Skip to main content

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...
  • Unconditional Defeat

    Japan, America, and the End of World War II

    Series series
    Unconditional Defeat-the second book in a Pacific War trilogy that is part of SR Books' Total War series-examines the concluding stages of World War II in Asia and the Pacific, from November 1943 until September 1945. Thomas W. Zeiler argues that this 'war without mercy' could only come to one conclusion: the complete, unconditional defeat of Japan by a mobilized, overwhelming, vengeful United ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

  • Capitalist Peace

    A History of American Free-Trade Internationalism

    A wide-ranging history of modern America that argues that free trade has been an engine of US foreign policy and the key to global prosperity. Surprisingly, exports and imports, tariffs and quotas, and trade deficits and surpluses are central to American foreign relations. Ever since Franklin D. Roosevelt took office during the Great Depression, the United States has linked trade to its long-term ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • A Companion to the Second World War

    Series series Wiley Blackwell Companions to World History
    Explores the evolving historiography of the Second World War across cultures and continentsA Companion to the Second World War, Second Edition is a foundational reference for understanding how scholars have interpreted, debated, and revised the history of the Second World War. Spanning two volumes and more than sixty essays, this extensively updated edition brings together leading voices in the ... Read more

    $322.00 USD

  • Ambassadors in Pinstripes

    The Spalding World Baseball Tour and the Birth of the American Empire

    Inspired and led by sporting magnate Albert Goodwill Spalding, two teams of baseball players circled the globe for six months in 1888-1889 competing in such far away destinations as Australia, Sri Lanka and Egypt. These players, however, represented much more than mere pleasure-seekers. In this lively narrative, Zeiler explores the ways in which the Spalding World Baseball Tour drew on elements of ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

  • Beyond the Nixon Shocks

    Global Consequences since 1971

    Series series New Approaches to International History
    In 1971 President Nixon shocked the world with a series of announcements and policies that changed the political landscape at home, and shifted the bases of international power abroad.From newly opened diplomatic channels with China to unilateral monetary and trade reforms, this book argues that the so called 'Nixon Shocks' transformed not only America but the international economic, security, ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • National Pastime

    U.S. History Through Baseball

    Series series
    From its modest beginnings in rural America to its current status as an entertainment industry in postindustrial America enjoyed worldwide by millions each season, the linkages between baseball’s evolution and our nation’s history are undeniable. Through war, depression, times of tumultuous upheaval and of great prosperity – baseball has been held up as our national pastime: the single greatest ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Guide to U.S. Economic Policy

    Guide to U.S. Economic Policy shows students and researchers how issues and actions are translated into public policies for resolving economic problems (like the Great Recession) or managing economic conflict (like the left-right ideological split over the role of government regulation in markets). Taking an interdisciplinary approach, the guide highlights decision-making cycles requiring the ... Read more

    $161.99 USD

  • Beyond 1917

    The United States and the Global Legacies of the Great War

    A massively destructive and transformative event, the First World War left in its wake many legacies. Beyond 1917 explores both the consequences of the war for the United States (and the world) and American influence on shaping the legacies of the conflict in the decades after US entry in 1917. From the fields, seas, and airspace of battle, we live today with the consequences of the Great War's ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • A Companion to World War II

    Series series Wiley Blackwell Companions to World History
    A Companion to World War II brings together a series of fresh academic perspectives on World War II, exploring the many cultural, social, and political contexts of the war. Essay topics range from American anti-Semitism to the experiences of French-African soldiers, providing nearly 60 new contributions to the genre arranged across two comprehensive volumes.A collection of original historiographic ... Read more

    $389.00 USD

  • Chaos Reconsidered

    The Liberal Order and the Future of International Politics

    The shock of Donald Trump’s election caused many observers to ask whether the liberal international order—the system of institutions and norms established after World War II—was coming to an end. The victory of Joe Biden, a committed institutionalist, suggested that the liberal order would endure. Even so, important questions remained: Was Trump an aberration? Is Biden struggling in vain against ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Chaos Reconsidered

    The Liberal Order and the Future of International Politics

    The shock of Donald Trump’s election caused many observers to ask whether the liberal international order—the system of institutions and norms established after World War II—was coming to an end. The victory of Joe Biden, a committed institutionalist, suggested that the liberal order would endure. Even so, important questions remained: Was Trump an aberration? Is Biden struggling in vain against ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

People who read these also enjoyed

  • American Empire

    The Rise of a Global Power, the Democratic Revolution at Home, 1945-2000

    Series series The Penguin History of the United States
    A compelling look at the movements and developments that propelled America to world dominanceIn this landmark work, acclaimed historian Joshua Freeman has created an epic portrait of a nation both galvanized by change and driven by conflict. Beginning in 1945, the economic juggernaut awakened by World War II transformed a country once defined by its regional character into a uniform and cohesive ... Read more

    $18.99 USD