While the Naval base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba is well-known for its infamous prison camp, few people are aware of its prior use as an immigrant detention center for Haitian and Cuban refugees. Beginning in August 1994, the United States government declared that thousands...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2016-05-13

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Based off of the bestselling author's family history, this novel tells the story of Kunta Kinte, who is sold into slavery in the United States where he and his descendants live through major historic events. When Roots was first published forty years ago, the book...

Editeur : Grand Central Publishing
Parution : 2016-05-03

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Wie wurden Menschenrechte zum erfolgreichen Bestandteil politischer und ideologischer Argumentation während der 1960er und 1970er Jahre? Zur Beantwortung dieser Frage untersucht das Buch die Verwendungsweisen von Menschenrechtssprache in der professionellen Sphäre der...

Editeur : P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
Parution : 2016-04-29

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Why did the Founding Fathers fail to include blacks and Indians in their cherished proposition that "all men are created equal"? The usual answer is racism, but the reality is more complex and unsettling. In Bind Us Apart, historian Nicholas Guyatt argues that, from the...

Editeur : Basic Books
Parution : 2016-04-26

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Most Americans imagine the Civil War in terms of clear and defined boundaries of freedom and slavery: a straightforward division between the slave states of Kentucky and Missouri and the free states of Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and Kansas. However, residents of these...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2016-04-22

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Americans have always loved guns. This special bond was forged during the American Revolution and sanctified by the Second Amendment. It is because of this exceptional relationship that American civilians are more heavily armed than the citizens of any other nation. Or...

Editeur : Basic Books
Parution : 2016-04-19

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In the summer of 1978, residents of Love Canal, a suburban development in Niagara Falls, NY, began protesting against the leaking toxic waste dump in their midst-a sixteen-acre site containing 100,000 barrels of chemical waste that anchored their neighborhood. Initially...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2016-04-12

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In 1950, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were arrested for allegedly passing information about the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union, an affair FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover labeled the "crime of the century." Their case became an international sensation, inspiring petitions,...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2016-04-08

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Lying just south of Neshoba County, where three civil rights workers were murdered during Freedom Summer, Clarke County lay squarely in Mississippi's — and America's — meanest corner. Even at the height of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s, when the clarion call...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2016-04-01

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The second edition of Drawing the Line: How Mason and Dixon Surveyed the Most Famous Border in America updates Edwin Danson’s definitive history of the creation of the Mason - Dixon Line to reflect new research and archival documents that have come to light in recent...

Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell
Parution : 2016-03-31

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In popular stereotypes, local grocers were avuncular men who spent their days in pickle-barrel conversations and checkers games; they were backward small-town merchants resistant to modernizing impulses. Cornering the Market challenges these conventions to demonstrate...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2016-03-15

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This volume explores more than two centuries of literature on the First Ladies, from Martha Washington to Michelle Obama, providing the first historiographical overview of these important women in U.S. history. Underlines the growing scholarly appreciation of the First...

Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell
Parution : 2016-03-14
Collection : Wiley Blackwell Companions to American History
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In this important work of deep learning and insight, David Brundage gives us the first full-scale history of Irish nationalists in the United States. Beginning with the brief exile of Theobald Wolfe Tone, founder of Irish republican nationalism, in Philadelphia on the...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2016-03-07

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The end of the Cold War led to a dramatic and fundamental change in the foreign policy of the United States. In Mission Failure, Michael Mandelbaum, one of America's leading foreign-policy thinkers, provides an original, provocative, and definitive account of the...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2016-03-03

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To most people, the term "opera house" conjures up images of mink-coated dowagers accompanied by tuxedo-clad men in the gilded interiors of opulent buildings like the Met in New York or La Scala in Milan. However, the opera house in the United States has a far more...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2016-02-23

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Deadlock and Disillusionment: American Politics Since 1968 is an insightful consideration of the events people, and policy debates that have shaped and continue to influence, even control, the current political era. Rejects conventional wisdom that the dominant force...

Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell
Parution : 2016-02-22
Collection : The American History Series
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American Constitutional History presents a concise introduction to the constitutional developments that have taken place over the past 225 years, treating trends from history, law, and political science. Presents readers with a brief and accessible introduction to more...

Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell
Parution : 2016-02-08

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In 1950s America, it was remarkably easy for police to arrest almost anyone for almost any reason. The criminal justice system-and especially the age-old law of vagrancy-served not only to maintain safety and order but also to enforce conventional standards of morality...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2016-01-25

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A demanding feminist, devout Christian, and savvy grassroots civil rights organizer, Anna Arnold Hedgeman played a key role in over half a century of social justice initiatives. Like many of her colleagues, including A. Philip Randolph, Betty Friedan, and Martin Luther...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2016-01-20

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Erstmals wird in dieser Biografie das Leben Robert Gilberts an Hand des Nachlasses und einer Vielzahl weiterer Quellen nachgezeichnet. Sein Werk kennt fast jeder, seine Person fast niemand: Der außergewöhnliche Liedtexter und Lyriker hat mit so gegensätzlichen...

Editeur : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2016-01-08

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