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From Colony to Superpower

U.S. Foreign Relations since 1776

By: George C. Herring

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From Colony to Superpower

U.S. Foreign Relations since 1776

By: George C. Herring

The Oxford History of the United States is the most respected multi-volume history of our nation in print. The series includes three Pulitzer Prize-winners, a New York Times bestseller, and winners of prestigious Bancroft and Parkman Prizes. From Colony to Superpower is the only thematic volume commissioned for the series. Here George C. Herring uses foreign relations as the lens through which to tell the story of America's dramatic rise from thirteen disparate colonies huddled along the Atlantic coast to the world's greatest superpower. A sweeping account of United States' foreign relations and diplomacy, this magisterial volume documents America's interaction with other peoples and nations of the world. Herring tells a story of stunning successes and sometimes tragic failures, captured in a fast-paced narrative that illuminates the central importance of foreign relations to the existence and survival of the nation, and highlights its ongoing impact on the lives of ordinary citizens. He shows how policymakers defined American interests broadly to include territorial expansion, access to growing markets, and the spread of an "American way" of life. And Herring does all this in a story rich in human drama and filled with epic events. Statesmen such as Benjamin Franklin and Woodrow Wilson and Harry Truman and Dean Acheson played key roles in America's rise to world power. But America's expansion as a nation also owes much to the adventurers and explorers, the sea captains, merchants and captains of industry, the missionaries and diplomats, who discovered or charted new lands, developed new avenues of commerce, and established and defended the nation's interests in foreign lands. From the American Revolution to the fifty-year struggle with communism and conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq, From Colony to Superpower tells the dramatic story of America's emergence as superpower--its birth in revolution, its troubled present, and its uncertain future.

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Oxford University Press

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0199723435

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9780199723430

Ancestors and Descendents of Thomas Leach of Maryland, North Carolina, and Northwest Arkansas

By: George Leach

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Ancestors and Descendents of Thomas Leach of Maryland, North Carolina, and Northwest Arkansas

By: George Leach

The history and migration of Thomas Leach, his ancestors and descendants.

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355

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iUniverse

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149170005X

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9781491700051

Deterrence Before Hiroshima

By: George H. Quester

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Deterrence Before Hiroshima

By: George H. Quester

In this study, first published in 1966, Quester analyzes pre-nuclear age theories of deterrence to equip us with perspective and data by which current theories can be evaluated. Quester presents a forceful argument in support of the relevance of history to discussions of military strategy.

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187

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Routledge

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1000675416

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9781000675412

Janis

Her Life and Music

By: Holly George-Warren

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Janis

Her Life and Music

By: Holly George-Warren

Longlisted for the 2020 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence This blazingly intimate biography of Janis Joplin establishes the Queen of Rock & Roll as the rule-breaking musical trailblazer and complicated, gender-bending rebel she was. Janis Joplin’s first transgressive act was to be a white girl who gained an early sense of the power of the blues, music you could only find on obscure records and in roadhouses along the Texas and Louisiana Gulf Coast. But even before that, she stood out in her conservative oil town. She was a tomboy who was also intellectually curious and artistic. By the time she reached high school, she had drawn the scorn of her peers for her embrace of the Beats and her racially progressive views. Her parents doted on her in many ways, but were ultimately put off by her repeated acts of defiance. Janis Joplin has passed into legend as a brash, impassioned soul doomed by the pain that produced one of the most extraordinary voices in rock history. But in these pages, Holly George-Warren provides a revelatory and deeply satisfying portrait of a woman who wasn’t all about suffering. Janis was a perfectionist: a passionate, erudite musician who was born with talent but also worked exceptionally hard to develop it. She was a woman who pushed the boundaries of gender and sexuality long before it was socially acceptable. She was a sensitive seeker who wanted to marry and settle down—but couldn’t, or wouldn’t. She was a Texan who yearned to flee Texas but could never quite get away—even after becoming a countercultural icon in San Francisco. Written by one of the most highly regarded chroniclers of American music history, and based on unprecedented access to Janis Joplin’s family, friends, band mates, archives, and long-lost interviews, Janis is a complex, rewarding portrait of a remarkable artist finally getting her due.

