著者:Thomas Fleming
出版社: New Word City, Inc.
発売日: 2016年12月12日
Here, in this essay from New York Times bestselling historian and novelist Thomas Fleming, is the vibrant and moving story of America's chaplains - from the war to gain independence from Great Brita……続きを見る
The grandson of slaves, born into poverty in 1892 in the Deep South, A. G. Gaston died more than a century later with a fortune worth well over $130 million and a business empire spanning communicat……続きを見る
著者:Mark A. Graber
出版社: Duke University Press
発売日: 2004年10月13日
The United States Supreme Court’s 2002–03 term confounded Court watchers. The same Rehnquist Court that many had seen as solidly conservative and unduly activistーthe Court that helped decide the 20……続きを見る
The story of the strange mixture of romanticism, militarism and technology that has made planes so important to England, from the brilliant author of Britain's War Machine
The history of England and……続きを見る
In 1935, the citizens of the city of San Francisco were indignant when tales of police officers having amassed huge fortunes through payoffs, graft and bribery came to light. In a convulsion of civi……続きを見る
Melanie McGrath’s critically acclaimed East End family memoir now in ebook format.
In this remarkable book, award-winning writer Melanie McGrath has given us a vivid and poignant memoir of the East ……続きを見る
著者:R.L. Bidwell
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2012年11月12日
First Published in 1973. This is Volume I of a listing of government ministers, that concentrates on major powers in Western Europe from the 1900 to 1971. It includes listings of Head of State, Head……続きを見る
This is the story of John McKinney who received the Medal of Honor for his actions against a Japanese surprise attack. On May 11, 1945, McKinney returned fire on the Japanese attacking his unit, usi……続きを見る
著者:Allison C. Carey
出版社: Temple University Press
発売日: 2009年08月13日
On the Margins of Citizenship provides a comprehensive, sociological history of the fight for civil rights for people with intellectual disabilities. Allison Carey, who has been active in disability……続きを見る
著者:Howard M. Sachar
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2007年12月18日
By the end of World War I, in November 1918, Europe’s old authoritarian empires had fallen, and new and seemingly democratic governments were rising from the debris. As successor states found their ……続きを見る
著者:Seymour M. Hersh
出版社: Random House Publishing Group
発売日: 2013年10月30日
The Pulitzer Prize winner who first disclosed the massacre at My Lai 4 uncovers the full story of how those involved - from private to general - kept it secret. What he reveals is shocking - from th……続きを見る
著者:Tom Brokaw
出版社: Random House Publishing Group
発売日: 2007年11月06日
In The Greatest Generation, his landmark bestseller, Tom Brokaw eloquently evoked for America what it meant to come of age during the Great Depression and the Second World War. Now, in Boom!, one of……続きを見る
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. B……続きを見る
著者:Alison Pargeter
出版社: Yale University Press
発売日: 2012年06月04日
For a reader unfamiliar with the history of Libya, Muammar Qaddafi might be mistaken for a character in fiction. His eccentric leadership as the nation's "Brother Leader," his repressive r……続きを見る
Clarence L. “Kelly” Johnson led the design of such crucial aircraft as the P-38 and Constellation, but he will be more remembered for the U-2 and SR-71 spy planes. His extraordinary leadership of th……続きを見る
The dazzling story of Karl Lagerfeld and Yves Saint Laurent: of two men without equal, their meteoric rise and their bitter rivalry
In 1950s Paris, Yves Saint Laurent and Karl Lagerfeld were friends……続きを見る
The life of Hollywood’s number one movie actor, the elusive Robert De Niro, who shuns the limelight and rarely gives interviews, written by the leading film critic and biographer of Spielberg, Kubri……続きを見る
著者:Peter Preston
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2007年12月21日
This book tracks the phases of Singapore’s economic and political development, arguing that its success was always dependent upon the territories links with the surrounding region and the wider glob……続きを見る
Glamorized, mythologized and demonized – the women of the 1920s prefigured the 1960s in their determination to reinvent the way they lived. Flappers is in part a biography of that restless generatio……続きを見る
著者:Adrian Webb
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2008年04月16日
The Routledge Companion to Central and Eastern Europe since 1919 is a compact and comprehensive reference guide to the area, from the Treaty of Versailles to the present day. With particular focus o……続きを見る
Winner of the 2012-2013 Asian/Pacific American Librarian's Association Book Award
Winner of the 2013 American Sociological Association's Asia and Asian America Section Distinguished Book Award
The f……続きを見る
Malcolm Philips was a reluctant bureaucrat. When it was suggested that he give up selling ice-cream and go to work for the council, he protested that it would be full of jobsworths, skivers and craw……続きを見る
This third edition of British Political History, 1867–2001 is an accessible summary of major political developments in British history over the last 140 years.
Analyzing the changing nature of Briti……続きを見る
著者:Alice George
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2013年03月20日
For thirteen days in October of 1962, a truly perilous flirtation with nuclear war developed between the United States and USSR, as the superpowers argued over the installation of Soviet nuclear wea……続きを見る
Exploring the concept of ‘colonial cultures,’ this book analyses how these cultures both transformed, and were transformed by, their various societies. Challenging both the colonial vulgate, and the……続きを見る
著者:David Engel
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2013年09月13日
Zionism is an international political movement that was originally dedicated to the resettlement of Jewish people in the Promised Land, and is now synonymous with support for the modern state of Isr……続きを見る
著者:Paul Phillips
出版社: McGill-Queen's University Press
発売日: 2013年04月01日
In mid-twentieth century Britain, four intellectuals - Julian Huxley, Bertrand Russell, Malcolm Muggeridge, and Barbara Ward - held sway over popular conceptions of morality. While Huxley and Russel……続きを見る
著者:Justin Hart
出版社: Oxford University Press
発売日: 2016年05月31日
Covering the period from 1936 to 1953, Empire of Ideas reveals how and why image first became a component of foreign policy, prompting policymakers to embrace such techniques as propaganda, educatio……続きを見る
This collection opens up the post war history of public health to sustained research-based historical scrutiny. Medicine, the Market and the Mass Media examines the development of a new view of 'the……続きを見る
A new team of EEOC attorneys arrived in Miami in 1979 and discovered a class action case file hiding in a closet. Trial was scheduled to begin in just three weeks, yet nothing had been done to prepa……続きを見る