Комическая мультипликационная история США, которая повествует о главных событиях страны (ее основании, войне за независимость, гражданской войне между Севером и Югом), но больше сосредоточена на этнических взаимоотношениях (белые и индейцы, белые и афроамериканцы)
Foreword by S. Brian Willson ; afterword by David Swanson. — San Francisco, CA: Prison Radio, 2019. — 504 p., illus. Just as the lives of slaves and Indigenous peoples paid for the early growth of the new American nation, so too were lives sacrificed to advance the expansion of empire in the 20th century. Book Two in this epic three-part series is a damning account of war—and...
Foreword by Chris Hedges. — San Francisco, CA: Prison Radio, 2018. — 350 p., illus. Murder Incorporated: Empire, Genocide and Manifest Destiny is a searing critique of the American Empire, a diagnosis of a corrupt pathology. The myth is that America’s prized possessions and greatest exports are democracy and the dream of freedom. The reality, say Abu-Jamal and Vittoria, is that...
First published anonymously, March 1880, and soon in various
unauthorized editions. It wasn't until the 1925 edition that Adams
was listed as author. Henry Adams remarked (ironically as usual),
"The wholesale piracy of Democracy was the single real triumph of my
life."-it was very popular, as readers tried to guess who the author
was and who the characters really were....
Routledge, 2020. — 1036 p. Originally published in 1933, and written by "America’s historian", James Truslow Adams, this 2 volume set tells the story of the rise of the American nation encompassing from economics, religion, social change and politics from settlement to the Great Depression. Due emphasis is given to the inter-connectedness of America with Europe – both in terms...
Yale University Press, 2003. — 362 p. This title is a biography of one of the most colourful and least well-known of the founding fathers. A plain-spoken, racy patrician who distrusted democracy but opposed slavery and championed freedom for all minorities, an important player in the American Revolution, later an astute critic of the French Revolution, Gouverneur Morris remains...
Utrecht: Foreign Languages Press, 2017. — 252 p. — (Colorful Classics ; #9). Introduction. The Special Meeting and the RCP Letter. The Ethics of Avakianist Polemics. The Arbitrary Stages of Avakianism. Mis-Rendering Mao. A Perversion of Internationalism. The National Task in Oppressed Nations. The National Question in Imperialist Countries. Infantile Criticism of United Front...
Greenwood, 2018. — 192 p. From the restrictive immigration laws that the United States Congress passed against Arabs in the early 20th century to the backlash against this community following September 11, Arab Americans have faced both successes and challenges in their quest to become part of American culture. This timely study explores the history of this multifaceted people...
Future, 2023. — 132 p. History is a fascinating topic, but one aspect that really fires the imagination is asking “What if things had gone differently?” So-called ‘alternative history’ has long speculated along these lines, with the Romans wondering if they could have defeated Alexander the Great as early as 27 BCE, medieval writers wishing the Crusades had been more...
Future Publishing Limited, 2019. – 134 p. – (buukazine series) Martha Washington set many standards for American First Ladies, but from Abigail Adams and Eleanor Roosevelt to Hillary Clinton and Melania Trump, each has left her mark on the office.
W. W. Norton and Company, 2022. — 272 p. A brilliant debut by lawyer and critic Hawa Allan on the paradoxical state of black citizenship in the United States. The little-known and under-studied 1807 Insurrection Act was passed to give the president the ability to deploy federal military forces to fend off lawlessness and rebellion, but it soon became much more than the sum of...
Oxford University Press, UK, USA, 2015. — 100 p. — (Very Short Introductions) — ISBN: 0190225068. Here is a brisk, accessible, and vivid introduction to arguably the most important event in the history of the United States Cthe American Revolution. Between 1760 and 1800, the American people cast off British rule to create a new nation and a radically new form of government...
Viking, 2004. — 465 p. A distinguished journalist assesses the profound impact of governmental and presidential lies on American culture, revealing how such lies become ever more complex and how such deception creates problems far more serious than those lied about in the beginning, and focuses on four specific instances involving FDR, Kennedy, LBJ, and Ronald Reagan. Mendacity...
Viking, 2004. — 465 p. A distinguished journalist assesses the profound impact of governmental and presidential lies on American culture, revealing how such lies become ever more complex and how such deception creates problems far more serious than those lied about in the beginning, and focuses on four specific instances involving FDR, Kennedy, LBJ, and Ronald Reagan. Mendacity...
Viking, 2004. — 465 p. A distinguished journalist assesses the profound impact of governmental and presidential lies on American culture, revealing how such lies become ever more complex and how such deception creates problems far more serious than those lied about in the beginning, and focuses on four specific instances involving FDR, Kennedy, LBJ, and Ronald Reagan. Mendacity...
Viking, 2004. — 465 p. A distinguished journalist assesses the profound impact of governmental and presidential lies on American culture, revealing how such lies become ever more complex and how such deception creates problems far more serious than those lied about in the beginning, and focuses on four specific instances involving FDR, Kennedy, LBJ, and Ronald Reagan. Mendacity...
Viking, 2004. — 465 p. A distinguished journalist assesses the profound impact of governmental and presidential lies on American culture, revealing how such lies become ever more complex and how such deception creates problems far more serious than those lied about in the beginning, and focuses on four specific instances involving FDR, Kennedy, LBJ, and Ronald Reagan. Mendacity...
New York : Children's Press, 2001. — 288 p. Each book in the Extraordinary People series brings together sixty to eighty stories of struggle, achievement, victory, and, sometimes, loss. By examining the lives of extraordinary achievers through the centuries, a unique history comes alive for the ethnic, professional, or social group covered in each book.
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012. — 200 p. A governor's mansion is often the last stop for politicians who plan to move into the White House. Before Barack Obama was elected president of the United States, four of his last five predecessors had been governors. Executive experience at the state level informs individual presidencies, and, as Saladin M. Ambar argues, the...
ABC-CLIO, 2012. — 250 p. The term "Arab American" is often used to describe a broad range of people who are ethnically diverse and come from many countries, including Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, Jordan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, and Kuwait. Some Arab Americans have been in the United States since the 1880s. The terrorist attacks of...
Engelwood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1962. — 188 p. This is the second edition of The United States and the Far East, revised under the supervision of the original editor, Willard L. Thorp of Amherst College. The volume was designed for general readership but was first used as background for the Tenth American Assembly held at Arden House, home of the Assembly in Harriman,...
Captivating History, 2020. — ISBN: 1647485169. Eight captivating manuscripts in one book: The History of the United States: A Captivating Guide to American History, Including Events Such as the American Revolution, French and Indian War, Boston Tea Party, Pearl Harbor, and the Gulf War The American Revolution: A Captivating Guide to the American Revolutionary War and the United...
Тома 1–3 Greenwood Press. 2006. 893 страниц. Энциклопедия. Один из самых полных сводов знаковых персон, мест и символов Америки Обширный иллюстративный материал и научный аппарат.
Военная история США (издана в 1989 г. Центром военной истории армии США). На английском. The Beginnings. The American Revolution: First Phase. The Winning of Independence, 1777-1783. The Formative Years, 1783-1812. The War of 1812. The Thirty Years Peace. The Mexican War and After. The Civil War, 1861. The Civil War, 1862. The Civil War, 1863. The Civil War, 1864-1865. Darkness...
Larousse, 2009. — 208 p. Farid Ameur, specialiste de l'histoire americaine du XIXG siede, est l'auteur de la Guerre de Secession (2004) et de La victoire ou la mort. Les derniers jours de Fort Alamo (Larousse collection « l'Histoire comme un roman », 2007).
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. — 481 p. — (Creating the North American Landscape).
Planner and originator of the Appalachian Trail and a cofounder of the Wilderness Society, Benton MacKaye (1879-1975) was a pioneer in linking the concepts of preservation and recreation. Spanning three-quarters of a century, his long and productive career had a major impact on emerging...
[New Jersey]: [no publisher], n.d. [c. 1975]. - 32 pgs. A booklet guide to the history of Sandy Hook, New Jersey, site of an historic light house and Fort Hancock. The first light was built in 1764 and since then greatly improved and added to. During the Revolutionary War two officers and twelve men from the Royal Navy died in a blizzard on Sandy Hook when searching for deserters....
Ten Speed Press, 2017. — 144 с. — ISBN: 0399578757 Язык: английский Книга "Соединенные Штаты абсурдности" представлет короткие, познавательные и веселые истории о самых диковинных (но настоящих) людях, событиях и многом другом из истории Соединенных Штатов. Комедианты Дэйв Энтони и Гарет Рейнольдс рассказывают странные истории, которые вы не изучали по истории, такие как...
Ten Speed Press, 2017. — 144 с. — ISBN: 0399578757 Язык: английский Книга "Соединенные Штаты абсурдности" представлет короткие, познавательные и веселые истории о самых диковинных (но настоящих) людях, событиях и многом другом из истории Соединенных Штатов. Комедианты Дэйв Энтони и Гарет Рейнольдс рассказывают странные истории, которые вы не изучали по истории, такие как...
The History Press, 2013. — 144 p. — ISBN: 978-1-626192-80-4. From Bourbon Street to Pirate's Alley and beyond—a local historian takes you on a walking tour of the historic French Quarter in New Orleans. Walking through the French Quarter can overwhelm the senses—and the imagination. The experience is much more meaningful with knowledge of the area's colorful history. For...
Glencoe/McGraw-Hill, 2006. - 1020 pages. Обе части архива извлечь в одну папку. The compelling story of American history since reconstruction The American Republic Since 1877 presents the rich saga of American history after the Civil War. Adapted from the modern history portion of The American Vision, this program features the same exceptional scholarship, accurate maps,...
Glencoe/McGraw-Hill, 2006. — 1020 p. Обе части архива извлечь в одну папку. The compelling story of American history since reconstruction The American Republic Since 1877 presents the rich saga of American history after the Civil War. Adapted from the modern history portion of The American Vision, this program features the same exceptional scholarship, accurate maps, peerless...
Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2012. — 224 p. Over the course of the twentieth century, Catholics, who make up a quarter of the population of the United States, made significant contributions to American culture, politics, and society. They built powerful political machines in Chicago, Boston, and New York; led influential labor unions; created the largest private school...
Center of Military History, United States Army, Washington, D. C., 1987 - 813 p.
ISBN10: 0160359589 ISBN13: 9780160359583 (eng)
At the outbreak of the Korean War in June 1950, the U.S. Army combat units nearest the scene were the four infantry divisions performing occupation duties in Japan. When the Army of the Republic of Korea, supported only by U.S. air and naval forces,...
Princeton University Press, 2008. — 368 p. Why is the United States the only advanced capitalist country with no labor party? This question is one of the great enduring puzzles of American political development, and it lies at the heart of a fundamental debate about the nature of American society. Tackling this debate head-on, Robin Archer puts forward a new explanation for why...
Scarecrow Press, 2015. — 687 p. The US Supreme Court is an institution that operates almost totally behind closed doors. This book opens those doors by providing a comprehensive look at the justices, procedures, cases, and issues over the institution’s more than 200-year history. The Court is a legal institution born from a highly politicized process. Modern justices time their...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 288 p. Part geographical location, part time period, and part state of mind, the American West is a concept often invoked but rarely defined. Though popular culture has carved out a short and specific time and place for the region, author and longtime Californian Stephen Aron tracks "the West" from the building of the Cahokia Mounds around 900...
Oxford University Press, 2024. — 155 p. Can religion coexist in harmony with the American ideal of separation of church and state? Philosopher Robert Audi here explores this perennial and topical question. The notion of a religion is complex and elastic; the notion of democracy is complex and contested. Audi explores both notions in the context of American founding documents,...
Oxford University Press, 2024. — 155 p. Can religion coexist in harmony with the American ideal of separation of church and state? Philosopher Robert Audi here explores this perennial and topical question. The notion of a religion is complex and elastic; the notion of democracy is complex and contested. Audi explores both notions in the context of American founding documents,...
Oxford University Press, 2024. — 155 p. Can religion coexist in harmony with the American ideal of separation of church and state? Philosopher Robert Audi here explores this perennial and topical question. The notion of a religion is complex and elastic; the notion of democracy is complex and contested. Audi explores both notions in the context of American founding documents,...
Oxford University Press, 2024. — 155 p. Can religion coexist in harmony with the American ideal of separation of church and state? Philosopher Robert Audi here explores this perennial and topical question. The notion of a religion is complex and elastic; the notion of democracy is complex and contested. Audi explores both notions in the context of American founding documents,...
Oxford University Press, 2024. — 155 p. Can religion coexist in harmony with the American ideal of separation of church and state? Philosopher Robert Audi here explores this perennial and topical question. The notion of a religion is complex and elastic; the notion of democracy is complex and contested. Audi explores both notions in the context of American founding documents,...
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1921. — 298 p. First published in 1921, the book was lauded by critics as a perfect example of an introductory history to the United States of America. Well-researched at every juncture, the central thesis of this text is that economic power is what shapes the destiny and path of history. The book supports this hypothesis by referencing the...
New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2002. — 560 p.
The majority believes that the number of wars involving the United States can "count on one hand. " However, it is not.
Author of 50 books, Alan Axelrod has written a detailed guide to the wars that took place in North America or involving the United States. The author provides a summary of each military conflict since the...
Lyons Press, 2019. — 315 p. — ISBN10: 1493037439, 13 978-1493037438. 100 Turning Points in American History is the first in a series of books about the critical decisions, events, inventions, and discoveries that shaped our nation, our world, and our civilization. Each volume presents the stories of 100 decisions/events/ breakthroughs in chronological order and includes, as a...
DK Publishing, 2019. — 384 p. — ISBN 9781465487001. Discover the stories that shaped our nation. Sure, you know that America's colonists won our independence from Great Britain, that George Washington became our first president, and that Lincoln freed the slaves. But these key events merely scratch the surface of our nation's history and the moments that helped shape the United...
Alpha Books, 2009. — 279 p. Who's on first? (50,000 B.C. - 1500 A.D.) Columbus days (1451 - 1507) New Spain, same old Spaniards (1400 - 1600s) England's errands (1497 - 1608) A rock and a hard place (1608 - 1733) They could've been contenders (1608 - 1680s) Fires in the wilderness (1636 - 1748) Global war - American style (1749 - 1763) Invitation to a tea party (1763 - 1775) The...
St. Martin's Press, 2022. — 344 p. John Bainbridge, Jr.'s Gun Barons is a narrative history of six charismatic and idiosyncratic men who changed the course of American history through the invention and refinement of repeating weapons. Love them or hate them, guns are woven deeply into the American soul. Names like Colt, Smith & Wesson, Winchester, and Remington are legendary....
US Government Printing Office, 2006. — 225 p. — ISBN 0-16-076331-2. Comprised of 200 readable and informative historic vignettes reflecting all areas of Senate activities, from the well known and notorious to the unusual and whimsical. Prepared by Richard A. Baker, the Senates Historian, these brief sketches, each with an accompanying illustration and references for further...
NYU Press, 2011. — 309 p. The first half of the twentieth century witnessed a wave of Filipino immigration to the United States, following in the footsteps of earlier Chinese and Japanese immigrants, the first and second “Asiatic invasions.” Perceived as alien because of their Asian ethnicity yet legally defined as American nationals granted more rights than other immigrants,...
Princeton University Press, 2016. - 368 p.
How do American Jews envision their role in the world? Are they tribal—a people whose obligations extend solely to their own? Or are they prophetic—a light unto nations, working to repair the world? The Star and the Stripes is an original, provocative interpretation of the effects of these worldviews on the foreign policy beliefs of...
Blackwell Publishers, 2001. — 418 p. This volume invites a general audience, as well as scholars and students, to share in recent and continuing historical debates that have deepened and complicated our understanding of the nineteenth-century United States. This was the century that marked the transition of the United States from its roots in the struggling, overwhelmingly...
Louisiana State University Press, 1996. — 480 p. Originally published in 1875, the Military Record of Louisiana is a collection of various written records, casualty lists and regimental muster rolls pertaining to Louisiana's participation in the American Civil War. It was compiled by Napier Bartlett, a native of Georgia who had studied in Louisiana prior to the war and entered...
Duchesne County Commission, 1998. — 402 p. — (Utah Centennial County History Series). Recognizing the importance of Utah's counties, the Utah State Legislature established in 1991 a Centennial History Project to write and publish county histories as part of Utah's statehood centennial commemoration. The Utah Centennial County History Series was a result of this project. Contents...
Scarecrow Press, 2009. — 484 p. The fourteenth volume in Scarecrow’s Historical Dictionaries of U.S. Politics and Political Eras, the Historical Dictionary of United States Political Parties is a revision of the first edition, published in 2000. Updated to include the 2008 election, the dictionary seeks to cover all major and minor U.S. parties, past and present, including all of...
Routledge, 2021. — 128 p. Birth of a White Nation, Second Edition examines the social construction of race through the invention of white people. Surveying colonial North American law and history, the book interrogates the origins of racial inequality and injustice in American society, and details how the invention still serves to protect the ruling elite to the present day....
Routledge, 1998. — 408 p. Every revolution creates its chroniclers, its trumpeters, and its critics of the new order. The chroniclers of the modern American food revolution are Michael and Ariane Batterberry, and now their classic book, On the Town inNew York, is being reissued with their updated commentary. This is good news for all who like to eat, drink, and read about it....
Brill, 2016. — 323 p. — (Studies in Critical Social Sciences 100). The Agrarian Seeds of Empire outlines the influence of agrarian movements on the process of US institutional capacity building between 1840-1980. Out of the mix of the developing new Nation and the expanding capitalist system emerged strong farmer s movements that produced state building processes central to...
Killing for land in early California: Native American blood at Round Valley, 1856-1863 / Frank H. Baumgardner, III. Summary: This is a history of the clash between the White settlers and the Native Americans in what is now an affluent county in California. The frontier wars gave land and gold to Whites and reservations to the Native Americans. Eyewitness accounts and extensive...
New York: Macmillan company, 1921. — 396 p. The Great Migration to America. The Agencies of American Colonization. The Colonial Peoples. The Process of Colonization. Colonial Agriculture, Industry, and Commerce. The Land and the Westward Movement. Industrial and Commercial Development. Social and Political Progress. The Leadership of the Churches. Schools and Colleges. The...
Историко-политический трактат, считается классическим изложением идеологии либеральной демократии и «первым глубоким анализом американской политической жизни».
Tableau de Moeurs Americaines. Paris: Charles Gosselin, 1840.
Une édition électronique réalisée à partir de l'ouvrage de Gustave de Beaumont (1802-1866), Marie ou L’esclavage aux États-Unis. Tableau de mœurs...
Norman, University of Oklahoma Press, 1974. — 101 (i.e. 202) p. With its great diversity of landforms, California has an unparalleled range of climate, soils, and natural vegetation. All these influence where people live, what they do with the land, and what kind of communication and transportation they have. For this book a historian and a cartographer have collaborated to...
Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2017. — 216 p. Horrific changes are descending upon humanity, most of them man-made, all of them threatening the survival of humankind on Mother Earth. Forever wars, the threat of nuclear destruction, the ecology collapsing worldwide, swelling waves of migrants, and unprecedented global inequality of wealth are upon us. The dominant, modern worldview...
Cornell University Press, 2018. — 231 p. The United States has been the world's dominant power for more than a century. Now many analysts believe that other countries are rising and the United States is in decline. Is the unipolar moment over? Is America finished as a superpower? In this book, Michael Beckley argues that the United States has unique advantages over other nations...
Center of Military History Publication, 2004. — 200 p. Secretaries of War and Secretaries of the Army, first published in 1981 by William Gardner Bell and periodically updated while preserving its original purpose and scope, continues the institutional history of the Secretariat followed by side-by-side presentations of the biography and official portrait of each secretary in...
NYU Press, 2015. — 384 p. Millions of laborers, from the Philippines to the Caribbean, performed the work of the United States empire. Forging a global economy connecting the tropics to the industrial center, workers harvested sugar, cleaned hotel rooms, provided sexual favors, and filled military ranks. Placing working men and women at the center of the long history of the...
Routledge, 2016. — 167 p. — ISBN 9781315427454. This book presents a much-needed review of commercial closures for bottles and jars used in America prior to World War II. Archaeological attention to commercial closures has been rather limited. This is surprising given that data derived from bottles and jars pertain to a wide range of studies, including chronological control,...
Harrisburg: Stackpole Books, 1972. - 164 pages. This book gives the official and unofficial designations, organizational history, commanding officers, and ethnic composition for every unit of the Continental Army for which these facts are known. Discussed in detail are the internal organization of staff departments, infantry, light dragoons, artillery, and rangers. There is a...
Greenwood Press, 2008. — 328 p. Series Foreword Chronology Overview: Immigration by the Numbers, 1820–1870 Leaving Home, 1820–1845 Across the Atlantic and into America, 1820–1845 Immigration at High Tide, 1845–1854 Developing Immigrant Communities, 1820–1855 Changing Immigrant Cultures, 1820–1855 Political Turmoil and War, 1850–1865 Into a New Era, 1865–1870
2 edition. — Wadsworth Publishing, 2000. — 730 p. — ISBN: 0618044272. With an accessible reading style abundant pedagogy, and reasonable price tag, Making America, Brief , is the perfect choice for inexperienced students and cost-conscious professors. The Second Edition features chapter-opening maps, timelines, and chronology charts that emphasize key developments, enhance...
Princeton University Press, 2012. - 234 p. - (Princeton Economic History of the Western World )
Although political and legal institutions are essential to any nation's economic development, the forces that have shaped these institutions are poorly understood. Drawing on rich evidence about the development of the American states from the mid-nineteenth to the late twentieth...
Princeton University Press, 2012. - 234 p. - (Princeton Economic History of the Western World )
Although political and legal institutions are essential to any nation's economic development, the forces that have shaped these institutions are poorly understood. Drawing on rich evidence about the development of the American states from the mid-nineteenth to the late twentieth...
Harvard University Press, 2004. — 384 p. Ira Berlin traces the history of African-American slavery in the United States from its beginnings in the seventeenth century to its fiery demise nearly three hundred years later. Most Americans, black and white, have a singular vision of slavery, one fixed in the mid-nineteenth century when most American slaves grew cotton, resided in...
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1998. — x, 497 p. — ISBN: 0-674-81092-9. Today most Americans, black and white, identify slavery with cotton, the deep South, and the African-American church. But at the beginning of the nineteenth century, after almost two hundred years of African-American life in mainland North America, few slaves grew cotton, lived in the deep...
Salem Press, 2009. — 1203 p. This great encyclopedia is a much-needed source of reliable information for today's students, all of whom were born after the decade ended. It features long overviews and short entries discussing people, books, films, plays, and other important topics representative of that era. Every entry focuses on the topic or person during the 1980s in order to...
Salem Press, 2009. — 1161 p. Comprehensive coverage of the impact of the 1990's on the United States and Canada. With free, unlimited online access to all the "Decades" titles in your collection. The Gulf War, dot-coms, impeachment, grunge, Y2K. The Nineties in America examines the iconic personalities and moments of this important decade. With more than 600 articles about...
San-Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1977. — 231 p. Since its publication by Sierra Club Books in 1977, The Unsettling of America has been recognized as a classic of American letters. In it, Wendell Berry argues that good farming is a cultural development and spiritual discipline. Today’s agribusiness, however, takes farming out of its cultural context and away from families. As a...
San Rafael, California: Presidio Press, 1977. - 260 pgs. When President James Polk authorized the raising of a regiment of volunteers in New York after the 1846 declaration of war between the United States and Mexico, Jonathan Stevenson, a man with proper Democratic Party credentials, was named to recruit and lead its members. Donald Biggs, former director of the California...
Rutgers University Press, 2014. — 440 p. Rogues, aristocrats, and a future U.S. president. These and other governors are portrayed in this revised and updated edition of the classic reference work on the chief executives of New Jersey. Editors Michael J. Birkner, Donald Linky, and Peter Mickulas present new essays on the governors of the last three decades—Brendan T. Byrne,...
USA: Greenwood Press, 2008. — 264 p. Language: English. Scandals in American History Series. The first part is broken down into three chapters, each devoted to one of these recurrent themes (politics and the media, race and religion, and sexuality and morality). These themes were there at the start of the nation—built right into the foundation—and they, in all likelihood, will...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. — 253 p. — (Creating the North American Landscape).
In Petrolia, Brian Black offers a geographical and social history of a region that was not only the site of America's first oil boom but was also the world's largest oil producer between 1859 and 1873. Against the background of the growing demand for petroleum throughout and immediately...
Anchor Books, 2009. — 574 p.
In this groundbreaking historical expose, Douglas A. Blackmon brings to light one of the most shameful chapters in American history—an “Age of Neoslavery” that thrived from the aftermath of the Civil War through the dawn of World War II.Using a vast record of original documents and personal narratives, Douglas A. Blackmon unearths the lost stories...
The John Hopkins University Press, 2006. — 256 p.
For many Americans at the turn of the twentieth century and into the 1920s, the city of New York conjured dark images of crime, poverty, and the desperation of crowded immigrants. In How New York Became American, 1890–1924 Angela Blake explores how advertising professionals and savvy business leaders "reinvented" the city,...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2004. — 538 p. A Companion to the American South surveys and evaluates the most important and innovative writing on the entire sweep of the history of the southern United States. • Contains 29 original essays by leading experts in American Southern history. • Covers the entire sweep of Southern history, including slavery, politics, the Civil War, race...
Harper Collins, 2003. — 624 p. The history of Alaska is filled with stories of new land and new riches -- and ever present are new people with competing views over how these resources should be used: Russians exploiting a fur empire; explorers checking rival advances; prospectors stampeding to the clarion call of "Gold!"; soldiers battling out a decisive chapter in world war; oil...
Texas A&M University Press, 2018. — 368 p. In recent decades, a small but growing number of historians have dedicated their tireless attention to analyzing the role of women in Texas history. Each contribution - and there have been many - represents a brick in the wall of new Texas history. From early Native societies to astronauts, Women in Texas History assembles those bricks...
University of California Press, 1991 - 315 p.
More comprehensive than any other book on this topic, Los Angeles and the Automobile places the evolution of Los Angeles within the context of American political and urban history.
ISBN10: 0520073959 ISBN13: 9780520073951 (eng)
Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing, 2005. — 128 p. What was once home to the native tribe known as the Ohlone, and functioning as guardian of the San Francisco Bay under Spanish, Mexican, and American flags, the Presidio has served as outpost as well as cultural barometer of the vast changes this country and the state of California have seen. For almost a century...
Princeton University Press, 2015 - 281 p. The specific social and historical role of the immigrant is considered. Originally published in 1966. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of...
University Press of Colorado, 2021. — 305 p. Bound by Steel and Stone analyzes the Colorado-Kansas Railway through the economic enterprise in the American West in the decades after the supposed 1890 closing of the frontier. In it, J. Bradford Bowers weaves a tale of reinvention against the backdrop of the newly settled West, showing how the railway survived in one form or...
Oxford University Press, Inc., 2012. — 182 p. — (Very Short Introductions). — ISBN: 019538914X. This brief history of America will span the earliest migrations to the present, reflecting Paul S. Boyer's interests in social, intellectual, and cultural history, including popular culture and religion. It will reflect his personal view of American history, in which a sense of...
Back Bay Books, 2010. — 400 p. On the success of his two bestselling books about World War II, James Bradley began to wonder what the real catalyst was for the Pacific War. What he discovered shocked him. In 1905 President Teddy Roosevelt dispatched Secretary of War William Taft, his daughter Alice, and a gaggle of congressmen on a mission to Japan, the Philippines, China, and...
Kent State University Press, 2006. — 255 p. Celestia Rice Colby, born in Ohio in 1827, had lifestyle options that were relatively straightforward for the typical white female child born in the first half of the nineteenth century: she married in 1848, had five children, spent much of her life working as a dairy farmer and housewife, and died in 1900. Her rich legacy, however,...
Lexington Books, 2018. — 297 p. Since the early twentieth century, the Baha’í religion has worked to establish racially and ethnically diverse communities. During Jim Crow, it was a leader in breaking norms of racial segregation. Each chapter of this book presents an aspect of Baha’i history that intersects with African American history in novel and socially significant ways.
The History Press, 2011. — 160 p. The story of the Sunshine State's most famous store actually began in Bartow, Florida, where William Burdine and a partner founded a small dry goods store. When his partner left the business in 1897, Burdine made the decision to move his store to a dynamic frontier town on the far southeast coast of Florida--Miami. By the early twentieth...
The University Press of Kentucky, 2021. — 228 p. The Puritans condemned war profiteering as a "Provoking Evil," George Washington feared that it would ruin the Revolution, and Franklin D. Roosevelt promised many times that he would never permit the rise of another crop of "war millionaires." Yet on every occasion that American soldiers and sailors served and sacrificed in the...
Pearson, 2011. — 944 p. Focuses readers on the story of American history. American Stories enhances the accessibility of United States history by concentrating on the most commonly taught topics while retaining a strong narrative emphasis and chronological organization. Each chapter follows a consistent structure that maximizes comprehension. The text goes beyond the major...
Basic Books, 2009. — 640 p.
From agriculture to big business, from medicine to politics, The Cigarette Century is the definitive account of how smoking came to be so deeply implicated in our culture, science, policy, and law. No product has been so heavily promoted or has become so deeply entrenched in American consciousness. The Cigarette Century shows in striking detail how...
Oxford University Press, 2016. - 320 p.
On the evening of August 21, 1831, Nat Turner and six men launched their infamous rebellion against slaveholders. The rebels swept through Southampton County, Virginia, recruiting slaves to their ranks and killing nearly five dozen whites-more than had ever been killed in any slave revolt in American history. Although a hastily assembled...
Cornell University Press, 2020. — 240 p. In The Future of Change, Ray Brescia identifies a series of "social innovation moments" in American history. Through these moments―during which social movements have embraced advances in communications technologies―he illuminates the complicated, dangerous, innovative, and exciting relationship between these technologies, social...
15th Edition. — New York, USA: McGraw-Hill Education, 2015. — 1010 p. — ISBN: 978-0073513294. The latest iteration of Alan Brinkley’s American History, a comprehensive U.S. History program, transforms the learning experience through proven, adaptive technology helping students better grasp the issues of the past while providing instructors greater insight on student...
Penguin Book Ltd, London, England, 2001. — 1054 p. The Settlement The Old Order and the American Revolution The Age of Equality The Age of Gold The Superpower
Beacon Press, 2011. — 240 p. — ASIN: B004NNUYCO. The first book to cover the entirety of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender history, from pre-1492 to the present. In the 1620s, Thomas Morton broke from Plymouth Colony and founded Merrymount, which celebrated same-sex desire, atheism, and interracial marriage. Transgender evangelist Jemima Wilkinson, in the early 1800s,...
Beacon Press, 2011. — 240 p. — ASIN: B004NNUYCO. The first book to cover the entirety of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender history, from pre-1492 to the present. In the 1620s, Thomas Morton broke from Plymouth Colony and founded Merrymount, which celebrated same-sex desire, atheism, and interracial marriage. Transgender evangelist Jemima Wilkinson, in the early 1800s,...
New York: International Publishers, 1935. — 356 p. Manifesto of the Communist Party of the United States The Revolutionary Way out The Fight for Bread Is Planning Possible under Capitalism? Why an Open Letter to the Party Membership? What Every Worker Should Know about N.R.A. The Situation in the United States New Developments and New Tasks Three Main Policies of the Communist...
New York: International Publishers, 1935. — 356 p. Manifesto of the Communist Party of the United States The Revolutionary Way out The Fight for Bread Is Planning Possible under Capitalism? Why an Open Letter to the Party Membership? What Every Worker Should Know about N.R.A. The Situation in the United States New Developments and New Tasks Three Main Policies of the Communist...
New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1958. — 156 p. Marx’s Ambiguity Regarding America America’s Exceptional Position Marx’s Two Wage Theories America, England, and the Social Wage A Mathematical Analysis of the Social Wage Marx and the Latest Industrial Revolution “Absolute and Relative Impoverishment” Do Nations Grow Rich by Looting Others? Marx and Lincoln Ideology and the...
New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1958. — 156 p. Marx’s Ambiguity Regarding America America’s Exceptional Position Marx’s Two Wage Theories America, England, and the Social Wage A Mathematical Analysis of the Social Wage Marx and the Latest Industrial Revolution “Absolute and Relative Impoverishment” Do Nations Grow Rich by Looting Others? Marx and Lincoln Ideology and the...
New York: Daily worker, 1939. — 15 p. Speech delivered in Madison Square Garden, New York City, November 13,1939,before 22,000 people, on the occasion of the twenty-second anniversary of the Socialist Revolution in Russia.
Routledge, 2020. — 534 p. Expertly steering readers through the often tumultuous and exhilarating history of the United States, from its early modern Native American roots to twenty-first-century neoliberalism and the shifting political climate of the past decade, this highly readable textbook provides a compelling overview of American development over the last five centuries....
Indiana University Press, 2013. — 288 p. Things you can see and touch can bring to mind the time when the items were made and used. In Touching America's History, Meredith Mason Brown uses twenty objects to summon up major developments in America's history. The objects range in date from a Pequot stone axe head probably made before the Pequot War in 1637, to the western novel...
Indiana University Press, 2013. — 288 p. Things you can see and touch can bring to mind the time when the items were made and used. In Touching America's History, Meredith Mason Brown uses twenty objects to summon up major developments in America's history. The objects range in date from a Pequot stone axe head probably made before the Pequot War in 1637, to the western novel...
University of North Carolina Press, 1996. — 272 p. Thomas Jefferson's conviction that the health of the nation's democracy would depend on the existence of an informed citizenry has been a cornerstone of our political culture since the inception of the American republic. Even today's debates over education reform and the need to be competitive in a technologically advanced,...
University Of Chicago Press, 2015. — 550 p. When Thomas Jefferson struck a deal for the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, he knew he was adding a new national power to those specified in the Constitution, but he also believed his actions were in the nation’s best interest. His successors would follow his example, setting their own constitutional precedents. Tracing the evolution and...
Rowman and Littlefield Publishing, 2022. — 320 p. In this book, Steven R. Brydon analyzes American war propaganda spanning from the Spanish-American War through the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Brydon argues that many of these wars were fought based on false or misleading narratives, beginning with blaming Spain for the sinking of the Maine and continuing, most recently, with...
Canada: Bibliotex, 2021. — 199 p. Covers the history of the United States from the post-Civil War era to the present day. Provides a comprehensive overview of the history of the United States, surveying the major events and turning points of U.S. history as it moves from the America's cultural roots through modern times.
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2015. — 288 p. The Historical Dictionary of the American Frontier covers early Euro-American exploration and development of frontiers in North America but not only the lands that would eventually be incorporated into the Unites States it also includes the multiple North American frontiers explored by Spain, France, Russia, England, and others....
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2015. — 288 p. The Historical Dictionary of the American Frontier covers early Euro-American exploration and development of frontiers in North America but not only the lands that would eventually be incorporated into the Unites States it also includes the multiple North American frontiers explored by Spain, France, Russia, England, and others....
New York: Alfred A.Knopf, 2010. — 1059 p. — ISBN: 978-0-307-59518-8. Prologue In Barbary Honour's Shoals " A Defense Worthy of the Republicans " " The Present War, Unexpected, Unnecessary, and Ruinous " Love of Fame Is a Noble Passion Walls of Wood " You Shall Not Feel the Effects of War " The Far Side of the War " My Country I Fear Has Forgot Me " Fortunes of War " Praise for...
Scarecrow Press, 2006. — 433 p. The formative period of the United States, running roughly from 1789 to 1829, has become remote and perhaps overly idealized. While the administrations of George Washington, John Adams, James Madison, James Monroe and John Quincy Adams set the country on the path to modernity by resolving some nagging problems left over from the Revolution, they...
The Anarchist Library, undated. — 4 p. The May 5, 1993 N.Y. Times Op-Ed page exchange between former Black Panther Party member Elaine Brown and Color Purple author Alice Walker about former Black Panther Party member David Hilliard's book This Side of Glory , where Alice Walker criticized the Black Panther Party's male leadership as sexist, make glaringly obvious that it's...
Yale University Press, 2018. — 459 p. A sweeping history of the United States through the lens of empire—and an incisive look forward as the nation retreats from the global stage. A respected authority on international relations and foreign policy, Victor Bulmer†‘Thomas offers a grand survey of the United States as an empire. From its territorial expansion after independence,...
Knopf, 2014. — 448 p. Written from a strikingly fresh perspective, this new account of the Boston Tea Party and the origins of the American Revolution shows how a lethal blend of politics, personalities, and economics led to a war that few people welcomed but nobody could prevent. In this powerful but fair-minded narrative, British author Nick Bunker tells the story of the last...
Edinburgh University Press, 2017. — 232 p. The United States has been described by many of its foreign and domestic critics as an “empire”. Providing a wide-ranging analysis of the United States as a territorial, imperial power from its foundation to the present day, this book explores the United States’ acquisition or long-term occupation of territories through a chronological...
University Press of Kansas, 2021. — 248 p. In William Howard Taft's Constitutional Progressivism Kevin J. Burns makes a compelling case that Taft's devotion to the Constitution of 1787 contributed to his progressivism. In contrast to the majority of scholarship, which has viewed Taft as a reactionary conservative because of his constitutionalism, Burns explores the ways Taft's...
Penguin Books, 2010. — 480 p. Phenomenal reviews and sales greeted the hardcover publication of The Big Rich, New York Times bestselling author Bryan Burrough's spellbinding chronicle of Texas oil. Weaving together the multigenerational sagas of the industry's four wealthiest families, Burrough brings to life the men known in their day as the Big Four: Roy Cullen, H. L. Hunt,...
University of Chicago Press, 2015. — 320 р. — ISBN13: 978-0-226-29708-8 Americans are joiners, and they have been self-consciously aware of that fact for nearly two hundred years. Confronted with a problem, or simply seeking a way to socialize with other like-minded people, men and women in the United States have chosen, remarkably often, to create a formally organized club...
The University of North Carolina Press, 2020. — 376 p. We think we know the story of women's suffrage in the United States: women met at Seneca Falls, marched in Washington, D.C., and demanded the vote until they won it with the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment. But the fight for women's voting rights extended far beyond these familiar scenes. From social clubs in New...
University Press of Kansas, 2016. — 288 p. America’s founders envisioned a federal government of limited and enumerated powers. What they could not envision, of course, was the vast and complex infrastructure that the growing nation would demand—a demand that became ever clearer as the power and importance of railroads emerged. The requirements of a nationwide rail network, it...
6th Edition — Wiley-Blackwell, 2020. — 542 p. The History of Texas offers a sweeping exploration of the Lone Star State, covering its history from the pre-Columbian period, to the era of Spanish control, to nineteenth century watershed events, through the 1900s and into the new millennium. This engaging, student-friendly textbook looks at how people of diverse politics,...
Facts on File, 2008. — 461 p. Disasters, accidents, and crises have profoundly shaped American history - from the "starving time" at Jamestown, the smallpox epidemic during the Revolutionary War, and the "year without a summer" in 1816 to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, the San Francisco earthquake, and the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Not only have these...
University Press of Kansas, 2021. — 392 p. America’s political history is a fascinating paradox. The United States was born with the admonition that government posed a threat to liberty. This apprehension became the foundation of the nation’s civic ideology and was embedded in its constitutional structure. Yet the history of public life in the United States records the...
University of North Carolina Press, 2007. — 392 p. While public debates over America's current foreign policy often treat American empire as a new phenomenon, this lively collection of essays offers a pointed reminder that visions of national and imperial greatness were a cornerstone of the new country when it was founded. In fact, notions of empire have long framed debates...
University of Chicago Press, 2021. — 360 p. Fourteen essays examine the unexpected relationships between government power and intimate life in the last 150 years of United States history. The last few decades have seen a surge of historical scholarship that analyzes state power and expands our understanding of governmental authority and the ways we experience it. At the same...
University of Chicago Press, 2014. — 285 p. — ISBN13: 9780226096704 Lieutenant Edmund Henn’s 1794 watercolor of Detroit, informally known as the Lady Astor View, depicts the town’s harbor during of British rule (i gure i.1). By the time of Henn’s depiction, Detroit was nearly a century old, having been founded by the French in 1701 and relinquished to the British in 1760. Two...
University of North Carolina Press, 1988. — 690 p. An intellectual dialogue of the highest plane achieved in America, the correspondence between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson spanned half a century and embraced government, philosophy, religion, quotidiana, and family griefs and joys. First meeting as delegates to the Continental Congress in 1775, they initiated correspondence...
University of Illinois Press, 2014. — 280 p. This collection of fifteen insightful essays examines the complexity and diversity of Quaker antislavery attitudes across three centuries, from 1658 to 1890. Contributors from a range of disciplines, nations, and faith backgrounds show Quaker's beliefs to be far from monolithic. They often disagreed with one another and the larger...
New York: Facts On File — Infobase Publishing, 2009. — XI, 291 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4381-2700-2
This series of handbooks looks at the questions of daily life from the perspective of social and cultural history, going well beyond the affairs of government to examine the fabric and texture of what people in the American past experienced in their homes and their families, in their...
Facts on File, 2009. — 305 p. — (Handbook to Life in America). The first decades of the 20th century were characterized by technological advancements. Chief among these was the replacement of horse-drawn vehicles by gasoline-powered cars, which necessitated the development of a nationwide infrastructure of paved highways and filling stations. The racial landscape of America was...
University of Illinois Press, 2009. — 256 p. An examination of Italian immigrants and their children in the early twentieth century, A New Language, A New World is the first full-length historical case study of one immigrant group's experience with language in America. Incorporating the interdisciplinary literature on language within a historical framework, Nancy C. Carnevale...
Vintage, 1975. — 1344 p.
One of the most acclaimed books of our time, winner of both the Pulitzer and the Francis Parkman prizes, The Power Broker tells the hidden story behind the shaping (and mis-shaping) of twentieth-century New York (city and state) and makes public what few have known: that Robert Moses was, for almost half a century, the single most powerful man of our...
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 320 p. Betty Boyd Caroli's engrossing and informative First Ladies is both a captivating read and an essential resource for anyone interested in the role of America's First Ladies. Caroli observes the role as it has shifted and evolved from ceremonial backdrop to substantive world figure. This expanded and updated fifth edition presents Caroli's...
Harvard University Press, 2021. — 649 p. This pioneering work of political history recovers the central and largely forgotten role that petitioning played in the formative years of North American democracy. Known as the age of democracy, the nineteenth century witnessed the extension of the franchise and the rise of party politics. As Daniel Carpenter shows, however, democracy...
Modern Library, 2012. — 514 p. New York is a city like no other. Through the centuries, she’s been embraced and reviled, worshipped and feared, praised and battered—all the while standing at the crossroads of American politics, business, society, and culture. Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times bestselling author Teresa Carpenter, a lifelong diary enthusiast, scoured the...
Crown Archetype, 2013. — 512 p. Here Is Where chronicles Andrew Carroll’s eye-opening – and at times hilarious -- journey across America to find and explore unmarked historic sites where extraordinary moments occurred and remarkable individuals once lived. Sparking the idea for this book was Carroll’s visit to the spot where Abraham Lincoln’s son was saved by the brother of...
Harper Collins, 2005. — 352 p. Strictly off limits to the public, Plum Island is home to virginal beaches, cliffs, forests, ponds -- and the deadliest germs that have ever roamed the planet. Lab 257 blows the lid off the stunning true nature and checkered history of Plum Island. It shows that the seemingly bucolic island in the shadow of New York City is a ticking biological time...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2018. — 297 p. There is the story the Lone Star State likes to tell about itself—and then there is the reality, a Texas past that bears little resemblance to the manly Anglo myth of Texas exceptionalism that maintains a firm grip on the state’s historical imagination. Lone Star Mind takes aim at this traditional narrative, holding both academic and...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023. — 480 p. Today, the word “neoliberal” is used to describe an epochal shift toward market-oriented governance begun in the 1970s. Yet the roots of many of neoliberalism’s policy tools can be traced to the ideas and practices of mid-twentieth-century liberalism. In Illusions of Progress, Brent Cebul chronicles the rise of what he terms...
3rd edition. — Durham: Duke University Press, 1987. — 489 p. "The only work that treats Ku Kluxism for the entire period of it's existence...the authoritative work on the period. Hooded Americanism is exhaustive in its rich detail and its use of primary materials to paint the picture of a century of terror. It is comprehensive, since it treats the entire period, and enjoys the...
Cornell University Press, 2012. — 252 p. Even in the midst of the Civil War, its battlefields were being dedicated as hallowed ground. Today, those sites are among the most visited places in the United States. In contrast, the battlegrounds of the Revolutionary War had seemingly been forgotten in the aftermath of the conflict in which the nation forged its independence. Decades...
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2016. — 320 p. The Jacksonian period under review in this dictionary served as a transition period for the United States. The growing pains of the republic's infancy, during which time Americans learned that their nation would survive transitions of political power, gave way to the uncertainty of adolescence. While the United States did not...
Chatto&Windus, 1919. — 180 p. The English colonies Arms and the rights of man We the people The mantle of Washington The virginian dynasty The jacksonian revolution The spoils of Mexico The slavery question Secession and Civil War The Black Terror The new problems
New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988. — 398 p.
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Routledge, 2015. — 1238 p.
Thoroughly revised and expanded, this is the definitive reference on American immigration from both historic and contemporary perspectives. It traces the scope and sweep of U.S. immigration from the earliest settlements to the present, providing a comprehensive, multidisciplinary approach to all aspects of this critically important subject.
Every major...
Fordham University Press, 2014. — 352 p. How do immigrants and their children forge their identities in a new land—and how does the ethnic culture they create thrive in the larger society? Making Italian America brings together new scholarship on the cultural history of consumption, immigration, and ethnic marketing to explore these questions by focusing on the case of an...
University of Illinois Press, 2015. — 304 p.
Food historian Cynthia Clampitt pens the epic story of what happened when Mesoamerican farmers bred a nondescript grass into a staff of life so prolific, so protean, that it represents nothing less than one of humankind's greatest achievements. Blending history with expert reportage, she traces the disparate threads that have woven...
History Press, 2014. — 318 p. A quick overview of the Sunshine State’s fascinating past, with photos and illustrations included. In 1513, Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León first set foot on Florida’s east coast. The land he discovered was a geographic anomaly so distinctive that one day, centuries later, astronaut Neil Armstrong would say that Florida was the first shape on...
The History Press, 2015. — 144 p. Florida's swamps and sands hide a rich history and strange stories abound. Whether you live in the state or just have a fascination with its unique background these are stories to surprise and fascinate. Florida has a history as diverse as its residents. And much of that is still hidden. Since the arrival of the Spanish in 1513, the state has...
Facts on File, 2007. — 369 p. — (Eyewitness History Series). From 1865 to 1901, a traumatic period following the Civil War, America underwent sweeping economic, social, and political changes. Known as the Gilded Age, this era was marked by technological advances, increased immigration, and the rapid urbanization of America. This dynamic period of building and rebuilding...
One World, 2019. — 416 p. — ISBN10: 0399590595; ISBN13: 978-0399590597. From the National Book Award–winning author of Between the World and Me, a boldly conjured debut novel about a magical gift, a devastating loss, and an underground war for freedom. “This potent book about America’s most disgraceful sin establishes [Ta-Nehisi Coates] as a first-rate novelist.”—San Francisco...
One World, 2019. — 416 p. — ISBN10: 0399590595; ISBN13: 978-0399590597. From the National Book Award–winning author of Between the World and Me, a boldly conjured debut novel about a magical gift, a devastating loss, and an underground war for freedom. “This potent book about America’s most disgraceful sin establishes [Ta-Nehisi Coates] as a first-rate novelist.”—San Francisco...
Oxford University Press, 2007. — 417 p. From the seventeenth century Cavaliers and Uncle Tom's Cabin to Civil Rights museums and today's conflicts over the Confederate flag, here is a brilliant portrait of southern identity, served in an engaging blend of history, literature, and popular culture. In this insightful book, written with dry wit and sharp insight, James C. Cobb...
Cambridge University Press, 1995. — 300 p. This is an elegant and concise history of American foreign relations during the Cold War era, based on the most recent American, Chinese, and Soviet literature, written from a post-Cold War perspective. All of the major foreign policy issues, including the origins of the Soviet-American conflict; the extension of the confrontation to...
Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1976. — 800 p. This is the story of an American dynasty. It is the story of the father, who built the fortune. Of the son, who cleansed the name. Of the Brothers, who manipulated both the name and the fortune to their own ends. And of the Cousins, who often wish they had inherited neither. Through four generations, the name has been synonymous with...
[n.s.]: Communist Research Cluster, 2016. — 438 p. This is the second installation of the Communist Interventions series, following up on the first volume which addresses European socialism and communism. The third volume, which incidentally has already been released, concerns revolutionary feminism. Further volumes on other subjects should follow, as well. We hope that these...
[n.s.]: Communist Research Cluster, 2016. — 438 p. This is the second installation of the Communist Interventions series, following up on the first volume which addresses European socialism and communism. The third volume, which incidentally has already been released, concerns revolutionary feminism. Further volumes on other subjects should follow, as well. We hope that these...
