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Название:American Culture in the 1910s (Twentieth-Century American Culture)
Автор: Mark Whalan
Издательство: Edinburgh University Press
Год: 2010
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 257
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With the publication of this volume, Edinburgh University Press closes out its extremely successful culture history series, which writes the story of the twentieth century through the cultural and intellectual movements of each decade. The 1910s were mostly dominated by the horrors of the first modern war, but it also witnessed the flowering of modernism, the birth of Hollywood, and the rise of progressive interpretations of culture and society. Mark Whalan investigates this decade through achievements in fiction and poetry; art and photography; film and vaudeville; and music, theater, and dance.

Название:The ''Great Satan'' vs. the ''Mad Mullahs'': How the United States and Iran Demonize Each Other
Автор: William O. Beeman
Издательство: University of Chicago Press
Год: 2005
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 314
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The United States and Iran have been estranged for 25 years. They have carried out a mutual process of demonization that is unprecedented in modern history, based on cultural hot buttons that have the power to galvanize the populations of both countries. Iranian leaders have characterized the United States as the Great Satan—an evil corruptor that pollutes society and destroys personal morality.

Название:Organizing the World: The United States and Regional Cooperation in Asia and Europe
Автор: Galia Press-Barnathan
Издательство: Florence Taylor and Francis .
Год: 2003
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 302
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This book offers a conceptual framework that explains when and why a great power would choose to cooperate with smaller states via regional cooperation forums rather than in a bilateral setting.

Название:Supermob: How Sidney Korshak and His Criminal Associates Became America’s Hidden Power Brokers
Автор: Gus Russo
Издательство: Bloomsbury (NYC)
Год: 2006
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 648
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Investigative reporter Russo returns with the remarkable story of the Supermob--a cadre of men who, over the course of decades, secretly influenced nearly every aspect of American society. Presenting startling, never-before-seen revelations about such famous members as Jules Stein, Joe Glaser, Ronald Reagan, Lew Wasserman, David Bazelon & John Jacob Factor--as well as infamous, scrupulously low-profile members--Russo pulls the lid off of a half-century of criminal infiltration into American business, politics & society. At the heart of it is Sidney "The Fixer" Korshak, who from the 1940's until his death in the '90s, wasn't only the most powerful lawyer in the world, according to the FBI, but the enigmatic player behind countless 20th century power mergers, political deals & organized crime chicaneries.

Название:Essentials of U.S. Foreign Policy Making
Автор: Ralph G. Carter
Издательство: Person
Год: 2014
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 241
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Succinctly demonstrates the foreign policy making process   Essentials of U.S. Foreign Policy Making identifies the different actors who make U.

Название:American Chestnut: The Life, Death, and Rebirth of a Perfect Tree
Автор: Susan Freinkel
Издательство: University of California Press
Год: 2007
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 298
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The American chestnut was one of America's most common, valued, and beloved trees--a ''perfect tree'' that ruled the forests from Georgia to Maine. But in the early twentieth century, an exotic plague swept through the chestnut forests with the force of a wildfire. Within forty years, the blight had killed close to four billion trees and left the species teetering on the brink of extinction.

Название:From Immigrant to Naturalized Citizen: Political Incorporation in the United States (The New Americans: Recent Immigration and American Society)
Автор: Catherine Simpson Bueker
Издательство: Detroit : Macmillan Reference USA
Год: 2006
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 241
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Bueker finds that naturalizing and voting are distinct processes. Levels of education, income, and length of eligibility, predict both processes, but an immigrant’s country of origin frequently overrides these other characteristics and works differently in each. Immigrants from countries with the highest likelihood of naturalizing tend to have the lowest odds of voter turnout, while those immigrants from countries with the lowest odds of citizenship acquisition are the most likely to vote, once naturalized.

Название:Amphibian Declines: The Conservation Status of United States Species
Автор: Michael Lannoo
Издательство: University of California Press
Год: 2005
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 1117
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This benchmark volume documents in comprehensive detail a major environmental crisis: rapidly declining amphibian populations and the disturbing developmental problems that are increasingly prevalent within many amphibian species. Horror stories on this topic have been featured in the scientific and popular press over the past fifteen years, invariably asking what amphibian declines are telling us about the state of the environment. Are declines harbingers of devastated ecosystems or simply weird reflections of a peculiar amphibian world? This compendium--presenting new data, reviews of current literature, and comprehensive species accounts--reinforces what scientists have begun to suspect, that amphibians are a lens through which the state of the environment can be viewed more clearly.

Название:Ancient Arts of the Americas
Автор: G.H.S. Bushnell
Издательство: Thames and Hudson
Год: 1965
Формат: djvu
Страниц: 290
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Pre-Columbian art is one of the richest and most rewarding subjects in the history of both art and archaeology. It is also one of the most remarkable, not only because of the extremely varied and often prodigious output it covers, but because all the great pre-Columbian artifacts were produced during centuries when mechanical aids, including the wheel, were practically unknown in that part of the world; these were works of art which, quite literally, ‘owed everything to the hand and eye of the American Indian’. This survey, by one of the foremost authorities in his field, covers an area ranging from Wisconsin to Argentina and spans in time the four millennia from 2500 BC to the arrival in the New World of the Conquistadors.

Название:Wounded Knee: Party Politics and the Road to an American Massacre
Автор: Heather Cox Richardson
Издательство: Basic Books
Год: 2011
Формат: epub
Страниц: 392
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On December 29, 1890, five hundred American troops massed around hundreds of unarmed Lakota Sioux men, women, and children near Wounded Knee Creek, South Dakota. Outnumbered and demoralized, the Sioux posed no threat to the soldiers and put up no resistance. But in a chaotic scene, the Americans opened fire with howitzers, killing nearly three hundred Sioux in what would become known as the Wounded Knee Massacre.