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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
For half a century, the United States has garnered substantial political and economic benefits as a result of the dollar's de facto role as a global currency. In recent years, however, the dollar's preponderant position in world markets has come under challenge. The dollar has been more volatile than...
Banished to the Great Northern Wilderness
Political Exile and Re-education in Mao’s China
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
After Mao Zedong’s Anti-Rightist Campaign of 1957–58, Chinese intellectuals were subjected to "re-education" by the state. In Banished to the Great Northern Wilderness, Ning Wang draws on labor farm archives, interviews, and memoirs to provide a remarkable look at the suffering and complex psychological...
The Politics of Voter Suppression
Defending and Expanding Americans' Right to Vote
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
The Politics of Voter Suppression arrives in time to assess actual practices at the polls this fall and to reengage with debates about voter suppression tactics such as requiring specific forms of identification. Tova Andrea Wang examines the history of how U.S. election reforms have been manipulated...
Nobility Lost
French and Canadian Martial Cultures, Indians, and the End of New France
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
Nobility Lost is a cultural history of the Seven Years' War in French-claimed North America, focused on the meanings of wartime violence and the profound impact of the encounter between Canadian, Indian, and French cultures of war and diplomacy. This narrative highlights the relationship between events...
By Sword and Plow
France and the Conquest of Algeria
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
In 1830, with France's colonial empire in ruins, Charles X ordered his army to invade Ottoman Algiers. Victory did not salvage his regime from revolution, but it began the French conquest of Algeria, which was continued and consolidated by the succeeding July Monarchy. In By Sword and Plow, Jennifer...
Suffrage Reconstructed
Gender, Race, and Voting Rights in the Civil War Era
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
The Fourteenth Amendment, ratified on July 9, 1868, identified all legitimate voters as "male." In so doing, it added gender-specific language to the U.S. Constitution for the first time. Suffrage Reconstructed is the first book to consider how and why the amendment’s authors made this decision....
Barns of New York
Rural Architecture of the Empire State
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Barns of New York explores and celebrates the agricultural and architectural diversity of the Empire State—from Long Island to Lake Erie, the Southern Tier to the North Country—providing a unique compendium of the vernacular architecture of rural New York. Through descriptions of the appearance...
The Eccentric Realist
Henry Kissinger and the Shaping of American Foreign Policy
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
During the 2008 election season, the Democratic and Republican presidential candidates both aspired to be understood as foreign policy "realists" in the mold of Henry Kissinger. Kissinger, who is distrusted on the neoconservative right for his skepticism about American exceptionalism and on the liberal...
What Good Is Grand Strategy?
Power and Purpose in American Statecraft from Harry S. Truman to George W. Bush
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2014
Grand strategy is one of the most widely used and abused concepts in the foreign policy lexicon. In this important book, Hal Brands explains why grand strategy is a concept that is so alluring—and so elusive—to those who make American statecraft. He explores what grand strategy is, why it is so...
American Pendulum
Recurring Debates in U.S. Grand Strategy
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
As new presidential administrations come into power, they each bring their own approach to foreign policy. No grand strategy, however, is going to be completely novel. New administrations never start with a blank slate, so it is always possible to see similarities between an administration and its...
by Donald Kagan
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2013
A New History of the Peloponnesian War is an ebook-only omnibus edition that includes all four volumes of Donald Kagan's acclaimed account of the war between Athens and Sparta (431–404 B.C.): The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War, The Archidamian War, The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition,...
by Donald Kagan
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
This book, the second volume in Donald Kagan's tetralogy about the Peloponnesian War, is a provocative and tightly argued history of the first ten years of the war. Taking a chronological approach that allows him to present at each stage the choices that were open to both sides in the conflict, Kagan...
by Donald Kagan
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2013
The first volume of Donald Kagan's acclaimed four-volume history of the Peloponnesian War offers a new evaluation of the origins and causes of the conflict, based on evidence produced by modern scholarship and on a careful reconsideration of the ancient texts. He focuses his study on the question:...
by Donald Kagan
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2013
Why did the Peace of Nicias fail to reconcile Athens and Sparta? In the third volume of his landmark four-volume history of the Peloponnesian War, Donald Kagan examines the years between the signing of the peace treaty and the destruction of the Athenian expedition to Sicily in 413 B.C. The principal...