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Americans Are Living Through A Social Crisis. Populist Firebrands -- On Left And Right Alike -- Propose To Address The Crisis Through Acts Of Tearing Down. ...

**Shortlisted for the 2021 Stephan Russo Goddard Riverside Book Prize for Social Justice** This definitive account of the battle for reproductive freedom i...

Douglas Little exposes the persistence of "orientalist" stereotypes in American popular culture and examines United States policy toward the Middle East fro...

Once A Sleeping Giant, China Today Is The World's Fastest Growing Economy -- The Leading Manufacturer Of Cell Phones, Laptop Computers, And Digital Cameras ...

All Nations Make Themselves Up As They Go Along, But Not All Make Themselves Up In The Same Way. In This Study, Alon Confino Explores How Germans Turned Nat...

Ben-ami Shillony. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. [210]-229.Categories: History AsiaJapan

Over recent decades, John W. Dower, one of America’s preeminent historians, has addressed the roots and consequences of war from multiple perspectives. I...

this Book Has Been Long Needed: A Concise, Complete And Dispassionate Survey Of The Vietnam War.... Best Of All, The No-nonsense Approach Answers Question...

Explore the unprecedented nature of modern Total War as First World War outlines the origins, experiences, and legacies of World War I throughout and beyond...

In 1947 Douglas Kinnard sent out an extensive questionnaire to the 173 Army generals who had managed the war in Vietnam. A surprising sixty-seven percent of...

The "Calico Boys" of the 6th Wisconsin Volunteers went to Gettysburg in 1863 and fought in the epic battle of the Civil War. In the very opening of the infa...

Gary D. Allinson. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [195]-201) And Index.Categories: History AsiaJapan

Explores The Lives Of The Presidents And The Evolution Of The Presidency. The Candidate: Heroic Posture: George Washington (1789-1797) America's First Hero ...

Book by Norton, Oliver WillcoxCategories: History United States19th Century

Book by Martin, David G.Categories: History United States19th Century

The World War II intelligence exploits of William Stephenson-the mysterious man known simply as "Intrepid" who is said to be the real-life model for Ian Fle...

Respected for its coverage of foreign policy and domestic politics, Present Tense also provides a thorough examination of social and cultural history. Thi...

In Third Wave Capitalism, John Ehrenreich Documents The Emergence Of A New Stage In The History Of American Capitalism. Just As The Industrial Capitalism Of...

Finalist for the 2015 Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in JournalismLonglisted for the Lionel Gelber Award for the Best Non-Fiction book in the wo...

On the centennial of the peace treaty that ended the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-5, Dartmouth College hosted a conference to examine the background and makin...

Alan Dawley. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [359]-386) And Index.Categories: Politics & Social Sciences Politics & GovernmentPolitical Scie...

"I approve of reasons you gave me"Categories: History World ReligiousChristianity

Nothing AdditionalCategories: History World ReligiousChristianity

Bestselling and new translation of Augustine's classicCategories: History World ReligiousChristianity

Correspondence Vol 5 (Correspondence, Conferences, Documents)Categories: History World ReligiousChristianity

John W. Dower, Timothy S. George. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.Categories: Reference Writing, Research & Publishing Guides Publishing &...

This balanced account of Japanese history focuses on developments in art, religion, literature, and thought as well as economic, political, and social histo...

The Fall Of The Tokugawa Order, 1800-1868. Late Tokugawa Society -- The Political Heritage -- Economic And Social Change -- The Fall Of The Old Order -- The...

The Human Tradition in Modern Japan is a collection of short biographies of ordinary Japanese men and women, most of them unknown outside their family and l...

This Newly Revised Volume Drawn From Professor Hane's Classic Text, Japan: A Historical Survey, Presents A Rich Account Of Early Japanese History For Studen...

Preface -- Part 1-traditional Japan-1.1-land And People-1.2-the Adoptions Of The Chinese Pattern-1.3-the Development Of A Native Culture-1.4-the Birth Of A ...

Western readers gain a basic understanding of Japanese political and social development and organization since the late fifth centuryCategories: History Asi...

In This Book Niall Ferguson Argues That The British Empire Should Be Regarded Not Merely As Vanished Victoriana But As The Very Cradle Of Modernity. Nearly ...

Deliverance From A Debate -- Why We Went It -- Why We Stayed In -- Why We Withdrew -- Whose Immorality? Norman Podhoretz. Includes Bibliographical Reference...

Who were the Progressives? In the first two decades of the twentieth century, a diverse array of Americans sought solutions to the social problems caused by...

This volume in the Problems in European Civilization series is a collection of scholarly essays and primary sources focusing on the legacy of World War I. F...

Interest in U.S. foreign relations has soared to great heights in the early twenty-first century. Long admired as the most comprehensive and accessible Ame...

In this fascinating new interpretation of Cold War history, John Lewis Gaddis focuses on how the United States and the Soviet Union have managed to get thr...

William H. Overholt. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Library Journal Best BooksCategories: Politics & Social Sciences Politics & Gove...

In this new interpretation of the making of modern America, prizewinning historian Alan Dawley traces the group struggles involved in the nation's rise to p...

Hiroshima Notes is a powerful statement on the Hiroshima bombing and its terrible legacy by the 1994 Nobel laureate for literature. Oe’s account of the li...

First, there are questions concerning the role and relative importance of internal and external factors in the pattern of events. Did the activities of the...

modern Historiography Is The Essential Introduction To The History Of Historical Writing. It Explains The Broad Philosophical Background To The Different ...

The major statements of the leading figures in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century German and French hermeneutic traditions.Here are the major statements...

Examines Japanese thought through the traditions of Shinto, Buddhism, Confucianism, liberalism, nationalism, and socialism from earliest times to the presen...

Vol. I. The Earliest Records Of Japan -- Early Shinto -- Prince Shōtoku And His Constitution -- Chinese Thought And Institutions In Early Japan -- Nara Bud...

Pt. 1. Strategies For Modernizing: On The Nature Of Western Progress: The Journal Of The Iwakura Embassy / Eugene Soviak -- Westernization And Japanization:...

In November 1937, Ishii Itaro, head of the Japanese Foreign Ministry's Bureau of Asiatic Affairs, reflected bitterly on the decline of the ministry's influ...