History of the Americas

Mitreißend beschreibt der Bestseller-Autor und Pulitzer-Preisträger Tim Weiner den Aufstieg und Fall des Richard Nixon.

Die ganze Geschichte Nordamerikas – von der gewalthaften Eroberung über die Sklaverei bis zu Staatenbildung und demokratischem Wandel, erzählt vom Nordamerika-Historiker Marcus Gräser.

*** Ein faszinierendes Bild der Kulturen Amerikas vor der europäischen Invasion - Band 16 der Neuen Fischer Weltgeschichte ***Für die Europäer, die um 1500 nach Amerika gelangten, war es eine unbekannte und deshalb "Neue Welt".

Zwielichtige Machenschaften wie Drogenhandel und Geldwäsche, Mordkomplotte, illegale Interventionen und Folter: Seit ihrer Gründung vor sechzig Jahren steht die CIA für viele dubiose Vorgänge beginnend mit dem Kalten Krieg bis zum heutigen »War on Terror«.

Hervorragend recherchiert, mitreißend erzählt: die dunkle Geschichte des FBIWie bereits in seinem Weltbestseller ›CIA‹ schreibt der zweifache Pulitzer-Preisträger Tim Weiner mit »FBI« die Geschichte einer legendären und mächtigen Organisation neu.

This Palgrave Pivot presents a concise yet comprehensive history of sociology in Ecuador.

This book explains how six policies collectively called the North American Wildlife Conservation Model (NAWCM), put in place around the turn of the twentieth century, saved numerous iconic big game species from extinction.

This book examines the development of nuclear propulsion in the Royal Navy from the first proposal in 1946 to the start-up of the last core improvement for the first submarine reactor power plant PWR 1 in December 1974.

This book will offer a unique approach to the Year of Intelligence, the sixteen-month period between January 1975 and April 1976 that saw the innermost secrets of various US intelligence agencies laid bare before the world.

"e;"e;Based on impressive multi-archival work and a keen sense for a good narrative, the author introduces us to the complex, interlocking networks of the littleknown Atlantik-Brucke and the American Council on Germany.

This book recounts the reception of selected films about the Great War released between 1918 and 1938 in the USA and Great Britain.

This edited volume offers a critical reflection on the failed experiment to redevelop the city of Rio de Janeiro according to the neoliberal strategy of entrepreneurial urban governance and mercantile regulatory transformations, which were leveraged by mega-sporting events.

This book demonstrates that during the early twentieth century, the Monroe Doctrine served the role of a national security framework that justified new directions in United States foreign relations when the nation emerged as one of the world's leading imperial powers.

This Palgrave Pivot presents a comprehensive introduction along with four essays on the institution of the American presidency, reflecting on broad implications for American political culture and practice.

In the 1960s, twenty-thousand young Americans landed in South America to serve as Peace Corps volunteers.

This book discusses "e;culture"e; and the origins of the Anglo-American special relationship (the AASR).

This edited volume provides a comprehensive overview of the renewal of academic engagement in the Argentinian dictatorship in the context of the post-2001 crisis.

The early years of the twentieth century are often thought of as socialism's first heyday in the United States, when the Socialist Party won elections across the country and Eugene Debs ran for president from a prison cell, winning more than 900,000 votes.

Of the hundreds of books written about John F.

This book provides an overview of the institutional and intellectual development of sociology in Brazil from the early 1900s to the present day; through military coups, dictatorships and democracies.

The abrupt loss of Soviet financial support in 1989 resulted in the near-collapse of the Cuban economy, ushering in the almost two decades of austerity measures and severe shortages of food and basic consumer goods referred to as the Special Period.

In The Politics of Southern Pastoral Literature, 1785-1885: Jeffersonian Afterlives, Peter Templeton presents a wide-ranging and systematic evaluation of pastoral in the nineteenth-century Southern novel, offering an explicit appraisal of the philosophical and political rationale of pastoral literature alongside the existing body of research into the image of Jefferson following his death.

