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Deze serie duikt in de cruciale kwesties die de Amerikaanse samenleving en politiek hebben gevormd. Het biedt inzichtelijke analyses van belangrijke historische momenten en hun blijvende impact. Elk deel biedt een toegankelijke en beknopte verkenning van complexe onderwerpen. Het is essentiële lectuur voor iedereen die een dieper inzicht zoekt in de Amerikaanse ervaring.

The Organic Machine
Prisoners Without Trial
The Specter of Communism
Manifest Destiny

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  • Manifest Destiny

    • 144bladzijden
    • 6 uur lezen
    3,4(173)Tarief

    Stephanson explores the origins of Manifest Destiny--the American idea of providential and historical chosenness--and shows how and why it has been invoked over the past three hundred years. He traces the roots of Manifest Destiny from the British settlement of North America and the rise of Puritanism through Woodrow Wilson's efforts to "make the world safe for democracy" and Ronald Reagan's struggle against the "evil empire" of the Soviet Union. The result is a remarkable and necessary book about how faith in divinely ordained expansionism has marked the course of American history.

    Manifest Destiny

  • The Specter of Communism

    3,7(205)Tarief

    The Hill and Wang Critical Issues Series: concise, affordable works on pivotal topics in American history, society, and politics. The Specter of Communism is a concise history of the origins of the Cold War and the evolution of U.S.-Soviet relations, from the Bolshevik revolution to the death of Stalin. Using not only American documents but also those from newly opened archives in Russia, China, and Eastern Europe, Leffler shows how the ideological animosity that existed from Lenin's seizure of power onward turned into dangerous confrontation. By focusing on American political culture and American anxieties about the Soviet political and economic threat, Leffler suggests new ways of understanding the global struggle staged by the two great powers of the postwar era.

    The Specter of Communism

  • Prisoners Without Trial

    3,7(200)Tarief

    "Prisoners Without Trail" is a critical exploration of the internment of 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II. Part of Hill and Wang's Critical Issues Series, Roger Daniels's updated edition includes a revised final chapter and expanded readings, prompting reflection on the potential for similar injustices in the future.

    Prisoners Without Trial

  • The Organic Machine

    • 144bladzijden
    • 6 uur lezen
    3,8(674)Tarief

    The Hill and Wang Critical Issues Series: concise, affordable works on pivotal topics in American history, society, and politics.In this pioneering study, White explores the relationship between the natural history of the Columbia River and the human history of the Pacific Northwest for both whites and Native Americans. He concentrates on what brings humans and the river together: not only the physical space of the region but also, and primarily, energy and work. For working with the river has been central to Pacific Northwesterners' competing ways of life. It is in this way that White comes to view the Columbia River as an organic machine--with conflicting human and natural claims--and to show that whatever separation exists between humans and nature exists to be crossed.

    The Organic Machine