[n.s.]: Communist Research Cluster, 2016. — 438 p. This is the second installation of the Communist Interventions series, following up on the first volume which addresses European socialism and communism. The third volume, which incidentally has already been released, concerns revolutionary feminism. Further volumes on other subjects should follow, as well. We hope that these...
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2015. — 550 p. This book covers the development of the presidential office within the context of constitutional interpretations of presidential power and socio-political and economic developments, as well as foreign affairs events, from 1789-2015. It provides details on the men who have held the office, and biographies of vice presidents,...
Routledge, 2018. — 719 p. The Routledge History of Italian Americans is a new multi-authored history of one of the biggest ethnic groups in the United States. The collection brings together leading scholars and critics to create a narrative of the trials and triumphs of Italians in America. Concentrating on themes ranging from immigration to religion, labor rights to women's...
Vintage Books, 2001. — 622 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4000-3309-6. Acclaimed journalist Ted Conover sets a new standard for bold, in-depth reporting in this first-hand account of life inside the penal system.When Conover’s request to shadow a recruit at the New York State Corrections Officer Academy was denied, he decided to apply for a job as a prison officer. So begins his odyssey at...
Skyhorse, 2021. — 304 p. Experience American history like never before with this unique, informative, and fun guide for history buffs, whiskey enthusiasts, folks who like to cook at home, and fans of popular music. American History Through a Whiskey Glass presents a unique perspective on American history. It describes how bourbon and rye whiskey played a role in the most...
OpenStax, 2017. — 1046 р. U.S. History is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of most introductory courses. The text provides a balanced approach to U.S. history, considering the people, events, and ideas that have shaped the United States from both the top down (politics, economics, diplomacy) and bottom up (eyewitness accounts, lived experience). U.S. History...
Greenwood Press, 1999. — 448 p. Asian Americans have made significant contributions to American society. This reference work celebrates the contributions of 166 distinguished Asian Americans. Most people profiled are not featured in any other biographical collection of noted Asian Americans. The Chinese Americans, Japanese Americans, Filipino Americans, Korean Americans, South...
Encounter Books, 2016. — 408 p. After the Constitutional Convention, Benjamin Franklin was asked, Well, Doctor, what have we gota Republic or a Monarchy?” Franklin’s response: A Republicif you can keep it.” This book argues: we couldn’t keep it. A true republic privileges the common interest above the special interests. To do this, our Constitution established an elaborate...
University of Missouri, 2006. - 360 p.
Unlike many cities farther north, Kansas City, Missouri — along with its sister city in Kansas — had a significant African American population by the midnineteenth century and also served as a way station for those migrating north or west. “Take Up the Black Man’s Burden” focuses on the people and institutions that shaped the city’s black...
New York : Henry Holt and Co., 1998. — 342 p. In 1900, America was such a young country its entire history could almost be measured by the life span of its oldest citizens. Those caught in the exercise of remembrance tried to describe the changes they had lived through, and often failed. Men and women who could remember when there were no friction matches or postage stamps were...
Routledge, 2008. — 362 p. — ISBN10: 0415990300; ISBN13: 978-0415990301. While the later history of the New York Mafia has received extensive attention, what has been conspicuously absent until now is an accurate and conversant review of the formative years of Mafia organizational growth. David Critchley examines the Mafia recruitment process, relations with Mafias in Sicily,...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 319 p. — (Very Short Introductions). The Founding Fathers who drafted the United States Constitution in 1787 distrusted political parties, popular democracy, centralized government, and a strong executive office. Yet the country's national politics have historically included all those features. In American Political History: A Very Short...
Indiana University Press, 2008. — 192 p. Conspiracy theories have been a part of the American experience since colonial times. There is a rich literature on conspiracies involving, among others, Masons, Catholics, Mormons, Jews, financiers, Communists, and internationalists. Although many conspiracy theories appear irrational, an exaggerated fear of a conspiracy sometimes...
Canada: Bibliotex, 2022. — 218 p. Presents survey of American history from pre-colonial times through Reconstruction. Explores economic, political, social and cultural factors that shaped the origins of the nation, including the Revolution, the Constitution and the Civil War.
Canada: Bibliotex, 2022. — 222 p. Presents survey of American history from pre-colonial times through Reconstruction. Explores economic, political, social and cultural factors that shaped the origins of the nation, including the Revolution, the Constitution and the Civil War.
Canada: Bibliotex, 2022. — 201 p. Presents survey of American history from pre-colonial times through Reconstruction. Explores economic, political, social and cultural factors that shaped the origins of the nation, including the Revolution, the Constitution and the Civil War.
University of Notre Dame Press, 2022. — 288 р. A New Birth of Marriage provides a history of the changes to marriage throughout the American experience and a theoretical argument for the goodness of the traditional American family in fostering private happiness and the public good. A New Birth of Marriage argues that the American Founders placed marriage as the cornerstone of...
Chicago; London: The University of Chicago Press, 2018. — 479 p. — ISBN13: 978-0-226-30096-2 (e-book) Building the American Republic combines centuries of perspectives and voices into a fluid narrative of the United States. Throughout their respective volumes, Harry L. Watson and Jane Dailey take care to integrate varied scholarly perspectives and work to engage a diverse...
Chicago; London: The University of Chicago Press, 2018. — 479 p. — ISBN13: 978-0-226-30096-2 (e-book) Building the American Republic combines centuries of perspectives and voices into a fluid narrative of the United States. Throughout their respective volumes, Harry L. Watson and Jane Dailey take care to integrate varied scholarly perspectives and work to engage a diverse...
McDougal Littell, 2008. - 1168 p. ISBN10: 0-618-55671-0 ISBN13: 978-0-618-55671-7 McDougal Littell American History is a comprehensive, easy-to-use program that presents the history of the United States in a way that middle school students understand. Research shows that students are much more motivated to study history when they are actively involved in their learning....
Da Capo Press, 2008. - 373 p. When he died in 1877, Cornelius Vanderbilt, founder of the Vanderbilt dynasty, was wealthier than the U.S. Treasury. But he had nearly lost his fortune in 1856, when William Walker, a young Nashville genius, set out to conquer Central America and, in the process, take away Vanderbilt's most profitable shipping business. To win back his empire,...
University of Washington Press, 2011. — 400 p. In this important and masterful synthesis of the Chinese and Japanese experience in America, historian Roger Daniels provides a new perspective on the significance of Asian immigration to the United States. Examining the period from the mid-nineteenth century to the early 1980s, Daniels presents a basic history comprising the...
McDougal Littell, 2006. — 1141 p. ISBN: 0618689877
The Americans: Reconstruction to the 21st Century provides in-depth analysis of the events of the 20th century. Its chronological and thematic approach explores topics such as cultural diversity, democracy, immigration, science and technology, and women in the United States.
Macat Library, 2017. — 106 p. Frederick Jackson Turner's 1893 essay on the history of the United States remains one of the most famous and influential works in the American canon. That is a testament to Turner's powers of creative synthesis; in a few short pages, he succeeded in redefining the way in which whole generations of Americans understood the manner in which their...
Yale University Press, 2015. — 340 p. How did a land and people of such immense diversity come together under a banner of freedom and equality to form one of the most remarkable nations in the world? Everyone from young adults to grandparents will be fascinated by the answers uncovered in James West Davidson’s vividly told A Little History of the United States. In 300...
Charles Scribner's Sons, 1977. — 360 p. — ISBN 0-684-14772-6. In the first comprehensive pictorial history of New York ever to be published, Marshall B. Davidson combines immense learning and a vivid writing style to show the richly varied history of the Empire State from Indian times to the present. He has chosen 750 historical pictures, some never published before, to...
CQ Press, 2019. — 632 p. Congress and Its Members by Roger H. Davidson, Walter J. Oleszek, Frances E. Lee, and Eric Schickler offers you comprehensive coverage of the U.S. Congress and the legislative process by examining the tension between Congress as a lawmaking institution and as a collection of politicians constantly seeking re-election. The highly anticipated Seventeenth...
Knopf, 2014. — 448 p.
From the revered historian, the long-awaited conclusion of the magisterial history of slavery and emancipation in Western culture that has been nearly fifty years in the making.
David Brion Davis is one of the foremost historians of the twentieth century, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Bancroft Prize, and nearly every award...
Oxford University Press, 1998. — 605 p. Drawing on a gold mine of primary documents--including letters, diary entries, personal narratives, political speeches, broadsides, trial transcripts, and contemporary newspaper articles--The Boisterous Sea of Liberty brings the past to life in a way few histories ever do. Here is a panoramic look at early American history as captured in...
HarperCollins e-book, 2009. - 288 pages. ISBN: 0061118192. Kenneth C. Davis, author of the phenomenal New York Times bestseller Don't Know Much About History, presents a collection of extraordinary stories, each detailing an overlooked episode that shaped the nation's destiny and character. Davis's dramatic narratives set the record straight, busting myths and bringing to light...
Harper Collins Publishers, 2003. – 380 p. — (Don't Know Much About Series). — ISBN10: 0060083824. — ISBN13: 978-89-7184-841-8. Who really discovered America? What was "the shot heard 'round the world"? Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: Did he or didn't he? From the arrival of Columbus through the bizarre election of 2000 and beyond, Davis carries readers on a rollicking ride...
Harper Paperbacks, 2012. — 752 p. — (Don't Know Much About Series). — ISBN10: 0061960543. — ISBN13: 978-0061960543. Who really discovered America? What was "the shot heard 'round the world"? 9/11: What really happened? How did America elect its first black president? From the arrival of Columbus through the historic election of Barack Obama and beyond, Kenneth C. Davis carries...
Harper Paperbacks, 2012. – 752 p. — (Don't Know Much About Series). — ISBN10: 0061960543. — ISBN13: 978-0061960543. Who really discovered America? What was "the shot heard 'round the world"? 9/11: What really happened? How did America elect its first black president? From the arrival of Columbus through the historic election of Barack Obama and beyond, Kenneth C. Davis carries...
Hachette Books, 2014. — 752 p. — (Don't Know Much About Series). — ISBN10: 1401330436. — ISBN13: 978-1401330439. Which president broke the law to prevent enslaved people from being freed? Who said, "When the president does it, that means it's not illegal"? Why does America have a president? From the heated debates among the framers of the Constitution in 1787 over an "elected...
Hachette Books, 2014. — 752 p. — (Don't Know Much About Series). — ISBN10: 1401330436. — ISBN13: 978-1401330439. Which president broke the law to prevent enslaved people from being freed? Who said, "When the president does it,that means it's not illegal"? Why does America have a president? From the heated debates among the framers of the Constitution in 1787 over an "elected...
Harper Paperbacks, 1999. — 566 p. — (Don't Know Much About Series). — ISBN10: 0060775998. Why did Abraham Lincoln sneak into Washington for his inauguration? Was the Gettysburg Address written on the back of an envelope? Where did the Underground Railroad run? Can you answer these questions? If not, you're not alone! New York Times-bestselling author Kenneth C. Davis comes to...
Hachette Books, 2015. — 416 p. — (Don't Know Much About Series). — ISBN10: 140132410X. — ISBN13: 978-1401324100. Multi-million-copy bestselling historian Kenneth C. Davis sets his sights on war stories in The Hidden History of America at War. In prose that will remind you of "the best teacher you ever had" (People Magazine), Davis brings to life six emblematic battles,...
Hachette Books, 2015. — 416 p. — (Don't Know Much About Series). — ISBN10: 140132410X. — ISBN13: 978-1401324100. Multi-million-copy bestselling historian Kenneth C. Davis sets his sights on war stories in The Hidden History of America at War. In prose that will remind you of "the best teacher you ever had" (People Magazine), Davis brings to life six emblematic battles,...
New York, NY : Free Press, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2004. — 368 p. All Americans, not just Texans, remember the Alamo. But the siege and brief battle at that abandoned church in February and March 1836 were just one chapter in a much larger story -- larger even than the seven months of armed struggle that surrounded it. Indeed, three separate revolutionary...
Oxford University Press, 2006. — 440 p. — ISBN13: 978-0-19-514073-6. David Brion Davis has long been recognized as the leading authority on slavery in the Western World. His books have won every major history award--including the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award--and he has been universally praised for his prodigious research, his brilliant analytical skill, and his...
University of California Press, 2016. - 310 p.
"In America's historical imagination, toil and triumph against nature and overwhelming odds characterizes such achievements as the Erie Canal and the transcontinental railroad. Triumph transformed canal and railroad entrepreneurs into visionaries whose work brought the nation bountiful riches and did the Lord's bidding. Celebrated...
Yale University Press, 1999. — 262 p. The Boston Tea Party, the Order of Red Men, Camp Fire Girls, Boy Scouts, Grateful Dead concerts are just a few examples of the American tendency to appropriate Indian dress and act out Indian roles. This provocative book explores how white Americans have used their ideas about Indians to shape national identity in different eras - and how...
The Rowman & Littlefeld Publishing Group, Inc. — 265 c. — ISBN: 978-1-4930-3351-5. The Forgotten Trail to Appomattox: Hidden Civil War Sites and Destinations Across America
Transaction Publishers, 1999. — 568 p. Preface to the Second Edition War and American Freedom Classical Republicanism and the Right to Bear Arms Defenders of the Republic: The Anti-Interventionist Tradition in American Politics America's Two Just Wars: 1775 and 1861 Rethinking Lincoln Did the South Have to Fight? War, Reconstruction, and the End of the Old Republic The...
Grey House Publishing, 2000. — 566 p. The widespread panorama of the rate of wealth, mentality, cultural skills and self-identificaion of working Americans throughout two centuries.
Grey House Publishing, Inc., 2001. — 598 p. The widespread panorama of the rate of wealth, mentality, cultural skills and self-identificaion of working Americans throughout two centuries.
Grey House Publishing, Inc., 2001. — 586 p. The widespread panorama of the rate of wealth, mentality, cultural skills and self-identificaion of working Americans throughout two centuries.
Grey House Publishing, Inc., 2002. — 588 p. The widespread panorama of the rate of wealth, mentality, cultural skills and self-identificaion of working Americans throughout two centuries.
Greenwood, 2001. — 328 p. Use of military force without a declaration of war has been a weapon in the arsenal of U.S. presidents for the last 200 years. Force has become an increasingly more (relevant) foreign policy action in the post-Cold War world. This comprehensive resource approaches the study of the use of force from several theoretical approaches: the historical record,...
Wilhelm Heyne, 2002. — 373 S. — ISBN 3-453-86836-6. »Sprecht sanft und tragt immer einen Knüppel bei euch!« Theodore Roosevelt, US-Präsident 1901–1909 Puritanischer Fanatismus, wirtschaftliches Profitdenken und ein beispielloser Hang zur Selbstlegitimierung: Nicht erst seit den jüngsten Angriff en auf Afghanistan als Reaktion auf die Terroranschläge vom 11. September sind die...
Crown Publishers, 2016. — 418 p.
Sociologist Matthew Desmond takes us into the poorest neighborhoods of Milwaukee to tell the story of eight families on the edge. Arleen is a single mother trying to raise her two sons on the 20 dollars a month she has left after paying for their rundown apartment. Scott is a gentle nurse consumed by a heroin addiction. Lamar, a man with no legs...
University of Nebraska Press, 2022. — 654 p. To many Americans in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the West was simultaneously the greatest symbol of American opportunity, the greatest story of its history, and the imagined blank slate on which the country’s future would be written. From the Spanish-American War in 1898 to the Great Depression’s end, from the Mississippi...
Oxford University Press, 1987. — 368 p. Long after the Mexican-American War brought the Southwest under the United States flag, Anglos and Hispanics within the region continued to struggle for dominion. From the arrival of railroads through the height of the New Deal, Sarah Deutsch explores the cultural and economic strategies of Anglos and Hispanics as they competed for...
Wiley, 2014. — 538 p. This volume of original essays by leading scholars is an innovative, thorough introduction to the history and culture of California. • Includes 30 essays by leading scholars in the field • Essays range widely across perspectives, including political, social, economic, and environmental history • Essays with similar approaches are paired and grouped to work...
Viking, 2023. — 684 р. — ISBN 9780593299456 The United States was born in paranoia. From the American Revolution (thought by some to be a conspiracy organized by the French) to the Salem witch trials to the Satanic Panic, the Illuminati, and QAnon, one of the most enduring narratives that defines the United States is simply this: secret groups are conspiring to pervert the will...
Lyons Press, 2021. — 248 p. No one likes to believe that America has its own aristocracy, but the families described in this narrative share how these American families climbed the social ladder and their resulting legacies. Approached from a historical lens, learn about the great and influential families, their rise and sometimes their fall, including the following...
Purdue University Press, 2018. — 257 p. — ISBN: 1557538360, 9781557538369 American and Jewish historians have long shied away from the topic of Jews and business. Avoidance patterns grew in part from old, often negative stereotypes that linked Jews with money, and the perceived ease and regularity with which they found success with money, condemning Jews for their desires for...
6th Edition — Oxford University Press, 2014. — 320 p. Now in its sixth edition, Natives and Strangers: A History of Ethnic Americans addresses these and many other vital questions. Comprehensive and accessible, this unique volume explores various aspects of American minority group history. Examining the impact that America has had on minority peoples and cultures - and vice...
6th Edition — Oxford University Press, 2014. — 320 p. Now in its sixth edition, Natives and Strangers: A History of Ethnic Americans addresses these and many other vital questions. Comprehensive and accessible, this unique volume explores various aspects of American minority group history. Examining the impact that America has had on minority peoples and cultures - and vice...
6th Edition — Oxford University Press, 2014. — 320 p. Now in its sixth edition, Natives and Strangers: A History of Ethnic Americans addresses these and many other vital questions. Comprehensive and accessible, this unique volume explores various aspects of American minority group history. Examining the impact that America has had on minority peoples and cultures - and vice...
10th ed. — Boston: Pearson Education, 2013. — 465 p. America: Past and Present integrates the social and political dimensions of American history into one chronological narrative, providing students with a full picture of the scope and complexity of the American past. Written by award-winning historians, it tells the story of all Americans–elite and ordinary, women and men,...
10th ed. — Boston: Pearson Education, 2013. — 527 p.
America: Past and Present integrates the social and political dimensions of American history into one chronological narrative, providing students with a full picture of the scope and complexity of the American past. Written by award-winning historians, it tells the story of all Americans–elite and ordinary, women and men,...
W.W. Norton and Company, 2011. — 464 p. As Henry Hudson sailed up the broad river that would one day bear his name, he grew concerned that his Dutch patrons would be disappointed in his failure to find the fabled route to the Orient. What became immediately apparent, however, from the Indians clad in deer skins and "good furs" was that Hudson had discovered something just as...
Liveright, 2016. — 288 p. — ISBN 9781631492501, 1631492500. Set against the backdrop of an expanding nation, Brilliant Beacons traces the evolution of America's lighthouse system from its earliest days, highlighting the political, military, and technological battles fought to illuminate the nation's hardscrabble coastlines. Beginning with "Boston Light," America’s first...
W.W. Norton and Company, 2016. — 541 p. The epic history of the "iron men in wooden boats" who built an industrial empire through the pursuit of whales. "To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme," Herman Melville proclaimed, and this absorbing history demonstrates that few things can capture the sheer danger and desperation of men on the deep sea as dramatically...
Yale University Press, 2021. — 745 p. A sweeping, ambitious history of American democratic socialism from one of the world’s leading intellectual historians and social ethicists. Dorrien is supremely qualified for the task he has set himself in this very thoughtful, necessary, and timely book. Democratic socialism is ascending in the United States as a consequence of a...
Texas University Press, 1991. — 248 p. On the heels of New Deal administrators, an army of business executives arrived in Washington in 1940 to prepare the nation for war. Among this contingent were two wealthy investment bankers and longtime friends: Ferdinand Eberstadt and James Forrestal. Together they played integral roles in the massive war mobilization program and, later,...
TBR, 2000 - 249 p. (eng)
From the end of World War II, the American CIA imported thousands of Nazis into the United States to work for them, many on the list of wanted war criminals
One of the most important of these was Heinrich Mueller, once head of Hitler's Gestapo. Mueller was recruited by Colonel James Critchfield who ran the CIA's "Gehnel Organization' in Munich....
Simon & Schuster, 2020. — 400 p. Distinguished historian Ellen Carol DuBois begins in the pre-Civil War years with foremothers Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Sojourner Truth as she explores the links of the woman suffrage movement to the abolition of slavery. After the Civil War, Congress granted freed African American men the right to vote but not...
A. C. McClukg & Co., 1908. — 265 p. Herein is Written The Forethought Of our Spiritual Strivings Of the Dawn of Freedom Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others Of the Meaning of Progress the Wings op Atalanta Of the Training of Black Men the Black Belt 110 Of the Quest of the Golden Fleece Of the Sons of Master and Man the Faith of the Fathers Of the Passing of the First-Born...
Routledge, 1999. — 422 p. An A-Z of Modern America is a comprehensive cultural dictionary which defines contemporary America through its history and civilization. The book includes entries on: key American people from Presidents to Babe Ruth-American life, customs, clothing and education legal, religious and governmental practices multiculturalism, minorities and civil rights. An...
Potomac Books, 2008. — 185 p. What would have happened if Aaron Burr, rather than Jefferson, had become president? What if Nixon had defeated Kennedy in 1960? What if Al Gore had become president in 2001 instead of George W. Bush? Using six cases, political scientists Robert Dudley and Eric Shiraev argue that engaging in this counterfactual exercise provides an excellent...
Destiny Books, 2022. — 208 p. • Offers evidence from Jesse James’s secret encoded diaries. • Examines Jesse James’s close ties with other notorious outlaws, such as Johnny Ringo, Jesse Evans, and Billy the Kid. • Shows how Jesse James was related, by blood or marriage, to powerful people in law enforcement and politics, including the elite families behind the Copperheads and...
Youngstown, New York: Old Fort Niagara Association, 1991. — 64 pgs. This is a history of the physical change of the fortifications at Niagara, based on maps originally prepared by Fort Niagara's French, British, and United States engineers. Information is also presented on the fort's garrisons. Emphasis is on the period of the French and Indian War.
Chelsea House, 2010. — 129 p. List of Illustrations Reader’s Guide to Progressivism Milestones in Progressivism (1880s–1933) What Is Progressivism? Progressivism from A to Z Viewpoints About Progressivism List of Illustrations Photos Glossary of Key Terms Selected Bibliography
Pantheon, 2017. — 320 с. — ISBN: 0307379906 Язык: английский Книга Роджера Экирха начинается в 1797 году с самого кровавого мятежа, когда-либо перенесенного Королевским флотом, - на британском фрегате Hermione, в четырех тысячах миль от берегов Англии, у западного побережья Пуэрто-Рико. В разгар самой легендарной эпохи в истории британского мореплавания мятеж нанес удар в самое...
Pantheon, 2017. — 320 с. — ISBN: 0307379906 Язык: английский Книга Роджера Экирха начинается в 1797 году с самого кровавого мятежа, когда-либо перенесенного Королевским флотом, - на британском фрегате Hermione, в четырех тысячах миль от берегов Англии, у западного побережья Пуэрто-Рико. В разгар самой легендарной эпохи в истории британского мореплавания мятеж нанес удар в самое...
New York: P. F. Collier & Son Corporation, 1916. – 462 p. — (The Harvard Classics Series, Volume 43). With Introductions and Notes. The Voyages to Vinland The Letter of Columbus to Luis de Sant Angel Announcing His Discovery Amerigo Vespucci's Account of His First Voyage John Cabot's Discovery of North America First Charter of Virginia The Mayflower Compact The Fundamental...
Washington, 1915. — 30 p. The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to ensure edition identification.
Routledge, 2012. — 608 p. Our understanding of the politics of the presidency is greatly enhanced by viewing it through a developmental lens, analyzing how historical turns have shaped the modern institution. The Development of the American Presidency pays great attention to that historical weight but is organized topically and conceptually with the constitutional origins and...
Praeger. An Imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2011. - 257 p. ISBN: 0313365091 A History of the Birth Control Movement in America tells the extraordinary story of a group of reformers dedicated to making contraception legal, accessible, and acceptable. The engrossing tale details how Margaret Sanger's campaign beginning in 1914 to challenge anti-obscenity laws criminalizing the...
Cambridge University Press, 1996. — 500 р. This volume surveys the economic history of British North America, including Canada and the Caribbean, and of the early United States, from early settlement by Europeans to the end of the eighteenth century. The book includes chapters on the economic history of Native Americans (to 1860), and also on the European and African...
Cambridge University Press, 2000. — 1008 р. Volume 2 surveys the economic history of the United States, Canada, and the Caribbean during the nineteenth century. Five main themes frame the economic changes described in the volume: the migration of labor and capital from Europe, Asia, and Africa to the Americas; westward expansion; slavery and its aftermath; the process of...
Cambridge University Press, 2000. — 1200 р. Volume 3 surveys the economic history of the United States, Canada, and the Caribbean during the twentieth century. Its chapters trace the century's major events, notably the Great Depression and the two world wars, as well as its long-term trends, such as changing technology, the rise of the corporate economy, and the development of...
University of Texas Press, 2016. — 262 p.
Today the United States leads the world in incarceration rates. The country increasingly relies on the prison system as a “fix” for the regulation of societal issues. Captivity Beyond Prisons is the first full-length book to explicitly link prisons and incarceration to the criminalization of Latina (im)migrants.
Starting in the...
Oxford University Press, 2008. — 288 p. In late October 1846, the last wagon train of that year's westward migration stopped overnight before resuming its arduous climb over the Sierra Nevada Mountains, unaware that a fearsome storm was gathering force. After months of grueling travel, the 81 men, women and children would be trapped for a brutal winter with little food and only...
University of New Mexico Press, 2003. — 216 p. The ten original essays commissioned for this book focus on historical subjects in the post-World War II American West. The late Gerald Nash, in whose honor the essays were written, made major contributions to the study of modern American and western American history, and his impact on those fields is demonstrated in these essays...
University Press of Colorado, 2020. — 448 p. Colorado Day by Day is an engaging, this-day-in-history approach to the key figures and forces that have shaped Colorado from ancient times to the present. Historian Derek R. Everett presents a vignette for each day of the calendar year, exploring Colorado’s many facets through distilled tales of people, places, events, and trends....
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998. — 352 p. When three-month-old Lia Lee Arrived at the county hospital emergency room in Merced, California, a chain of events was set in motion from which neither she nor her parents nor her doctors would ever recover. Lia's parents, Foua and Nao Kao, were part of a large Hmong community in Merced, refugees from the CIA-run "Quiet War" in Laos....
Yale University Press, 2022. — 480 p. Faragher takes the reader on a captivating journey through myriad twists and turns of California’s multicultural history, enlivened by stories of people who rarely penetrate our traditional state chronicles. California is the most multicultural state in the nation. As John Mack Faragher argues in this concise and lively history, that is...
University of North Carolina Press, 2014. — 375 p. In The Power of the Purse, E. James Ferguson examines the intricate financial history of the American Revolution and the Confederation and connects it to political and constitutional developments in the period. Whether states or Congress should pay the debts of the Revolution and collect the taxes was a pivotal question whose...
Smithsonian Books, 1992. — 232 p. Winner of the Southern Anthropological Society's prestigious James Mooney Award, Uncommon Ground takes a unique archaeological approach to examining early African American life. Ferguson shows how black pioneers worked within the bars of bondage to shape their distinct identity and lay a rich foundation for the multicultural adjustments that...
Penguin, 2009. — 339 p.
Is America the new world Empire? The US government emphatically denies it. Despite the conquest of two sovereign states in as many years, despite the presence of more than 750 military installations across two-thirds of the world's countries and despite his stated intention "to extend the benefits of freedom - to every corner of the world," George W....
University of Missouri, 2005. — 152 p. ISBN10: 0826215947 ISBN13: 9780826215949 (eng) During American participation in World War I, many events caught the public’s attention, but none so much as the plight of the Lost Battalion. Comprising some five hundred men of the Seventy-seventh Division, the so-called battalion was entrapped on the side of a ravine in the Argonne Forest...
University of Washington Press, 2012. — 601 p. In the dramatic narratives that comprise The Republic of Nature, Mark Fiege reframes the canonical account of American history based on the simple but radical premise that nothing in the nation's past can be considered apart from the natural circumstances in which it occurred. Revisiting historical icons so familiar that...
University of Michigan Press, 2021. — 223 p. The Constitution has governed the United States since 1789, but many Americans are not aware of the structural rules that govern the oldest democracy in the world. Important public policy challenges require a knowledgeable, interested citizenry able to address the issues that represent the rich pageantry of American society. Issues...
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011. — 522 p. — ISBN-10: 0226251446; ISBN-13: 978-0226251448. Our nation began with the simple phrase, “We the People.” But who were and are “We”? Who were we in 1776, in 1865, or 1968, and is there any continuity in character between the we of those years and the nearly 300 million people living in the radically different America of...
Oxford University Press, 1989 – 946 p. – ISBN: 978-0-19-506905-1. This fascinating book is the first volume in a projected cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own time. It is a history of American folkways as they have changed through time, and it argues a thesis about the importance for the United States of having been British in...
Oxford University Press, Inc., 2005. — 862 p. A Conversation with Captain Preston Early America Visions of the Founders, 1607-1775 A republic united The Search for a Common Vision, 1776-1840 A nation divided Freedom against Liberty, 1840-1912 A world at war A Free Society and Its Enemies, 1916-1945 A people among others Global Visions of Liberty and Freedom, 1945-2004 The View...
Boston, New York: Houghton, 1897. — 516 p. The present work is the outcome of two lines of study pursued, with more or less interruption from other studies, for about thirty years. It will be observed that the book has two themes, as different in character as the themes for voice and piano in Schubert's " Friihlingsglaube," and yet so closely related that the one is needful for...
Boston, New York: Houghton, 1897. — 516 p. The present work is the outcome of two lines of study pursued, with more or less interruption from other studies, for about thirty years. It will be observed that the book has two themes, as different in character as the themes for voice and piano in Schubert's " Friihlingsglaube," and yet so closely related that the one is needful for...
Harvard University Press, 2016. — 336 p. In The Highest Glass Ceiling, best-selling historian Ellen Fitzpatrick tells the story of three remarkable women who set their sights on the American presidency. Victoria Woodhull (1872), Margaret Chase Smith (1964), and Shirley Chisholm (1972) each challenged persistent barriers confronted by women presidential candidates. Their quest...
University of Illinois Press, 2018. — 252 p. Few realize that long before the political activism of the 1960s, there existed a broad social movement in the United States spearheaded by a generation of Mexican immigrants inspired by the revolution in their homeland. Many revolutionaries eschewed U.S. citizenship and have thus far been lost to history, though they have much to...
New York: The Devin Adar Company, 1948. — 448 p. One of the earliest tour de force paper that reveil all controversy of Franklin Delano Rooservelt presidentship. The New Dealer Takes the Deck. The Hundred Days. The Banking Crisis. The New New Deal. The Rabbits Go Back in the Hat. The Dance of the Crackpots. An Enemy Is Welcomed. The Ride of the Wild Rabbit. The Coming American...
University Alabama Press, 2004. — 624 p.
An authoritative popular history that places the state in regional and national context.
Alabama is a state full of contrasts. On the one hand, it has elected the lowest number of women to the state legislature of any state in the union yet according to historians it produced two of the ten most important American women of the 20th...
W.W. Norton & Company, 1989. — 539 р.
Эта книга подытоживает исследования выдающегося американского историка и экономиста, лауреата Нобелевской премии 1993 года, одного из основателей клиометрики Роберта Фогеля по проблеме истории рабства в Новом Свете, в особенности на Юге США.
Аргументированно ставя под сомнение концепции своих предшественников, Фогель доказывает, что...
W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1992. — 406 p. The leading volume of this series included absorbing assessments of the efforts of slaves to shape their own culture, and traced the growth of the abolitionists from a handful of religious people, not given countenance by their church or government, into a powerful political force. Fogel delved deeply into the moral currents that first...
Yale University Press, 2005. — 272 p. The quintessential American suburbs, with their gracious single-family homes, large green lawns, and leaf-shaded streets, reflected not only residents’ dreams but nightmares, not only hopes but fears: fear of others, of racial minorities and lowincome groups, fear of themselves, fear of the market, and, above all, fear of change. These...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014. — 957 p. The Reader's Companion to American History offers a fresh, absorbing portrait of the United States from the origins of its native peoples to the nation's complex identity in the 1990s. Covering political, economic, cultural, and social history, and combining hundreds of short descriptive entries with longer evaluative articles, the...
4th edition. — W. W. Norton & Company, 2014. — 640 p. — ISBN: 978-0-393-92033-8. Give Me Liberty! is the #1 book in the U.S. history survey course because it works in the classroom. A single-author text by a leader in the field, Give Me Liberty! delivers an authoritative, accessible, concise, and integrated American history.
W. W. Norton & Company, 2007. — 720 p. ISBN10: 0393930289 ISBN13: 9780393930283 (eng) Adopted at over 600 universities, colleges, and schools across the country, Eric Foner's Give Me Liberty! is making a difference in the American history survey course.Featuring a single author and a single, comprehensive theme, Give Me Liberty! presents American history with unparalleled...
2nd Edition. — W. W. Norton & Company, 2008. — 717 p. — ISBN: 978-0-393-11273-3. Adopted at over 600 universities, colleges, and schools across the country, Eric Foner's Give Me Liberty! is making a difference in the American history survey course.Featuring a single author and a single, comprehensive theme, Give Me Liberty! presents American history with unparalleled clarity...
5th edition. — W. W. Norton & Company, 2017. — 1360 + 768 p. — ISBN10: 0393614174; ISBN13: 978-0393614176; ISBN10: 9780393614190; ISBN13: 978-0393614190. Give Me Liberty! is the #1 book in the U.S. history survey course because it works in the classroom. A single-author text by a leader in the field, Give Me Liberty! delivers an authoritative, accessible, concise, and...
W. W. Norton & Company, 2010. — 1211 p.(Third Edition)
A clear, concise, up to date, authoritative history by one of the leading historians in the country.Give Me Liberty! is the leading book in the market because it works in the classroom. A single-author book, Give Me Liberty! offers students a consistent approach, a single narrative voice, and a coherent perspective...
New York: International Publishers, 1969. — 138 p. The whole world has long admired the courageous life of Helen Keller, the deaf, mute, and blind girl who rose from despair and frustration to become one of America’s great women of inspiration to millions around the world. In recent years, a number of books, movies and plays have celebrated Helen Keller's story with its...
New York: International Publishers, 1969. — 138 p. The whole world has long admired the courageous life of Helen Keller, the deaf, mute, and blind girl who rose from despair and frustration to become one of America’s great women of inspiration to millions around the world. In recent years, a number of books, movies and plays have celebrated Helen Keller's story with its...
Chicago: Daily Worker Publishing Co., 1925. — 36 p. — (The Little Red Library; no. 1). The trade union movement of the United States and Canada contains many well-defined species of unionism. These may be classified as follows: Petty bourgeois liberal, socialist, Communist, syndicalist, nationalist, and Catholic.
Marshall Cavendish Benchmark, 2010. - 52 p.
President Thomas Jefferson wanted to purchase the mysterious territory west of the Mississippi, owned by France. How would his officials be able to convince Napoleon to sell it—and how would America pay for it? The biggest real-estate deal in history would more than double the size of the United States in 1803, making the young nation...
Routledge, 2020. — 144 p. — (Routledge Atlases of American History). This book illuminates singular aspects of Southern society and culture and provides justification for thinking about the South as a region unto itself. It also shows that the South in fact consists of many shifting social and cultural sub-regions. Andrew K. Frank's, The Routledge Historical Atlas of...
Open Road Integrated Media, 2016. — 1750 p. — ASIN B01G4MZ6WY. Brilliant, captivating, and unforgettable memoirs from four of the greatest minds in American history. Penned between 1771 and 1790 and published after his death, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is one of the most acclaimed and widely read personal histories ever written. From his youth as a printer’s...
Princeton University Press, 1990. — 348 p. As the twenty-first century approaches, a new generation of scholars is providing fresh historical perspectives on the twentieth. The contributors to The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order move beyond both the self-congratulation of traditional liberals and the hostility of New Left radicals. This collection of ten essays, written...
Yale University Press, 2018. — 287 p. A uniquely personal yet deeply informed exploration of the hidden history of class in American life From the decks of the Mayflower straight through to Donald Trump's "American carnage," class has always played a role in American life. In this remarkable work, Steve Fraser twines our nation's past with his own family's history, deftly...
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The loyalty of Japanese Americans was questioned after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, simply because of their ancestry. Author David K. Fremon looks at the events behind this unfortunate episode from American history, highlighting the personal accounts of many Japanese Americans who were forced to live...
Chicago, IL: Lake Claremont Press, 2008. — 401 p. — ISBN: 978-1-893121-30-0. The impetus for this book was a visit by a Chicago Maritime Society member some years ago to do a little informal research on the city's waterways. The member, Deane Tank Sr., was surprised to learn that precious few such books had ever been written on the topic. There were plenty of general histories...
South End Press, 1999. — 262 p. Reveals the true intent of our "Founding Fathers" who designed by the Constitution to protect their property and ensure that the poorer majority would have no real voice in political affairs. Fortunately Fresia's writing style is clear and elegantly simple - which is ideal for the politically uninitiated. He lays out how the Constitutional...
University of Georgia Press, 2007. — 352 p. Daria Frezza covers six tumultuous decades of transatlantic history to examine how European theories of mass politics and crowd psychology influenced American social scientists' perception of crowds, mobs, democratic "people," and its leadership. In the last decades of the nineteenth century, the development of an urban-industrial...
2009. — 605 p. This volume resumes the narrative begun in its companion volume, "The American Republic", which covered the first eight decades of U.S. history, ending at the onset of the Civil War. "The American Nation" continues the longest history through America's entrance into World War II.
Liberty Fund, 2002. — 752 p. Many reference works offer compilations of critical documents covering individual liberty, local autonomy, constitutional order, and other issues that helped to shape the American political tradition. Yet few of those works are available in a form suitable for classroom use, and traditional textbooks give short shrift to these important issues. The...
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1969. — 1034 p. The first in Furnas' trilogy of social histories of the US, The Americans (covering the period 1570-1914), Great Times (covering the period 1914-1929) and Stormy Weather: Crosslights on the 1930s (which covers the time between the stock market crash and the attack on Pearl Harbor.). The Americans is a book that has provided me with...
Bombardier Books, 2023. — 412 p. A renowned historian debunks current distortion and myths about European colonialism in the New World and restores much needed balance to our understanding of the past. Was America really "stolen" from the Indians? Was Columbus a racist? Were Indians really peace-loving, communistic environmentalists? Did Europeans commit "genocide" in the New...
252pp; Oxford University Press, USA (June 14, 1999)
Jefferson Davis's Generals is one of the most complete examinations of the Confederate president's relationship with his top military officers. A collection of essays edited by Gettysburg College professor Gabor S. Boritt, it benefits from a variety of viewpoints and concise interpretations. Davis's reputation as a wartime...
Harvard University Press, 2004. — 155 p. The author examines surprise attacks on the United States and their impact on shaping national policy including the British attack on Washington, D.C. in 1814, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, and the terrorists attack on the World Trade Center in 2001.
Monograph.N.Y.,"Oxford University Press",2009.-427 p.On September 16,1920 a bomb planted on a horse-drawn wagon exploded into the lunchtime crowd at Wall Street,killing thirty-eight people and wounding hundreds more.Until the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995,it was the worst act of terror in American history.Erupting at the heart of financial capitalism,the Wall Street explosion...
New York: Military Press, 1986. - 352 pgs. In 1957 a new system of reorganization was designed to meet the army's need for a flexible regimental structure and provide a coherent historical lineage for each unit. This books has a description of each coat-of-arms including shield, crest, and motto. There is complete and up-to-date list (through the Vietnam War) of campaigns in which...
Routledge, 2010. — 352 p. Colonial and Revolutionary America takes a regional approach to understanding the peoples and colonies of early America. It places early America into an Atlantic and comparative context, with emphasis on the impact of trade, warfare, migration, and the vast cultural exchange that took place among American Indians, Africans, and Europeans. Political,...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012. — 320 p. Driving Detroit The Quest for Respect in the Motor City George Galster "Driving Detroit is replete with interesting insights on the social history of one of America's most troubled cities. George Galster has done a remarkable job of revealing how powerful elements in the Detroit metropolitan area created over time intense race...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016. — 320 p. In September 1868, the remains of Jacob and Nancy Jane Young were found lying near the banks of Indiana’s White River. It was a gruesome scene. Part of Jacob’s face had been blown off, apparently by the shotgun that lay a few feet away. Spiders and black beetles crawled over his wound. Smoke rose from his wife’s smoldering body,...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2012. — 224 p. In Search of the City on a Hill challenges the widespread assumption that Americans have always used this potent metaphor to define their national identity. It demonstrates that America's 'redeemer myth' owes more to nineteenth- and twentieth-century reinventions of the Puritans than to the colonists' own conceptions of divine election. It...
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2022. — 245 p. America is awash with alleged conspiracies. It seems like today, no one with a cell phone escapes the vortex of skepticism, cynicism, paranoia, and fear that occupy our thoughts almost constantly. Seeking out valid answers in this cacophony can be confusing and deeply frustrating. In this book, historian Michael D. Gambone...
Routledge, 2019. — 392 p. Hispanic peoples are the fastest growing minority in the United States, yet the literature on Hispanics as a group is very sparse. This is the first large-scale survey to cover the history, politics, and culture of all major Hispanic groups (including Cubans, Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, and Chicanos) in the United States. The authors begin by examining...
Minneapolis: ABDO Publishing, 2015. — 48 p. — ((Daily Life in US History) — ISBN-10: 9781624036279; ISBN-13: 978-1624036279. Reading age: 10-12 years. Have you ever wondered what life was like for individuals and families in the Industrial Revolution? Learn about what their days consisted of, what they ate and wore, and more! Primary sources with accompanying questions,...
Minneapolis: ABDO Publishing, 2015. — 48 p. — ((Daily Life in US History) — ISBN-10: 9781624036279; ISBN-13: 978-1624036279. Reading age: 10-12 years. Have you ever wondered what life was like for individuals and families in the Industrial Revolution? Learn about what their days consisted of, what they ate and wore, and more! Primary sources with accompanying questions,...
Arcadia Publishing, 2012. — 130 p. Easternmost of the Great Lakes, Lake Ontario is bordered by both New York and Ontario. Upon its pristine surface, countless vessels have sailed, but its bottom depths are littered with the skeletons of shipwrecks, including HMS Ontario, caught and destroyed in one of the sudden storms that often turn this sea-like lake deadly. Daring mariners,...
The History Press, 2013. — 144 p. For over three centuries, New Englanders have set sail in search of fortune and adventure--yet death lurked on every voyage in the form of storms, privateers, disease and human error. In hope of being spared by the sea, superstitious mariners practiced cautionary rituals. During the winter of 1779, the crew aboard the Family Trader" offered up...
Facts on File, 2008. - 1162 Pages. Designed to meet the needs of high school and college students as well as members of the general public seeking clear explanations of basic government and political topics, "Encyclopedia of American Government and Civics" is a comprehensive resource that is divided into nine sections containing more than 400 essay-length entries. Articles in...
Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing, 2006. — 79 p. For the past 40 years, military historians and coauthors Anthony Gero and Roger Sturcke have been collecting, researching, writing, and publishing on the militia and National Guard of New York State. As elected fellows of the Company of Military Historians, they have been recognized nationally for their achievements...
Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing, 2006. — 128 p. Dedicated to the state's citizen soldiers, New York State National Guard reveals the sweeping vista of the often turbulent years from 1860 to 1960. This exciting history documents the faces, dress, and overall activity of New York's militia and National Guard with compelling images that have rarely, if ever, been...
Greenwood Publishing, 1999. — 182 p. Entries in this dictionary focus on the people, organizations, events, and ideas that have been significant in the slightly more than two centuries of political communication in this country. The intent is to highlight those events and ideas that still have significance today? Thus from the signing of the Declaration of Independence to the...
Penn State University Press, 2021. — 262 p. According to the popular maxim, a nation at war reveals its true character. In this incisive work, Chris Gilbert examines the long history of US war politics through the lens of political cartoons to provide new, unique insights into American cultural identity. Tracing the comic representation of American values from the First World...
London and New York, 2006. - 114 р.
Атлас представляет краткий обзор истории США от появления первого индейского поселения до 20 века.
(на английском языке)
W. W. Norton and Company, 2015. — 735 p. A powerful history of the making and unmaking of American democracy and global power, told in sweeping scope and intimate detail. In the winter of 1936, Franklin Roosevelt remarked in a fireside chat, “I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making.” Certainly apt in the midst of the Depression,...
Santa Barbara, Calif. : Greenwood Press, 2009. — xxii, 153 p. The Ku Klux Klan. Even today, the name conjures up terrifying images: faceless men in white robes with pointed hoods, flaming torches, fiery crosses, thundering horses, and brutal lynchings. But although its days of riding roughshod through the South are thankfully gone, the Klan does still exist, doing what it can...
Bantam Book, 1987. — 424 p. — ISBN: 0-553-37212-2. Say "the Sixties" and the images start coming, images of a time when all authority was defied and millions of young Americans thought they could change the world - either through music, drugs, and universal love or by "putting their bodies on the line" against injustice and war. Todd Gitlin, the highly regarded writer, media...
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania: Thomas Publications, 1993. — 230 p. William A. Gladstone, better known as Bill, or by his "sad pebble" email address, died in 2012 at 83, a preeminent collector of black militaria. This book is the culmination of his research and collecting of historical items relating to colored troops in the Civil War. The text is basic but wide ranging, leaving room...
University of Missouri Press, 2011. — 224 p. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, African American men were seldom permitted to join the United States armed forces. There had been times in early U.S. history when black and white men fought alongside one another; it was not uncommon for integrated units to take to battle in the Revolutionary War. But by the...
University of South Carolina Press, 2017. — 259 p. Ten scholars examine English identity, what makes it distinct, and its role in shaping American culture. To many, English immigrants contributed nothing substantial to the varied palette of ethnicity in North America. While there is wide recognition of German American, French American, African American, and Native American...
Columbia University Press, 2020. — 320 p. The story of the rise of the segregated suburb often begins during the New Deal and the Second World War, when sweeping federal policies hollowed out cities, pushed rapid suburbanization, and created a white homeowner class intent on defending racial barriers. Paige Glotzer offers a new understanding of the deeper roots of suburban...
Harvard University Press, 2021. — 452 p. Rotary International spreads America's good news. The organization spent the interwar years convincing Main Street and the world at large that America's promise lay in cooperation and service under capitalism, values that could knit the globe together. In the process, Brendan Goff argues, Rotary became an extension of US power.
Authors: Victoria Bissel Brown, Timothy J. Shannon. Many document readers offer lots of sources, but only Going to the Source combines a rich selection of primary sources with in-depth instructions for how to use each type of source. Mirroring the chronology of the U.S. history survey, each chapter familiarizes students with a single type of source while focusing on an...
Fordham University Press, 2016. — 200 p. Beginning in the 1880s, the economic realities and class dynamics of popular northern resort towns unsettled prevailing assumptions about political economy and threatened segregationist practices. Exploiting early class divisions, black working-class activists staged a series of successful protests that helped make northern leisure...
University of Illinois Press, 2001. — 719 p. Robert Justin Goldstein's Political Repression in Modern America provides the only comprehensive narrative account ever published of significant civil liberties violations concerning political dissidents since the rise of the post-Civil War modern American industrial state. A history of the dark side of the "land of the free,"...
William Morrow Paperbacks, 1991. — 404 p. Prologue: Who Found It? In Which England Plants This and That New Colonies and Baby Chickens When a Colony Grows Up, What Does It Do for a Living? Mighty Beefs from Little Beavers Grow In Which Happiness Is Pursued, Gun in Hand Shoes, Myths, the Constitution, Etc. Mr. Jefferson Throws a Party Manifest Dentistry, or the Great Uprooting...
Third Edition. — Indiana University Press, 2019. — 496 p. Responding to shifts in the political and economic experiences of Mexicans in America, this newly revised and expanded edition of Mexicanos provides a relevant and contemporary consideration of this vibrant community. Emerging from the ruins of Aztec civilization and from centuries of Spanish contact with indigenous...
Penguin Books, 2011. — 416 p. The first new edition in ten years of this important study of Latinos in U.S. history, Harvest of Empire spans five centuries-from the first New World colonies to the first decade of the new millennium. Latinos are now the largest minority group in the United States, and their impact on American popular culture-from food to entertainment to...
Second Revised and Updated Edition. — Penguin Publishing Books, 2022. — 489 p. The second new edition in ten years of this important study of Latinos in U.S. history, Harvest of Empire spans five centuries-from the first New World colonies to the first decade of the new millennium. Latinos are now the largest minority group in the United States, and their impact on American...
Princeton University Press, 2016. — 784 p. In the century after the Civil War, an economic revolution improved the American standard of living in ways previously unimaginable. Electric lighting, indoor plumbing, motor vehicles, air travel, and television transformed households and workplaces. But has that era of unprecedented growth come to an end? Weaving together a vivid...
