The Irony of American History, Niebuhr Reinhold

Автор: Todd Emmanuel
Название: After the Empire: The Breakdown of the American Order
ISBN: 0231131038 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780231131032
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: As America`s global dominance evaporates, the author foresees a replacement by an emergence of a Eurasian alliance bringing together Europe, Russia, Japan, and the Arab-Islamic world. He takes stock of many negative trends, including America`s weakened commitment to the socio-economic integration of African Americans.

Автор: Breeze Carla
Название: American Art Deco: Modernistic Architecture and Regionalism
ISBN: 0393019705 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780393019704
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: A lavishly illustrated survey of American Art Deco architecture.

Автор: Kennedy David M.
Название: Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945
ISBN: 0195144031 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780195144031
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: Between 1929 and 1945, two great travails were visited upon the American people: the Great Depression and World War II. Freedom from Fear tells the story of how Americans endured, and eventually prevailed, in the face of those unprecedented calamities.

Автор: Nye Joseph
Название: Is the American Century Over?
ISBN: 0745690076 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780745690070
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: "For more than a century, the United States has been the world s most powerful state. Now some analysts predict that China will soon take its place.

Автор: Mabee Bryan
Название: Understanding American Power
ISBN: 0230217737 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780230217737
Издательство: Springer
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Цена: 40050.00 T
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Описание: This broad-ranging assessment of US power in the twenty-first century covers not just the nature and mechanics of foreign policy but the broad array of economic, military, political, social and ideological forces that shape America`s global position and role, all set in a clear historical context.

Автор: Richard Franklin Bensel
Название: The Political Economy of American Industrialization, 1877–1900
ISBN: 052177604X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521776042
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: This book synthesizes politics and economics to explain how robust democratic institutions and rapid industrialization - a combination rarely found in world history - coexisted in the United States during the late nineteenth century period of industrialization.

Автор: Shields David S.
Название: Still: American Silent Motion Picture Photography
ISBN: 022601326X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780226013268
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: A history of still camera work generated by the American silent motion picture industry that chronicles the evolution of silent film aesthetics, glamour, and publicity. Exploring the work of over sixty camera artists, it recovers the stories of the photographers who descended on early Hollywood and the stars who sat for them between 1908 and 1928.

Автор: Herring
Название: The Cambridge Companion to American Gay and Lesbian Literature
ISBN: 1107646189 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107646186
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: This Companion examines the connections between LGBTQ populations and American literature from the late eighteenth to twenty-first centuries. It addresses how queerness pervades persons, texts, bodies, and reading. In so doing this Companion details the chief genres, historical backgrounds, and interpretive practices that support the analysis of LGBTQ literatures in the United States.

Автор: Rosenthal, Debra J.
Название: Race mixture in nineteenth-century U.S. and Spanish American fictions
ISBN: 0807855642 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780807855645
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Race mixture has played a formative role in the history of the Americas, from the western expansion of the United States to the political consolidation ofLatin America. This text examines 19th-century authors in the United States and Spanish America who struggled to give voice to contemporary dilemmas about interracial sexual and cultural mixing.

Автор: Roberts Mary Louise
Название: What Soldiers Do: Sex and the American GI in World War II France
ISBN: 0226923118 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780226923116
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Описание: Presents a devastating new perspective on the Greatest Generation and the liberation of France, one in which the US military use the lure of easy, sexually available French women to sell soldiers on the invasion, thus unleashing a "tsunami of male lust" among the war-weary GIs.

Автор: Patterson Robert Porter
Название: Arming the Nation for War: Mobilization, Supply, and the American War Effort in World War II
ISBN: 1572338725 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781572338722
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: A decorated World War I veteran, Federal Judge Robert P. Patterson knew all too well the needs of soldiers on the battlefield. He was thus dismayed by America’s lack of military preparedness when a second great war engulfed Europe in 1939–40. With the international crisis worsening, Patterson even resumed military training—as a forty-nine-year old private—before being named assistant secretary of war in July 1940. That appointment set the stage for Patterson’s central role in the country’s massive mobilization and supply effort which helped the Allies win World War II.In Arming the Nation for War, a previously unpublished account long buried among the late author’s papers and originally marked confidential, Patterson describes the vast challenges the United States faced as it had to equip, in a desperately short time, a fighting force capable of confronting a formidable enemy. Brimming with data and detail, the book also abounds with deep insights into the myriad problems encountered on the domestic mobilization front—including the sometimes divergent interests of wartime planners and industrial leaders—along with the logistical difficulties of supplying far-flung theaters of war with everything from ships, planes, and tanks to food and medicine. Determined to remind his contemporaries of how narrow the Allied margin of victory was and that the war’s lessons not be forgotten, Patterson clearly intended the manuscript (which he wrote between 1945 and ’47, when he was President Truman’s secretary of war) to contribute to the postwar debates on the future of the military establishment. That passage of the National Security Act of 1947, to which Patterson was a key contributor, answered many of his concerns may explain why he never published the book during his lifetime.A unique document offering an insider’s view of a watershed historical moment, Patterson’s text is complemented by editor Brian Waddell’s extensive introduction and notes. In addition, Robert M. Morgenthau, former Manhattan district attorney and a protégé of Patterson’s for four years prior to the latter’s death in a 1952 plane crash, offers a heartfelt remembrance of a man the New York Herald-Tribune called “an example of the public-spirited citizen.”

Автор: DAVID T. GLEESON
Название: The Civil War as Global Conflict: Transnational Meanings of the American Civil War
ISBN: 1611173256 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781611173253
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: In an attempt to counter the insular narratives of much of the sesquicentennial commemorations of the Civil War in the United States, editors David T. Gleeson and Simon Lewis present this collection of essays that examine the war as more than a North American conflict, one with transnational concerns. The book, while addressing the origins of the Civil War, places the struggle over slavery and sovereignty in the United States in the context of other conflicts in the Western hemisphere. Additionally Gleeson and Lewis offer an analysis of the impact of the war and its results overseas. Although the Civil War was the bloodiest conflict in U.S. history and arguably its single most defining event, this work underscores the reality that the war was by no means the only conflict that ensnared the global imperial powers in the mid-nineteenth century. In some ways the Civil War was just another part of contemporary conflicts over the definitions of liberty, democracy, and nationhood. The editors have successfully linked numerous provocative themes and convergences of time and space to make the work both coherent and cogent. Subjects include such disparate topics as Florence Nightingale, Gone with the Wind, war crimes and racial violence, and choices of allegiance made by immigrants to the United States. While we now take for granted the nation's values of freedom and democracy, we cannot understand the impact of the Civil War and the victorious ""new birth of freedom"" without thinking globally.The contributors to The Civil War as Global Conflict reveal that Civil War-era attitudes toward citizenship and democracy were far from fixed or stable. Race, ethnicity, nationhood, and slavery were subjects of fierce controversy. Examining the Civil War in a global context requires us to see the conflict as a seminal event in the continuous struggles of people to achieve liberty and fulfill the potential of human freedom. The book concludes with a coda that reconnects the global with the local and provides ways for Americans to discuss the war and its legacy more productively.