Introduces the Spanish American War, covering the origins of dispute between the United States and Spain over Cuba and focusing on the war's impact on Hispanic communities.

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Federal Bureau of Investigation - 100 Years of Pro tecting America (2008).jpg

In 1937, the Society was established as a fraternal and social organization of men and women who, through their service to the FBI, share the same common backgrounds as well as the same ideals and values. The Society's mission was then and continues now to be the preservation of the FBI heritage and the FBI family through friendship, loyalty, and goodwill. Through the spirit of fidelity, bravery, and integrity, the Society provides support to the FBI, the mission of the FBI, and current FBI Special Agent personnel. FBI Director Robert S. Mueller, III, along with other former FBI Directors, has praised the contributions of the Society and has asserted, "Today, the Bureau is building on the solid foundation, which the former Agents, members of the Society, have established." The saga of the Bureau and the history of the FBI were developed by the dedicated efforts of the men and women who served in the Bureau and each one can take justifiable pride in his or her contribution.

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Robert Mendelsohn - The Impact of Climate Change o n the United States Economy (2004).jpg

Understanding the impacts of climate change on economic behaviour is an important aspect of deciding when to take policy actions to prevent or mitigate its consequences. This book applies advanced new economics methodologies to assess impacts on potentially vulnerable aspects of the US economy: agriculture, timber, coastal resources, energy expenditure, fishing, outdoor recreation. It is intended to provide improved understanding of key issues raised in the recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports. It concludes that some climate change may produce economic gains in the agriculture and forestry sectors, whereas energy, coastal structures, and water sectors may be harmed. The book will serve as an important reference for the scientific, economic, and policy community, and will also be of interest to natural resource/environmental economists as an example of economic valuation techniques. The volume will clearly be of main importance to researchers and policymakers in the US, but will also be influential as a model for assessment of impacts on economies worldwide.

• Very controversial topic: great deal of debate in science and social science journals recently • New results demonstrate that climate change over the next century will probably benefit the economy of the US • New methods to measure impacts which include adaptation • Dynamic analyses in forestry and sea-level rise measuring the importance of the rate of change in climate for the first time

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George R. Zodrow - United States Tax Reform in the 21st Century (2002).jpg

Tax reform debates in the United States have for some time been dominated by the question of whether the existing corporate and individual income tax system should be replaced with some form of a national consumption tax. This book contains essays by a group of internationally recognized tax experts who describe the current state of the art in economic thinking on the issue of whether fundamental tax reform is preferable to continued incremental reform of the existing income tax. The collection covers a wide range of tax policy issues related to consumption tax reforms, including their economic effects, distributional consequences, effects on administrative and compliance costs, transitional issues and the political aspects of fundamental tax reform, and international comparisons.

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Walter Rucker - Encyclopedia of American Race Riot s Volume 1 - 2 (2006).jpg

The Encyclopedia of American Race Riots provides interpretive accounts of collective violence involving black and white Americans from the Civil War through the early twenty-first century, often with reference to related forms of bloodshed and implications for other minorities throughout our history. In nearly 265 entries written by eighty scholars from various fields, it identifies key incidents, individuals, and organizations, as well as concepts, events, themes, and trends associated with the acts of bloodshed and responses to them—including song and poetry. Thus the encyclopedia presents riots, lynching, vigilantism, and murders in the context of everyday life for specific eras and regions, revealing the human agency of participants and victims, the role of racism in these purposeful bloodlettings, and the transformation of racial violence over time. It also provides twenty-three primary sources, an extensive bibliography, a related topics guide, a chronology of American race riots and racial violence, a detailed subject index, and powerful illustrations. Above all, it raises critical questions: What are riots? Why do they occur? When do they happen? How do they differ from one another and from other forms of collective violence? Who riots, and why? Why are riots and rioters significant? How do they compare with other forms of mob violence and participants?

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Paul A. Rahe - Republics Ancient and Modern, Volum e III, Inventions of Prudence, Constituting the Am erican Regime (1994).jpg

USA Books1 - Paul A. Rahe - Republics Ancient and Modern, Volume II...ns of Prudence, Constituting the American Regime 1994.jpg

Bridging the gap between political theory, comparative history and government, and constitutional prudence, Rahe challenges prevailing interpretations of ancient Greek republicanism, early modern political thought, and the founding of the American republic. He focuses on the practical consequences of affirming and denying the presumption that humans are political animals able to reason together concerning justice and common good.

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Larry Eliott, Dan Atkinson - The Gods that Failed, How Blind Faith in Markets Has Cost Us Our Future (2009).jpg

USA Books1 - Larry Eliott, Dan Atkinson - The Gods that Failed, Ho...ow Blind Faith in Markets Has Cost Us Our Future 2009.jpg

Over the past three decades, governments have ceded economic control to a new elite of free-market operatives and their colleagues in national and international institutions like the IMF, the World Bank, and the World Trade Organization. They promised economic stability but have delivered chaos. Their speculation has left the global economy more vulnerable to a financial collapse than any time since 1929.
Two leading financial journalists dissect this financial elite, tracing their origins to a secretive gathering of free-market economists in 1947, and propose a series of far-reaching reforms that can save us from a new depression.

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Larry Eliott, Dan Atkinson - The Gods that Failed, How Blind Faith in Markets Has Cost Us Our Future (2009).pdf

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Philip Katcher - The Army of Northern Virginia, Le e's Army in the American Civil War, 1861-1865 (200 3).jpg

The Confederate Army of Northern Virginia was one of the greatest fighting formations in history: a combination of an outstanding commander and an excellent fighting force. This book offers an in-depth study of why this formation was so successful against Northern armies, which often had a greater wealth of resources and manpower and some very able leaders. Almost always outnumbered, Lee's forces were able to record a number of notable victories by giving free rein to subordinates and utilizing the fighting qualities of the army's units to the full. But more than anything else, The Army of Northern Virginia looks closely at the human dimension of Lee's army: the quality and individuality of its generals and their ability to interpret their superior's orders; the fighting spirit of the average "Johnny Reb"; and, above all, the leadership of Robert E. Lee himself, who became one of the 19th century's greatest generals. Also includes color and black and white maps.

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Philip Katcher - The Army of Northern Virginia, Le e's Army in the American Civil War, 1861-1865 (200 3).pdf

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Lepn Jackson - The Business of Letters, Authorial Economies in Antebellum America (2008).jpg

Traditionally, scholars of authorship in antebellum America have approached their subject through the lens of professionalization, exploring the ways in which writing moved away from amateurism and into the capitalist marketplace. The Business of Letters breaks new ground by challenging the dominant professionalization model, with its vision of a single literary marketplace. Leon Jackson shows how antebellum authors participated in a variety of different economies including patronage, charity, gift exchange, and competition—each of which had its own rules and reciprocities, its own ethics and exchange rituals, and sometimes even its own currencies. Examining a variety of canonical and non-canonical authors, including women, slaves, and artisans, and drawing on theoretical approaches from anthropology, sociology, social history, and literary criticism, Jackson reveals authors to have been social agents whose acts of authorial exchange involved them in dense webs of community. The decisive transformation of the antebellum period, he concludes, was not from amateurism to professionalism, but, rather, from socially embedded exchange to impersonally conducted business.

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Lepn Jackson - The Business of Letters, Authorial Economies in Antebellum America (2008).pdf

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Bob Edwards - Edward R. Murrow and the Birth of Br oadcast Journalism (2004).jpg

"Get it, read it, and pass it on."--Bill Moyers "Most Americans living today never heard Ed Murrow in a live broadcast. This book is for them I want them to know that broadcast journalism was established by someone with the highest standards. Tabloid crime stories, so much a part of the lust for ratings by today's news broadcasters, held no interest for Murrow. He did like Hollywood celebrities, but interviewed them for his entertainment programs; they had no place on his news programs. My book is focused on this life in journalism. I offer it in the hope that more people in and out of the news business will get to know Ed Murrow. Perhaps in time the descent from Murrow's principles can be reversed."--Bob Edwards

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Forrest G. Robinson - The Cambridge Companion to M ark Twain (1995).jpg

The Cambridge Companion to Mark Twain offers new and thought-provoking essays on an author of enduring preeminence in the American canon. Accessible enough to interest both experienced specialists and students new to Twain criticism, the essays examine Twain from a wide variety of critical perspectives, and include timely reflections by major critics on the hotly debated dynamics of race and slavery perceptible throughout his writing. The volume includes a chronology of Twain's life and a list of suggestions for further reading.

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Jerald Podair - Bayard Rustin, American Dreamer (2 008).jpg

Bayard Rustin was a unique 20th-century American radical voice. A homosexual, World War II draft resister, and ex-communist, Rustin made enormous contributions to the civil rights, socialist, labor, peace, and gay rights movements in the United States, despite being viewed as an outsider by fellow activists. Author Jerold Podair also includes excerpts from Rustin's writings, speeches, letters, and statements, allowing the reader to gain firsthand interaction with one of the most important civil rights leadersA and one of the most important radical leadersA in 20th-century American history.

