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A Time for War
Oxford University Press, USA 1997; US$ 18.99Even after two decades, the memory of the Vietnam War seems to haunt our culture. From Forrest Gump to Miss Saigon, from Tim O'Brien's Pulitzer Prize-winning Going After Cacciato to Robert McNamara's controversial memoir In Retrospect, Americans are drawn again and again to ponder our long, tragic involvement in Southeast Asia. Now eminent... more...
History of American Presidential Elections, 1789-2008, 3-Volume Set
Infobase Publishing 2011; US$ 225.00Presidential elections are the centerpiece of American democracy, as citizens go to the polls every four years to choose a new leader. Prior to the election of George Washington in 1789, no country in the world had ever peacefully transferred power in a national election. Today, we take this for granted, as American elections have become a model for... more...
American Insurgents
Haymarket Books 2012; US$ 17.00From Mark Twain, to the movement against the war in Vietnam, this is the story of ordinary Americans challenging empire. more...
Sweet Land of Liberty
Regnery Publishing 2011; US$ 14.95How did America become the land of the free? In Sweet Land of Liberty , Ellis the Elephant sets off on a quest to find out. Through an amazing afternoon at the library, Ellis travels through time and discovers the pivotal moments that have shaped our nation?s unique history, including, the Pilgrims? first Thanksgiving the Boston Tea Party... more...
A People's History of the American Revolution
New Press, The 2012; US$ 25.95The best single-volume history of the Revolution I have read. ?Howard Zinn The first major effort to tell the history of the American Revolution from the often overlooked standpoints of its everyday participants, A People?s History of the American Revolution is a highly accessible narrative of the wartime experience that brings in the stories... more...
Special Providence
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012; US$ 30.00From one of our leading experts on foreign policy, a full-scale reinterpretation of America?s dealings?from its earliest days?with the rest of the world. It is Walter Russell Mead?s thesis that the United States, by any standard, has had a more successful foreign policy than any of the other great powers that we have faced?and faced down. Beginning... more...
How to Pass Higher History (in full colour)
Hodder Education 2011; US$ 15.98This thoroughly revised 2nd Edition includes all of the material required for the Higher History course from 2010 onwards. more...
Howard Zinn
New Press, The 2012; US$ 26.95Howard Zinn was perhaps the best-known and most widely celebrated popular interpreter of American history in the twentieth century, renowned as a bestselling author, a political activist, a lecturer, and one of America?s most recognizable and admired progressive voices. His rich, complicated, and fascinating life placed Zinn at the heart of the signal... more...
President Adams' Alligator
Regnery Publishing 2013; US$ 16.95Did you know President John Quincy Adams had a pet alligator? He kept it in a bathtub in the East Room of the White House. But President Adams wasn't the only commander-in-chief with an unusual pet. Along with a menagerie of dogs, cats, horses and birds, presidents and their families also had pet snakes, raccoons, bears, cows, mice, and more. Meet... more...









