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Power and Terror
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Noam Chomsky |
In Power & Terror, the author presents his latest thoughts on terrorism, US foreign policy, and the meaning and true impact of militarism in the world today. He challenges the United States to apply … |
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India-Pakistan in War and Peace
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Jyotindra Nath Dixit |
Survey of India-Pakistan relations from post1947 onwards to present day. |
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Nemesis
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Chalmers A. Johnson |
In Blowback, Chalmers Johnson linked the CIA's clandestine activities abroad to disaster at home. In The Sorrows of Empire, he explored the ways in which the growth of American militarism has jeopard… |
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China's African challenges
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Sarah Raine |
China's relations with African nationals have changed dramatically over the past decade. African oil now accounts for more than 30% of China's oil imports, and China is Africa's second-largest single… |
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From Louis XIV to Napoleon
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Jeremy Black |
Much of the period 1661-1815 appeared to be the age of France. France was the greatest power in Western Europe in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and Louis XIV and Napoleon seemed to do… |
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What the world should be
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Malcolm D. Magee |
In What the World Should Be, Malcolm Magee demonstrates that Woodrow Wilson was immersed in a Presbyterian tradition that shaped his presidency. He argues that Wilson's religious convictions shaped h… |
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The President as world leader
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Sidney Warren |
Study of a presidential function of modern days. Analyzes the extent to which presidents from Theodore Roosevelt to John F. Kennedy have met their responsibilities as world leaders. |
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Statecraft
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Dennis Ross |
Not long after 9/11 brought the free world to our side, U.S. foreign policy is in a shambles. Here, peace negotiator Dennis Ross argues that the Bush administration's problems stem from its inability… |
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Lessons in disaster
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Gordon M. Goldstein |
Drawing on prodigious research as well as the interviews and analysis he has conducted with former National Security Adviser McGeorge Bundy, Goldstein offers this revelatory look at the decisions tha… |
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Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden?
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Morgan Spurlock |
Academy Award-nominated filmmaker and director Morgan Spurlock, who volunteered his body as a guinea pig for the fast food industry in the hit documentary Super Size Me, now sets his sights even high… |
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Diplomatic records
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United States. National Archives and Records Administration. |
"This select catalog lists National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) microfilm publications of records that relate to the history of U.S. diplomatic relations."--Introd. |
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Special envoy to Churchill and Stalin, 1941-1946
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W. Averell Harriman |
"This masterful narrative, written by Elie Abel and based on Averall Harriman's personal recollections as well as his voluminous and revealing private papers, re-creates and explains the climate in w… |
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America or Europe?
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Jeremy Black |
Why did Britain's position dramatically improve between 1739 and 1763? In this study, the author examines a pivotal period in Britain's rise to power status that culminated in the defeat of France in… |
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British foreign and imperial policy, 1865-1919
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Graham D. Goodlad |
British Foreign and Imperial Policy explores Britains role in International Affairs from the age of Gladstone and Disraeli to the end of the First World War, exploring such themes as Britain's involv… |
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War within a war
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Corona, Laurel |
Explores both the Vietnam War and the Cold War and their effect on the world. |
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Citizens of London
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Lynne Olson |
In Citizens of London, Lynne Olson has written a work of World War II history even more relevant and revealing than her acclaimed Troublesome Young Men. Here is the behind-the-scenes story of how the… |
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Commodore Perry opens Japan to trade in world history
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Ann Gaines |
Traces the efforts of Commodore Matthew Perry to use force and diplomacy to end Japan's traditional isolationism and to begin trade with the Asian nation. |
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The 1940's
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Don Nardo |
Describes the United States during the decade of the forties, focusing on involvement in World War II, becoming a superpower, and the development of "pop" music and television. |
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The cycles of American history
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Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. |
What is the key to the American enigma? We cannot escape history; and in The Cycles of American History, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize, shows how our past shapes our … |
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The Britannica Guide to Russia
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. |
The Britannica Guide to Russia offers a panoramic view of Russia, telling the history of the nation since 1917 as well as the story of its culture, religion, arts, and literature in the twentieth cen… |
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