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Gilbert Rozman - U.S. Leadership, History, and Bil ateral Relations in Northeast Asia (2010).jpg

Whereas most discussions of history have centered on the rift between China and Japan, this book focuses on three other divisions stemming from deep-seated memories within Northern Asia, which increasingly will test U.S. diplomacy and academic analysis. The first division involves long-suppressed Japanese and South Korean memories that are critical of U.S. behavior - concerning issues such as the atomic bombings, the Tokyo Tribunal, and the Korean War. How should the United States respond as these memories come out into the open, complicating vital bilateral alliances? The second division is the enduring disagreement between Japan and South Korea over history. What can the United States do to invigorate urgently needed trilateral ties? The third and most important division is the revival of a sinocentric worldview, which foretells a struggle between China and other countries concerning history, one that has already begun in China's dispute with South Korea and is likely to implicate the United States above all. Presenting three perspectives on each theme, the book launches a multi-sided discussion of the importance of history in international relations.

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Gilbert Rozman - U.S. Leadership, History, and Bil ateral Relations in Northeast Asia (2010).pdf

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Reed Ueda - Avenues to Adulthood; The Origins of t he High School and Social Mobility in an American Suburb (2009).jpg

01 - USA - Reed Ueda - Avenues to Adulthood The Origins of the Hig... School and Social Mobility in an American Suburb 2009.jpg

American educators have hailed the public high school as the ultimate guarantor of equal opportunity in a modern educational system. Avenues to Adulthood assesses how the high school played this role. Professor Ueda's book discusses the reasons for the modernisation of the high school at the turn of the twentieth century, the kinds of opportunities the high school offered and the way in which it became a focus of civic life that reshaped the American sense of community and generation. To the extent that a small share of poor immigrant children gained access to the high school and received its advantages, that institution counteracted the disadvantages of inherited social status. Academics, interscholastic sports and journalism turned the high school into a focal point of civic pride. Ultimately by supplying educational advantages that affected adult career patterns, the high school was a powerful force in reshuffling the social elites of the early twentieth-century city.

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Reed Ueda - Avenues to Adulthood; The Origins of t he High School and Social Mobility in an American Suburb (2009).pdf

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Laurence Parent - Official Guide to Texas State Pa rks and Historic Sites (2008).jpg

This revised edition includes five new state parks and historical sites, completely updated information for every park, and many beautiful new photographs.

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Laurence Parent - Official Guide to Texas State Pa rks and Historic Sites (2008).pdf

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Thelma Wills Foote - Black and White Manhattan; Th e History of Racial Formation in Colonial New York City (2004).jpg

01 - USA - Thelma Wills Foote - Black and White Manhattan The His...ory of Racial Formation in Colonial New York City 2004.jpg

Race first emerged as an important ingredient of New York City's melting pot when it was known as New Amsterdam and was a fledgling colonial outpost on the North American frontier. Thelma Wills Foote details the arrival of the first immigrants, including African slaves, and traces encounters between the town's inhabitants of African, European, and Native American descent, showing how racial domination became key to the building of the settler colony at the tip of Manhattan Island. During the colonial era, the art of governing the city's diverse and factious population, Foote reveals, involved the subordination of confessional, linguistic, and social antagonisms to binary racial difference. Foote investigates everyday formations of race in slaveowning households, on the colonial city's streets, at its docks, taverns, and marketplaces, and in the adjacent farming districts. Even though the northern colonial port town afforded a space for black resistance, that setting did not, Foote argues, effectively undermine the city's institution of black slavery. The history of New York City demonstrates that the process of racial formation and the mechanisms of racial domination were central to the northern colonial experience and to the founding of the United States.

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Thelma Wills Foote - Black and White Manhattan; Th e History of Racial Formation in Colonial New York City (2004).pdf

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Dover Pictorial Archives - Peter F. Copeland - Col umbus Discovers America Coloring Book (1988).jpg

America’s discovery, recreated in 41 superb drawings and captions: Columbus with Spanish monarchs; shipboard life; storms at sea; arrival in the New World, more.

