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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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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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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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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.
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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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. Its 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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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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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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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 64 páginas
PVP: 1,50 €
ISBN 978-0-241-31849-2
EAN 9780241318492
Enshrining the fundamental rights and freedoms of its citizens in law, and curbing the power of those who rule them, the US constitution is one of the most significant documents in the history of democracy.
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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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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 384 páginas
PVP: 32,60 €
ISBN 978-0-674-04833-1
EAN 9780674048331
On the night of March 5, 1770, British soldiers fired into a crowd gathered in front of Boston's Custom House, killing five people. Denounced as an act of unprovoked violence and villainy, the event that came to be known as the Boston Massacre is one of the most familiar incidents in American history, yet one ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 592 páginas
PVP: 21,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84792-495-7
EAN 9781847924957
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 15,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78022-735-1
EAN 9781780227351
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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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Lincoln and the Democrats describes the vexatious behavior of a two-party system in war and points to the sound parts of the American system which proved to be the country's salvation: local civic pride, and quiet nonpartisanship in mobilization and funding for the war, for example. While revealing that the role of a noxious 'white ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
ISBN 978-1-78453-769-2
EAN 9781784537692
In thiscollection of polemical pieces, Foner expounds on the relevance ofAbraham Lincoln's legacy in the age of Obama and on the need foranother era of Reconstruction. In addition to articles in which Fonercalls out politicians and the powerful for their abuse and misuseof American history, Foner assesses some of his fellow leadinghistorians of the late ...
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Libro · 274 páginas
PVP: 16,70 €
ISBN 978-1-4422-7951-3
EAN 9781442279513
Throughout American history, Presidents and Presidential candidates have faced countless assassination threats and attempts on their lives. These threats have extended not only to sitting Presidents and candidates but also to Presidents-elect and former Presidents. Assassinations, Threats, and the American Presidency: From Andrew Jackson to Barack Obama walks through Presidential history, looking at the countless ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 544 páginas
PVP: 36,50 €
ISBN 978-0-670-02468-1
EAN 9780670024681
The era from 1830 to 1910 witnessed massive transformations in how people lived, worked, thought about themselves, and struggled to live and thrive. It also witnessed the birth of economic and political institutions that still shape our world. America's population grew more than ten-fold. The country expanded to the Pacific coast and then out into ...
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