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Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
10 videodiscs (approximately 1440 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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History marks the advent of modern warfare in the 20th century with this epic DVD collection. Discover how the First World War changed the face of battle forever from hand-to-hand combat to high-tech warfare, in History of WWI: the first modern war. Experience the acrobatic encounters of flying aces high above the battlefield in Dogfights. Watch the Normadny assault in spectacular high definition in D-Day in HD, and learn soldiers' personal stories...
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This powerful documentary exposes the direct connection between the long history of U.S. intervention in Latin America and the immigration crisis we face today. From the territorial expansionist policies that decimated the young economies of Mexico, Puerto Rico and Cuba, to the covert operations that imposed oppressive military regimes in the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Nicaragua and El Salvador, Harvest of Empire provides an unflinching look at...
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Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
xix, 380 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
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"From trade to technology to military might, competition between the United States and China dominates the foreign policy landscape. But this battle for global influence is also playing out in a strange and unexpected arena: the movies. The film industry, Wall Street Journal reporter Erich Schwartzel explains, is the latest battleground in the tense and complex rivalry between these two world powers. In recent decades, as China has grown into a giant...
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Pub. Date
2011
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558 p., [48] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 25 cm.
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McCullough mixes famous and obscure names and delivers capsule biographies of everyone to produce a colorful parade of educated, Victorian-era American travelers and their life-changing experiences in Paris.
This is the inspiring and, until now, untold story of the adventurous American artists, writers, doctors, politicians, architects, and others of high aspiration who set off for Paris in the years between 1830 and 1900, ambitious to excel in their...
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Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
276 pages ; 24 cm.
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10 books. "In the wake of the September 11 attacks and the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, Suzy Hansen, who grew up in an insular conservative town in New Jersey, was enjoying early success as a journalist for a high-profile New York newspaper. Increasingly, though, the disconnect between the chaos of world events and the response at home took on pressing urgency for her. Seeking to understand the Muslim world that had been reduced to scaremongering headlines,...
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Pub. Date
[2018]
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xi, 276 pages ; 24 cm
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"Spanning more than two hundred years, An African American and Latinx History of the United States is a revolutionary, politically charged narrative history, arguing that the "Global South" was crucial to the development of America as we know it. Scholar and activist Paul Ortiz challenges the notion of westward progress as exalted by widely taught formulations such as "manifest destiny" and "Jacksonian democracy," and shows how placing African American,...
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Pub. Date
2019.
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xvi, 560 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm.
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"Because of our shared English language, as well as the celebrated origin tales of the Mayflower and the rebellion of the British colonies, the United States has prized its Anglo heritage above all others. However, as Carrie Gibson explains with great depth and clarity in El Norte, the nation has much older Spanish roots--ones that have long been unacknowledged or marginalized. The Hispanic past of the United States predates the arrival of the Pilgrims...
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Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
xxvii, 431 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates ; illustrations, map ; 24 cm
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"An epic account of the decades-long battle to control what has emerged as the world's most critical resource--microchip technology--with the United States and China increasingly in conflict. You may be surprised to learn that microchips are the new oil--the scarce resource on which the modern world depends. Today, military, economic, and geopolitical power are built on a foundation of computer chips. Virtually everything--from missiles to microwaves,...
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Pub. Date
[2016]
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xvi, 444 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : portraits ; 24 cm
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"'Meticulously researched and beautifully written, the true story of a Japanese American family that found itself on opposite sides during World War II--an epic tale of family, separation, divided loyalties, love, reconciliation, loss, and redemption this is a riveting chronicle of U.S.-Japan relations and the Japanese experience in America. After their father's death, Harry, Frank, and Pierce Fukuhara-- all born and raised in the Pacific Northwest--...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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xvi, 284 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps, portraits ; 25 cm
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"In the late nineteenth century, close diplomatic relations existed between the United States and Russia. That changed when George Kennan went to Siberia in 1885 to investigate the exile system and he learned of the brutality Russia was wielding to suppress dissent. Over ten months, he traveled eight thousand miles, enduring sandstorms and blizzards. His interviews with convicts and political exiles revealed how Russia ran on inflicted pain and...
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