Schlagwort History - U.S. – alle Bücher, Seite 3

Michael T. Bernath
In a Land of Strangers

What makes the American South distinctive? Is it the location, the culture, the mindset---or a story Americans learned to tell about themselves? In a Land of Strangers contends that the idea of a "di…

lieferbar ab 4.8.2026.

Buch

Matthew Bernstein
Crimewave

When on May 12, 1848, Sam Brannan walked down San Francisco's Market Street, holding high a bottle of gold dust and shouting, "Gold! Gold! Gold from the American River!" he initiated the great C…

lieferbar ab 15.7.2026.

Buch

Martha Biondi
We Are Internationalists

"Now more than ever, young Americans need to know that internationalism and solidarity with anticolonial struggles in the Global South have a deep history in the American Left, especially the Black L…

lieferbar in mind. 4 Wochen

Buch

Matt Birkhold
Black Power PRAXIS

Black Power Praxis shows how four groups of activist-intellectuals--James and Grace Lee Boggs, Richard and Milton Henry, Reverend Albert Cleage, and a group of college students called Uhuru--shifted the c…

lieferbar ab 19.10.2026.

Buch

Stephen Birmingham
Certain People

Certain People is an extensively researched, fascinating, and intimate portrait of America's black elite which reveals the rarely publicized world of the heritage, conflicts, and characteristics of the bl…

lieferbar ab 4.8.2026.

Buch

Keisha N Blain
Without Fear

Even before they were recognized as citizens of the United States, Black women understood that the fights for civil and human rights were inseparable. Over the course of two hundred years, they were at th…

lieferbar innerhalb 1-2 Wochen

Buch

Melissa Estes Blair
Bringing Home the White House

In Bringing Home the White House, Melissa Estes Blair introduces us to five fascinating yet largely unheralded women who were at the heart of campaigns to elect and reelect some of our most beloved presid…

lieferbar ab 15.9.2026.

Buch

Felice A Bonadio
A. P. Giannini

Perhaps more than any other individual, Amadeo Peter Giannini brought California into the twentieth century. Extending credit to ordinary working people, creating a financial empire through his branch ban…

lieferbar ab 29.9.2026.

Buch

Jon Boorstin
The American

What does it mean to be an American? Historian Daniel J. Boorstin, one of the most important public intellectuals of the twentieth century, spent a lifetime pondering that question. In his revelatory book…

lieferbar ab 1.8.2026.

Buch

Claire Bourhis-Mariotti
We Are American Citizens

We Are American Citizens offers a groundbreaking reexamination of the antebellum national Colored Conventions, demonstrating that these gatherings constituted the first structured civil rights movement in…

lieferbar in mind. 4 Wochen

Buch

Margaret C. Bowen, Gwendolyn J. Hiles
Jersey Gold

When gold fever struck in 1849, John S. Darcy-prominent physician, general, and president of the New Jersey Railroad-assembled a company to travel overland to California. In Jersey Gold, Margaret Casterli…

lieferbar innerhalb 2-3 Wochen

Buch

Herb Boyd
Epic Harlem

A sweeping, deeply rooted history of Harlem at the center of Black cultural, political, and intellectual lifeFrom its earliest Indigenous inhabitants and Dutch settlers to its emergence as a global center…

lieferbar ab 1.9.2026.

Buch

Nathan Braccio
Creating New England, Defending the Northeast

Examining maps and placemaking during negotiations between Indigenous people and colonial settlersBetween 1500 and 1700, Indigenous and English mapmakers across the North Atlantic depicted present-day New…

lieferbar innerhalb 1-2 Wochen

Buch

Steven J Brady
Less Than Victory

"This book explores the impact of the Vietnam War on the American Catholic community, and the impact of the nation's largest religious group upon its most controversial war. It will interest students…

lieferbar innerhalb 1-2 Wochen

Buch

Benjamin Breen
Tripping on Utopia

A Los Angeles Times Bestseller One of The New Yorker 's Best Books of 2024 A bold and brilliant revisionist take on the history of psychedelics in the twentieth century, illuminating how a culture of expe…

Erscheint bald

Buch

Corey Brettschneider
The Presidents and the People

Imagine an American president who imprisoned critics, spread a culture of white supremacy and tried to upend the law so that he could commit crimes with impunity. In this propulsive and eminently readable…

sofort lieferbar

Buch

Kevin Britz, Roger L. Nichols
Tombstone, Deadwood, Dodge City

"Shootin'-Lynchin'-Hangin'," announces the advertisement for Tombstone's Helldorado Days festival. Dodge City's Boot Hill Cemetery sports an "authentic hangman's tree." Not to be outdo…

lieferbar innerhalb 2-3 Wochen

Buch

David Brooks
Restoring the Shining Waters

No sooner had the EPA established the Superfund program in 1980 to clean up the nation's toxic waste dumps and other abandoned hazardous waste sites, than a little Montana town found itself topping the ne…

lieferbar innerhalb 2-3 Wochen

Buch

Charlotte Brooks
The Moys of New York and Shanghai

The most extraordinary family you've never heard of. Born to Chinese immigrant parents, the Moy siblings grew up in an America that questioned their citizenship and denied their equality. Sophisticated an…

lieferbar innerhalb 1-2 Wochen

Buch

Dona Brown
Hill Farms

Environmental History of the Northeast

There is a stubborn myth that has persisted for almost two centuries: the narrative of the abandoned farm in the rural American northeast. In Hill Farms , historian Dona Brown confronts this myth of rural…

lieferbar in mind. 4 Wochen

Buch

Trefferliste "History - U.S." - alle Bücher