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  • No Country for Old Age

    America's War on Aging from Valley Forge to Silicon Valley

    de Mischa Honeck ...
    Since the birth of their nation, Americans have acted on the belief that theirs was a land of youth, a place destined to offer a fresh start to an aging world. No Country for Old Age tells this story from the founding period to our present moment, but not without exposing its darker side: rejuvenation has often bred grand expectations that end in division and despair.Mischa Honeck reveals how ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • We Are the Revolutionists

    German-Speaking Immigrants and American Abolitionists after 1848

    de Mischa Honeck ...
    Series series
    Widely remembered as a time of heated debate over the westward expansion of slavery, the 1850s in the United States was also a period of mass immigration. As the sectional conflict escalated, discontented Europeans came in record numbers, further dividing the young republic over issues of race, nationality, and citizenship. The arrival of German-speaking “Forty-Eighters,” refugees of the failed ... Leer más

    $27.99 USD

  • Our Frontier Is the World

    The Boy Scouts in the Age of American Ascendancy

    de Mischa Honeck ...
    Series series The United States in the World
    Mischa Honeck's Our Frontier Is the World is a provocative account of how the Boy Scouts echoed and enabled American global expansion in the twentieth century.The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) has long been a standard bearer for national identity. The core values of the organization have, since its founding in 1910, shaped what it means to be an American boy and man. As Honeck shows, those masculine ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

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    No Country for Old Age

    America's War on Aging from Valley Forge to Silicon Valley

    de Mischa Honeck ...
    Narrado por Al Kessel ...

    Completo

    11 hora 5 minutos

    Since the birth of their nation, Americans have acted on the belief that theirs was a land of youth, a place destined to offer a fresh start to an aging world. No Country for Old Age tells this story from the founding period to our present moment, but not without exposing its darker side: rejuvenation has often bred grand expectations that end in division and despair.Mischa Honeck reveals how ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

  • Congress and the People’s Contest

    The Conduct of the Civil War

    Series series Perspectives on the History of Congress, 1801–1877
    The American Civil War was the first military conflict in history to be fought with railroads moving troops and the telegraph connecting civilian leadership to commanders in the field. New developments arose at a moment’s notice. As a result, the young nation’s political structure and culture often struggled to keep up. When war began, Congress was not even in session. By the time it met, the ... Leer más

    $29.99 USD

  • Growing Up America

    Youth and Politics since 1945

    Growing Up America brings together new scholarship that considers the role of children and teenagers in shaping American political life during the decades following the Second World War. Growing Up America places young people—and their representations—at the center of key political trends, illuminating the dynamic and complex roles played by youth in the midcentury rights revolutions, in ... Leer más

    $98.99 USD

  • Germany and the Black Diaspora

    Points of Contact, 1250-1914

    Series Libro 15 - Studies in German History
    The rich history of encounters prior to World War I between people from German-speaking parts of Europe and people of African descent has gone largely unnoticed in the historical literature—not least because Germany became a nation and engaged in colonization much later than other European nations. This volume presents intersections of Black and German history over eight centuries while mapping ... Leer más

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  • War and Childhood in the Era of the Two World Wars

    Edición de Mischa Honeck, James Marten ...
    Series series Publications of the German Historical Institute
    The histories of modern war and childhood were the result of competing urgencies. According to ideals of childhood widely accepted throughout the world by 1900, children should have been protected, even hidden, from conflict and danger. Yet at a time when modern ways of childhood became increasingly possible for economic, social, and political reasons, it became less possible to fully protect them ... Leer más

    $109.99 USD

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  • Becoming Historians

    In this unique collection, the memoirs of eleven historians provide a fascinating portrait of a formative generation of scholars. Born around the time of World War II, these influential historians came of age just before the upheavals of the 1960s and ’70s and helped to transform both their discipline and the broader world of American higher education. The self-inventions they thoughtfully ... Leer más

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  • The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society (Revised and Enlarged Edition)

    Reflections on a Multicultural Society

    The bestseller that reminded us what it means to be an American is more timely than ever in this updated and enlarged edition, including "Schlesinger's Syllabus," an annotated reading list of core books on the American experience.The classic image of the American nation — a melting pot in which differences of race, wealth, religion, and nationality are submerged in democracy — is being replaced by ... Leer más

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  • Hubert Harrison

    Forbidden Genius of Black Radicalism

    de Brian Kwoba ...
    Series series The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture
    The significance of Hubert Henry Harrison (1883–1927)—as a journalist, activist, and educator—lies in his innovation of radical solutions to radical injustices. He witnessed staggering luxury for the few alongside crushing poverty for the many. White mob violence continually haunted Black communities, while imperial conquest and world wars wrought wanton destruction upon entire nations of people. ... Leer más

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