HarperCollins, 2024. — 1064 р. — ISBN: 978-0-06-303629-1 A riveting history about the little-known rivalry between Margaret Sanger and Mary Ware Dennett that profoundly shaped reproductive rights in America In the 1910s, as the birth control movement was born, two leaders emerged: Margaret Sanger and Mary Ware Dennett. While Sanger would go on to found Planned Parenthood,...
SAGE Publications, 2006. — 460 p. This book is a fascinating and absorbing history of the India lobby in America during the pre-independence era―a little known chapter in the history of modern India. It documents the travails of early Indian migrants to North America and Canada from the beginning of the twentieth century to the end of the World War II. It captures their...
Regnery History, 2021. — 192 p. According the New York Times's "1619 Project," America was not founded in 1776, with a declaration of freedom and independence, but in 1619 with the introduction of African slavery into the New World. Ever since then, the "1619 Project" argues, American history has been one long sordid tale of systemic racism. Celebrated historians have debunked...
Charles Scribner's Sons & Thomson Gale, 2002. — 880 p. ISBN10: 0684312263 ISBN13: 9780684312262 (eng)
An essential resource for all American history buffs, this monumental work offers a comprehensive narrative history of the American presidency from the institution of the office in 1789 to the election of Bill Clinton to his second term in 1996. Each chapter is essentially a...
Indiana University Press, 2001. — 340 p. It begins with the search for hallowed ground, the exact place from which Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address. In bleak November, Kent Gramm makes a pilgrimage to the most famous battleground in American history and over the course of a month transforms his search into a discovery of the meaning of Lincoln's elegy for...
Metropolitan Books, 2019. — 384 p. Ever since this nation’s inception, the idea of an open and ever-expanding frontier has been central to American identity. Symbolizing a future of endless promise, it was the foundation of the United States’ belief in itself as an exceptional nation―democratic, individualistic, forward-looking. Today, though, America hasa new symbol: the border...
Cambridge University Press, 2012. - 472 pages. ISBN: 0521612799, 0521848253
Born out of violence and the aspirations of its early settlers, the United States of America has become one of the world's most powerful nations, even as its past continues to inform its present and to mould its very identity as a nation. The search for nationhood and the ambiguities upon which the...
Canada: Bibliotex, 2022. — 208 p. Presents survey of American history from pre-colonial times through Reconstruction. Explores economic, political, social and cultural factors that shaped the origins of the nation, including the Revolution, the Constitution and the Civil War.
Canada: Bibliotex, 2022. — 214 p. Presents survey of American history from pre-colonial times through Reconstruction. Explores economic, political, social and cultural factors that shaped the origins of the nation, including the Revolution, the Constitution and the Civil War.
Canada: Bibliotex, 2022. — 258 p. Presents survey of American history from pre-colonial times through Reconstruction. Explores economic, political, social and cultural factors that shaped the origins of the nation, including the Revolution, the Constitution and the Civil War.
Indiana University Press, 2022. — 468 p. A comprehensive history of one of the largest charitable organizations in early modern America. Drawing on extensive archival records, Beyond Benevolence tells the fascinating story of the New York Charity Organization Society. The period between 1880 and 1935 marked a seminal, heavily debated change in American social welfare and...
Oxford University Press (1815), 2015. — 502 p. This book addresses various approaches to interpreting a constitution. It is the third and final book on legal interpretation, following Legal Interpretation: Perspectives from Other Disciplines and Private Texts and Statutory and Common Law Interpretation. The overall theme is that techniques of constitutional interpretation are...
Yale: Yale University Press, 2009. — 536 p.
Shortly before 8 a.m. on 16 March 1968, C-Company, First Battalion, Twentieth Infantry, Eleventh Brigade, Americal Division, on a search-and-destroy mission in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, entered the small hamlet of My Lai. By noon every living being the troops could find was dead--about 500 women, children and old men had...
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. — 248 p. This book explores the evolution of early Americans’ first ways of making war to show how war waged against enemy noncombatant populations and agricultural resources ultimately defined Americans’ military heritage. Grenier explains the significance of Americans’ earliest wars with both Indians and Europeans, from the...
Praeger, 2018. — 362 p. Modern American Political Dynasties: A Study of Power, Family, and Political Influence is a unique research resource and fascinating read that explores the dynamics and modern America's most influential political families. It provides a thorough study of approximately 20 of the best-known surnames in 20th-century American politics. More than just a...
ABC-Clio, 2003. — 483 p. This dynamic, two-volume reference work covers the complete scandal-filled history of American political corruption. Over 350 information-packed entries explore the people, crimes, investigations and court cases behind 200 years of political scandals.
Grey House Publishing, 2009. — 596 p. Since 1789 there have been 53 Speakers of the House of the U.S. House of Representatives; 52 men and 1 woman have held the honor of presiding over this legislative body. This work is the only one of its kind, bringing together biographies and information about the position. The preface contains a brief history of the office and explores the...
Naval Historical Center, 1997 - 811 p. ISBN10: 0945274343 ISBN13: 9780945274346 (eng)
The fourth edition of United States Naval Aviation 1910–1995 is a testimony to Naval Aviation’s achievements as it prepares to enter the 21st century and its first one hundred years of service. The Naval Historical Center’s Aviation History Office has expanded on previous editions to make this...
Random House Publishing Group, 2009. — 288 p. Historical events of the last three centuries come alive through these women's singular correspondences--often their only form of public expression. In 1775, Rachel Revere tries to send financial aid to her husband, Paul, in a note that is confiscated by the British; First Lady Dolley Madison tells her sister about rescuing George...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. — 754 p. — (Palgrave Studies in American Economic History). — ISBN 978-3-030-13352-8. This book applies the contents of a working economist’s tool-kit to explain, clearly and intuitively, when and why over the course of four centuries individuals, families, and enterprises decided to locate in or around the lower Hudson River Valley. Collectively those...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. — 754 p. — (Palgrave Studies in American Economic History). — ISBN 978-3-030-13352-8. This book applies the contents of a working economist’s tool-kit to explain, clearly and intuitively, when and why over the course of four centuries individuals, families, and enterprises decided to locate in or around the lower Hudson River Valley. Collectively those...
Chicago: Charles H.Kerr & Company, 1910. — 296 p.
History of the Great American Fortunes by Gustavs Mayers.
Vol 1.
Part 1: Conditions in settlement and colonial times.
Part 2: The great land fortunes.
Chicago: Charles H.Kerr & Company, 1910. — 296 p.
History of the Great American Fortunes by Gustavs Mayers.
Vol 3.
Great Fortunes from Railroads (continued).
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 353 p. Nicholas Guyatt offers a completely new understanding of a central question in American history: How did Americans come to think that God favored the United States above other nations? Tracing the story of American providentialism from the founding of Virginia to the collapse of Reconstruction, this book uncovers the British roots of...
Shippensburg, PA: White Mane Publishing, 1992. - 393 pgs.
This is a reference book of muster rolls along with narrative pages designed to provide a connection to the data. Archivist Randy Hackenburg has used period newspapers, eyewitness accounts, official records, and original documents in the Pennsylvania Archives, as a supplement to the story of troops who left Pittsburgh on...
Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2019. — 450 p. This collection of essays explores the way history itself has become a contested element within the national legal debate about firearms. The debate over the Second Amendment has unveiled new and useful information about the history of guns and their possession and meaning in the United States of America. History itself has...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. — 298 p. This book is distinctive because it will be a political science oriented introduction to The Federalist Papers. As most of the editions have introductions by historians, and some of them quite good, there is no readily available edition with a political science focus. Such a focus would not ignore the historical dimensions of the founding and...
Greenwood, 2016. — 954 p. What does it take to get elected president of the United States―"leader of the free world"? This book gives readers insight into the major issues and events surrounding American presidential elections across more than two centuries, from the earliest years of the Republic through the campaigns of the 21st century. The race for the presidency...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 376 p. Alexander Hamilton (1757-1804) was an illegitimate West Indian emigrant who became the first U.S. Secretary of the Treasury. American Machiavelli focuses on Hamilton's controversial activities as foreign policy adviser and aspiring military leader. In the first major study of his foreign policy role in 30 years, John Lamberton Harper...
Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2019. — 944 p. : 188 b&w photos, 10 b&w maps. — (The Texas Bookshelf Series). The story of Texas is the story of struggle and triumph in a land of extremes. It is a story of drought and flood, invasion and war, boom and bust, and of the myriad peoples who, over centuries of conflict, gave rise to a place that has helped shape the identity of...
Fortress Press, 2021. — 395 p. Black Hands, White House documents and appraises the role enslaved women and men played in building the US, both its physical and its fiscal infrastructure. The book highlights the material commodities produced by enslaved communities during the Transatlantic Slave Trade. These commodities--namely tobacco, rice, sugar, and cotton, among...
Fortress Press, 2021. — 395 p. Black Hands, White House documents and appraises the role enslaved women and men played in building the US, both its physical and its fiscal infrastructure. The book highlights the material commodities produced by enslaved communities during the Transatlantic Slave Trade. These commodities--namely tobacco, rice, sugar, and cotton, among...
Temple University Press, 2021. — 224 p. Battle lines have long been drawn over how food is produced, what food is made available to whom, and how best to protect consumers from risky or unhealthy food. Jeffrey Haydu resurrects the history of food reform and protest in Upsetting Food, showing how activists defined food problems, articulated solutions, and mobilized for change in...
Simon and Schuster, 2016. — 267 p. In this startling investigation into the suppressed history of America in the 1800s, Xaviant Haze reveals how the powerful Rothschild banking family and the Central Banking System, now known as the Federal Reserve Bank, provide a continuous thread of connection between the War of 1812, the Civil War, the financial crises of the 1800s, and...
Greenwood, 2004. — 288 p. In the early years of the American Republic the political ideals of the Revolution took definite form, and pervaded the daily lives of Americans in multifarious ways, affirming and transforming the country and its people in the process. In this informative and eminently readable resource, award-winning authors David and Jeanne Heidler discuss the...
Greenwood, 2007. — 280 p. While soldiers were off fighting on the fields of war, civilians on the home front fought their own daily struggles, sometimes removed from the violence but often enough from deep within the maelstrom of conflict. Chapters provide readers with an excellent, detailed description of how women, children, slaves, and Native Americans coped with privation and...
Greenwood, 2007. — 216 p. In post-Civil War America, civilians were ordinarily far-removed from the actual fighting. War brought about tremendous and far-reaching changes to America's society, politics, and economy nonetheless. Readers are offered detailed glimpses into the lives of ordinary folk struggling with the privations, shortages, and anxieties brought on by U.S. entry...
History Press, 2015. — 160 p. Elegant remnants of the Victorian era grace almost every corner of Cape May. Wealthy locals built opulent homes like the Emlen Physick Estate and the George Allen House, while grand hotels like Congress Hall and the Chalfonte welcomed visitors from around the country. Even presidents came for the healthful sea air and distinguished venues. Yet the...
ABC-CLIO, 2016. — 380 p. Covering American cons and hoaxes past and present, including the Great Moon Hoax of 1835, the controversy over "subliminal messaging" (do bands, filmmakers, and advertisers really put secret messages in their works?), the panic about "satanic" daycare operators in the 1980s, and recent Internet scams, this book provides a fascinating, fact-based look...
Bedford/St. Martin's, 2007. - 1184 pages. "How did that happen?" students wonder about their past. America’s History provides a clear explanation. Instructors rely on America’s History to help them teach that history matters — this means helping their students understand not only what happened, but also why. For the new, sixth edition, the authors took a hard look at all...
8th edition. — Bedford/St. Martin's, 2014. — 672 p. — ISBN10: 1457628171; ISBN13: 978-1457628177. Known for its interpretive voice and thoughtful analysis, America's History models exactly the kind of thinking and writing students need to be successful. An accessible and balanced narrative with built-in primary sources and skills-based pedagogy gives students practice in...
4th edition. — New York—Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2010. — 1202 p. — ISBN: 978-9-312-48541-2. Brief and affordable, yet careful not to sacrifice elements vital to student learning, America gives students and instructors everything they want, and nothing they don’t. The authors’ own abridgement preserves the hallmark explanatory powerof the parent text, helping students to...
Bruce Henstell and Rosebud Books, 1980. — 230 p. — ISBN: 978-0-394509-41-2. Los Angeles: An Illustrated History is an attempt to get all the people who have ever made up the city of Los Angeles to sit still long enough for a group portrait. It has not been easy and at first might be thought more than slightly chimerical in nature. The problems have been more than just finding a...
The Foreign Policy Research Institute — First Division Museum at Cantigny , August 2013. — 258 p. A Resource for Teachers and Students. Teaching America’s military history is an important civic duty because “We the People” are responsible for the common defense and therefore should know something about it. At the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI), we encourage teachers to...
University Press of Kentucky, 2009. — 408 p. When the Louisville and Nashville Railroad was founded in 1850, it was the first major railroad in the west, and the only one headquartered in Kentucky. In the twentieth century, the L&N grew into one of the nation's major rail systems, reaching from the Great Lakes to the Ohio River Valley and down to Florida and the Gulf Coast....
Bedford/St. Martin'sр 2014. — 496 p. Exploring American Histories, Value Edition , presents Nancy Hewitt and Steven Lawson's new U.S. history narrative in a two-color trade format with selected maps and images from the full-length text. The authors explore a variety of racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic perspectives and recognize the political, social, and economic contributions of...
Bison Books, 2007. — 428 p. ISBN10: 0803260393 ISBN13: 9780803260399 (eng)
Nebraska author Mari Sandoz remarked that most people see Nebraska as that long flat state that sets between me and any place I want to go. If so, they’re missing plenty, as this entertaining volume makes abundantly clear. Susan A. Wunder and John R. Wunder’s new, expanded, and updated edition of Donald...
Oneida, N. Y.: Office of the American Socialist, 1878. — 183 p. In describing American Communities the author has not deemed it necessary to commend any one of them as a model. The best of them but imperfectly illustrate the advantages of Communism, and some of them, it may as well be frankly confessed, have many objectionable features; but Communism, it should be considered,...
University of North Carolina Press, 2020. — 410 p. Analyzing published and archival oral histories of formerly enslaved African Americans, Libra R. Hilde explores the meanings of manhood and fatherhood during and after the era of slavery, demonstrating that black men and women articulated a surprisingly broad and consistent vision of paternal duty across more than a century....
PM Press - 2009 - 73 p. - ISBN: 978-1-60486-106-8 An alternative and unorthodox view of the colonization of the Americas by Europeans is offered in this concise history. Eurocentric studies of the conquest of the Americas present colonization as a civilizing force for good, and the native populations as primitive or worse. Colonization is seen as a mutually beneficial process,...
ABC-CLIO, 2005. — 877 p. — (Industrial Revolution in America). — ISBN: 1-85109-625-6. An impressive set of books on the Industrial Revolution, these comprehensive volumes cover the history of steam shipping, iron and steel production, and railroads―three interrelated enterprises that helped shift the Industrial Revolution into overdrive. The first set of volumes in ABC-CLIO's...
Free Press, 2012. — 512 p. In this bold re-evaluation of a decisive moment in American modern history, author Michael Hiltzik dispels decades of accumulated myths and misconceptions about the American New Deal to capture with clarity and immediacy its origins, its legacy, and its genius.
Oneida, N. Y.: Office of the American Socialist, 1878. — 183 p. In describing American Communities the author has not deemed it necessary to commend any one of them as a model. The best of them but imperfectly illustrate the advantages of Communism, and some of them, it may as well be frankly confessed, have many objectionable features; but Communism, it should be considered,...
University of Missouri Press, 1997. — 272 p. No history of racism in America can be considered complete without taking into account the role that George Washington—the principal founding father—played in helping to mold the racist cast of the new nation. Because General Washington—the universally acknowledged hero of the Revolutionary War—in the postwar period uniquely combined...
Bureau of the Census, 1975. — 659 p. Acknowledgments for Chapter Contributions. Chapter. Population. Vital Statistics and Health and Medical Care. Migration. Labor. Prices and Price Indexes. National Income and Wealth. Consumer Income and Expenditures. Social Statistics. Land, Water, and Climate. Agriculture. Forestry and Fisheries. Minerals. Appendix: Contributors to This...
Bureau of the Census, 1975. — 640 p. Acknowledgments for Chapter Contributions. Chapter. Construction and Housing. Manufactures. Transportation. Communications. Energy. Distribution and Services. International Transactions and Foreign Commerce. Business Enterprise. Productivity and Technological Development. Financial Markets and Institutions. Government. Colonial and...
Dublin, UK: Hourly History Ltd., 2019. — (US Presidency Book 3). — 85 p. In this one-hour history book, discover the US Presidents from the 20th Century, the main events of their presidency, and their impact on America’s history! In the 20th century, the nation had come of age and a brand-new political landscape was taking shape. It was during the 20th century that the U.S....
Madison House Publishers, 1997. — 256 p. While the transition urban African Americans made from slavery to freedom in the North has been the subject of much scholarship, the experiences of their rural counterparts has remained largely hidden. Focusing on the development of a single African American community in eastern New Jersey, Professor Hodges examines the experience of...
Boston: Wadsworth, 2011. — 512 p. ISBN: 0495915130. 3 edition
Designed to encourage critical thinking about history, the MAJOR PROBLEMS IN AMERICAN HISTORY series introduces readers to both primary sources and analytical essays on important topics in U.S. history. This collection serves as a primary anthology for introductory U.S. history, covering the subject’s entire...
Indiana University Press, 2002. — 432 p. — (A History of the Trans-Appalachian Frontier). Florida has had many frontiers. Imagination, greed, missionary zeal, disease, war, and diplomacy have created its historical boundaries. Bodies of water, soil, flora and fauna, the patterns of Native American occupation, and ways of colonizing have defined Florida’s frontiers. Paul E....
Vintage, 2012. — 447 p. Volume II gathers historical documents from the period of the American Revolution through the Jacksonian era, up to the Civil War and the Emancipation. To fit both Colonial and Early National courses, documents covering 1765-1776 appear at the beginning of this volume and at the end of Volume I.
Routledge, 2010. — 405 p. Vanderbilt, Carnegie, Rockefeller, Ford, Drew, Fisk, Harriman, Du Pont, Morgan, Mellon, Insull, Gould, Frick, Schwab, Swift, Guggenheim, Hearst- these are only a few of the foundation giants that have changed the face of America. They gave living reality to that great golden legend-The American Dream. Most were self-made in the Horatio Alger tradition....
Scarecrow Press, 2003. — 559 p. New England, the most clearly defined region in the United States, includes the six states of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont. The region, settled by Native Americans by 10,000 BC, is home to 14 million people today. But in a larger sense, New England has become home to all Americans. Not only is Boston the...
University of North Carolina Press, 1999. — 256 p. In this provocative reinterpretation of one of the best-known events in American history, Woody Holton shows that when Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and other elite Virginians joined their peers from other colonies in declaring independence from Britain, they acted partly in response to grassroots rebellions against...
A visual celebration of nearly 400 years of New York City's history. — New York : H. Holt and Co., 1994. — 192 p. This atlas surveys the history of New York City in more than 50 double-page spreads combining a map with brief text, illustrations, and other graphics. Each spread focuses on a particular theme such as "Stuyvesant's City," "From Iron Age to Skyscraper," "Broadway,"...
Cornell University Press. 2018. — 392 p. Mischa Honeck’s Our Frontier Is the World is a provocative account of how the Boy Scouts echoed and enabled American global expansion in the twentieth century. The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) has long been a standard bearer for national identity. The core values of the organization have, since its founding in 1910, shaped what it means...
Princeton University Press, 2018. — 960 p. American Empire is a panoramic work of scholarship that presents a bold new global perspective on the history of the United States. Drawing on his expertise in economic history and the imperial histories of Britain and Europe, A. G. Hopkins takes readers from the colonial era to today to show how, far from diverging, the United States and...
Princeton University Press, 2018. — 960 p. American Empire is a panoramic work of scholarship that presents a bold new global perspective on the history of the United States. Drawing on his expertise in economic history and the imperial histories of Britain and Europe, A. G. Hopkins takes readers from the colonial era to today to show how, far from diverging, the United States and...
Greenwood, 2011. — 1010 p.
ISBN10: 0313341125 ISBN13: 9780313341120 (eng)
African American populations are established in every area of the United States, including Hawaii and Alaska (more than10 percent of the population of Fairbanks, Alaska, is African American). Black Americans have played an invaluable role in creating our great nation in myriad ways, including their...
University of Chicago Press, 2017. — 302 p. Instructive, amusing, colorful—pictorial maps have been used and admired since the first medieval cartographer put pen to paper depicting mountains and trees across countries, people and objects around margins, and sea monsters in oceans. More recent generations of pictorial map artists have continued that traditional mixture of...
Penguin Press, 2019. — 476 p. With Spying on the South, the best-selling author of Confederates in the Attic returns to the South and the Civil War era for an epic adventure on the trail of America's greatest landscape architect. In the 1850s, the young Frederick Law Olmsted was adrift, a restless farmer and dreamer in search of a mission. He found it during an extraordinary...
Independently published, 2019. — 39 p. For thirteen years, from 1920 to 1933, the transportation and sale of alcoholic beverages were prohibited in America. This “Noble Experiment” was undertaken because its supporters believed that alcohol was the single major cause of both crime and poverty. They believed that prohibiting alcohol would lead to the end of poverty and slum housing...
1663. – 1 fol. В 60-х годах XVII века английские колонисты из Коннектикута и Массачусетса на востоке и северо-востоке и из Мэриленда и Виргинии на юге и юго-западе все чаще стали посягать на территории голландской колонии Новые Нидерланды, которая располагалась на территории современного Нью-Йорка, Нью-Джерси, Делавэра и Коннектикута. Данное обращение, или жалоба, опубликованное в...
Guilford, Conn. : Lyons Press, 2002. — viii, 200 p. Flags of the Fifty States and their Incredible Histories is an indispensable historic reference and a fascinating, beautiful pictorial guide to the rich history and diversity of our fifty states.
2nd Edition — Oxford University Press, 2016. — 184 p. A 2012 survey by the Pew Research Center reported that Asian Americans are the best-educated, highest-income, and best-assimilated racial group in the United States. Before reaching this level of economic success and social assimilation, however, Asian immigrants' path was full of difficult, even demeaning, moments. This book...
University of North Carolina Press, 2012. — 352 p. Although conventionally treated as separate, America's four wars in Asia were actually phases in a sustained U.S. bid for regional dominance, according to Michael H. Hunt and Steven I. Levine. This effort unfolded as an imperial project in which military power and the imposition of America's political will were crucial....
Wiley-Blackwell, 2022. — 608 p. Provides a solid foundation for understanding American agricultural history and offers new directions for research. A Companion to American Agricultural History addresses the key aspects of America’s complex agricultural past from 8,000 BCE to the first decades of the twenty-first century. Bringing together more than thirty original essays by...
University of California Press, 2018. — 384 p. Shaped by the West is a two-volume primary source reader that rewrites the history of the United States through a western lens. America’s expansion west was the driving force for issues of democracy, politics, race, freedom, and property. William Deverell and Anne F. Hyde provide a nuanced look at the past, balancing topics in...
University of California Press, 2018. — 384 p. Shaped by the West is a two-volume primary source reader that rewrites the history of the United States through a western lens. America’s expansion west was the driving force for issues of democracy, politics, race, freedom, and property. William Deverell and Anne F. Hyde provide a nuanced look at the past, balancing topics in...
University of California Press, 2018. — 384 p. Shaped by the West is a two-volume primary source reader that rewrites the history of the United States through a western lens. America’s expansion west was the driving force for issues of democracy, politics, race, freedom, and property. William Deverell and Anne F. Hyde provide a nuanced look at the past, balancing topics in...
University of California Press, 2018. — 384 p. Shaped by the West is a two-volume primary source reader that rewrites the history of the United States through a western lens. America’s expansion west was the driving force for issues of democracy, politics, race, freedom, and property. William Deverell and Anne F. Hyde provide a nuanced look at the past, balancing topics in...
University of California Press, 2018. — 384 p. Shaped by the West is a two-volume primary source reader that rewrites the history of the United States through a western lens. America’s expansion west was the driving force for issues of democracy, politics, race, freedom, and property. William Deverell and Anne F. Hyde provide a nuanced look at the past, balancing topics in...
Princeton University Press, 2011. — 288 p. How could the United States, a nation founded on the principles of liberty and equality, have produced Abu Ghraib, torture memos, Plamegate, and warrantless wiretaps? Did America set out to become an empire? And if so, how has it reconciled its imperialism--and in some cases, its crimes--with the idea of liberty so forcefully expressed...
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019. — 528 p. — ISBN: 978-0374172145. We are familiar with maps that outline all fifty states. And we are also familiar with the idea that the United States is an “empire,” exercising power around the world. But what about the actual territories―the islands, atolls, and archipelagos―this country has governed and inhabited? In How to Hide an Empire,...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. — 262 p. An examination of how the US military in Hawaii is depicted by museum curators, memorial builders, film makers, and newspaper reporters. These mediums convey information, and engage their audiences, in ways that, together, form a powerful advocacy for the benefits of militarism in the islands.
Cambridge University Press, 1995. — 256 p. The book describes the history of the foreign relations of the United States during 1913-1945, the period of two world wars as well as of momentous changes that brought to an end the period of European domination. The United States emerged as the key global power, actively participating in wars but also promoting trade and investment...
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“The Hawaiian Archipelago” is a great eyewitness account of Hawaii in 1863, by one of the era's most intrepid travelers, after it had been impacted by its collision with the American and European powers but while it was still a robust independent Kingdom and before its forced assimilation into the USA. Isabella Bird...
Viking, 2016. — 480 p. In her groundbreaking history of the class system in America, extending from colonial times to the present, Nancy Isenberg takes on our comforting myths about equality, uncovering the crucial legacy of the ever-present, always embarrassing––if occasionally entertaining––poor white trash The wretched and landless poor have existed from the time of the...
Routledge, 2017. — 205 p. This volume explores the significant connections between the Quaker community and the abolitionist cause in America. The case studies that make up the collection mainly focus on the greater Philadelphia area, a hotbed of the abolitionist movement and the location of the first American abolition society founded in 1775. Despite the importance of Quakers...
DocUmeant Publishing, 2021. — 319 p. Florida has a long and rich history of pirates plundering its shores, cities, and shipping lanes. Tales of Florida pirates abound from Key West to Pensacola and from Miami to Jacksonville. But how much of it is true? Exaggerations of true pirate histories have been told and retold for centuries, giving rise to imaginary pirate heroes, and...
New York: Vintage Books, 1992. — 474 p. — ISBN: 067974195X, 9780679741954 A direct and fundamentally optimistic indictment of the short-sightedness and intellectual arrogance that has characterized much of urban planning in this century, The Death and Life of Great American Cities has, since its first publication in 1961, become the standard against which all endeavors in that...
Metropolitan Books, 2004. — 1087 p. — ISBN: 0-8050-7442-2. Revolutionary Secularism. The Age of Reason and Unreason. Lost Connections : Anticlericalism, Abolitionism, and Feminism. The Belief and Unbelief of Abraham Lincoln. Evolution and Its Discontents. The Great Agnostic and the Golden Age of Freethought. Dawn of the Culture Wars. Unholy Trinity: Atheists, Reds, Darwinists....
New York: Allison & Busby, 1985. — 178 p. Political theorist and cultural critic, novelist and cricket enthusiast, C. L. R. James (1901 - 1989) was a brilliant polymath who has been described by Edward Said as "a centrally important 20th-century figure." Through such landmark works as The Black Jacobins, Beyond a Boundary, and American Civilization, James's thought continues to...
Columbia University Press, 2022. — 345 p. The Republican Party was founded in 1854 to oppose slavery and its spread to new territories and states. Today, under the sway of Donald Trump, it is hardly recognizable as the party of Lincoln or even the party of Eisenhower. How and why has the Republican Party changed so drastically? Kenneth Janda sheds new light on the Republican...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. — 278 p. This book presents the case that the origins of American liberty should not be sought in the constitutional-reformist feats of its “statesmen” during the 1780s, but rather in the political and social resistance to their efforts. There were two revolutions occurring in the late 18th century America: the modern European revolution “in favour of...
Free Press, 2008. — 336 p. A historical assessment of the origins of modern American war-making and its implications for democracy contends that America's powerful world position has fostered dangerous inclinations toward militarism and imperialism while giving way to the war in Iraq and other conflicts.
Wiley Publishing Inc., 2005. - 354 p. 6 edition A complete guide to two of Texas's most diverse and exciting cities Shows visitors how to have a great time in San Antonio, a multicultural city with a rich history (the Alamo) and lots of contemporary attractions (including over forty golf courses) Reveals San Antonio's most memorable experiences-from a stroll along the San...
HarperCollins Publishers, 2019. — 544 p. — ISBN: 978-0-062960-09-1. How did a small group of powerful intelligence officials convince tens of millions of Americans that the president is a traitor, without a shred of evidence? Now that every detail and argument set forth in the #1 New York Times bestseller The Russia Hoax has been borne out by the Mueller report, the author is...
Oxford University Press, 2006. — 344 p. Decade of Nightmares: The End Of The Sixties and the Making of Eighties America In a timely account, Jenkins (Dream Catchers) argues that between 1975 and 1986, Americans reacted against '60s radicalism, setting the stage for conservatism's triumphs in the 1980s. During these years, Americans panicked: about angel dust, the Equal Rights...
Oxford University Press, 1988. — 384 p. For mid-19th-century Americans, the Mexican War was not only a grand exercise in self-identity, legitimizing the young republic's convictions of mission and destiny to a doubting world; it was also the first American conflict to be widely reported in the press and to be waged against an alien foe in a distant and exotic land. It provided a...
Poison Vine Books, 2009. — 102 p.
These are a few of the lies we must believe if America’s political system, culture and world dominance is to endure. Our faith in them insures we never question who we are, how we live or the world we have made. They are essential. We can’t live as we do without them. This list is for all Americans—progressive, conservative, moderate or...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. — 312 p. Recent events--the Citizens United Supreme Court decision, the Occupy Wall Street movement, and efforts to increase the minimum wage, among others--have driven a tremendous surge of interest in the political power of business. Capital Gains collects some of the most innovative new work in the field. The chapters explore the...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 664 p. The United States is entering a period of profound uncertainty in the world political economy--an uncertainty which is threatening the liberal economic order that its own statesmen created at the end of the Second World War. The storm surrounding this threat has been ignited by an issue that has divided Americans since the nation's...
Routledge, 2022. — 236 p. The Woman Suffrage Movement in the United States presents important moments and participants in the history of the American suffrage movement, ranging from the mid-nineteenth century through the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920. The book highlights the many participants in the suffrage movement, including well-known leaders, lesser-known...
Oxford University Press, 2007. — 349 p. — (Very Short Introductions). The American founding fathers were dedicated to the project of creating a government both functional and incapable of devolving into tyranny. To do this, they intentionally decentralized decision making among the legislative, executive, and judiciary branches. They believed this separation of powers would force...
Globe Pequot Press, 2023. — 128 p. — eBook ISBN: 978-1-4930-4731-4. Lighthouses of the Great Lakes combines the fascinating history and lore of approximately forty-one lighthouses with stunning color and black-and-white photographs. Focusing on the lighthouses of Lake Michigan and Lake Superior, this beautifully illustrated book provides stirring descriptions of the lighthouses...
Beacon Press, 2021. — 256 p. The first book to show that immigration laws in the US have always been motivated by racial exclusion and the desire to save the idea of a white America. Racist anti-immigration policies, from the border wall to the Muslim ban, have left many Americans wondering: How did we get here? In a sweeping account, Reece Jones reveals that although the US is...
University of Massachusetts Press, 2022. — 345 p. Explores the rich and varied environmental history of the American region over the past 12,000 years. Bounded by the St. Lawrence Valley to the north, Lake Champlain to the west, and the Gulf of Maine to the east, New England may be the most cohesive region in the United States, with a long and richly recorded history. In this...
Hardcover: 740 pages Publisher: ABC-CLIO (March 20, 2007) Language: English ISBN10: 1851095446 ISBN13: 978-1851095445 A comprehensive, contextual presentation of all aspects―social, political, and economic―of slavery in the United States, from the first colonization through Reconstruction. • Ten major essays and 300 A–Z entries cover all aspects of slavery • Over 100...
Tampere: University of Eastern Finland, 2016. — 206 p. — ISBN: 97S-952-61-2240-3; ISBN: 978-952-61-2231-1 — (Dissertations in Social Sciences and Business Studies, No 130) The behavior and deeds of American statesman Robert Morris (1734-1806) in his political and financial actions were already very controversial issues among his eighteenth-century contemporaries, and even...
Alfred A Knopf, 2006. — 527 p. ISBN10: 0375411054 ISBN13: 9780375411052 (eng)
From the author of the immensely influential and best-selling Of Paradise and Power—a major reevaluation of America’s place in the world from the colonial era to the turn of the twentieth century.
Robert Kagan strips away the myth of America’s isolationist tradition and reveals a more complicated...
H.W. Wilson Company, 2001. — 731 p. Includes a biographical chapter on each president, plus a statistical section with comparative information on such areas as religion, family histories, and education. The Presidents of the United States, from George Washington to George W. Bush, are subjects of continuing popular interest and scholarly research. About these forty-two men...
Oxford University Press, 2022. — 304 p. An insightful, persuasive, and honest defense of immigration as central to the United States' economic power and national security. America was built by immigrants, yet there has long been strong political opposition to immigration. In recent years, the hostility toward immigration has reached a tipping point. While partisan fighting and...
Harvard University Press, 2007. — 352 p. The danger of deportation hangs over the head of virtually every non-citizen in the United States. In the complexities and inconsistencies of immigration law, one can find a reason to deport almost any noncitizen at almost any time. In recent years, the system has been used with unprecedented vigour against millions of deportees. We are...
Harvard University Press, 2003. — 272 p. The United States has always imagined that its identity as a nation is insulated from violent interventions abroad, as if a line between domestic and foreign affairs could be neatly drawn. Yet this book argues that such a distinction, so obviously impracticable in our own global era, has been illusory at least since the war with Mexico...
Athabasca University Press, 2011. — 388 p. Amer-European settlement of the Great Plains transformed bountiful Native soil into pasture and cropland, distorting the prairie ecosystem that the peoples who originally populated the land had long understood and were able to use wisely. Settlers justified this transformation with the unexamined premise of deficiency, according to which...
University of North Carolina Press, 2006. — 288 p. What is Americanism? The contributors to this volume recognize Americanism in all its complexity--as an ideology, an articulation of the nation's rightful place in the world, a set of traditions, a political language, and a cultural style imbued with political meaning. In response to the pervasive vision of Americanism as a...
Alfred A. Knopf, 2011. — 352 p. — ISBN10 0307266281; ISBN13 978-0307266286. The definitive history of the reformers, radicals, and idealists who fought for a different America, from the abolitionists to Michael Moore and Noam Chomsky. While the history of the left is a long story of idealism and determination, it has also been a story of movements that failed to gain support...
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022. — 416 p. The Democratic Party is the world’s oldest mass political organization. Since its inception in the early nineteenth century, it has played a central role in defining American society, whether it was exercising power or contesting it. But what has the party stood for through the centuries, and how has it managed to succeed in elections...
Pearson Education, 2011. - 1040 Pages. ISBN: 0205092667 2nd Edition See history. Understand history. Praised by instructors and students alike, the first edition of Visions of America has brought history to life for a generation of visual learners–and has shown how competing visions of America have shaped our nation’s past. We’ve made the second edition of this program even...
Oxford University Press, 2009. — 384 p.
Hailed in The New York Times Book Review as "the single best book written in recent years on the sweep of American political history," this groundbreaking work divides our nation's history into three "regimes," each of which lasts many, many decades, allowing us to appreciate as never before the slow steady evolution of American politics,...
Oxford University Press, 2005. — 320 p. ISBN10: 0195181344 ISBN13: 9780195181340 Volume I (eng)
The two volumes of Kelley and Lewis's To Make Our World Anew integrate the work of eleven leading historians into the most up-to-date and comprehensive account available of African American history, from the first Africans brought as slaves into the Americas, right up to today's...
Nation Books, 2016. — 363 p. Stamped From the Beginning - The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi is the National Book Award winning history of how racist ideas were created, spread, and deeply rooted in American society. Some Americans insist that we're living in a post-racial society. But racist thought is not just alive and well in America--it is...
Nation Books, 2016. — 363 p. Stamped From the Beginning - The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi is the National Book Award winning history of how racist ideas were created, spread, and deeply rooted in American society. Some Americans insist that we're living in a post-racial society. But racist thought is not just alive and well in America--it is...
Nation Books, 2016. — 363 p. Stamped From the Beginning - The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi is the National Book Award winning history of how racist ideas were created, spread, and deeply rooted in American society. Some Americans insist that we're living in a post-racial society. But racist thought is not just alive and well in America--it is...
Nation Books, 2016. — 363 p. Stamped From the Beginning - The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi is the National Book Award winning history of how racist ideas were created, spread, and deeply rooted in American society. Some Americans insist that we're living in a post-racial society. But racist thought is not just alive and well in America--it is...
Holbrook, Massachusetts: Adams Media Corporation, 1995. - 268 pgs. The history of Massachusetts is American history. Beyond the classic schoolbook milestones-the Salem Witch Trials, the Boston Tea Party, and the midnight ride of Paul Revere-Massachusetts has been a hotbed of social reform and political upheaval, and a center of progressive development in the arts and sciences ever...
Oxford University Press, 2001. — 992 p. — (Oxford History of the United States). — ISBN 0-19-503834-7. A grand historical synthesis...this is the kind of book prizes are made for."--Chicago Tribune"This is modern America's story--modern America's most thrilling, most irresistible, and most significant story--and in this massive volume, David M. Kennedy makes it his story in a...
Princeton University Press, 2019. — 248 p. Federalism was James Madison's great invention. An innovative system of power sharing that balanced national and state interests, federalism was the pragmatic compromise that brought the colonies together to form the United States. Yet, even beyond the question of slavery, inequality was built into the system because federalism by its...
Basic Books, 2000. — 496 p. Most Americans take for granted their right to vote, whether they choose to exercise it or not. But the history of suffrage in the U.S. is, in fact,the story of a struggle to achieve this right by our society's marginalized groups. In The Right to Vote, Duke historian Alexander Keyssar explores the evolution of suffrage over the course of the...
Yale University Press, 2016. — 344 p.
Thomas Kidd, a widely respected scholar of colonial history, deftly offers both depth and breadth in this accessible, introductory text on the American Colonial era. Interweaving primary documents and new scholarship with a vivid narrative reconstructing the lives of European colonists, Africans, and Native Americans and their encounters in...
B&H Academic, 2019. — 704 p. In this combined edition, the full content of volumes 1 and 2 of Thomas Kidd’s American History are brought together in a single, accessible textbook. This sweeping narrative spans the full scope of American history from the first Native American societies to the political and cultural struggles of contemporary times. In clear, readable prose, and...
B&H Academic, 2019. — 352 p. American History, volume I surveys the broad sweep of American history from the first Native American societies to the end of the Reconstruction period, following the Civil War. Drawing on a deep range of research and years of classroom teaching experience, Thomas S. Kidd offers students an engaging overview of the first half of American history....
Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing, 2014. — 128 pgs. This is a photographic history containing more than 200 images paired with a descriptive narrative that follows the illustrious story of more than 150 years of wartime service. The book highlights little-known facts about the leaders, soldiers, and units that shaped Wisconsin’s military history. It begins with the...
Harper Perennial, 2013. — 464 p. In 1949, Florida's orange industry was booming, and citrus barons got rich on the backs of cheap Jim Crow labor. To maintain order and profits, they turned to Willis V. McCall, a violent sheriff who ruled Lake County with murderous resolve. When a white seventeen-year-old Groveland girl cried rape, McCall was fast on the trail of four young...
A famous speech of Martin Luther King in english.
Martin Luther King, Jr. named Michael King at birth(January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American clergyman, activist, and prominent leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement.He is best known for his role in the advancement of civil rights using nonviolent civil disobedience. King has become a national icon in the...
Cambridge: University Press, 2024. — 351 p. Lisa A. Kirschenbaum is an award-winning author whose research explores how individuals navigated the traumas of the twentieth century — reconstructs the epic journey of the two Soviet funnymen and their encounters with a vast cast of characters, ranging from famous authors, artists, poets, and fi lmmakers to unemployed hitchhikers and...
Office of Curriculum and Professional Development Department of Social Studies, 2008. - 198p. The Planning Framework. How This Unit Was Developed. Teacher Background: Colonial America and The American Revolution. Brainstorm Web. Essential Question. Sample Daily Planner. Learning and Performance Standards. Social Studies Scope and Sequence. Principles Guiding Quality Social...
Center of Military History United States Army Washington, D.C., 2011. — 295 p. Documenting Military History Through Artists’ Eyes and in Their Own Words. We can look at an artist’s work and try to visualize what the artist had in mind when he or she was creating the picture. When the artist’s thoughts are available to us, they open a window into the creative process. This book,...
2nd edition, The University Press of Kentucky, 2018. — 560 p. — ISBN 978-0-8131-7650-5. When originally published, A New History of Kentucky provided a comprehensive study of the Commonwealth, bringing it to life by revealing the many faces, deep traditions, and historical milestones of the state. With new discoveries and findings, the narrative continues to evolve, and so does...
Santa Barbara, California: Bellerophon Books, 1984. — 46 p. The history of Los Angeles from the earliest Spanish settlement to the late nineteenth century is presented with full-color illustrations, many from the Bancroft Library. The fights of early California history involving Spanish lancers, vaqueros, and American soldiers are depicted.
University of Nebraska Press, 2023. — 394 p. In the late nineteenth century, at a time when Americans were becoming more removed from nature than ever before, U.S. soldiers were uniquely positioned to understand and construct nature’s ongoing significance for their work and for the nation as a whole. American ideas and debates about nature evolved alongside discussions about...
Hill and Wang, 2003. — 352 p. The single best short survey in America, now updated. Includes a New Preface and Afterward. In terms of accessibility and comprehensive coverage, Kolchin's American Slavery is a singularly important achievement. Now updated to address a decade of new scholarship, the book includes a new preface, afterword, and revised and expanded bibliographic...
Reaktion Books, 2017. — 304 p. The small ears of corn once grown by Native Americans have now become row upon row of cornflakes on supermarket shelves. The immense seas of grass and herds of animals that supported indigenous people have turned into industrial agricultural operations with regular rows of soybeans, corn, and wheat that feed the world. But how did this happen and...
Reaktion Books, 2017. — 304 p. The small ears of corn once grown by Native Americans have now become row upon row of cornflakes on supermarket shelves. The immense seas of grass and herds of animals that supported indigenous people have turned into industrial agricultural operations with regular rows of soybeans, corn, and wheat that feed the world. But how did this happen and...
Canada: Bibliotex, 2022. — 209 p. Presents survey of American history from pre-colonial times through Reconstruction. Explores economic, political, social and cultural factors that shaped the origins of the nation, including the Revolution, the Constitution and the Civil War.
Crown, 2018. — 416 p. Little more than a century ago, the southern coast of California--bone-dry, harbor-less, isolated by deserts and mountain ranges--seemed destined to remain scrappy farmland. Then, as if overnight, one of the world's iconic cities emerged. At the heart of Los Angeles' meteoric rise were three flawed visionaries: William Mulholland, an immigrant ditch-digger...
Adventures Unlimited Press, 2013. — 368 p. Everyone likes a good mystery, be it based in fact or fiction. The history of the United States is full of mysterious facts that are not taught in school, and most people don't know the untold stories surrounding many historical events. In The Secret History of the United States author Kross brings these little known stories to life....
University of Minnesota Press, 2015. — 225 p.
What do our myths say about us? Why do we choose to believe stories that have been disproven? David M. Krueger takes an in-depth look at a legend that held tremendous power in one corner of Minnesota, helping to define both a community’s and a state’s identity for decades.
In 1898, a Swedish immigrant farmer claimed to have...
Basic Books, 2023. — 252 p. America’s top historians set the record straight on the most pernicious myths about our nation’s past. The United States is in the grip of a crisis of bad history. Distortions of the past promoted in the conservative media have led large numbers of Americans to believe in fictions over facts, making constructive dialogue impossible and imperiling our...
University of Chicago Press, 2022. — 254 p. A deeply relevant look at what fascism means to Americans. From the time Mussolini took power in Italy in 1922, Americans have been obsessed with and brooded over the meaning of fascism and how it might migrate to the United States. Fascism Comes to America examines how we have viewed fascism overseas and its implications for our own...
Routledge, 2014. — 312 p. When we think of American terrorism, it is modern, individual terrorists such as Timothy McVeigh that typically spring to mind. But terrorism has existed in America since the earliest days of the colonies, when small groups participated in organized and unlawful violence in the hope of creating a state of fear for their own political purposes. Using...
Routledge, 2013. — 302 p. When we think of American terrorism, it is modern, individual terrorists such as Timothy McVeigh that typically spring to mind. But terrorism has existed in America since the earliest days of the colonies, when small groups participated in organized and unlawful violence in the hope of creating a state of fear for their own political purposes. Using...
Cornell University Press, 1967. — 457 p. This classic work, by the distinguished historian Walter LaFeber, presents his widely influential argument that economic causes were the primary forces propelling America to world power in the nineteenth century. Cornell University Press is proud to issue this thirty-fifth anniversary edition, featuring a new preface by the author.
Brill, 2016. — 392 p. — (Studies in Critical Social Sciences 93). America, beginning as a small group of devout Puritan settlers, ultimately became the richest, most powerful Empire in the history of the world, but having reached that point, is now in a process of implosion and decay. This book, inspired by Frankfurt School Critical Theory, especially Erich Fromm, offers a...
AMACOM books, 2009. — 544 p. Ever since the first colonists landed in “The New World,” Americans have forged ahead in their quest to make good on the promises of capitalism and independence. This book vividly illustrates the history of business in the United States from the point of view of the enterprising men and women who made it happen. Weaving together vivid narrative with...
Yale University Press, 2002. — 412 p. A key figure in the administrations of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman, Benjamin V. Cohen (1894-1983) was made a major architect of public policy from the first days of FDR's presidency through the early days of the Cold War. Although he kept a low public profile, Cohen's influence extended across a wide range of domestic and...
Harvard: Harvard University Press, 1966. — 460 p. History of political concerns over Communism in the United States from the New Deal of the 1930s to the Red Scare of the 1940s-1950s. Earl Latham presents the first scholarly analysis of the origins, events, and aftermath of one of the most turbulent and controversial periods in American political history—the “McCarthy era.” Part...
University of Nebraska Press, 2018. — 396 p. In comparison to such regions as the South, the far West, and New England, the Midwest and its culture have been neglected both by scholars and by the popular press. Historians as well as literary and art critics tend not to examine the Midwest in depth in their academic work. And in the popular imagination, the Midwest has never...
University of Nebraska Press, 2018. — 396 p. In comparison to such regions as the South, the far West, and New England, the Midwest and its culture have been neglected both by scholars and by the popular press. Historians as well as literary and art critics tend not to examine the Midwest in depth in their academic work. And in the popular imagination, the Midwest has never...
Harmony Books, 1991. — 324 p.
A tour guide to battlefields, monuments, historic homes, and other sites, with maps and some 150 photographs and illustrations. Supplementary information includes a chronology of the war, organization of both governments and armies with capsule biographies of leaders, and a source guide to Civil War publications, videos, libraries, and collections.
Penguin Press, 2013. - 304 р. In the heart of America, a metropolis is quietly destroying itself. Detroit, once the richest city in the nation, is now its poorest. Once the vanguard of America’s machine age—mass production, automobiles, and blue-collar jobs—Detroit is now America’s capital for unemployment, illiteracy, foreclosure, and dropouts. A city the size of San Francisco...
Simon & Schuster, 2015. — 530 p. The Making of Asian America shows how generations of Asian immigrants and their American-born descendants have made and remade Asian American life, from sailors who came on the first trans-Pacific ships in the 1500 to the Japanese Americans incarcerated during World War II. Over the past fifty years, a new Asian America has emerged out of...
ABC-CLIO, 2018. — 224 p. Asian American History Day by Day: A Reference Guide to Events provides a uniquely interesting way to learn about events in Asian American history that span several hundred years (and the contributions of Asian Americans to U.S. culture in that time). The book is organized in the form of a calendar, with each day of the year corresponding with an entry...
Princeton University Press, 2019. — 305 p. — ISBN 9780691191171. Marking the centenary of the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920, Votes for Women is the first richly illustrated book to reveal the history and complexity of the national suffrage movement. For nearly a hundred years, from the mid-nineteenth century onward, countless American women fought for the...
Philadelphia: Running Press, 2012. — 312 p. The author writes of his experiences as the underboss of the notorious Philadelphia Mafia in the nineteen eighties under his uncle Nicky Scarfo, and how he helped to bring down several powerful criminals by informing for the federal government. Little Nicky & Crazy Phil In plain sight La cosa nostra (This thing of ours) Young Philip...
Spiegel & Grau, 2015. — 384 p.
