Americas Books

ISBN: 0671510991, 9780671510992
Authors: Henry Kissinger,
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Keywords: book, touchstone, diplomacy
Pages: 912
Published: 1995-04-04
Category: 20th Century, United States, Americas, History,
List Price: 23.00 USD
  • Rating: 80%


THE SEMINAL WORK ON FOREIGN POLICY AND THE ART OF DIPLOMACY Moving from a sweeping overview of history to blow-by-blow accounts of his negotiations with world leaders, Henry Kissinger describes how the art of diplomacy has created the worl......
ISBN: 0316323942, 9780316323949
Authors: David Harris,
Publisher: Little, Brown And Company
Keywords: militant, islam, coming, shah, president, prophet, crisis
Pages: 480
Published: 2004-10-27
Category: 20th Century, United States, Americas, History,
List Price: 26.95 USD
  • Rating: 80%


A thrilling, page-turning account, drawing on new never-before-reported information, of one of the most dramatic and important episodes in recent history: the 444-day Iran Hostage Crisis. On November 4, 1979, Iranian students seized the American emb......
ISBN: 041595245X, 9780415952453
Authors: Tony Smith,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: betrayal, american, promise, supremacy, world, devil, washington, bid, pact
Pages: 296
Published: 2007-02-01
Category: 21st Century, United States, Americas, History,
List Price: 41.95 USD
  • Rating: 80%


Despite the overwhelming opposition on the left to the war in Iraq, many prominent liberals supported the war on humanitarian grounds. They argued that the war would rid the world of a brutal dictator and liberate the Iraqi people from totalitaria......
ISBN: 0738530840, 9780738530840
Authors: Bill Pickelhaupt,
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Keywords: images, america, park, aquatic, francisco, san
Pages: 128
Published: 2005-11-14
Category: State & Local, United States, Americas, History,
List Price: 19.99 USD

Aquatic Park has long been the place where San Franciscans and tourists alike go to enjoy an authentic maritime experience. Along Hyde Street Pier and the sandy strip of beach near the Maritime Museum, this area was once called Black Point Cove. It n......
ISBN: 0738562912, 9780738562919
Authors: Peggy Armitage, pittsford Historical Society Inc.,
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Keywords: publishing, arcadia, america, images, pittsford
Pages: 128
Published: 2009-03-04
Category: State & Local, United States, Americas, History,
List Price: 21.99 USD

Winding north through Pittsford, Otter Creek has powered the lumber, grain, and marble mills essential to this region since 1770. Chittenden lies east of Pittsford, on the west flank of the Green Mountains, where iron and manganese deposits supplied ......
ISBN: 0738552712, 9780738552712
Authors: Luke N. Peters,
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Keywords: america, images, county, tyler, sistersville
Pages: 128
Published: 2007-08-29
Category: State & Local, United States, Americas, History,
List Price: 19.99 USD

In 1802, Charles Wells brought his family of 22 children down the Ohio River to a point later known as Wells Landing. With its ferryboat, tannery, blacksmiths, lumber, and flour mills, the village became a stop for river traffic and a commercial cent......
ISBN: 0788423142, 9780788423147
Authors: Gertrude Lefferts Vanderbilt,
Publisher: Heritage Books
Keywords: kings, county, new, york, settlers, dutch, history, flatbush, manners, customs, social
Pages: 400
Published: 2007-10
Category: State & Local, United States, Americas, History,
List Price: 32.50 USD

(1881) reprint, paper, index, 400 pp. This history covers the initial settlement by the Dutch through the conversion to English rule in 1664 to the American Revolution of 1776, and looks at many aspects of Dutch life in the New World including langua......
ISBN: 080328277X, 9780803282773
Authors: Bunny Mcbride,
Publisher: Bison Books
Keywords: dawn, women
Pages: 152
Published: 2001-09-01
Category: Native American, Americas, History,
List Price: 12.95 USD
  • Rating: 80%


Women of the Dawn tells the stories of four remarkable Wabanaki Indian women who lived in northeast America during the four centuries that devastated their traditional world. Their courageous responses to tragedies brought on by European ......
ISBN: 0738559601, 9780738559605
Authors: Kristine Leander,
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Keywords: washington, america, images, seattle, norwegian
Pages: 128
Published: 2008-11-03
Category: State & Local, United States, Americas, History,
List Price: 21.99 USD
  • Rating: 60%


The Norwegians who immigrated to Seattle were a sturdy stock. Perhaps it was due to their ancient history as determined Viking seafarers or their more recent experiences as tenacious fishermen, farmers, loggers, and carpenters. From the first Norwegi......
ISBN: 0520218930, 9780520218932
Authors: Carey Mcwilliams, lewis H. Lapham,
Publisher: University Of California Press
Keywords: exception, california
Pages: 391
Published: 1999-04-02
Category: State & Local, United States, Americas, History,
List Price: 26.95 USD
  • Rating: 80%


In 1949, lawyer, historian, and journalist Carey McWilliams stepped back to assess the state of California at the end of its first one hundred years--its history, population, politics, agriculture, and social concerns. As he examined the reasons for ......
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