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  • Revolution, Counterrevolution and Assassination After World War II
    Robert C. Cottrell
    In response to the upheavals engendered by World War II, revolutions broke out or loomed throughout the world. Nationalist aspirations proved global in nature, ironically empowered by the Cold War. In Asia, the Middle East, Latin America and Africa, revolutions and counterrevolutions proliferated, and similar disruptions threatened to unfold in Europe and North America. Soci...
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    73,24 €

  • Revolution, Counterrevolution and Assassination Through World War II
    Robert C. Cottrell
    Since the French Revolution, the quest for revolutionary transformation and the fear of such change became deeply ingrained in the global landscape through World War II. Modern revolutions inspired counterrevolutions that strove to turn back time to an allegedly purer, finer, more moral period than the upheaval and anarchy linked to a revolutionary epoch. Revolutions often o...
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    73,13 €

  • All-American Rebels
    Robert C. Cottrell
    From women’s suffrage to Civil Rights to environmentalism and the LGBT movement, the American Left has achieved notable successes. Sometimes celebrated and sometimes reviled, the Left has taken on many forms and reinvented itself many times. In this book, historian Robert Cottrell provides the most up-to-date history of American Progressives. ...
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    34,25 €

  • The Activist 1960s
    Robert C Cottrell / Robert C. Cottrell
    Throughout the Long Sixties, which spanned much of the seemingly quiescent 1950s and continued into the 1970s, progressive activists sought to change American policy both foreign and domestic. Beginning with a civil rights crusade that later expanded to a campaign against the Vietnam War, the movement eventually splintered into a series of focuses: racial, ethnic, demographi...
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    80,95 €

  • Martyrs of the Early American Left
    Robert C. Cottrell
    Intertwining the stories of three leading early twentieth century radical Americans, this book presents the enthralling tale of the too-short lives of Inez Milholland, Randolph Bourne, and John Reed. It highlights the movements and personal experiences that drew such privileged individuals to the American left, willing to sacrifice comfortable circumstances and opportunities...
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    80,81 €

  • Sex, Drugs, and Rock ’n’ Roll
    Robert C Cottrell / Robert C. Cottrell / Robert CCottrell
    As the first full-bodied treatment of the American counterculture of the 1960s, Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n' Roll traces its origins, discusses its most important figures, delves into iconic works, relates its ebb and flow, dissects the intersection of culture and politics, highlights millennial and apocalyptic sensibilities, and traces legacies. ...
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    39,71 €

  • Lives and Times
    Blaine T. Browne / Blaine TBrowne / Robert C. Cottrell / Robert CCottrell
    Lives and Times is a biographical reader designed for use in American history courses, with each volume consisting of thirteen chapters in which two significant individuals are examined in the context of a major historical issue or event. Written in a narrative style, this text offers students new and intriguing perspectives about major issues in the nation's political, eco...
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    60,67 €

  • Lives and Times
    Blaine T Browne / Blaine T. Browne / Blaine TBrowne / Robert C Cottrell / Robert C. Cottrell / Robert CCottrell
    Lives and Times is a biographical reader designed to acquaint students with major issues in American history through the lives of individuals, prominent and otherwise, whose activities and ideas were crucial in shaping the course of the nation's history. Employing a narrative style, each volume consists of thirteen chapters in which the lives of two individuals are examined...
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    60,70 €

  • Icons of American Popular Culture
    Robert C. Cottrell
    Traces the evolution of American popular culture. This book includes ’American Dreams: Michael Jordan and Jennifer Lopez’, who challenged various sorts of barriers as they became significant cultural icons during the late 1900s and beyond. ...
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    87,98 €

  • Modern American Lives
    Blaine T Browne / Robert C. Cottrell
    Includes narrative biographies of people who significantly, and sometimes decisively, impacted contemporary American life in a range of areas, including national politics, foreign policy, social and political activism, popular and literary culture, sports, and business. ...
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    117,25 €

  • Smokejumpers of the Civilian Public Service in World War II
    Robert C. Cottrell
    This is the story of Civilian Public Service smokejumpers, who battled against dangerous winds, searing heat, and devastating fires from 1943 until 1945. Fewer than 300 World War II conscientious objectors served their country in this fashion, operating out of CPS bases in Montana, Idaho, and Oregon. But that small band of men helped to keep alive Forest Service operations i...
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    42,84 €

  • Blackball, the Black Sox, and the Babe
    Robert C Cottrell / Robert C. Cottrell
    Nineteen-twenty was a crucial year not just for the Chicago White Sox but for the game of baseball, in the aftermath of the 1919 World Series scandal. This work is both a collective biography of four individuals whose careers in baseball were forever altered in 1920 and an examination of the 1920 baseball season as a whole. It highlights four legendary personalities--Judge K...
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    42,42 €