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The gripping story of six borders – some still on the map, others long erased – that shaped the United States. From global power plays to broken treaties and lost futures, this is the untold history……続きを見る

Descubre el relato oculto de una rebelión que cambió el curso de la historia sudamericana. En Diario histórico de la rebelión y guerra de los pueblos Guaranís, P. Tadeo Xavier Henis nos transporta a……続きを見る

The metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) transistor is the fundamental element of digital electronics. The tens of millions of transistors in a typical homeーin personal computers, automobiles, appliance……続きを見る

How the U.S. Stole Mexico and Rewrote History is a gripping, eye-opening journey into one of the most controversial chapters of American history. This is the story of how a powerful nation’s hunger ……続きを見る

Announcing the New 3rd EditionーUpdated on 10/4/24: Now featuring stunning illustrations and fresh insights. Discover what's new in this popular book. Don't miss your chance to dive into the mysteri……続きを見る

James Alexander Hamilton, son of Alexander, influenced U.S. history, advising leaders and supporting abolition, with personal historical insights. Born in the year of the Constitutional Convention, ……続きを見る

Editor-photographer Randy Cox literally had a front-row seat to history when he covered the Braves' 1974 home opener and his hero Henry Aaron belted career home run #715. Pull up alongside Randy in ……続きを見る

Author Jeffrey Cox conducts a thorough and compelling investigation of the Java Sea Campaign, the first major sea battle of the Pacific War, which inflicted huge costs on the Allies and set the stag……続きを見る

"Ours Was the Shining Future: The Story of the American Dream" by David Leonhardt is a comprehensive exploration of the multifaceted narrative of the American Dream, meticulously dissecting its hist……続きを見る

In Pedro Juan Gutiérrez's Dirty Realism: Reinventing Cuban Spaces, Lori Oxford conducts a series of close readings that expound on Gutiérrez’s interpretation of life and reality in the spaces of the……続きを見る

Presidential Rhetoric and Indian Policy explores and analyses the dynamics of presidential rhetoric on Native peoples and issues from Nixon to the present. Covering Presidents Washington through Joh……続きを見る

"Piven has embodied the best of American democracy."ーThe Nation Frances Fox Piven reminds us why we must understand the labor, civil-rights, and anti-imperialist struggles of the Depression era if ……続きを見る

The drafting and ratification of the federal constitution between 1787 and 1788 capped almost 30 years of revolutionary turmoil and warfare. The supporters of the new constitution, known at the time……続きを見る

In order to understand the special work which the United States has been called upon to do in the history of Humanity, we have first to remember that the American people are, historically, that sect……続きを見る

Originally published in 1968. Far from being an isolated outburst of community insanity or hysteria, the Massachusetts witchcraft trials were an accurate reflection of the scientific ethos of the se……続きを見る

Named one of The Washington Post's 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction While the North prevailed in the Civil War, ending slavery and giving the country a "new birth of freedom," Heather Cox Richardson a……続きを見る

Alaska often looms large as a remote, wild place with endless resources and endlessly independent, resourceful people. Yet it has always been part of larger stories: the movement of Indigenous peopl……続きを見る

The Fluid Boundaries of Suffrage and Jim Crow: Staking Claims in the American Heartland engages in an important conversation about race relations in the twentieth century and significantly extends t……続きを見る

This book by a leading scholar of international relations examines the origins of the new world disorder – the resurgence of Russia, the rise of populism in the West, deep tensions in the Atlantic a……続きを見る

América empezó a poblarse hace miles de años y los pueblos originarios crearon muchos modos de vivir, estar en sociedad, gobernarse. En 1492, Colón abrió un camino por donde no dejaron de llegar eur……続きを見る

Mills and Markets: A History of the Pacific Coast Lumber Industry to 1900 続きを見る

This book explores US foreign policy, specifically the history of America’s entry into the War of 1812, the First World War, the Korean War and the First Gulf War. Using a historical case study appr……続きを見る

Who is Donald J. Trump? To truly understand America’s forty-fifth president, argues Vanity Fair journalist Emily Jane Fox, you must know his children, whose own stories provide the key to unlocking ……続きを見る

US conservatives have repeatedly turned to classical Greece for inspiration and rhetorical power. In the 1950s they used Plato to defend moral absolutism; in the 1960s it was Aristotle as a means to……続きを見る

Within a few years of the introduction of photography into the United States in 1839, slaveholders had already begun commissioning photographic portraits of their slaves. Ex-slaves-turned-abolitioni……続きを見る

James Joyce's America is the first study to address the nature of Joyce's relation to the United States. It challenges the prevalent views of Joyce as merely indifferent or hostile towards America, ……続きを見る

‘Het is een First Family die perfect aansluit bij de huidige obsessie met roem, geld en 24/7 bereikbaar zijn. Een combinatie van Gossip girl en The West Wing, de Kardashianification van de Kennedy’s……続きを見る

What was antebellum life like for the two communities of peopleーone white and one blackーwho lived and worked on a plantation on the Eastern Shore of Maryland? Thomas Marsh Forman was in his early ……続きを見る

An epic social history of steamship travel from the 19th-century to the ‘Lusitania’, the ‘Mauretania’ and the ‘Titanic’. The great transatlantic steamships became emblems of an age, of a Victorian a……続きを見る

Slaveholders were preoccupied with presenting slavery as a benign, paternalistic institution in which the planter took care of his family and slaves were content with their fate. In this book, Eugen……続きを見る