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This book is about the Cuban missile crisis. This book is a short description of this momentous event and the factors that led up to it. Before you start this book ask yourself these questions. What……続きを見る

A memoir by a former Vietnamese refugee who became a U.S. Marine, Quang Pham’s A Sense of Duty is an affecting story of fate, hope, and the aftermath of the most divisive war the United States has e……続きを見る

Stephanie Williams's Running the Show is a brilliant look at the men and women of Empire. 'May God forgive us for our sorry deeds and for our glorious intentions' Who were the men governing the Empi……続きを見る

Winner of the Computer History Museum Prize of the Special Interest Group: Computers, Information, and Society Imagine biology and medicine today without computers. What would laboratory work be lik……続きを見る

In the first five months of the Great War, one million men volunteered to fight. Yet by the end of 1915, the British government realized that conscription would be required. Why did so many enlist, ……続きを見る

Challenging sweatshop labor practices is extremely difficult, but garment workers, labor unions, and non-government organizations from Central America and the United States have successfully mobiliz……続きを見る

This landmark history of nuclear power is perfectly timed for today, when Americans are gravely concerned with nuclear terrorism, and a nuclear renaissance is seen as a possible solution to global w……続きを見る

Rock ‘n’ roll infuses the everyday life of the American adult, but for the first, complete generation of rock ‘n’ roll fansーbaby boomers born between 1946 and 1964ーit holds a special kind of value……続きを見る

In the midst of the Vietnam War, two titans of the Senate, J. William Fulbright and John C. Stennis, held public hearings to debate the conflict's future. In this intriguing new work, historian Jose……続きを見る

Deciphering the New Antisemitism addresses the increasing prevalence of antisemitism on a global scale. Antisemitism takes on various forms in all parts of the world, and the essays in this wide-ran……続きを見る

Amanda Rosenbloom, eigenares van kledingboetiek Astor Place Vintage, krijgt van een oude dame een grote kist vol kleding aangeboden. Een routineklus, zo lijkt. Tot ze een ingenaaid dagboek vindt dat……続きを見る

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2014 im Fachbereich Geschichte Europa - and. Länder - Zeitalter Weltkriege, Note: 2,3, Universität Bielefeld (Fakultät für Geschichtswissenschaft, Philosophie und Theologi……続きを見る

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2010 im Fachbereich Geschichte Europa - and. Länder - Zeitalter Weltkriege, Note: 1,3, Technische Universität Carolo-Wilhelmina zu Braunschweig, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract……続きを見る

In the nineteenth century, restaurants served French food to upper-class Americans with aristocratic pretensions, but by the twentieth century, even the best restaurants dished up ethnic and America……続きを見る

In this book, Stephanie J. Shaw brings a new understanding to one of the great documents of American and black history. While most scholarly discussions of The Souls of Black Folk focus on the veils……続きを見る

Eva Neurath, co-founder of Thames & Hudson, wrote this memoir for her granddaughters, and it is a private story of a remarkable 20th-century life. The youngest child of a principled and avant-garde ……続きを見る

This history, originally published in 1962, by the then lone remaining figure in the leadership of the Russian Social Democratic Party, is an important contribution to the understanding of the Sovie……続きを見る

Geoffrey Galt Harpham’s book takes its title from a telling anecdote. A few years ago Harpham met a Cuban immigrant on a college campus, who told of arriving, penniless and undocumented, in the 1960……続きを見る

In the Jim Crow South, Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, and, later, Vietnamese and Indian Americans faced obstacles similar to those experienced by African Americans in their fight for civil and human r……続きを見る

In 1904, a showman and Redpath Leyceum Bureau manager named Keith Vawter, put the main forms of entertainment of the timeーcomedy and cultureーon the same platform in a travelling tent, “marrying th……続きを見る

Since World War I, says Joseph McCartin, the central problem of American labor relations has been the struggle among workers, managers, and state officials to reconcile democracy and authority in th……続きを見る

Sixty years ago, the political theorist Hannah Arendt, an exiled Jew deprived of her German citizenship, observed that before people can enjoy any of the "inalienable" Rights of Man-before there can……続きを見る

Left-leaning political parties play an important role as representatives of the poor and disempowered. They once did so by promising protections from the forces of capital and the market’s tendencie……続きを見る

This book investigates the underlying reasons for the longevity of détente and its impact on East–West relations. The volume examines the relevance of trade across the Iron Curtain as a means to fac……続きを見る

In April 1962, President and Mrs. John F. Kennedy hosted forty-nine Nobel Prize winnersーalong with many other prominent scientists, artists, and writersーat a famed White House dinner. Among the gu……続きを見る

Boston has always been known for its stiff character. So how did this great New England city become home to one of the largest and most notorious adult entertainment districts in the nation? In this……続きを見る

The Global Perspective of Urban Labor in Mexico City, 1910–1929 examines the global entanglement of the Mexican labor movement during the Mexican Revolution. It describes how global influences made ……続きを見る

The definitive edition of the classic, myth-shattering history of the American family Leave It to Beaver was not a documentary, a man's home has never been his castle, the "male breadwinner marriage……続きを見る

In den letzten Jahren sind mehrere Biografien über Carmen Sylva und Neuausgaben ihrer literarischen Werke in Rumänien, Deutschland und Frankreich erschienen, die heute wieder an die einstmals weltwe……続きを見る

The relevance and importance of Samuel P. Hay's book, Conservation and the Gospel of Efficiency, has only increased over time. Written almost half a century ago, it offers an invaluable history of t……続きを見る