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America Transformed
Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 22.00An examination of the period 1941 2001 during which time the character of American life changed rapidly, culminating in the shattering of the Liberal Democratic coalition. Revolutions in the areas of affluence, foreign policy, the military, business systems, racial relations, gender roles, sexual behavior and attitudes are discussed. more...
A Companion to Post-1945 America
Blackwell Publishing Ltd. 2006; US$ 49.95A Companion to Post-1945 America is an original collection of 34 essays by key scholars on the history and historiography of Post-1945 America. Covers society and culture, people and movements, politics and foreign policy Surveys and evaluates the best scholarship on every important era and topic Includes book review section on essential readings... more...
America and the Imperialism of Ignorance
Biteback Publishing 2011; US$ 26.24American incomprehension of the outside world has been the chief problem in international affairs since the end of World War II. In America and the Imperialism of Ignorance, veteran political journalist Andrew Alexander constructs a meticulous case, including evidence gleaned from the steady opening up of Soviet archives, demonstrating why this is... more...
Dark Days in the Newsroom
Temple University Press 2007; US$ 27.95Dark Days in the Newsroom traces how journalists became radicalized during the Depression era, only to become targets of Senator Joseph McCarthy and like-minded anti-Communist crusaders during the 1950s. Edward Alwood, a former news correspondent describes this remarkable story of conflict, principle, and personal sacrifice with noticeable élan.... more...
Rise to Globalism
Penguin Group US 2010; US$ 18.00"One of the most lively and provocative interpretive studies of the major events in recent American diplomatic history." - American Historical Review Since it first appeared in 1971, Rise to Globalism has sold hundreds of thousands of copies. The ninth edition of this classic survey, now updated through the administration of George W. Bush,... more...
Empire and Education
Palgrave Macmillan 2012; US$ 28.00This book is about education and American imperialism from the War of 1898 to the War on Terror. Very little coordinated or sustained research has been devoted to the broader contours of America, education, and empire. And third, this volume seeks to inspire new directions in the study of American educational history. more...
The First Resort of Kings
Potomac Books Inc. 2005; US$ 29.95A landmark study of the most-neglected tool of U.S. foreign policy more...
Terrible Terry Allen
Random House Publishing Group 2008; US$ 18.00Terry de la Mesa Allen?s mother was the daughter of a Spanish officer, and his father was a career U.S. Army officer. Despite this impressive martial heritage, success in the military seemed unlikely for Allen as he failed out of West Point?twice?ultimately gaining his commission through Catholic University?s R.O.T.C. program. In World War I, the young... more...
Independent Nation
Crown Publishing Group 2004; US$ 15.95Fifty percent of American voters define themselves as political moderates, two-thirds favor political solutions that come from the center of the political spectrum, and Independents outnumber both Democrats and Republicans. Bill Clinton and George W. Bush each explicitly used Centrist strategies to win the White House?and twenty-first-century candidates... more...
Bradley
Palgrave Macmillan 2007; US$ 9.99Dubbed by the World War II press as "The GI General" because of his close identification with his men, Omar Bradley rose to command the U. S. 12th Army Group in the European Campaign. By the spring of 1945, this group contained 1,300,000 men--the largest exclusively American field command in U.S. history. Mild mannered, General Bradley was... more...









