Bøger i Critical Issues in American History serien
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- World War I and the American Experience
565,95 kr. This text examines the causes, prosecution and legacy of World War I, from the perspective of American involvement. It illuminates American influence on the war, looking at battles and diplomatic moves, and the war's impact at home, covering the changing state of American politics, and society.
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- 565,95 kr.
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- 452,95 kr.
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- The Struggle to Define the New Republic, 1789-1793
358,95 - 1.028,95 kr. Conceived in Liberty probes the fundamentals of the great dispute among John Adams, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, and their followers over the sort of country the United States should be. In clear and concise prose, Lance Banning clarifies the foundations of the first great party struggle-and thus of nineteenth-century America.
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- 358,95 kr.
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- From Reaction to Revolution
457,95 kr. This concise history focuses on the development of American conservatism in the twentieth century up to the present.
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- 457,95 kr.
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- Turning Points in American Labor
461,95 kr. The Unfinished Struggle is one of the most concise, comprehensive, and accessible histories of the modern American labor movement ever written. Labor scholar and activist Steve Babson''s dramatic narrative examines the numerous attempts to organize workers from the Great Uprising of 1877 to the ''sitdown'' strikes of the 1930s to the present day. Babson illuminates the tumultuous past, evolving agenda, and continuing conflicts of the labor movement. He carefully identifies the causes of labor''s decline in recent decades and explains union leaders'' attempts to revive their organizations. Most important, Babson shows readers how the fortunes of organized labor are tied to larger trends in American history.
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- 461,95 kr.