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Born in slavery, Douglass, educated himself, escaped, and became one of the greatest leaders in American history. Here in one volume are his three autobiographical narratives: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself (1845); My Bondage and My Freedom (1855); and Life and Times (1881).
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It was Thomas Jefferson who envisioned the United States as a great 'empire of liberty.' In the first new one-volume history in two decades, David Reynolds takes Jefferson's phrase as a key to the saga of America - helping unlock both its grandeur and its paradoxes. He examines how the anti-empire of 1776 became the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 373 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-0-06-083145-5
EAN 9780060831455
Offering an abbreviated, accessible, and lively narrative history of the United States, this erudite volume contains the essential facts about the discovery, settlement, growth, and development of the American nation and its institutions. Robert V. Remini explores the arrival and migration of Native Americans throughout the Western Hemisphere and their achievements; the discovery of the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 16,05 €
ISBN 978-0-09-952640-7
EAN 9780099526407
Chronicles the American West from 1860-1890. The book tells the stories of such famous Red Indian warriors and tribal chieftains as Sitting Bull, Cochise, Crazy Horse and Geronimo.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 188 páginas
PVP: 18,25 €
ISBN 978-0-06-083706-8
EAN 9780060837068
In this unique biography of Thomas Jefferson, leading journalist and social critic Christopher Hitchens offers a startlingly new and provocative interpretation of our Founding Father a man conflicted by power who wrote the Declaration of Independence and acted as ambassador to France yet yearned for a quieter career in the Virginia legislature. A masterly writer, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 21,20 €
ISBN 978-0-300-15117-6
EAN 9780300151176
In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, at the high tide of imperial struggles in North America, an indigenous empire rose to dominate the fiercely contested lands of the American Southwest, the southern Great Plains, and northern Mexico. This powerful empire, built by the Comanche Indians, eclipsed its various European rivals in military prowess, political ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 19,00 €
ISBN 978-0-446-53752-0
EAN 9780446537520
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 13,05 €
ISBN 978-0-09-952304-8
EAN 9780099523048
There are already many books on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and about the War on Terror - but this is something very different. In The Forever War, award-winning New York Times correspondent Dexter Filkins does not analyse how these wars happened and why, or where they have succeeded or failed; instead, he captures ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 500 páginas
PVP: 28,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-305032-2
EAN 9780143050322
An uneasy and difficult country, most of Canada's space is uninhabited, and much uninhabitable. It is a country with a huge North but with most of its population in the South, hugging the American border. This book paints an expansive portrait of a dynamic and complex country.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 7,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-103671-7
EAN 9780141036717
This hugely influential work marked a turning point in US history and culture, arguing that the nation's expansion into the Great West was directly linked to its unique spirit: a rugged individualism forged at the juncture between civilization and wilderness, which for better or worse lies at the heart of American identity today. Throughout history, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 17,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84607-523-0
EAN 9781846075230
When Martin Luther nailed 95 criticisms of the Catholic Church to the door of his local church in 1517 he sparked not just a religious Reformation, but an unending cycle of political, social and economic change that continues to this day. By challenging the authority of the Pope, Luther inadvertently unleashed a revolutionary force: the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 13,30 €
ISBN 978-1-84627-152-6
EAN 9781846271526
A raucous, truth-telling look at the white working poor-and why they hate liberalism. "Deer Hunting with Jesus" is web columnist Joe Bageant's report on what he learned when he moved back to his hometown of Winchester, Virginia, which-like countless American small towns-is fast becoming the bedrock of a permanent underclass. By turns brutal, tender, incendiary, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 17,75 €
ISBN 978-0-307-33937-9
EAN 9780307339379
Years before Hillbilly Elegy and White Trash, a raucous, truth-telling look at the white working poor -- and why they have learned to hate liberalism. What it adds up to, he asserts, is an unacknowledged class war. By turns tender, incendiary, and seriously funny, this book is a call to arms for fellow progressives with ...
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Hampton Sides's extraordinary book brings the history of the American conquest of the West to ringing life. It is a tale with many heroes and villains, but at the centre of it all stands the remarkable figure of Kit Carson - the legendary trapper, scout and soldier. Carson was an illiterate mountain man who twice ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 18,25 €
ISBN 978-0-312-42756-6
EAN 9780312427566
The first Americans in space--Yeager, Conrad, Grissom, and Glenn--battle the Russians for control of the heavens and put their lives on the line to demonstrate a quality beyond courage, in this classic by Wolfe.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 896 páginas
PVP: 26,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-311244-0
EAN 9780143112440
In this magnificent biography, celebrated historian David Nasaw brings to life the fascinating rags- to-riches story of one of our most iconic business legends Andrew Carnegie, America's first modern titan. From his first job as a bobbin boy at age thirteen to his status as the richest man in the world upon retirement, Carnegie was ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 18,50 €
ISBN 978-1-4165-4654-2
EAN 9781416546542
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 19,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-102935-1
EAN 9780141029351
Pulitzer Prize for General Non-fiction:Winner 2007'Wright's brilliantly constructed narrative is head and shoulders above the rest. He knows important parts of the Muslim world (including Saudi Arabia) at first hand, he understands the motors of Islamist militancy Moreover, he is a fine writer with an eye for the telling detail. Even those who think they ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 388 páginas
PVP: 11,10 €
ISBN 978-0-375-75937-6
EAN 9780375759376
Fashioned from the same experiences that would inspire the masterpiece Huckleberry Finn, Life on the Mississippi is Mark Twain's most brilliant and most personal nonfiction work. It is at once an affectionate evocation of the vital river life in the steamboat era and a melancholy reminiscence of its passing after the Civil War, a priceless ...
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