wyszukanych pozycji: 45
Ambassadors in Pinstripes: The Spalding World Baseball Tour and the Birth of the American Empire
ISBN: 9780742551688 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Inspired and led by sporting magnate Albert Goodwill Spalding, two teams of baseball players circled the globe for six months in 1888-1889 competing in such far away destinations as Australia, Sri Lanka and Egypt. These players, however, represented much more than mere pleasure-seekers. In this lively narrative, Zeiler explores the ways in which the Spalding World Baseball Tour drew on elements of cultural diplomacy to inject American values and power into the international arena. Through his chronicle of baseball history, games, and experiences, Zeiler explores expressions of imperial dreams...
Inspired and led by sporting magnate Albert Goodwill Spalding, two teams of baseball players circled the globe for six months in 1888-1889 competing i...
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600,60 zł |
Annihilation: A Global Military History of World War II
ISBN: 9780199734733 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. From 1937 to 1945 the world witnessed a succession of savage military strategies and actions on land, in the seas, and in the skies that resulted in the slaughter of more than 50 million people. Incorporating the most recent scholarship on the military history of the Second World War, this study offers a chronological and geographical examination of the most destructive event in recorded human history.
Annihilation argues that World War II evolved into a war of annihilation--a total war--that engulfed militants and civilians alike. The book challenges the "good war" thesis by... From 1937 to 1945 the world witnessed a succession of savage military strategies and actions on land, in the seas, and in the skies that resulted in t...
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658,99 zł |
Dean Rusk: Defending the American Mission Abroad
ISBN: 9780842026864 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 235 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Explains the accomplishments of US leadership and the pitfalls the nation encountered due to the tensions between realpolitik and liberal ideology. Through the career of Rusk, the author reflects on the uses and abuses of predominant power in diplomacy, and interprets events and issues.
Explains the accomplishments of US leadership and the pitfalls the nation encountered due to the tensions between realpolitik and liberal ideology. Th...
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218,40 zł |
Ambassadors in Pinstripes: The Spalding World Baseball Tour and the Birth of the American Empire
ISBN: 9780742551695 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Inspired and led by sporting magnate Albert Goodwill Spalding, two teams of baseball players circled the globe for six months in 1888-1889 competing in such far away destinations as Australia, Sri Lanka and Egypt. These players, however, represented much more than mere pleasure-seekers. In this lively narrative, Zeiler explores the ways in which the Spalding World Baseball Tour drew on elements of cultural diplomacy to inject American values and power into the international arena. Through his chronicle of baseball history, games, and experiences, Zeiler explores expressions of imperial dreams...
Inspired and led by sporting magnate Albert Goodwill Spalding, two teams of baseball players circled the globe for six months in 1888-1889 competing i...
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207,48 zł |
The Fear of Chinese Power: An International History
ISBN: 9781350233959 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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337,16 zł |
The Fear of Chinese Power: An International History
ISBN: 9781350233942 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. |
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111,96 zł |
A Companion to World War II
ISBN: 9781405196819 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 1064 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. A Companion to World War II brings together a series of fresh academic perspectives on World War II, exploring the many cultural, social, and political contexts of the war. Essay topics range from American anti-Semitism to the experiences of French-African soldiers, providing nearly 60 new contributions to the genre arranged across two comprehensive volumes.
A Companion to World War II brings together a series of fresh academic perspectives on World War II, exploring the many cultural, social, an... |
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1692,33 zł |
Capitalist Peace: A History of American Free-Trade Internationalism
ISBN: 9780197621363 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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143,84 zł |
American Trade and Power in the 1960s
ISBN: 9780231079303 / Angielski / Twarda / 1992 / 371 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Drawing from a wide array of previously untapped sources, Thomas Zeiler examines United States foreign trade policy in the 1960s. His study probes the Kennedy and Johnson presidencies as they faced the rise of what was then the six-nation European Economic Community and Japan as trade rivals.
Drawing from a wide array of previously untapped sources, Thomas Zeiler examines United States foreign trade policy in the 1960s. His study probes the...
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646,85 zł |
Revolutions in Sorrow: The American Experience of Death in Global Perspective
ISBN: 9781594514555 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 201 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Huge changes have occurred in both the physical facts of death and in the cultural modes that guide our reactions to it. These changes also affect policy issues ranging from punishments for crimes to birth control to the conduct of war. This book explores the impacts of these changes upon both personal experience and social policy and places developments in the United States in an international comparative context.The book opens with an overview of traditional patterns of death and related cultural practices in agricultural civilizations, along with changes brought by Christianity. Attitudes...
Huge changes have occurred in both the physical facts of death and in the cultural modes that guide our reactions to it. These changes also affect pol...
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228,18 zł |
Canada and the World Since 1867
ISBN: 9781350036772 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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134,81 zł |
Canada and the World Since 1867
ISBN: 9781350036765 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 356 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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414,96 zł |
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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134,81 zł |
The Environment and International History
ISBN: 9781472527226 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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414,96 zł |
A Diplomatic History of US Immigration during the 20th Century: Policy, Law, and National Identity
ISBN: 9781350158245 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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337,16 zł |
Activism Across Borders Since 1870: Causes, Campaigns and Conflicts in and Beyond Europe
ISBN: 9781350262805 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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389,03 zł |
Militarization and the American Century: War, the United States and the World Since 1941
ISBN: 9781350102224 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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466,83 zł |
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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414,96 zł |
Globalizing the U.S. Presidency: Postcolonial Views of John F. Kennedy
ISBN: 9781350118508 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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518,70 zł |
International Cooperation in the Early Twentieth Century
ISBN: 9781472567949 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The early 20th-century world experienced a growth in international cooperation, and yet the dominant historical view of the period has long been one of national, military, and social divisions rather than connections. While the history of international cooperation has attracted increased historical attention over the past decade, much historical analysis of international affairs, especially of the earlier 20th century, remains state-centric. International Cooperation in the Early Twentieth Century revises this historical consensus by providing a more focused and detailed analysis... The early 20th-century world experienced a growth in international cooperation, and yet the dominant historical view of the period has long been on... |
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171,12 zł |