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Dover Pictorial Archives - Peter F. Copeland - Col umbus Discovers America Coloring Book (1988).pdf

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Dover Pictorial Archives - Peter F. Copeland - Civ il War Uniforms Coloring Book (1985).jpg

Accurate representations of period apparel depict 21 Confederate uniforms, 24 Union uniforms, different ranks, states, units; historical figures include Ulysses S. Grant, Robert E. Lee, David G. Farragut, and others. Descriptive captions.

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William Manchester - The Glory and the Dream; A Na rrative History of America, 1932-1972 (1984).jpg

As a history teacher and historian who has read and previewed hundreds of history titles, I can say without resevation that "The Glory and the Dream" ranks up among the top 5 history books I have ever read. Covering a span of time when America went through so much upheavel and doubt, patriotism and arrogance, Manchester weaves a tale of American life that leaves nothing out. Focusing on the four themes of history (social, political, domestic, foreign) he manages to bring together all of the personalities, events, disasters, fears, and triumphs that have made America what she is today. At over 1300 pages, it is a massive volume but one that grabs the reader from the very start with its chapters on the Great Depression and the rise of FDR. From there Manchester takes the reader on a wonderful trip through time as he covers World War II, The Cold War, Truman, Ike, the 50's, 60's, sex, music, Vietnam, art, entertainment, and everything else that went on during the 50 year time span the book covers. I was sad that the book had to end, but found myself reading it again in less than four months, reliving the journey again and finding out new things that I had missed before. If you love American history then this book is an absolute must for your library. For those who lived through the history of which Manchester writes, it will stir memories. For those too young to remember that far back, it will give you a wonderfully frank account of your nation and its 20th century heritage. Read this book, you will not be disappointed.

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William J. Reese, John L. Rury - Rethinking the Hi story of American Education (2007).jpg

This collection of original essays examines the history of American education as it has developed as a field since the 1970s and moves into a post-revisionist era and looks forward to possible new directions for the future. Contributors take a comprehensive approach, beginning with colonial education and spanning to modern day, while also looking at various aspects of education, from higher education, to curriculum, to the manifestation of social inequality in education. The essays speak to historians, educational researchers, policy makers and others seeking fresh perspectives on questions related to the historical development of schooling in the United States.

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“William Reese and John Rury have collected the best set of essays ever published about the history of American education. If our schools and colleges are ‘contested terrain,’ their history is even more so: over the past half-century, historians have different sharply over the scope, purpose, and meaning of education. These essays provide close analyses of the scholarly debates as well as wise suggestions for future research. We can only hope that the next generation of historians follows their cue.” --Jonathan Zimmerman, Professor of Education and History, New York University

“This book provides a comprehensive review of scholarship in the history of American education during the period since the revisionists turned the field upside down in the 1960s and 70s. Its able authors display the rich diversity of issues and approaches that have characterized the field in the last 30 years.”--David F. Labaree, Professor of Education, Stanford University

“This is a timely and important collection of essays on the broader state of the field of educational history, the first such collection in over twenty years. The introduction and other essays are critical resources for courses in the historiography of the field and its place within American history. The individual essays will be significant tools for teaching history of education courses and courses in American history, particularly addressing such subfields as the history of literacy, gender, childhood, politics, philanthropy, demography, urban change and growth, and cultural institutions.”-- Mary Ann Dzuback, Associate Professor and Director, Women and Gender Studies, Washington University

"This is an excellent collection of essays by a group of outstanding historians of education in honor of Carl Kaestle, one of the towering figures in the field. The beauty of these essays is that they succinctly clarify the state of the art in various areas of educational history. This book will have great appeal to practicing historians of education and will be of immeasurable help to new scholars just entering the field."--Jeffrey Mirel, David L. Angus Collegiate Chair of Education and Professor of History, University of Michigan

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Richard White - ''It's Your Misfortune and None of My Own''; A New History of the American West (199 3).jpeg

"It's your misfortune and none of my own," the line from a song, sets the tone for this sweeping account of the West from the early European incursions to the present. White, a leader in the "new history of the West" movement, builds upon Patricia N. Limerick's The Legacy of Conquest ( LJ 9/1/87) to provide a far-reaching explanation of the creation of a region rather than just the vanishing of the frontier. Drawing upon ethnic, environmental, urban, labor, and women's history as well as traditional sources, White gives fresh perspective to the West. His book is well written and contains useful graphics, though a major disappointment is the lack of footnotes. Nonetheless, this is a significant contribution to the understanding not only of how the West was won but also of how much of it was lost. This will appeal to history buffs and scholars and is highly recommended for academic and larger public libraries.