On a warm spring evening in South Los Angeles, a young man was shot and killed on a sidewalk minutes away from his home, one of hundreds of young men slain in LA every year. His assailant ran down the street, jumped into an SUV, and vanished, hoping to join the vast majority of killers in American cities who are never arrested for their crimes....
W. W. Norton & Co., 2018. — 960 p. In the most ambitious one-volume American history in decades, award-winning historian Jill Lepore offers a magisterial account of the origins and rise of a divided nation. Widely hailed for its “sweeping, sobering account of the American past” ( New York Times Book Review ), Jill Lepore’s one-volume history of America places truth itself—a...
Princeton University Press, 2011. — 232 p. Americans have always put the past to political ends. The Union laid claim to the Revolution--so did the Confederacy. Civil rights leaders said they were the true sons of liberty--so did Southern segregationists. This book tells the story of the centuries-long struggle over the meaning of the nation's founding, including the battle...
University of California Press, 1997. — 372 p. This book analyzes the triangle of interactions among the medical profession, state authorities, and women in the practice, policing, and politics of abortion during the era when abortion was a crime. As individual women consulted with doctors, they made them understand their needs. Sympathy for their female patients drew...
Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1985. — vii, 328 p. : ill. This book examines the needs for and availability of statistics concerning immigrants and immigration. It concentrates on the needs for statistics on immigrants, refugees, and illegal aliens for policy and program purposes, on the adequacy of the statistics that are produced and of the statistical systems...
Reference USA, 2000. - 3200 p.
This new edition admirably continues the standard set in 1986 of providing high-quality, insightful, and thorough essays by leading constitutional scholars, law school professors, judges, historians, and political scientists on practical and theoretical topics dealing with every aspect of constitutional law in the U.S., from the Constitutional...
Yale University Press, 2005. — 350 p. The Hudson River has always played a vital role in American culture. Flowing through a valley of sublime scenery, the great river uniquely connects America’s past with its present and future. This book traces the course of the river through four centuries, recounting the stories of explorers and traders, artists and writers, entrepreneurs...
New York: Avon Books, 1995. - 423 pgs. "You cannot understand the twentieth century without Hiroshima." So begins this profound and transforming book about the aftermath of America's use of the atomic bomb against Japan at the end of World War II. The authors, who have studied the atomic bombings for decades, illuminate what really happened on August 6, 1945, the day the city of...
MIT Press, 2020. — 468 p. A number of curious communities sprang up across the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century: simulated cities, states, and nations in which children played the roles of legislators, police officers, bankers, journalists, shopkeepers, and other adults. They performed real work—passing laws, growing food, and constructing...
Oxford University Press, 2008. — 197 p. Why has it been so long since an American president has effectively and consistently presented well-crafted, intellectually substantive arguments to the American public? Why have presidential utterances fallen from the rousing speeches of Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Wilson, and FDR to a series of robotic repetitions of talking points and...
Princeton University Press, 2016. — 424 p. Unequal Gains offers a radically new understanding of the economic evolution of the United States, providing a complete picture of the uneven progress of America from colonial times to today. While other economic historians base their accounts on American wealth, Peter Lindert and Jeffrey Williamson focus instead on income―and the...
Second Edition. 2007, 468 pages. ISBN13: 978-0-7432-9628-1. "Every teacher, every student of history, every citizen should read this book. It is both a refreshing antidote to what has passed for history in our educational system and a one-volume education in itself.". Howard Zinn, author of A Peopled History of the United States. Introduction to the Second Edition....
University Press of Mississippi, 2011. — 424 p. Most Americans hold basic misconceptions about the Confederacy, the Civil War, and the actions of subsequent neo-Confederates. For example, two thirds of Americans--including most history teachers--think the Confederate States seceded for -states' rights.- This error persists because most have never read the key documents about...
New York: Random House, 2012. — 864 p. Качество: изначально электронное
This is an outstanding piece of scholarship on the subject of France's war in Indochina and how it became America's war in Vietnam. It is also an exceedingly well-written piece of literature. Avoiding theoretical constructs and academic language, Logevall has provided a first-rate history that will appeal...
Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2012. — 257 p. This book provides a comprehensive sociological explanation for the emergence and continuation of organized crime in Chicago. Tracing the roots of political corruption that afforded protection to gambling, prostitution, and other vice activity in Chicago and other large American cities, Robert M. Lombardo challenges the...
City Lights Publishers, 2021. — 610 p. While historical accounts of the United States typically focus on the nation's military past, a rich and vibrant Counterpoint remains basically unknown to most Americans. This alternate story of the formation of our nation—and its character―is one in which courageous individuals and movements have wielded the weapons of nonviolence to...
Pantheon Books, 2020. — 928 p. A monumental, canon-defining anthology of three centuries of American essays, from Cotton Mather and Benjamin Franklin to David Foster Wallace and Zadie Smith. Many of the essays Phillip Lopate has gathered here address themselves--sometimes critically--to American values, but even in those that don't, one can detect a subtext about being...
The Arthur H. Clark Company, 2016. — 312 p. By 1870, only one group of American Indians in the 300,000 square miles of the Dakota and Montana Territories still held firm against being placed on reservations: a few thousand Teton Sioux and Northern Cheyennes, all followers of the charismatic Sitting Bull. It was then that Philadelphia’s Jay Cooke, “the financier of the Civil War,”...
Ludwell Denny. We Fight for Oil. N-Y-L. 1928. The United States became an economic empire, circling seas and continents, penetrating the very capitals of older empires. Now no major development can occur in any foreign country without touching some American interest. With Europe poor from the war, with undeveloped continents opening to exploitation, America's surplus wealth...
Indiana University Press, 2019. — 89 p. As a border state and strategic territory, Kentucky was fiercely contested by the Union and the Confederacy and had ties to both Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis. Kentucky natives and adventure aficionados Cameron M. Ludwick and Blair Thomas Hess plot the course for a fun-filled road trip through history and across the Bluegrass State...
Washington, D.C.: The Joint Chiefs of Staff, 1945. — 129 p. На англ. языке; качество местами посредственное.
Рассекреченные материалы разведслужб США о нефтедобывающей и нефтеперерабатывающей промышленности стран Оси, обобщенные сотрудниками Enemy Oil Committee. Приведена переписка об использовании этих материалов.
New York: The Vanguard Press, 1937. — XXII, 544 p. In this work we are not concerned with the methods, legal or illegal, by which the great American fortunes of today were created. These fortunes exist. Their potentialities for good or evil are not altered whether we accept Gustavus Meyers* account of their formation or whether we give credence to the late John D. Rockefeller’s...
New York: D.Appleton and Co., 1901. — 1490 p. History often has to consider events which did not occur equally with those which did. When in 1803 Napoleon sold the vast Louisiana territories to the United States he anticipated the creation within a few years of a new maritime power capable of challenging the naval supremacy of England. It was not though until 1880-1920 that the...
University Of Chicago Press, 2010. — 219 p. On August 5, 1949, a crew of fifteen of the United States Forest Service's elite airborne firefighters, The Smoke Jumpers, stepped into the sky above a remote forest fire in the Montana wilderness. Two hours after their jump, all but three of these men were dead or mortally burned from a "blowup" -- an explosive, 2,000-degree...
Crown, 2023. — 416 p. ISBN-10: 0593444515 ISBN-13: 978-0593444511 Rachel Maddow traces the fight to preserve American democracy back to World War II, when a handful of committed public servants and brave private citizens thwarted far-right plotters trying to steer our nation toward an alliance with the Nazis. “A ripping read—well rendered, fast-paced and delivered with the same...
ABC-Clio, 2015. — 2279 p. — ISBN10: 1610694295. — ISBN13: 978-1610694292 This four-volume encyclopedia chronicles the historical roots of the United States' current military dominance, documenting its growth from continental expansionism to hemispheric hegemony to global empire. Overviews the history of American imperialism through chronologically arranged entries that are...
Hachette, 2004. — 288 p. Meticulously researched both here and abroad, The Kennedys examines the Kennedy's as exemplars of the Irish Catholic experience. Beginning with Patrick Kennedy's arrival in the Brahmin world of Boston in 1848, Maier delves into the deeper currents of the often spectacular Kennedy story, and the ways in which their immigrant background shaped their...
RosettaBooks, 2013. — 1357 p. Award-winning historian and biographer William Manchester, author of The Last Lion, an epic three-volume biography of Winston Churchill, brings us an evocative exploration of the American way of life from 1932 to 1972. Covering almost every facet of American culture during a very diverse and tumultuous period in history, Manchester’s account is...
Harvard University Press, 2003. - 358 Pages. This subtle, wide-ranging study examines changing attitudes towards insolvency and their importance to the economy and self-image of the early American republic. Mann, a professor of law and history at the University of Pennsylvania, shows how debtor-relief movements like Shay's Rebellion, a post-Revolution wave of business failures...
Harper, 2016. — 656 p. Drawing on previously hidden historical documents and interviews with the long-silent "illegitimate" branch of the family, William J. Mann paints an elegant, meticulously researched, and groundbreaking group portrait of this legendary family. Mann argues that the Roosevelts’ rise to power and prestige was actually driven by a series of intense personal...
Greenwood Publishing, 2004. — 446 p. From the French and Indian War in 1754, with Benjamin Franklins Join or Die cartoon, to the present war in Iraq, propaganda has played a significant role in American history. The Historical Dictionary of American Propaganda provides more than 350 entries, focusing primarily on propaganda created by the U.S. government throughout its existence....
Simon & Schuster, 2003. — 592 p. Here is the epic story of Vietnam and thesixties told through the events of a few tumultuous days in October 1967. David Maraniss takes the reader on an unforgettable journey to the battlefields of war and peace. With meticulous and captivating detail, They Marched Into Sunlight brings that catastrophic time back to life while examining...
ABC-CLIO, 2014. — 1163 p. Despite decades of effort and billions of dollars spent to combat the problem, illicit drug use in the United States is still rampant and shows no sign of abating. Covering illegal drugs ranging from marijuana and LSD to cocaine and crystal meth, this authoritative reference work examines patterns of drug use in American history, as well as drug...
Lexington Books, 2014. — 282 p. Since Congress was established in 1789, seven members have been assassinated and several others have been the victims of attempted assassinations or other acts of violence. Additionally, eight members of Congress have died while serving in Congress in other ways. These incidents have taken place throughout the existence of the United States and...
Harvard University Press, 1988. — 472 p. Explores George Washington's historical and present iconographycal meaning for America, as Revolutionary general, Father of His Country, first president, hero, and creator of a constitutional government. Two Prayers in the Snow Colonial Culture in the 1980s. Teatime at Valley Forge The Philadelphia Centennial Exposition of 1876.....
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. — 288 p. Aaron W. Marrs challenges the accepted understanding of economic and industrial growth in antebellum America with this original study of the history of the railroad in the Old South. Drawing from both familiar and overlooked sources, such as the personal diaries of Southern travelers, papers and letters from civil engineers,...
Self-published, 2021. — 35 p. The history of African-Americans has been complicated and controversial. While some will fight against racism, others deny the severity of it throughout the ages. Whether or not the issue is as serious as it used to be, is a separate topic for debate. In this guide, you will not read much about opinions but about facts. Society has come a long way...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. — 296 p. — ISBN 978-3-319-95944-3, ISBN 978-3-319-95945-0. The first volume to synthesize the reactions of leading cultural sociologists to the 2016 presidential election. Provides a comprehensive accounting of the election’s key actors, institutions, and processes. Allows scholars and students to see the methodologies and theories of cultural...
Oxford University Press, 2020. — 384 р. In The Sum of Our Dreams, Louis P. Masur offers a sweeping yet compact history of America from its beginnings to the current moment. For general readers seeking an accessible, single-volume account, one that challenges but does not overwhelm, and which distills and connects the major events and figures in the country's past in a single...
University Press of Florida, 2015. — 392 p. Historical and archaeological evidence shows that racism defined the social fabric of the northeastern states as much as it did the Deep South. This collection of essays looks at both new sites and well-known areas to explore race, resistance, and white supremacy in the region. With essays covering rural communities, small towns, and...
Oxford University Press, Inc., 2000. — 369 p. How to use this book American woman`s history Important dates Museums and historical sites Further reading
7th Edition. — Routledge, 2018. — xiv, 439 p. — ISBN 9781138631724 1138631728. The hugely successful American Civilization provides students of American Studies with the perfect background and introductory information on contemporary American life, examining the central dimensions of American society from geography and the environment, government and politics, to religion,...
New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Company, 2008. — 768 p., illus. Finalist for the National Book Award, winner of the J. Anthony Lucas Book Prize, winner of the Commonwealth Club Silver Prize for Nonfiction. William Lloyd Garrison, the most significant abolitionist in American history, is brought to life in this extensively researched and exquisitely nuanced biography. Long denied...
Doubleday, 2016. — 464 p. Why is America living in an age of profound economic inequality? Why, despite the desperate need to address climate change, have even modest environmental efforts been defeated again and again? Why have protections for employees been decimated? Why do hedge-fund billionaires pay a far lower tax rate than middle-class workers? The conventional answer is...
Beacon Press, 2021. — 272 p. The first intersectional history of the Black and Native American struggle for freedom in our country that also reframes our understanding of who was Indigenous in early America. Beginning with pre-Revolutionary America and moving into the movement for Black lives and contemporary Indigenous activism, Afro-Indigenous historian Kyle T. Mays argues...
University of Virginia Press, 2017. — 272 p. In Pulpit and Nation, Spencer McBride highlights the importance of Protestant clergymen in early American political culture, elucidating the actual role of religion in the founding era. Beginning with colonial precedents for clerical involvement in politics and concluding with false rumors of Thomas Jefferson’s conversion to...
Sentient Publications, 2006. — 336 p. The terrorist attacks of September 11 2001 led most American citizens to feel that we are no longer safe and secure in our communities. However, terrorism is not a new phenomenon in the United States. This book chronicles 37 such assaults on American soil from the end of the Civil War to the present day. Not only are the most infamous...
Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2000. - 102 pages.
No nation in modern history has had a more powerful sense of its own distinctiveness than the United States. Yet few Americans understand the immensely varied sources of that sense and the fascinating debates that have always swirled around our attempts to define America with greater precision. In this introduction to the...
University of Wisconsin Press, 2009. — 672 p. At the dawn of the twentieth century, the U.S. Army swiftly occupied Manila and then plunged into a decade-long pacification campaign with striking parallels to today’s war in Iraq. Armed with cutting-edge technology from America’s first information revolution, the U.S. colonial regime created the most modern police and intelligence...
University of Wisconsin Press, 2009. — 705 p. At the end of the nineteenth century the United States swiftly occupied a string of small islands dotting the Caribbean and Western Pacific, from Puerto Rico and Cuba to Hawaii and the Philippines. "Colonial Crucible: Empire in the Making of the Modern American State" reveals how this experiment in direct territorial rule subtly but...
Harvard University Press, 2010. — 456 p.
The story of the Confederate States of America, the proslavery, antidemocratic nation created by white Southern slaveholders to protect their property, has been told many times in heroic and martial narratives. Now, however, Stephanie McCurry tells a very different tale of the Confederate experience. When the grandiosity of Southerners'...
Oxford University Press, 1999. - 230 pgs. The First Battle of Manassas claimed the lives of approximately 878 soldiers and wounded another 2,
489. With a battlefield stretching nearly five miles, 15,000 Union and 14,000 Confederate soldiers clashed for four fateful days, many of them young and terrified and receiving their first taste of a long and bitter war. Their courage,...
HarperCollins, 2004. — 456 p. — ISBN: 978-0-06-182466-1. A powerful reinterpretation of the founding of America, by a Pulitzer Prize -- winning historian "The creation of the United States of America is the central event of the past four hundred years," declares Walter McDougall in his preface to Freedom Just Around the Corner. With this statement begins McDougall's most...
Harper Collins, 2008. — 816 p. "And then there came a day of fire!" From its shocking curtain-raiser—the conflagration that consumed Lower Manhattan in 1835—to the climactic centennial year of 1876, when Americans staged a corrupt, deadlocked presidential campaign (fought out in Florida), Walter A. McDougall's Throes of Democracy: The American Civil War Era, 1829-1877 throws...
Thompson, 2003. - 1134 pages.
Grade 9 Up–This comprehensive, accessible set will serve as a useful supplement for research. Myriad aspects of the crisis are covered in almost 550 alphabetically arranged, cross-referenced articles written by hundreds of international scholars. About 200 of the articles are biographies. Topics are easily located via a practical outline in volume...
Cambridge University Press, 1990. — 392 p.
The living resources of California's rivers and coastal waters are among the most varied and productive in the world. They also offer a laboratory example of the mismanagement and waste that have attended the settlement and development of the North American continent. The Fisherman's Problem is a study of the interaction among resource...
Harvard University Press, 2009. — 384 p. Книга на английском языке. In a meticulously researched and engagingly written narrative, Brian McGinty rescues the story of Abraham Lincoln and the Supreme Court from long and undeserved neglect, recounting the compelling history of the Civil War president's relations with the nation's highest tribunal and the role it played in...
Charleston, South Carolina: Acadia Publishing, 2004. - 128 pgs. The Images of America series celebrates the history of neighborhoods, towns, and cities across the country using archival photographs. This volume is dedicated to Fort Riley, Kansas, founded in 1853 to protect merchants and settlers on the Santa Fe and Oregon-California Trails. Fort Riley kept the peace during the...
Stanford University Press, 2011. — 352 p. In 1917, Fort Ord was established in the tiny subdivision of Seaside, California. Over the course of the 20th century, it held great national and military importance—a major launching point for World War II operations, the first base in the military to undergo complete integration, the West Coast's most important training base for...
Cornell University Press, 2008. — 311 p. The reformer James Redpath (1833–1891) was a focal figure in many of the key developments in nineteenth-century American political and cultural life. He befriended John Brown, Samuel Clemens, and Henry George and, toward the end of his life, was a ghostwriter for Jefferson Davis. He advocated for abolition, civil rights, Irish...
Harper, 1997. — 352 p. "The war in Vietnam was not lost in the field, nor was it lost on the front pages of the New York Times or the college campuses. It was lost in Washington, D.C." -- H. R. McMaster (from the Conclusion) Dereliction Of Duty is a stunning new analysis of how and why the United States became involved in an all-out and disastrous war in Southeast Asia. Fully...
Harper, 1997. — 352 p. "The war in Vietnam was not lost in the field, nor was it lost on the front pages of the New York Times or the college campuses. It was lost in Washington, D.C." -- H. R. McMaster (from the Conclusion) Dereliction Of Duty is a stunning new analysis of how and why the United States became involved in an all-out and disastrous war in Southeast Asia. Fully...
Chelsea House Publications, 2010. - 144 pages.
"Discovering U.S. History" spans the complex and varied history of the United States from prehistoric times to the present day. This new chronological set can be read as a whole, providing readers with a comprehensive history, or as standalone volumes, with each title serving as a time capsule of a particular era. Each title brings...
Chelsea House Publications, 2010. - 136 pages.
"Discovering U.S. History" spans the complex and varied history of the United States from prehistoric times to the present day. This new chronological set can be read as a whole, providing readers with a comprehensive history, or as standalone volumes, with each title serving as a time capsule of a particular era. Each title brings...
Chelsea House Publications, 2010. - 136 pages. "Discovering U.S. History" spans the complex and varied history of the United States from prehistoric times to the present day. This new chronological set can be read as a whole, providing readers with a comprehensive history, or as standalone volumes, with each title serving as a time capsule of a particular era. Each title brings...
Chelsea House Publications, 2010. - 136 pages.
"Discovering U.S. History" spans the complex and varied history of the United States from prehistoric times to the present day. This new chronological set can be read as a whole, providing readers with a comprehensive history, or as standalone volumes, with each title serving as a time capsule of a particular era. Each title brings...
Chelsea House Publications, 2010. — 128 p. "Discovering U.S. History" spans the complex and varied history of the United States from prehistoric times to the present day. This new chronological set can be read as a whole, providing readers with a comprehensive history, or as standalone volumes, with each title serving as a time capsule of a particular era. Each title brings to...
Chelsea House Publications, 2010. - 136 pages. "Discovering U.S. History" spans the complex and varied history of the United States from prehistoric times to the present day. This new chronological set can be read as a whole, providing readers with a comprehensive history, or as standalone volumes, with each title serving as a time capsule of a particular era. Each title brings...
Chelsea House Publications, 2010. - 144 pages.
"Discovering U.S. History" spans the complex and varied history of the United States from prehistoric times to the present day. This new chronological set can be read as a whole, providing readers with a comprehensive history, or as standalone volumes, with each title serving as a time capsule of a particular era. Each title brings...
Chelsea House Publications, 2010. - 136 pages.
"Discovering U.S. History" spans the complex and varied history of the United States from prehistoric times to the present day. This new chronological set can be read as a whole, providing readers with a comprehensive history, or as standalone volumes, with each title serving as a time capsule of a particular era. Each title brings...
Purdue University Press, 2009. — 157 p. This book describes what Josiah E. DuBois, Jr., did to help bring about the rescue of Jews from the Holocaust. It is neither a biography of DuBois nor a comprehensive history of the War Refugee Board, the U.S. government rescue agency that he helped bring into existence and of which he was a leader. Those are books that remain to be...
Crown Forum, 2016. — 398 p. The history of the United States displays an uncanny pattern: At moments of crisis, when the odds against success seem overwhelming and disaster looks imminent, fate intervenes to provide deliverance and progress. Historians may categorize these incidents as happy accidents, callous crimes, or the product of brilliant leadership, but the most notable...
Yale University Press, 2000. — 473 p. This is the third of four volumes in a series acclaimed by both historians and geographers for its breathtaking scope and originality. D. W. Meinig continues his riveting account of America’s interwoven history and geography, describing the expanding country’s development from the mid-nineteenth century to 1915. To accompany his...
Yale University Press, 2006. — 467 p. This landmark book, the concluding volume in a magisterial series, presents the story of America’s interwoven history and geography from 1915 to 2000. Discussing such developments as the automotive, neotechnic, and communications revolutions, the world wars, urban migration, and regionalism, D.W. Meinig offers unprecedented insights into...
Oxford University Press, 2000. — 278 p. —ISBN 0-19-513182-7. This revealing book synthesizes research from many fields to offer the first complete history of the roles played by weather and climate in American life from colonial times to the present. Author William B. Meyer characterizes weather events as neutral phenomena that are inherently neither hazards nor resources, but...
New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. — 275 р. This is a surprisingly singular study of the U.S. Presidents who somehow didn't make it into the common history of our nation. Michael Gerhardt's objective seems to be to prove that they are an essential part of our constitutional history, even if they are not remembered by most of us. But "forgotten'' is a relative term here....
Ulysses Press, 2011. — 240 p. — ISBN10: 1569758603. Americans have been taught that their nation is civilized and humane. But, too often, U.S. actions have been uncivilized and inhumane. — Howard Zinn. Shedding light on 500 years of suppression, this shocking exposé reveals the pivotal role in American history played by its most invisible minority—zombies. From colonization and...
Algora Publishing, 2011. — 254 p. The book examines critical moments in American history, with particular focus on the Kennedy assassination, 9/11, and the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections. It exposes flaws in the conventional wisdom in each case, in a non-partisan manner that separates political ideology from an objective analysis of the facts. The author’s style is at...
LSU Press, 2020. — 304 p. In North Carolina’s Free People of Color, 1715–1885, Warren Eugene Milteer Jr. examines the lives of free persons categorized by their communities as “negroes,” “mulattoes,” “mustees,” “Indians,” “mixed-bloods,” or simply “free people of color.” From the colonial period through Reconstruction, lawmakers passed legislation that curbed the rights and...
The University of South Carolina Press, 2018. — 240 p. — ISBN: 978-1-611178-70-3. Single, White, Slaveholding Women in the Nineteenth-Century American South investigates the lives of unmarried white women―from the pre- to the post-Civil War South―within a society that placed high value on women's marriage and motherhood. Marie S. Molloy examines female singleness to incorporate...
Legacy Lit, 2024. — 424 p. The Stolen Wealth of Slavery. A Case for Reparations by David Montero is a groundbreaking book that tracks the massive wealth amassed from slavery from pre-Civil War to today, showing how our modern economy was built on the backs of enslaved Black people—and lays out a clear argument for reparations that shows exactly what was stolen, who stole it,...
Legacy Lit, 2024. — 424 p. The Stolen Wealth of Slavery. A Case for Reparations by David Montero is a groundbreaking book that tracks the massive wealth amassed from slavery from pre-Civil War to today, showing how our modern economy was built on the backs of enslaved Black people—and lays out a clear argument for reparations that shows exactly what was stolen, who stole it,...
Legacy Lit, 2024. — 424 p. The Stolen Wealth of Slavery. A Case for Reparations by David Montero is a groundbreaking book that tracks the massive wealth amassed from slavery from pre-Civil War to today, showing how our modern economy was built on the backs of enslaved Black people—and lays out a clear argument for reparations that shows exactly what was stolen, who stole it,...
Legacy Lit, 2024. — 424 p. The Stolen Wealth of Slavery. A Case for Reparations by David Montero is a groundbreaking book that tracks the massive wealth amassed from slavery from pre-Civil War to today, showing how our modern economy was built on the backs of enslaved Black people—and lays out a clear argument for reparations that shows exactly what was stolen, who stole it,...
Cambridge University Press, 2013. — 362 p. This book tells the story of constitutional government in America during the period of the social question. After the Civil War and Reconstruction, and before the second Reconstruction and cultural revolution of the 1960s, Americans dealt with the challenges of the urban and industrial revolutions. In the crises of the American...
University of Chicago Press, 2012. — 239 p. In The Birth of the Republic, 1763–1789, Edmund S. Morgan shows how the challenge of British taxation started Americans on a search for constitutional principles to protect their freedom, and eventually led to the Revolution. By demonstrating that the founding fathers’ political philosophy was not grounded in theory, but rather grew...
Zenith Press, 2011. - 163 p.
The history of African Americans and the military is complicated by blacks' efforts to fight for recognition as citizens to be able to serve in the military as well as the rigors of fighting overseas once in the military. Morris, the grandson of two decorate army officers, offers a sweeping look at the history of the American military service by...
Последний салют: Гражданские и военные похороны 1921-1969. Department of the Army, Washington, 1991. 456 стр. Язык английский. 134 рис., много таблиц, более 200 фотографий. Книга рассказывает о всех похоронах значительных граждан Америки в годы 1921-1969.
Yale University Press, 2009 - 368 p. ISBN10: 0300152760 ISBN13: 9780300152760 (eng)
According to the prevailing view of counterinsurgency, the key to defeating insurgents is selecting methods that will win the people’s hearts and minds. The hearts-and-minds theory permeates not only most counterinsurgency books of the twenty-first century but the U.S. Army/Marine Corps...
Pathfinder, 1991. — 100 p. Reveals many little-known facts about the role and treatment of the Black GIs Publishers Weekly. Dr. Mullen combines in one volume a much needed chronology of Black American participation in American wars from the Revolution to Vietnam and an in-depth examination of Black attitudes toward these wars. Mullen offers a quick, readable overview of...
The University of North Carolina Press, 2007. - 214 p. ISBN: 978-0-8078-3173-1 Review "Excellent evidence-driven research...[A] valuable contribution." -American Studies "[A] clearly written history...A close and nuanced reading of the hunt for Japanese American disloyalty during World War II...Points to new areas of profitable research for historians of Japanese America." -...
Routledge, 2020. — 474 p. The Routledge History of American Sexuality brings together contributions from leading scholars in history and related fields to provide a far-reaching but concrete history of sexuality in the United States. This interdisciplinary group of authors explores a wide variety of case studies and concepts to provide an innovative approach to the history of...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017. — 208 p. Pieces of paper that claimed to be good for two dollars upon redemption at a distant bank. Foreign coins that fluctuated in value from town to town. Stock certificates issued by turnpike or canal companies―worth something... or perhaps nothing. IOUs from farmers or tradesmen, passed around by people who could not know the person...
Crown Publishing Group, 2012. — 416 p. — ISBN: 0307453421, From the bestselling author of Losing Ground and The Bell Curve, this startling long-lens view shows how America is coming apart at the seams that historically have joined our classes. In Coming Apart, Charles Murray explores the formation of American classes that are different in kind from anything we have ever known,...
1998, ISBN: 0844770949, 50 pages.
This work examines the relationship between economic inequality and Intelligence Quotient (IQ), to see how much of observed income inequality is attributable to differences in earning capabilities that are closely associated with differences in cognitive ability.
By John M. Murrin, Paul E. Johnson, James M. McPherson, Alice Fahs, Gary Gerstle. — 6th Edition. — Cengage Learning, 2013. — 496 p. — ISBN10: 1133947743; ISBN13: 978-1133947745. How did America transform itself, in a relatively short time, from a land inhabited by hunter-gatherer and agricultural Native American societies into the most powerful industrial nation on earth?...
Cambridge University Press, 2013. — 304 p. — (Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions).
This book offers an analytical explanation for the origins of and change in property institutions on the American frontier during the nineteenth century. Its scope is interdisciplinary, integrating insights from political science, economics, law, and history. This book shows how...
Arcadia Publishing, 2016. — 176 p. An estimated three thousand shipwrecks lie off the coast of New Jersey - but these icy waters hold more mysteries than sunken hulls. Ancient arrowheads found on the shoreline of Sandy Hook reveal Native American settlement before the land was flooded by melting glaciers. In 1854, 240 passengers of the New Era clipper ship met their fate off...
University of North Carolina Press, 2015. — 392 p. In this expansive book, David Narrett shows how the United States emerged as a successor empire to Great Britain through rivalry with Spain in the Mississippi Valley and Gulf Coast. As he traces currents of peace and war over four critical decades--from the close of the Seven Years War through the Louisiana Purchase--Narrett...
Palgrave Macmillan, 1998. — 335 p. For nearly four centuries, Americans have debated the government's proper role in developing the economy. Some argue that the economy develops the best when government intervenes the least. Others counter that the economy best develops when government and business work together to that end. A Short History of American Industrial Policies...
Potomac Books, 2014. — 376 p. Although Abraham Lincoln was among seven presidents who served during the tumultuous years between the end of the Mexican War and the end of the Reconstruction era, history has not been kind to the others: Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, Andrew Johnson, and Ulysses S. Grant. In contrast, history sees Abraham...
Palgrave Macmillan, 1997. — 263 p. Throughout most of American history, natural resource policies reflected the dominant philosophy of cornucopianism. As conservationism and environmentalism arose to struggle with cornucopianism for mass public acceptance, so too did the policies that flowed from those respective philosophies. The result has increasingly been a range of federal...
2nd Revised edition. — Amsco School Publications, 2010. — 768 p. Covers the process of preparing for the Advanced Placement U.S. history exam, from deciding on a strategy and evaluating strengths and weaknesses through practice exams and reviewing the subject area.
Washington: United States Government printing office, 2005. — 389 p. Page Biography Funeral Services for the Late Ronald Reagan, Held at— U.S. Capitol Rotunda Washington National Cathedral Ronald Reagan Presidential Library Memorial Tributes in the House of Representatives of the United States Memorial Tributes in the Senate of the United States
Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1952. — 99 p. The Ironic Element in the American Situation The Innocent Nation in an Innocent World Happiness, Prosperity and Virtue The Master of Destiny The Triumph of Experience Over Dogma The International Class Struggle The American Future The Significance of Irony
USA: Oxford University Press, 1989. — 416 p.
How do religion and politics interact in America? Why is it that at certain periods in American history, religious and political thought have followed a parallel course while at other times they have moved in entirely different directions? To what extent have minority perspectives challenged the majority position on the religious and...
Wadsworth, Cengage Learning, 2012. - 947 pages. ISBN: 0495915254 9 edition
A PEOPLE AND A NATION is a best-selling text offering a spirited narrative that tells the stories of all people in the United States. The authors' attention to race and racial identity and their inclusion of everyday people and popular culture brings history to life, engaging readers and encouraging them...
Wadsworth, 2011. - 496 pages.
The Brief Edition of "A People and a Nation" offers a succinct and spirited narrative that tells the stories of all people in the United States. The authors' attention to race and racial identity and their inclusion of everyday people and popular culture brings history to life, engaging readers and encouraging them to imagine what life was really...
Routledge, 2022. — 218 p. Agricultural Policy in the United States: Evolution and Economics traces U.S. agricultural policy from its colonial roots to the present, using economic concepts to analyze and interpret political and economic consequences. It also examines the processes by which agricultural policies are developed, and the government structure which supports the...
Turner Publishing, 2006. — 240 p. ISBN 1596522496. Origin of Harford County, Maryland. Sheriff of Harford County. The Sheriff's office. First female deputy sheriff in Maryland. Courthouse and jail. Accounts of happenings at the jail. Harford County Detention Center. Wardens. Correctional response team. Sheriff's role as executioner. Sheriff's office activities from the past....
Knopf, 2008. — 428 p. Discussions abound today about the state of the union, its place in the world, and the founding fathers’ intentions. Did they want the United States to become a republic or an empire? Thomas Jefferson, after all, called the young nation an “empire for liberty.” Later words through two centuries all evoked empire: “manifest destiny” in the 1840s,...
Oxford University Press, 2010. - 161p. List of illustrations. The predicament: the discontents of the Gilded Age. The crisis of the nineties, 1889–1901. Progressivism takes shape, 1901–1908. The high tide of Progressivism, 1908–1917. Calamities: World War I and the fl u epidemic, 1917–1919. Ebb tide, 1919–1921. Further reading.
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2018. — 183 p. — ISBN: 1722057696, 9781722057695. Are you interested in learning more about California? Sure, you've heard of Hollywood, but how much do you really know about the Golden State? Do you know how it got its nickname or what it was nicknamed first? There's so much to know about California that even people born in the...
Boston: Reality Marketing Inc, 2005. - 224 p. ISBN-10: 0966016548
Trance Formation of America is the documented autobiography of a victim of government mind control Cathy O'Brien is the only vocal and recovered survivor of the Central Intelligence Agency's MK-Ultra Project Monarch mind control operation.
Longman Group, 2004. — 146 p. An Illustrated History of the USA explores the development of the United States from its origins as a land inhabited by scattered Amerindian tribes to the culturally diverse but united country that we see today.
Facts on File, 2001. — 214 p. — (Facts on File Library of American History). — ISBN: 0-8160-3698-5. Made up of diverse groups who descend from speakers of the Spanish language, Hispanic Americans nonetheless share a complex history marked by both isolationism and empire-building, and in which distinctive local cultures absorbed and adapted new influences. Atlas of...
Oxford University Press, 2009. — 336 p. Many Americans believe that their own government is guilty of shocking crimes. Government agents shot the president. They faked the moon landing. They stood by and allowed the murders of 2,400 servicemen in Hawaii. Although paranoia has been a feature of the American scene since the birth of the Republic, in Real Enemies Kathryn Olmsted...
4th Edition. — University of Nebraska Press, 2015. — 568 p. History of Nebraska was originally created to mark the territorial centennial of Nebraska and then revised to coincide with the statehood centennial. This one-volume history quickly became the standard text for the college student and reference for the general reader, unmatched for generations as the only comprehensive...
Greenwood Press, 2000. — 364 p. Today, Americans look back nostalgically at the 1950s, an era when television and rock and roll revolutionized popular culture, and Vietnam, race riots, drug abuse, and protest movements were still in the future. With homes in the suburbs, new automobiles, and the latest electrical gadgets, many Americans believed they were the most prosperous...
New York: Simon and Shuster, 1983. — 454 p. — ISBN10: 0671492675. A Better World is an important and controversial book that takes issue with the common wisdom that some members of the American left in the 40s and 50s were victims solely of McCarthyism. William L. O’Neill, professor of history at Rutgers University, recounts the fierce struggle among liberal intellectuals over...
New York: Simon and Shuster, 1983. — 454 p. — ISBN10: 0671492675. A Better World is an important and controversial book that takes issue with the common wisdom that some members of the American left in the 40s and 50s were victims solely of McCarthyism. William L. O’Neill, professor of history at Rutgers University, recounts the fierce struggle among liberal intellectuals over...
Oxford University Press, 2005. — 369 p.
This is a dazzling read on how cultural, political, and scientific endeavor combine to battle an enemy of humanity, and how each of the three is elevated or diminished by personal psychological forces. It portrays the fight against a scourge of nature from both the individual and the societal perspective (for these are always the two that...
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021. — 443 р. — ISBN: 978-0-174-7207-5 ON A HILLSIDE three hours north of San Francisco, a rancher waded through a meadow that rustled with golden grass. His name was Glenn Kile, and he lived in a sliver of the American West so blessed by nature that indigenous people called it Ba-lo Kai—the “verdant valley.” But on this day, the terrain was...
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006. — 512 p.
Named one of the Best Books of 2005 by The New York Times, The Washington Post Book World, The Boston Globe, The Chicago Tribune, The San Francisco Chronicle Book Review, The Los Angeles Times Book Review, The New York Times Book Review, USA Today, Time, and New York magazine. The Assassins’ Gate: America in Iraq recounts how the United...
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006. — 512 p.
Named one of the Best Books of 2005 by The New York Times, The Washington Post Book World, The Boston Globe, The Chicago Tribune, The San Francisco Chronicle Book Review, The Los Angeles Times Book Review, The New York Times Book Review, USA Today, Time, and New York magazine. The Assassins’ Gate: America in Iraq recounts how the United...
University Of Chicago Press, 2009. — 472 p. ISBN10: 0226644316 ISBN13: 9780226644318 (eng) Chicago has been called by many names. Nelson Algren declared it a City on the Make. Carl Sandburg dubbed it the City of Big Shoulders. Upton Sinclair christened it The Jungle, while New Yorkers, naturally, pronounced it the Second City. At last there is a book for all of us, whatever we...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011. — 288 p. The war on terror has brought to light troubling actions by the United States government which many claim amount to torture. But as this book shows, state-sanctioned violence and degrading, cruel, and unusual punishments have a long and contentious history in the nation. Organized around five broad thematic periods in American...
Arcadia Publishing, 2019. — 192 p. Queens has a history filled with fascinating firsts, cool characters and ramshackle ruins. Poet Clement Clarke Moore was inspired by childhood memories of Elmhurst when he wrote the poem "'Twas the Night before Christmas." From the nation's first modern highway to the first-ever transatlantic flight, the borough has long been at the forefront...
Publisher: Chicago Review Press.
Date : 2009.
Pages : 224.
Unlock and explore American history firsthand though this nation’s most important documents. Much more than a reference book, The Keys to American History tells the story of a growing, vibrant democracy through its laws, Supreme Court rulings, treaties, and presidential speeches, from colonial times to the present....
El Colegio de México, 2018. — 275 p. Breve historia de los Estados Unidos de Norteamérica. Como un rascacielos visto desde el otro lado de la calle, Estados Unidos es tan vasto que resulta a la vez imposible de pasar por alto y peculiarmente difícil de ver. Si bien la presencia de Estados Unidos pesa desde hace mucho sobre los habitantes del continente americano y, durante el...
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2022. — 782 p. The evolution of the United States from a late-18th century coalition of rebel British colonies to a 21st century global superpower was shaped by several forces. As the nation expanded its boundaries after the Treaty of Paris confirmed independence from Great Britain in 1783, it acquired a rich variety of resources – coal, fertile...
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2022. — 782 p. The evolution of the United States from a late-18th century coalition of rebel British colonies to a 21st century global superpower was shaped by several forces. As the nation expanded its boundaries after the Treaty of Paris confirmed independence from Great Britain in 1783, it acquired a rich variety of resources – coal, fertile...
N.Y.: Westview Press, 1990. — 195 p. — ISBN 0064301826. A concise, thoughtful study and analysis of American Negro slavery. "One could hardly imagine a more fair-minded, judicious evaluation of such a hotly contested subject."-Washington Post
London: Pluto Press, 2019. — 273 p. In an age of political and economic uncertainty, from the Great Recession to the election of Donald Trump, it is essential to understand the ways capitalism and imperialism are central to the American way of life. The story told in this book brings together a new interpretation of American history beyond mainstream perspectives to chart the...
Cambridge University Press, 2019. — 264 p. America was born in an age of political revolution throughout the Atlantic world, a period when the very definition of "nation" was transforming. Benjamin E. Park traces how Americans imagined novel forms of nationality during the country's first five decades within the context of European discussions taking place at the same time....
Liveright Publishing, 2020. — 336 p. An extraordinary story of faith and violence in nineteenth-century America, based on previously confidential documents from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Compared to the Puritans, Mormons have rarely gotten their due, treated as fringe cultists at best or marginalized as polygamists unworthy of serious examination at worst....
Southern Illinois University Press, 2014. — 160 p.
Disaster relief as we know it did not exist when the deadliest tornado in U.S. history gouged a path from southeast Missouri through southern Illinois and into southwestern Indiana. The tri-state tornado of 1925 hugged the ground for 219 miles, generated wind speeds in excess of 300 miles per hour, and killed 695 people....
Harvard University Press, 2014. — 313 p. — (Studies in Modern History). One of the largest estuaries on the North Atlantic coast, Narragansett Bay served as a gateway for colonial expansion in the seventeenth century and the birthplace of American industrialization in the late eighteenth. Christopher Pastore presents an environmental history of this watery corner of the Atlantic...
Oxford University Press, 1997. — 829 p. — (Oxford History of the United States). — ISBN 0-19-511797-2. Beginning in 1945, America rocketed through a quarter-century of extraordinary economic growth, experiencing an amazing boom that soared to unimaginable heights in the 1960s. At one point, in the late 1940s, American workers produced 57 percent of the planet's steel, 62...
Oxford University Press, 2005. — 480 p. — (Oxford History of the United States). — ISBN 978-0-19-512216-9. In Restless Giant, acclaimed historical author James Patterson provides a crisp, concise assessment of the twenty-seven years between the resignation of Richard Nixon and the election of George W. Bush in a sweeping narrative that seamlessly weaves together social,...
HarperCollins Publishers, Inc., 1997. — 640 р. — ISBN: 0060168366 Writing a history of the American people, covering over 400 years, from the late 16th century to the end of the 20th, and dealing with the physical background and development of an immense tract of diverse territory, is a herculean task. It can be accomplished only by the ruthless selection and rejection of...
The Great Courses, 2018. — 130 p. The office of the president of the United States of America is one that can shape not just a nation but the entire world. But what limits are there if any on presidential power? How do we keep such awesome responsibility in check? These 12 eyeopening, timely lectures examine the ins and outs of presidential investigations using past events as a...
Lexington Books, 2018. — 430 p. Contrary to most academic commentary on The Federalist , this book contends that the most significant teachings of the work did not have to do with the institutions of government so much as with the non-institutional features of American constitutionalism, specifically its advocacy for greater union, the development of an unparalleled culture of...
Create Space Independent Publishing, 2018. — 420 p. This book explores the personalities of all United States Presidents, with the addition of understanding their Enneagram and Myers-Briggs personality types. It’s a challenge to discover the real personality of each president due to the abundance of myth and image-making that surrounds the office in general. This includes...
Yale University Press, 2019. — 416 p. A groundbreaking examination of polygamy showing that monogamy was not the only form marriage took in early America. Today we tend to think of polygamy as an unnatural marital arrangement characteristic of fringe sects or uncivilized peoples. Historian Sarah Pearsall shows us that polygamy’s surprising history encompasses numerous colonies,...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023. — 520 p. In The Enslaved and Their Enslavers , Edward Pearson offers a sweeping history of slavery in South Carolina, from British settlement in 1670 to the dawn of the Civil War. For enslaved peoples, the shape of their daily lives depended primarily on the particular environment in which they lived and worked, and Pearson examines three...
Wiley, 2021. — 547 p. — (For Dummies). — ISBN 978-1119780854. Go deeper than the Black History you may think you know! Black American History For Dummies reveals the terrors and struggles and celebrates the triumphs of Black Americans. This handy book goes way beyond what you may have studied in school, digging into the complexities and the intrigues that make up Black America....
Wiley, 2021. — 547 p. — (For Dummies). — ISBN 978-1119780854. Go deeper than the Black History you may think you know! Black American History For Dummies reveals the terrors and struggles and celebrates the triumphs of Black Americans. This handy book goes way beyond what you may have studied in school, digging into the complexities and the intrigues that make up Black America....
NYU Press, 2018. — 400 p. More than one hundred years before the Cuban Revolution of 1959 sparked an exodus that created today’s prominent Cuban American presence, Cubans were settling in New York City in what became largest community of Latin Americans in the nineteenth-century Northeast. This book brings this community to vivid life, tracing its formation and how it was...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. — 272 p. — (The Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations). — ISBN-10 0521382092; ISBN-13 9780521382090 The Creation of a Republican Empire traces American foreign relations from the colonial era to the end of the Civil War, paying particular attention not only to the diplomatic controversies of the era but also to the origins...
Dutton Adult, 2007. — 371 p. — ISBN 978-0525950158. "The Secret History's" Prologue provides an outstanding summary of the dark side of American generosity as exemplified by the World Bank's actions. The U.S. holds veto power over major World Bank decisions, and its president is appointed by the U.S. president. Perkins asserts that the World Bank's mission quickly became...
Oxford University Press, 1975. — 1104 p. The definitive life of Jefferson in one volume, this biography relates Jefferson's private life and thought to his prominent public position and reveals the rich complexity of his development. As Peterson explores the dominant themes guiding Jefferson's career--democracy, nationality, and enlightenment--and Jefferson's powerful role in...
University of California Press, 2008. — 400 p. Driven Out exposes a shocking story of ethnic cleansing in California and the Pacific Northwest when the first Chinese Americans were rounded up and purged from more than three hundred communities by lawless citizens and duplicitous politicians. From 1848 into the twentieth century, Chinatowns burned across the West as Chinese...
Penguin Books, 2007. — 480 p. — ISBN: 978-1-1012-1883-9. Nathaniel Philbrick became an internationally renowned author with his National Book Award? winning In the Heart of the Sea, hailed as ?spellbinding? by Time magazine. In Mayflower, Philbrick casts his spell once again, giving us a fresh and extraordinarily vivid account of our most sacred national myth: the voyage of the...
T’Ansterdam gedruckt by Otto Barentsz, 1662. – 15 p. Питер Корнелис Плокхой, меннонит и общественный реформатор из Нидерландов, родился в городе Зирикзее примерно в 1625 году. Он переехал в Амстердам в 1648 году и довольно быстро приобрел широкую известность в интеллектуальных кругах города. В 1658 году он отправился в Лондон, где он безуспешно пытался заручиться поддержкой...
Routledge, 2018. — 434 p. The Routledge History of the Twentieth-Century United States is a comprehensive introduction to the most important trends and developments in the study of modern United States history. Driven by interdisciplinary scholarship, the thirty-four original chapters underscore the vast range of identities, perspectives and tensions that contributed to the...
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2012. — 374 p. The U.S. Congress can be traced to the founding and the debates in Philadelphia in the summer of 1787, but to suggest that the Congress in the first decade of the 21st century is the same Congress that was created over 220 years ago would be wildly misleading. The entries in this volume will elaborate on the original compromises...
Edited by Richard W. Etulain. — Yale University Press, 2008. — 600 p. In this richly insightful survey that represents the culmination of decades of research, a leading western specialist argues that the unique history of the American West did not end in the year 1900, as is commonly assumed, but was shaped as much - if not more - by events and innovations in the twentieth...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. — 358 p.
This student-friendly introduction combines both thematic andchronological approaches in exploring the pivotal role religionplayed in American history - and of its impact across a range of issues, from identity formation and politics, to race, gender, andclass. * A comprehensive introduction to American religious history thatsuccessfully combines...
Facts on File, 2005. — 464 p.
The transformation of the culture of the North American continent since the 15th century is one of the great historical events of the past 500 years. For good or bad, it has shaped the destinies of millions of people of all races, transformed the nature of international politics, and altered the concept of personal possibilities in every country....
Basic Books, 2002. — 640 p.
About this book:In 1993, as a 23-year-old correspondent covering the wars in the Balkans, I was initially comforted by the roar of NATO planes flying overhead. President Clinton and other western leaders had sent the planes to monitor the Bosnian war, which had killed almost 200,000 civilians. But it soon became clear that NATO was unwilling to...
Basic Books, 2002. — 640 p.
About this book:In 1993, as a 23-year-old correspondent covering the wars in the Balkans, I was initially comforted by the roar of NATO planes flying overhead. President Clinton and other western leaders had sent the planes to monitor the Bosnian war, which had killed almost 200,000 civilians. But it soon became clear that NATO was unwilling to...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. — 225 p. Faithful Republic is a magnificent collection, one that showcases the impressive scholarship of a new generation of American historians working at the intersection of religion and politics. Diverse in their topics but uniformly strong in their treatment, these essays represent the cutting edge of an important field. Despite...
Princeton University Press, 2021. — 248 p. Even before the United States became a country, laws prioritizing access to credit set colonial America apart from the rest of the world. Credit Nation examines how the drive to expand credit shaped property laws and legal institutions in the colonial and founding eras of the republic. In this major new history of early America, Claire...
Fordham University Press, 2022. — 352 p. This volume examines the historical connections between the United States’ Reconstruction and the country’s emergence as a geopolitical power a few decades later. It shows how the processes at work during the postbellum decade variously foreshadowed, inhibited, and conditioned the development of the United States as an overseas empire...
