in t he country's great diversity of ethnicities, religions, and cultures. But o ne day unites all Americans: the Fourth of July. Every year, Independence D ay revelers mark the founding of the nation with picnics and parades, flag- waving and fireworks displays. But in fact, much of the inherited lore that surrounds the Fourth is myth and legend, not history. Even the date of the holid... View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. First published in 1962, this wonderfully provocative book introduced the n otion of "pseudo-events"--events such as press conferences and presidential debates, which are manufactured solely in order to be reported--and the co ntemporary definition of celebrity as "a person who is known for his well-k nownness." Since then Daniel J. Boorstin's prophetic vision of an America i nundated by its own illusions has become an essential resource for any read ... View More...
A decade ago, Michael Bradley published the Canadian bestseller, Holy Grail Across the Atlantic (Hounslow Press, 1988), presenting the astounding evid ence that a European settlement in Canada had been established in Nova Scot ia ninety-four years before Columbus and ninety-nine years before John Cabo t. Incredibly, mediaeval documents and maps showed that this settlement had been founded by refugee Knights Templar from Scotland - knights who had be en created for the sole purpose of guarding the Holy Grail. Bradley present ed evidence that these Grail-believing religious refugees and their kn... View More...
In Parting the Waters, the first volume of his essential America in the Kin g Years series, Pulitzer Prize winner Taylor Branch gives a "compelling...m asterfully told" (The Wall Street Journal) account of Martin Luther King's early years and rise to greatness. Hailed as the most masterful story ever told of the American Civil Rights M ovement, Parting the Waters is destined to endure for generations. Moving from the fiery political baptism of Martin Luther King, Jr., to the corridors of Camelot where the Kennedy brothers weighed demands for justice against the deceptions of J. Edgar Hoover, h... View More...
The story of our nation from the A-bomb to the iPhone-from bestselling hist orian H.W. Brands With keen insight and an impeccable sense of the spirit of the times, H. W. Brands, one of today's preeminent historians, captures the American experience through the last six decades. As he chronicles politics, pop culture, and everything in between, Brands traces the changes we have gone through as a nation, recounting the great themes and events that have driven America- from the Yalta conference to the fall of the Berlin Wall, Apollo 11 to 9/11, My Lai to "shock and awe." In his adroit hands, move... View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. This new edition of Brogan's superb one-volume history - from early British colonisation to the Reagan years - captures an array of dynamic personalities and events. In a broad sweep of America's triumphant progress. Brogan explores the period leading to Independence from both the American and the British points of view, touching on permanent features of 'the American character' - both the good and the bad. He provides a masterly synthesis of all the ... View More...
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