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  • River Dreams

    The people and landscape of the Cooks River

    par Ian Tyrrell ...
    River Dreams reveals the complex history of the Cooks River in south-eastern Sydney—a river renowned as Australia's most altered and polluted. While nineteenth century developers called it "improvement," the sugar mill, tanneries, and factories that lined the banks of Sydney's Cooks River had drastic consequences for the health of the river. While much of the river has been rehabilitated in recent ... En savoir plus

    $26.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • American Exceptionalism

    A New History of an Old Idea

    par Ian Tyrrell ...
    A powerful dissection of a core American myth.The idea that the United States is unlike every other country in world history is a surprisingly resilient one. Throughout his distinguished career, Ian Tyrrell has been one of the most influential historians of the idea of American exceptionalism, but he has never written a book focused solely on it until now. The notion that American identity might ... En savoir plus

    $30.99 CAD

  • Woman's World/Woman's Empire

    The Woman's Christian Temperance Union in International Perspective, 1880-1930

    par Ian Tyrrell ...
    Frances Willard founded the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union in 1884 to carry the message of women’s emancipation throughout the world. Based in the United States, the WCTU rapidly became an international organization, with affiliates in forty-two countries. Ian Tyrrell tells the extraordinary story of how a handful of women sought to change the mores of the world — not only by abolishing ... En savoir plus

    $31.99 CAD

  • Empire's Twin

    U.S. Anti-imperialism from the Founding Era to the Age of Terrorism

    Modifié par Ian Tyrrell, Jay Sexton ...
    Collections series The United States in the World
    Across the course of American history, imperialism and anti-imperialism have been awkwardly paired as influences on the politics, culture, and diplomacy of the United States. The Declaration of Independence, after all, is an anti-imperial document, cataloguing the sins of the metropolitan government against the colonies. With the Revolution, and again in 1812, the nation stood against the most ... En savoir plus

    $31.99 CAD

  • Crisis of the Wasteful Nation

    Empire and Conservation in Theodore Roosevelt's America

    par Ian Tyrrell ...
    Long before people were “going green” and toting reusable bags, the Progressive generation of the early 1900s was calling for the conservation of resources, sustainable foresting practices, and restrictions on hunting. Industrial commodities such as wood, water, soil, coal, and oil, as well as improvements in human health and the protection of “nature” in an aesthetic sense, were collectively seen ... En savoir plus

    $47.99 CAD

  • Reforming the World

    The Creation of America's Moral Empire

    par Ian Tyrrell ...
    Collections series America in the World
    Reforming the World offers a sophisticated account of how and why, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, American missionaries and moral reformers undertook work abroad at an unprecedented rate and scale. Looking at various organizations such as the Young Men's Christian Association and the Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions, Ian Tyrrell describes the influence that ... En savoir plus

    $79.19 CAD

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  • Next American Nation

    The New Nationalism and the Fourth American Revolution

    par Michael Lind ...
    Are we now, or have we ever been, a nation?As this century comes to a close, debates over immigration policy, racial preferences, and multiculturalism challenge the consensus that formerly grounded our national culture. The question of our national identity is as urgent as it has ever been in our history. Is our society disintegrating into a collection of separate ethnic enclaves, or is there a ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD

  • White World Order, Black Power Politics

    The Birth of American International Relations

    par Robert Vitalis ...
    Collections series The United States in the World
    **"Defying his discipline's preference for theory over history, Vitalis has demonstrated how detailed, archive-based historical accounts can lift the veil on the racism running through international relations as field and practice."**â• Carol Polsgrove â• American Historical ReviewRacism and imperialism are the twin forces that propelled the course of the United States in the world in the early ... En savoir plus

    $21.99 CAD

  • Why America Needs a Left

    A Historical Argument

    par Eli Zaretsky ...
    The United States today cries out for a robust, self-respecting, intellectually sophisticated left, yet the very idea of a left appears to have been discredited. In this brilliant new book, Eli Zaretsky rethinks the idea by examining three key moments in American history: the Civil War, the New Deal and the range of New Left movements in the 1960s and after including the civil rights movement, the ... En savoir plus

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Supreme Court and Religion in American Life, Vol. 2

    From "Higher Law" to "Sectarian Scruples"

    par James Hitchcock ...
    Collections series New Forum Books
    School vouchers. The Pledge of Allegiance. The ban on government grants for theology students. The abundance of church and state issues brought before the Supreme Court in recent years underscores an incontrovertible truth in the American legal system: the relationship between the state and religion in this country is still fluid and changing.This, the second of two volumes by historian and legal ... En savoir plus

    $93.49 CAD

  • American Conservatism

    An Encyclopedia

    par Bruce Frohnen, Jeremy Beer, Nelson O. Jeffrey ...
    "A must-own title." — National Review OnlineAmerican Conservatism: An Encyclopedia is the first comprehensive reference volume to cover what is surely the most influential political and intellectual movement of the past half century. More than fifteen years in the making—and more than half a million words in length—this informative and entertaining encyclopedia contains substantive entries on ... En savoir plus

    $19.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Women, Race, & Class

    par Angela Y. Davis ...
    **From one of our most important scholars and civil rights activist icon, a powerful study of the women’s liberation movement and the tangled knot of oppression facing Black women.“Angela Davis is herself a woman of undeniable courage. She should be heard.”—**The New York TimesAngela Davis provides a powerful history of the social and political influence of whiteness and elitism in feminism, from ... En savoir plus

    $16.99 CAD