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  • - Journalism, Filmmaking, and Broadcasting in America since 1941
    by Madison) Baughman & James L. (University of Wisconsin
    £22.49 - 36.99

    Carefully drawing on interdisciplinary communication research, The Republic of Mass Culture presents a lively analysis of the shifting objectives and challenges of the media industries.

  • - The Struggle for Social Change in the 1960s
    by David Chalmers
    £24.49

    It carries the legacy of the 1960s forward: from Tom Hayden's idealistic 1962 Port Huron Statement through Newt Gingrich's 1994 "Contract with America" and Grover Norquist's twenty-first century "Tax Payer's Protection Pledge."

  • - Combating the Enemy Within, 1830-1970
    by M. J. Heale
    £26.99

    In American Anticommunism Heale examines the various forms American reactions to this perceived threat have taken, from the attacks on workers in the Haymarket Riot to the widespread "witch huntsof Senator Joe McCarthy.

  • - From Roosevelt to Reagan
    by Edward D. Berkowitz
    £25.99

    In America's Welfare State, Edward Berkowitz offers a concise and informative historical overview of this costly and often frustrating area of domestic policy.

  • by David W. Levy
    £25.49

    In The Debate over Vietnam, David Levy examines the bitter national discussion that eventually raged over the propriety, the necessity, and the morality of that involvement.

  • - Sectionalism and Civil War, 1848-1865
    by Richard H. Sewell
    £24.49

  • - A Short History
    by James H. Cassedy
    £25.99

    social history.

  • - The Supreme Court in American Life
    by William M. Wiecek
    £25.99

    Supreme Court, from its antecedents in colonial and British legal tradition to the present.

  • - Problem, Promise, and Reality
    by Jon C. (Purdue University) Teaford
    £24.49

    Touching on aging central cities, technoburbs, and the ongoing conflict between inner-city poverty and urban boosterism, The Twentieth-Century American City offers a broad, accessible overview of America's persistent struggle for a better city.

  • - The Nineteenth Century
    by Walter Licht
    £26.49

    As population expansion and greater market activity fueled manufacture, he explains, industrialization led to greater social and economic developments as well as crises that required a more administered political economic order.

  • - Big Business in American Politics, 1945-1990
    by Kim McQuaid
    £21.49

    position in the world economy.

  • - Indians, Europeans, and the Remaking of Early America
    by Colin G. (Dartmouth College) Calloway
    £23.49

    The second edition of New Worlds for All incorporates fifteen years of additional scholarship on Indian-European relations, such as the role of gender, Indian slavery, relationships with African Americans, and new understandings of frontier society.

  • - The United States in the 1920s
    by David J. (Cleveland State University) Goldberg
    £23.49

    "-from the foreword by Stanley I. Kutler

  • - Moviemaking and Society before Television
    by Thomas (Morgan State University) Cripps
    £25.49

    Cripps concludes with a discussion of the collapse of the studio system after the war, due in equal parts to suburbanization, the emergence of television, and government anti-trust action.

  • - United States Foreign Policy in the Cold War and After
    by Thomas J. McCormick
    £20.99

    Revised andupdated through 1993, it describes how the end of the Cold War affected the United States's global role as well as suggesting what possibilities lie ahead for a restructured world-system.

  • - From the Common School to "No Child Left Behind"
    by History, University of Wisconsin-Madison) Reese, William J. (Professor of Educational Policy Studies & et al.
    £23.49 - 48.99

    Informed by a breadth of historical scholarship and based squarely on primary sources, this volume remains the standard text for future teachers and scholars of education.

  • - From Nixon to Clinton
    by William C. Berman
    £23.49

    Berman shows how Clinton won reelection in l996 by moving steadily to the center, even to the extent of co-opting the Republican agenda, while defending a number of key Democratic programs.

  • - The War, Its Ghosts, and Its Legacy
    by Arnold R. Isaacs
    £25.49

    Isaacs reports and writes for those whose lives were changed by the war and for a generation that has come of age without memory of Vietnam but who nonetheless feels its shadow in the country they soon will lead.

  • - The Impact of Domestic Politics in U.S. Foreign Policy, 1789-1994
    by Melvin Small
    £21.49

    In this first historical overview of the subject, Melvin Small examines the central role of domestic politics in the shaping and conduct of American foreign policy from the early republic to the end of the Cold War.

  • - The Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Centuries
    by Gilbert J. Gall, Robert H. (University of Florida) Zieger, La Trobe University) Minchin & et al.
    £23.49

    Gall presents new information on government workers and their recent battles to defend workplace rights.

  • - The New Deal Response to Crisis
    by Alan (Professor of History and Honors Lawson
    £24.49

    Drawing from a wide variety of scholarly texts, records of the Roosevelt administration, Depression-era newspapers and periodicals, and biographies and reflections of the New Dealers, Lawson offers a comprehensive conceptual base for a crucial aspect of American history.

  • - Korea, Vietnam, the Persian Gulf, and Iraq
    by Gary R. Hess
    £23.49 - 46.99

    Fully revised and featuring an examination of how each of the presidents learned from history and juggled the demands on diplomacy, this comparative study of presidential war-making elucidates how effective executive leadership-or its absence-directly affects the outcome of wars.

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