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PVP: 29,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78453-529-2
EAN 9781784535292
New York is often described as the greatest city in the world. Yet much of the iconic architecture and culture which so defines the city as we know it today from the Empire State Building to the Pastrami sandwich only came into being in the 1930s, in what was perhaps the most significant decade in ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 216 páginas
PVP: 27,45 €
ISBN 978-1-4214-2056-1
EAN 9781421420561
Between 1865 and 1937, Pinkertons National Detective Agency was at the center of countless conflicts between capital and labor, bandits and railroads, and strikers and state power. Some believed that the detectives were protecting society from dangerous criminal conspiracies; others thought that armed Pinkertons were capitals tool to crush worker dissent. Yet the image of ...
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A gripping tale of racial cleansing in Forsyth County, Georgia, and a harrowing testament to the deep roots of racial violence in America.Forsyth County, Georgia, at the turn of the twentieth century was home to a large African American community that included ministers and teachers, farmers and field hands, tradesmen, servants, and children. Many black ...
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ISBN 978-1-4197-2240-0
EAN 9781419722400
In words and photographs, here is the story of the controversial Black Panther Party, founded in 1966 by Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton. The words are Seale's, with contributions from Kathleen Cleaver and many others; the photographs, which capture range from the party's charismatic leaders to its daily work in African American communities, are ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
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ISBN 978-0-14-312953-0
EAN 9780143129530
The shocking first-hand account of one man's remarkable fight for freedom; now an award-winning motion picture. 'Why had I not died in my young years - before God had given me children to love and live for? What unhappiness and suffering and sorrow it would have prevented. I sighed for liberty; but the bondsman's chain ...
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The untold story of the battle to legalize free expression in America by the Pulitzer Prize winning author of Ashes to Ashes.The liberty of written and spoken expression has been fixed in the firmament of our social values since our nation's beginning the government of the United States was the first to legalize free speech ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 15,25 €
ISBN 978-1-4746-0226-6
EAN 9781474602266
'An oppressive, forensic, psychological thriller: J.K. Rowling meets Antony Beevor, Stephen King and Marina Warner ... Schiff's writing is to die for' THE TIMESIt began in 1692, over an exceptionally raw Massachusetts winter, when a minister's niece started to scream and convulse.It ended less than a year later, but not before panic had infected the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 704 páginas
PVP: 44,25 €
ISBN 978-0-393-08281-4
EAN 9780393082814
The American Revolution is often portrayed as a high-minded, orderly event whose capstone, the Constitution, provided the ideal framework for a democratic, prosperous nation. Alan Taylor, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, gives us a different creation story in this magisterial history of the nation's founding.Rising out of the continental rivalries of European empires and ...
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ISBN 978-0-241-98008-8
EAN 9780241980088
An account of the extraordinary meeting between four brilliant political activists: Booker Prize winner Arundhati Roy, NSA whistle-blower Edward Snowden, Pentagon Papers insider Daniel Ellsberg and acclaimed actor John Cusack 'What sort of love is this love that we have for countries? What sort of country is it that will ever live up to our ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 818 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-78669-002-9
EAN 9781786690029
The riveting life of Alexander Hamilton, an illegitimate, largely self-taught orphan from the Caribbean who overcame all the odds to become George Washington's aide-de-camp and the first Treasury Secretary of the United States. Few figures in American history have been more hotly debated than Alexander Hamilton. In this masterful work, Chernow shows how the political ...
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A fascinating exploration of the American mind by one of the most important radical writers.In his study of Herman Melville, Mariners, Renegades and Castaways, C.L.R. James wrote: My ultimate aim is to write a study of American Civilization. This project, long in gestation, at last sees the light of day in this posthumous publication of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 360 páginas
PVP: 31,25 €
ISBN 978-0-674-73747-1
EAN 9780674737471
The adoption of firearms by American Indians between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries marked a turning point in the history of North America's indigenous peoples a cultural earthquake so profound, says David Silverman, that its impact has yet to be adequately measured. Thundersticks reframes our understanding of Indians' historical relationship with guns, arguing against the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
ISBN 978-0-226-27697-7
EAN 9780226276977
Commissioner of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics from its establishment in 1930 until his retirement in 1962, Harry J. Anslinger is the United States' little known first drug czar. Anslinger was a profligate propagandist with a flair for demonizing racial and immigrant groups and perhaps best known for his zealous pursuit of harsh drug penalties ...
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ISBN 978-1-78076-747-5
EAN 9781780767475
Ronald Reagan is arguably the most successful post-war American president. A transformational leader, he is broadly credited with renewing American prosperity after the stagflation-hit 1970s, laying the foundations for Cold War victory and bringing about the shift to the right in late-twentieth century politics. In this new biography, Iwan Morgan shrewdly assesses Reagan's considerable achievements ...
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ISBN 978-0-226-42071-4
EAN 9780226420714
Christian Bagge, an Iraq War veteran, lost both his legs in a roadside bomb attack on his Humvee in 2006. Months after the accident, outfitted with sleek new prosthetic legs, he jogged alongside President Bush for a photo op at the White House. The photograph served many functions, one of them being to revive faith ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 152 páginas
PVP: 10,95 €
ISBN 978-0-19-028014-7
EAN 9780190280147
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Autumn 1944. World War II is nearly over in Europe but is escalating in the Pacific, where American soldiers face an opponent who will go to any length to avoid defeat. The Japanese army follows the samurai code of Bushido, stipulating that surrender is a form of dishonor. Killing the Rising Sun by Bill O'Reilly ...
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A collection of essays on the frantic retreat of democracy and the war on terror, from America's leading essayistLewis Lapham reviews the course of American democracy from the beginning of the War on Terror to the present day: from the bombastic spectacle of US elections, bought and paid for in advance, to the surveillance and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 344 páginas
PVP: 14,95 €
ISBN 978-0-300-22348-4
EAN 9780300223484
A fast-paced, character-filled history that brings the unique American saga to life for readers of all agesHow did a land and people of such immense diversity come together under a banner of freedom and equality to form one of the most remarkable nations in the world? Everyone from young adults to grandparents will be fascinated ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 312 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-4214-2026-4
EAN 9781421420264
There is perhaps no more critical juncture in American history than the years in which Americans drafted the federal Constitution, fiercely debated its merits and failings, and adopted it, albeit with reservations. In Contested Conventions, senior historian Melvin Yazawa examines the political and ideological clashes that accompanied the transformation of the country from a loose ...
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