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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
ISBN 978-0-19-537483-4
EAN 9780195374834
A gripping portrait of a charged landscape and the people who have continually redefined itIn the summer of 1978, residents of Love Canal, a suburban development in Niagara Falls, NY, began protesting against the leaking toxic waste dump-a sixteen-acre site containing 100,000 barrels of chemical waste that anchored their neighborhood. Initially seeking evacuation, area activists ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
ISBN 978-0-19-982800-5
EAN 9780199828005
A groundbreaking reinterpretation of the bloodiest slave revolt in American historyOn the evening of August 21, 1831, Nat Turner and six men launched their infamous rebellion against slaveholders. The rebels swept through Southampton County, Virginia, recruiting slaves to their ranks and killing nearly five dozen whites-more than had ever been killed in any slave revolt ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
ISBN 978-0-674-05039-6
EAN 9780674050396
Americans look to China with fascination and fear, unsure whether the rising Asian power is friend or foe but certain it will play a crucial role in America's future. This is nothing new, Gordon Chang says. For centuries, Americans have been convinced of China's importance to their own national destiny. Fateful Ties draws on literature, ...
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Our Kids
The American Dream in Crisis
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 27,75 €
ISBN 978-1-4767-6989-9
EAN 9781476769899
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ISBN 978-0-19-937577-6
EAN 9780199375776
Renowned historian James M. McPherson considers the legacy of the Civil War and its continuing relevance for America in the 21st centuryMore than 140 years ago, Mark Twain observed that the Civil War had "uprooted institutions that were centuries old, changed the politics of a people, transformed the social life of half the country, and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
ISBN 978-0-19-023196-5
EAN 9780190231965
The United States Senate has fallen on hard times. Once known as the greatest deliberative body in the world, it now has a reputation as a partisan, dysfunctional chamber. What happened to the house that forged American history's great compromises?In this groundbreaking work, a distinguished journalist and an eminent historian provide an insider's history of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
ISBN 978-0-19-021786-0
EAN 9780190217860
Lee's surrender to Grant at Appomattox Court House evokes a highly gratifying image in the popular mind -- it was, many believe, a moment that transcended politics, a moment of healing, a moment of patriotism untainted by ideology. But as Elizabeth Varon reveals in this vividly narrated history, this rosy image conceals a seething debate ...
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- Verso Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 25,80 €
ISBN 978-1-78168-667-6
EAN 9781781686676
Since the birth of the nation, the idea of empire has been at the heart of United States's image of itself. Through a close reading of both the acknowledged grand strategists as well as the more non-conformist foreign policy analysts Anderson charts the entwined historical development of America's imperial reach with its role as the ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
ISBN 978-0-674-50387-8
EAN 9780674503878
Spreading democracy abroad or protecting business at home: this book offers a new look at the history of the contest between isolationalism and internationalism that is as current as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and as old as America itself, with profiles of the people, policies, and events that shaped the debate.
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- Harvard University Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
ISBN 978-0-674-50385-4
EAN 9780674503854
Nineteenth-century Muslim peddlers arrived at Ellis Island, bags heavy with silks from their villages in Bengal. Demand for "Oriental goods" took these migrants on a curious path, from New Jersey's boardwalks to the segregated South. Bald's history reveals cross-racial affinities below the surface of early twentieth-century America.
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- Ebury, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 13,45 €
ISBN 978-0-09-195680-6
EAN 9780091956806
Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone and historian Peter Kuznick examine the dark side of American history from the beginning of the twentieth century right up to the Obama administration. Looking at American intervention in foreign conflicts in Latin American, Asia and the Middle East, including taking part in covert operations and interfering to overthrow elected leaders ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 19,15 €
ISBN 978-1-4767-9879-0
EAN 9781476798790
Califano takes us into the Oval Office as the decisions that irrevocably changed the United States were being crafted to create Johnson's ambitious Great Society. He shows us LBJ's commitment to economic and social revolution, and his willingness to do whatever it took to achieve his goals. Califano uncorks LBJ's legislative genius and reveals the ...
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- Abacus UK, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 640 páginas
PVP: 20,00 €
ISBN 978-0-349-14061-2
EAN 9780349140612
The questions have haunted our nation for half a century: Was the President killed by a single gunman? Was Lee Harvey Oswald part of a conspiracy? Did the Warren Commission discover the whole truth of what happened on November 22, 1963? Philip Shenon, a veteran investigative journalist who spent most of his career at The ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
ISBN 978-0-674-36812-5
EAN 9780674368125
Born into slavery in rural Louisiana, Rose Herera was bought and sold several times before being purchased by the De Hart family of New Orleans. Still a slave, she married and had children, who also became the property of the De Harts. But after Union forces captured New Orleans in 1862 during the American Civil ...
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- Perseus, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 19,30 €
ISBN 978-1-62157-295-4
EAN 9781621572954
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
ISBN 978-0-19-992562-9
EAN 9780199925629
Americans are obsessed with football, yet they know little about the man who shaped the game to make it uniquely technical, physical, and 'man-making' at once. Walter Camp, the "Father of American Football," was the foremost authority on American athletics and arguably the greatest amateur American athlete of his time.In Walter Camp: Football and the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 288 páginas
ISBN 978-0-19-021165-3
EAN 9780190211653
In the second decade of the twenty-first century, many Americans feel they are subject to economic forces beyond their control. Some critics of today's economy compare it to the rampant inequality of the late nineteenth century, when robber barons manipulated the economy to their own benefit. Others object to the remedies that were applied in ...
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- Norton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 23,15 €
ISBN 978-0-393-34982-5
EAN 9780393349825
Overlooking the significance of America's Hispanic past, the United States is typically perceived as an offshoot of Britain, with its history unfolding east to west, beginning with the first settlers in Jamestown. In an absorbing narrative, Felipe Fernandez-Armesto begins with the explorers and conquistadors who planted Spain's first colonies in Puerto Rico, Florida and the ...
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Fighting for America
The Struggle for Mastery in North America, 1519-1871
- Indiana University Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 29,25 €
ISBN 978-0-253-01481-8
EAN 9780253014818
Prize winning author Jeremy Black traces the competition for control of North America from the landing of Spanish troops under Hernán Cortés in modern Mexico in 1519 to 1871 when, with the Treaty of Washington and the withdrawal of most British garrisons, Britain accepted American mastery in North America. In this wide-ranging narrative, Black makes ...
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The Family Jewels
The CIA, Secrecy, and Presidential Power
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 422 páginas
PVP: 23,80 €
ISBN 978-0-292-76215-2
EAN 9780292762152
In December 1974, a front-page story in the New York Times revealed the explosive details of illegal domestic spying by the Central Intelligence Agency. This included political surveillance, eavesdropping, detention, and interrogation. The revelation of illegal activities over many years shocked the American public and led to investigations of the CIA by a presidential commission ...
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