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- Knopf, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-1-101-91030-6
EAN 9781101910306
The remarkable untold story of how the American Revolution's success depended on substantial military assistance provided by France and Spain, and places the Revolution in the context of the global strategic interests of those nations in their fight against England. In this groundbreaking, revisionist history, Larrie Ferreiro shows that at the time the first shots ...
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- Verso Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 27,05 €
ISBN 978-1-78663-196-1
EAN 9781786631961
Although later made an icon of "rugged individualism," the American cowboy was a grossly exploited and underpaid seasonal worker, who waged a series of militant strikes in the generally isolated and neglected corners of the Old West. Mark Lause examines those neglected labour conflicts, couching them in the context of the bitter and violent "range ...
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- Norton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 832 páginas
PVP: 23,60 €
ISBN 978-0-393-35420-1
EAN 9780393354201
General Sherman's 1864 burning of Atlanta solidified his legacy as a ruthless leader. Yet Sherman proved far more complex than his legendary military tactics reveal. James Lee McDonough offers fresh insight into a man tormented by the fear that history would pass him by, who was plagued by personal debts, and who lived much of ...
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- Harper Collins, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 16,20 €
ISBN 978-0-06-231209-9
EAN 9780062312099
Winner of an Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Award, the Father Thomas J. Steele Award for Best History, and a Colorado Book AwardThe first definitive account of this legendary fighting force and its extraordinary leader, Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Lee Gardner's Rough Riders is narrative nonfiction at its most invigorating and compulsively readable. Its dramatic unfolding ...
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Hillbilly Elegy
A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
- Harper Collins, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-0-00-822056-3
EAN 9780008220563
SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE 'The political book of the year' Sunday Times 'You will not read a more important book about America this year' Economist Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis-that of white working-class Americans. The decline of this group, a demographic of our country ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 346 páginas
PVP: 43,50 €
ISBN 978-0-674-73755-6
EAN 9780674737556
During his invasion of Creek Indian territory in 1813, future U.S. president Andrew Jackson discovered a Creek infant orphaned by his troops. Moved by an 'unusual sympathy,' Jackson sent the child to be adopted into his Tennessee plantation household. Through the stories of nearly a dozen white adopters, adopted Indian children, and their biological parents, ...
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- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 312 páginas
PVP: 44,40 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16605-6
EAN 9780691166056
Westward expansion of the United States is most conventionally remembered for rugged individualism, geographic isolationism, and a fair amount of luck. Yet the establishment of the forty-eight contiguous states was hardly a foregone conclusion, and the federal government played a critical role in its success. This book examines the politics of American expansion, showing how ...
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- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 23,75 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17573-7
EAN 9780691175737
Where does the New Deal fit in the big picture of American history? What does it mean for us today? What happened to the economic equality it once engendered? In The Great Exception, Jefferson Cowie provides new answers to these important questions. In the period between the Great Depression and the 1970s, he argues, the ...
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Bobby Kennedy
The Making of a Liberal Icon
- Ballantine, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 624 páginas
PVP: 24,30 €
ISBN 978-0-8129-8350-0
EAN 9780812983500
Those who loved Robert F. Kennedy as well as those who hated him will both find much to enjoy in Tye's biography of Kennedy's life and times. Journalist Tye removes some of the rough edges of a man often presented as ruthless and obsessive in his early political career, and offers a balanced account of ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 432 páginas
PVP: 38,05 €
ISBN 978-0-674-97228-5
EAN 9780674972285
Recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions in Citizens United and other high-profile cases have sparked passionate disagreement about the proper role of corporations in American democracy. Partisans on both sides have made bold claims, often with little basis in historical facts. Bringing together leading scholars of history, law, and political science, Corporations and American Democracy provides ...
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Gordon-Reed, Annette; Onuf, Peter S.
"Most Blessed of the Patriarchs" : Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination
- Norton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 18,95 €
ISBN 978-1-63149-251-8
EAN 9781631492518
Thomas Jefferson is still presented today as an enigmatic figure, despite being written about more than any other Founding Father. Lauded as the most articulate voice of American freedom, even as he held people in bondage, Jefferson is variably described as a hypocrite, an atheist and a simple-minded proponent of limited government. Now, a Pulitzer ...
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- Random House USA, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 576 páginas
PVP: 33,80 €
ISBN 978-0-8041-3728-7
EAN 9780804137287
A magisterial new work that rewrites the story of America's foundingThe American Revolution is often portrayed as an orderly, restrained rebellion, with brave patriots defending their noble ideals against an oppressive empire. It's a stirring narrative, and one the founders did their best to encourage after the war. But as historian Holger Hoock shows in ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 328 páginas
PVP: 32,60 €
ISBN 978-0-674-65954-4
EAN 9780674659544
Banks failed, credit contracted, inequality grew, and people everywhere were out of work while political paralysis and slavery threatened to rend the nation in two. As financial crises always have, the Panic of 1837 drew forth a plethora of reformers who promised to restore America to greatness. Animated by an ethic of individualism and self-reliance, ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 420 páginas
PVP: 34,90 €
ISBN 978-0-674-97211-7
EAN 9780674972117
After the Treaty of Paris ended the Seven Years War in 1763, British America stretched from Hudson Bay to the Florida Keys, from the Atlantic coast to the Mississippi River, and across new islands in the West Indies. To better rule these vast dominions, Britain set out to map its new territories with unprecedented rigor ...
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- Atlantic Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 576 páginas
PVP: 33,80 €
ISBN 978-1-78649-149-7
EAN 9781786491497
Winner of the Gilder Lehrman Prize for Military History In a sweeping narrative, Peter Cozzens tells the gripping story of the wars that destroyed native ways of life as the American nation continued its expansion onto tribal lands after the Civil War, setting off a conflict that would last nearly three decades. By using original ...
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- Columbia, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 760 páginas
PVP: 60,35 €
ISBN 978-0-231-18042-9
EAN 9780231180429
Soon after the American Revolution, the United States began to recognize the strategic significance of Asia and the Pacific and the vast material and cultural resources at stake there. Over the coming generations, the United States continued to ask how best to expand trade with the region and whether to partner with China, at the ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
PVP: 32,60 €
ISBN 978-0-674-97195-0
EAN 9780674971950
During the Battle of the Bulge, Waffen SS soldiers shot 84 American prisoners near the Belgian town of Malmedy'the deadliest mass execution of U.S. soldiers during World War II. The bloody deeds of December 17, 1944, produced the most controversial war crimes trial in American history. Drawing on newly declassified documents, Steven Remy revisits the ...
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- Bodley Head, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 592 páginas
PVP: 21,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84792-495-7
EAN 9781847924957
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- Orion, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 15,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78022-735-1
EAN 9781780227351
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- Verso Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 19,20 €
ISBN 978-1-78663-242-5
EAN 9781786632425
Shortlisted for the 1999 William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award and voted one of twenty-five Books to Remember 2000 by the New York Public LibraryIs there a more characteristic figure of the sixties than Muhammad Ali playful and political, popular and non-conformist, defiant and triumphant? In a unique new book, Mike Marqusee puts ...
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