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Author |
: Jeremy Slack |
Publisher |
: University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages |
: 281 |
Release |
: 2018-04-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780816535590 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0816535590 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (90 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Shadow of the Wall by : Jeremy Slack
Thanks to hundreds of interviews with Mexican deportees, this book puts a real face on discussions of immigration and border policies--Provided by publisher.
Author |
: Alfred W. McCoy |
Publisher |
: Haymarket Books |
Total Pages |
: 359 |
Release |
: 2017-09-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781608467747 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1608467740 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (47 Downloads) |
Synopsis In the Shadows of the American Century by : Alfred W. McCoy
The award-winning historian delivers a “brilliant and deeply informed” analysis of American power from the Spanish-American War to the Trump Administration (New York Journal of Books). In this sweeping and incisive history of US foreign relations, historian Alfred McCoy explores America’s rise as a world power from the 1890s through the Cold War, and its bid to extend its hegemony deep into the twenty-first century. Since American dominance reached its apex at the close of the Cold War, the nation has met new challenges that it is increasingly unequipped to handle. From the disastrous invasion of Iraq to the failure of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, fracturing military alliances, and the blundering nationalism of Donald Trump, McCoy traces US decline in the face of rising powers such as China. He also offers a critique of America’s attempt to maintain its position through cyberwar, covert intervention, client elites, psychological torture, and worldwide surveillance.
Author |
: Mitchell Takeshi Maki |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2002 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0970982909 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780970982902 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (09 Downloads) |
Synopsis In America's Shadow by : Mitchell Takeshi Maki
Chronicles the history of Japanese Americans from immigration to the World War II internment, as told through the eyes of a young girl and her grandfather.
Author |
: Aaron L. Friedberg |
Publisher |
: Princeton University Press |
Total Pages |
: 416 |
Release |
: 2012-01-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781400842919 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1400842913 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (19 Downloads) |
Synopsis In the Shadow of the Garrison State by : Aaron L. Friedberg
War--or the threat of war--usually strengthens states as governments tax, draft soldiers, exert control over industrial production, and dampen internal dissent in order to build military might. The United States, however, was founded on the suspicion of state power, a suspicion that continued to gird its institutional architecture and inform the sentiments of many of its politicians and citizens through the twentieth century. In this comprehensive rethinking of postwar political history, Aaron Friedberg convincingly argues that such anti-statist inclinations prevented Cold War anxieties from transforming the United States into the garrison state it might have become in their absence. Drawing on an array of primary and secondary sources, including newly available archival materials, Friedberg concludes that the "weakness" of the American state served as a profound source of national strength that allowed the United States to outperform and outlast its supremely centralized and statist rival: the Soviet Union. Friedberg's analysis of the U. S. government's approach to taxation, conscription, industrial planning, scientific research and development, and armaments manufacturing reveals that the American state did expand during the early Cold War period. But domestic constraints on its expansion--including those stemming from mean self-interest as well as those guided by a principled belief in the virtues of limiting federal power--protected economic vitality, technological superiority, and public support for Cold War activities. The strategic synthesis that emerged by the early 1960s was functional as well as stable, enabling the United States to deter, contain, and ultimately outlive the Soviet Union precisely because the American state did not limit unduly the political, personal, and economic freedom of its citizens. Political scientists, historians, and general readers interested in Cold War history will value this thoroughly researched volume. Friedberg's insightful scholarship will also inspire future policy by contributing to our understanding of how liberal democracy's inherent qualities nurture its survival and spread.
Author |
: Nicola Miller |
Publisher |
: Verso |
Total Pages |
: 358 |
Release |
: 1999-11-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1859842054 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781859842058 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (54 Downloads) |
Synopsis In the Shadow of the State by : Nicola Miller
Focusing on a period between the early 20th century and the literary boom of the 1960s, this study examines the role of intellectuals in Latin American politics. It looks at the way modernization impacted on intellectual life.
Author |
: Michael S. Sherry |
Publisher |
: Yale University Press |
Total Pages |
: 628 |
Release |
: 1995-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0300072635 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780300072631 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (35 Downloads) |
Synopsis In the Shadow of War by : Michael S. Sherry
Prize-winning historian Michael S. Sherry shows how war has defined modern America and argues that militarization has reshaped every facet of American life--its politics, economics, culture, social relations, and place in the world. 17 illustrations.
