History Policy – Bücher, CDs, Blu-ray Discs und mehr, Seite 3

Alfred Runte
Trains for Nature

Discover how America's abandoned passenger trains hold the key to preserving our nation's scenic treasures and wilderness landscapes.In this timely and provocative work, renowned environmental historian A…

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Pelle Dragsted,
Nordic Socialism

In recent years, the Nordic countries have been the envy of the world for their economic success, their institutional stability, and their consistently high levels of social happiness. But are they social…

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Stephanie Gray
Restoring America

Exploring how the New Deal shaped history through politically driven commemorationDuring the Great Depression, Americans employed historic preservation as a tool to address the political, economic, and so…

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Barney White-Spunner
Nations in Arms

"An engrossing study." Times Literary Supplement, Books of the Year 2025 A critical study of five historical armies that offers solutions for how contemporary forces need to change to deal with …

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Daniel Rood
In the Shadow of the Great House

We imagine the plantation-the big house, the slave quarters, the vast cotton fields-as situated firmly in the American past. Yet as historian Daniel Rood shows, the plantation is still very much with us. …

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Alejandro E Camacho, Brigham Daniels
Lessons for a Warming Planet

Displays how throughout US history, law has consistently been foundational to the nation's environmental exploitation and protection, offering crucial lessons for addressing contemporary challengesThe rel…

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Richard N Langlois
The Corporation and the Twentieth Century

A definitive reframing of the economic, institutional, and intellectual history of the managerial eraThe twentieth century was the managerial century in the United States. An organizational transformation…

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Samuel Moyn
Gerontocracy in America

A leading social critic identifies our least-discussed major crisis, and sets out to solve it.As Americans debate President Biden's infirmities and President Trump's erratic behavior, we've neglected the …

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Scott Gottlieb
The Miracle Century

New York Times bestselling author and former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb provides a glimpse of a promising future that is quickly approaching: a world with cures for chronic illnesses and cancers.Whil…

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Dimitri Landa, Ryan Pevnick
Representative Democracy

Despite the not-so-distant invocations of the "end of history," representative democracy is, today, under siege even from corners where one once might have expected strong sympathy and support. …

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Dimitri Landa, Ryan Pevnick
Representative Democracy

Representative Democracy explains why the definitive institutional features of representative democracy are attractive relative to salient alternatives (including direct democracy, lottery-based systems, …

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Alfred W McCoy
Cold War on Five Continents

A provocative analysis of the deadly Cold War conflicts that devastated countries and communities far from Moscow and Washington Transforming battlegrounds in Africa, Asia, and Latin America into veritab…

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Miles Kenney-Lazar
Socializing Land

Since 2008, there has been tremendous public interest in the social and ecological ramifications of the global land rush, a rapid increase of capital investment into land, especially for the establishment…

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Nature and Place in Texas

Texas history is often recounted through tales of revolution, oil booms, and cattle drives. But what if we considered a different lens---one shaped by wind and wildfire, rivers and drought, grasslands and…

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Neil S Forkey
Defending a Borderland

Tracing grassroots activism in response to a devastating transnational oil spillOn the morning of June 23, 1976, the NEPCO 140 barge, carrying 8.7 million gallons of thick crude oil, ruptured twice while …

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Subodhana Wijeyeratne
The Islands and the Stars

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is among the six largest national space agencies in the world, along with China's CNSA, US's NASA, and Russia's Roscosmos. JAXA's budget is more than $1 billi…

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Neil S Forkey
Defending a Borderland

Tracing grassroots activism in response to a devastating transnational oil spillOn the morning of June 23, 1976, the NEPCO 140 barge, carrying 8.7 million gallons of thick crude oil, ruptured twice while …

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Subodhana Wijeyeratne
The Islands and the Stars

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is among the six largest national space agencies in the world, along with China's CNSA, US's NASA, and Russia's Roscosmos. JAXA's budget is more than $1 billi…

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Peter Agre
Can Scientists Succeed Where Politicians Fail?

How can science prevail when policies fall short?Political, military, and intelligence professionals alone can't resolve all global threats. Sometimes, when other solutions have faltered, scientists step …

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Jin Sato
Sustainability Inverted

What environmental policies do to people, beyond what they do to the climate, forests, air, or water.Sustainability Inverted explores the hidden politics of environmental policy and the unintended consequ…

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