A character-filled history that brings the American saga to life “This is a little history with a big heart, meant to be savored more than studied, read out loud like poetry, or perhaps sung like a hymn.”—Joseph J. Ellis, author of...Loe edasi...
The Depression of the 1890s caused widespread economic suffering throughout the country and triggered a march of unemployed men from Massillon, Ohio, to Washington, D.C. Known in the press as Coxeys Army--led, ironically, by successful busin...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487568603)
An insightful memoir from a man who actively participated in the transformation of Canadian law over the last half-century as a lawyer, scholar, and judge, Robert J. Sharpes story is one of indomitable passion for the law....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783111624167)
Christmas is not just a day or a frame of mind as Kris Kringle (Edmund Gwenn) imparts in Miracle on 34th Street (1947); Christmas is also a vehicle for national mythmaking as an idealising mirror for American cultural and political attitudes of a gi...Loe edasi...
The Power of the Little People is an evocative collection of stories about the Maymaygwesiwak, the little people of Anishinaabe culture. Encounters with Maymaygwesiwak are sometimes beneficial and sometimes troublesome, yet they are always...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 17-Oct-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Duke University Press, ISBN-13: 9781478032199)
In Clandestinas, Carollee Bengelsdorf challenges the silences surrounding women’s participation in the insurrection in Havana during the Cuban Revolution. The official narrative of the revolution emphasizes virtually exclusively the role of th...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 17-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Duke University Press, ISBN-13: 9781478028970)
Carollee Bengelsdorf challenges the silences surrounding women’s participation in the insurrection in Havana during the Cuban Revolution. In Clandestinas, Carollee Bengelsdorf challenges the silences surrounding women’s participation...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 17-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Temple University Press,U.S., ISBN-13: 9781439927786)
Fly Eagles Fly! They did it again. The Eagles routed the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl LIX to claim their second NFL championship in the Jeffrey Lurie era. Hall of Fame sportswriter Ray Didinger has done it again, too, revising and updating his be...Loe edasi...
THE FIRST EXAMINATION OF DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA AND WHY IT WORKED IN AMERICA AND FAILED IN MOST OTHER PLACES.Alexis de Tocqueville believed political equality, common in early America, built a strong foundation...Loe edasi...
In William Law’s new book Shadows & Light, the reader is taken on a journey following Law and his partner Mark Sobel, a writer and a filmmaker, while they try to unravel the mystery of the Robert F. Kennedy Assassination. The reader will see t...Loe edasi...
Written in gorgeous, sparse prose, We Survived the Night reads like a novel. ( ...) A book Ive been waiting my whole life to read. Tommy Orange, author of There There As an infant, Julian Brave NoiseCats father was found abandoned in a...Loe edasi...
Ghosts spoke. Women listened. Everything changed. It began with whispers in a dimly lit room. In the 1840s, the Fox Sistersand the legions of mediums they inspiredignited the Spiritualist movement that swept through Victorian parlors and p...Loe edasi...
Offering an insightful and concise introduction to the history of the United States from pre-European contact up to the present day, this book succinctly depicts the major themes and patterns in American history incorporating social, economic, cul...Loe edasi...
Offering an insightful and concise introduction to the history of the United States from pre-European contact up to the present day, this book succinctly depicts the major themes and patterns in American history incorporating social, economic, cul...Loe edasi...
From the acclaimed author of American Comics and Jewish Comedy comes a sweeping and entertaining narrative that details the rise and enduring grip of horror in American literature, cinema, and, ultimately, culture-from the taut, terrifying stories o...Loe edasi...
Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd president of the U.S., looms large over the history of the nation and the world. Serving in office for an unprecedented 12 years, he, along with First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, guided the nation through two of...Loe edasi...
A study for scholars of colonial Latin American, Dutch, and economic history that explores the nature and extent of Dutch trade during an understudied period of Spanish Americas history. It raises questions about foreign contraband traders and c...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Oct-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University Press of Colorado, ISBN-13: 9781646427307)
This book documents experiences and cultural practices of the Yupik people of southwest Alaska, including discussions about shamans and their roles within the Yupik community. Conversations in the Yupik language are featured in the bilingual sect...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: University Press of Colorado, ISBN-13: 9781646427291)
Angalkut/Shamans in Yup’ik Oral Tradition collects over thirty years’ worth of shaman stories, told as part of gatherings organized by the Calista Elders Council to document Yup’ik traditional knowledge. These conversations highlight the criti...Loe edasi...
In Village of the Dammed, journalist James Lomuscio tells the story of the rise and fall of Valley Forge, drawing on Civil War-era photographs of the town and other sources to show what the town was like, document the futile battle to save it, and r...Loe edasi...
Entangled Alliances is a reinterpretation of the American Revolution through analysis of diplomacy in the emerging United States during decades of hemispheric transformation. Ronald Angelo Johnson brings to light the fascinati...Loe edasi...
