wyszukanych pozycji: 23
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Enemies of the State: Personal Stories from the Gulag
ISBN: 9781566634564 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Excerpts from nine of the most widely read Gulag books. In addition to providing a ghastly record of Communist terror, the Critchlows also explain why Western readers developed such deep mistrust of peaceful coexistence with any Communist nation. The Critchlows have rendered a signal service to scholarship by providing attention, access, and background to this historically important literature. John Earl Haynes"
Excerpts from nine of the most widely read Gulag books. In addition to providing a ghastly record of Communist terror, the Critchlows also explain why...
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154,59 zł |
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American Political History: A Very Short Introduction
ISBN: 9780199340057 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The Founding Fathers who drafted the United States Constitution in 1787 distrusted political parties, popular democracy, centralized government, and a strong executive office. Yet the country's national politics have historically included all those features. In American Political History: A Very Short Introduction, Donald Critchlow takes on this contradiction between original theory and actual practice. This brief, accessible book explores the nature of the two-party system, key turning points in American political history, representative presidential and congressional elections, struggles to...
The Founding Fathers who drafted the United States Constitution in 1787 distrusted political parties, popular democracy, centralized government, and a...
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52,92 zł |
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Debating the American Conservative Movement: 1945 to the Present
ISBN: 9780742548237 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Debating the American Conservative Movement chronicles one of the most dramatic stories of modern American political history. The authors describe how a small band of conservatives in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War launched a revolution that shifted American politics to the right, challenged the New Deal order, transformed the Republican party into a voice of conservatism, and set the terms of debate in American politics as the country entered the new millennium. Historians Donald Critchlow and Nancy MacLean frame two opposing perspectives of how the history of conservatism...
Debating the American Conservative Movement chronicles one of the most dramatic stories of modern American political history. The authors describe how...
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329,41 zł |
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Phyllis Schlafly and Grassroots Conservatism: A Woman's Crusade
ISBN: 9780691136240 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. Longtime activist, author, and antifeminist leader Phyllis Schlafly is for many the symbol of the conservative movement in America. In this provocative new book, historian Donald T. Critchlow sheds new light on Schlafly's life and on the unappreciated role her grassroots activism played in transforming America's political landscape. Based on exclusive and unrestricted access to Schlafly's papers as well as sixty other archival collections, the book reveals for the first time the inside story of this Missouri-born mother of six who became one of the most controversial forces in... Longtime activist, author, and antifeminist leader Phyllis Schlafly is for many the symbol of the conservative movement in America. In this provoca... |
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185,96 zł |
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The Brookings Institution, 1916-1952
ISBN: 9780875801032 / Angielski / Twarda / 1985 / 261 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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181,70 zł |
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Future Right: Forging a New Republican Majority
ISBN: 9781250087584 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Contrary to those who argue that demographics are political destiny, social trends are transforming identity categories of race, gender, and youth - all of which provide rich opportunities for Republicans to create a new majority. To accomplish this, Republicans will need imagination and political acumen if they are to win over those constituencies that have become the base of the Democratic Party: minorities, young women, and millennials. Behind the reality of current voting patterns, which without doubt presents a gloomy future for the Republican Party, social trends and a deeper... Contrary to those who argue that demographics are political destiny, social trends are transforming identity categories of race, gender, and youth ... |
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142,55 zł |
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The Conservative Ascendancy: How the Republican Right Rose to Power in Modern America?second Edition, Revised and Expanded
ISBN: 9780700617951 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Hailed as "perhaps the best scholarly overview of the conservative movement in print" (American Conservative), Donald Critchlow's The Conservative Ascendancy has depicted, as no other book has, the wild ride of the Republican Right. Newly updated and available for the first time in paperback, it continues to offer the best account of the conservative struggle to reverse the momentum of the New Deal. In tracing the conservative revival, Critchlow chronicles how conservative beliefs were translated into political power. He shows how conservatives, from think tank theorists to...
Hailed as "perhaps the best scholarly overview of the conservative movement in print" (American Conservative), Donald Critchlow's The Conser...
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175,07 zł |
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Hollywood and Politics: A Sourcebook
ISBN: 9780415965361 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 342 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Money, power, and celebrity - the stuff of Hollywood is also substance of politics. While Hollywood celebrities such as Susan Sarandon, George Clooney, and Ed Begley Jr. currently attract attention from the media for their involvement in politics, Hollywood has been involved in politics since its earliest days. Hollywood and Politics: A Sourcebook documents the entertainment industry's participation in American politics on both the Left and the Right. From the 1920s through today, this volume provides scholars of history, politics, and film with the controversial history... Money, power, and celebrity - the stuff of Hollywood is also substance of politics. While Hollywood celebrities such as Susan Sarandon, George Cloo... |
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100,89 zł |
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Republican Character: From Nixon to Reagan
ISBN: 9780812224719 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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111,00 zł |
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Republican Character: From Nixon to Reagan
ISBN: 9780812249774 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "Politics makes for strange bedfellows," the old saying goes. Americans, however, often forget the obvious lesson underlying this adage: politics is about winning elections and governing once in office. Voters of all stripes seem put off by the rough-and-tumble horse-trading and deal-making of politics, viewing its practitioners as self-serving and without principle or conviction. Because of these perspectives, the scholarly and popular narrative of American politics has come to focus on ideology over all else. But as Donald T. Critchlow demonstrates in his riveting new book, this... "Politics makes for strange bedfellows," the old saying goes. Americans, however, often forget the obvious lesson underlying this adage: politics i... |
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407,20 zł |
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Hollywood and Politics: A Sourcebook