Peter Lang Publishing, 2011. — 294 p. Faith and Politics in America explores the period from 1607 to the American Civil War. This book addresses the role of religion in the political process in early America, the extent to which religion influenced eighteenth century politicians and decision-makers, and how the founding fathers used religion in laying the foundations for a fair...
Scribner, 2022. — 368 p. In this examination of landscape and memory, four sites of American history are revealed as places where historical truth was written over by oppressive fiction—with profound repercussions for politics past and present. Popular narratives of American history conceal as much as they reveal. They present a national identity based on harvesting the...
Berkeley, London, Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2006. — 346 p.
Isbn0-520-24519-9.
Part i. Race, Class, And activism.
Race and Political Activism.
Differential Racialization in Southern California.
The Politicization of the Third World Left.
Part iI. The third world left.
Serving the People and Vanguard Politics: The Formation of the Third World Left in Los...
Facts on File, 2010. — 561 p. Political and historical, Vice Presidents collects the life stories of every man that has held this office. Each expertly written biography addresses the state of the country at the time these men were in office and features: An analysis of prevailing political conditions The opposition The relationships between the vice president and presidents...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2005. — 480 p. — (Blackwell Companions to American History). A Companion to American Technology is a groundbreaking collection of original essays that historical analyze the hard-to-define phenomenon of “technology” in America. 22 original essays by expert scholars cover the most important features of American technology, including developments in automobiles,...
Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing, 1999. — 128 p. Fort Monroe: The Key to the South is a powerful pictorial portraying the exciting history of the only fort in the Upper South to remain under Union control throughout the Civil War. Strategically located on Old Point Comfort guarding the entrance to Hampton Roads and dominating the lower Chesapeake Bay, Fort Monroe...
Bloomsbury Press , 2015. — 384 p. In fascinating detail, Sam Quinones chronicles how, over the past 15 years, enterprising sugar cane farmers in a small county on the west coast of Mexico created a unique distribution system that brought black tar heroin--the cheapest, most addictive form of the opiate, 2 to 3 times purer than its white powder cousin--to the veins of people...
New York: St Martin's Griffin, 2016. — 785 p. Genovese, Gambino, Bonnano, Colombo and Lucchese. For decades these Five Families ruled New York and built the American Mafia (or Cosa Nostra) into an underworld empire. Today, the Mafia is an endangered species, battered and beleaguered by aggressive investigators, incompetent leadership, betrayals and generational changes that...
Vintage Books, 1997. — 384 p.
Bad Land: An American Romance is a travelogue of Jonathan Raban's research, over a two-year period, into the settlement of southeastern Montana in the early 20th century. The focus of the book is on the least-populated and least-known area of the United States - the badland area between Marmarth, ND and Terry, MT along the route of the Milwaukee...
University of Georgia Press, 2020. — 265 p. Medieval America analyzes literary, legal, and historical archives that help tell a new story about the formation of American culture. Against Cold War–era studies of U.S. culture that argued, following political scientist Louis Hartz’s “liberal consensus” model, that the United States emerged from the Revolutionary era free from...
Belknap Press, 2021. — 368 p. A fresh, original look at George Washington as an innovative land manager whose singular passion for farming would unexpectedly lead him to reject slavery. George Washington spent more of his working life farming than he did at war or in political office. For over forty years, he devoted himself to the improvement of agriculture, which he saw as...
New York: Palgrave Pivot, 2013. — 74 p. — ISBN10: 113733908X; ISBN13: 978-1137339089. This book explores two critical strands in American Studies: policy conversations on legal and illegal immigration and social and educational conversations on diversity and multiculturalism. As author Benjamin Railton shows, a fresh look at the Chinese Exclusion Act overturns much of the...
Rowman and Littlefield, 2019. — 172 p. "We the People." The Constitution begins with those deceptively simple words, but how do Americans define that "We"? In We the People, Ben Railton argues that throughout our history two competing yet interconnected concepts have battled to define our national identity and community: exclusionary and inclusive visions of who gets to be an...
Capitalistpig, 2018. — 222 p. — ASIN B07HNPHW45. Featuring never before released material from Ayn Rand... about politics! Most people have no idea what the United States represents. Ayn Rand did grasp America’s political essence down to its roots. World-famous as the author of Atlas Shrugged, Rand emigrated from Russia to the United States in 1926 at the age of twenty-one....
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 152 p. Long before the United States was a nation, it was a set of ideas, projected onto the New World by European explorers with centuries of belief and thought in tow. From this foundation of expectation and experience, America and American thought grew in turn, enriched by the bounties of the Enlightenment, the philosophies of liberty and...
Oxfordr: Oxford University Press — 2008 — 160 p. — ISBN10: 0195326342; ISBN13: 978-0195326345. The New Deal shaped our nation's politics for decades, and was seen by many as tantamount to the "American Way" itself. Now, in this superb compact history, Eric Rauchway offers an informed account of the New Deal and the Great Depression, illuminating its successes and failures....
Harvard University Press, 2010. — 382 p.
Drinking a glass of tap water, strolling in a park, hopping a train for the suburbs: some aspects of city life are so familiar that we don’t think twice about them. But such simple actions are structured by complex relationships with our natural world. The contours of these relationships—social, cultural, political, economic, and...
Southern Illinois University Press, 2014. — 408 p.
Disputing the so-called ghetto studies that depicted the early part of the twentieth century as the nadir of African American society, this thoughtful volume by Christopher Robert Reed investigates black life in turn-of-the-century Chicago, revealing a vibrant community that grew and developed on Chicago’s South Side in the...
Reeves. Thomas C . Twentieth-century america. A brief History. Oxford University Press. 2000. 322 страницы Книга. История Сша xx века. Монография С иллюстрациями, справочным аппаратом.
Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. — 334 p. This book examines the legends of who "really" discovered America. It argues that histories of America's origins were always based less on empirical evidence and more on social, political, and cultural wish fulfillment. Influenced by a complex interplay of Nativist hatred of immigrants and Aboriginal people, as well as distrust of academic...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. — 334 p. This book examines the legends of who "really" discovered America. It argues that histories of America's origins were always based less on empirical evidence and more on social, political, and cultural wish fulfillment. Influenced by a complex interplay of Nativist hatred of immigrants and Aboriginal people, as well as distrust of academic...
HarperCollins e-book, 2008. — 383 p. Discovery and Settlement of the New World Manifest Destiny, Progressivism, War, Photographic Insert Inde pendence and Nation Building An Emerging Identity The Jacksonian Era The Dispute over Slavery, Secession, and the Civil War Reconstruction and the Gilded Age and the Roaring Twenties The Great Depression, the New Deal, and World War II...
Routledge, 2014. — 262 p. Between 1910 and 1945 the United States transformed itself into a Super Power. By 1945, with rivals in Europe and Asia shattered by world war, she dominated global economic, financial and political arrangements and monopolised the atomic bomb. This new Companion to History is an indispensable guide to this critical period in US history. It includes:...
New York: Henry Holt and Co., 2005. — 318 p. Organized crime―the Italian American kind―has long been a source of popular entertainment and legend. Now Thomas Reppetto provides a balanced history of the Mafia's rise―from the 1880s to the post-WWII era―that is as exciting and readable as it is authoritative. Structuring his narrative around a series of case histories featuring...
University of Alaska Press, 2021. — 200 p. Melting sea ice and rumbling volcanoes. Sled dogs racing through unnamed valleys. These were the images that came to mind when Molly Rettig moved to Fairbanks, Alaska to work as a reporter at the local newspaper. An avid environmentalist, she couldn’t wait to explore the vast, untamed spaces that had largely been paved over on the east...
University Press of Kentucky, 1994. — 368 p. An essential resource for scholars, students, and all lovers of the Mountaineer State. From bloody skirmishes with Indians on the early frontier to the Logan County mine war, the story of West Virginia is punctuated with episodes as colorful and rugged as the mountains that dominate its landscape. In this first modern comprehensive...
New York University Press, 2015. — 272 p. Few institutions were as central to nineteenth-century American culture as the home. Emerging in the 1820s as a sentimental space apart from the public world of commerce and politics, the Victorian home transcended its initial association with the private lives of the white, native-born bourgeoisie to cross lines of race, ethnicity,...
Scarecrow Press, 2005. — 546 p. Numerous cross-referenced entries on prominent individuals, including Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun, Robert E. Lee, and Abraham Lincoln, as well as others on policies of the time that have since slipped into oblivion are all covered in this book. Economic, social and religious backgrounds trace the seemingly...
Penguin, 2006. — 516 p.
The definitive military chronicle of the Iraq war and a searing judgment on the strategic blindness with which America has conducted it, drawing on the accounts of senior military officers giving voice to their anger for the first time. Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post senior Pentagon correspondant Thomas E. Ricks's Fiasco is masterful and...
Penguin, 2006. — 516 p.
The definitive military chronicle of the Iraq war and a searing judgment on the strategic blindness with which America has conducted it, drawing on the accounts of senior military officers giving voice to their anger for the first time. Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post senior Pentagon correspondant Thomas E. Ricks's Fiasco is masterful and...
The Dial Press, 1968. — 365 p. The Roots. The Suicide of Europe. Pearl Harbor: The Genesis of Empire. Cold War: The Establishment of Empire. The Tools of Empire. The Road to Suez. Death and Transfiguration of the Commonwealth. Frontier Across the Pacific. The Hawaiianization of the Orient. Latins, Guerillas, and Anarchists. Race and Africa. Empire and Nation-State: The Future...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2014. — 704 p. — (Wiley-Blackwell Companions to American history). A Companion to American Sport History presents a collection of original essays that represent the first comprehensive analysis of scholarship relating to the growing field of American sport history. - Presents the first complete analysis of the scholarship relating to the academic history of...
Routledge, 2018. — 440 p. The Routledge History of Rural America charts the course of rural life in the United States, raising questions about what makes a place rural and how rural places have shaped the history of the nation. Bringing together leading scholars to analyze a wide array of themes in rural history and culture, this text is a state-of-the-art resource for...
M.E. Sharpe, 2008. - 279 pages. For any introductory American history instructor who wants to make the subject more appealing, this book is ideal. It's designed to supplement a main text, and focuses on personalized history presented through engaging biographies of figures from 1865 to the present. This book tells the history of the United States through the story of its...
University of Nebraska Press, 2013. — 288 p. The northern plains are often ignored by the rest of the nation or, if not, are mentioned in the context of the weather, Mount Rushmore, or the Black Hills. However, North Dakota and South Dakota have a colorful past - and present - deserving of greater recognition. Norman K. Risjord relates the remarkable histories of these two...
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2009. — 455 p. A captivating and lucid narrative of America's revolutionary generation, Jefferson's America takes the reader from the earliest rumblings of colonial dissent, through the crises of revolution and nation-making, to the heroic drama of the War of 1812. Risjord deftly weaves together strands of biography and social history with...
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014. — 307 p. A fierce national outcry for righteously waging war has long dominated American culture. From at least the wildly popular Spanish-American War and the US military invasion of the Philippines that infuriated Mark Twain, right up to the current Global War on Terrorism, this is a deadly, dark current coursing throughout American...
Oxford University Press, 2010. — 166 p. — (Very Short Introductions). In the second edition of The U.S. Congress, Donald A. Ritchie, a congressional historian for more than thirty years, takes readers on a fascinating, behind-the-scenes tour of Capitol Hill, pointing out the key players, explaining their behavior, and translating parliamentary language into plain English. No...
Bedford/St. Martin’s: 2008 - 576 p. ISBN: 0312452934 The American Promise is more teachable and memorable than any other U.S. survey text. The balanced narrative braids together political and social history so that students can discern overarching trends as well as individual stories. The voices of hundreds of Americans — from Presidents to pipefitters, and sharecroppers to...
Center for the Study of Intelligence Central Intelligence Agency, 2023. — 252 р. The Center for the Study of Intelligence: CSI’s core mission is to enhance the operational, analytic, and administrative effectiveness of the CIA and the Intelligence Community by creating knowledge and understanding of the lessons of the past, by assessing current practices, and by preparing...
Harper Collins, 2016. — 496 p. In this engrossing and informative companion to her New York Times bestsellers Founding Mothers and Ladies of Liberty, Cokie Roberts marks the sesquicentennial of the Civil War by offering a riveting look at Washington, D.C. and the experiences, influence, and contributions of its women during this momentous period of American history. With the...
Playaway, 2007. — 527 p. — ISBN: 978-0-307-45594-9. This is the story of how America awakened to its race problem, of how a nation that longed for unity after World War II came instead to see, hear, and learn about the shocking indignities and injustices of racial segregation in the South—and the brutality used to enforce it. It is the story of how the nation’s press, after...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019. — 304 p. — ISBN 978-1-620409-80-1. From the urban affairs correspondent of the New York Times—the story of a city through twenty-seven structures that define it. As New York is poised to celebrate its four hundredth anniversary, New York Times correspondent Sam Roberts tells the story of the city through bricks, glass, wood, and mortar, revealing...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019. — 304 p. — ISBN: 978-1-620409-80-1. From the urban affairs correspondent of the New York Times—the story of a city through twenty-seven structures that define it. As New York is poised to celebrate its four hundredth anniversary, New York Times correspondent Sam Roberts tells the story of the city through bricks, glass, wood, and mortar, revealing...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019. — 304 p. — ISBN: 978-1-620409-80-1. From the urban affairs correspondent of the New York Times—the story of a city through twenty-seven structures that define it. As New York is poised to celebrate its four hundredth anniversary, New York Times correspondent Sam Roberts tells the story of the city through bricks, glass, wood, and mortar, revealing...
Harvard University Press, 2003. — 336 p.
On February 19, 1942, following the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor and Japanese Army successes in the Pacific, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed a fateful order. In the name of security, Executive Order 9066 allowed for the summary removal of Japanese aliens and American citizens of Japanese descent from their West Coast homes...
University Of Chicago Press, 2006. — 200 p. In the late 1800s, Arctic Fever swept across the nation as dozens of American expeditions sailed north to the Arctic to find a sea route to Asia and, ultimately, to stand at the North Pole. Few of these missions were successful, and many men lost their lives en route. Yet failure did little to dampen the enthusiasm of new explorers or...
Greenwood Press, 1985. — 288 p. The Political Heritage of the Colonial College. Politicizing the Faculty. Politicizing the Students. The Colleges at War. Old Colleges in the New Republic. New Colleges in the New Republic. Government and Higher Education in the New Republic. A Note on the Sources.
Монография. Издательство: Referencepoint Press, 2013. 96 p.
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America’s entrance into World War II led to the government-ordered detainment of thousands of Japanese Americans and their families. Removed from their homes and held in internment camps where they faced discrimination and harsh living conditions, their story reflects the injustice of denying basic rights...
Verso, 1994. — 218 p. Towards the Abolition of Whiteness collects David Roediger’s recent essays, many published here for the first time, and counts the costs of whiteness in the past and present of the US. It finds those costs insupportable. At a time when prevailing liberal wisdom argues for the downplaying of race in the hope of building coalitions dedicated to economic...
3rd edition. — Indiana University Press, 2008. — 696 p. — (A History of the Trans-Appalachian Frontier). The first American frontier lay just beyond the Appalachian Mountains and along the Gulf Coast. Here, successive groups of pioneers built new societies and developed new institutions to cope with life in the wilderness. In this thorough revision of his classic account,...
Washington: Regnery History, 2001. — 593 p.
The Venona Secrets presents one of the last great, untold stories of World War II and the Cold War. In 1995 the Venona documents secret Soviet cable traffic from the 1940s that the United States intercepted and eventually decrypted finally became available to American historians. Now, after spending more than five years researching...
Potomac Books, 2017. — 240 p. Curtis Roosevelt knew what it was like to live with a president. His grandfather was Franklin Delano Roosevelt. From the time Curtis, with his sister, Eleanor, and recently divorced mother, Anna Roosevelt Dall, moved into his grandparents’ new home—the White House—Curtis played, learned, slept, ate, and lived in one of the most famous buildings in...
Cambridge University Press, 2003. — 408 p. (eng)
Chicago, Boston, and Baltimore all suffered terrible fires in the late nineteenth or early twentieth century. Residents of these cities agreed that the destruction caused by the fires provided them with a special opportunity to improve their inadequately built cities. This book examines these rebuildings, using each to examine in...
St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2020. — 256 p. Donald Trump is unfit in almost every respect for the high office he holds. But what distinguishes him from every other bad leader the U.S. has had is that he has repeatedly, egregiously, betrayed his country. Regardless of how Senate Republicans have let him off the hook, the facts available to the public show that Trump has met...
Liveright, 2017. — 368 p. In this groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein, a leading authority on housing policy, explodes the myth that America’s cities came to be racially divided through de facto segregation―that is, through individual prejudices, income differences, or the actions of private institutions like banks and real estate...
Basic Books, 1993. — 400 p. In the first comprehensive history of American manhood, E. Anthony Rotundo sweeps away the groundless assumptions and myths that inform the current fascination with men's lives. Opposing the views of men's movement leaders and best-selling authors who maintain that manliness is eternal and unchanging, Rotundo stresses that our concept of manhood is...
Simon & Schuster, 2016. — 496 p. A fresh look at President William McKinley from New York Times bestselling author and political mastermind Karl Rove—“a rousing tale told by a master storyteller whose love of politics, campaigning, and combat shines through on every page” (Doris Kearns Goodwin, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Team of Rivals). The 1896 political environment...
Rutgers University Press, 2022. — 214 p. Today, South Asians are a rapidly growing demographic in the United States, comprising nearly 2 percent of the population. But there was a time in the not-too-distant past when the United States was far less hospitable to South Asian immigrants. In fact, until 1952, only white immigrants could become naturalized American citizens. Yet in...
Baltimore: Bodine & Associates, 1983. - 119 pgs. Fort McHenry - birthplace of "The Star-Spangled Banner." That much everyone knows. But this book begins with the earliest days of Fort McHenry's site, before Revolutionary times when it was valued more for its iron ore than its strategic location, and continues through its history as a general hospital during World War I and a...
Free Press, 2010. — 399 p. This is а new story. When American history was first written, it featured and often celebrated politicians, military leaders, inventors, explorers, and other "great men. Textbooks in high school and college credited those goliaths with creating аll the distinctive cultural and institutional characteristics of the United States. In this history from...
Tuscaloosa; London: The University of Alabama Press, 1997. — 352 p. — ISBN 0-8173-0843-1. Using both American and Russian archival evidence, this work examines the political life of Earl Browder, a man whose failure contributed to the demise of the popularity of the communist party in the United States. Introduction: The Man from Kansas From Field to Office (1891-1930) No More...
Tuscaloosa; London: The University of Alabama Press, 1997. — 352 p. — ISBN 0-8173-0843-1. Using both American and Russian archival evidence, this work examines the political life of Earl Browder, a man whose failure contributed to the demise of the popularity of the communist party in the United States. Introduction: The Man from Kansas From Field to Office (1891-1930) No More...
University of Texas Press, 2019. — 465 p. The history of the United States is often told as a movement westward, beginning at the Atlantic coast and following farmers across the continent. But cities played an equally important role in the country’s formation. Towns sprung up along the Pacific as well as the Atlantic, as Spaniards and Englishmen took Indian land and converted...
University of Texas Press, 2019. — 465 p. The history of the United States is often told as a movement westward, beginning at the Atlantic coast and following farmers across the continent. But cities played an equally important role in the country’s formation. Towns sprung up along the Pacific as well as the Atlantic, as Spaniards and Englishmen took Indian land and converted...
New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1996. — 192 p. — ISBN: 0-8109-6167 On August 18,1896A, dolph S. Ochs pur chased The New York Times, a paper with a daily circulation of 9,000 and a regional audience. One hundred years later the paper has a circulation of over 1,150,000 and is widely regarded as the preeminent American newspaper as well as one of the most prominent newspapers...
Text for History. 121. Northern Virginia Community College; Extended Learning Institute. Third Edition. Academic American History, 2010. 428 p. На англ. языке. Учебник по истории США в период 1607-1865 г., основанный на материалах авторского веб-сайта; изучается онлайн. History 121: U.S. History I Course Description & Objectives. Introduction to American History. Part 1:...
San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2024. — 198 р. — ISBN 978-1-7972-2586-9 Charming, poignant, and occasionally salacious, That’s So New York is brimming with little snapshots of humanity that make one thing clear: There’s no place like New York. New York Times editor and lifelong New Yorker Dan Saltzstein compiles hundreds of distinctly New York moments for this peek at the city...
AMACOM, 2009. — 308 p. — ISBN-13: 978-0-8144-1362-3. As Americans, we have been taught to be obsessed with money and the people who have it. We are curious about what they buy, where they vacation, and what separates them from the rest of us. Rich puts the American obsession with all things money into much-needed perspective and context, exposing the origins of the upper class....
University of Wales Press, 2021. — 288 p. In 1971, Californian congressman Thomas M. Rees told the US House of Representatives that ‘very little has been written of what the Welsh have contributed in all walks of life in the shaping of American history’. This book is the first systematic attempt to both recount and evaluate the considerable yet undervalued contribution made by...
Routledge, 2013. — 376 p. — ISBN: 978-0415879545, 041587954X. A New History of Asian America is a fresh and up-to-date history of Asians in the United States from the late eighteenth century to the present. Drawing on current scholarship, Shelley Lee brings forward the many strands of Asian American history, highlighting the distinctive nature of the Asian American experience...
Chelsea House, 2010. — 129p. List of Illustrations Reader’s Guide to Nationalism Milestones in Nationalism (1788–1869) What Is Nationalism? Nationalism from A to Z Viewpoints About Nationalism List of Illustrations Maps Glossary of Key Terms
Oxford University Press, 2005. — 312 p. Deceit, compromise, and betrayal were the painful costs of becoming American for many families. For people of Indian, African, and European descent living in the newly formed United States, the most personal and emotional choices - to honor a friendship or pursue an intimate relationship - were often necessarily guided by the harsh economic...
Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1999. — 400 p. — ISBN 0-8078-2477-1; ISBN 0-8078-4804-2. The World War II era represented the golden age of radio as a broadcast medium in the United States; it also witnessed a rise in African American activism against racial segregation and discrimination, especially as they were practiced by the federal government itself....
Savas Publishing, 2014. — 500 S. Als nach einer gnadenlosen Jagd am 4. Juni 1944 U 505 bei seinem zölften Einsatz schwer beschädigt in amerikanische Hände fiel, ohne sich vorher selbst versenkt zu haben, unterlag dieser Fang höchster militärischer Geheimhaltung. Denn durch das deutsche U-Boot vom Typ IX, konstruiert als »Einzelkämpfer« mit enormer Schlag Kenntnis vom modernsten...
University of Nevada Press, 2021. — 368 p. In this carefully researched and engaging book, Kenneth Scambray surveys the lives and contributions of Italian immigrants in thirteen western states. He covers a variety of topics, including the role of the Roman Catholic Church in attracting and facilitating Italian settlement; the economic, political, and cultural contributions made...
Oxford University Press, USA, 1994. — 264 p.
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After such conflicts as World War II, Vietnam, and now the Persian Gulf, the First World War seems a distant, almost ancient event. It conjures up images of trenches, horse-drawn wagons, and old-fashioned wide-brimmed helmets-a conflict closer to the Civil War than to our own time. It hardly seems an American war at...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 372 p. American Horizons, Second Edition, is the only U.S. History survey text that presents the traditional narrative in a global context. The authors use the frequent movement of people, goods, and ideas into, out of, and within America's borders as a framework. This unique approach provides a fully integrated global perspective that...
AВC-Cliо, 1999. — 924 p. — ISBN 0874369606. This book is a comprehensive compendium of biographies of leading women in U.S. politics, past and present, and an examination of the wide range of women’s movements. With this illustrated reference work, you can explore American women’s path to political power and social equality from the struggle for the right to vote and the abolition...
University of Chicago Press, 2019. — 329 p. The history of New York City’s urban development often centers on titanic municipal figures like Robert Moses and on prominent inner Manhattan sites like Central Park. New York Recentered boldly shifts the focus to the city’s geographic edges—the coastlines and waterways—and to the small-time unelected locals who quietly shaped the...
Princeton University Press, 2015. — 288 p. Throughout American history, some social movements, such as organized labor and the Christian Right, have forged influential alliances with political parties, while others, such as the antiwar movement, have not. When Movements Anchor Parties provides a bold new interpretation of American electoral history by examining five prominent...
Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2016. — 261 p. Two of the most influential forces in American history are business and religion. Merchants and Ministers weaves the two together in a history of the relationship between business people and Christian clergy. From fur traders and missionaries who explored the interior of the continent to Gilded-Age corporate titans and their...
Detroit: UXL, 2000 — 304 p. — ISBN10: 0787637904; ISBN13: 978-0787637903. Part of Gale's "American Revolution Reference Library," "American Revolution: Primary Sources," allows students and researchers to study the full text of or excerpts from 32 related Revolutionary era speeches, diary entries, newspaper and magazine articles, poems and other documents. Arranged in subject...
Center of Military History United States Army, 1992. — 471 p. ISBN: 0160359554 Korean War 50th Anniversary. United States Army within the Korean War This volume describes the initial direction and strategy with the initial key although restricted war that the United States was to fight on the continent of Asia within the era of global tension that followed Globe War II. There...
Facts on File, 2007. - 554 c.
This work is the history of the enslavement of African Americans in North America stretches from the beginning of European colonization to the end of the Civil War. "Slavery in America" recounts this history, as well as the Reconstruction period that followed, by examining, chapter by chapter, many of its aspects: the slave catchers and their...
University of Nebraska Press, 1980. — 187 p. Detroit's central location in the Great Lakes Region has contributed to its status as a major center for commerce and global trade. As Detroit grew, it emerged as a U.S. transportation hub linking the Great Lakes system of waterways to the Erie Canal and to rail lines. During the late 19th century, cast-iron stove manufacturing...
Princeton studies of international finance, №61, July 1988. — 180 p. The Current Debt Problem and the Weimar Precedent The Cyclical Phenomenon of Debt Delinquency The Volitional Component in Debt Delinquency Capital Flows under Weimar and Systemic Equilibrium How Germany become indebted to America The Reparations Burden Inflation Stabilization and Social Conflict American...
Alfred A. Knopf, 2023. — 1632 р. — ISBN 9780451493552 Joseph Seligman arrived in the United States in 1837, with the equivalent of $100 sewn into the lining of his pants. Then came the Lehman brothers, who would open a general store in Montgomery, Alabama. Not far behind were Solomon Loeb and Marcus Goldman, among the “Forty-Eighters” fleeing a Germany that had relegated Jews...
Sentinel HC, 2004. — 944 p. For at least thirty years, high school and college students have been taught to be embarrassed by American history. Required readings have become skewed toward a relentless focus on our country’s darkest moments, from slavery to McCarthyism. As a result, many history books devote more space to Harriet Tubman than to Abraham Lincoln; more to My Lai...
Chicago Review Press, 2014. — 288 p. As the French Revolution gathered steam, the exact location of Jones’s grave—and, in fact, the exact location of St. Louis cemetery in Paris, where he was buried in 1792—was forgotten: information on his death and burial were destroyed in the Paris Commune and the few who had attended his burial had passed away. His body had, though, been...
Charles Scribner's Sons, 2006. — 1408 p. — ISBN 0684315130. This 3-volume set is a major revision of a classic in the field, one that has remained in print since its appearance in 1966, The Encyclopedia of the American Revolution by Mark M. Boatner. This A-Z ready-reference dictionary is the essential source for all military aspects of the American Revolutionary War in the...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. — 264 p. While the American founders fully expected parties to form in a free society, they were far less certain that opposing parties would peacefully transfer power from one to another. Party formation presented a confounding problem for the new republic: party rivalries could not be prevented, but they might, nonetheless, catalyze...
Oxford University Press, 2005. — 298 p. — (Oxford Historical Monographs).
The United States was a debtor nation in the mid-nineteenth century, with half of its national debt held overseas. Lacking the resources to develop the nation and to fund the wars necessary to expand and then preserve it, the United States looked across the Atlantic for investment capital. The need to...
Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing, 2008. - 128 pgs. Organized on November 17, 1774, the First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry is the oldest mounted unit in the United States Army and one of the oldest units in the National Guard. First City Troopers are adaptable and are just as comfortable patrolling the streets in combat boots as they are on horseback, dressed in...
Haymarket Books, 2012. — 297 p. Seymour's obsessively researched, impressive first book holds its place as the most authoritative historical analysis of its kind. All empires spin self-serving myths, and in the United States the most potent of these is that America is a force for democracy around the world. Yet there is a tradition of American anti-imperialism which gives the...
Greenwood, 1989. — 320 p. Contacts between the United States and Africa began in the seventeenth century when American slavers arrived on the West African Coast. They were quickly followed by a multitude of colonists, traders, missionaries, soldiers, diplomats, engineers, scientists, authors, artists, explorers, and hunters, among others, as well as a range of American...
ABC-CLIO, 2013. — 305 p. Combining primary sources with expert commentary, this timely book probes critical moments in U.S. presidential elections in the last 20th- and early 21st-centuries, empowering readers to better understand and analyze the electoral process. Presidential Campaigns: Documents Decoded illuminates both the high stakes of a presidential campaign and the...
Первая часть одного из самых известных трудов о гражданской войне в США. Количество страниц: 856. Формат: PDF. Содержание: 1. Prologue - The Oponents. 2. First Blood$ New Conceptions. 3. The Thing Gets Under Way. 4. War Means Fightang. 5. Fighting Means Killing. 6. The Sun Shines South. 7. Two Advances; Two Retreats. 8. Last,Best Hope of Earth. List of Maps, Bibliographical...
Первая часть одного из самых известных трудов о гражданской войне в США. Количество страниц: 856. Формат: FB2. Содержание: 1. Prologue - The Oponents. 2. First Blood$ New Conceptions. 3. The Thing Gets Under Way. 4. War Means Fightang. 5. Fighting Means Killing. 6. The Sun Shines South. 7. Two Advances; Two Retreats. 8. Last,Best Hope of Earth. List of Maps, Bibliographical...
Третья часть одного из самых известных трудов о гражданской войне в США. Количество страниц: 1128. Формат: FB2. Содержание: 1. Another Grand Design. 2. The Forty Days. 3. Red Clay Minuet. 4. War Is Cruelty... 5. You Cannot Refine It. 6. A Tightening Noose. 7. Victory, and Defeat. 8. Lucifer in Starlight. List of maps, bibliographicfl note, and index.
Третья часть одного из самых известных трудов о гражданской войне в США. Количество страниц: 1128. Формат: PDF. Содержание: 1. Another Grand Design. 2. The Forty Days. 3. Red Clay Minuet. 4. War Is Cruelty... 5. You Cannot Refine It. 6. A Tightening Noose. 7. Victory, and Defeat. 8. Lucifer in Starlight. List of maps, bibliographicfl note, and index.
Вторая часть одного из самых известных трудов о гражданской войне в США. Количество страниц: 1004. Формат: PDF. Содержание: 1. The Longest Journey. 2. Unhappy New Year. 3. Death of a Soldier. 4. The Beleaguered City. 5. Stars in their Courses. 6. Unvexed to the Sea. 7. Riot and Resurgence. 8. The Center Gives. 9. Spring Came on Forever.
Вторая часть одного из самых известных трудов о гражданской войне в США. Количество страниц: 1004. Формат: FB2. Содержание: 1. The Longest Journey. 2. Unhappy New Year. 3. Death of a Soldier. 4. The Beleaguered City. 5. Stars in their Courses. 6. Unvexed to the Sea. 7. Riot and Resurgence. 8. The Center Gives. 9. Spring Came on Forever.
Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2013. — 251 p. Joe Barboza knew that there were two requirements for getting inducted into the Mafia. You had to be Sicilian. And you had to commit a contract killing. The New Bedford–born mobster was a proud Portuguese, not Sicilian, but his dream to be part of La Cosa Nostra proved so strong that he thought he could create a loophole. If...
University of Chicago Press, 2022. — 296 p. A rich and eye-opening history of the mutual constitution of race and species in modern America. In the late nineteenth century, increasing traffic of transpacific plants, insects, and peoples raised fears of a “biological yellow peril” when nursery stock and other agricultural products shipped from Japan to meet the growing demand...
Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2004. - 385p. Harry Gold. J. Edgar Hoover. Viktor Andreevich Kravchenko. Clyde Tolson and J. Edgar Hoover. Morton Sobell and the Rosenbergs. William Perl. Elizabeth Bentley. George Silverman. Klaus Fuchs. J. Robert Oppenheimer. Steve Nelson and Emmanuel H. Bloch. Haakon Chevalier. Anatoli Yakovlev. David Greenglass and family. William...
University Press of Kansas, 2021. — 424 p. Southern First Ladies explores the ways in which geographical and cultural backgrounds molded a group of influential first ladies. The contributors to this volume use the lens of “Southernness” to define and better understand the cultural attributes, characteristics, actions, and activism of seventeen first ladies from Martha...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2016. — 760 p. This volume explores more than two centuries of literature on the First Ladies, from Martha Washington to Michelle Obama, providing the first historiographical overview of these important women in U.S. history. • Underlines the growing scholarly appreciation of the First Ladies and the evolution of the position since the 18th century • Explores...
Krause Publications, 2007. — 361 p. — ISBN 978-0-89689-566-9. Few words evoke the dreams of the pioneer spirit and westward expansion of North America in both the mid-1800s with California, and the late 1890s with the Alaska and Yukon claims.Gold has been a symbol of value throughout history. This volume of Gold Rush. A new book byAryln Sieber and Mitchell Battino brings into...
Krause Publications, 2007. — 361 p. — ISBN 978-1-4402-2544-4. Few words evoke the dreams of the pioneer spirit and westward expansion of North America in both the mid-1800s with California, and the late 1890s with the Alaska and Yukon claims.Gold has been a symbol of value throughout history. This volume of Gold Rush. A new book byAryln Sieber and Mitchell Battino brings into...
The History Press, 2017. — 160 p. California has a rich history of cultural innovation and colorful characters. On May 26, 1853, Lola Montez premiered her famous Spider Dance routine in San Francisco. On February 21, 1937, San Diego's Waldo Waterman created one of the first operational flying cars. Emeryville's Wham-O sold the first Frisbee, earlier called a Flyin' Cake Pan, on...
Viking Press, New York, 1976. — 274 p. ISBN: 0670741019 В книге написанной бригадным генералом Эдвином Г. Симмонсом рассматривается 200-летняя история Корпуса морской пехоты США, вооруженные конфликты и интервенции, в которых принимали участие морские пехотинцы на протяжении всей американской истории.
Second Edition. — Indiana University Press, 2001. — 484 p. The bombings of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City and of the World Trade Center in New York City have joined a long history of terrorists acts against the United States. In this newly updated edition of his book, Jeffrey Simon reaches back to the founding days of the Republic to tell a story that is both...
Praeger, 2002. — 324 p. Organized around the office of the president, this study focuses on American behavior at home and abroad from the Great Depression to the onset of the end of the Cold War, two key points during which America sought a re-definition of its proper relationship to the world. Domestically, American society continued the process of industrialization and...
Cambridge University Press, 2017. — 274 p. — ISBN 1108302963, 9781108302968, In his last work before his death in 2014, American historian Martin J. Sklar analyzes the influence of early twentieth-century foreign policy makers, focusing on modernization, global development, and the meaning of the 'American Century'. Calling this group of government officials and their advisors,...
Historical Study. - New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. - 267 p. This book contributes significantly to moving beyond dead-end narratives of 'the Sixties' by demonstrating real continuities of activism stretching into 'the Seventies' (whatever one thinks those are) and the 1980s. Beyond that, it does something that few historians of the New Left have ventured: connect the...
USA: Monthly Review Press, 2023. — 504 p. — ISBN10 1583679898; ISBN13 978-1583679890. An argument against the myth of "American exceptionalism". Endless Holocausts: Mass Death in the History of the United States Empire helps us to come to terms with what we have long suspected: the rise of the U.S. Empire has relied upon an almost unimaginable loss of life, from its inception...
Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 2001. - 95 pgs. Gustavus Woodson Smith's crisp, brief, narrative describes the Mexican War campaigns of the United States Company of sappers, miners, and pontooniers otherwise known as Company A, Corps of Engineers. In 1846 Congress authorized the company as the first of its kind in the United States. Capt. Alexander Swift assembled the...
ABC-CLIO, 2020. — 1150 p. Often controversial, religion has been an important force in shaping American culture. Religious convictions strongly influenced colonial and state governments as well as the United States as a new republic. Religious teachings, values, and practices deeply affected political structures and policies, economic ideology and practice, educational...
University Press of Kentucky, 2015. — 595 p. The story of African Americans in Kentucky is as diverse and vibrant as the state's general history. The work of more than 150 writers, The Kentucky African American Encyclopedia is an essential guide to the black experience in the Commonwealth. The encyclopedia includes biographical sketches of politicians and community leaders as...
London: Brassey's, 1998. - 146 p.
A detailed look at the uniforms and equipment of the regular army and the militai regiments. Features the American Indian Cavalry units. More than 150 photographs.
University Press of Mississippi, 2010. — 304 p. ISBN10: 1604734299 ISBN13: 9781604734294 (eng) In Mississippi in the Civil War: The Home Front, Timothy B. Smith examines Mississippi's Civil War defeat by both outside and inside forces. The invading Union army dismantled the state's political system, infrastructure, economy, and fighting capability. The state saw extensive...
Smithsonian Books, 2019. — 248 p. — ISBN: 978-1-588346-65-0. An inspiring and surprising celebration of U.S. women's history told through Smithsonian artifacts illustrating women's participation in science, art, music, sports, fashion, business, religion, entertainment, military, politics, activism, and more. This book offers a unique, panoramic look at women's history in the...
New York: Wiley Publishing Inc., 1998. — XIII, 189 p. This book provides the student with an overview of United States history from before the colonial period through the end of Reconstruction. Students will find this book helpful as a supplement to major textbooks in the field or as a summary of the major issues and events in U.S. history. We hope students will make effective...
Foster City: Cliffs Notes, IDG Books Worldwide Inc., 1999. — VIII, 186 p. This book provides the student with an overview of United States history from the end of Reconstruction to the present. Students will find this book helpful as a supplement to major textbooks in the field or as a summary of the major issues and events in U.S. history. We hope students will make effective...
New York: Appleton & Co, 1855. — 824 p. Containing a Summary of the History of the First Discovery, Settlement, Progress, and Present Condition of California, and a Complete History of All the Important Events Connected with its Great City to which are Added, Biographical Memoirs of Some Prominent Citizens. A comprehensive historical work which provides a detailed summary of...
The University Press of Kentucky, 2001. — 456 p.
To fully comprehend the Vietnam War, it is essential to understand the central role that southerners played in the nation's commitment to the war, in the conflict's duration, and in the fighting itself. President Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas and Secretary of State Dean Rusk of Georgia oversaw the dramatic escalation of U.S....
Princeton University Press, 2019. — 307 p. Making Beef Modern. How Beef Transformed America. Beyond the United States. A Steer’s-Eye View of the History of American Capitalism. Book Overview. War. The Golden Age of the Plains Nomads: Buʃalo and the Spread of. Horses across the Plains. “A Helping Hand over This Wild and Destitute Country”: Life on. the Texas Frontier and the Red...
Penguin Press, 2017. — 576 p. — ISBN: 978-0399563799. From the days of the Mayflower and the Virginia Company, America has been a place for people to dream, invent, build, tinker, and bet the farm in pursuit of a better life. Americana takes us on a four-hundred-year journey of this spirit of innovation and ambition through a series of Next Big Things — the inventions,...
Oxford University Press, 2002. — 368 p. In this ambitious and provocative text, environmental historian Ted Steinberg offers a sweeping history of our nation - a history that, for the first time, places the environment at the very center of our story. Written with exceptional clarity, Down to Earth re-envisions the story of America "from the ground up." It reveals how focusing...
University of Oklahoma Press, 1990. — 224 p. Texas, a land with a unique image, has remained for the most part within the American mainstream. In this historical atlas sixty-four maps, accompanied by brief interpretive essays, illustrate the most significant events and subject areas in Texas history and geography.Since the arrival of the first Europeans in 1528, six different...
New York: HarperCollins, 2007. - 448 р. Michael Stephenson's Patriot Battles is a comprehensive and richly detailed study of the military aspects of the War of Independence, and a fascinating look at the nuts and bolts of eighteenth-century combat. Covering everything from what motivated those who chose to fight to how they were enlisted, trained, clothed, and fed, it offers a...
Simon & Schuster, 2010. — 464 p. ISBN10: 1416547509 ISBN13: 9781416547501 (eng) The fullest recounting we have of the high politics of that immediate post-Civil War period…Stewart’s graceful style and storytelling ability make for a good read. —Bruce Kuklick, The Washington Post Likely to become the standard version of this historic clash between a president and Congress....
Madison & Adams Press, 2018. — 1407 p. — ISBN 978-80-268-8872-7. The story of the United States Army is always growing and changing. Historians constantly seek to reinterpret the past while accumulating new facts as America's Army continues to be challenged on new foreign battlefields. Nor does the Army, as an institution, ever stand still. It necessarily changes its...
Center of Military History, United States Army, 2010. — 574 p. This latest edition of an official U.S. Government military history classic provides an authoritative historical survey of the organization and accomplishments of the United States Army. This scholarly yet readable book is designed to inculcate an awareness of our nation's military past and to demonstrate that the...
Center of Military History, United States Army, 2009. — 437 p. This latest edition of an official U.S. Government military history classic provides an authoritative historical survey of the organization and accomplishments of the United States Army. This scholarly yet readable book is designed to inculcate an awareness of our nation's military past and to demonstrate that the...
Gallery Books, 2012. - 784 Pages. ISBN10: 1451613512 ISBN13: 978-1451613513. The companion to the Showtime documentary series, director Oliver Stone and historian Peter Kuznick challenge the prevailing orthodoxies of traditional history books in this thoroughly researched and rigorously analyzed look at the dark side of American history. At last the world knows America as the...
Indiana Historical Society, 2017. — 623 p. Campaign Crossroads is a look back over the varied, sometimes important, sometimes irrelevant, but always interesting presidential campaign cycles in Indiana's history. By taking in the influences of technology, transportation and communication itself, we see an evolution in the political process that is not only altogether Hoosier,...
Globe Pequot Press, 2020. — 208 p. When vice and scandal are all fun and games. Portland, Oregon began as a town of itinerant young men who had no shortage of diversions at the end of the workday. This city grew up with lots of revelry and little regulation. After the last tree fell in logging season and after the workday ended on the docks, those young men broke out the cards....
Greenwood Press, 2010. — 190 p. In the last decades, a growing number of immigrants from around the world have arrived in the United States. Daily Life of the New Americans: Immigration since 1965 provides a thematic overview of their everyday lives and underscores the diversity and complexity of the newcomer experience. Organized into six thematic chapters, the book examines...
University of North Carolina Press, 1988. — 390 p. The United States and the colonies that would become Canada emerged with separate political identities in 1783. The recently acquired French colonies suddenly became British bases that could be used against the Americans instead of in their defense. After 1783, the Americans looked north to British North America, a string of...
Lawrence Hill Books, 2016. — 252 p. The American Slave Coast tells the horrific story of how the slavery business in the United States made the reproductive labor of “breeding women” essential to the expansion of the nation. The book shows how slaves’ children, and their children’s children, were human savings accounts that were the basis of money and credit. This was so deeply...
Lawrence Hill Books, 2016. — 252 p. The American Slave Coast tells the horrific story of how the slavery business in the United States made the reproductive labor of “breeding women” essential to the expansion of the nation. The book shows how slaves’ children, and their children’s children, were human savings accounts that were the basis of money and credit. This was so deeply...
Lawrence Hill Books, 2008. — 368 p. New Orleans is the most elusive of American cities. The product of the centuries-long struggle among three mighty empires—France, Spain, and England—and among their respective American colonies and enslaved African peoples, it has always seemed like a foreign port to most Americans, baffled as they are by its complex cultural inheritance. The...
Georgetown: Georgetown University Press, 2013. - 384p.
What’s your secret?
American Spies presents the stunning histories of more than forty Americans who spied against their country during the past six decades. Michael Sulick, former head of the CIA’s clandestine service, illustrates through these stories—some familiar, others much less well known—the common threads in the...
Georgetown: Georgetown University Press, 2012. - 335 p. Can you keep a secret? Maybe you can, but the United States government cannot. Since the birth of the country, nations large and small, from Russia and China to Ghana and Ecuador, have stolen the most precious secrets of the United States. Written by Michael Sulick, former director of CIA's clandestine service, Spying in...
Random House Publishing Group, 2011. — 857 p. Writing with access to thousands of recently released official documents, fresh interviews, and the perspective that can come only from a decade of research and reflection, Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan deliver the first panoramic, authoritative look back at 9/11.For most living Americans, September 11, 2001, is the darkest date...
Random House Publishing Group, 2011. — 857 p. Writing with access to thousands of recently released official documents, fresh interviews, and the perspective that can come only from a decade of research and reflection, Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan deliver the first panoramic, authoritative look back at 9/11.For most living Americans, September 11, 2001, is the darkest date...
2000. — 158 p. Foreword Author's Preface America's Deaf Mute Blindmen The Suppressed Higher Reality Suppression of information The Deaf Mute Blindmen American Trucks in Korea and Vietnam – For the Other Side The Soviet Military Truck Industry The Ford Gorki "Automobile" Plant The A.J. Brandt-ZIL Plant The Deaf Mutes Supply Trucks for Afghan Genocide The War Potential of the...
Global Alliance Publications, 2018. — 1653 p. — ISBN 9780999492925. Now available for the first time in one volume: Three of the most revealing studies showing how Wall Street financiers, international bankers, and corporations manipulated world affairs during the early 20th century. Original introduction by Global Alliance Publications, Inc. summarizes the powerful book...
Spiegel & Grau, 2014. — 448 p. In search of a solution, journalist Matt Taibbi discovered the Divide, the seam in American life where our two most troubling trends—growing wealth inequality and mass incarceration—come together, driven by a dramatic shift in American citizenship: Our basic rights are now determined by our wealth or poverty. The Divide is what allows massively...
University of Illinois Press, 2013. — 272 p. The years from 1852 to 1890 marked a controversial period in Mormonism, when the church's official embrace of polygamy put it at odds with wider American culture. In this study, Christine Talbot explores the controversial era, discussing how plural marriage generated decades of cultural and political conflict over competing...
New York, NY: Liveright Publishing Corporation, A Division of W.W. Norton & Company, 2019. — 624 p. George Bird Grinnell (1849-1938), the son of a New York merchant, saw a different future for a nation in the thrall of the Industrial Age. With railroads scarring virgin lands and the formerly vast buffalo herds decimated, the country faced a crossroads: Could it pursue Manifest...
Harper Collins Books, 2004. — 288 p. Black and white culture has been blending and colliding in America for hundreds of years. In the 1700s, black slaves discovered their masters' Bibles and found in them a seditious faith of their own. In the 1920s, young white men fell in love with New Orleans jazz and created an underground of cultural dissidents. In the 1970s, black style...
Spiegel & Grau, 2015. - 176 p.
In a profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns of a father for his son, Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a powerful new framework for understanding our nation’s history and current crisis. Americans have built an empire on the idea of “race,” a falsehood that damages us all but...
Duke University Press, 2009. — 614 p. In "The Environment and the People in American Cities, 1600s-1900s", Dorceta E. Taylor provides an in-depth examination of the development of urban environments, and urban environmentalism, in the United States over four centuries. Taylor focuses on the evolution of the city, the emergence of elite reformers, the framing of environmental...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016. — 239 p. Modern cities embody America’s successes and failures―while offering hope for the future. Throughout the twentieth century, the city was deemed a problematic space, one that Americans urgently needed to improve. Although cities from New York to Los Angeles served as grand monuments to wealth and enterprise, they also reflected the...
Routledge, 2013. — 432 p. A New Introduction to AMerican Studies 4th edition provides a coherent portrait of American history, literature, culture and society, and also deals with some of the central themes and preoccupations of American life. Using fundamental influences like the machine and the city, and subjects such as imagery and iconography, myth, national identity,...
Createspace Independent Publishing, 2016. — 180 p. Discover the Thrilling and Patriotic Stories of American History! American History never looked this good with US History's Greatest Hits: 47 Stories in American History Both riveting and historically accurate, in this collection of 47 cocktail-sized stories, you'll find the greatest moments of American History told as the...
Publisher: Government Printing Office, Wasington, National Commission on Terrorist attacks, 2003. - 585 p. ISBN: 0160891809. Итоговый отчет Национальной комиссии по террористическим атакам против Соединенных Штатов, посвященный событиям 09 сентября 2001 года.
Author(s): James L. Roark; Michael P Johnson; Francois Furstenberg; Sarah Stage; Sarah E Igo Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's Print ISBN: 9781319208967, 1319208967 eText ISBN: 9781319219024, 1319219020 Copyright: 2020 Description: The American Promise, Value Edition, has long been a favorite with students who value the text’s readability, clear chronology, and lively voices of...
Автор не указан. Sovereign Media, 2015. — 96 p.
