In December 1989 US Army forces, supported by the US Air Force and US Navy, participated in Operation 'Just Cause'--the invasion of Panama.
A combination of airborne, helicopter and ground assaults ……続きを見る
In Motherless Tongues, Vicente L. Rafael examines the vexed relationship between language and history gleaned from the workings of translation in the Philippines, the United States, and beyond. Movi……続きを見る
著者:Charles L. Wood
出版社: University Press of Kansas
発売日: 2024年09月04日
This book relates the modern development of the Kansas beef cattle industry, combining both the history of productionーincluding specific business problems and the significant work in upbreedingーan……続きを見る
著者:Eve L. Ewing
出版社: University of Chicago Press
発売日: 2018年10月05日
“Failing schools. Underprivileged schools. Just plain bad schools.”
That’s how Eve L. Ewing opens Ghosts in the Schoolyard: describing Chicago Public Schools from the outside. The way politicians an……続きを見る
著者:David L. Porter
出版社: Bloomsbury Publishing
発売日: 2013年06月20日
Mary Norton of New Jersey: Congressional Trailblazer tells the compelling story of Mary Norton, who served in the United States House of Representatives for 13 terms from 1925 to 1951, featuring her……続きを見る
Many recent studies of French politics have tended to concentrate on the French political system in isolation. Contemporary France aims to set the working of the French political system into its his……続きを見る
"In this book, I have sought to blend personal experience, journalism, and scholarship. It is history written by a journalist who was there."-Peter L. W. Osnos
ONE OF KIRKUS REVIEW'S 100 BEST INDIE ……続きを見る
著者:L. A. Espriux
出版社: L. A. Espriux
発売日: 2024年10月01日
"Mountains and valleys of changing contour, faces I remember, some present, some gone, captured in imaginings of light and shadow subliminal, all Reflections in a Paper Moon." There is special satis……続きを見る
A highly-illustrated examination of the controversial battle for Peleliu.
Equalling Tarawa, Iwo Jima and Okinawa in scale and ferocity, Peleliu has long been regarded as the Pacific War's “forgotten……続きを見る
著者:Steven L. Ossad
出版社: University of Missouri Press
発売日: 2024年12月20日
The life of David “Mickey” Marcus has become the stuff of legends and myths (even fantasy), conspiracy, wild exaggeration, and untethered embellishment. The image of Marcus cast by the character por……続きを見る
Featuring battlescene maps, contemporary photographs and diagrams throughout, this is the first organizational history of the MIKE forces in combat.
US Special Forces in Vietnam created the Civilian……続きを見る
著者:Donald L. Fixico
出版社: University of Oklahoma Press
発売日: 2024年10月22日
Few people today know that the forty-sixth state could have been Sequoyah, not Oklahoma. The Five Tribes of Indian Territory gathered in 1905 to form their own, Indian-led state. Leaders of the Cher……続きを見る
A concise, focused volume on the NVA's fight for a strategically important military base.
Khe Sanh was a small village in northwest South Vietnam that sat astride key North Vietnamese infiltration r……続きを見る
著者:Lewis L. Gould
出版社: University Press of Kansas
発売日: 2024年07月26日
First published in 1991, The Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt has won acclaim as a lucid and thorough narrative of Roosevelt’s two terms in the White House. Reviewers praised the depth of Lewis L. G……続きを見る
Covering the period from World War II through the Trump presidency, Peace, War, and Partnership: Congress and the Military since World War II unpacks the vital and dynamic relationship between Congr……続きを見る
著者:Hans L. Eicholz
出版社: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
発売日: 2024年01月31日
In this revised and expanded second edition of Harmonizing Sentiments: The Declaration of Independence and the Jeffersonian Idea of Self-Government, the original themes of American independence and ……続きを見る
Illuminating a classic case from the turbulent civil rights era of the 1960s, two of America’s foremost legal historiansーKermit Hall and Melvin Urofskyーprovide a compact and highly readable updati……続きを見る
著者:Lewis L. Gould
出版社: University Press of Kansas
発売日: 2024年02月07日
Unique among presidents’ wives, Lady Bird Johnson was not only one of the leading environmentalists of the twentieth century, she also redefined the institution of First Lady. In this first book in ……続きを見る
Soviet Socialism (1987) is based on the author’s specialized knowledge of many aspects of Soviet politics, including local government, the Communist Party and the Soviet intelligentsia. Written orig……続きを見る
Contemporary Soviet Government (1975) is a leading study of the practice of Soviet government, examined against a background of Soviet Marxism. It presents an analysis of the Soviet political system……続きを見る
著者:Aryeh L. Unger
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2024年04月12日
Constitutional Development in the USSR (1981) looks at the political institutions and practices of the Soviet state through the prism of its own constitutional texts. It contains the texts of all fo……続きを見る
This book explores the evolution of Spanish feminism in the context of European feminisms and institutions from the 1960s to recent times.
Beginning with Sección Femenina, the official Francoist wom……続きを見る
著者:Albert L. Weeks
出版社: Bloomsbury Publishing
発売日: 2011年01月19日
This book documents dictator Joseph Stalin's brilliant tactics as well as missteps in taking preemptive actions that guaranteed ultimate victory over the German invaders. It also covers the policies……続きを見る
A history of sports in 1984, when some of the most pivotal, freakishly coincidental stories all collided to change how we think about modern sports.
"Fascinating. . . . Glory Days is part sports h……続きを見る
The Hanford History Project held the “Legacies of the Manhattan Project at 75 Years” conference in March 2017. Its Richland, Washington, meeting venue was a stone’s throw from the southern-most edge……続きを見る
著者:David L. Pike
出版社: Manchester University Press
発売日: 2024年04月09日
After the End argues that the cultural imaginaries and practices of the Cold War continue to deeply shape the present in profound but largely unnoticed ways across the global North and in the global……続きを見る
The Mormon military experience is unique in American history. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) is the only denomination to field military units for its own support and purpose r……続きを見る
Two major Army units operated in the Pacific – the 11th Airborne Division and the 503rd Parachute Regimental Combat Team (PRCT).
They launched small-scale operations on extremely difficult, if not, ……続きを見る
In late 1944 the US Marine Corps prepared for the toughest battles of the war.
It had grown to 35,598 officers, 5,384 officer candidates, and 366,353 enlisted Marines, totaling 431,573 personnel, an……続きを見る
The 1941 Japanese Pacific onslaught saw the defeat of Allied forces on all fronts, with the Philippines, Netherlands East Indies, and Commonwealth possessions falling under their control.
During 194……続きを見る