From 1927-1948, the Universal Ethiopian Students' Association (UESA) mobilized the African diaspora to fight against imperialism and fascist Italy.

This book offers a political, ideological, and social history of the national right-to-life movement in the 1980s under President Ronald Reagan.

Die Schweizergarde hat im Laufe der Jahrhunderte eine unvergleichliche Rolle in der europäischen Militärgeschichte gespielt.

The Red Badge of Courage is an 1895 war novel by American author Stephen Crane.

The Red Badge of Courage is an 1895 war novel by American author Stephen Crane.

The Red Badge of Courage is an 1895 war novel by American author Stephen Crane.

The Red Badge of Courage is an 1895 war novel by American author Stephen Crane.

The harrowing true story that inspired the critically acclaimed filmThe son of a freed slave, Solomon Northup lived the first thirty years of his life as a free man in upstate New York.

This volume gathers over 40 world-class scholars to explore the dynamics that have shaped the Irish experience in America from the seventeenth to the twenty-first centuries.

"This history is intended to meet the want for brief, compact, and handy manuals of the beginnings of our country.

In ›Die Erfindung der Philosophie‹ erkunden wir die faszinierende Reise des menschlichen Geistes von den mythischen Erklärungen der Welt zur rationalen Untersuchung und Reflexion, die wir heute als Philosophie kennen.

An ethnography focusing on a Pentecostal church community and their pursuit of healing marriages and prosperity Pentecostalism in Urban Oaxaca is a timely feminist ethnography set in a Pentecostal church community in Oaxaca de Juarez.

This book gives us the vivid insight into the incredible life and achievements of President McKinley, not to focus solely on his tragic death.

The world's leading expert on Osama bin Laden delivers for the first time the ';riveting' (The New York Times) definitive biography of a man who set the course of American foreign policy for the 21st century and whose ideological heirs we continue to battle today.

Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker and Esquire This revelatory and inclusive book ';unearths the stories of the peoplefarm laborers, domestic workers, factory employeesbehind some of the labor movement's biggest successes' (The New York Times) from independent journalist and Teen Vogue labor columnist Kim Kelly.

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER The capstone book in a trilogy from the New York Times bestselling author of How to Lead and The American Story and host of Bloomberg TV's The David Rubenstein ShowAmerican icons and historians on the ever-evolving American experiment, featuring Ken Burns, Madeleine Albright, Wynton Marsalis, Billie Jean King, Henry Louis Gates Jr.

';A thoroughly engaging and enjoyable' (National Review) biography of Grover Clevelandone of America's most unusual presidents and the first one to serve two non-consecutive terms.

An urgent and witty manifesto, Monopolies Suck ';lucidly explains how monopolies threaten democracy, worsen inequality, and imperil the American Dreamand why it's more important than ever to take action' (David Cicilline).

Republished fifty years later to coincide with the release of the Academy Awardnominated film of the same title written and directed by Aaron Sorkin with an all-star cast, this is the classic account of perhaps the most infamous, and definitely the most entertaining, trial in recent American history.

A well-researched biography about the public and private life of J.

Christopher Knowlton, author of Cattle Kingdom and former Fortune writer, takes an in-depth look at the spectacular Florida land boom of the 1920s and shows how it led directly to the Great Depression.

Co-founder of The Carlyle Group and patriotic philanthropist David M.

*A Best Book of the Year by NPR and Esquire* "e;A remarkable book.

"e;Dark History of Penn's Woods is the perfect book to keep you up all night.

William Royston Geise was a Ph.

Balanced and in-depth military coverage (all theaters, North and South) in a non-partisan format with detailed notes, offering meaty, in-depth articles, original maps, photos, columns, book reviews, and indexes.

Balanced and in-depth military coverage (all theaters, North and South) in a non-partisan format with detailed notes, offering meaty, in-depth articles, original maps, photos, columns, book reviews, and indexes.