| |
SPECTATOR, NEW STATESMAN, TELEGRAPH, SUNDAY TIMES and FINANCIAL TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2015No American statesman has been as revered and as reviled as Henry Kissinger. Hailed by some as the "indispensable man", whose advice has been sought by every president from John...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2015-09-29
ePub
|
An accessible and authoritative overview of the scholarship that has shaped our understanding of one of the most iconic battles in the history of the American West Combines contributions from an array of respected scholars, historians, and battlefield scientists...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2015-09-23
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Companions to American History
PDF, ePub
|
There is a crisis today in the American family, and this crisis has been particularly severe in the African American community. Black women are more likely than ever to bear children as teenagers, to remain single, and to raise their children in poverty. As a result, a...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-09-17
ePub
|
Americans are obsessed with football, yet they know little about the man who shaped the game to make it uniquely technical, physical, and 'man-making' at once. Walter Camp, the "Father of American Football," was the foremost authority on American athletics and arguably...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-09-08
PDF, ePub
|
Today, a billion-dollar-a-year polling industry floods the media with information. Pollsters tell us not only which political candidates will win, but how we are practicing our faith. How many Americans went to church last week? Have they been born again? Is Jesus as...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-09-01
PDF, ePub
|
Black Print Unbound explores the development of the Christian Recorder during and just after the American Civil War. As a study of the African Methodist Episcopal Church newspaper and so of a periodical with national reach among free African Americans,Black Print...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-09-01
PDF, ePub
|
The new edition of this popular and widely-used American history textbook has been thoroughly updated to include a wealth of new scholarship on American diplomacy in the decade leading up to Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor. Features new material on the Washington...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2015-08-19
Collection :
The American History Series
PDF, ePub
|
The relationship between democracy and religion is as important today as it was in Alexis de Tocqueville's time. Tocqueville, Democracy, and Religion is a ground-breaking study of the views of the greatest theorist of democracy writing about one of today's most crucial...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-08-06
PDF
|
In Gilded Age America, rampant inequality gave rise to a new form of Christianity, one that sought to ease the sufferings of the poor not simply by saving their souls, but by transforming society.In Union Made, Heath W. Carter advances a bold new interpretation of the...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-08-03
PDF, ePub
|
Dispensationalism emerged in the twentieth century as a hugely influential force in American religion and soon became one of America's most significant religious exports. By the close of the century it had developed into a global religious phenomenon claiming millions...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-07-06
PDF, ePub
|
On July 9, 1755, British regulars and American colonial troops under the command of General Edward Braddock, commander in chief of the British Army in North America, were attacked by French and Native American forces shortly after crossing the Monongahela River and...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-06-16
PDF, ePub
|
The Bolivian revolution in 1952 aimed at modernizing the country: the revolutionaries nationalized the large tin mines, limited the power of the upper classes, proceeded to the agrarian reform, and tried to strengthen the role of the state in the economic life. Because...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-06-09
PDF, ePub
|
Among the most enduring themes in American history is the idea that the United States was founded as a Christian nation. A pervasive narrative in everything from school textbooks to political commentary, it is central to the way in which many Americans perceive the...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-06-01
PDF, ePub
|
Drawing from Benjamin Franklin's published and unpublished papers, including letters, notes, and marginalia, Benjamin Franklin and the Ends of Empire examines how the early modern liberalism of Franklin's youthful intellectual life helped foster his vision of...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-06-01
PDF, ePub
|
The photographs from Abu Ghraib triggered a debate on torture in the United States that has been led with a significant amount of visibility. What has been noticeably absent, however, is a thorough historical contextualization of US torture following September 11, 2001....
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-05-31
PDF, ePub
|
It was a time of unregulated madness. And nowhere was it madder than in Chicago at the dawn of the Roaring Twenties. Enter a slick, smooth-talking, charismatic lawyer named Leo Koretz, who enticed hundreds of people to invest as much as $30 million—upward of $400...
Editeur :
Algonquin Books
Parution :
2015-05-19
ePub
|
Until his death in 1877, Brigham Young guided the religious, economic, and political life of the Mormon community, whose settlements spread throughout the West and provoked a profound political, legal, and even military confrontation with the American nation. Young...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-05-01
PDF, ePub
|
With peerless talent and unrivalled international presence, few stars shone brighter in the heady firmament of the Jazz Age than Josephine Baker and Paul Robeson. Electric, charismatic, and unforgettable, both ignited the modern imaginations of cosmopolitan centers...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-04-27
PDF, ePub
|
It is the most famous speech Lincoln ever gave, and one of the most important orations in the history of the nation. Delivered on November 19, 1863, among the freshly dug graves of the Union dead, the Gettysburg Address defined the central meaning of the Civil War and...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-04-24
PDF, ePub
|
A fully revised and updated third edition of the most established and innovative historical analysis of the Continental Army and its role in the formation of the new republic. Written by two experts in the field of early U.S. history Includes fully updated coverage of...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2015-04-06
Collection :
The American History Series
PDF, ePub
|