ISBN: 9780415965354 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 342 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Money, power, and celebrity - the stuff of Hollywood is also substance of politics. While Hollywood celebrities such as Susan Sarandon, George Clooney, and Ed Begley Jr. currently attract attention from the media for their involvement in politics, Hollywood has been involved in politics since its earliest days. Hollywood and Politics: A Sourcebook documents the entertainment industry's participation in American politics on both the Left and the Right. From the 1920s through today, this volume provides scholars of history, politics, and film with the controversial history... Money, power, and celebrity - the stuff of Hollywood is also substance of politics. While Hollywood celebrities such as Susan Sarandon, George Cloo... |
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191,75 zł |
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Federal Social Policy: The Historical Dimension
ISBN: 9780271026282 / Angielski / Miękka / 1988 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Reflecting the growing interest in social policy history, this book provides a penetrating examination of the development of social policy in the twentieth-century America. An introductory chapter serving as an overview to the field is followed by seven original essays which explore the historical context for understanding the formulation, implementation, and administration of social policy. Robert Kelly's Foreword discusses the growth of policy history in recent years. In his introduction Donald Critchlow argues that "policy history" encompasses historical reconstructions of... Reflecting the growing interest in social policy history, this book provides a penetrating examination of the development of social policy in the t... |
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211,34 zł |
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In Defense of Populism: Protest and American Democracy
ISBN: 9780812252767 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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122,02 zł |
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When Hollywood Was Right: How Movie Stars, Studio Moguls, and Big Business Remade American Politics
ISBN: 9780521199186 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 235 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Hollywood was not always a bastion of liberalism. Following World War II, an informal alliance of movie stars, studio moguls, and Southern California business interests formed to revitalize a factionalized Republican Party. Coming together were stars such as John Wayne, Robert Taylor, George Murphy, and many others who joined studio heads Cecil B. DeMille, Louis B. Mayer, Walt Disney, and Jack Warner to rebuild the Republican Party. They found support among a large group of business leaders who poured money and skills into this effort, which paid off with the election of George Murphy to the...
Hollywood was not always a bastion of liberalism. Following World War II, an informal alliance of movie stars, studio moguls, and Southern California ...
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101,88 zł |
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Debating the American Conservative Movement: 1945 to the Present
ISBN: 9780742548244 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Debating the American Conservative Movement chronicles one of the most dramatic stories of modern American political history. The authors describe how a small band of conservatives in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War launched a revolution that shifted American politics to the right, challenged the New Deal order, transformed the Republican party into a voice of conservatism, and set the terms of debate in American politics as the country entered the new millennium. Historians Donald Critchlow and Nancy MacLean frame two opposing perspectives of how the history of conservatism...
Debating the American Conservative Movement chronicles one of the most dramatic stories of modern American political history. The authors describe how...
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159,39 zł |
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Intended Consequences: Birth Control, Abortion, and the Federal Government in Modern America
ISBN: 9780195145939 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. After World War II, U.S. policy experts--convinced that unchecked population growth threatened global disaster--successfully lobbied bipartisan policy-makers in Washington to initiate federally-funded family planning. In Intended Consequences, Donald T. Critchlow deftly chronicles how the government's involvement in contraception and abortion evolved into one of the most bitter, partisan controversies in American political history.
The growth of the feminist movement in the late 1960s fundamentally altered the debate over the federal family planning movement, shifting its focus... After World War II, U.S. policy experts--convinced that unchecked population growth threatened global disaster--successfully lobbied bipartisan policy...
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388,84 zł |
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Revolutionary Monsters: Five Men Who Turned Liberation into Tyranny
ISBN: 9781684511242 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Lenin. Mao. Castro. Mugabe. Khomeini. All sparked movements in the name of liberating their people from their oppressors—capitalists, foreign imperialists, or dictators in their own country. These revolutionaries rallied the masses in the name of freedom, only to become more tyrannical than those they replaced. Much has been written about the anatomy of revolution from Edmund Burke to Crane Brinton Crane, Franz Fanon, and contemporary theorists of revolution found in the modern academy. Yet what is missing is a dissection of the revolutionary minds that destroyed the old for the...
Lenin. Mao. Castro. Mugabe. Khomeini. All sparked movements in the name of liberating their people from their oppressors—capitalists, foreign impe...
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122,18 zł |
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With Us Always: A History of Private Charity and Public Welfare
ISBN: 9780847689705 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This important book provides a crucial examination of past attempts, both in this country and abroad, to balance the efforts of private charity and public welfare.
This important book provides a crucial examination of past attempts, both in this country and abroad, to balance the efforts of private charity and pu...
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223,15 zł |
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Political Conspiracies in America: A Reader
ISBN: 9780253219640 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Conspiracy theories have been a part of the American experience since colonial times. There is a rich literature on conspiracies involving, among others, Masons, Catholics, Mormons, Jews, financiers, Communists, and internationalists. Although many conspiracy theories appear irrational, an exaggerated fear of a conspiracy sometimes proves to be well founded. This anthology provides students with documents relating to some of the more important and interesting conspiracy theories in American history and politics, some based on reality, many chiefly on paranoia. It provides a fascinating... Conspiracy theories have been a part of the American experience since colonial times. There is a rich literature on conspiracies involving, among o... |
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95,84 zł |
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Enemies of the State: Personal Stories from the Gulag
ISBN: 9781566635219 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Long before Alexander Solzhenitsyn s One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962) shocked the Western world with its frightening description of a typical day in a forced-labor camp during the Stalin era, some readers in the West already knew of prison life in the Soviet Union, the Eastern bloc, and other Communist countries. A powerful genre of gulag literature had emerged in the late 1930s and developed throughout the cold war. Books by survivors revealed in graphic detail the systematic implementation of a totalitarian police state that induced terror in its citizens through torture,...
Long before Alexander Solzhenitsyn s One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962) shocked the Western world with its frightening description of a typ...
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64,98 zł |