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Cover of Historical Dictionary of United States-Russian/Soviet Relations
by Norman E. Saul
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2008

For more than 200 years the United States and Russia have shared a multi-faceted relationship. Because of the rise of power the two countries enjoyed in the late 19th and through the 20th century, Russian-American relations have dominated much of recent world history. Prior to World War II the two...
Cover of The Transatlantic Kindergarten

The Transatlantic Kindergarten

Education and Women's Movements in Germany and the United States

by Ann Taylor Allen
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2017

The kindergarten--as institution, as educational philosophy, and as social reform movement--is one of Germany's most important contributions to the world. Swiss pedagogue Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi and his German student Friedrich Fröbel, who founded the kindergarten movement around 1840, envisioned...
Cover of 21st Century U.S. Military Documents: Camp Planning for Displaced Persons (Air Force Handbook 10-222) - Safety, Gender Considerations, USAID, Humanitarian Relief, NGOs, Multinational Forces
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013

Camp construction for displaced persons (DPs) falls within military Foreign Humanitarian Assistance (FHA) operations. The tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTP) associated with FHA throughout this handbook can be directly applied to displaced persons camp planning and construction. FHA consists...
Cover of The Small Wars of the United States, 1899-2009
by Benjamin R. Beede
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012

The Small Wars of the United States, 1899–2009 is the complete bibliography of works on US military intervention and irregular warfare around the world, as well as efforts to quell insurgencies on behalf of American allies. The text covers conflicts from 1898 to present, with detailed annotations...
Cover of The United States and the Making of Modern Greece
by James Edward Miller
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2009

Focusing on one of the most dramatic and controversial periods in modern Greek history and in the history of the Cold War, James Edward Miller provides the first study to employ a wide range of international archives--American, Greek, English, and French--together with foreign language publications...
Cover of Undocumented Migrants in the United States

Undocumented Migrants in the United States

Life Narratives and Self-representations

by Ina Batzke
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2018

Whilst many undocumented migrants in the United States continue to exist in the shadows, since the turn of the millennium an increasing number have emerged within public debate, casting themselves against the dominant discursive trope of the "illegal alien," and entering the struggle over...
Cover of Formations of United States Colonialism
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Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014

Bridging the multiple histories and present-day iterations of U.S. settler colonialism in North America and its overseas imperialism in the Caribbean and the Pacific, the essays in this groundbreaking volume underscore the United States as a fluctuating constellation of geopolitical entities marked...
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Undocumented Lives

The Untold Story of Mexican Migration

by Ana Raquel Minian
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018

In the 1970s the Mexican government acted to alleviate rural unemployment by supporting the migration of able-bodied men. Millions crossed into the United States to find work that would help them survive as well as sustain their families in Mexico. They took low-level positions that few Americans...
Cover of Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen
by Liliuokalani
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016

Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen is a book written by Queen Liliuokalani, the last monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi. It was published in 1898, five years after the overthrow of the Kingdom. In it, Liliuokalani gives her account of her upbringing, her accession to the throne, the overthrow of her...
Cover of NSA Secrets Declassified: Listening to the Rumrunners: Radio Intelligence during Prohibition, Cryptology, Elizebeth Friedman and USCG Thwart Rumrunners, Invisible Cryptologists: African-Americans
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2015

Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, three important NSA publications provide unique information about cryptology and radio intelligence used in the fight against rumrunners during Prohibition, and African-American cryptologists. Contents: Listening to the...
Cover of Ultimate Handbook Guide to Phoenix : (United States) Travel Guide

Ultimate Handbook Guide to Phoenix : (United States) Travel Guide

Ultimate Handbook Guide to Phoenix : (United States) Travel Guide

by Sean Dupre
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015

The Ultimate Handbook Guide to Phoenix : (United States) is your second passport to everything interesting and relevant. It provides you with up-to-date advice on what to see and what hidden discoveries await you.
Cover of Character and Opinion in the United States
by George Santayana
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018

George Santayana was a novelist, poet, and philosopher.  Santayana was born in Spain but was raised and educated in the United States and is considered an American man of letters.  Santayana is credited for the popular phrase "those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it". Character...
Cover of The Rise and Fall of the United States

The Rise and Fall of the United States

An Interpretation of History

by Donald Przebowski
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2009

This is my fourth literary work. The fi rst novel, Aryan, the Last Prussian examined man, war and society; the second novel, Over the Rainbow was concerned with man and tyranny; and the third novel, Heroic Hearts focused on doctors in World War II. This historical work examines the rise and fall of...
Cover of Ultimate Handbook Guide to Charlotte Amalie : (United States Virgin Islands) Travel Guide

Ultimate Handbook Guide to Charlotte Amalie : (United States Virgin Islands) Travel Guide

Ultimate Handbook Guide to Charlotte Amalie : (United States Virgin Islands) Travel Guide

by Kerri Gates
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015

The Ultimate Handbook Guide to Charlotte Amalie : (United States Virgin Islands) is your second passport to everything interesting and relevant. It provides you with up-to-date advice on what to see and what hidden discoveries await you.
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