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No God but Gain
The Untold Story of Cuban Slavery, the Monroe Doctrine, and the Making of the United States
- Verso Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 33,70 €
ISBN 978-1-78168-807-6
EAN 9781781688076
From 1501 to 1867 more than 12.5 million Africans were brought to the Americas in chains, and many millions died as a result of the slave trade. The US constitution set a 20-year time limit on US participation in the trade, and on January 1, 1808, it was abolished. And yet, despite the spread of ...
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Paradise of the Pacific: Approaching Hawaii
2015 National Book Award Finalist
- Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 21,65 €
ISBN 978-0-374-29877-7
EAN 9780374298777
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- St. Martin's Griffin, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 15,75 €
ISBN 978-1-250-01216-6
EAN 9781250012166
In the spring of 1865, the bloody saga of America's Civil War finally comes to an end after a series of increasingly harrowing battles. President Abraham Lincoln's generous terms for Robert E. Lee's surrender are devised to fulfill Lincoln's dream of healing a divided nation, with the former Confederates allowed to reintegrate into American society. ...
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- Penguin USA, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 138 páginas
PVP: 17,35 €
ISBN 978-0-14-312739-0
EAN 9780143127390
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
ISBN 978-0-19-023101-9
EAN 9780190231019
Helicopters thwopped low over the city, filming blocks of burning cars and buildings, mobs breaking into storefronts, and the vicious beating of truck driver Reginald Denny. For a week in April 1992, Los Angeles transformed into a cityscape of rage, purportedly due to the exoneration of four policemen who had beaten Rodney King. It should ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 432 páginas
ISBN 978-0-19-984532-3
EAN 9780199845323
The riveting story of the July 1755 defeat of British troops by French and Indian forces at the Battle of the Monongahela, testing ground for the American RevolutionOn July 9, 1755, British and colonial troops under the command of General Edward Braddock suffered a crushing defeat to French and Native American enemy forces in Ohio ...
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When the United States Spoke French
Five Refugees who Shaped a Nation
- Penguin USA, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 19,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-312745-1
EAN 9780143127451
In 1789, as the French Revolution shook Europe to the core, the new United States was struggling for survival in the face of financial insolvency and bitter political and regional divisions. When the United States Spoke French explores the republic's formative years from the viewpoint of a distinguished circle of five Frenchmen taking refuge in ...
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- Henry Holt, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 46,30 €
ISBN 978-1-62779-083-3
EAN 9781627790833
A shocking and riveting look at one of the most dramatic and disastrous presidencies in US history, from Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner Tim WeinerBased largely on documents declassified only in the last few years, One Man Against the World paints a devastating portrait of a tortured yet brilliant man who led the ...
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The Nixon Defense
What he Knew and When he Knew It
- Penguin USA, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 784 páginas
PVP: 20,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-312738-3
EAN 9780143127383
A new look at Watergate by one of its key figures, based on previously unavailable information.The Watergate scandal has forever changed American politics and presidential power, yet remarkably, four decades after Nixon was forced to resign, no one has undertaken the work necessary to tell the true underlying story of his Watergate-related activities. This information ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 400 páginas
ISBN 978-0-19-020259-0
EAN 9780190202590
A captivating and often chilling look at how drone warfare has shaped American foreign policy since 9/11Less than a month after the September 11th attacks, a tiny, CIA-controlled Predator drone flew over Kandahar, searching out the home of the Taliban supreme commander Mullah Mohammed Omar. A lack of understanding of the drone's capabilities combined with ...
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Lawless, Jennifer L. / Fox, Richard L.
Running from Office: Why Young Americans are Turned Off to Politics
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 224 páginas
ISBN 978-0-19-939765-5
EAN 9780199397655
An examination of what young people's disillusionment with government means for politics in the futureThe past two decades of politics in Washington have seen increased partisanship, prolonged stalemates, and numerous scandals. For today's teenagers and young adults, years of ineffective and inefficient political leadership have completely eroded any sense that politicians or government have the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
ISBN 978-0-19-023090-6
EAN 9780190230906
The advent of the all-volunteer force and the evolving nature of modern warfare have transformed our military, changing it in serious if subtle ways that few Americans are aware of. Edited by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David M. Kennedy, this stimulating volume brings together insights from a remarkable group of scholars, who shed important new light ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 656 páginas
PVP: 16,20 €
ISBN 978-1-4711-3152-3
EAN 9781471131523
HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON'S INSIDE ACCOUNT OF THE CRISES, CHOICES AND CHALLENGES SHE FACED DURING HER FOUR YEARS AS AMERICA'S 67THSECRETARY OF STATE, AND HOW THOSE EXPERIENCES DRIVE HER VIEW OF THE FUTURE, INCLUDING A NEW EPILOGUE. 'All of us face hard choices in our lives,' Hillary Rodham Clinton writes at the start of this personal ...
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Transnational Nation
United States History in Global Perspective since 1789
- Palgrave Macmillan, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 31,45 €
ISBN 978-1-137-33854-9
EAN 9781137338549
The development of nationalism, movement of peoples, imperialism, industrialization, environmental change and the struggle for equality are all key themes in the study of both US history and world history. In this revised and updated new edition, Tyrrell explores the relationship between events and movements in the US and wider world.Contents: Preface / Introduction / ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
ISBN 978-0-19-505412-5
EAN 9780195054125
The first full biography of the talented and troubling figure of John Wilkes Booth, the man who killed Abraham LincolnWith a single shot from a pistol small enough to conceal in his hand, John Wilkes Booth catapulted into history on the night of April 14, 1865. The assassination of President Abraham Lincoln stunned a nation ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 272 páginas
ISBN 978-0-19-021269-8
EAN 9780190212698
A riveting and necessary take on some of the most prevalent myths surrounding oil securityThe last decade has seen a far-reaching revolution in the oil industry, both in the US and globally. By some measures, America is on pace to become the world's biggest oil producer in the next decade, an outcome that was inconceivable ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
ISBN 978-0-674-50382-3
EAN 9780674503823
Colonial Americans were enamored with the rich colors and silky surface of mahogany. As this exotic wood became fashionable, demand for it set in motion a dark, hidden story of human and environmental exploitation. Anderson traces the path from source to sale, revealing how prosperity and desire shaped not just people's lives but the natural ...
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ISBN 978-0-19-021839-3
EAN 9780190218393
An engaging look at how Abraham Lincoln's final public address traces the debate over reconstruction from the earliest days of the Civil WarWhat did Abraham Lincoln envision when he talked about "reconstruction?" Assassinated in 1865, the president did not have a chance to begin the work of reconciling the North and South, nor to oversee ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
ISBN 978-0-19-023307-5
EAN 9780190233075
Over a span of eighteen years, Lady Bird Johnson recorded forty-seven oral history interviews with Michael Gillette and his colleagues. These conversations, just released in 2011, form the heart of Lady Bird Johnson: An Oral History, an intimate story of a shy young country girl's transformation into one of America's most effective and admired First ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
ISBN 978-0-19-022745-6
EAN 9780190227456
It is the most famous speech Lincoln ever gave, and one of the most important orations in the history of the nation. Delivered on November 19, 1863, among the freshly dug graves of the Union dead, the Gettysburg Address defined the central meaning of the Civil War and gave cause for the nation's incredible suffering. ...
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