Joe Smith moved to Humboldt County, California, in the summer of 1990. A year later, he left for college, never spending more than a week again in Northern California. These are true stories from th……続きを見る
Joe Smith found relocation from the Jersey Shore to Southern California’s exurbs, the Inland Empire, to be a crazy, drug-fueled view of the American Dream come home to roost. His stories are true to……続きを見る
著者:David Remnick
出版社: Pan Macmillan
発売日: 2010年05月07日
The rise of Barack Obama is one of the great stories of this century: a defining moment for America, and one with truly global resonance. This is the book of his phenomenal journey to election.
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Joe Smith moved to Humboldt County, California, in the summer of 1990. A year later, he left for college, never spending more than a week again in Northern California. These are true stories from th……続きを見る
When slavery was a routine part of life in America's South, a secret network of activists and escape routes enabled slaves to make their way to freedom in what is now Canada. The 'underground railro……続きを見る
L'objectif présidents des Etats et de gouvernement de est de remplir votre esprit avec la connaissance historique simple et pour aider toute personne intéressée dans l'histoire américaine et l'appre……続きを見る
Các mục tiêu tổng thống và chính phủ của Hoa Kỳ bằng tiếng Việt là để lấp đầy tâm trí của bạn với kiến thức lịch sử đơn giản và để giúp đỡ bất cứ ai quan tâm đến lịch sử Mỹ và học tập về chính phủ……続きを見る
Shortly after the dawn of the twentieth century, the New York City Department of Health decided to address what it perceived as the racial nature of health. It delivered heavily racialized care in d……続きを見る
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 ……続きを見る
Three hundred and fifty years ago, Roger Williams launched one of the world’s first great experiments in religious toleration. Insisting that religion be separated from civil power, he founded Rhode……続きを見る
In this return to his lively, provocative reconceptualization of the meaning of Chaco Canyon and its monumental 11th-century structures, Stephen H. Lekson expandsーover time and distanceーour unders……続きを見る
The history of U.S.–Latin American relations has been characterized by a complex fusion of tensions, collaboration, misperceptions, and intervention. Offering a balanced and interdisciplinary interp……続きを見る
Sex, Drugs, and Rock ‘n Roll: The American Counterculture of the 1960s offers a unique examination of the cultural flowering that enveloped the United States during that early postwar decade. Robert……続きを見る
著者:Bijan C. Bayne
出版社: Bloomsbury Publishing
発売日: 2015年03月19日
Year round on Martha’s Vineyard Island off Cape Cod, Massachusetts, residents and vacationers have played basketballーalmost since the game was invented. The Oak Bluffs summer league on the Island w……続きを見る
This groundbreaking book presents the first full history of the Manila galleons, which marked the true beginning of a global economy. Arturo Giraldez, the world’s leading scholar of the galleons, tr……続きを見る
Presidential Leadership and African Americans examines the leadership styles of eight American presidents and shows how the decisions made by each affected the lives and opportunities of the nation’……続きを見る
著者:John Cimprich
出版社: University of Alabama Press
発売日: 2002年11月12日
This is the first book-length work on wartime race relations in Tennessee, and it stresses the differences within the slave community as well as Military Governor Andrew Johnson’s role in emancipati……続きを見る
著者:Terry Bouton
出版社: Oxford University Press
発売日: 2016年05月31日
Americans are fond of reflecting upon the Founding Fathers, the noble group of men who came together to force out the tyranny of the British and bring democracy to the land. Unfortunately, as Terry ……続きを見る
著者:LeeAnna Keith
出版社: Oxford University Press
発売日: 2009年08月24日
On Easter Sunday, 1873, in the tiny hamlet of Colfax, Louisiana, more than 150 members of an all-black Republican militia, defending the town's courthouse, were slain by an armed force of rampaging ……続きを見る
著者:Carolyn Bronstein
出版社: Cambridge University Press
発売日: 2015年11月10日
Pornography catapulted to the forefront of the American women's movement in the 1980s. In Battling Pornography, Carolyn Bronstein locates the origins of anti-pornography sentiment in the turbulent s……続きを見る
This two-volume set features 400 articles on African-Americans in sports, including biographical entries as well as entries on events, tournaments, leagues, clubs, films, and associations. The entri……続きを見る
著者:James Ciment
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2015年03月26日
From the outbreak of the Cold War to the rise of the United States as the last remaining superpower, the years following World War II were filled with momentous events and rapid change. Diplomatical……続きを見る
The encyclopedia takes a broad, multidisciplinary approach to the history of the period. It includes general and specific entries on politics and business, labor, industry, agriculture, education an……続きを見る
Car Safety Wars is a gripping history of the hundred-year struggle to improve the safety of American automobiles and save lives on the highways. Described as the “equivalent of war” by the Supreme C……続きを見る
A unique new reference work, this encyclopedia presents a social, cultural, and economic history of American sports from hunting, bowling, and skating in the sixteenth century to televised professio……続きを見る
First Published in 2015. This encyclopaedic collection includes Volumes 1 (A-L) and 2 (M-Z) as well as essays on the settlement of America. It can be argued that the westward expansion occurred only……続きを見る
著者:Robert S. Ross
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2015年03月26日
"Has uniformly good essays on economic and political change, the policies of the great and local powers, and the prospects for building a new regional order". -- Foreign Affairs
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The only available historical dictionary devoted exclusively to the 1940s, this book offers readers a ready-reference portrait of one of the twentieth century's most tumultuous decades. In nearly 60……続きを見る
It is the most famous speech Lincoln ever gave, and one of the most important orations in the history of the nation. Delivered on November 19, 1863, among the freshly dug graves of the Union dead, t……続きを見る
At the very time the early explorers of New France were pressing from the east, westward, a tide of adventure had set across Siberia and the Pacific from the west, eastward. Cartier and Champlain of……続きを見る