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John Agnew - The Marshall Plan Today, Model and Me taphor (2004).jpg

This book goes beyond diplomatic history to place the Marshall Plan in the context of both the political economy of late 20th century Europe and the impact of American models of business and government that came with the Plan.

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David C. King - Civil War and Reconstruction (2003 ).jpg

A rare first-hand glimpse of the Civil War through the words of those who were there
This exciting new addition to the American Heritage American Voices series offers young readers insights into the culture and ideas of the Civil War era through a variety of primary sources. The book includes major historical documents, such as the Gettysburg Address, as well as more personalized accounts of the war and of the popular culture of the times found in diaries, advertisements, and magazine and newspaper articles. Throughout, the readings are supplemented by introductions, period illustrations, sidebar information, and vocabularies. David C. King (Hillsdale, NY) is the author of Wiley's American Kids in History series of U.S. history activity books as well as Colonies and Revolution and Westward Expansion in the American Heritage American Voices series. American Heritage is the premier American history magazine and is well known for its reference books.

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Carl Benn - The War of 1812 (2003).jpg

The bloody war of 1812 saw British, American, and First Nations forces clash in a conflict that would forever alter North America. This book explains the background to the war and covers the three years of fighting on land and sea, including the battles of Lake Erie and Lake Champlain.

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Tom Quirk, Gary Scharnhorst - American History thr ough Literature, 1870–1920 (2006).jpg

This A-Z, cross-referenced and illustrated title provides a unique overview of the period following the Civil War through the emergence of the United States as a world power at the end of World War I. The set features more than 250 survey entries. Subjects include: political topics (Reform, Women's Suffrage); ideas in context (Scientific Materialism, Darwinism); values (Assimilation, Success); society (Labor, Mass Marketing); genres (Science Fiction, War Writing); popular entertainment (Baseball, Boxing); publishing (Scribner's Magazine); works of literature and nonfiction ("Billy Budd," "The Theory of the Leisure Class"); and much more. The analysis of a wide range of classics in American literature, viewed as cultural and historical documents, cultivates critical skills in reading texts from various perspectives, including aesthetic, biographical, social, historical, racial and gendered. Along with its companion title on the period covering 1820 to 1870, this set provides a comprehensive overview of a key century in American historical and literary studies.

Tom Quirk is the author of articles on American literature and culture and variety of American authors, including Joyce Carol Oates, Langston Hughes, Willa Cather, Wallace Stevens, Edgar Allan Poe, E.A. Robinson, Ring Lardner, Nathaniel Hawthorne, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and others. He is also the author, editor, or co-editor of several books and monographs, including: Melville's Confidence Man (Missouri, 1982), Romanticism: Critical Essays in American Literature (Garland, 1986), Bergson and American Culture: The Worlds of Willa Cather and Wallace Stevens and Writing the American Classics (both North Carolina, 1990), Coming to Grips with "Huckleberry Finn" (Missouri, 1993), Tales, Speeches, Essays, and Sketches by Mark Twain (Penguin, 1994), American Realism and the Canon: A Collection of Essays (Delaware, 1994), Biographies of Books: The Backgrounds, Genesis, and Composition of Notable American Writings (Missouri, 1996), Mark Twain: A Study of the Short Fiction (Twayne, 1997), The Portable American Realism Reader (Viking/Penguin, 1997), Tales of Soldiers and Civilians and Other Stories by Ambrose Bierce (Penguin, 2000), Nothing Abstract: Investigations in the American Literary Imagination (Missouri, 2001), The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain (Penguin, 2002), and The Portable Mark Twain (Penguin/Putnam 2004). He is the volume editor for Alexander's Bridge in the Willa Cather Scholarly Editions Project (Nebaska, 2007). He is editor of the Dictionary of Literary Biography Documentary Volume: Huckleberry Finn (Bruccoli, Clark, and Layman, 2008), and he is the co-editor of American History through Literature 3 vols. (Scribners, 2006). He recently completed a book with the title Mark Twain and Human Nature (Missouri, 2007). He is coeditor of A Research Guide to American Literature, 1865-1914 (Facts on File, 2010). In 2009 he received The John S. Tuckey Lifetime Achievement Award for Contributions to Mark Twain Scholarship and to the Elmira College Center for Mark Twain Studies.

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