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In popular imagination, environmentalism is often linked to Rachel Carson's Silent Spring and the political activism of the 1960s and '70s that moved increasing numbers of Americans to insist on a b……続きを見る

Durante os últimos trinta anos, o jornalista Elio Gaspari reuniu documentos até então inéditos e fez uma exaustiva pesquisa sobre o governo militar no Brasil. O resultado desse meticuloso trabalho g……続きを見る

A obra mais importante sobre a história recente do país em uma nova edição revista e ampliada. Durante os últimos trinta anos, o jornalista Elio Gaspari reuniu documentos até então inéditos e fez um……続きを見る

A obra mais importante sobre a história recente do país em uma nova edição revista e ampliada. Durante os últimos trinta anos, o jornalista Elio Gaspari reuniu documentos até então inéditos e fez um……続きを見る

The story behind the landmark 1948 Supreme Court decision, Shelley v. Kraemer, which struck down racially-based housing restrictions and opened the door to fair housing regulations in the United Sta……続きを見る

This book challenges scholarship which presents charity and voluntary activity during World War I as marking a downturn from the high point of the late Victorian period. Charitable donations rose to……続きを見る

A KILLING ON RING JAW BLUFF recounts the rise and fall of Georgia’s rural population as told through the story of Charles Graves Rawlings. From modest beginnings as a liveryman, he acquired nearly 4……続きを見る

Supporters of Stalin saw Trotsky as a traitor and renegade. Trotsky’s own supporters saw him as the only true Leninist. In Trotsky and the Russian Revolution, Geoffrey Swain restores Trotsky to his ……続きを見る

A Jewish factory worker is falsely accused of ritually murdering a Christian boy in Russia in 1911, and his trial becomes an international cause célèbre. On March 20, 1911, thirteen-year-old Andrei ……続きを見る

A young survivor of the Bosnian War returns to his homeland to confront the people who betrayed his family. The story behind the YA novel World in Between: Based on a True Refugee Story. At age elev……続きを見る

Management of big cities is a relatively unresearched area, as compared to city planning and city governance. A study of Warsaw city management reveals the transformation process typically found in ……続きを見る

The No.1 New York Times Bestseller In January 1961, as the cold war escalates, John F. Kennedy struggles to contain the growth of communism while he learns the hardships, solitude and temptations of……続きを見る

This edition does not include illustrations. Sex, the Kennedys, Monroe and the Mafia; the controversial American bestseller – ‘Hersh has found more muck in this particular Augean stable than most pe……続きを見る

With the exception of a few iconic moments such as Rosa Parks’s 1955 refusal to move to the back of a Montgomery bus, we hear little about what black women activists did prior to 1960. Perhaps this ……続きを見る

The influenza epidemic of 1918 killed more people in one year than the Great War killed in four, sickening at least one quarter of the world's population. In Fever of War, Carol R. Byerly uncovers t……続きを見る

A vivid, salutary study of Australia’s little-known participation in the post-war occupation of Japan. In February 1946, the Australians of the British Commonwealth Occupation Force (BCOF) moved int……続きを見る

Fragile, gritty, and vital to an extraordinary degree, St. Petersburg is one of the world’s most alluring citiesーa place in which the past is at once ubiquitous and inescapably controversial. Yet o……続きを見る

Even before wartime incarceration, Japanese Americans largely lived in separate cultural communities from their West Coast neighbors. Although the Nisei children, the American-born second generation……続きを見る

While researching his previous study, Arsenal of Democracy: The American Automobile Industry in World War II (Wayne State University Press, 2013), award-winning automotive historian Charles K. Hyde ……続きを見る

Through a fictional wheat farming family, the author explores the dynamics of American wheat, Vietnam War, and the Watergate scandal.   Toward gaining peace in Vietnam, Nixon made a secret wheat dea……続きを見る

During World War II, Portugal played its cards uncommonly well as a neutral and subsequently became a member of NATO. This membership resulted in a modernizing of its navy and its integration into t……続きを見る

Between 1869 and 1967, government-funded British charities sent nearly 100,000 British children to start new lives in the settler empire. This pioneering study tells the story of the rise and fall o……続きを見る

Examining the development of Israel’s policy toward the Palestinian refugee issue, this book spans the period following the first Arab-Israeli War until the mid-1950s, when the basic principles of I……続きを見る

A MUST READ BOOK FOR ANYONE DEPLOYING TO AFGHANISTAN - SOLDIER MAGAZINE For various political reasons, the story of the battlefields in Afghanistan has gone unreported - until now. From interviews w……続きを見る

Moving beyond the usual good-versus-evil story that pits master-planner Robert Moses against the plucky neighborhood advocate Jane Jacobs, Samuel Zipp sheds new light on the rise and fall of New Yor……続きを見る

In 1904, the first Scandinavian settlers moved onto the Spirit Lake Dakota Indian Reservation. These land-hungry immigrants struggled against severe poverty, often becoming the sharecropping tenants……続きを見る

The Progressive Era has been seen as a seismic event that reduced the gulf between America's rich and poor. Progressive Inequality cuts against the grain of this view, showing how initiatives in cha……続きを見る

American social critics in the 1970s, convinced that their nation was in decline, turned to psychoanalysis for answers and seized on narcissism as the sickness of the age. Books indicting Americans ……続きを見る

A far-reaching history of terrorism across the world from its beginnings to the modern-day, from the highly acclaimed author of ‘Sacred Causes’ and ‘Earthly Powers’. Basing his study on a wide range……続きを見る

‘Men’s lives are a perpetual conflict. The life that I have mapped out will be so especially – as lawyer and politician. Woman’s function is to pour oil on the wounds – to heal the bruises of spirit……続きを見る