21st century history: from c 2000 - books

Historians traditionally claim to be myth-breakers, but national history since the nineteenth century shows quite...  Read More >>

From two of the best political reporters in the country comes the gripping inside story of the historic 2008 presidential...  Read More >>

The earthquake that struck Haiti on January 12, 2010 thrust the nation into the public consciousness as never before....  Read More >>

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Disaster on the Horizon is a behind-the-scenes investigative look at the worst oil well accident in US history,...  Read More >>

Juan Cole disentangles the key foreign policy issues that America is grappling with today, from our dependence on...  Read More >>

See and hear the 20th century's greatest orators speak the very words that made history - from Winston Churchill...  Read More >>

Provides a reassessment of the growth and the various directions in US labor history. This title focuses on: the...  Read More >>

Original essays that argue the significance of the shared North American history of Canada and the United States...  Read More >>

No Lack of Courage is the story of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's Operation Medusa, the largely Canadian...  Read More >>

Original essays that argue the significance of the shared North American history of Canada and the United States...  Read More >>

Swift•boat•ing (swift-bo-ting) n. as defined by the Left, the political trick of claiming to expose the truth while...  Read More >>

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The roots of the financial crisis lie in an unbalanced globalization which has failed to match economic with political...  Read More >>

Originally published in 2009 by Atlantic Books.  Read More >>

No country in the world has more political battles, military conflicts, and ethnic complexity per person and per...  Read More >>

This book examines how dependent development and struggles for power within and outside the state apparatus led...  Read More >>

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Valerie Plame Wilson is the woman at the centre of the scandal that, ultimately, led to the downfall, prosecution...  Read More >>

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The Afghanistan War from the inside. Over 800 classified reports by the troops in the field, presenting the reality...  Read More >>

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Illustrates the raw inner conflict between one man's pride for his sons and their chosen profession, and his natural...  Read More >>

After its foundation on November 14, 1960, the Musicology Department of the German Historical Institute in Rome...  Read More >>

Die Abhandlungen der Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen sind das wichtigste wissenschaftliche Publikationsorgan...  Read More >>