Over 95 pages completely devoted to the Battle of! The 20th Maine Defends Little Round Top at all Costs, Buford’s Heroic Defence, Death in the Devil’s Den, The Irish Brigade in the Wheatfield, Pickett’s Charge, Stuart vs. Custer, Fight for Culp’s Hill, Hancock & Armistead, Touring the Battlefield, and much more!
San Francisco: Pomegranate Artbooks, n.d. (c. 1995). - 60 pgs. These are some thirty examples from the Library's Prints and Photographs Division. Included are images made by Mathew B. Brady. Here are portraits of Col. E. E. Ellsworth, Robert E. Lee, U. S. Grant, George Armstrong Custer, and Abraham Lincoln. Scenes include a Confederate fort in Georgia, units of infantry, the...
Women in Military Service for America Memorial Foundation, 1998. —30 pages. This is an historical outline and collection of photographs from the Women's Memorial in Washington, DC, that honors the women who served in the United States armed forces from 1946 to 1978: Korea, Vietnam, the Cold War, from the Women's Armed Services Integration Act of 1948 up to the disestablishment...
Warszawa: Fijorr Publishing, 2007. — 304 s. (…) Jest tajemnicą poliszynela, że dwie najważniejsze książki Kennedy’ego, mimo że wydane pod jego nazwiskiem, zostały napisane przez kogoś innego. Książka Why England Slept (Dlaczego Anglia spała) była poprawioną wersją jego pracy magisterskiej, którą przedstawił na Harvardzie, na cztery miesiące przed publikacją. Jego ojciec...
ABC-CLIO, 2001. — 508 p.
Whether they're called "gaming" by the industry's supporters or "gambling" by its opponents, games of chance have always exerted a powerful pull. Every human society has indulged in some form of gambling and, ironically, has also tried to prohibit or limit it. In this comprehensive, objective look at gamblinga€its people, places, and events its laws and...
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014. — 248 p. How is it that the United States-a country founded on a distrust of standing armies and strong centralized power-came to have the most powerful military in history? Long after World War II and the end of the Cold War, in times of rising national debt and reduced need for high levels of military readiness, why does Congress...
W.W. Norton & Company Ltd., 2007. — 916 p. Reconstruction and the South The South and The West transformed Big bussiness and organised labor The emergence of urban America Gilded age politics and agrarian revolt An American empire The progressive era America and the Great War The modern temper Republial resurgence and decline New Deal America From isolation to Global War The...
9th ed. W.W. Norton & Company Ltd., 2013. 1746 p. — Includes biblio and index. — ISBN: 978-0-393-91262-3. This edition of America: A Narrative History includes the most substantial changes since I partnered with George Tindall in 1984, but I have been diligent to sustain his steadfast commitment to a textbook grounded in a compelling narrative history of the American...
University of North Carolina Press, 2017. — 424 p. New Voyages to Carolina offers a bold new approach for understanding and telling North Carolina's history. Recognizing the need for such a fresh approach and reflecting a generation of recent scholarship, eighteen distinguished authors have sculpted a broad, inclusive narrative of the state's evolution over more than four...
University of North Carolina Press, 2017. — 424 p. New Voyages to Carolina offers a bold new approach for understanding and telling North Carolina's history. Recognizing the need for such a fresh approach and reflecting a generation of recent scholarship, eighteen distinguished authors have sculpted a broad, inclusive narrative of the state's evolution over more than four...
Columbia, South Carolina: University of South Carolina Press, 1991. - 213 pgs. The author (an officer and US Air Force Academy graduate) examines the relationship between war, politics, and military behavior, focusing on the French and Indian War, 1757-
63. While military actions are included, the author concentrates on the impact of war on late-colonial society and politics....
Contexto, 2009. — 304 p. — (Povos e Civilizações). — ISBN: 8572444467, 9788572444460. Quem são os verdadeiros americanos? Sofisticados moradores de Nova York ou jecas da "América profunda"? Intelectuais vencedores do prêmio Nobel ou truculentos senhores da guerra? Para uns, os Estados Unidos da América são um paradigma da modernidade, para outros, um monstro tentacular...
Quirk Books, 2010. — 249 p. — ISBN 978-1-59474-752-6. Everyone knows the fifty winners but what about the hundreds of other statehood proposals that never worked out? Lost States is a tribute to such great unrealized states as West Florida, South California, Half-Breed Tracts, Rough and Ready, and others. History buffs will be entertained and enlightened by these...
Stackpole Books, 1998. — 242 р. — ISBN: 0-8117-0519-6. This sweeping tour through America's military past provides a fascinating glimpse into the life of the soldier of the colonial wars, the American Revolution, the War of 1812, the Mexican War, and the Civil War. Supporting nearly 200 photos of rare equipment and uniforms is text by two leading artifact experts that analyzes and...
University of California Press, 2019. — 328 p. From the ongoing issues of poverty, health, housing and employment to the recent upsurge of lethal police-community relations, the black working class stands at the center of perceptions of social and racial conflict today. Journalists and public policy analysts often discuss the black poor as “consumers” rather than “producers,”...
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1955. — 526 p. The memoirs of 33-d american president Harry Truman about the last year of WWII and the role of US in the new world order.
Savas Beatie, 2016. — 192 p. Within the annals of Alamo and Texas Revolutionary historiography, the important contributions of the Irish in winning the struggle against Mexico and establishing a new republic are noticeably absent. Breaking new ground with fresh views and original insights, Phillip Thomas Tucker's "The Forgotten Defenders of the Alamo: The Irish of the Texas...
Savas Beatie, 2016. — 192 p. Within the annals of Alamo and Texas Revolutionary historiography, the important contributions of the Irish in winning the struggle against Mexico and establishing a new republic are noticeably absent. Breaking new ground with fresh views and original insights, Phillip Thomas Tucker's "The Forgotten Defenders of the Alamo: The Irish of the Texas...
Routledge, 2006. — 187 pages. — ISBN: 0-203-08786-0
Arguably one of the most significant periods in US history, the American Civil War era continues to fascinate. In this essential reference guide to the period, Hugh Tulloch examines the war itself, alongside the political, constitutional, social, economic, literary and religious developments and trends that informed and were...
Название: The Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy.
Издательство: Caroll & Graf Publishers.
Год: 1993.
Формат: PDF.
Страниц: 345.
Язык: English.
Размер: 11,2 MB.
In this compelling book—mysteriously suppressed on its initial publication—former FBI agent William Turner and investigative reporter Jonn Christian expose convincing evidence that Sirhan did not act alone. Based on...
Название: The Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy. Издательство: Caroll & Graf Publishers. Год: 1993. Формат: MOBI. Страниц: 369. Язык: English. Размер: 7,87 MB. In this compelling book—mysteriously suppressed on its initial publication—former FBI agent William Turner and investigative reporter Jonn Christian expose convincing evidence that Sirhan did not act alone. Based on...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. — 255 p. The contemporary presidency, and the nation it governs, is more dependent on the individual in office than ever before. The Progression of the American Presidency examines in detail the institution of the American presidency from the selection process, to the president's individual responsibilities, to his interactions with other actors in the...
University of Chicago Press, 2015. — 366 p.
Long before people were “going green” and toting reusable bags, the Progressive generation of the early 1900s was calling for the conservation of resources, sustainable foresting practices, and restrictions on hunting. Industrial commodities such as wood, water, soil, coal, and oil, as well as improvements in human health and the...
Fort Monmouth, New Jersey: U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Museum, 1998-2008. - 103 pgs. These are the annual calendars for the recently closed Fort Monmouth, New Jersey. On the calendars, each month features an historic photograph or illustration from the post's history since World War I as the U.S. Army center for the Signal Corps. The years included are 1998, 1999, 2000,...
Fort Monmouth, New Jersey: U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Museum, 1998-2008. - 103 pgs. These are the annual calendars for the recently closed Fort Monmouth, New Jersey. On the calendars, each month features an historic photograph or illustration from the post's history since World War I as the U.S. Army center for the Signal Corps. The years included are 1998, 1999, 2000,...
Fort Monmouth, New Jersey: U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Museum, 2009. - 13 pgs. This is the annual calendar for the recently closed Fort Monmouth, New Jersey. On the calendar, each month features an historic photograph or illustration from the post's history since World War I as the U.S. Army center for the Signal Corps.
Huston, Texas: Rice University; OpenStax, 2017. — 1046 p. U.S. History is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of most introductory courses. The text provides a balanced approach to U.S. history, considering the people, events, and ideas that have shaped the United States from both the top down (politics, economics, diplomacy) and bottom up (eyewitness accounts,...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2006. — 584 p. — (Blackwell Companions to American History). A Companion to American Immigration is an authoritative collection of original essays by leading scholars on the major topics and themes underlying American immigration history. - Focuses on the two most important periods in American Immigration history: the Industrial Revolution (1820-1930) and the...
The History Press, 2015. — 277 p. The first German immigrants arrived in Louisville nearly two hundred years ago. By 1850, they represented nearly 20 percent of the population, and they influenced every aspect of daily life, from politics to fine art. In 1861, Moses Levy opened the famed Levy Brothers department store. Kunz's "The Dutchman" Restaurant was established as a...
Three Rivers Press, 1998. — 265 p. — ISBN: 0-609-80337-9. This is a must-have anthology of the milestone speeches, manifestos, court decisions, and groundbreaking journalism of the Sixties. No other period in American history has been more liberating, more confusing, more unforgettable, and had a more direct impact on the way we navigated the profound changes that swept over...
Hachette Book Group, 2004. — 162 p.
In May 2001, a group of men attempted to cross the Mexican border into the desert of southern Arizona, through the deadliest region of the continent, the "Devil's Highway." Three years later, Luis Alberto Urrea wrote about what happened to them. The result was a national bestseller, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, a "book of the year" in multiple...
ABC-CLIO, 2003. — 741 p. — ISBN10: 1576076768; ISBN13: 978-1576076767. The first comprehensive analysis of work and the workforce in the United States, from the Industrial Revolution to the era of globalization. 256 A–Z entries on topics ranging from amazon.com to income gaps and wages An impressive array of expert contributors representing labor history, labor economics, labor...
Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing, 2009. — 128 pgs. On October 26, 1862, Col. Edward P. Connor and the 3rd California Volunteers set up Camp Douglas for the purpose of protecting the overland mail and telegraph routes between Nevada and Wyoming. This began a long history of a U.S. military presence in the Salt Lake Valley Mormon community. Although the camp closed...
University of North Carolina Press, 2008. — 470 p. In the decades before the Civil War, Americans debating the fate of slavery often invoked the specter of disunion to frighten or discredit their opponents. According to Elizabeth Varon, ''disunion'' was a startling and provocative keyword in Americans' political vocabulary: it connoted the failure of the founders' singular effort...
Berkeley : University of California Press, 2008. — 305 p. What happens in a society so diverse that no ethnic group can call itself the majority? Exploring a question that has profound relevance for the nation as a whole, this study looks closely at eclectic neighborhoods in California where multiple minorities constituted the majority during formative years of the twentieth...
Wiley, 2008. — 384 p. — ISBN13: 978-0470247587 AP U.S. History For Dummies is a practical, step-by-step guide that will help you perfect the skills and review the knowledge you need to achieve your best possible score! Discover how to identify what the questions are really asking and find out how to combine your history knowledge with context clues to craft thoughtful essays....
Charleston SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2005. - 128 pgs. The Images of America series present collections of historic photographs from various towns, cities, and institutions. This volume is on the militia, volunteers, and National Guard units of the town of Hudson, Massachusetts, from 1862 to the present day. The units began as infantry and eventually became part of the 181st Infantry...
Yale University Press, 2007. — 336 p. Two centuries of American maritime history, in which the Atlantic Ocean remained the great frontier. Two centuries of American maritime history, in which the Atlantic Ocean remained the great frontier Westward expansion has been the great narrative of the first two centuries of American history, but as historian Daniel Vickers demonstrates...
ABC-CLIO, 2018. — 440 p. At a time when the U.S. flag is both a source of both pride and controversy, this volume provides the first encyclopedic A-to-Z treatment of the U.S. flag in American history, culture, and law. Offers the only encyclopedic A-to-Z treatment of the U.S. flag. Features essays on important flag-related topics by leading historians. Includes a timeline, a...
ABC-CLIO, 2020. — 385 p. This A-Z encyclopedia will survey the history, meaning, and enduring impact of the Liberty Bell in American culture. This title provides a one-stop resource for understanding the fascinating history and enduring importance of the Liberty Bell in the fabric of American culture, from the pre–Revolutionary War era to the present day. The encyclopedia...
Random House, 2008. — 672 p.
The creation of the Pentagon in seventeen whirlwind months during World War II is one of the great construction feats in American history, involving a tremendous mobilization of manpower, resources, and minds. In astonishingly short order, Brigadier General Brehon B. Somervell conceived and built an institution that ranks with the White House, the...
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004, -325 p. This book examines emancipation after the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 and during the last years of the American Civil War. Focusing on the making and meaning of the Thirteenth Amendment, Final Freedom looks at the struggle among legal thinkers, politicians, and ordinary Americans in the North and the border states to...
T’Amstelredam, boos Marten Ianß Brandt, 1630. — 14 p. Советом управляющих Вест-Индской компании была учреждена система патронажа и союзов патронов с целью содействия заселению Новых Нидерландов, голландской колонии в Северной Америке, которая располагалась на территории современного Нью-Йорка, Нью-Джерси, Делавэра и Коннектикута. В роли патронов выступали богатые голландцы,...
ABC-CLIO, 2007. — 587 p. Reaching back 400 years, Material Life in America: An Encyclopedia is the first reference showing what the study of material culture reveals about American society's revelations not accessible through traditional sources and methods. In nearly 200 entries, the encyclopedia traces the history of artifacts, concepts and ideas, industries, peoples and...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2013. — 594 p. A Companion to John Adams and John Quincy Adams presents a collection of original historiographic essays contributed by leading historians that cover diverse aspects of the lives and politics of John and John Quincy Adams and their spouses, Abigail and Louisa Catherine. Features contributions from top historians and Adams’ scholars. Considers...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2014. — 552 p. Covering the lively, even raucous, history of Louisiana from before First Contact through the Elections of 2012, this sixth edition of the classic Louisiana history survey provides an engaging and comprehensive narrative of what is arguably America’s most colorful state. Since the appearance of the first edition of this classic text in 1984,...
Oxford University Press, 1998. — 1408 p. Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 is a non-fiction book by historians Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace. Based on over twenty years of research, it was published in 1998 by Oxford University Press and won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for History. The book is detailed and focuses not only on urban and political development but also on...
Dutton, 2008. — 576 p. ISBN10: 0525949801 ISBN13: 9780525949800 (eng)
From two men who know better than anyone how espionage really works, an unprecedented history heavily illustrated with neverbefore- seen images of the CIA's most secretive operations and the gadgets that made them possible.
It is a world where the intrigue of reality exceeds that of fiction. What is an...
Britannica Educational Publishing, 2009. — 239 p. The American Revolutionary War and The War of 1812 is just one title in this 5 book series that gives readers a detailed look into America's military history. Military legacies are not just about dates and timelines; they're about our strengths and weaknesses, ignorance and brilliance, and desire for peace or dominance. Students...
Britannica Educational Publishing, 2013. — 146 p. — ISBN: 978-1-615306-84-6. The newly reunified United States experienced a tenuous peace following the American Civil War. It was a period characterized by great technological advances, but also by increased political, economic, and social polarization. This penetrating look at American history between the Civil War and 20th...
ABC-CLIO, 2015. — 255 p. Provides a comprehensive overview of 10 major slave revolts and examines how those uprisings and conspiracies impacted slaveholding colonies and states from 1663 to 1861. Offers an overview of American slave revolts and conspiracies to revolt. Explores the context of chronic fear of uprising in slaveholding colonies and states in North America from 1663...
13th Edition. — Cengage Learning, 2018. — 611 p. — ISBN: 978-1-337-10460-9. Ever wonder how the American economy became the most powerful one in the world? Tying America's past to the economic policies of today and beyond, the popular HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN ECONOMY, 13E answers this critical question and more. This market-leading coverage presents events chronologically for...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 282 p. In 1607, Powhatan teenager Pocahontas first encountered English settlers when John Smith was brought to her village as a captive. In 1920, the ratification of the 19th Amendment gave women the constitutional right to vote. And in 2012, the U.S. Marine Corps lifted its ban on women in active combat, allowing female marines to join the...
New York University Press, 2016. — 336 p. Analyzes the cultural attitudes, political decisions, and institutions surrounding the maintenance of armed forces throughout American history. While traditionally, Americans view expensive military structure as a poor investment and a threat to liberty, they also require a guarantee of that very freedom, necessitating the employment of...
Chicago; London: The University of Chicago Press, 2018. — 646 p. — ISBN13: 978-0-226-30065-8 (e-book) Building the American Republic combines centuries of perspectives and voices into a fluid narrative of the United States. Throughout their respective volumes, Harry L. Watson and Jane Dailey take care to integrate varied scholarly perspectives and work to engage a diverse...
Chicago; London: The University of Chicago Press, 2018. — 646 p. — ISBN13: 978-0-226-30065-8 (e-book) Building the American Republic combines centuries of perspectives and voices into a fluid narrative of the United States. Throughout their respective volumes, Harry L. Watson and Jane Dailey take care to integrate varied scholarly perspectives and work to engage a diverse...
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2012. — 500 p. 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 office. Bill Clinton, it can...
Princeton University Press, 2016. - 329 p. Trouble in the Tribe explores the increasingly contentious place of Israel in the American Jewish community. In a fundamental shift, growing numbers of American Jews have become less willing to unquestioningly support Israel and more willing to publicly criticize its government. More than ever before, American Jews are arguing about...
Routledge, 2009. — 552 p. ISBN10: 0415994756 ISBN13: 9780415994750 (eng) American Women during World War II documents the lives and stories of women who contributed directly to the war effort via official and semi-official military organizations, as well as the millions of women who worked in civilian defense industries, ranging from aircraft maintenance to munitions...
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2016. — 302 p. The economy of the United States is constantly evolving in response to wars, technological innovations, cultural revolutions, and political maneuverings. Tracing the economic machine of the United States from its first experiments in the colonies to the post–Great Recession era of today, Frederick S. Weaver creates a dynamic...
Crown, 2005. — 384 p. More than 27 million Americans today can trace their lineage to the Scots, whose bloodline was stained by centuries of continuous warfare along the border between England and Scotland, and later in the bitter settlements of England’s Ulster Plantation in Northern Ireland. Between 250,000 and 400,000 Scots-Irish migrated to America in the eighteenth...
2nd Edition with an Introduction by Andrew R. Graybill. — University of Nebraska Press, 2022. — 632 p. This iconic description of the interaction between the vast central plains of the continent and the white Americans who moved there in the mid-nineteenth century has endured as one of the most influential, widely known, and controversial works in western history since its...
2nd Edition with an Introduction by Andrew R. Graybill. — University of Nebraska Press, 2022. — 632 p. This iconic description of the interaction between the vast central plains of the continent and the white Americans who moved there in the mid-nineteenth century has endured as one of the most influential, widely known, and controversial works in western history since its...
The History Press, 2021. — 160 p. Witness the rise of a metropolis from the tiny frontier outpost of Waterloo into a world leader in culture and technology. Discover the lost treasure of Shoal Creek in Pease Park or just a sense of inner peace amid the koi ponds and waterfalls of the Zilker Botanical Garden. Like the bats of Congress Avenue, navigate Austin neighborhoods by...
University of Georgia Press, 2022. — 257 p. For decades, scholars have conceived of the coastal city of New Orleans as a remarkable outlier, an exception to nearly every “rule” of accepted U.S. historiography. A frontier town of the circum-Caribbean, the popular image of New Orleans has remained a vestige of North America’s European colonial era rather than an Atlantic city on...
Anchor, 2008. — 848 p.
With shocking revelations that made headlines in papers across the country, Pulitzer-Prize-winner Tim Weiner gets at the truth behind the CIA and uncovers here why nearly every CIA Director has left the agency in worse shape than when he found it; and how these profound failures jeopardize our national security.
University of Massachusetts Press, 2011. — 304 p. Surveying the American fascination with the Far East since the mid-eighteenth century, this book explains why the Orient had a fundamentally different meaning in the United States than in Europe or Great Britain. David Weir argues that unlike their European counterparts, Americans did not treat the East simply as a site of...
University Press of Florida, 2020. — 296 p. In this comprehensive history of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), one of the oldest and most important women’s organizations in United States history, Simon Wendt shows how the DAR’s efforts to keep alive the memory of the nation’s past were entangled with and strengthened the nation’s racial and gender boundaries....
New York, W. R. Jenkins, [1889?]. — 76 p. "About tho last of August came in a Dutch man of warre that soKl us twenty negars," wrote John Rolfe in 1619. Thus, briefly and incidentally, was chronicled an event fraught with such momentous results — the introduction of slavery into the Anglo-American colonies. In order to determine the legal condition of the negro at this, his...
Imagine Publishing Ltd, 2020. — 148 p. The 25 chapters of richly illustrated popular history of the United States reflect the past of the country from the period of European colonization to the present day. Founding Fathers. Civil War and Reconstruction. The birth of a super power. A new era.
Ian Allan Publishing, 2002. — 96 p.
This series looks at the cutting edge of war, and deals exclusively with units capable of operating independently in the forefront of battle. Each volume in the series examines the chosen unit's origins and history, its organisation and order of battle, its battle history theatre by theatre, its insignia and its markings. Also covered are...
Public Affairs, 2008. — 334 p. Following his single term as President of the United States (1825–1829), John Quincy Adams, embittered by his loss to Andrew Jackson, boycotted his successor's inauguration, just as his father John Adams had done (the only two presidents ever to do so). Rather than retire, the sixty-two-year-old former president, U.S. senator, secretary of state,...
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2021. — 288 p. Rediscover the forgotten story of how President Lincoln welcomed African Americans to his White House during America’s most divided and war-torn era. Jonathan White illuminates why Lincoln’s unprecedented welcoming of African American men and women to the White House transformed the trajectory of race relations in the United...
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2012 — 720 p. — ISBN10: 9780393342376; ISBN13: 978-0393342376. This original, deeply researched history shows the transcontinentals to be pivotal actors in the making of modern America. But the triumphal myths of the golden spike, robber barons larger than life, and an innovative capitalism all die here. Instead we have a new vision of the...
Blackwell Publishing, 2004. — 581 p. Notes on the contributors Stephen J. Whitfield 1900–1914 Eugene E. Leach 1914–1929 Glen Gendzel 1929–1941 Michael E. Parrish 1941–1950 Allan M. Winkler 1950–1960 Richard M. Fried 1960–1974 Jama Lazerow 1974–1988 Leo P. Ribuffo 1988–2000 Steven M. Gillon The South Raymond Arsenault The West Anne M. Butler The Environment Paul S. Sutter The...
3rd ed. — Boston : Bedford/St. Martins, 2007. — 738 p. Who Built America? presents history from the perspective of working men and women, pairing a lively narrative with extensive visual and written documentary evidence. For the third edition, the authors restructured the chapters to make Who Built America? a more teachable textbook. This new arrangement is designed to help...
3rd ed. — Boston : Bedford/St. Martins, 2007. — 884 p. Who Built America? presents history from the perspective of working men and women, pairing a lively narrative with extensive visual and written documentary evidence. For the third edition, the authors restructured the chapters to make Who Built America? a more teachable textbook. This new arrangement is designed to help...
4th Edition. — Wiley, 2019. — 465 p. — (For Dummies). — ISBN: 1119550696. Don't miss a moment of U.S. history The United States is undergoing a period of intense political and social change. From the rise of the Tea Party, to social media's effect on American life and politics, this new edition fills in the gaps of this Nation's story. Award-winning political journalist and...
2 edition. — Wiley, 2009. — 389 p. — (For Dummies).
Now revised-the friendly, easy-to-understand guide to the story of America Since the publication of first edition of U.S. History For Dummies, significant events have reshaped thoughts about everything from oil consumption to mortgages to presidential candidates. This updated guide to the fascinating events and people of...
2001. — 394 p.
U.S. History For Dummies is not a textbook. It focuses on people – famous, infamous, and obscure. This book gives you a basic foundation of information about the history of the United States. Students and teachers can use it as a friendly, easy-to-understand overview of U.S history, and history buffs can use it as a reference to look up important facts, to settle...
USA: Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2009. — 558 p. ISBN10: 0195387805. ISBN13: 978-0195387803. Language: English. English-born Francis Asbury was one of the most important religious leaders in American history. Asbury single-handedly guided the creation of the American Methodist church, which became the largest Protestant denomination in nineteenth-century America, and...
W. W. Norton & Company, 2008. — 1104 p. Winner of the Bancroft Award: "Monumental…a tour de force…awesome in its coverage of political events."―Gordon Wood, New York Times Book Review Acclaimed as the definitive study of the period by one of the greatest American historians, The Rise of American Democracy traces a historical arc from the earliest days of the republic to the...
Basic Books, 2013. — 384 p. From the 9/11 attacks to waterboarding to drone strikes, relations between the United States and the Middle East seem caught in a downward spiral. And all too often, the Central Intelligence Agency has made the situation worse. But this crisis was not a historical inevitability - far from it. Indeed, the earliest generation of CIA operatives was...
Random House, 2010. — 622 p.
One of The New York Times Book Review’s 10 Best Books of the YearIn this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life. From...
The Origins of Our Discontents. — New York: Random House, 2020. — 455 p. — ISBN: 9780593230268 In this brilliant book, Isabel Wilkerson gives us a masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched narrative and stories about real people, how America today and throughout its history has been shaped by a hidden caste...
The Origins of Our Discontents. — New York: Random House, 2020. — 455 p. — ISBN: 9780593230268 In this brilliant book, Isabel Wilkerson gives us a masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched narrative and stories about real people, how America today and throughout its history has been shaped by a hidden caste...
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 296 p. — (Very Short Introductions). Europeans, Africans, and American Indians practiced slavery long before the first purchase of a captive African by a white land-owner in the American colonies; that, however, is the image of slavery most prevalent in the minds of Americans today. This Very Short Introduction begins with the Portuguese capture...
Cambridge University Press. — 525 р. The Cambridge History of American Theatre is an authoritative and wideranging history of American theatre in all its dimensions, from theatre building to play writing, directors, performers, and designers. Engaging the theatre as a performance art, a cultural institution, and a fact of American social and political life, the History...
Cambridge University Press. — 587 р. The Cambridge History of American Theatre is an authoritative and wideranging history of American theatre in all its dimensions, from theatre building to play writing, directors, performers, and designers. Engaging the theatre as a performance art, a cultural institution, and a fact of American social and political life, the History...
Cambridge University Press. — 587 p. The Cambridge History of American Theatre is an authoritative and wideranging history of American theatre in all its dimensions, from theatre building to play writing, directors, performers, and designers. Engaging the theatre as a performance art, a cultural institution, and a fact of American social and political life, the History...
Yale University Press, 2009. — 304 p. This book deals with an important and timely issue: the political and economic forces that have shaped agricultural policies in the United States during the past eighty years. It explores the complex interactions of class, market, and state as they have affected the formulation and application of agricultural policy decisions since the New...
University of Minnesota Press, 2010. — 448 p. In 1862, four years after Minnesota was ratified as the thirty-second state in the Union, simmering tensions between indigenous Dakota and white settlers culminated in the violent, six-week-long U.S.–Dakota War. Hundreds of lives were lost on both sides, and the war ended with the execution of thirty-eight Dakotas on December 26,...
London, 1795. - 601p. Discovery of America. General description of America. General description of United States of America. Independence of the United States.
London, 1795. - 498p. Grand divisions of the United States. New England. Vermont. New Hampshire. Massachusetts. Maine. Rhode Island and Providence. Middle States. New York. Pennsylvania. Delaware. Ohio.
London, 1795. - 527p. Southern States. South Carolina. Virginia. Indiana. Kentucky. Georgia. Advantages peculiar to the United States. General information to the European settlers.
Routledge, 2020. — 410 p. The Routledge History of American Foodways provides an important overview of the main themes surrounding the history of food in the Americas from the pre-colonial era to the present day. By broadly incorporating the latest food studies research, the book explores the major advances that have taken place in the past few decades in this crucial field....
New York: Grand Central Publishing, 1998. — 512 p. — ISBN10: 0446674710; ISBN13: 978-0446674713. The assassination of Kennedy & Luther King, the Tet offensive in Vietnam, campus riots & the election of Nixon. The year is 1968 & for millions of Americans the dream of a nation facing up to basic problems at home & abroad were shattered. Foreword. Ring Out The Old, Ring In The...
Wash.: Departament of Army, 1944. - 31p.
Наставление для военных палачей армии США (на основе более раннего 1944 года). Включает основные определения, обязанности участников процедуры, порядок действий при расстреле и повешении, чертежи виселицы и других приспособлений, вязку узлов, таблицу для расчёта верёвки в зависимости от веса, оплату труда палача, действия после казни...
Knopf, 2012. — 512 p.
In the closing days of 1862, just three weeks before Emancipation, the administration of Abraham Lincoln commissioned a code setting forth the laws of war for US armies. It announced standards of conduct in wartime—concerning torture, prisoners of war, civilians, spies, and slaves—that shaped the course of the Civil War. By the twentieth century, Lincoln’s...
Oxford University Press, 2009. — 800 p. — (Oxford History of the United States). The Oxford History of the United States is by far the most respected multi-volume history of our nation. The series includes three Pulitzer Prize winners, two New York Times bestsellers, and winners of the Bancroft and Parkman Prizes. Now, in the newest volume in the series, one of America's most...
Viking Penguin, 2011. — 371 p. — ISBN: 978-1-101-54445-7 The author describes eleven rival regional "nations" in the United States (Yankeedom, New Netherland, the Midlands, Tidewater, Greater Appalachia, the Deep South, New France, El Norte, the Left Coast, the Far West, and First Nation), and how these deep roots continue to influence our politics today. Abstract: The author...
Facts On File, 2005. — 146 p. — (American Rights Serie). American democracy owes much to the rights guaranteed to individuals in the U.S. Constitution and specifically in its first 10 amendments, known as the Bill of Rights. Each book in the new six-volume American Rights set provides the history of a specific right or rights, from the right to vote to the right to bear arms. The...
Regnery Publishing, Inc., 2004. — 289 p. Nowhere is the great humorist’s observation more apt than in the field of American history. The story of American history that most students have encountered for at least the past several decades amounts to a series of drearily predictable clichés: the Civil War was all about slavery, antitrust law saved us from wicked big business,...
New York, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1991, — 284 p. The Compromise of 1877 and the End of Reconstruction. Five times in the course of the nineteenth century there arose political crises of such gravity as to call forth all the celebrated American genius for compromise. Four of these crises involved the threat of disunion or violence, if not war. In only one of them did...
Chicago: Horton & Leonard, 1868. — 454 p. Study the Past, to apprehend the Future, and improve the Present Former Opinions and Predictions were based upon a reasonable Hypothesis Real Estate, especially in a growing City, ig the best Investment General Pecuniary Fievulsions may intervene, but can not change the Result Public Improvements anticipated 20 and 10 years ago, as a...
Scarecrow Press, 2009. — 497 p. Alphabetically-arranged A-Z different entries offer an overview of the significant economic, political, social, military and cultural history of the United States between 1933 and 1953.
Stanford University Press, 2020. — 298 p. The Peculiar Afterlife of Slavery explores how antiblack racism lived on through the figure of the Chinese worker in US literature after emancipation. Drawing out the connections between this liminal figure and the formal aesthetics of blackface minstrelsy in literature of the Reconstruction and post-Reconstruction eras, Caroline H....
Oxford University Press, 2016. — 544 p. After emerging from the tumult of social movements of the 1960s and 1970s, the field of Asian American studies has enjoyed rapid and extraordinary growth. Nonetheless, many aspects of Asian American history still remain open to debate. The Oxford Handbook of Asian American History offers the first comprehensive commentary on the state of...
Ulysses Press, 2016. — 300 p. The Bowery Boys podcast is a phenomenon, thrilling audiences each month with one amazing story after the next. Now, in their first-ever book, the duo gives you an exclusive personal tour through New York’s old cobblestone streets and gas-lit back alleyways. Featuring fascinating guides to: Hell's Kitchen and Columbus Circle The Bowery and Astor Place...
University of South Carolina Press, 2006. — 259 p. In Proslavery and Sectional Thought in the Early South, 1740-1829, Jeffrey Robert Young has assembled thirteen texts that reveal the development of proslavery perspectives across the colonial and early national South, from Maryland to Georgia. The tracts, lectures, sermons, and petitions in this volume demonstrate that defenses...
Princeton University Press, 2022. — 430 p. A panoramic history of American individualism from its nineteenth-century origins to today’s divided public square. Individualism is a defining feature of American public life. Its influence is pervasive today, with liberals and conservatives alike promising to expand personal freedom and defend individual rights against unwanted...
Princeton University Press, 2012. — 432 p. New perspectives on American political history from one of its leading writers. In recent years, the study of American political history has experienced a remarkable renaissance. After decades during which the subject fell out of fashion and disappeared from public view, it has returned to prominence as the study of American history...
ABC-CLIO, 2014. — 320 p. This three-volume work represents a leading reference resource for Asian American studies that gives students, researchers, librarians, teachers, and other interested readers the ability to easily locate accurate, up-to-date information about Asian ethnic groups, historical and contemporary events, important policies, and notable individuals. Written by...
University of Illinois Press, 2015. — 320 p. From the 1880s through the 1940s, tens of thousands of first- and second-generation immigrants embraced the anarchist cause after arriving on American shores. Kenyon Zimmer explores why these migrants turned to anarchism, and how their adoption of its ideology shaped their identities, experiences, and actions. Zimmer focuses on...
Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing, 2001. - 128 pgs. The Images of America series present collections of historic photographs from various towns, cities, and institutions. This volume on Fort Dix, New Jersey, is by the curator of the Fort Dix museum and covers the founding in 1917, the training of the 78th Division for World War I, reserves and the Civilian...
Нови Сад: Светови, 2004. — 219 с. О активизму. О изборној политици. О Холокаусту. О улози историчара. Неки савети за даље читање. Књиге које је написао Хауард Зин.
The New Press, 2019. — 241 p. Never before published, an extraordinarily inspiring and radical conversation between Howard Zinn and PBS/NPR journalist Ray Suarez, wherein American history is turned upside down―published to coincide with the tenth anniversary of Zinn's death. Truth Has a Power of Its Own is an engrossing collection of never-before-published conversations with...
First edition, reprinted 1990. Harper Collins Publishers, New York. 626 pages. ISBN: 0-06-090792-4 "Zinn has written a brilliant and moving history of the American people from the point of view of those who have been exploited politically and economically and whose plight has been largely omitted from most histories. Extending its coverage through the middle 1970s, the book is...
Harper Perennial, 2003. — 622 p. Columbus , The Indians, and Human Progress. Drawing the Color Line. Persons of Mean and Vile Condition.Tyranny is Tyranny. A Kind of Revolution. The Intimately Oppressed. As Long as Grass Grows or Water Runs. We Take Nothing by Conquest, Thank God. Slavery without Submission, Emancipation without Freedom. The Other Civil-War. Robber Barons and...
Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2014. — 478 p. Over the course of American history, Jews have held many American leaders in high esteem, but they maintain a unique emotional bond with Abraham Lincoln. From the time of his presidency to the present day, American Jews have persistently viewed Lincoln as one of their own, casting him as a Jewish sojourner and, in...
USA: Oxford University Press, 1992. — 368 p.
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Aspirations and Anxieties is a working class intellectual history of early factory operatives in antebellum New England. The book focuses on the operatives' perceptions of technological and socio-economic changes in the mechanized workplace. The study uncovers a complex debate over many...
LSU Press, 2020. — 365 p. In this highly original study of Confederate ideology and politics, Jeffrey Zvengrowski suggests that Confederate president Jefferson Davis and his supporters saw Bonapartist France as a model for the Confederate States of America. They viewed themselves as struggling not so much for the preservation of slavery but for antebellum Democratic ideals of...
Београд: Чигоја штампа, 2011. — 469 с. Спољна политика глобалног колоса: Америчка дипломатија од 1900. године Роберта Шулцингера. Предговор првом издању. Предговор шестом издању. Основе америчке спољне политике. Сједињене државе као светска сила, 1898-1908. Дипломатија долара 1909-1920. Сједињене државе у Великом рату, 1914-1920. Доба конзервативног интернационализма,...
Харків: Фоліо, 2009. — 335 с.
У цю збірку ввійшли інавгураційні промови всіх обраних Президентів США. З огляду на більш ніж 200-річну традицію виголошення таких промов, їх можна розглядати як унікальний історичний екскурс становлення та розвитку американської демократії і держави загалом. Відтепер українські читачі мають нагоду ознайомитися з цим історичним надбанням.
М.: Б.С.Г.-Пресс, 2003. — 336 с. — ISBN 5-93381-100-9. В этой книге А. Азимов (1920-1992), автор более чем двухсот произведений на самые разные темы, создатель знаменитых фантастических романов, обращается к истории Соединенных Штатов. Точно и достоверно изложенный в свойственной Азимову живой и доступной манере материал, обилие любопытнейших фактов и исторических анекдотов...
М.: Эксмо, 2014. — 964 с. В этой книге популярный писатель рассказывает об истории Северной Америки - от древнейших времен до 1918 г. С присущей ему гениальностью Айзек Азимов рисует нам картину жизни на американском континенте - от быта индейских племен до появления первых европейцев, от колонизации до образования Соединенных Штатов Америки, и от отмены рабства до окончания...
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М.: Эксмо, 2016. — 960 с. — ISBN: 978-5-699-64428-5. В этой книге популярный писатель рассказывает об истории Северной Америки – от древнейших времен до 1918 г. С присущей ему гениальностью Айзек Азимов рисует нам картину жизни на американском континенте – от быта индейских племен до появления первых европейцев, от колонизации до образования Соединенных Штатов Америки и от...
Москва: Б.С.Г.-Пресс, 2003. — 336 с. — ISBN 5-93381-100-9. В этой книге А. Азимов (1920-1992), автор более чем двухсот произведений на самые разные темы, создатель знаменитых фантастических романов, обращается к истории Соединенных Штатов. Точно и достоверно изложенный в свойственной Азимову живой и доступной манере материал, обилие любопытнейших фактов и исторических анекдотов...
Пер. с англ. И.С. Бородычевой. — М: ACT: Астрель, 2007. — 375, [1] с.: ил. Из предисловия: "В этой книге, теперь уже в третьем издании, дополненном рассказами о неустойчивой экономике нового тысячелетия и войной Америки с терроризмом, Вы быстро найдете понятную информацию, которая не погрузит Вас в кому. Вы впитаете достаточно истории США, чтобы не чувствовать себя полнейшим...
СПб.: Алетейя, 2020. — 318 с. — ISBN 978-5-907030-56-5 В книге впервые в отечественной историографии исследуется отношение американского общества к войне с Великобританией в 1812–1815 гг. События вписываются в контекст наполеоновских войн и хронологически совпадают с Отечественной войной 1812 г. и заграничными походами русских войск. Восприятие в американской историографии и...
Курск: РОСИ, 2004. — 216 с. В учебном пособии рассматриваются процессы возникновения и развития английских колоний в Северной Америке в XVII-XVIII вв., а также процесс образования и становления молодого американского государства. Значительное внимание уделяется социально-экономическим процессам, изучение которых позволяет более глубоко взглянуть на политические и правовые...
Алентьева Т.В., Филимонова М.А. США в новое время: общество, государство и право. Часть 1.1607-1828 гг. Учебное пособие.-Курск: Изд-во РОСИ, 2004. -216 с. В учебном пособии рассматриваются процессы возникновения и развития английских колоний в Северной Америке в XVII-XVIII вв., а также процесс образования и становления молодого американского государства. Значительное внимание...
Монография. — Москва: Алетейя, 2020. — 458 с. — ISBN 978-5-00165-052-2. В монографии рассматривается эволюция американской политической карикатуры XIX века как важнейший фактор пропаганды и агитации, мощное оружие в партийно-политической борьбе. На фоне политической истории страны в монографии впервые дается анализ состояния и развития искусства сатирической графики,...
София: Издателство Петър Берон, 1995. — 414 с. В книгата е проследена външната политика на Съединените Американски Щати от началото на Втората световна война, през Студената война, войната в Корея и Виетнам до войната в Ирак на американския президент Джордж Буш - Старши.
М.: Партиздат, 1933. — 122 с. В книге рассказано о положении чернокожих трудящихся в США в 1920-1930-е годы. Собран большой фактический и статистический материал. Рассказано о борьбе американских негров за расовое и социальное равноправие.
М.: Партиздат, 1933. — 122 с. В книге рассказано о положении чернокожих трудящихся в США в 1920-1930-е годы. Собран большой фактический и статистический материал. Рассказано о борьбе американских негров за расовое и социальное равноправие.
Минск: Вышэйшая школа, 2020. — 304 c. Рассматривается значительный исторический временной промежуток – от Американской революции до современности, анализируются либеральная политическая модель управления и социально-исторические условия становления США как государства, их позиция накануне и в ходе Второй мировой и холодной войны, современные реформы. Приводятся точки зрения...
М.: Изд-во иностранной литературы, 1961. — 199 с. Начало колониальной эры. Колониальные взаимоотношения. Внутренние классовые конфликты. Восстания с участием многих классов. Колониальные политические битвы. Идеологическое развитие. Уильямс Хатчинсон и "охота за ведьмами". Уайз, "Пробуждение" и Зенгер. Новая нация в Новом свете. Примечания. Библиография. Указатель.
М.: Наука, 1962. - 589 с. Содержание: Характер революции. Родники революции. Классовые деления и революция. Была ли революция движением большинства? Развитие революционных институтов. Движение к независимости. Декларация независимости. Организация вооружённой борьбы. Тори и предатели. Англия и революция. Британская империя и революция. Дипломатия революции. Негритянский народ в...
М.: Наука, 1962. - 589 с. Об издании: Предлагаемая вниманию советского читателя книга известного американского историка-марксиста Г. Аптекера представляет собой второй том задуманного им многотомного труда по истории народа Соединенных Штатов Америки. Первый том этого труда, «Колониальная эра», написанный автором в 1959 году, был издан в русском переводе Издательством...
М.: Изд-во иностранной литературы, 1961. — 199 с. Об издании: Начавшаяся публикация монументального труда Герберта Аптекера «История американского народа», в основу которого положены принципы марксизма-ленинизма, является выдающимся событием в культурной жизни США. Это исследование, которое будет состоять из двенадцати томов, охватит всю американскую историю. Опубликованный...
М.: Прогресс, 1975. — 277 с.
Оглавление:
Вступительная статья.
Введение. Исследования по негритянской проблеме: сущность и потребности.
Центральная тема истории Юга: новый подход.
Мифология расизма.
Дюбуа как историк.
Нат Тернер: расистский миф и историческая действительность.
Американский империализм и белый шовинизм.
Переписка между Букером Вашингтоном и Уильямом Дюбуа...
М.: Наука, 1982. — 337 с.
В монографии исследуются генезис и диалектика развития американского утопического сознания, его основные уровни и типы, обусловленные характером общественных отношений в США. Эволюция американской утопической традиции прослеживается в связи с противоречиями, вызванными НТР и ее последствиями, обострением идеологической борьбы между капитализмом и...
2-е изд. доп. — М.: Воениздат, 1982. — 235 с. Книга представляет собой публицистический очерк, в котором на конкретном историческом материале раскрывается агрессивный характер политики США, антинародная сущность их армии. Вот уже более двух веков армия США послушно выполняет волю своих капиталистических хозяев, являясь орудием подавления освободительной борьбы трудящихся как в...
М.: Воениздат, 1976. - 232 с. Книга представляет собой публицистический очерк, в котором на конкретном историческом материале раскрывается агрессивный характер вооруженных сил США. Вот уже два века они послушно выполняют волю своих капиталистических хозяев, являясь орудием подавления национально-освободительных движений и демократических свобод как в своей стране, так и за ее...
М.: Воениздат, 1976. - 232 с. Книга представляет собой публицистический очерк, в котором на конкретном историческом материале раскрывается агрессивный характер вооруженных сил США. Вот уже два века они послушно выполняют волю своих капиталистических хозяев, являясь орудием подавления национально-освободительных движений и демократических свобод как в своей стране, так и за ее...
М.: Международные отношения, 1974. - 200 с.
Первое отечественное монографическое исследование, посвященное американской практике заключения международных договоров и соглашений. В работе рассматриваются взаимоотношения Белого дома и Капитолия при подготовке договорных актов, принятая в США система ратификации договоров, заключаемые американским правительством исполнительные...
М.: Издательство иностранной литературы, 1950. — 140 с. Официальная буржуазная «наука» США и правые социалисты систематически фальсифицируют подлинную историю Соединенных Штатов, в частности историю американского рабочего движения; проповедуется затасканная реакционнейшая теория об «исключительности» американского капитализма, который якобы не подвержен общим закономерностям...
М.: Издательство иностранной литературы, 1950. — 140 с. Официальная буржуазная «наука» США и правые социалисты систематически фальсифицируют подлинную историю Соединенных Штатов, в частности историю американского рабочего движения; проповедуется затасканная реакционнейшая теория об «исключительности» американского капитализма, который якобы не подвержен общим закономерностям...
М.: Экономическая жизнь, 1927. — 440 с.
Автор прослеживает экономическую историю США, начиная с периода колонизации американских территорий и заканчивая 20-и годами XX века. Среди специфических черт экономической политики отмечается неравномерность развития Севера и Юга, политика по отношению к странам Латинской Америки, участие США в мировой войне и др.
М.: Наука, 1983. — 225 с. В монографии анализируются особенности функционирования и формирования внешней политики США в XX веке, основы американского гегемонизма. Рассматривается история деятельности США против Советского Союза.
М.: Издательство иностранной литературы, 1957. — 656 с.
Предлагаемая вниманию советского читателя книга Р. Бойера и Г. Морейса представляет собой документальную повесть о борьбе американских трудящихся за свои права и о роли американского рабочего движения в жизни страны за последние сто лет начиная с периода Гражданской войны в США до наших дней. Все это показано на фоне...
М.: Издательство иностранной литературы, 1957. — 656 с.
Предлагаемая вниманию советского читателя книга Р. Бойера и Г. Морейса представляет собой документальную повесть о борьбе американских трудящихся за свои права и о роли американского рабочего движения в жизни страны за последние сто лет начиная с периода Гражданской войны в США до наших дней. Все это показано на фоне...
М.: Наука, 2001. - 498 c. В монографии на основе комплексного сравнительно-исторического анализа зарубежных и российских источников определены общие и особенные черты американской цивилизации, показано ее восприятие в крупнейших странах мира. В ней сформулирован ряд теоретических положений, касающихся таких понятий, как культура и цивилизация, система ценностей, плюрализм и...
М.: Наука, 1983. — 687 с. Первый том охватывает период от основания английских колоний в Северной Америке в XVII в. до окончания Реконструкции в 1877 г. Центральное место занимают главы, посвященные войне за независимость и образованию США, становлению и развитию капитализма в XVIII — первой половине XIX в., гражданской войне и Реконструкции. Специальное внимание уделяется...
М.: Наука, 1983. — 683 с.
Первый том охватывает период от основания английских колоний в Северной Америке в XVII в. до окончания Реконструкции в 1877 г. Центральное место занимают главы, посвященные войне за независимость и образованию США, становлению и развитию капитализма в XVIII — первой половине XIX в., гражданской войне и Реконструкции. Специальное внимание уделяется...
М.: Наука, 2001. - 288 с. ISBN: 5-02-010196-6 Выпуск посвящен двум основным темам - истории Русской Америки (в связи с 200-летием образования знаменитой Российско-американской компании 8(19) июля 1799 г.) и особенностям американской цивилизации. В его подготовке участвовали специалисты из России, США, Украины и других стран. В сборнике публикуются статьи по следующим проблемам:...
М.: Наука, 2001. - 288 с. ISBN: 5-02-010196-6 Выпуск посвящен двум основным темам - истории Русской Америки (в связи с 200-летием образования знаменитой Российско-американской компании 8(19) июля 1799 г.) и особенностям американской цивилизации. В его подготовке участвовали специалисты из России, США, Украины и других стран. В сборнике публикуются статьи по следующим проблемам:...
М.: Наука, 2001. - 288 с. ISBN: 5-02-010196-6 Выпуск посвящен двум основным темам - истории Русской Америки (в связи с 200-летием образования знаменитой Российско-американской компании 8(19) июля 1799 г.) и особенностям американской цивилизации. В его подготовке участвовали специалисты из России, США, Украины и других стран. В сборнике публикуются статьи по следующим проблемам:...
М.: Изд-во АН СССР, 1960. – 632 с.
В томе освещается история США с начала колониального периода до окончания первой мировой войны, даётся общая картина экономического, политического и культурного развития американского народа.
В первых двух главах охарактеризована борьба американского народа против британского владычества за создание независимого суверенного государства. В...
София: Рива, 1999. — 912 с. В монографията изключително подробно е представена историята на Съединените американски щати от Войната за независимост до управлението на президента Джордж Буш Старши.
