The Bible Cause: A History of the American Bible Society, Fea John
Автор: Middlekauff Robert Название: The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789 ISBN: 019531588X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780195315882 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 3325.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This critically acclaimed volume-a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize-offers an unsurpassed history of the Revolutionary War and the birth of the American republic. Beginning with the French and Indian War and continuing to the election of George Washington as first president, Robert Middlekauff offers a panoramic history of the conflict between England and America, highlighting the drama and anguish of the colonial struggle for independence. Combining the politicaland the personal, he provides a compelling account of the key events that precipitated the war, a vivid description of the war itself, and an insightful look at the making of the Constitution and the struggle over ratification. Through it all, Middlekauff gives the reader a vivid sense of how thecolonists saw these events and the importance they gave to them. This new edition has been revised and expanded, with fresh coverage of topics such as mob reactions to British measures before the War, military medicine, women`s role in the Revolution, American Indians, the different kinds of war fought by the Americans and the British, and the ratification of the Constitution. It also features a new epilogue and an updated bibliography.
Автор: Rorabaugh Название: American Hippies ISBN: 1107627192 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107627192 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 3802.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In the late 1960s and early 1970s hundreds of thousands of white middle-class American youths suddenly became hippies. This short overview of the hippie social movement in the United States examines the movement`s beliefs and practices.
Автор: Merritt Название: Engineering In American Society ISBN: 0813153751 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813153759 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 5643.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A pioneering examination of worker participation in the management of a textile factory in Lodz, Poland, this study now provides the first specific evidence to test the hypotheses based on the assumption that political ideology determines the character of
Автор: Perdue Theda, Green Michael Название: North American Indians: A Very Short Introduction ISBN: 0195307542 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780195307542 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 1582.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book begins with the emergence of peoples in North America and traces their stories to the beginning of the early twenty-first century. The narrative rests on the premise that indigenous nations retain sovereign rights, and it explores the ways in which contests over those rights shaped their histories.
Автор: Dreisbach Daniel L. Название: Reading the Bible with the Founding Fathers ISBN: 0199987939 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199987931 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 5226.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Dreisbach shows that the Bible was the most frequently referenced book in the political discourse of the American founders. Drawing on some of the most familiar rhetoric of the founding era, Reading the Bible with the Founding Fathers examines the founders` diverse uses of the Bible and how scripture informed their political culture.
Автор: Ratner-Rosenhagen Jennifer Название: American Nietzsche: A History of an Icon and His Ideas ISBN: 0226705811 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780226705811 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 3802.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: For more than a century Friedrich Nietzsche has been a hugely popular - and surprisingly influential - figure in American high and popular culture alike. This title delves into Nietzsche`s thought, and America`s reception of it, to tell the story of his curious appeal.
Описание: Reveals how and why pathological drinking became a subject of medical interest, social controversy, and lurid fascination in the early American republic. This book also reveals just how delirium tremens shaped the modern experience of alcohol addiction as a psychic struggle with inner demons.
Автор: Rust William J. Название: So Much to Lose: John F. Kennedy and American Policy in Laos ISBN: 0813144760 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813144764 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 8778.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: By assessing the complex political landscape of Laos within the larger context of the Cold War, this book offers fresh insights into American foreign policy decisions that still resonate today.
Описание: This work chronicles the rise of Western Union Telegraph from the early years of telecommunications to its apogee as the first corporation to monopolize an industry on a national scale. The battles over Western Union`s monopoly illuminate the fierce tensions over the rising power of corporations after the Civil War and the reshaping of the American political economy.
Автор: Richard Franklin Bensel Название: The Political Economy of American Industrialization, 1877–1900 ISBN: 052177604X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521776042 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 5702.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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.
Описание: Few institutions seem more opposed than African American literature and J. Edgar Hoover`s white-bread Federal Bureau of Investigation. But behind the scenes the FBI`s hostility to black protest was energized by fear of and respect for black writing. Drawing on nearly 14,000 pages of newly released FBI files, F.B. Eyes exposes the Bureau`s intimate
Описание: In the Beginning Was the Word provides a sweeping, engaging, and insightful survey of the relationship between the Bible and public issues from the beginning of European settlement through the American Revolution.
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