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  • Scars of War

    The Politics of Paternity and Responsibility for the Amerasians of Vietnam

    by Sabrina Thomas ...
    Series series Borderlands and Transcultural Studies
    Winner of the Best First Book Award from Phi Alpha Theta's History Honor SocietyScars of War examines the decisions of U.S. policymakers denying the Amerasians of Vietnam—the biracial sons and daughters of American fathers and Vietnamese mothers born during the Vietnam War—American citizenship. Focusing on the implications of the 1982 Amerasian Immigration Act and the 1987 Amerasian Homecoming Act ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

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  • Collision Course

    Ronald Reagan, the Air Traffic Controllers, and the Strike that Changed America

    by Joseph A. McCartin ...
    In August 1981, the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) called an illegal strike. The new president, Ronald Reagan, fired the strikers, establishing a reputation for both decisiveness and hostility to organized labor. As Joseph A. McCartin writes, the strike was the culmination of two decades of escalating conflict between controllers and the government that stemmed from the ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • The Eve of Destruction

    How 1965 Transformed America

    by James T. Patterson ...
    At the beginning of 1965, the U.S. seemed on the cusp of a golden age. Although Americans had been shocked by the assassination in 1963 of President Kennedy, they exuded a sense of consensus and optimism that showed no signs of abating. Indeed, political liberalism and interracial civil rights activism made it appear as if 1965 would find America more progressive and unified than it had ever been ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • History Teaches Us to Resist

    How Progressive Movements Have Succeeded in Challenging Times

    by Mary Frances Berry ...
    Historian and civil rights activist proves how progressive movements can flourish even in conservative times.Despair and mourning after the election of an antagonistic or polarizing president, such as Donald Trump, is part of the push-pull of American politics. But in this incisive book, historian Mary Frances Berry shows that resistance to presidential administrations has led to positive change ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • The Liberal Hour

    Washington and the Politics of Change in the 1960s

    by Robert Weisbrot, G. Calvin Mackenzie ...
    An engaging be hind-the-scenes look at the lesser-known forces that fueled the profound social reforms of the 1960sProvocative and incisive , The Liberal Hour reveals how Washington, so often portrayed as a target of reform in the 1960s, was in fact the era's most effective engine of change. The movements of the 1960s have always drawn the most attention from the decade's chroniclers, but it was ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Affirmative Action Puzzle

    A Comprehensive and Honest Exploration of One of the Most Controversial Legal and Social Issues in US History

    by Melvin I. Urofsky ...
    A rich, multifaceted history of affirmative action from the Civil Rights Act of 1866 through today’s tumultuous timesFrom an acclaimed legal historian, a history of affirmative action from its beginning with the Civil Rights Act of 1866 to the first use of the term in 1935 with the enactment of the National Labor Relations Act (the Wagner Act) to 1961 and John F. Kennedy’s Executive Order 10925, ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The Principles and Practice of International Aviation Law

    by Brian F. Havel, Gabriel S. Sanchez ...
    The Principles and Practice of International Aviation Law provides an introduction to, and demystification of, the private and public dimensions of international aviation law. Unlike other global sectors, the air transport industry is not governed by a discrete area of the law, but by disparate transnational regulatory instruments. Everything from the routes that an international air carrier can ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • And the Crooked Places Made Straight

    The Struggle for Social Change in the 1960s

    by David Chalmers ...
    Series series The American Moment
    "Marvelously comprehensive and superbly written. An exceptionally valuable overview of the 1960s, replete with astute interpretations and commentary." —David J. Garrow, author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership ConferenceDavid Chalmers's widely acclaimed overview of the 1960s describes how the civil rights movement ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The 1960s

    Key Themes and Documents

    by James S. Olson, Mariah Gumpert ...
    Series series Unlocking American History
    This volume serves as an invaluable study guide covering all of the key political, social, and cultural concepts of the turbulent 1960s.The 1960s were a polarizing decade, beginning brightly and with hope but ending in disappointment and disarray. By the end, traditional values had been subverted, political institutions had been overturned, and marginalized groups had battled their own government ... Read more

    $44.59 USD

  • Revolution, Reform and Regionalism in Southeast Asia

    Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam

    by Ronald Bruce St John ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series
    Based on research carried out over the three decades, this book compares the post-war political economies of Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam in the context of their individual and collective impact on contemporary efforts at regional integration. The author highlights the different paths to reform taken by the three neighbours and the effect this has had on regional plans for economic development ... Read more

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  • Femininity in Flight

    A History of Flight Attendants

    by Kathleen Barry, Daniel J. Walkowitz ...
    Series series Radical Perspectives
    “In her new chic outfit, she looks like anything but a stewardess working. But work she does. Hard, too. And you hardly know it.” So read the text of a 1969 newspaper advertisement for Delta Airlines featuring a picture of a brightly smiling blond stewardess striding confidently down the aisle of an airplane cabin to deliver a meal.From the moment the first stewardesses took flight in 1930, flight ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Hardhats, Hippies, and Hawks

    The Vietnam Antiwar Movement as Myth and Memory

    by Penny Lewis ...
    In the popular imagination, opposition to the Vietnam War was driven largely by college students and elite intellectuals, while supposedly reactionary blue-collar workers largely supported the war effort. In Hardhats, Hippies, and Hawks, Penny Lewis challenges this collective memory of class polarization. Through close readings of archival documents, popular culture, and media accounts at the time ... Read more

    $23.79 USD