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“john w jeffries”

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  • Wartime America

    The World War II Home Front

    by John W. Jeffries ...
    Series series
    Designed to give students a concise compass to probe the history of World War II America and to assess the war’s impact on American life, the new edition of Wartime America retains the framework of the original edition but adds new important focus on topics such as other home fronts, the lives of veterans, expanded coverage of World War II as the Good War, and the concept of “the Greatest ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

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    An Economic History of the Twentieth Century

    by J. Bradford DeLong ...
    **This instant New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller from one of the world’s leading economists offers a grand narrative of the century that made us richer than ever, but left us unsatisfied.“A magisterial history.” —Paul KrugmanNamed a Best Book of the Year by Financial Times * Economist * Fast Company**Before 1870, humanity lived in dire poverty, with a slow crawl of invention offset ... Read more

    Was $21.99 CAD Now $2.99 CAD

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  • Friendly Fascism

    The New Face of Power in America

    by Bertram Gross ...
    Series Book 18 - Forbidden Bookshelf
    A look at corporate authoritarianism that William Shirer called "the best thing I've ever seen on how America might go fascist democratically."In 1980, US capitalist politics wore a "nice-guy mask," a troubling disguise to cover up a creeping despotism in which the ultra-rich and corporate overseers were merging with a centralized state power in order to manage the populace. This immanent ... Read more

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  • The World America Made

    by Robert Kagan ...
    What would the world look like if America were to reduce its role as a global leader in order to focus all its energies on solving its problems at home? And is America really in decline? Robert Kagan, New York Times best-selling author and one of the country’s most influential strategic thinkers, paints a vivid, alarming picture of what the world might look like if the United States were truly to ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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  • Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time

    The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time

    by Ira Katznelson ...
    “Fear Itself deeply reconceptualizes the New Deal and raises countless provocative questions.”—David Kennedy, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Freedom from FearRedefining our traditional understanding of the New Deal, Fear Itself finally examines this pivotal American era through a sweeping international lens that juxtaposes a struggling democracy with enticing ideologies like Fascism and ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • The Populist Temptation

    Economic Grievance and Political Reaction in the Modern Era

    by Barry Eichengreen ...
    Populism of the right and left has spread like wildfire throughout the world. The impulse reached its apogee in the United States with the election of Trump, but it was a force in Europe ever since the Great Recession sent the European economy into a prolonged tailspin. In the simplest terms, populism is a political ideology that vilifies economic and political elites and instead lionizes 'the ... Read more

    $18.39 CAD

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  • Global Capitalism: Its Fall and Rise in the Twentieth Century

    by Jeffry A. Frieden ...
    "Magisterial history...one of the most comprehensive histories of modern capitalism yet written." —Michael Hirsh, New York Times Book ReviewIn 1900 international trade reached unprecedented levels and the world's economies were more open to one another than ever before. Then as now, many people considered globalization to be inevitable and irreversible. Yet the entire edifice collapsed in a few ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Transatlantic Century

    Europe and America, 1890–2010

    by Mary Nolan ...
    Series Book 46 - New Approaches to European History
    This is a fascinating new overview of European-American relations during the long twentieth century. Ranging from economics, culture and consumption to war, politics and diplomacy, Mary Nolan charts the rise of American influence in Eastern and Western Europe, its mid-twentieth century triumph and its gradual erosion since the 1970s. She reconstructs the circuits of exchange along which ideas, ... Read more

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  • The Sword and the Dollar

    Imperialism, Revolution, and the Arms Race

    by Michael Parenti ...
    A thought-provoking examination of America's political, military, and economic policies towards the world's nations and governments.To many, the foreign policy directives of the United States seem bewildering and sometimes inharmonious with its domestic political values. Why does the U.S. seem to support foreign dictators? Why has it invested so many of its resources in stockpiling nuclear arms? ... Read more

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  • Presidential Leadership and the Creation of the American Era

    by Joseph S. Nye Jr. ...
    Series series The Richard Ullman Lectures
    This book examines the foreign policy decisions of the presidents who presided over the most critical phases of America's rise to world primacy in the twentieth century, and assesses the effectiveness and ethics of their choices. Joseph Nye, who was ranked as one of Foreign Policy magazine's 100 Top Global Thinkers, reveals how some presidents tried with varying success to forge a new ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD

  • Prisoners of the American Dream

    Politics and Economy in the History of the US Working Class

    by Mike Davis ...
    Series series Essential Mike Davis
    This comprehensive study of class struggle in America asks: Why has there never been a mass working class party in the U.S.?“One of the most uncompromising books about American political economy ever written—brilliant, provocative, and exhaustively researched.” —Village VoicePrisoners of the American Dream is Mike Davis’s brilliant exegesis of a persistent and major analytical problem for Marxist ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • Spreading the American Dream

    American Economic and Cultural Expansion, 1890–1945

    by Emily Rosenberg ...
    "Provides fresh insights into the way governmental power was used to shape the American domestic marketplace, and how that visible hand was again used overseas." —Walter LaFeber, Cornell UniversityThis book urges us to consider whether the American Dream of promoting abundance, egalitarianism, and mobility avoided the pitfalls of exploitation and human degradation that most expansionist powers ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD