wyszukanych pozycji: 5
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Shattered Hope: The Guatemalan Revolution and the United States, 1944-1954
ISBN: 9780691025568 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The most thorough account yet available of a revolution that saw the first true agrarian reform in Central America, this book is also a penetrating analysis of the tragic destruction of that revolution. In no other Central American country was U.S. intervention so decisive and so ruinous, charges Piero Gleijeses. Yet he shows that the intervention can be blamed on no single "convenient villain." "Extensively researched and written with conviction and passion, this study analyzes the history and downfall of what seems in retrospect to have been Guatemala's best government, the short-lived... The most thorough account yet available of a revolution that saw the first true agrarian reform in Central America, this book is also a penetrating... |
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386,69 zł |
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Visions of Freedom: Havana, Washington, Pretoria and the Struggle for Southern Africa, 1976-1991 /]cpiero Gleijeses
ISBN: 9781469628325 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 672 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. During the final fifteen years of the Cold War, southern Africa underwent a period of upheaval, with dramatic twists and turns in relations between the superpowers. Americans, Cubans, Soviets, and Africans fought over the future of Angola, where tens of thousands of Cuban soldiers were stationed, and over the decolonization of Namibia, Africa's last colony. Beyond lay the great prize: South Africa. Piero Gleijeses uses archival sources, particularly from the United States, South Africa, and the closed Cuban archives, to provide an unprecedented international history of this important...
During the final fifteen years of the Cold War, southern Africa underwent a period of upheaval, with dramatic twists and turns in relations between th...
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206,39 zł |
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Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington, and Africa, 1959-1976
ISBN: 9780807854648 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This is a compelling and dramatic account of Cuban policy in Africa from 1959 to 1976 and of its escalating clash with U.S. policy toward the continent. Piero Gleijeses's fast-paced narrative takes the reader from Cuba's first steps to assist Algerian rebels fighting France in 1961, to the secret war between Havana and Washington in Zaire in 1964-65--where 100 Cubans led by Che Guevara clashed with 1,000 mercenaries controlled by the CIA--and, finally, to the dramatic dispatch of 30,000 Cubans to Angola in 1975-76, which stopped the South African advance on Luanda and doomed Henry Kissinger's...
This is a compelling and dramatic account of Cuban policy in Africa from 1959 to 1976 and of its escalating clash with U.S. policy toward the continen...
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257,99 zł |
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America's Road to Empire: Foreign Policy from Independence to World War One
ISBN: 9781350028685 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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131,18 zł |
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America's Road to Empire: Foreign Policy from Independence to World War One
ISBN: 9781350028678 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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403,79 zł |