History of Plymouth Plantation (Опубл. в 1856 г.) Перевод З. Александровой. — Москва: Худож. лит., 1987. — 749 с. [302]. Книга 1-я (страницы 25-85 [64]) Прежде всего о причинах, побудивших к написанию сей истории, которую, чтобы изложить ее правильно, начать должно от самых корней. Что и буду тщиться делать, излагая ее языком простым и строго во всем придерживаясь истины, в той...
Книга содержит богатейший материал, дающий целостное представление о Соединенных Штатах Америки.
Первая часть издания посвящена рассказу об историческом пути развития и становления государства и нации — от открытия Америки до создания одной из ведущих мировых держав современности. Во второй части читатель совершит увлекательное путешествие по всем 50 штатам.
Легкий язык, обилие...
Монография. — СПб.: Изд‑во С.‑Петерб. ун-та, 2020. — 392 с. — ISBN: 978-5-288-06021-2. Соединенные Штаты Америки сначала выделились среди всех прочих территорий Нового Света, а затем превратились в одну из ведущих мировых держав. И сегодня, когда мы говорим об Америке, то думаем прежде всего о США. Это богатейшая страна, по многим показателям занимающая первые места, страна, с...
Монография. — СПб.: Изд-во С.-Петербургского университета, 2020. — 392 с. — ISBN: 978-5-288-06021-2. Соединенные Штаты Америки сначала выделились среди всех прочих территорий Нового Света, а затем превратились в одну из ведущих мировых держав. И сегодня, когда мы говорим об Америке, то думаем прежде всего о США. Это богатейшая страна, по многим показателям занимающая первые...
Монография. — СПб.: Изд-во С.-Петербургского университета, 2020. — 392 с. — ISBN: 978-5-288-06021-2. Соединенные Штаты Америки сначала выделились среди всех прочих территорий Нового Света, а затем превратились в одну из ведущих мировых держав. И сегодня, когда мы говорим об Америке, то думаем прежде всего о США. Это богатейшая страна, по многим показателям занимающая первые...
Монография. — СПб.: Изд-во С.-Петербургского университета, 2020. — 392 с. — ISBN: 978-5-288-06021-2. Соединенные Штаты Америки сначала выделились среди всех прочих территорий Нового Света, а затем превратились в одну из ведущих мировых держав. И сегодня, когда мы говорим об Америке, то думаем прежде всего о США. Это богатейшая страна, по многим показателям занимающая первые...
Монография. — СПб.: Изд-во С.-Петербургского университета, 2020. — 392 с. — ISBN: 978-5-288-06021-2. Соединенные Штаты Америки сначала выделились среди всех прочих территорий Нового Света, а затем превратились в одну из ведущих мировых держав. И сегодня, когда мы говорим об Америке, то думаем прежде всего о США. Это богатейшая страна, по многим показателям занимающая первые...
Монография. — СПб.: Изд-во С.-Петербургского университета, 2020. — 392 с. — ISBN: 978-5-288-06021-2. Соединенные Штаты Америки сначала выделились среди всех прочих территорий Нового Света, а затем превратились в одну из ведущих мировых держав. И сегодня, когда мы говорим об Америке, то думаем прежде всего о США. Это богатейшая страна, по многим показателям занимающая первые...
Монография. — СПб.: Изд-во С.-Петерб. ун-та, 2020. — 392 с. Соединенные Штаты Америки сначала выделились среди всех прочих территорий Нового Света, а затем превратились в одну из ведущих мировых держав. И сегодня, когда мы говорим об Америке, то думаем прежде всего о США. Это богатейшая страна, по многим показателям занимающая первые места, страна, с которой другие привыкли...
Пер. с англ. / Под общ. ред. и с коммент. В. Т. Олейника. - М.: Изд. группа «Прогресс» - «Литера», 1993. - 832 с. ; 1 л. ил.
Трехтомный труд американского историка и публициста Дэниела Бурстина «Американцы» (с соответствующими подзаголовками - «Колониальный опыт», «Национальный опыт» и «Демократический опыт») представляет собой классическое исследование истории становления...
М.: «Прогресс» - «Литера», 1993. - 480 с. ISBN 5-01-002601-5 Аннотация издательства: Трехтомный труд американского историка и публициста Дэниела Бурстина «Американцы» (с соответствующими подзаголовками - «Колониальный опыт», «Национальный опыт» и «Демократический опыт») представляет собой классическое исследование истории становления американской цивилизации - от времени...
М.: Прогресс; Литера, 1993. — 480 с. — ISBN: 5-01-002601-5. Трехтомный труд американского историка и публициста Дэниела Бурстина «Американцы» (с соответствующими подзаголовками - «Колониальный опыт», «Национальный опыт» и «Демократический опыт») представляет собой классическое исследование истории становления американской цивилизации - от времени высадки первых европейских...
М.: «Прогресс» - «Литера», 1993. - 624 с.
Трехтомный труд американского историка и публициста Дэниела Бурстина «Американцы» (с соответствующими подзаголовками - «Колониальный опыт», «Национальный опыт» и «Демократический опыт») представляет собой классическое исследование истории становления американской цивилизации - от первых европейских переселенцев и до середины XX века....
Перевод с английского под ред. В. Т. Олейника. — Москва: Прогресс—Литера, 1993. — 832 с. До недавнего времени русским читателям была доступна лишь официальная советская версия американской истории. Американцы, напротив, имели преимущество знакомиться как с официальными взглядами советской науки на историю России, так и со взглядами бесчисленных наблюдателей со стороны. Теперь...
Перевод с английского Ю. А. Захаровича, В. С. Нестерова. — Москва: Прогресс—Литера, 1993. — 624 с. — ISBN 5-01-002602-3. "Эти тома, результат двадцатипятилетних исследований и размышлений, во многом излагают мою собственную точку зрения. Я отбирал темы, на мой взгляд наиболее ярко характеризующие американский опыт, а также те, какие сам считал интересными." Д. Бурстин....
М.: АСТ, 2009. — 256 с.
978-5-17-057723-1.
Данная книга охватывает всю историю США — от первых поселений до событий 11 сентября. Помимо непрерывной хронологической линии, в ней содержатся краткие очерки, в том числе о мифе Старого Юга, ритуальном «Танце призраков», Элвисе Пресли, Малкоме Иксе и о деле «Иран-контрас».
М.: АСТ, Астрель, 2009. — 258 с. В книге подробно излагается история США со времени первых поселений и до наших дней. Введение Список карт Первые народы. первые столкновения До 1564 г. Колониальный период 1565-1763 гг. Революция и война за независимость 1764-1789 гг. Молодая республика 1790-1849 гг. Гражданекая война 1850-1865 гг. Реконструкция. экспансия и индустриализация...
М.: ACT: Астрель, 2009. — 256 с. — ISBN 978-5-17-057722-4; ISBN 978-5-271-22924-4; ISBN 1-85828-000-0. В книге подробно излагается история США со времени первых поселений и до наших дней. Сейчас, оглядываясь назад, можно сказать, что распространение Соединенных Штатов через всю Северную Америку от Атлантического океана до Тихого было неизбежным. Для отцов-основателей,...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2012. — 307 с.
В конце XIX века в составе итальянской общины США преобладали люди, чья родословная велась из Сицилии. Как ни печально, именно из их среды проросли зловещие корни преступной группировки "Коза Ностра" — "Наше дело". Говорят, корни дьявола проложат себе дорогу куда хотят и когда хотят. Сицилия навсегда с тех пор получила «титул» родины настоящих...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2012. — 307 с.
В конце XIX века в составе итальянской общины США преобладали люди, чья родословная велась из Сицилии. Как ни печально, именно из их среды проросли зловещие корни преступной группировки "Коза Ностра" — "Наше дело". Говорят, корни дьявола проложат себе дорогу куда хотят и когда хотят. Сицилия навсегда с тех пор получила «титул» родины настоящих...
М.: Политиздат, 1986. - 241 с.
Автор, доктор исторических наук, специалист в области международных отношений в азиатско-тихоокеанском регионе, рассматривает политику США в отношении Китая от начала XIX в., когда в страну начали проникать американские миссионеры, до наших дней.
Книга рассчитана как на специалистов, так и па широкий круг читателей, интересующихся вопросами...
М.: Главная редакция восточной литературы издательства «Наука», 1967. — 320 с.
В книге рассматриваются важнейшие стороны политики США в районе Тихого океана в военные и послевоенные годы. Автор последовательно прослеживает все изменения в американской политике на Дальнем Востоке, происходившие под влиянием исторических побед Советского Союза в годы второй мировой войны и...
Перевод искусственным интеллектом сообщества "Книжный импорт". — Без выходных данных. — 664 с. — (Оксфордская история США). Книга Гордона С. Вуда "Империя свободы" занимает свое место в Оксфордской истории Соединенных Штатов между двумя другими выдающимися изданиями: Робертом Мидлекауфом "Славное дело", который мастерски освещает эпоху Революционной войны, непосредственно...
Перевод искусственным интеллектом сообщества "Книжный импорт". — Без выходных данных. — 664 с. — (Оксфордская история США) Книга Гордона С. Вуда "Империя свободы" занимает свое место в Оксфордской истории Соединенных Штатов между двумя другими выдающимися изданиями: Робертом Мидлекауфом "Славное дело", который мастерски освещает эпоху Революционной войны, непосредственно...
Перевод искусственным интеллектом сообщества "Книжный импорт". — Без выходных данных. — 664 с. — (Оксфордская история США) Книга Гордона С. Вуда "Империя свободы" занимает свое место в Оксфордской истории Соединенных Штатов между двумя другими выдающимися изданиями: Робертом Мидлекауфом "Славное дело", который мастерски освещает эпоху Революционной войны, непосредственно...
Перевод искусственным интеллектом сообщества "Книжный импорт". — Без выходных данных. — 664 с. — (Оксфордская история США). Книга Гордона С. Вуда "Империя свободы" занимает свое место в Оксфордской истории Соединенных Штатов между двумя другими выдающимися изданиями: Робертом Мидлекауфом "Славное дело", который мастерски освещает эпоху Революционной войны, непосредственно...
(Выходные данные отсутствуют - интернет-ресурс).
Доктрина Монро (англ. Monroe Doctrine) — идея провозглашения обеих частей американского континента зоной, закрытой для европейской колонизации, принадлежала Джону Куинси Адамсу, государственному секретарю в администрации президента Джеймса Монро (1758—1831). Как политическая доктрина она была впервые изложена в июле 1823 года в...
М.: Мысль, 1981. — 255 с.
В монографии исследуются важнейшие черты сознания американской буржуазии в их историческом развитии, такие, как индивидуализм, конформизм, «культ успеха», идея «американской исключительности», а также лежащие в их основе социально-экономические, географические, исторические и идейно-политические факторы.
Истоки и социально-экономические факторы...
Нью-Йорк. Телекс, 1990. — 299 с. — ISBN: 0-938181-15-7. Будучи юридическим консультантом профсоюзов, Артур Голдберг активно участвовал в процессе слияния двух крупнейших в Америке рабочих объединений: "Американской федерации труда" и "Конгресса производственных профсоюзов". Рассказ об этом слиянии составляет основное содержание предлагаемой читателю книги, впервые опубликованной в...
Пер. с английского Б. Прянишникова. — Нью-Йорк: Издательство Фредерик А. Прегер, 1962. — 313 c. Эта книга не есть некая официальная хронология пути к рабочему единству. Не является она также и официальным толкованием договора о слиянии Американской Федерации Труда и Конгресса Производственных профсоюзов и их устава. Будучи главным юрисконсультом КПП, я, разумеется, в течение...
Пер. с английского Б. Прянишникова. — Нью-Йорк: Издательство Фредерик А. Прегер, 1962. — 313 c. Эта книга не есть некая официальная хронология пути к рабочему единству. Не является она также и официальным толкованием договора о слиянии Американской Федерации Труда и Конгресса Производственных профсоюзов и их устава. Будучи главным юрисконсультом КПП, я, разумеется, в течение...
Суми : СумДПУ імені А. С. Макаренка, 2014. — 300 с. Даний навчально-методичний посібник включає в себе теми з історії США, які входять до курсу «Нова історія країн Європи та Америки». Навчально-методичний посібник складений на основі великої групи опублікованих джерел. Розглядається історія США від відкриття Американського континенту в 1492 р. до закінчення періоду...
М. Горький, В. Билль-Белоцерковский, В. Маяковский, Ал. Хамадан, Ю. Жуков. — М.: Молодая гвардия, 1949. — 287 с. В Америке много говорят, пишут и спорят о фашистской опасности. Одни толкуют о ней, как о реальной угрозе, нависшей над США. Другие возражают: «Чепуха! Американец органически не выносит муштры, как же он смирится с фашистской диктатурой?» Третьи пожимают плечами:...
М. Горький, В. Билль-Белоцерковский, В. Маяковский, Ал. Хамадан, Ю. Жуков. — М.: Молодая гвардия, 1949. — 287 с. В Америке много говорят, пишут и спорят о фашистской опасности. Одни толкуют о ней, как о реальной угрозе, нависшей над США. Другие возражают: «Чепуха! Американец органически не выносит муштры, как же он смирится с фашистской диктатурой?» Третьи пожимают плечами:...
М.: Издательство иностранной литературы, 1949. — 190 с.
Вышедшая в 1948 г. в Нью-Йорке книга Джастина Грея «Правда об Американском легионе» посвящена разоблачению деятельности одной из крупнейших в Соединенных Штатах реакционных организаций, которая играет существенную роль в политической жизни страны, являясь послушным орудием в руках всевластных монополий США.
Ценность...
Пер. с англ. М.: Изд-во иностранной литературы, 1949. — 188 с. Вышедшая в 1948 г. в Нью-Йорке книга Джастина Грея «Правда об Американском легионе» посвящена разоблачению деятельности одной из крупнейших в Соединенных Штатах реакционных организаций, которая играет существенную роль в политической жизни страны, являясь послушным орудием в руках всевластных монополий США. Ценность...
Альпина Диджитал, 2020. — 710 с. — ISBN: 978-5-9614-2356-3. История о том, как 13 колоний из мирового захолустья сумели создать самую мощную экономику когда-либо известную человечеству. 300 лет назад Америка была лишь совокупностью разрозненных поселений на краю обитаемого мира. Сначала она обеспечила благосостояние своих граждан, а затем экспортировала процветание по всему...
Санкт-Петербург: Тип. В. Ф. Киршбаума, 1894. — VIII, 184 с. Степан Иосифович Гулишамбаров родился 13 мая 1849 года в Тифлисской губернии Российской империи в армянской семье. В 1874 году окончил химическое отделение Петербургского технологического института со званием технолога 1-го разряда. Научно-литературную деятельность начал отчётом о венской всемирной выставке 1873 года...
Пер. с англ. — М.: Изд-во Иностранной литературы, 1958. — 313 с. Книга американского автора профессора Л. Гурко «Кризис американского духа» написана с позиций буржуазного либерализма. Ее автор - типичный представитель этого идейного направления. Издательство, выпуская в свет эту книгу, давало себе отчет в том, что автор, критикуя американский образ жизни с буржуазно-либеральных...
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Самиздат, 2021. В следующем году исполняется сто лет одной из величайших трагедий в истории нашего Отечества. По воле большевиков 29 сентября 1922 года началось изгнание интеллектуальной элиты из России. Особенно много первых русских отверженных оказалось в Америке. Русские пришельцы изменили жизнь Америки. Наших гениев, коренным образом повлиявших на экономику и духовный облик...
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Л.: Наука, 1990. — 317 с. — (Памятники исторической мысли). (Jefferson, Thomas. Autobiography. Notes on the State of Virginia) Перевод В.М. Большакова с участием В.Н. Плешкова. Ответственный редактор А.А. Фурсенко. Книга представляет собой первую публикацию на русском языке трудов выдающегося американского мыслителя, революционного демократа, одного из «отцов-основателей» и...
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Хабаровск: Прогресс, 1984. — 216 с.
Книга американского историка Ди Брауна посвящена трагическим страницам истории коренных американцев-индейцев Великих равнин в период с 1860 года по 1890-й — до события у Вундед-Ни, ставшего символическим концом индейской свободы.
Перевод: А. Л. Величанский
Хабаровск: Прогресс, 1984. — 216 с.
Перевод: А.Л. Величанский
Книга американского историка Ди Брауна посвящена трагическим страницам истории коренных американцев-индейцев Великих равнин в период с 1860 года по 1890-й — до события у Вундед-Ни, ставшего символическим концом индейской свободы.
Калуга: Калужский ЦНТИ, 2002. — 274 с.
ISBN: 5-93912-005-9
Монография посвящена правовому регулированию организации и деятельности разведки США. На основе анализа федеральных законов, подзаконных нормативных актов, судебных прецедентов, формирующих правовую основу организации и деятельности американских разведывательных служб, автор предпринял попытку выявить общие тенденции и...
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М.: Учпедгиз, 1958. - 430 с.
Книга содержит систематическое, с использованием самостоятельных исследований источников и литературы, изложение истории США до окончания гражданской войны 1861-1865 гг. и восстановления Союза.
Особое внимание уделено экономической истории, проблемам развития капитализма, плантационного рабства, народным движениям - фермеров, ремесленников,...
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М., ИНИОН РАН, 2000. — 84 с. — (Социальные и политические проблемы США). — ISBN: 5-248-01351-8. В работе анализируется деятельность администрации США, латиноамериканских правительств, субрегиональных организаций по выработке и реализации политики, направленной на то, чтобы обуздать преступную деятельность наркомафии.
М.: Наука, 1985. — 227 с. В монографии исследуется роль религии в политической жизни США. Рассматриваются причины активизации церквей в политической борьбе, роль религиозного фактора в усилении консерватизма в конце 70-х - начале 80-х годов. Дается специальный анализ внешнеполитической деятельности религиозных организаций, их отношения к проблемам войны и мира. Рассматривается...
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М.: Весь Мир, 2006. – 880 с. – ISBN: 5-7777-0237-6 Известный американский историк Говард Зинн дает свой, во многом отличный от большинства традиционных представлений, взгляд на важнейшие события истории США с колониальных времен до начала XXI в. Автор создал необычайно яркую, живую, насыщенную интереснейшими фактами историю жизни и борьбы за выживание и достоинство ущемленных...
М.: Весь Мир, 2006. – 880 с. – ISBN: 5-7777-0237-6. Известный американский историк Говард Зинн дает свой, во многом отличный от большинства традиционных представлений, взгляд на важнейшие события истории США с колониальных времен до начала XXI в. Автор создал необычайно яркую, живую, насыщенную интереснейшими фактами историю жизни и борьбы за выживание и достоинство ущемленных...
М.: Весь Мир, 2006. – 880 с. – ISBN: 5-7777-0237-6. Известный американский историк Говард Зинн дает свой, во многом отличный от большинства традиционных представлений, взгляд на важнейшие события истории США с колониальных времен до начала XXI в. Автор создал необычайно яркую, живую, насыщенную интереснейшими фактами историю жизни и борьбы за выживание и достоинство ущемленных...
Пер. с англ.: Г.П. Бляблин (гл. 16), Е.Ю. Васянина, М.В. Васянин (гл. 1-15, 19-21), И.В. Гайдук (гл. 17-18), Г.М. Северская (гл. 22-25, послеслов.). — М.: Весь Мир, 2006. — 880 с. — (Национальная история). — ISBN 5-7777-0237-6. Известный американский историк Говард Зинн дает свой, во многом отличный от большинства традиционных представлений, взгляд на важнейшие события истории...
Пер. с англ.: Г.П. Бляблин (гл. 16), Е.Ю. Васянина, М.В. Васянин (гл. 1-15, 19-21), И.В. Гайдук (гл. 17-18), Г.М. Северская (гл. 22-25, послеслов.). — М.: Весь Мир, 2006. — 880 с. — (Национальная история). — ISBN 5-7777-0237-6. Известный американский историк Говард Зинн дает свой, во многом отличный от большинства традиционных представлений, взгляд на важнейшие события истории...
М.: Алгоритм, 2014. — 524 с. — ISBN: 978-5-4438-0662-4. Говард Зинн — левый интеллектуал еврейского происхождения, наряду с Ноамом Хомским и Сьюзен Зонтаг был одним из наиболее последовательных критиков внешней политики США. Известный американский политолог и писатель, доктор исторических наук, преподавал в университетах Бостона, Парижа и Болоньи. Его книга, неоднократно...
Москва: Алгоритм, 2014. — 752 с. — (Величайшие империи человечества). — ISBN: 978-5-4438-0662-4.
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Говард Зинн — левый интеллектуал еврейского происхождения, наряду с Ноамом Хомским и Сьюзен Зонтаг был одним из наиболее последовательных критиков внешней политики США.
Известный американский политолог и писатель, доктор исторических наук, преподавал в университетах...
М.: Родина, 2020. — 752 с. — ISBN 978-5-907149-51-9. Говард Зинн — левый интеллектуал еврейского происхождения, наряду с Ноамом Хомским и Сьюзен Зонтаг был одним из наиболее последовательных критиков внешней политики США. Известный американский политолог и писатель, доктор исторических наук, преподавал в университетах Бостона, Парижа и Болоньи. Его книга, неоднократно...
Учебное пособие: В 2 ч. — Калининград: Калининградский государственный университет, 2000. — 100 с. — ISBN 88874-172-8. Пособие призвано дать студентам-историкам представление о характере и содержании внешней политики США в XX веке, раскрыть формы и методы борьбы американских правительств за установление мировой гегемонии. Основное место в пособии отводится разнообразным...
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М.: Просвещение, 1972. – 367 с., илл.
В книге дан систематический обзор внутренней и внешней политики Соединённых Штатов Америки в новейшее время. Особое внимание уделено истории США после второй мировой войны, прежде всего президентства Д. Кеннеди и Л. Джонсона. Значительное место в книге отведено истории борьбы рабочего класса и роли Коммунистической партии США в защите...
М.: Просвещение, 1972. – 367 с., илл.
В книге дан систематический обзор внутренней и внешней политики Соединённых Штатов Америки в новейшее время. Особое внимание уделено истории США после второй мировой войны, прежде всего президентства Д. Кеннеди и Л. Джонсона. Значительное место в книге отведено истории борьбы рабочего класса и роли Коммунистической партии США в защите...
М.: Мысль, 1986. — 255 с. Первое в западном полушарии независимое государство, Соединенные Штаты Америки, образовалось в результате революционной войны североамериканских колоний Англии за независимость 1775 — 1783 гг. К. Маркс отмечал, что в ходе развития американской революции ’’возникла впервые... идея единой великой демократической республики... была провозглашена первая...
М.: Мысль, 1986. — 296 с. Первое в западном полушарии независимое государство, Соединенные Штаты Америки, образовалось в результате революционной войны североамериканских колоний Англии за независимость 1775 — 1783 гг. К. Маркс отмечал, что в ходе развития американской революции ’’возникла впервые... идея единой великой демократической республики... была провозглашена первая...
Смоленск: Русич, 2000. — 544 с. — (Тайны XX века). — ISBN: 5-8138-0117-0. В данном варианте — 648 с. Сальваторе Лучано, Фрэнк Костелло, Аль Капоне — эти имена хорошо известны не только одним криминалистам. Мафия в США давно утратила свой сицилийский колорит и уже не означает деятельность преступных группировок, состоящих из только американцев итальянского происхождения. Сегодня...
Смоленск: Русич, 2000. — 544 с. — (Тайны XX века). — ISBN: 5-8138-0117-0. В данном варианте — 231 с. Сальваторе Лучано, Фрэнк Костелло, Аль Капоне — эти имена хорошо известны не только одним криминалистам. Мафия в США давно утратила свой сицилийский колорит и уже не означает деятельность преступных группировок, состоящих из только американцев итальянского происхождения. Сегодня...
М.: Наука, 1981. - 185 с.
Более 100 лет Ку-клукс-клан является зловещим символом американского расизма. В книге рассказывается об истории создания этой террористической организации, изменения ее функций на различных этапах развития США. Авторы анализируют причины возникновения Ку-клукс-клана, показывают его связи с другими организациями США, прослеживают реакционную роль Клана...
М.: Наука, 1981. - 185 с.
Более 100 лет Ку-клукс-клан является зловещим символом американского расизма. В книге рассказывается об истории создания этой террористической организации, изменения ее функций на различных этапах развития США. Авторы анализируют причины возникновения Ку-клукс-клана, показывают его связи с другими организациями США, прослеживают реакционную роль Клана...
Пособие для вузов. — М.: Дрофа, 2004. — 576 с. — ISBN: 5-7107-6077-3. Настоящее издание является первым учебным пособием по истории США на русском языке. Впервые в отечественной учебной литературе прослежены основные закономерности и выявлены особенности исторического развития американского государства начиная с появления первых людей в Северной Америке до настоящего времени...
2-е изд., стереотип. — М.: Дрофа, 2007. — 399, [1] с.: ил. — ISBN 978-5-358-01981-2. В хрестоматии представлены тексты важнейших исторических документов, а также заявлений, речей и т. п. видных государственных и общественных деятелей США. Многие документы впервые переведены на русский язык. Знакомство с официальными документами американской истории позволит читателю составить...
М.: Политиздат, 1975. — 432 с.: ил. Главой исполнительной власти в США является президент. От его имени проводится внешняя и внутренняя политика крупнейшего в мире капиталистического государства. Какое место отвела история тому или иному американскому президенту, благодаря каким силам и обстоятельствам занимали они Белый дом в различные годы, в чьих интересах действовали? Рисуя...
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Пособие для вузов. – М.: Дрофа, 2004. – 576 с.: ил.
ISBN 5-7107-6077-3
Впервые в отечественной учебной литературе прослежены основные закономерности и выявлены особенности исторического развития американского государства, начиная с появления первых людей в Северной Америке до начала XXI в. Подробно анализируются этапы становления американского общества, процессы модернизации...
Пособие для вузов. – М.: Дрофа, 2004. – 576 с.: ил.
ISBN 5-7107-6077-3
Впервые в отечественной учебной литературе прослежены основные закономерности и выявлены особенности исторического развития американского государства, начиная с появления первых людей в Северной Америке до начала XXI в. Подробно анализируются этапы становления американского общества, процессы модернизации...
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М.: Политиздат, 1979. - 432 с.
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М.: Наука, 1968. - 363 с.
В 1809 г. Ирвинг опубликовал «Историю Нью-Йорка от сотворения мира до конца голландской династии», приписав ее ученому-историку Дидриху Никербокеру, эксцентрическому джентльмену в бархатных штанах, парике с косичкой и треугольной шляпе, который якобы внезапно исчез, оставив после себя лишь сундучок с рукописью. «История Нью-Йорка» — это бурлеск,...
Конспект книг - Иванян, Э. А. История США: пособие для вузов. – 2 – е изд., испр. – М.: Дрофа, 2006.- 571 с.; История Америки / Алан Альсельрод; пер. с англ. И.С. Бородичевой. – М.: АСТ Астрель, 2007. – 375 с.; История Соединенных Штатов Америки / Рене Ремонд; пер. с фр. В.П. Воропаева. – М.: Астрель, 2006. – 190 с.; Золов А.В. США: борьба за мировое лидерство (К истории...
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Учебное пособие. — Самара: Самарский государственный университет, 1994. — 480 с. — ISBN: 5-7174-0002-0. Основанная на изучении источников и многочисленных трудов советских и американских ученых книга доступно, просто и кратко рассказывает об историческом пути одной из ведущих капиталистических стран - Соединенных Штатов Америки. Имея целью удовлетворение возросшего интерна...
М.: Мысль, 1987. — 168 с. В книге анализируются истоки и классовые корни, идеология, стратегия и тактика черных интеграционистов, сегрегационистов и сепаратистов, достижения и просчеты этих социальных движений, влияние на них национально-освободительной борьбы, сил мира, демократии и социального прогресса. Научной основой работы стали многтжисленные источники, в том числе...
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Монография. — Вилкес-Барре: Русское православное кафолическое общество взаимопомощи, Типография газеты "Свет", 1920. — 154 с.
История возникновения русских поселений в Америке и развития православия на американской земле. Содержит описание деяний Русского православного кафолического общества взаимопомощи (англ. Russian Orthodox Catholic Mutual Aid Society, ROCMAS или ROCMA)....
М.: Мысль, 1967. - 352 с.
Предлагаемый читателю сборник документов и материалов «Великий Октябрь и прогрессивная Америка» состоит из не опубликованных в СССР работ, статей и выступлений выдающихся представителей прогрессивной Америки — писателей, журналистов, деятелей рабочего и коммунистического движения США, документов и материалов Коммунистической партии США, Рабочей партии...
М.: Мысль, 1967. - 352 с.
Предлагаемый читателю сборник документов и материалов «Великий Октябрь и прогрессивная Америка» состоит из не опубликованных в СССР работ, статей и выступлений выдающихся представителей прогрессивной Америки — писателей, журналистов, деятелей рабочего и коммунистического движения США, документов и материалов Коммунистической партии США, Рабочей партии...
М.: Мысль, 1974. - 416 с.
В сборнике в проблемно-хронологической последовательности помещены документы и материалы выдающихся прогрессивных деятелей Америки — их речи, показания в суде, выступления, а также официальные заявления и другие документы Компартии США, рабочих и прогрессивных организаций. Документы повествуют о мужественной борьбе прогрессивных сил США с силами...
М.: Мысль, 1974. - 416 с.
В сборнике в проблемно-хронологической последовательности помещены документы и материалы выдающихся прогрессивных деятелей Америки — их речи, показания в суде, выступления, а также официальные заявления и другие документы Компартии США, рабочих и прогрессивных организаций. Документы повествуют о мужественной борьбе прогрессивных сил США с силами...
М.: ИРИСЭН, Мысль, 2008. - 549 с. ISBN: 978-5-224-01112-4. Книга израильского историка Мартина ван Кревельда посвящена исследованию США, как уникального исторического, социального и политического явления. Особенности США автор объясняет фундаментальными идеологическими предпосылками, положенными в основу американского государства. В книге анализируются такие аспекты...
М.: ИРИСЭН, Мысль, 2008. — 550 с. — ISBN 978-5-224-01112-4. Книга израильского историка Мартина ван Кревельда посвящена исследованию США, как уникального исторического, социального и политического явления. Особенности США автор объясняет фундаментальными идеологическими предпосылками, положенными в основу американского государства. В книге анализируются такие аспекты...
М.: Наука, 1983. — 369 с.
В книге анализируются положение и роль представителей интеллектуального труда в американском обществе, раскрываются специфика формирования, характерные черты их духовного облика. Особое внимание уделено анализу оппозиционных тенденций в сознании и поведении американской интеллигенции, перспективам союза рабочего класса и интеллигенции в борьбе...
М.: Наука, 1983. — 369 с. В книге анализируются положение и роль представителей интеллектуального труда в американском обществе, раскрываются специфика формирования, характерные черты их духовного облика. Особое внимание уделено анализу оппозиционных тенденций в сознании и поведении американской интеллигенции, перспективам союза рабочего класса и интеллигенции в борьбе...
М.: Мысль, 1978. - 354 с. Эта книга - документ. С привлечением богатейшего фактического материала она рассказывает о том, что в странах, где правит капитал, "демократия", "безграничные права" и "широчайшие свободы", которыми столь назойливо похваляется официальная западная пропаганда, есть ничто иное, как фикция. И доказывает эту очевидную истину в предлагаемой книге . сама...
Благовещенск: Изд-во БГПУ, 2022. — 236 с. — ISBN 978-5-8331-0332-6. В периодическое печатное издание – ежегодный бюллетень «Американистика на дальнем Востоке» включены научные статьи, посвященные наиболее актуальным проблемам американистики. Авторы – ученые и преподаватели вузов Дальнего Востока, других регионов Российской Федерации, а также представители зарубежных научных...
Благовещенск: Изд-во БГПУ, 2020. — 206 с. — ISBN 978-5-8331-0332-6. В бюллетень включены научные статьи, посвященные наиболее актуальным проблемам американистики. Авторы – ученые и преподаватели вузов Дальнего Востока, других регионов Российской Федерации, а также представители зарубежных научных центров. В отдельный блок, который получил название «Молодые учёные», выделены...
Волгоград: ВолГУ, Центр американских исследований «Americana», 2005. — 488 с. — ISBN: 5-9669-0078-7. В монографии исследуются отношения между Россией и США в 1830—1850-е гг. — время наибольшего в истории сближения двух стран. На широком источниковом материале анализируются как межгосударственные отношения, так и техническое сотрудничество двух стран а также социокультурное...
Волгоград: ВолГУ, Центр американских исследований «Americana», 2005. — 488 с. — ISBN: 5-9669-0078-7. В монографии исследуются отношения между Россией и США в 1830—1850-е гг. — время наибольшего в истории сближения двух стран. На широком источниковом материале анализируются как межгосударственные отношения, так и техническое сотрудничество двух стран а также социокультурное...
СПб: Типография д-ра М. Хана, 1870. — 362 с. Том 1. Первая эпоха: История колоний до революции. СПб: Типография М. Хана, 1870. — 355 с. Том 2. Вторая эпоха: Война за независимость. СПб: Типография М. Хана, 1870. — 424 с. Том 3. Третья эпоха: История Конституции Соединенных Штатов. «Histoire politique des États-Unis: depuis les premiers essais de colonisation jusqu'à l'adoption...
Государственное издательство юридической литературы, 1961. — 72 с.
В брошюре рассказывается о многочисленных преступлениях американских военнослужащих на чужих территориях (хулиганство, кражи, ограбления, убийства, насилия и т.д.), раскрываются причины почти полной безответственности и безнаказанности преступлений американских военнослужащих, режим пребывания которых установлен...
Перевод с английского Ю.А. Неподаева. — 2-е изд. — М.: Прогресс, 1983. — 287 с. В своем исследовании автор налагает историю борьбы трудящихся США — черных и белых — аа свои права. В книге показано, какому жестокому расовому угнетению подвергались и подвергаются в США черные, индейцы, мексиканцы, выходцы из Азии, рассказывается, как борются за политическое и экономическое...
Сокр. перевод с английского С.С. Сергеевой. — М.: Прогресс, 1972. — 135 с. Предлагаемая вниманию советского читателя книга написана одним из крупных знатоков негритянской проблемы в Америке, секретарем Национального комитета Коммунистической партии США Клодом М. Лайтфутом. Автор дает глубокую характеристику современного этапа негритянского освободительного движения, анализирует...
2-е дополненное и переработанное издание. — М.: Соцэкгиз, 1937. — 639 с. Монография посвящена социальной истории США от конца XVIII до 30-х гг. XX вв. в ключе пресловутой классовой борьбы. Работа Лана "Классы и партии в США" вышла вторым изданием, значительно лучшим чем первое (1933): в новом издании гораздо больше фактического материала, значительно лучше разработаны многие...
М.: Наука, 1978. — 688 с. Книга доктора исторических наук, профессора В. И. Лана является третьей частью комплексного исследования, посвященного истории США в XX в. В данной работе освещается роль США во второй мировой войне. В частности показана политика Вашингтона в открытии второго фронта. Автор рассматривает также ряд важных проблем в развитии внутренней и внешней политики...
М.: Государственное издательство иностранной литературы, 1948. — 544 c. Сокращенный перевод с английского И.М. Виккер и В.В. Пастоева. Предисловие В.М. Рубина. Большой цифровой и документальный материал, использованный в книге, показывает, как богатейшие 60 семейств Америки и примыкающие к ним круги финансового капитала через подчиняющийся им государственный аппарат влияют на...
М.: Государственное издательство иностранной литературы, 1948. — 544 c. Сокращенный перевод с английского И.М. Виккер и В.В. Пастоева. Предисловие В.М. Рубина. Большой цифровой и документальный материал, использованный в книге, показывает, как богатейшие 60 семейств Америки и примыкающие к ним круги финансового капитала через подчиняющийся им государственный аппарат влияют на...
Перевод с английского Столпера Р.И., Яновской М.И., Пономаренко С.В., Санникова Н.Г. Под ред. проф. Зорина В.С. — М.: Прогресс, 1971. — 684 с.
Оригинал: Lundberg, Ferdinand. The Rich and the Super-Rich. A Study in the Power of Money Today. New York: Lyle Stuart, 1968.
Автор приводит обширный материал, показывающий формы засилья монополий в экономической и политической жизни...
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Меткие наблюдения французского графа относительно американского общества первой трети XIX в., наряду c размышлениями его соотечественника Сент Джона де Кревекера по поводу "Что такое американец? ", легли в основу последующих дискуссий об американских национальных ценностях и особенностях социального поведения, не затихающих по сей день.
Пер. с нем. – Петроград-Москва: Книгоиздательское тов-во «КНИГА», 1923. – 142 с.
Предметом исследования являются проблемы чисто хозяйственного порядка. Автор не касается ни социальных вопросов, ни вопросов труда, ни своеобразных особенностей социологического порядка, и т. д. Равным образом данная работа не исследует ни вопросов финансовых, ни проблемы денег, ни банкового и...
Пер. с нем. — Петроград; Москва: Книга, 1923. — 142 с. Предметом исследования являются проблемы чисто хозяйственного порядка. Автор не касается ни социальных вопросов, ни вопросов труда, ни своеобразных особенностей социологического порядка, и т. д. Равным образом данная работа не исследует ни вопросов финансовых, ни проблемы денег, ни банкового и биржевого дела. Наооборот, она...
Перевод с англ. С.К. Рощина и А.С. Мельникова. — М.: Прогресс, 1976. — 437 с. Автор поставил перед собой сложную задачу: попытаться ответить на вопрос, почему «бедности предстояло остаться постоянной частью панорамы американской жизни». В самом названии книги подчеркивается парадоксальность подобной постановки вопроса. Действительно, самая богатая в буржуазном мире страна,...
Пер. с англ. М.: Радуга, 1992. — 671 с.
Предлагаемая вниманию читателей книга—лучшая на сегодняшний день работа Макса Лернера, профессора университета в Сан-Диего, журналиста, историка, социолога. Она охватывает историю развития социальной структуры, общественной мысли и жизни разных слоев общества Соединенных Штатов Америки. Эта книга — постоянный спутник каждого американца, от...
Пер. с англ. М.: Радуга, 1992. — 575 с.
Идеи и мысли, излагаемые в данной книге М. Лернером, удивительно созвучны переживаемому нами сложному отрезку истории. "Это было время, — пишет Лернер о годах перестройки в Америке, — когда американцы поняли, что можно преодолеть острейшие экономические кризисы и построить жизнеспособную экономику, не оглядываясь на ярлыки "социализм" и...
Ковно: Электротипография Ю. Асса, 1912. — 30 c. Содержание Введение Журавль в небе В экстренном поезде На пароходе «Реnsilvanie» Разочарование Суд Комиссии Обратно Опять в Гамбурге
Ковно: Электротипография Ю. Асса, 1912. — 30 c. Содержание Введение Журавль в небе В экстренном поезде На пароходе «Реnsilvanie» Разочарование Суд Комиссии Обратно Опять в Гамбурге
Киев : Изд-во Киев. ун-та, 1969. — 218 с. Тема, избранная автором монографии, является очень актуальной в научном и политическом отношениях, поскольку в ней освещается вопрос о социально-экономическом и правовом положении негров США в 1950—1960 гг. Автор анализирует положение негритянского народа, сравнивая его с положением белых американцев, характеризует отдельные классы,...
Перевод с англ. И. Разумный, Г. Федотов. — М.: Воениздат, 1976. События, описываемые в романе, охватывают полувековой период от начала первой мировой войны до агрессии во Вьетнаме. В книге описываются жизнь, быт и нравы американской армии, вскрываются пороки воинского воспитания в вооруженных силах США, противоречия между офицерами и рядовыми солдатами и империалистический...
М.: Издательство иностранной литературы, 1949. — 457 с. Книга Мак-Вильямса «Бедствующая земля» является обличительным документом против американского империализма. Правда, это в основном только книга фактов. И в этом ее ценность. Советский читатель, вооруженный марксистско-ленинским учением, разберется в этих фактах. Они подтверждают закономерности капиталистической эволюции...
М.: Прогресс, 1981. — 243 с. Юджин Д. Маккарти —известный американский политический деятель и писатель, в прошлом сенатор и претендент на пост главы Белого дома. В своей книге автор сопоставляет нынешние Соединенные Штаты с теми, какими их почти 150 лет назад увидел французский юрист А. де Токвилль и описал в своей книге «Демократия в Америке». Ю. Маккарти своеобразно трактует...
М.: Наука, 1987. — 374 с.
В четвертом томе «Истории США» во взаимосвязи с глобальными процессами современности рассматриваются общие закономерности и особенности развития американского общества в условиях углубления общего кризиса капитализма после второй мировой войны; ставится задача раскрыть диалектику внутренней и внешней политики США, ее движущие силы и классовую сущность,...
Институт всеобщей истории. — М.: Наука, 2004. — 604 с. — ISBN: 5-02-009854-X. В книге анализируется исторический путь, проделанный США от индустриального общества и достижения страной статуса великой державы в начале XX в. до превращения ее в лидирующую державу биполярного мира после 1945 г. В контексте мировых процессов рассмотрена динамика экономических, социально-культурных...
Институт всеобщей истории. — М.: Наука, 2004. — 604 с. — ISBN: 5-02-009854-X. В книге анализируется исторический путь, проделанный США от индустриального общества и достижения страной статуса великой державы в начале XX в. до превращения ее в лидирующую державу биполярного мира после 1945 г. В контексте мировых процессов рассмотрена динамика экономических, социально-культурных...
М.: Мысль, 1988. — 348 с.
Осуществление правительственной деятельности, решение узловых проблем внутренней политики и дипломатии США в предвоенное десятилетие и в годы второй мировой войны тесно связаны с личностью президента Франклина Делано Рузвельта. Его роль в определении курса и общих перспектив государственной политики в 1933 - 1945 гг., в установлении дипломатических...
М.: Мысль, 1988. — 348 с. — ISBN: 5-244-00088-8.
Осуществление правительственной деятельности, решение узловых проблем внутренней политики и дипломатии США в предвоенное десятилетие и в годы второй мировой войны тесно связаны с личностью президента Франклина Делано Рузвельта. Его роль в определении курса и общих перспектив государственной политики в 1933—1945 гг., в...
Самиздат, 2014. — 189 с. Первое полное современное специальное отечественное исследование знаменитой войны на море между Великобританией и Соединѐнными Штатами Америки в 1812- 1815 гг. С полным правом можно сказать, что тему англо-американской войны 1812-1815 годов для российской историографии заслонили поход Наполеона в Россию и заграничный поход русской армии. Тема эта на...
Екатеринбург : Гонзо, 2015. — 800 с. Книга Роберта Мидцлкауфа издана в серии «Оксфордская история США», где каждый том посвящен определенному периоду. «Славное дело» сочетает академическую строгость с живым и привлекательным стилем. Автор, делая масштабный обзор Американской революции, пересматривает и раздвигает границы популярных представлений об этом периоде, детально...
СПб.: АО "Брокгауз и Эфрон", 1906. — 283 с. На дореволюц. рус. языке.
Обратив внимание на значительный экономический прогресс США в конце XIX века, автор раскрывает причины возникновения этой страны и анализирует её развитие в течение более, чем ста лет. Содержание: 31 глава (1-16 - период до образования США).
СПб.: Издание Л.Ф. Пантелеева, 1901. - 274 с.
Книга посвящена истории дипломатических отношений Великобритании и США во второй половине XVIII века. Особенное внимание уделяется причинам войны за независимость американских колоний от господства Британии, рассматриваются сатирические и литературные произведения деятелей американского Просвещения. Окончанию книги служит разрыв...
СПб.: Брокгауз и Эфрон, 1906. — 283 с. Вниманию читателя предлагается книга историка П.Г.Мижуева, в которой исследуется зарождение, становление и развитие демократии в Соединенных Штатах Америки. Автор рассматривает историю США, начиная с первых английских поселений на Североамериканском континенте и заканчивая началом XX века; излагает события войны за независимость...
М.: Юрайт, 2024. — 257 с. — ISBN 978-5-534-12523-8. В книге замечательного историка П. Г. Мижуева рассмотрено становление демократии в Соединенных Штатах Америки начиная с первых поселений на континенте и вплоть до начала XX века. Для историков, политогов, а также широкого круга читателей, интересующихся политической историей.
М.: Юрайт, 2024. — 257 с. — ISBN 978-5-534-12523-8. В книге замечательного историка П. Г. Мижуева рассмотрено становление демократии в Соединенных Штатах Америки начиная с первых поселений на континенте и вплоть до начала XX века. Для историков, политогов, а также широкого круга читателей, интересующихся политической историей.
М.: Госкультпросветиздат, 1951. — 142 с. Грандиозная катастрофа, постигшая гитлеровскую шайку, ничему не научила других империалистических охотников до международного разбоя. Еще не высохли слезы вдов и сирот, еще повсюду в Европе видны кровавые следы минувшей войны, а новые претенденты на мировое господство уже бешено готовятся к тому, чтобы снова разжечь всемирную бойню....
М.: Госкультпросветиздат, 1951. — 142 с. Грандиозная катастрофа, постигшая гитлеровскую шайку, ничему не научила других империалистических охотников до международного разбоя. Еще не высохли слезы вдов и сирот, еще повсюду в Европе видны кровавые следы минувшей войны, а новые претенденты на мировое господство уже бешено готовятся к тому, чтобы снова разжечь всемирную бойню....
Монография. — М.: Издательство Московского университета, 2015. — 352 с. — ISBN: 978-5-19-01868-2. Данная монография посвящена комплексному исследованию американского общества во второй половине 1830-х – 1840-е годы. Последние пятнадцать лет первой половины XIX века являются тем периодом, когда были приняты решения, определившие направление дальнейшего развития Соединенных...
Пер. с нем. А. А. Громбаха. — М.: Типография А. П. Поплавского, 1906. — 436 c. Содержание К русскому изданию Предисловие Введение. Американцы и немцы Политическая жизнь Дух самоопределения Партии Президент Конгресс Юстиция Штат и город Общественное мнение Вопросы народонаселения Вопросы внутренней политики Вопросы внешней политики Экономическая жизнь Дух самодеятельности...
Пер. с нем. А. А. Громбаха. — М.: Типография А. П. Поплавского, 1906. — 436 c. Содержание К русскому изданию Предисловие Введение. Американцы и немцы Политическая жизнь Дух самоопределения Партии Президент Конгресс Юстиция Штат и город Общественное мнение Вопросы народонаселения Вопросы внутренней политики Вопросы внешней политики Экономическая жизнь Дух самодеятельности...
Пер. с нем. А. А. Громбаха. — М.: Типография А. П. Поплавского, 1906. — 286 c. Содержание Духовная жизнь Дух самоусовершенствования Школа и народное воспитание Университеты Наука Литература Искусство Религия Социальная жизнь Дух самостоятельности Самостоятельность женщины Аристократические тенденции Алфавитный указатель
Пер. с нем. А. А. Громбаха. — М.: Типография А. П. Поплавского, 1906. — 286 c. Содержание Духовная жизнь Дух самоусовершенствования Школа и народное воспитание Университеты Наука Литература Искусство Религия Социальная жизнь Дух самостоятельности Самостоятельность женщины Аристократические тенденции Алфавитный указатель
Нью-Йорк: Издательство Фредерик А. Прегер, 1961. — 597 с. В книге излагается история Северной Америки от первых колоний в начале XVII в. до возникновения и развития капитализма. Об авторах. Аллан Невинс с 1931 г. по 1958 г. был профессором американской истории в Колумбийском университете; преподавал также в университете Корнэлл, в Калифорнийском технологическом институте и в...
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СПб: Типография Ф. С. Сущинского, 1873. — 509 с. Перевод с немецкого. Русский перевод исторического труда Карла Фридриха Неймана (1793-1870) «Geschichte der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika», изданного в Берлине в 1863-1866 годах. Своё изложение истории Соединённых Штатов Нейман начала с основания английских колоний в Северной Америке в начале XVII века и довёл до 1837 года.
СПб: Типография Ф. С. Сущинского, 1866. — 527 с. Перевод с немецкого. Русский перевод исторического труда Карла Фридриха Неймана (1793-1870) «Geschichte der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika», изданного в Берлине в 1863-1866 годах. Своё изложение истории Соединённых Штатов Нейман начала с основания английских колоний в Северной Америке в начале XVII века и довёл до 1837 года.
Монография. — Брянск: Курсив, 2015. — 232 с. — ISBN: 978-5-89592-300-9. В монографии рассматривается не только деятельность президента Монро, его кабинета, Конгресса и Верховного суда. Показан демонтаж первой двухпартийной системы, опиравшейся на элиту, и её замена новой – второй, базировавшейся на более демократических основаниях. Книга предназначена для исследователей,...
М.: Наука, 1991. — 328 с. — ISBN 5-02-009012-3. В предлагаемой монографии предпринимается первая попытка комплексного исследования американского консерватизма в период с конца XIX в. до начала мирового экономического кризиса 1929— 1933 гг. Задача исследования — определить основные контуры кон сервативной политики по таким проблемам, как консерваторы и правящий класс,...
