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by Graham W. Sumner
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
This book deals with the US history of banking in the 19th century. This volume is the continuation of the "History of banking in America - Vol.1", which dealt with the Beginning and Development of bank system in America (from 1630 to 1832). "If Jackson intended to open a war on the...
The Men Who United the States
America's Explorers, Inventors, Eccentrics and Mavericks, and the Creation of One Nation, Indivisible
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Simon Winchester, the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Atlantic and The Professor and the Madman, delivers his first book about America: a fascinating popular history that illuminates the men who toiled fearlessly to discover, connect, and bond the citizenry and geography of the U.S.A....
American Pendulum
Recurring Debates in U.S. Grand Strategy
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
As new presidential administrations come into power, they each bring their own approach to foreign policy. No grand strategy, however, is going to be completely novel. New administrations never start with a blank slate, so it is always possible to see similarities between an administration and its...
Altered States
America Since the Sixties
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2006
Red states versus blue states. Metro versus retro. North or South, East or West. Pundits, politicians, and social scientists love to carve out categories in an attempt to make sense of political and social divisions that run through the American landscape. As the home of nearly 300 million people...
Federalism: A Reference Guide to the United States Constitution
A Reference Guide to the United States Constitution
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013
Federalism: A Reference Guide to the United States Constitution provides a thorough examination of this significant and distinctive part of the U.S. constitutional system, documenting its role in major domestic constitutional controversies in every period of American history.
Although the book...
by Nina Burleigh
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2018
In her illuminating and dramatic biography The Stranger and the Statesman, New York Times bestselling author Nina Burleigh reveals a little-known slice of history in the life and times of the man responsible for the creation of the United States' principal cultural institution, the Smithsonian. It...
by John Marshall
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2012
John Marshall (September 24, 1755 July 6, 1835) is perhaps Americas greatest jurist. As the Chief Justice of the United States from 180135, Marshalls opinions helped lay the basis for American constitutional law and made the Supreme Court of the United States a coequal branch of government along with...
by Mark Lardas
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
Ulysses Grant was his country's greatest general since George Washington. Like Washington, Grant's battlefield performance was the only factor standing between the United States continuing as one, indivisible nation. Grant was the keystone of Union victory, a man whose removal would have resulted...
by Works Projects Administration
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
Slavery existed long before the United States of America was founded, but so did opposition to slavery. Both flourished after the founding of the country, and the anti-slavery movement was known as abolition. For many abolitionists, slavery was the preeminent moral issue of the day, and their opposition...
by Captivating History
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
As the thirty-second president of the United States of America, Franklin Delano Roosevelt (30 January 1882—12 April 1945) is a common household name in both his home country and the world. Known as the man who led the United States through the Great Depression and World War II, Roosevelt was a leader...
Me the People
One Man's Selfless Quest to Rewrite the Constitution of the United States of America
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
The United States Constitution promised a More Perfect Union. It’s a shame no one bothered to write a more perfect Constitution—one that didn’t trigger more than two centuries of arguments about what the darn thing actually says.
Until now.
Perfection is at hand. A new, improved Constitution...
A Delicate Relationship
The United States and Burma/Myanmar since 1945
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016
In 2012, Barack Obama became the first U.S. president ever to visit Myanmar, formerly known as Burma. This official state visit marked a new period in the long and sinuous diplomatic relationship between the United States and Burma/Myanmar, which Kenton Clymer examines in A Delicate Relationship....
American Empire
A Global History
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
A new history of the United States that turns American exceptionalism on its head
American Empire is a panoramic work of scholarship that presents a bold new global perspective on the history of the United States. Drawing on his expertise in economic history and the imperial histories of Britain...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. The struggle against Islamic extremism, which manifested in two long-term wars within Afghanistan and Iraq, simultaneously incited growth of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) industry dominated...