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Richard White - ''It's Your Misfortune and None of My Own''; A New History of the American West (199 3).epub

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Susan Elisabeth Subak - Rescue and Flight; America n Relief Workers Who Defied the Nazis (2010).jpg

When Susan Elisabeth Subak discovered that members of the Unitarian Church had helped her Jewish father immigrate to the United States, she was unaware of the impact the organization had made during World War II. After years of research, Subak uncovers the little-known story of the Unitarian Service Committee, which rescued European refugees during World War II, and the remarkable individuals who made it happen.

The Unitarian Service Committee was among the few American organizations committed to helping refugees during World War II. The staff who ran the committee assisted those endangered by the Nazi regime, from famous writers and artists to the average citizen. Part of a larger network of American relief workers, the Unitarian Committee helped refugees negotiate the official and legal channels of escape and, when those methods failed, the more complex underground channels. From their offices in Portugal and southern France they created escape routes through Europe to the United States, South America, and England, and rescued thousands, often at great personal risk.

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Susan Elisabeth Subak - Rescue and Flight; America n Relief Workers Who Defied the Nazis (2010).pdf

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Tamar Jeffers McDonald - Hollywood Catwalk; Explor ing Costume and Transformation in American Film (2 010).jpg

The High School outsider takes off her glasses, puts on a dress, and becomes the Prom Queen; the dowdy woman has her hair done, buys some chic new clothes and starts to attract the men. Cinderella and Pygmalion stories still provide inspiration for the plots of Hollywood romantic comedies, dramas, and even action films. Their perennial use prompts a series of questions: is, for example, male agency necessary to effect the transformation, or can the woman change herself? Can she ever change him? Most pressingly, what do these images of change and transformation, of improvement and transcendence tell us, the viewers, about what we should be doing?
Investigating these questions, this book examines a key but frequently overlooked aspect of film style: the costume. Across all the films discussed, costume and the body it covers becomes the crucial element in the transformation scene, exemplifying the “before” and “after” of the successful change. Exploring the fantasies of transcendence and transformation sold through these films and exemplified in the costumes, this book examines Calamity Jane, Midnight Cowboy, Clueless, The Long Kiss Goodnight, The Devil Wears Prada, and many other examples from both classic and contemporary Hollywood.

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Susan S. Fainstein - The City Builders; Property D evelopment in New York and London, 1980-2000 (2001 ).jpg

In the last twenty years, urban centers worldwide have experienced enormous booms and busts as real-estate developers, financial institutions, and public officials first poured resources into physical redevelopment, then watched as the market collapsed before booming again in the 1990s. In this extensively revised edition of her highly regarded The City Builders, Susan Fainstein examines major redevelopment efforts in New York and London to uncover the forces behind these investment cycles and the role that public policy can play in moderating market instability. Fainstein chronicles the progress of three development projects in New York (Times Square, downtown Brooklyn, and Battery Park City) and three in London (King's Cross, Spitalfields, and Docklands). Analyzing the political and economic processes underlying physical changes in these two cities during the last two decades, she uncovers the role played by developers' perceptions and strategies in their interactions with both public policy-makers and property markets. This new edition follows each development effort to the present and places the discussion in a newly strengthened theoretical framework. In her investigation of the convergence between London and New York during the 1980s and then the divergence that began in the 1990s, Fainstein traces similarities and differences in the effects of globalization, ideology, and institutional structure in each city's experience. This comparative framework also sheds considerable light on the contributing roles of structure and agency in creating final outcomes. Fainstein concludes by assessing the impact of "theme park" development on the urban fabric and recommending a set of realistic strategies to both redevelop cities and improve the lives of urban residents.

