United States category: 34172 books
Trams or Tailfins?
Public and Private Prosperity in Postwar West Germany and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
In the years that followed World War II, both the United States and the newly formed West German republic had an opportunity to remake their economies. Since then, much has been made of a supposed “Americanization” of European consumer societies—in Germany and elsewhere. Arguing against these...
Theodore Roosevelt's History of the United States
His Own Words, Selected and Arranged by Daniel Ruddy
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2010
“A splendid piece of work.”
— Edmund Morris
In a unique project, author Daniel Ruddy has carefully extracted Teddy Roosevelt’s most relevant and telling comments—from letters, books, speeches, and other sources—and organized them to form a fairly full, always colorful, and highly...
20th Century American History Book 2
The United States Studies for English Learners, Children(Kids) and Young Adults
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2015
20th Century American History tells about the ideas and issues that have shaped the United States in the 20th century from the bottom up. You can think of it not just as a series of history of America and its people, but a series of lessons. The subjects include exploration, revolution, social...
The Secret Team
The CIA and Its Allies in Control of the United States and the World
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
With a new foreword by Jesse Ventura: A government insider’s shocking exposé of crimes committed by America’s intelligence agencies during the Cold War.
L. Fletcher Prouty—decorated Air Force officer, former chief of special operations for the Joint Chiefs of Staff under President John...
New York City & Washington, D.C. Travel Guide
Attractions, Eating, Drinking, Shopping & Places To Stay
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2015
New York City is a center for technology, culture, cafes, bars and restaurants, fashion, music and the arts, R&D, finance, and business. It has one of the largest and most famous skylines in the world, dominated by the famous Empire State Building. New York City is the largest city by population...
Illegal Tender
Gold, Greed, and the Mystery of the Lost 1933 Double Eagle
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
It is one of America's treasures -- the most valuable ounce of gold in the world, the celebrated, the fabled, the infamous 1933 double eagle. It shouldn't even exist but it does, and its astonishing, true adventures read like "a composite of The Lord of the Rings and The Maltese Falcon" (The New York...
Tours of Vietnam
War, Travel Guides, and Memory
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2009
In Tours of Vietnam, Scott Laderman demonstrates how tourist literature has shaped Americans’ understanding of Vietnam and projections of United States power since the mid-twentieth century. Laderman analyzes portrayals of Vietnam’s land, history, culture, economy, and people in travel narratives,...
Nine-tenths of the Law
Property and Resistance in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
"Millions of foreclosed homes and abandoned buildings on one hand; millions of Americans desperate for decent shelter on the other. Hannah Dobbz makes the necessary addition of resources and needs in a book that is both a brilliant history of squatting in the USA and a template for the next stage...
The Age of Garvey
How a Jamaican Activist Created a Mass Movement and Changed Global Black Politics
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2014
Jamaican activist Marcus Garvey (1887–1940) organized the Universal Negro Improvement Association in Harlem in 1917. By the early 1920s, his program of African liberation and racial uplift had attracted millions of supporters, both in the United States and abroad. The Age of Garvey presents an expansive...
The American Soccer League
The Golden Years of American Soccer 1921-1931
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 1998
It was the " American Menace" according to the Scottish and English newspapers of the 1920s. The best players in the Scottish leagues were being drawn to American companies that offered good jobs in return for playing on the company soccer team. The resulting squads, many of them ethnic,...
by Clement Juglar, Decourcy W. Thom
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
This edition features a linked Table of Contents.
CONTENTS
TO GOLDEN DAYS
PREFACE TO THIRD EDITION
INTRODUCTION
A HISTORY OF PANICS IN THE UNITED STATES
THE PANIC OF 1814
THE PANIC OF 1825-26
THE PANIC OF 183l
THE PANIC OF 1848
THE PANIC OF 1857
THE PANIC OF 1864
THE PANIC OF 1873
THE PANIC...
The Glorious Cause:The American Revolution, 1763-1789
The American Revolution, 1763-1789
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2005
The first book to appear in the illustrious Oxford History of the United States, this critically acclaimed volume--a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize--offers an unsurpassed history of the Revolutionary War and the birth of the American republic. Beginning with the French and Indian War and continuing...
by Douglas Brinkley
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2018
"Douglas Brinkley and American Heritage have done a grand job. This is a first-rate book: fair, clear, and enormously welcome." - David McCullough. "Douglas Brinkley's one-volume history is a riveting narrative of unique people who have come to call themselves American. There is no...
The Road to War
Presidential Commitments Honored and Betrayed
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2013
Not since Pearl Harbor has an American president gone to Congress to request a declaration of war. Nevertheless, since then, one president after another, from Truman to Obama, has ordered American troops into wars all over the world. From Korea to Vietnam, Panama to Grenada, Lebanon to Bosnia, Afghanistan...