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  • Americans in a World at War

    Intimate Histories from the Crash of Pan Am's Yankee Clipper

    by Brooke L. Blower ...
    A vivid narrative of an ill-fated Pan American flight during World War II that captures the dramatic backstories of its passengers and, through them, the impact of Americans' global connections. On February 21, 1943, Pan American Airways' celebrated seaplane, the Yankee Clipper, took off from New York's Marine Air Terminal and island-hopped its way across the Atlantic Ocean. Arriving at Lisbon ... Read more

    $28.79 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Becoming Americans in Paris

    Transatlantic Politics and Culture between the World Wars

    by Brooke L. Blower ...
    Americans often look back on Paris between the world wars as a charming escape from the enduring inequalities and reactionary politics of the United States. In this bold and original study, Brooke Blower shows that nothing could be further from the truth. She reveals the breadth of American activities in the capital, the lessons visitors drew from their stay, and the passionate responses they ... Read more

    $37.59 CAD

  • Becoming Americans in Paris

    Transatlantic Politics and Culture between the World Wars

    by Brooke L. Blower ...
    Americans often look back on Paris between the world wars as a charming escape from the enduring inequalities and reactionary politics of the United States. In this bold and original study, Brooke Blower shows that nothing could be further from the truth. She reveals the breadth of American activities in the capital, the lessons visitors drew from their stay, and the passionate responses they ... Read more

    $37.59 CAD

  • The Familiar Made Strange

    American Icons and Artifacts after the Transnational Turn

    Edited by Brooke L. Blower, Mark Philip Bradley ...
    In The Familiar Made Strange**, twelve distinguished historians offer original and playful readings of American icons and artifacts that cut across rather than stop at the nation's borders to model new interpretive approaches to studying United States history.** These leading practitioners of the "transnational turn" pause to consider such famous icons as John Singleton Copley's painting Watson ... Read more

    $30.39 CAD

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    Americans in a World at War

    Intimate Histories from the Crash of Pan Am's Yankee Clipper

    by Brooke L. Blower ...
    Narrated by Nancy Peterson ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 29 min

    A vivid narrative of an ill-fated Pan American flight during World War II that captures the dramatic backstories of its passengers and, through them, the impact of Americans' global connections.On February 21, 1943, Pan American Airways' celebrated seaplane, the Yankee Clipper, took off from New York's Marine Air Terminal and island-hopped its way across the Atlantic Ocean. Arriving at Lisbon the ... Read more

    $42.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • The Cambridge History of America and the World: Volume 3, 1900–1945

    Edited by Brooke L. Blower, Andrew Preston ...
    Series series The Cambridge History of America and the World
    The third volume of The Cambridge History of America and the World covers the volatile period between 1900 and 1945 when the United States emerged as a world power and American engagements abroad flourished in new and consequential ways. Showcasing the most innovative approaches to both traditional topics and emerging themes, leading scholars chart the complex ways in which Americans projected ... Read more

    $45.59 CAD

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    The City of Light Under German Occupation, 1940–1944

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    $19.19 CAD

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  • Dreaming in French

    The Paris Years of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, Susan Sontag, and Angela Davis

    by Alice Kaplan ...
    "Alice Kaplan's triple portrait of three iconic mid-century American women dazzles beyond our evergreen fascination with [their] wildly disparate lives." —Patricia Hampl, New York Times Notable authorA year in Paris . . . since World War II, countless American students have been lured by that vision—and been transformed by their sojourn in the City of Light. Dreaming in French tells three stories ... Read more

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  • Ugly Beauty

    Helena Rubinstein, L'Oreal and the Blemished History of Looking Good

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    Thanks to a combination of business savvy, breathtaking chutzpah, and lucky timing, Helena Rubinstein managed to transform herself from a poor Polish emigrant to the world's first self-made female tycoon. She went from selling homemade "Crème Valaze" out of her house in Australia to becoming an international cosmetics magnate. Tiny and plump, wearing extravagant jewels and spiked heels, she was a ... Read more

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  • The Great Departure

    Mass Migration from Eastern Europe and the Making of the Free World

    by Tara Zahra ...
    "Zahra handles this immensely complicated and multidimensional history with remarkable clarity and feeling." —Robert Levgold, Foreign AffairsBetween 1846 and 1940, more than 50 million Europeans moved to the Americas in one of the largest migrations of human history, emptying out villages and irrevocably changing both their new homes and the ones they left behind. With a keen historical ... Read more

    $19.79 CAD

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  • Paris in the Fifties

    by Stanley Karnow ...
    In July 1947, fresh out of college and long before he would win the Pulitzer Prize and become known as one of America's finest historians, Stanley Karnow boarded a freighter bound for France, planning to stay for the summer. He stayed for ten years, first as a student and later as a correspondent for Time magazine. By the time he left, Karnow knew Paris so intimately that his French colleagues ... Read more

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  • Paris Dreams, Paris Memories

    The City and Its Mystique

    by Charles Rearick ...
    "A rich and entertaining history of the French capital's predominant myths and 'image-making' from the nineteenth century to the present." —Roxanne Panchasi, H-France ReviewHow did Paris become the world favorite it is today? Charles Rearick argues that we can best understand Paris as several cities in one, each with its own history and its own imaginary shaped by dream and memory. Paris has long ... Read more

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