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Susan S. Fainstein - The City Builders; Property D evelopment in New York and London, 1980-2000 (2001 ).djvu

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James J. Cooke - Chewing Gum, Candy Bars, and Beer ; The Army Px in World War II (2009).jpg

Veterans of World War II have long sung the praises of the PX - a little piece of home in far-flung corners of the world. Though many books on that war tell of combat operations and logistics in detail, this is the first to tell the full story of the Army Exchange System. The AES was dedicated to providing soldiers with some of the comforts they had enjoyed in civilian life - candy, beer, cigarettes, razor blades, soap - whether by operating an exchange close to where they were fighting or by sending goods forward to the lines, free of charge. The beer may only have been '3.2', but it was cheap and, unlike British beer, was served cold, thanks to PX coolers. And a constant supply of cigarettes and chewing gum gave GIs an advantage when flirting with the local girls. In chronicling the history of the AES, James J. Cooke harks back to the Civil War, in which sutlers sold basic items to the Yankee troops for exorbitant prices, and to the First World War, when morale-building provisions were brought in by agencies such as the Red Cross. He then traces the evolution of the PX from the beginning to the end of World War II from the point of view of those who ran the service and that of the soldiers who used it, blending administrative history with colorful anecdotes and interspersing letters from GIs. Cooke views the PX as a manifestation of American mobility, materialism, and the cultural revolution of mass consumerism that flourished in the 1920s, serving soldiers who were themselves products of this new American way of retail and expected a high level of material support in time of war. He emphasizes the accomplishments of Major General Joseph W. Byron, Chief PX Officer from 1941 to 1943, and his deputy, Colonel Frank Kerr. He also tells how the PX dealt with the presence of large numbers of women in uniform and the need to meet their demands in exchange offerings. By 1945, General Byron could boast that the Army Exchange Service operated the world's largest department store chain, serving the grandest army the United States had ever put in the field, and today the PX is still a central factor of military life. Yet as Cooke shows, the key to the AES' importance was ultimately the way it bolstered morale - and helped give our fighting men the will to keep fighting.

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James J. Cooke - Chewing Gum, Candy Bars, and Beer ; The Army Px in World War II (2009).pdf

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Naval Fighters Series 15 - Steve Ginter - North Am erican Rockwell T-2 Buckeye (1987).jpg

Another in this highly respected series which forms a comprehensive guide to fighter aircraft (and many other types) operated by the US Navy and US Marine Corps in the years since World War II. Each is an extensively illustrated guide to markings carried by each unit operating the type in question and has drawings which will be invaluable for both historian and modeller. The North American T-2 Buckeye was the United States Navy's intermediate training aircraft, intended to introduce Student Naval Aviators to jets. It entered initial service in 1959. Missing pages: 30-33.

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Naval Fighters Series 15 - Steve Ginter - North Am erican Rockwell T-2 Buckeye (1987).pdf

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Naval Fighters Series 40 - Corwin Corky Meyer - Gr umman F11F Tiger (1997).jpg

The Navy's first supersonic fighter, 287 B&W & 4 color photos, 52 B&W drawings. Squadron service history of the Tiger including their most famous unit, the Blue Angels. Plastic model kits are reviewed. 5 pages of black and white drawings illustrating Tiger markings.

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Naval Fighters Series 40 - Corwin Corky Meyer - Gr umman F11F Tiger (1997).pdf

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Alfred T. Mahan - Lessons of the war with Spain an d other articles (1899).jpg

The original intention, with which the leading articles of the present collection were undertaken, was to elicit some of the lessons derivable from the war between the United States and Spain.

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Alfred T. Mahan - Lessons of the war with Spain an d other articles (1899).pdf

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I. Leo Sharfman - The American railroad problem a study in war and reconstruction (1921).jpg

The object of this book is to provide for the intelligent citizen — including the large inarticulate public, as well as the student, the publicist, the legislator, the business man, the shipper, and the railroad security holder, executive, and employee — an analysis of the American railroad problem as it presents itself to-day.

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