wyszukanych pozycji: 6
Like a Holy Crusade: Mississippi 1964 -- The Turning of the Civil Rights Movement in America
ISBN: 9781566630269 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) The year 1964 produced a watershed in American race relations. In one of the civil rights movement's most dramatic initiatives, thousands of Northern white college students were recruited to come south that summer in an effort to "break" Mississippi and secure voting rights for its black citizens. Nicolaus Mills traces the history of this Summer Project, including its origins and aftermath, and shows in detail how its consequences involved not only great victories but also violence (the murders of Michael Schwerner, James Chaney, and Andrew Goodman, among other events) and disillusion. His...
The year 1964 produced a watershed in American race relations. In one of the civil rights movement's most dramatic initiatives, thousands of Northern ...
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87,14 zł |
Arguing Immigration: The Controversy and Crisis Over the Future of Immigration in America
ISBN: 9780671895587 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) This remarkakble collection of writings provides a wide diversity of answers to one of today's most emotionally charged questions. Spanning the whole political spectrum and covering issues from jobs and the economy to race and culture, it includes the strong opinions of writers and critics from Toni Morrison to Francis Fukuyama.
This remarkakble collection of writings provides a wide diversity of answers to one of today's most emotionally charged questions. Spanning the whole ...
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74,04 zł |
Winning the Peace: The Marshall Plan and America's Coming of Age as a Superpower
ISBN: 9780470097557 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Politicians of every stripe frequently invoke the Marshall Plan in support of programs aimed at using American wealth to extend the nation's power and influence, solve intractable third-world economic problems, and combat world hunger and disease. Do any of these impassioned advocates understand why the Marshall Plan succeeded where so many subsequent aid plans have not? Historian Nicolaus Mills explores the Marshall Plan in all its dimensions to provide valuable lessons from the past about what America can and cannot do as a superpower.
Politicians of every stripe frequently invoke the Marshall Plan in support of programs aimed at using American wealth to extend the nation's power and...
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170,13 zł |
Culture in an Age of Money: The Legacy of the 1980s in America
ISBN: 9780929587714 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) As the Reagan administration began, Nancy Reagan chose new china for the White House at a cost of $209,508. The pattern for the decade was struck. As the Reagans made wealth seem glamorous, what followed was a culture dominated by a belief in the magic of the marketplace. Money words became the key language for the eighties, and they signaled a culture with an insatiable need to proclaim its triumphs. In the wake of the Reagan years, fifteen brilliant essayists survey the kind of culture created by Reagan politics and Reagan ideology. From architecture to the yuppie ascendancy, including...
As the Reagan administration began, Nancy Reagan chose new china for the White House at a cost of $209,508. The pattern for the decade was struck. As ...
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128,30 zł |
The New Killing Fields: Massacre and the Politics of Intervention
ISBN: 9780465008049 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) The question of the responsibility inherent in the unrivaled might of the U.S. military is one that continues to take up headlines across the globe. This award-winning group of reporters and scholars, including, among others, David Rieff, Peter Maass, Philip Gourevitch, William Shawcross, George Packer, Bill Berkeley and Samantha Power revisit four of the worst instances of state-sponsored killing--Cambodia, Yugoslavia, Rwanda, and East Timor--in the last half of the twentieth century in order to reconsider the success and failure of U.S. and U.N. military and humanitarian...
The question of the responsibility inherent in the unrivaled might of the U.S. military is one that continues to take up headlines across the globe. T...
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96,05 zł |
50 Years of Dissent
ISBN: 9780300103694 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Dissent was founded in 1954 by intellectuals angered by the rightward drift of the country but uneasy with the dogmatism they saw on the American left, and it has provoked debates about political ideas and about American and global issues ever since. Dissent was founded in 1954 by intellectuals angered by the rightward drift of the country but uneasy with the dogmatism they saw on the Ame... |
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342,64 zł |