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American Fun: Four Centuries of Joyous Revolt
John Beckman · Pantheon
Pages: 432
Format: Print book
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Here is an animated and wonderfully engaging work of cultural history that lays out America's unruly past by describing the ways in which cutting loose has always been, and still is, an essential part of what it means to be an American. From the time the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth... |
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The Bill of Rights: The Fight to Secure America's Liberties
Carol Berkin · Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The real story of how the Bill of Rights came to be: a concise, vivid history of political strategy, big egos, and partisan interest that set the terms of the ongoing contest between the federal government and the states.Revered today for articulating America’s founding principles,... |
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War Against All Puerto Ricans: Revolution and Terror in America's Colony
Nelson A Denis · Nation Books
Pages: 400
Format: Print book
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In 1950, after over fifty years of military occupation and colonial rule, the Nationalist Party of Puerto Rico staged an unsuccessful armed insurrection against the United States. Violence swept through the island: assassins were sent to kill President Harry Truman, gunfights roared in eight... |
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The Bombers and the Bombed: Allied Air War Over Europe 1940-1945
R J Overy · Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Pages: 562
Format: Hardcover
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The ultimate history of the Allied bombing campaigns in World War IITechnology shapes the nature of all wars, and the Second World War hinged on a most unpredictable weapon: the bomb. Day and night, Britain and the United States unleashed massive fleets of bombers to kill and terrorize... |
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Hiroshima Nagasaki: The Real Story of the Atomic Bombings and Their Aftermath
Paul Ham · Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover
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In this harrowing history of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, Paul Ham argues against the use of nuclear weapons, drawing on extensive research and hundreds of interviews to prove that the bombings had little impact on the eventual outcome of the Pacific War. More than 100,000 people... |
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Giuliano de' Medici: Machiavelli's Prince in Life and Art
Josephine Jungic?? · McGill-Queen's University Press
Pages: 298
Format: Hardcover
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Most modern historians perpetuate the myth that Giuliano de' Medici (1479-1516) , son of Lorenzo the Magnificent, was nothing more than an inconsequential, womanizing hedonist with little inclination or ability for politics. In the first sustained biography of this misrepresented... |
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The Water Kingdom: A Secret History of China
Philip Ball · The University of Chicago Press
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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From the Yangtze to the Yellow River, China is traversed by great waterways, which have defined its politics and ways of life for centuries. Water has been so integral to China's culture, economy, and growth and development that it provides a window on the whole sweep of Chinese history.... |
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Tong wars : the untold story of vice, money, and murder in new york's chinatown.
Scott D Seligman · Viking
Format: Print book : English
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A mesmerizing true story of money, murder, gambling, prostitution, and opium: the Chinese gang wars that engulfed New York's Chinatown from the 1890s through the 1930s.Nothing had worked. Not threats or negotiations, not shutting down the betting parlors or opium dens, not house-to-house... |
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In Europe's Shadow: Two Cold Wars and a Thirty-Year Journey Through Romania and Beyond
Robert D Kaplan · Random House
Pages: 287
Format: Print book
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From the New York Times bestselling author Robert D. Kaplan, named one of the world's Top 100 Global Thinkers by Foreign Policy magazine, comes a riveting journey through one of Europe's frontier countries - and a potent examination of the forces that will determine Europe's fate in the postmodern... |
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Spain: The Centre of the World 1519-1682
Robert Goodwin · Bloomsbury Press; 1 edition
Format: eBook
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The Golden Age of the Spanish Empire would establish five centuries of Western supremacy across the globe and usher in an era of transatlantic exploration that eventually gave rise to the modern world. It was a time of discovery and adventure, of great political and social change-it was a time... |
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