Author |
: Victoria Hattam |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 290 |
Release |
: 2007-09-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226319230 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0226319237 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (30 Downloads) |
Synopsis In the Shadow of Race by : Victoria Hattam
Race in the United States has long been associated with heredity and inequality while ethnicity has been linked to language and culture. In the Shadow of Race recovers the history of this entrenched distinction and the divisive politics it engenders. Victoria Hattam locates the origins of ethnicity in the New York Zionist movement of the early 1900s. In a major revision of widely held assumptions, she argues that Jewish activists identified as ethnics not as a means of assimilating and becoming white, but rather as a way of defending immigrant difference as distinct from race—rooted in culture rather than body and blood. Eventually, Hattam shows, the Immigration and Naturalization Service and the Census Bureau institutionalized this distinction by classifying Latinos as an ethnic group and not a race. But immigration and the resulting population shifts of the last half century have created a political opening for reimagining the relationship between immigration and race. How to do so is the question at hand. In the Shadow of Race concludes by examining the recent New York and Los Angeles elections and the 2006 immigrant rallies across the country to assess the possibilities of forging a more robust alliance between immigrants and African Americans. Such an alliance is needed, Hattam argues, to more effectively redress the persistent inequalities in American life.
Author |
: Kenneth C. Davis |
Publisher |
: Macmillan + ORM |
Total Pages |
: 333 |
Release |
: 2016-09-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781627793124 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1627793127 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (24 Downloads) |
Synopsis In the Shadow of Liberty by : Kenneth C. Davis
Did you know that many of America’s Founding Fathers—who fought for liberty and justice for all—were slave owners? Through the powerful stories of five enslaved people who were “owned” by four of our greatest presidents, this book helps set the record straight about the role slavery played in the founding of America. From Billy Lee, valet to George Washington, to Alfred Jackson, faithful servant of Andrew Jackson, these dramatic narratives explore our country’s great tragedy—that a nation “conceived in liberty” was also born in shackles. These stories help us know the real people who were essential to the birth of this nation but traditionally have been left out of the history books. Their stories are true—and they should be heard. This thoroughly-researched and documented book can be worked into multiple aspects of the common core curriculum.
Author |
: Tchicaya Missamou |
Publisher |
: Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages |
: 404 |
Release |
: 2010-08-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781439149126 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1439149127 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (26 Downloads) |
Synopsis In the Shadow of Freedom by : Tchicaya Missamou
FROM POVERTY TO WEALTH, FROM AFRICA TO AMERICA, AND FROM CHILD SOLDIER TO U.S. MARINE Born into the Congolese wilderness, Tchicaya Missamou became a child soldier at age 11. As a horrific civil war loomed across his country, Tchicaya began using his militia connections to ferry jewels, cash, computers, and white diplomats out of the country. By 17, he was rich. By 18, he was a hunted man, his house destroyed, his family brutalized in front of him by his own militia. By 19, he’d left behind everything he’d ever known, escaping to Europe and, eventually, to America. Incredibly, that was only the start of his journey. In the Shadow of Freedom is the uplifting story of one man’s quest to achieve the American Dream. Tchicaya Missamou’s life is a shining example of why America is a gift that should not be taken for granted, and why we are limited only by the breadth of our imagination and the strength of our will.
Author |
: Kelly M. Kennington |
Publisher |
: University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages |
: 311 |
Release |
: 2017-04-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780820350851 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0820350850 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (51 Downloads) |
Synopsis In the Shadow of Dred Scott by : Kelly M. Kennington
The Dred Scott suit for freedom, argues Kelly M. Kennington, was merely the most famous example of a phenomenon that was more widespread in antebellum American jurisprudence than is generally recognized. The author draws on the case files of more than three hundred enslaved individuals who, like Dred Scott and his family, sued for freedom in the local legal arena of St. Louis. Her findings open new perspectives on the legal culture of slavery and the negotiated processes involved in freedom suits. As a gateway to the American West, a major port on both the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers, and a focal point in the rancorous national debate over slavery’s expansion, St. Louis was an ideal place for enslaved individuals to challenge the legal systems and, by extension, the social systems that held them in forced servitude. Kennington offers an in-depth look at how daily interactions, webs of relationships, and arguments presented in court shaped and reshaped legal debates and public attitudes over slavery and freedom in St. Louis. Kennington also surveys more than eight hundred state supreme court freedom suits from around the United States to situate the St. Louis example in a broader context. Although white enslavers dominated the antebellum legal system in St. Louis and throughout the slaveholding states, that fact did not mean that the system ignored the concerns of the subordinated groups who made up the bulk of the American population. By looking at a particular example of one group’s encounters with the law—and placing these suits into conversation with similar encounters that arose in appellate cases nationwide—Kennington sheds light on the ways in which the law responded to the demands of a variety of actors.