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Название:Making the Americas: The United States and Latin America from the Age of Revolutions to the Era of Globalization
Автор: Thomas F. O'Brien, Lyman L. Johnson
Издательство: University of New Mexico Press
Год: 2007
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 401
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Americans' belief in their economic, political, and cultural superiority launched them on a mission to transform Latin America that has evolved into a global process of Americanization. From corporate and philanthropic initiatives to military interventions, Americans motivated by self-interest and idealism sought to reshape Latin America and gave birth to the American driven process of globalization. Synthesizing a broad range of international relations scholarship, including perspectives from gender, race, and cultural studies, O'Brien offers a sweeping history of the Americas that ranges from the adventures of eighteenth-century whaling men to the contemporary struggle over globalization.

Название:The Left At War
Автор: Michael B?rub?
Издательство: New York University Press
Год: 2009
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 350
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The terrorist attacks of 9/11 and Bush’s belligerent response fractured the American left—partly by putting pressure on little-noticed fissures that had appeared a decade earlier.In a masterful survey of the post-9/11 landscape, renowned scholar Michael B?rub? revisits and reinterprets the major intellectual debates and key players of the last two decades, covering the terrain of left debates in the United States over foreign policy from the Balkans to 9/11 to Iraq, and over domestic policy from the culture wars of the 1990s to the question of what (if anything) is the matter with Kansas.The Left at War brings the history of cultural studies to bear on the present crisis—a history now trivialized to the point at which few left intellectuals have any sense that merely "cultural" studies could have something substantial to offer to the world of international relations, debates over sovereignty and humanitarian intervention, matters of war and peace.

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
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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
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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.