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Sea Power: The History and Geopolitics of the World's OceansFrom one of the most admired admirals of his generation--and the only admiral to serve as Supreme Allied Commander at NATO--comes a remarkable voyage through all of the world's most important bodies of water, providing the story of naval power as a driver of...
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The Ideological Origins of the American RevolutionThe Ideological Origins of the American Revolution, awarded both the Pulitzer and the Bancroft prizes, has become a classic of American historical literature. Hailed at its first appearance as "the most brilliant study of the meaning of the Revolution to appear in a generation,"...
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Inventing the People: The Rise of Popular Sovereignty in England and AmericaThis book makes the provocative case here that America has remained politically stable because the Founding Fathers invented the idea of the American people and used it to impose a government on the new nation. His landmark analysis shows how the notion of popular...
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The Second World WarA masterful and comprehensive chronicle of World War II, by internationally bestselling historian Antony Beevor. Over the past two decades, Antony Beevor has established himself as one of the world's premier historians of WWII. His multi-award winning books have included Stalingrad and The Fall...
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Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial JusticeThe saga of the Freedom Rides is an improbable, almost unbelievable story. In the course of six months in 1961, four hundred and fifty Freedom Riders expanded the realm of the possible in American politics, redefining the limits of dissent and setting the stage...
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Modern Italy: A Very Short IntroductionThe history of modern Italy is characterized by recurrent cultural and political projects of modernity, rejuvenation, and regeneration; projects which often had their roots in a widespread dissatisfaction with social and political reality, and perceived moral corruption. The Risorgimento, the movement leading to Italian...
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Armageddon Averted: The Soviet Collapse, 1970-2000Featuring extensive revisions to the text as well as a new introduction and epilogue--bringing the book completely up to date on the tumultuous politics of the previous decade and the long-term implications of the Soviet collapse--this compact, original, and engaging book offers the definitive...
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The Spectre of War: International Communism and the Origins of World War IIAuthor: Jonathan HaslamPublisher: Princeton University PressPublished: 09/27/2022Pages: 504Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.90lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.20w x 1.60dISBN: 9780691233765
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Departures: An Introduction to Critical Refugee Studies Volume 3Departures supports, contextualizes, and advances the field of critical refugee studies by providing a capacious account of its genealogy, methods, and key concepts as well as its premises, priorities, and possibilities. The book outlines the field's main tenets, questions, and concerns and offers new...
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Treason to Whiteness Is Loyalty to HumanityA new collection of essays from the bomb-throwing intellectual who described the historical origins and evolution of whiteness and white supremacy, and taught us how we might destroy it. For sixty years, Noel Ignatiev provided an unflinching account of "whiteness"--a social fiction and an...
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Trade Wars Are Class Wars: How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International PeaceWinner of the 2021 Lionel Gelber Prize: A provocative look at how today's trade conflicts are caused by governments promoting the interests of elites at the expense of workers "The authors weave a complex tapestry of monetary, fiscal and social policies through history and...
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Enough Already: Time to End the War on Terrorism"If you only read one book this year on America's unending 'War on Terror, ' it should be this persuasive and devastatingly damning account of how the United States created the original al Qaeda terrorism threat by its own actions and then increased that...
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PelosiNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A riveting inside account of the unprecedented rise to power and unmatched political legacy of the first woman Speaker of the House, by award-winning journalist Molly Ball Nancy Pelosi's opposition to Donald Trump has made her an icon of the...
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Hollywood Propaganda: How TV, Movies, and Music Shape Our CultureFilms and television shows aren't just entertainment. They are powerful vehicles that influence social and political trends, ultimately shaping the very fabric of our culture. Because of this potential, there are various agencies which work behind the scenes in Hollywood to harness these forces...
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Selected Writings on MarxismThroughout his career Stuart Hall engaged with Marxism in varying ways, actively rethinking it to address the political and cultural exigencies of the moment. This collection of Hall's key writings on Marxism surveys the questions central to his interpretations of and investments in Marxist...
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Trumpty Dumpty Wanted a Crown: Verses for a Despotic AgeNew York Times Bestseller Following the success of his New York Times bestseller Dumpty, award-winning actor, author, and illustrator John Lithgow presents a brand-new collection of satirical poems chronicling the despotic age of Donald Trump. Trumpty Dumpty Wanted a Crown is darker and more...
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Post-Millennium Trends in the Global Energy Security ArchitectureThe concept of energy security has been at the front and center of many important changes in international relations and international law since the 1970s. While the 1970s witnessed a series of international and domestic contests and cooperation on energy security, in the recent...
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Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor"A page-turning book that spans a century of worker strikes.... Engrossing, character-driven, panoramic." --The New York Times Book Review We live in an era of soaring corporate profits and anemic wage gains, one in which low-paid jobs and blighted blue-collar communities have become a...
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Break It Up: Secession, Division, and the Secret History of America's Imperfect UnionFrom journalist and historian Richard Kreitner, a "powerful revisionist account"of the most persistent idea in American history: these supposedly United States should be broken up (Eric Foner). The novel and fiery thesis of Break It Up is simple: The United States has never lived...
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Full Spectrum Dominance: Totalitarian Democracy in the New World OrderCheck the Amazon Reviews. People are raving about Full Spectrum Dominance "must read." - M. Lachlan White "Essential reading" - Lori "The Rogue Reader Mom" "A book everyone needs to read " - William Fetty "I highly recommend William Engdahl's Full Spectrum Dominance" -...
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