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A Nation Like All Others: A Brief History of American Foreign Relations by Warren I. Cohen
epub |eng | 2018-03-06 | Author:Warren I. Cohen

14 VIETNAM AND THE LESSONS OF GREAT POWER ARROGANCE America’s war in Vietnam was an example of great power arrogance. Neither American leaders nor American scholars knew or cared much ...
( Category: History & Theory January 19,2020 )
The Presidency of Barack Obama: A First Historical Assessment by Julian E. Zelizer
epub |eng | 2018-01-15 | Author:Julian E. Zelizer [Zelizer, Julian E.]

12 A Promise Unfulfilled, an Imperfect Legacy OBAMA AND IMMIGRATION POLICY Sarah R. Coleman When President Obama entered office, the content, scope, and partisan nature of immigration policy debates had ...
( Category: Americas January 19,2020 )
Mining North America: An Environmental History Since 1522 by John R. McNeill & George Vrtis
epub, pdf |eng | 2017-07-11 | Author:John R. McNeill & George Vrtis [McNeill, John R. & Vrtis, George]

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS OF THE URANIUM BOOM Mines The “nuclear fuel cycle” has several stages: mining; milling ore to produce yellowcake; enrichment to separate and concentrate fissionable isotopes; fuel fabrication for ...
( Category: Engineering January 19,2020 )
Children of Reunion: Vietnamese Adoptions and the Politics of Family Migrations by Allison Varzally
epub, pdf |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Allison Varzally

Merrie Li holding baby sister, Marie; brother, Brandon (front); Tony (back left); Tung (back right) and their mother, Lieu (left). Courtesy of Merrie Li Camp. To satisfy its promise to ...
( Category: Asian American Studies January 19,2020 )
From the Dugouts to the Trenches by Jim Leeke
epub |eng | 2017-03-07 | Author:Jim Leeke [Leeke, Jim]

Sporting News spared the pitcher the criticism it generally directed toward the navy’s yeomen ballplayers. “He went to the Army camp ready to take his chances,” the publication wrote of ...
( Category: Baseball January 19,2020 )
Big and Small: A Cultural History of Extraordinary Bodies by Lynne Vallone
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Lynne Vallone [Vallone, Lynne]

“Science Finds, Industry Applies, Man Conforms” Behind big machines lie big ideas. And animating these ideas were the desires to reduce human labor, solve agricultural, industrial, transportation, and communication problems, ...
( Category: Disabled January 19,2020 )
Revolutionaries for the Right by Burke Kyle;
epub |eng | 2018-01-15 | Author:Burke, Kyle;

The notion that the U.S. government was failing to support anticommunist rebels—and that private groups could fill in for the state—emerged in other conflicts, with ever diminishing results. In Southeast ...
( Category: Americas January 19,2020 )
Bill Monroe: The Life and Music of the Blue Grass Man by Tom Ewing
epub |eng | 2018-09-07 | Author:Tom Ewing [Ewing, Tom]

HUTCHENS: One morning, Bill came out to the bus where I was staying and said, “Danny is coming down this morning. I was supposed to meet him at eleven o'clock ...
( Category: Country & Folk January 19,2020 )
White Women's Rights by Newman Louise Michele;
epub |eng | 2011-09-14 | Author:Newman, Louise Michele; [Newman, Louise Michele;]

FIGURE 6-1 An antidote to race suicide. What would Col. Roastwell Say to this? Six in one year! Postcard, 1903–1907. Roosevelt is credited with having popularized the term “race suicide” ...
( Category: Schools & Teaching January 19,2020 )
Hamas Contained by Baconi Tareq
epub |eng | 2018-01-15 | Author:Baconi, Tareq [Baconi, Tareq]

CONCLUSION CONTAINMENT AND PACIFICATION In 2015, the United Nations issued a report asserting that by the year 2020 the Gaza Strip would be uninhabitable if the situation that had prevailed ...
( Category: African January 19,2020 )
Foreign Policy at the Periphery by Bevan Sewell
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Bevan Sewell [Sewell, Bevan]

Between the beginning of 1960 and the end of the Katangan secession in January 1963, twenty-three African nations became independent. In taking almost everyone by surprise, the rapid decolonization of ...
( Category: Communism & Socialism January 19,2020 )
A History of Jews in Germany Since 1945 by Brenner Michael; Kronenberg Kenneth;
epub |eng | 2018-01-15 | Author:Brenner, Michael; Kronenberg, Kenneth; [Brenner, Michael; Kronenberg, Kenneth;]

“JEWS OUT” In Cologne during the night of December 24, 1959, someone desecrated a memorial to the victims of National Socialism and then the façade of the Roonstrasse synagogue.28 The ...
( Category: Jewish January 19,2020 )
Rival Power: Russia in Southeast Europe by Dimitar Bechev
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Dimitar Bechev [Bechev, Dimitar]

“Our strategic neighbor” What conditioned the Russian–Turkish alignment, unprecedented since the interwar years, were ultimately shifts in the area of security. The Iraq War (2003–11) was a case in point. ...
( Category: Russian & Former Soviet Union January 19,2020 )
Terror in the Mind of God, Fourth Edition: The Global Rise of Religious Violence by Mark Juergensmeyer
epub |eng | 2017-03-28 | Author:Mark Juergensmeyer [Juergensmeyer, Mark]

WHEN SYMBOLS BECOME DEADLY But if religious images are meant to conquer violence, one must ask the obvious but difficult question: why and how are these symbolic presentations of violence ...
( Category: Violence in Society January 19,2020 )
Disrupt and Deny by Cormac Rory;
epub |eng | 2018-02-17 | Author:Cormac, Rory;

Hit squads Propaganda formed the backbone of broader deniable activities. In Belfast, Hugh Mooney considered himself involved in ‘all SPA’, or special political action, projects.45 In London, Heath demanded more ...
( Category: European January 19,2020 )

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