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400

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Simon and Schuster

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1476793123

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9781476793122

The George W. Ogden Western MEGAPACK TM: 8 Classic Novels and Stories

By: George W. Ogden

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The George W. Ogden Western MEGAPACK TM: 8 Classic Novels and Stories

By: George W. Ogden

George Washington Ogden (1871-1966) was a newspaperman who worked as an editor for the Kansas City Star, the Chicago Tribune, and various Munsey publications. He was also a prolific writer of western novels. Born in Kansas, Ogden left home at 17 and never looked back. His adventures and experiences in the western states and territories gave him the background he needed to write authentic tales of the Old West. Included here are: TRAIL'S END CLAIM NUMBER ONE THE RUSTLER OF WIND RIVER THE DUKE OF CHIMNEY BUTTE EVA EMMA JANE THE BONDBOY THE MAN FROM OMAHA THE FLOCKMASTER OF POISON CREEK If you enjoy this volume of classic westerns, don't forget to search your favorite ebook store for "Wildside Press Megapack" to see the 200+ other entries in this series, covering classic and historical fiction, science fiction, fantasy, horror, mysteries -- and much, much more!

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Wildside Press LLC

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1479406201

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9781479406203

Life of George Bent

Written from His Letters

By: George E. Hyde

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Life of George Bent

Written from His Letters

By: George E. Hyde

George Bent, the son of William Bent, one of the founders of Bent's Fort on the Arkansas near present La Junta, Colorado, and Owl Woman, a Cheyenne, began exchanging letters in 1905 with George E. Hyde of Omaha concerning life at the fort, his experiences with his Cheyenne kinsmen, and the events which finally led to the military suppression of the Indians on the southern Great Plains. This correspondence, which continued to the eve of Bent's death in 1918, is the source of the narrative here published, the narrator being Bent himself. Almost ninety years have elapsed since the day in 1930 when Mr. Hyde found it impossible to market the finished manuscript of the Bent life down to 1866. (The Depression had set in some months before.) He accordingly sold that portion of the manuscript to the Denver Public Library, retaining his working copy, which carries down to 1875. The account therefore embraces the most stirring period, not only of Bent's own life, but of life on the Plains and into the Rockies. It has never before been published. It is not often that an eyewitness of great events in the West tells his own story. But Bent's narrative, aside from the extent of its chronology (1826 to 1875), has very special significance as an inside view of Cheyenne life and action after the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864, which cost so many of the lives of Bent's friends and relatives. It is hardly probable that we shall achieve a more authentic view of what happened, as the Cheyennes, Arapahos, and Sioux saw it.

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426

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806148799

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9780806148793

Present at a Revolution: A Personal Account of 1930s China

By: George E. Taylor

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Present at a Revolution: A Personal Account of 1930s China

By: George E. Taylor

The personal anecdotes in Taylor's memoir, Present at a Revolution, convey the flavor of life in 1930s China with details not described in his academic writings. Taylor tells of smuggling medicines to the Chinese, with his life in danger if he was caught and hiding the manuscript of his book in his baby son's bassinet to get past a Japanese checkpoint. Taylor's memoir is an engaging account for everyone interested in 1930s North China.

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304

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Lulu.com

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1329916212

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9781329916210

Freedom Betrayed

Herbert Hoover's Secret History of the Second World War and Its Aftermath

By: George H. Nash

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Freedom Betrayed

Herbert Hoover's Secret History of the Second World War and Its Aftermath

By: George H. Nash

Herbert Hoover's "magnum opus"—at last published nearly fifty years after its completion—offers a revisionist reexamination of World War II and its cold war aftermath and a sweeping indictment of the "lost statesmanship" of Franklin Roosevelt. Hoover offers his frank evaluation of Roosevelt's foreign policies before Pearl Harbor and policies during the war, as well as an examination of the war's consequences, including the expansion of the Soviet empire at war's end and the eruption of the cold war against the Communists.

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Hoover Press

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0817912363

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9780817912369

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From Colony to Superpower

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Deterrence Before Hiroshima

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The George W. Ogden Western MEGAPACK TM: 8 Classic Novels and Stories

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Life of George Bent

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Freedom Betrayed

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