М.: Наука, Институт этнологии и антропологии им. Н. Н. Миклухо-Маклая РАН, 2009. - 583 с. - ISBN: 978-5-02-036758-6 Монография посвящена основным проблемам современной истории темнокожего населения США. Если в 1960-е годы мир с тревогой следил за волной кровавых бунтов и восстаний, охвативших черные гетто десятков американских городов, то уже через 30 лет многие афроамериканцы...
Санкт-Петербург: Издание книгопродавцев Ф. Колесова и Ф. Михина, 1872. — [2], 398 с. Впервые печаталось в журн. "Заря". 1870, кн. 4-6, 8, 9, 11, 12. Павел Иванович Огородников родился 24 сентября 1837 года. С 1855 г. служил в армии Российской империи. 14 июля 1862 года был арестован за участие в Комитете русских офицеров в Польше и 24 июля был передан военно-полевому суду,...
Санкт-Петербург: Издание книгопродавцев Ф. Колесова и Ф. Михина, 1872. — [2], 398 с. Впервые печаталось в журн. "Заря". 1870, кн. 4-6, 8, 9, 11, 12. Павел Иванович Огородников родился 24 сентября 1837 года. С 1855 г. служил в армии Российской империи. 14 июля 1862 года был арестован за участие в Комитете русских офицеров в Польше и 24 июля был передан военно-полевому суду,...
М.: Изд-во Московского университета, 1984. — 260 с. В книге рассматривается комплекс проблем, связанных с размещением новых американских ядерных ракет в Европе. Авторы прослеживают предысторию вопроса, анализируют эволюцию военных доктрин НАТО, выявляют подлинные интересы США и их западноевропейских союзников, показывают настойчивую борьбу СССР за ограничение и сокращение...
Перевод искусственным интеллектом сообщества "Книжный импорт". — Без выходных данных. — 528 с. — (Оксфордская история США) Джеймс Паттерсон дает четкую, лаконичную оценку двадцати семи лет между отставкой Ричарда Никсона и избранием Джорджа Буша-младшего в масштабном повествовании, которое плавно переплетает социальные, культурные, политические, экономические и международные...
Перевод искусственным интеллектом сообщества "Книжный импорт". — Без выходных данных. — 528 с. — (Оксфордская история США) Джеймс Паттерсон дает четкую, лаконичную оценку двадцати семи лет между отставкой Ричарда Никсона и избранием Джорджа Буша-младшего в масштабном повествовании, которое плавно переплетает социальные, культурные, политические, экономические и международные...
Перевод искусственным интеллектом сообщества "Книжный импорт". — Без выходных данных. — 528 с. — (Оксфордская история США) Джеймс Паттерсон дает четкую, лаконичную оценку двадцати семи лет между отставкой Ричарда Никсона и избранием Джорджа Буша-младшего в масштабном повествовании, которое плавно переплетает социальные, культурные, политические, экономические и международные...
Перевод искусственным интеллектом сообщества "Книжный импорт". — Без выходных данных. — 528 с. — (Оксфордская история США) Джеймс Паттерсон дает четкую, лаконичную оценку двадцати семи лет между отставкой Ричарда Никсона и избранием Джорджа Буша-младшего в масштабном повествовании, которое плавно переплетает социальные, культурные, политические, экономические и международные...
Перевод искусственным интеллектом сообщества "Книжный импорт". — Без выходных данных. — 781 с. — (Оксфордская история США) Начиная с 1945 года, Америка пронеслась через четверть века необычайного экономического роста, пережив удивительный бум, который достиг невообразимых высот в 1960-х годах. Это был бум, породивший национальную эйфорию, время великих ожиданий и...
Перевод искусственным интеллектом сообщества "Книжный импорт". — Без выходных данных. — 781 с. — (Оксфордская история США) Начиная с 1945 года, Америка пронеслась через четверть века необычайного экономического роста, пережив удивительный бум, который достиг невообразимых высот в 1960-х годах. Это был бум, породивший национальную эйфорию, время великих ожиданий и...
Перевод искусственным интеллектом сообщества "Книжный импорт". — Без выходных данных. — 781 с. — (Оксфордская история США) Начиная с 1945 года, Америка пронеслась через четверть века необычайного экономического роста, пережив удивительный бум, который достиг невообразимых высот в 1960-х годах. Это был бум, породивший национальную эйфорию, время великих ожиданий и...
Перевод искусственным интеллектом сообщества "Книжный импорт". — Без выходных данных. — 781 с. — (Оксфордская история США) Начиная с 1945 года, Америка пронеслась через четверть века необычайного экономического роста, пережив удивительный бум, который достиг невообразимых высот в 1960-х годах. Это был бум, породивший национальную эйфорию, время великих ожиданий и...
М.; Л.: Госиздат, 1927. — 176 с. Предисловие — Е. Браудера. Формы рабочего движения до гражданской войны. Начало движения (до 1827 г.). Гражданское равноправие (1827—1832 гг.). Период благоденствия (1833 1837 гг.). Долгая депрессия (1837—1862 гг.). «Гринбекский» период (1862—1879 гг.). Первые шаги «Рыцарей труда» и Американская федерация труда. Оживление и подъем (1879—1887 гг.)....
Перевод с английского Л.И. Раевского. — М.; Л.: Госиздат, 1927. — 176 с. Предисловие — Е. Браудера. Формы рабочего движения до гражданской войны. Начало движения (до 1827 г.). Гражданское равноправие (1827—1832 гг.). Период благоденствия (1833 1837 гг.). Долгая депрессия (1837—1862 гг.). «Гринбекский» период (1862—1879 гг.). Первые шаги «Рыцарей труда» и Американская федерация...
М.: Иностранная литература, 1958. — 541 с. Настоящая книга посвящена анализу современной структуры и методов господства финансового капитала США. В. Перло рассматривает восемь главных групп финансовой олигархии Соединённых Штатов и изменения в соотношении сил между ними по сравнению с довоенным периодом. Автор показывает рост подчинения правительства США финансовому капиталу и...
М.: Издательство иностранной литературы, 1954. - 162 с. Предлагаемая вниманию советского читателя книга «Негры в сельском хозяйстве Юга США» принадлежит перу прогрессивного американского экономиста Виктора Перло, автора ранее переведенного на русский язык исследования «Американский империализм». Если в своей предыдущей работе Перло показал, что чудовищная эксплуатация негров в...
Пер. с англ. Г. Бабенышева, И. Боронос, М. Липкина и И. Якобсона. — М.: Изд-во иностранной литературы, 1951. — 324 с. Книга написана американским экономистом. Перло приводит целый ряд фактов, свидетельствующих об усилении концентрации капитала в США, характеризующих послевоенный раздел всего капиталистического мира между монополиями Уолл-стрита. В результате второй мировой...
Пер. с англ. Г. Бабенышева, И. Боронос, М. Липкина и И. Якобсона. — М.: Изд-во иностранной литературы, 1951. — 324 с. Книга написана американским экономистом. Перло приводит целый ряд фактов, свидетельствующих об усилении концентрации капитала в США, характеризующих послевоенный раздел всего капиталистического мира между монополиями Уолл-стрита. В результате второй мировой...
Москва: Наука, 1991. — 176 с. Автор книги — американец русского происхождения, родившийся в 1907 г. в Китае. В одном из интервью он сказал о себе: "Я принадлежу трем культурам — русской, китайской и американской". Однако большая часть написанного Виктором Петровым так или иначе связана прежде всего с русской историей. Объединенные общим названием очерки о русских людях,...
Москва: Наука, 1991. — 176 с. Автор книги — американец русского происхождения, родившийся в 1907 г. в Китае. В одном из интервью он сказал о себе: "Я принадлежу трем культурам — русской, китайской и американской". Однако большая часть написанного Виктором Петровым так или иначе связана прежде всего с русской историей. Объединенные общим названием очерки о русских людях,...
Москва: Наука, 1991. — 176 с. Автор книги — американец русского происхождения, родившийся в 1907 г. в Китае. В одном из интервью он сказал о себе: "Я принадлежу трем культурам — русской, китайской и американской". Однако большая часть написанного Виктором Петровым так или иначе связана прежде всего с русской историей. Объединенные общим названием очерки о русских людях,...
М.: Мысль, 1971. — 281 с.
"Коммунистическая партия Соединенных Штатов Америки в сложных условиях в цитадели мирового империализма ведет тяжелейшую борьбу с реакционными силами за свое существование, за интересы трудящихся масс. Буржуазные идеологи пытаются фальсифицировать путь компартии. Они преднамеренно извращают историю зарождения левого движения в стране и возникновения...
М.: Мысль, 1971. — 281 с.
Аннотация редакции:
"Коммунистическая партия Соединенных Штатов Америки в сложных условиях в цитадели мирового империализма ведет тяжелейшую борьбу с реакционными силами за свое существование, за интересы трудящихся масс. Буржуазные идеологи пытаются фальсифицировать путь компартии. Они преднамеренно извращают историю зарождения левого движения в...
М.: 1976. — 336 с. В книге прослеживается эволюция внешнеполитической мысли США, показывается как правящие круги мобилизуют для нужд внешней политики интеллектуальный потенциал страны. Автор даёт критический разбор новейших теорий американских учёных и характеризует их взгляды на мирное сосуществование, разрядку напряжённости, сотрудничество между Востоком и Западом. Работа...
М.: Международные отношения, 1980. — 338 с.
В книге раскрывается сущность доктрины «национальной безопасности» как идейно-теоретической платформы монополистической верхушки США, прослеживается приспособление этой доктрины к новой стратегической ситуации в мире, вызванной ростом могущества сил мира, социализма и прогресса. Рассматриваются целевые установки «национальной...
Москва: Международные отношения, 1967. — 224 с. Суд Линча пользуется самой зловещей репутацией. Тем не менее его историческое прошлое требует иной оценки. По мнению автора, суд Линча является не порождением рабовладельческого Юга, как это принято считать, а эпохи "дикого Запада", когда Североамериканский континент был ареной массовой фермерской колонизации. В ту пору суд Линча был...
Москва: Международные отношения, 1967. — 224 с. Суд Линча пользуется самой зловещей репутацией. Тем не менее его историческое прошлое требует иной оценки. По мнению автора, суд Линча является не порождением рабовладельческого Юга, как это принято считать, а эпохи "дикого Запада", когда Североамериканский континент был ареной массовой фермерской колонизации. В ту пору суд Линча был...
М.: Международные отношения, 1967. — 484 с. Суд Линча пользуется самой зловещей репутацией. Тем не менее его историческое прошлое требует иной оценки. По мнению автора, суд Линча является не порождением рабовладельческого Юга, как это принято считать, а эпохи "дикого Запада", когда Североамериканский континент был ареной массовой фермерской колонизации. В ту пору суд Линча был...
М: Воениздат, 1981. — 268 с. В книге разоблачается агрессивная сущность союза крупнейших монополий с военщиной США. Рассматриваются структура, формы и методы деятельности этого союза, его растущее влияние на экономическую, политическую и духовную жизнь американского общества, а также на политику других империалистических государств. Приведенный в работе обширный фактический и...
М: Воениздат, 1981. — 268 с. В книге разоблачается агрессивная сущность союза крупнейших монополий с военщиной США. Рассматриваются структура, формы и методы деятельности этого союза, его растущее влияние на экономическую, политическую и духовную жизнь американского общества, а также на политику других империалистических государств. Приведенный в работе обширный фактический и...
Ленинград: Прибой, 1930. — 246 с. Предисловие. Экономическое развитие. Экономико-географический очерк. Промышленность. Банки. Сельское хозяйство. Торговля и транспорт. Политический строй. Конституция. Партии. Политическое господство буржуазии. Внешняя политика. Эволюция захватнической политики. Первые шаги. Испано-американская война. Куба. Филиппины. Панамский канал. Дальнейшая...
Издательские решения, 2021. — 342 с. Сборник очерков, посвящённых малоизвестным в России событиям американской криминальной истории разных лет. Помимо необычных и полных драматизма сюжетов в представленных очерках можно увидеть подлинную картину общественной жизни США конца XIX — первой половины XX столетий, человеческие драмы эпохи индустриальной революции, специфику...
Издательские решения, 2021. — 468 с. Сборник очерков, посвящённых малоизвестным в России событиям американской криминальной истории разных лет. Помимо необычных и полных драматизма сюжетов в представленных очерках можно увидеть подлинную картину общественной жизни США конца XIX — первой половины XX столетий, человеческие драмы эпохи индустриальной революции, специфику...
Издательские решения, 2021. — 496 с. Сборник очерков, посвящённых малоизвестным в России событиям американской криминальной истории разных лет. Помимо необычных и полных драматизма сюжетов в представленных очерках можно увидеть подлинную картину общественной жизни США конца XIX — первой половины XX столетий, человеческие драмы эпохи индустриальной революции, специфику...
М.: КоЛибри, Азбука-Аттикус, 2015. — 530 с. История США была бурной, кровавой и захватывающей. Начиная с эпохи Великих географических открытий, когда отчаянные мореплаватели отправлялись за сказочными богатствами к неизведанным берегам, эти края пережили немало потрясений: колонизация и Война за независимость, Гражданская война и освоение Дикого Запада, развитие промышленности...
М.: КоЛибри, Азбука-Аттикус, 2015. — 530 с.
История США была бурной, кровавой и захватывающей. Начиная с эпохи Великих географических открытий, когда отчаянные мореплаватели отправлялись за сказочными богатствами к неизведанным берегам, эти края пережили немало потрясений: колонизация и Война за независимость, Гражданская война и освоение Дикого Запада, развитие промышленности...
М.: Молодая гвардия, 1949. — 125 с. Книга Б. Розанова «Уолл-стрит» рассказывает об агрессивной, империалистической политике капиталистических монополий Соединенных Штатов Америки, претендующих на мировое господство. Она названа «Уолл-стрит» потому, что эта нью-йоркская улица, являясь средоточием крупнейших монополий США, представляет собой международный центр врагов СССР и...
М.: Молодая гвардия, 1949. — 125 с. Книга Б. Розанова «Уолл-стрит» рассказывает об агрессивной, империалистической политике капиталистических монополий Соединенных Штатов Америки, претендующих на мировое господство. Она названа «Уолл-стрит» потому, что эта нью-йоркская улица, являясь средоточием крупнейших монополий США, представляет собой международный центр врагов СССР и...
М.: Политиздат, 1983. — 367 с. Издание содержит материалы по истории Коммунистической партии США за период с 1919 по 1977 год. Это выступление руководителей КП США, статьи активистов партии и известных американских публицистов. Почти все документы и материалы публикуются на русском языке впервые. Книга рассчитана на партийных работников, преподавателей и всех, кто интересуется...
М.: Политиздат, 1983. — 367 с. Издание содержит материалы по истории Коммунистической партии США за период с 1919 по 1977 год. Это выступление руководителей КП США, статьи активистов партии и известных американских публицистов. Почти все документы и материалы публикуются на русском языке впервые. Книга рассчитана на партийных работников, преподавателей и всех, кто интересуется...
Нижневартовск: Изд-во Нижневартовского гуманитарного университета, 2010. — 226 с. Настоящее исследование раскрывает проблему выбора государственной властью США социально-экономических приоритетов развития страны во второй половине XIX в. Автор предлагает комплексный анализ трансформации программ американских президентов и Конгресса по социально-экономическим вопросам под влиянием...
Перевод с английского Н. Горлина. — 2-е до. изд. — Ленинград: Госиздат, 1925. — 53 с. История Америки начинается в Европе. История Америки продолжается в колониях. Корни революции. Положение рабочего класса в <период независимости». Конституционный Конвент. Господство торгового класса. Переход власти к плантаторам и колонистам. Успехи пионеров. Промышленная революция. Начало...
Перевод с английского Н. Горлина. — 2-е до. изд. — Ленинград: Госиздат, 1925. — 53 с. История Америки начинается в Европе. История Америки продолжается в колониях. Корни революции. Положение рабочего класса в «период независимости». Конституционный Конвент. Господство торгового класса. Переход власти к плантаторам и колонистам. Успехи пионеров. Промышленная революция. Начало...
М.: Наука, 1985. — 600 с. Четырехтомник охватывает историю США с 1607 по 1980 годы. Подробное издание, которое может служить хорошим учебным пособием, если сделать поправку на некоторую заидеологизированность, присущую всем книгам по истории, изданным в то время. Есть информация об экономике, социальных отношениях, науке, культуре США. Во втором томе исследуется...
М.: Наука, 1985. — 672 с. Четырехтомник охватывает историю США с 1607 по 1980 годы. Подробное издание, которое может служить хорошим учебным пособием, если сделать поправку на некоторую заидеологизированность, присущую всем книгам по истории, изданным в то время. Есть информация об экономике, социальных отношениях, науке, культуре США. В третьем томе освещена история...
М.: Наука, 1987. — 744 с. Четырехтомник охватывает историю США с 1607 по 1980 годы. Подробное издание, которое может служить хорошим учебным пособием, если сделать поправку на некоторую заидеологизированность, присущую всем книгам по истории, изданным в то время. Есть информация об экономике, социальных отношениях, науке, культуре США. В четвертом томе во взаимосвязи с...
М.: Наука, 1983. — 687 с. Первый том охватывает период от основания английских колоний в Северной Америке в XVII веке до окончания Реконструкции в 1877 г. Центральное место занимают главы, посвященные войне за независимость и образованию США, становлению и развитию капитализма в XVIII – первой половине XIX в., гражданской войне и Реконструкции. Специальное внимание уделяется...
М.: Наука, 1985. — 600 с.
Второй том «Истории США» хронологически охватывает период от гражданской войны в США и Реконструкции Юга до окончания первой мировой войны. Главным его содержанием являлся переход от капитализма свободной конкуренции к монополистическому, а затем к государственно-монополистическому капитализму. Американский капитализм развивался по общим законам,...
М.: Наука, 1985. — 600 с. Второй том «Истории США» хронологически охватывает период от гражданской войны в США и Реконструкции Юга до окончания первой мировой войны. Главным его содержанием являлся переход от капитализма свободной конкуренции к монополистическому, а затем к государственно-монополистическому капитализму. Американский капитализм развивался по общим законам, присущим...
М.: Наука, 1985. — 672 с. В третьем томе освещена история американского общества от конца первой до завершения второй мировой войны: проанализированы закономерности развития капитализма, состояние экономики и внутриполитическое положение страны, характер и динамика социальных движений, внешняя политика и дипломатия США, ее движущие силы, формы и методы, применяемые Вашингтоном на...
М.: Наука, 1985. — 672 с. В третьем томе освещена история американского общества от конца первой до завершения второй мировой войны: проанализированы закономерности развития капитализма, состояние экономики и внутриполитическое положение страны, характер и динамика социальных движений, внешняя политика и дипломатия США, ее движущие силы, формы и методы, применяемые Вашингтоном на...
М.: Наука, 1987. — 743 с. В четвертом томе во взаимосвязи с глобальными процессами современности рассматриваются общие закономерности и особенности развития американского общества в условиях углубления общего кризиса капитализма после второй мировой войны; ставится задача раскрыть диалектику внутренней и внешней политики США, ее движущие силы и классовую сущность, воздействие...
М.: Наука, 1987. — 743 с. В четвертом томе во взаимосвязи с глобальными процессами современности рассматриваются общие закономерности и особенности развития американского общества в условиях углубления общего кризиса капитализма после второй мировой войны; ставится задача раскрыть диалектику внутренней и внешней политики США, ее движущие силы и классовую сущность, воздействие...
М.: Наука, 1983. — 687 с. Первый том охватывает период от основания английских колоний в Северной Америке в XVII веке до окончания Реконструкции в 1877 г. Центральное место занимают главы, посвященные войне за независимость и образованию США, становлению и развитию капитализма в XVIII – первой половине XIX в., гражданской войне и Реконструкции. Специальное внимание уделяется...
М.: Наука, 1983. — 344 с.
Первый том охватывает период от основания английских колоний в Северной Америке в XVII в. до окончания Реконструкции в 1877 г. Центральное место занимают главы, посвященные войне за независимость и образованию США, становлению и развитию капитализма в XVIII — первой половине XIX в., гражданской войне и Реконструкции. Специальное внимание уделяется...
М.: Наука, 1983. — 300 с.
Во втором томе «Истории США» исследуется социально-экономическое, политическое и культурное развитие страны в 1877—1918 гг. В центре внимания становление монополистического капитализма и влияние этого процесса на различные слои американской нации. Большое внимание уделяется выступлениям народных масс против растущей силы трестов и корпораций, рабочему,...
М.: Наука, 1983. — 336 с.
В третьем томе освещена история американского общества от конца первой до завершения второй мировой войны: проанализированы закономерности развития капитализма, состояние экономики и внутриполитическое положение страны, характер и динамика социальных движений, внешняя политика и дипломатия США, ее движущие силы, формы и методы, применяемые Вашингтоном...
М.: Наука, 1983. — 374 с.
В четвертом томе «Истории США» во взаимосвязи с глобальными процессами современности рассматриваются общие закономерности и особенности развития американского общества в условиях углубления общего кризиса капитализма после второй мировой войны; ставится задача раскрыть диалектику внутренней и внешней политики США, ее движущие силы и классовую сущность,...
М.: Издательство иностранной литературы, 1948. - 343 с. Книга о могущественных представителях крупного бизнеса в США. Джордж Сельдес - старый, опытный журналист, хорошо знающий и на себе самом испытавший, что представляет собой капиталистическая печать. Но он хорошо знает не только грязную кухню американской капиталистической печати, но также и закулисную политическую жизнь страны.
М.: Изд-во МГУ, 1972. - 335 с. В настоящей работе рассматриваются основные проблемы социально-экономической и политической истории Соединенных Штатов в новейшее время. Большое внимание уделено вопросу о так называемой «американской исключительности». В послевоенные годы эта теория трансформировалась в концепцию «государства всеобщего благоденствия» и другие теоретические...
Головний редактор: Говард Синкотта. Редактори (в алфавітному порядку): Дебора М.С. Браун, Стивен Бюрант, Мішель Грин, Джин С. Голден, Ричард Маршалл. Нарис. — Київ: Інформаційне агентство Сполучених Штатів, 2002. — 406 с.
«Нарис історії Сполучених Штатів» — одне з найдавніших постійних видань ЮСІА. Перше видання (1949—50) вийшло за редакцією Френсиса Вітні, керівника відділу...
Головний редактор: Говард Синкотта. Редактори (в алфавітному порядку): Дебора М.С. Браун, Стивен Бюрант, Мішель Грин, Джин С. Голден, Ричард Маршалл. Нарис. — Київ: Інформаційне агентство Сполучених Штатів, 2002. — 406 с.
«Нарис історії Сполучених Штатів» — одне з найдавніших постійних видань ЮСІА. Перше видання (1949—50) вийшло за редакцією Френсиса Вітні, керівника відділу...
Рогатин: Друкарня ПП Білінський, 2012. — 164 с. В збірнику розглядаються проблеми пов´язані з дослідженнями історії американської цивілізації. Проаналізовані період найдавніших часів та до сьогоднішнього дня. Особливу увагу присвячено дослідженню становлення громадянського суспільства і розвитку культури, військової справи. Описано події громадського і культурного життя народів...
Монография. — Москва: АН СССР, 1956. — 136 с. Испано-американская война 1898, первая империалистическая война за передел колониальных владений. Ставя целью захват Кубы, Филиппин и Пуэрто-Рико, находившихся под испанским колониальным господством, правительство США рассматривало эти владения не только как ценные источники сырья и рынки сбыта, но и как важный плацдарм для экспансии...
М.: Иностранная литература, 1956. - 274 с. В 1955 г. в Америке вышла книга бригадного генерала ВВС Д. О. Смита «Военная доктрина США». В книге делается попытка раскрыть современное понятие — «военная доктрина» и показать изменение доктрины в зависимости от развития техники и до некоторой степени воздействия общественного мнения. Одновременно автор разбирает взгляды военных...
Москва: Весь Мир, 2020. — 256 c. — ISBN 978-5-7777-0770-3. Это первая в отечественной литературе книга о США, основанная на цивилизационном подходе. Английское наследие, демократия и гражданское общество, индивидуализм и равенство возможностей, иммиграция и мультикультурализм, мессианство и экспансия, — эти архетипы и факторы американской цивилизации раскрыты на основе...
Москва: Весь Мир, 2020. — 256 c. — ISBN 978-5-7777-0770-3. Это первая в отечественной литературе книга о США, основанная на цивилизационном подходе. Английское наследие, демократия и гражданское общество, индивидуализм и равенство возможностей, иммиграция и мультикультурализм, мессианство и экспансия, — эти архетипы и факторы американской цивилизации раскрыты на основе...
М.: Весь Мир, 2011. — 366 с. В основу книги положен авторский лекционный курс для студентов МГИМО МИД РФ. Глубина сравнительно-исторического и типологического анализа американской демократии сочетается с ясностью изложения, что делает книгу интересной широкому кругу читателей. Содержание: Введение. Типология и этапы американской демократии. Этап первый. Колониальный опыт....
М.: Наука, 1995. - 238 с.
Впервые в отечественной историографии рассматриваются общественные идеалы Америки, различных ее социальных слоев, политических партий и групп от образования Сша до наших дней. Основываясь на обширном круге источников, автор раскрывает 200-летнюю идейную.
историю Сша через мировоззрение американских мыслителей и политических деятелей Т. Джефферсона и...
М.: Наука, 1995. — 238 с. Впервые в отечественной историографии рассматриваются общественные идеалы Америки, различных ее социальных слоев, политических партий и групп от образования США до наших дней. Основываясь на обширном круге источников, автор раскрывает 200-летнюю идейную. историю США через мировоззрение американских мыслителей и политических деятелей Т. Джефферсона и А....
М.: Наука, 1995. — 238 с. Впервые в отечественной историографии рассматриваются общественные идеалы Америки, различных ее социальных слоев, политических партий и групп от образования Сша до наших дней. Основываясь на обширном круге источников, автор раскрывает 200-летнюю идейную. историю Сша через мировоззрение американских мыслителей и политических деятелей Т. Джефферсона и...
СПб.: Питер, 2003. — 192 с. — (Учебное пособие). — ISBN 5-94723-681-8. С современных научных позиций раскрывается четырехвековая история США от колониальной поры до наших дней. Опираясь на многообразные источники, автор дает разностороннюю картину исторического опыта Соединенных Штатов. Его основополагающий теоретический посыл - представление о Соединенных Штатах как о...
М.: Международные отношения, 2019. — 600 с.: ил. В книге рассмотрены этапы внутренней и внешней политики США от возникновения колоний в 1607 г. до наших дней. Особое внимание автор уделяет наиболее важным событиям, давая их проблемное осмысление. Самостоятельное место занимают культура, наука и техника. В конце учебника предлагается подробный перечень тем и вопросов для...
СПб.: ИД "Питер", 2003. — 192 с. — (Серия "Учебное пособие"). — ISBN: 5-94723-681-8. С современных научных позиций раскрывается четырехвековая история США от колониальной поры до наших дней. Опираясь на многообразные источники, автор дает разностороннюю картину исторического опыта Соединенных Штатов. Его основополагающий теоретический посыл - представление о Соединенных Штатах...
СПб.: Питер, 2003. — 192 с. — (Серия "Учебное пособие"). — ISBN: 5-94723-681-8. С современных научных позиций раскрывается четырехвековая история США от колониальной поры до наших дней. Опираясь на многообразные источники, автор дает разностороннюю картину исторического опыта Соединенных Штатов. Его основополагающий теоретический посыл - представление о Соединенных Штатах как о...
М.: Мысль, 1986. – 256 с.
В работе дается критический анализ современных буржуазных концепций социально-политического и идейного развития США. На основе показа узловых моментов истории этой страны: буржуазных революций XVIII–XIX вв., рабочего движения, эволюции государственно-монополистического капитализма и буржуазной реформистской политики – разоблачается несостоятельность...
М.: Мысль, 1986. – 256 с. В работе дается критический анализ современных буржуазных концепций социально-политического и идейного развития США. На основе показа узловых моментов истории этой страны: буржуазных революций XVIII–XIX вв., рабочего движения, эволюции государственно-монополистического капитализма и буржуазной реформистской политики – разоблачается несостоятельность...
Новая и новейшая история. 2004, №2.
1607-1776-е годы
1770-1810-е гг. - Первая радикальная трансформация американской политической власти
1820-1860-е гг. - Этап второй радикальной трансформации политической власти
1870-1920-е гг. - Этап консервации американской политической власти
1930-е - начало XX в. - Современный этап эволюции политической власти
Литература
Учеб. пособие. – М.: Весь мир, 2001. — 402 с. ISBN: 5-7777-0117-5 Книга известного учёного, профессора МГИМО В. В. Согрина представляет собой глубокое исследование политической истории США со времён первых поселенцев и до конца XX века. Автор переосмысливает традиционные подходы, касающиеся развития американской политической системы. В работе всесторонне выявлено изменение...
Учеб. пособие. – М.: Весь мир, 2001. – 402 с.
ISBN 5-7777-0117-5
Книга известного учёного, профессора МГИМО В. В. Согрина представляет собой глубокое исследование политической истории США со времён первых поселенцев и до конца XX века. Автор переосмысливает традиционные подходы, касающиеся развития американской политической системы. В работе всесторонне выявлено изменение...
М.: Весь Мир, 2013. — 350 с. — ISBN: 978-5-7777-0537-2. В декабре 2011 г. на историческом факультете Московского государственного университета состоялась международная научная конференция «Может ли история быть объективной?». Это вечный вопрос истории. В советский период отечественная историография отвечала на него утвердительно, имея в виду, что объективная историческая истина...
М.: Весь Мир, 2018. — 482 с. Это первая в отечественной литературе авторская энциклопедия американской истории. Видный российский историк-американист В.В. Согрин отобрал события и факты, необходимые, по его мнению, для знания и понимания содержания, эволюции и тенденций истории США. Хронологический подход сочетается с тематическим. В начале каждого из шести событийных разделов...
СПб.: Алетейя, 2021. — 208 с. Ранняя американская история рождалась из европейских загадок и мифов. Новая книга Леонида Спивака «Когда Америки не было» раскрывает некоторые из этих тайн. Почему Сервантес собирался и не попал в Новый Свет? Каким образом гибель королевы Марии Стюарт повлияла на судьбу будущих поселенцев Новой Англии? Как имя Шекспира связано со старейшим...
Бостон: M.Graphics, 2015. — 271 с. — ISBN 978-1-940220-25-3. Книга рассказывает о судьбах двух уникальных личностей, оказавших влияние на ключевые события мировой истории: государственного секретаря Конфедеративных Штатов Иуды Бенджамина и советника двух президентов, посла США в России и Франции Уильяма Буллита. Первая часть книги посвящена Иуде Бенджамину — одному из видных...
СПб.: Алетейя, 2020. — 356 с. — ISBN 978-5-00165-140-6. История Бостона насчитывает без малого четыре столетия. Заслуживший титулы «Афины Америки» и «Историческая столица США», Бостон полон легенд, литературных историй, отмечен множеством культурных связей с Европой и Россией. В биографии города встречаются имена Бенджамина Франклина и Эдгара По, Чайковского и Набокова, а...
СПб.: Алетейя, 2021. — 208 с. — ISBN 978-5-00165-356-1. Ранняя американская история рождалась из европейских загадок и мифов. Новая книга Леонида Спивака «Когда Америки не было» раскрывает некоторые из этих тайн. Почему Сервантес собирался и не попал в Новый Свет? Каким образом гибель королевы Марии Стюарт повлияла на судьбу будущих поселенцев Новой Англии? Как имя Шекспира...
М.: Издательство иностранной литературы, 1955. — 318 с. Советские читатели уже знакомы с американским публицистом Стетсоном Кеннеди. Он является автором книги «Южные очерки». В 1954 г. издана в Лондоне и переведена на русский язык его книга «Я был в Ку-клукс-клане», в которой автор описывает преступную деятельность одной из бандитских организаций — Ку-клукс-клана, осуществляющего...
М : ЭНАС, 2007. — 312 с. — (Другая история). ISBN: 978-5-93196-828-5. Дикий Запад овеян легендами. Сотни книг и фильмов в жанре «вестерн» прославляют мужественных шерифов и отчаянных бандитов. Но каковы же были они на самом деле? Что в их жизни правда, а что — вымысел? В действительности благородный Уайетт Эрп вдруг оказывается содержателем публичного дома и хвастливым лгуном;...
М.: ЭНАС, 2007. - 312 с. Дикий Запад овеян легендами. Сотни книг и фильмов в жанре «вестерн» прославляют мужественных шерифов и отчаянных бандитов. Но каковы же были они на самом деле? Что в их жизни правда, а что — вымысел? В действительности благородный Уайетт Эрп вдруг оказывается содержателем публичного дома и хвастливым лгуном; защитник простого народа Хоакин Мурьета —...
М.: Федерация, 1932. - 216 с. Профессор В. Тан-Богораз три года тому назад посетил Соединённые Штаты Северной Америки, провел там несколько месяцев и в результате написал книгу впечатлений о людях и нравах этой страны. В. Г. Тан-Богораз не новичок в Америке. Лет тридцать тому назад он также был в Америке и также опубликовал свои впечатления, пользовавшиеся в свое гремя...
/Отв. ред. Болховитинов Н. Н. - М.: ИНИОН, 1985. - 240 с. Содержание: "Новая политическая история" в США: дискуссия о теории и методах, (Обзор). "Джексоновская демократия" в "новой политической истории". Партийно-политическая борьба 40-60-х годов XIX в. Радикальные республиканцы в конгрессе США в условиях Гражданской войны и Реконструкции. Политические процессы в США после...
М.: Весь мир, 2009. — 303 с.
Книга всемирно известного классика исторической науки США Фредерика Джексона Тернера (1861-1932) "Фронтир в американской истории" является собранием его основных статей и выступлений с 1893 по 1918 г., в которых сформулирована и подробно разработана концепция "фронтира" ("границы"). В центре внимания находится территориальная экспансия и...
М.: Весь мир, 2009. — 303 с.
Книга всемирно известного классика исторической науки США Фредерика Джексона Тернера (1861-1932) "Фронтир в американской истории" является собранием его основных статей и выступлений с 1893 по 1918 г., в которых сформулирована и подробно разработана концепция "фронтира" ("границы"). В центре внимания находится территориальная экспансия и...
М.: Весь Мир, 2009. — 304 с. Выдающийся американский учёный Фредерик Джексон Тёрнер вошёл в историю науки как создатель фундаментальной концепции «фронтира» («границы»), без которой сегодня трудно представить осмысление не только американской, но и мировой истории. Особое значение имеет она и для понимания истории России в силу немалого числа параллелей в американской и...
Нұрсұлтан: ҚР Президенті жанындағы стратегиялық зерттеулер институты, 2020. — 380 б. Құрама Штаттардың даму тарихына арналған бүкіл әлем ғалымдарының көптегенҚұрама Штаттардың даму тарихына арналған бүкіл әлем ғалымдарының көптегентамаша еңбектері бар. Сонымен қатар, Қазақстанда американистика мектебі әлі дебастапқы қалыптасу кезеңінде тұр.
Перевод искусственным интеллектом сообщества "Книжный импорт". — Без выходных данных. — 1042 с. — (Оксфордская история США). В конце Гражданской войны лидеры и граждане победившего Севера представляли себе будущее страны как республику свободного труда с однородным населением, как черным, так и белым. Юг и Запад должны были быть перестроены по образу и подобию Севера. Единство,...
Перевод искусственным интеллектом сообщества "Книжный импорт". — Без выходных данных. — 1042 с. — (Оксфордская история США). В конце Гражданской войны лидеры и граждане победившего Севера представляли себе будущее страны как республику свободного труда с однородным населением, как черным, так и белым. Юг и Запад должны были быть перестроены по образу и подобию Севера. Единство,...
Перевод искусственным интеллектом сообщества "Книжный импорт". — Без выходных данных. — 1042 с. — (Оксфордская история США). В конце Гражданской войны лидеры и граждане победившего Севера представляли себе будущее страны как республику свободного труда с однородным населением, как черным, так и белым. Юг и Запад должны были быть перестроены по образу и подобию Севера. Единство,...
Перевод искусственным интеллектом сообщества "Книжный импорт". — Без выходных данных. — 1042 с. — (Оксфордская история США) В конце Гражданской войны лидеры и граждане победившего Севера представляли себе будущее страны как республику свободного труда с однородным населением, как черным, так и белым. Юг и Запад должны были быть перестроены по образу и подобию Севера. Единство,...
М.: Прогресс, 1975. — 300 с. Предлагаемый советскому читателю труд «Стратегия борьбы черного населения» национального председателя Коммунистической партии Соединенных Штатов Америки, видного деятеля американского и международного коммунистического движения Генри Уинстона посвящен одной из важнейших проблем современности — проблеме национально-освободительной борьбы черного...
М.: Прогресс, 1975. — 300 с. Предлагаемый советскому читателю труд «Стратегия борьбы черного населения» национального председателя Коммунистической партии Соединенных Штатов Америки, видного деятеля американского и международного коммунистического движения Генри Уинстона посвящен одной из важнейших проблем современности — проблеме национально-освободительной борьбы черного...
Санкт-Петербург: Издательство Европейского университета в Санкт-Петербурге, 2020. — 34 с. — (Серия препринтов; М-77/20; Центр исследований модернизации). В препринте исследованы политико-экономические процессы, происходившие в США в период с 1945 по 1980 г., который принято называть периодом «социального государства» (Welfare State). Эта модель подразумевала активную роль...
Препринт М-63/18. — СПб. : Издательство Европейского университета в Санкт-Петербурге, 2018. — 48 с. — (Серия препринтов; М-63/18; Центр исследований модернизации). Период с 1865 по 1914 г. является наиболее успешным периодом в экономической истории США. Позолоченный век, длившийся в США с 1870 по 1900 г., дает пример экономического развития, опирающегося на принципы Laissez Faire....
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Монография, Москва, Наука, 2010, 1055 с.
Фундаментальное исследование известных экономистов-международников детально освещает эволюцию, роль и масштабы использования Федеральной контрактной системы США – важнейшего инструмента государственного предпринимательства и регулирования экономики, науки, техники военного производства и социальной сферы ведущей капиталистической страны....
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М.: Прогресс, 1980. — 293, [2] с. Предлагаемая вниманию советского читателя книга известного американского историка-марксиста Филипа Фонера занимает особое место в ряду многочисленных исследований американских авторов, посвященных войне североамериканских колоний Англии за независимость 1775—1783 годов. Это первая в США монография, автор которой с марксистских позиций исследует...
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М.: Госполитиздат, 1958. — 48 с.
Первое десятилетие русской революции
Симпатии американских народных масс к Советскому Союзу
Промышленный «бум» 1920-х годов
Развивающаяся борьба против мирового фашизма
Реформы периода «нового курса» Рузвельта
Гитлер ввергает мир в войну
Пожарище второй мировой войны
США и СССР в период «холодной войны»
Великая борьба народов за мир и...
М.: Издательство иностранной литературы, 1955. — 806 с.
В книге видного американского историка-марксиста, общественного и политического деятеля, Генерального секретаря Коммунистической партии США освещается история американских негров (от завоза первых рабов до окончания Второй мировой войны), исследуется их роль в экономической, общественной, культурной жизни страны, расовая...
М.: Госполитиздат, 1958. — 49 с. Настоящая брошюра написана Почетным председателем Коммунистической партии Соединенных Штатов Америки товарищем Уильямом 3. Фостером для советских читателей по просьбе Государственного издательства политической литературы. Перевод рукописи с английского языка осуществлен Госполитиздатом. Первое десятилетие русской революции. Симпатии американских...
2011 - 376 с. Стара Америка. Колониалният период. Пътят към независимост. Създаването на националното управление. Експанзия на Запад и регионални различия. Вътрешни конфликти. Гражданската война и Реконструкцията. Развитие и промени. Недоволство и реформи. Война, благоденствие и депресия. Новият курс и Втората световна война. Следвоенна Америка. Десетилетия на промяна: 1960 -...
М.: Издательские решения, 2015. — 256 с.
Книга о том, как в Новом Свете за четыре века его истории – от эры колоний до наших дней – у общечеловеческих явлений благотворительности и филантропии сформировался неповторимый американский облик и как они, достигнув здесь зрелости, своеобразно выглядят сейчас. Книга является второй из публикуемых в России работ автора, посвященных...
М.: Родина, 2021. — 295 с. — (Хозяева мира) — ISBN 978-5-00180-349-2 Всего лишь какие-то 400 лет назад территорию, где раскинулись сейчас Соединенные Штаты Америки, занимали дикие леса и горы, прерии и пустыни, населенные разрозненными племенами аборигенов-индейцев, внушающих ужас первооткрывателям. Как же страна в кратчайший по историческим меркам срок сумела добиться такого...
М.: Издательская группа «Прогресс» - «Прогресс-Академия», 1993. - 395 с. Переводчики: Г. П. Бляблин, А. В. Горизонтова, Г. Н. Серебряков, Р. И. Столпер. Комментарии к.и.н. Л. М. Троицкой. Общая редакция, вступительное слово и послесловие д.и.н. Согрина В. В. Редактор Т. Л. Комарова. Издание осуществлено при содействии Информационного агентства США (USIA). Как американцы видят...
М.: Прогресс; Прогресс-Академия, 1993. — 395 с. Переводчики: Г. П. Бляблин, А. В. Горизонтова, Г. Н. Серебряков, Р. И. Столпер. Комментарии к.и.н. Л. М. Троицкой. Общая редакция, вступительное слово и послесловие д.и.н. Согрина В. В. Редактор Т. Л. Комарова. Издание осуществлено при содействии Информационного агентства США (USIA). Как американцы видят историю собственной...
М.: Прогресс; Прогресс-Академия, 1993. — 395 с. Переводчики: Г. П. Бляблин, А. В. Горизонтова, Г. Н. Серебряков, Р. И. Столпер. Комментарии к.и.н. Л. М. Троицкой. Общая редакция, вступительное слово и послесловие д.и.н. Согрина В. В. Редактор Т. Л. Комарова. Издание осуществлено при содействии Информационного агентства США (USIA). Как американцы видят историю собственной...
Пер. с англ. Н. Яковлевой и И. Тихомировой ; Вступ. статья М. Пырского [с. 5-30]. — Москва : Изд-во иностранной литературы, 1950. — 284 с. Англо-американский империализм открыто встал на путь развязывания новой войны. Создавая агрессивные блоки, направленные против СССР и стран народной демократии, империалистический лагерь стремится укрепить свои позиции в интересах затеваемой...
Владивосток: Изд-во Дальневосточного университета, 2015. — 90 с.
Справочник содержит краткий исторический экскурс в формирование русской диаспоры на Тихоокеанском побережье Америки, а также биографические сведения о русских американцах, расположенные в алфавитном порядке. В справках-персоналиях указаны следующие данные: фамилия, с вариантами разночтения, имя и отчество. Для...
М.: Эксмо; СПб.: Мидгард, 2008. — 421 с.
Олицетворением американского духа и всего, что связано с США в представлении иностранцев, с полным основанием может считаться Нью-Йорк — город небоскребов и статуи Свободы, Бродвея и знаменитых «номерных» улиц и авеню, Гарлема, Уолл-Стрит, Гринвич-Виллидж и Брайтон-Бич. Даже тот, кто никогда не бывал в Америке, с первого взгляда узнает...
М.: Столица-принт, 2007. — 482 с.
Соединенные Штаты неоднократно заявляли о своем праве на военное вмешательство в дела «несостоятельных государств» во всем мире. В своей долгожданной книге, ставшей продолжением международного бестселлера «Гегемония или борьба за выживание», Ноам Хомский утверждает обратное, доказывая, что у самих Соединенных Штатов обнаруживаются те же черты,...
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Перевод искусственным интеллектом сообщества "Книжный импорт". — Без выходных данных. — 905 с. — (Оксфордская история США) В книге рассказывается о революционных улучшениях в области транспорта и связи, которые ускорили расширение американской империи. Эти инновации привели к появлению массовых политических партий и стимулировали экономическое развитие Америки. Сообщество...
Перевод искусственным интеллектом сообщества "Книжный импорт". — Без выходных данных. — 905 с. — (Оксфордская история США) В книге рассказывается о революционных улучшениях в области транспорта и связи, которые ускорили расширение американской империи. Эти инновации привели к появлению массовых политических партий и стимулировали экономическое развитие Америки. Сообщество...
Перевод искусственным интеллектом сообщества "Книжный импорт". — Без выходных данных. — 905 с. — (Оксфордская история США). В книге рассказывается о революционных улучшениях в области транспорта и связи, которые ускорили расширение американской империи. Эти инновации привели к появлению массовых политических партий и стимулировали экономическое развитие Америки. Сообщество...
Учбовий посібник - Кривий Ріг, 2002. — 115 с.
Огляд історії Сполучених Штатів Америки охоплює найважливіші факти розвитку країни. Кожний розділ присвячено окремому періоду історії США, подаються завдання та додатковий матеріал з оригінальних першоджерел.
СПб.: Типография Контрагентства железных дорог, 1897. — 382 с.
Аннотация от издательства:
"Вышедшая в начале этого года книга Эдуарда Чаннинга (профессора истории Гарвардского университета в Америке) — The United States of America — признается английскою критикой, за лучшее из существующий руководств по истории Соединенных Штатов. Это не только популярная книга дли обширного...
Пер. с англ. Е.И. Бошняк. — Москва : Книжное дело, 1897. — [4], 424 с. Въ 1760 г. число колонистовъ простиралось до 1.600.000 человѣкъ, включая сюда бѣлыхь и негровъ, рабовъ и свободныхъ, иностранцевъ и мѣстныхъ уроженцевъ. Ихъ обыкновенно называли англо-американцами, и дѣйствительно преобладаюшій элемѳнтъ между ними составляла англійская раса, хотя тутъ были и представители...
/ РАН. Ин-т всеобщ. истории. - М. , 2000. - 163 с. Монография посвящена актуальной проблеме межэтнических и межрасовых отношений в одной из крупных полиэтнических государств мира - Соединенных Штатах Америки. На основе междисциплинарного подхода освещаются основные парадигмы этнического развития США, показаны перспективы американской национальной идентичности в условиях...
Ленинград : Издательство ЛГУ, 1982. — 96 с. В монографии исследуется процесс зарождения, развития и распада леворадикального направления в движении негритянской молодежи США в 60—70-х годах. Анализируются истоки этого направления, его социальная основа и идеологические постулаты. Уроки движения рассматриваются в свете принципиальных оценок марксизмом-ленинизмом непролетарских...
М.: Прогресс, 1984. — 258 с.
Сборник предлагаемый вниманию читателей, — первый из серии «США 80-х: взгляд изнутри». Его материалы дают общее представление о том, как американская общественно-политическая мысль оценивает сегодня внутреннее положение в стране, роль США на международной арене и перспективы их развития. Последующие выпуски предполагается посвятить отдельным...
М.: Прогресс, 1984 г. - 258 с.
Сборник предлагаемый вниманию читателей, — первый из серии «США 80-х: взгляд изнутри». Его материалы дают общее представление о том, как американская общественно-политическая мысль оценивает сегодня внутреннее положение в стране, роль США на международной арене и перспективы их развития. Последующие выпуски предполагается посвятить отдельным...
М.: Наука, 1973. - 194 с. В монографии рассматривается система научно-исследовательских организаций, сложившаяся за последние десятилетия в США и получившая название «фабрики мысли». Выступая в роли поставщиков идей и используя высокий авторитет научного знания, они косвенно участвуют в процессе выработки внутри- и внешнеполитических решений на государственном уровне и...
Пер. с англ. Закл. ст. Терехова В.И. — М.: Издательская группа «Прогресс», «Прогресс-Академия», 1992. — 688 с. — ISBN: 5-01-003551-5. Книга видного американского историка-либерала состоит из ряда очерков, написанных в жанре исторической публицистики и посвящённых судьбе Соединённых Штатов, итогам и перспективам их развития. Предисловие Теория Америки: эксперимент или...
Пер. с англ. Закл. ст. Терехова В.И. — М.: Прогресс, Прогресс-Академия, 1992. — 688 с. — ISBN: 5-01-003551-5. Книга видного американского историка-либерала состоит из ряда очерков, написанных в жанре исторической публицистики и посвящённых судьбе Соединённых Штатов, итогам и перспективам их развития. Предисловие Теория Америки: эксперимент или предначертание свыше? Циклы...
М.: Мысль, 1966. — 502 с. Введение. Происхождение, положение и борьба рабочей иммиграции в конце XIX — начале XX в. Три века переселенческого движения в Америку. Вступление США в империалистическую стадию. Изменение масштабов и характера иммиграции на рубеже XIX—XX вв. Иммигранты в американской промышленности: занятость в отраслях, размещение, социально-экономическое положение....
М.: Наука, 1976. - 625 с.
В этом коллективном труде сделана первая попытка в советской историографии дать с позиций марксистско-ленинской методологии общий обзор основных направлений современной американской политической мысли. Детально разобрано прошлое и настоящее идей американской революции, теория «явного предначертания», доктрина «баланса сил», политическое кредо...
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