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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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Thundersticks
Firearms and the Violent Transformation of Native America
- Harvard University Press, 2016
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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- IBTauris, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 30,85 €
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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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 19,05 €
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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- Yale University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 344 páginas
PVP: 16,50 €
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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Contested Conventions
The Struggle to Establish the Constitution and Save the Union, 1787 1789
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 312 páginas
PVP: 25,20 €
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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Who Owns the Dead?
The Science and Politics of Death at Ground Zero
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 336 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-97149-3
EAN 9780674971493
After September 11, with New Yorkers reeling from the World Trade Center attack, Chief Medical Examiner Charles Hirsch proclaimed that his staff would do more than confirm the identity of the individuals who were killed. They would attempt to identify and return to families every human body part recovered from the site that was larger ...
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Blossom, James M.; Boebert, Earl
Deepwater Horizon
A Systems Analysis of the Macondo Disaster
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 204 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-54523-6
EAN 9780674545236
On April 20, 2010, the crew of the floating drill rig Deepwater Horizon lost control of the Macondo oil well forty miles offshore in the Gulf of Mexico. Escaping gas and oil ignited, destroying the rig, killing eleven crew members, and injuring dozens more. The emergency spiraled into the worst human-made economic and ecological disaster ...
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Philippe Labro rend hommage à l'Amérique et ses étoiles. Cinquante portraits d'hommes et de femmes marquants et admirables : l'audace de Mohamed Ali, le génie de Billie Holiday, le symbole Bob Dylan, la plume de Truman Capote, le courage de Marylin Monroe, la légende Al Capone, l'aura de JFK... Il retrace avec passion leurs combats, ...
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Blood in the Water : The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy
WINNER OF THE 2017 PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY
- Random House USA, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 752 páginas
PVP: 43,20 €
ISBN 978-0-375-42322-2
EAN 9780375423222
On September 9, 1971, nearly 1,300 prisoners took over the Attica Correctional Facility in upstate New York to protest years of mistreatment. Holding guards and civilian employees hostage, the prisoners negotiated with officials for improved conditions during the four long days and nights that followed. On September 13, the state abruptly sent hundreds of heavily ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 592 páginas
PVP: 13,05 €
ISBN 978-1-4711-6078-3
EAN 9781471160783
'This was much more than a bunch of guys out on an exploring and collecting expedition. This was a military expedition into hostile territory'. In 1803 President Thomas Jefferson selected his personal secretary, Captain Meriwether Lewis, to lead a pioneering voyage across the Great Plains and into the Rockies.It was completely uncharted territory; a wild, ...
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- William Morrow, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 16,00 €
ISBN 978-0-06-256120-6
EAN 9780062561206
Now a major motion picture from Clint Eastwood, starring Tom Hanks-the inspirational autobiography by one of the most captivating American heroes of our time, Capt. 'Sully' Sullenberger-the pilot who miraculously landed a crippled US Airways Flight 1549 in New York's Hudson River, saving the lives of all 155 passengers and crew. On January 15, 2009, ...
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Arms and the Dudes (film tie-in)
War Dogs : How Three Stoners from Miami Beach Became the Most Unlikely Gunrunners in History
- Penguin Books Ltd, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 14,00 €
ISBN 978-0-241-97565-7
EAN 9780241975657
Guy Lawson's Arms and the Dudes is the page-turning, inside account of how three kids from Florida became big-time weapons traders - and how the US government turned on them. In January of 2007, three young stoners from Miami Beach won a 300 million Department of Defense contract to supply ammunition to the Afghanistan military. ...
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The Politics of Mourning
Death and Honor in Arlington National Cemetery
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 416 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-73724-2
EAN 9780674737242
Arlington National Cemetery is Americas most sacred shrine, a destination for four million visitors who each year tour its grounds and honor those buried there. For many, Arlingtons symbolic importance places it beyond politics. Yet as Micki McElya shows, no site in the United States plays a more political role in shaping national identity.Arlington commemorates ...
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America Bewitched
The Story of Witchcraft after Salem
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 306 páginas
PVP: 16,20 €
ISBN 978-0-19-874538-9
EAN 9780198745389
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American Heiress
The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst
- Random House USA, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 384 páginas
PVP: 34,10 €
ISBN 978-0-385-53671-4
EAN 9780385536714
On February 4, 1974, Patty Hearst, a sophomore in college and heiress to the Hearst family fortune, was kidnapped by a ragtag group of self-styled revolutionaries calling itself the Symbionese Liberation Army. The already sensational story took the first of many incredible twists on April 3, when the group released a tape of Patty saying ...
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