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Cold War Kids: Politics and Childhood in Postwar America, 19451960
Marilyn Irvin Holt · University Press of Kansas,
Pages: 214
Format: Print book
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Today we take it for granted that political leaders and presidential administrations will address issues related to children and teenagers. But in the not-so-distant past, politicians had little to say, and federal programs less to do with children - except those of very specific populations.... |
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The Occupiers: The Making of the 99 Percent Movement
Michael A. Gould-Wartofsky · Oxford University Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Occupy Wall Street burst onto the stage of history in the fall of 2011. First by the tens, then by the tens of thousands, protestors filled the streets and laid claim to the squares of nearly 1,500 towns and cities, until, one by one, the occupations were forcibly evicted. In The Occupiers,... |
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Surprise Attack: From Pearl Harbor to 9/11 to Benghazi
Larry Hancock · Counterpoint
Format: Hardcover
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Surprise Attack explores sixty plus years of military and terror threats against the United States. It examines the intelligence tools and practices that provided warnings of those attacks and evaluates the United States' responses, both in preparedness - and most importantly - the effectiveness... |
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Surnames, DNA, and Family History
George Redmonds · Oxford University Press, 2015.
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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This book combines linguistic and historical approaches with the latest techniques of DNA analysis and shows the insights these offer for every kind of genealogical research. It focuses on British names, tracing their origins to different parts of the British Isles and Europe and revealing... |
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Contraband: Smuggling and the Birth of the American Century
Andrew Wender Cohen · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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How skirting the law once defined America's relation to the world.In the frigid winter of 1875, Charles L. Lawrence made international headlines when he was arrested for smuggling silk worth $60 million into the United States. An intimate of Boss Tweed, gloriously dubbed "The Prince... |
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The Habsburg Empire: A Very Short Introduction
Martyn Rady · Oxford University Press
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback
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The Habsburgs are the most famous dynasty in continental Europe. From the thirteenth to the twentieth centuries, they ruled much of Central Europe, and for two centuries were also rulers of Spain. Through the Spanish connection, they acquired lands around the Mediterranean and a chunk of the New World,... |
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Age of Jihad: Islamic State and the Great War for the Middle East
Patrick Cockburn · New York
Pages: 449
Format: Print book
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From the award-winning author of The Rise of Islamic State, the essential story of the Middle East's disintegrationThe Age of Jihad charts the turmoil of today's Middle East and the devastating role the West has played in the region from 2001 to the present. Beginning with the US-led... |
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Hitler's Collaborators: Choosing between bad and worse in Nazi-occupied Western Europe
Philip Morgan · Oxford University Press
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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Hitler's Collaborators focuses the spotlight on one of the most controversial and uncomfortable aspects of the Nazi wartime occupation of Europe: the citizens of those countries who helped Hitler. Although a widespread phenomenon, this was long ignored in the years after the war, when... |
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Dear World: A Syrian Girl's Story of War and Plea for Peace
BANA ALABED · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover
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"I'm very afraid I will die tonight." - Bana Alabed, Twitter, October 2, 2016 "Stop killing us." - Bana Alabed, Twitter, October 6, 2016 "I just want to live without fear." - Bana Alabed, Twitter, October 12, 2016When seven-year-old Bana Alabed took to Twitter... |
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The American Slave Coast: A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry
Ned Sublette · Chicago Review Press
Pages: 752
Format: Hardcover
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The American Slave Coast offers a provocative vision of US history from earliest colonial times through emancipation that presents even the most familiar events and figures in a revealing new light. Authors Ned and Constance Sublette tell the brutal story of how the slavery industry made... |
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The Cherokee Struggle to Maintain Identity in the 17th and 18th Centuries
William R Reynolds · McFarland Publishing
Pages: 425
Format: Print book
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With the arrival of Europeans in North America, the Cherokee were profoundly affected. This book thoroughly discusses their history during the Colonial and Revolutionary War eras. Starting with the French and Indian War, the Cherokee were allied with the British, relying on them for goods... |
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We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights
Adam Winkler · Liveright
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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We the Corporations chronicles the revelatory story of one of the most successful, yet least known, "civil rights movements" in American history. In this groundbreaking portrait of corporate seizure of political power, We the Corporations reveals how American businesses won equal... |
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