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During the long eighteenth century, Europe's travelers, scholars, and intellectuals looked to Asia in a spirit of puzzlement, irony, and openness. In this panoramic and colorful book, Jürgen Osterhammel tells the story of the European Enlightenment's nuanced encounter with the great civilizations of the East, from the Ottoman Empire and India to China and Japan.
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It is now in vogue to celebrate non-Western cultures and disparage Western ones. Some of this is a much-needed reckoning, but much of it fatally undermines the very things that created the greatest, most humane civilization in the world. In The War on the West, Douglas Murray shows how many well-meaning people have been fooled by hypocritical and inconsistent anti-West rhetoric. After all, if we must discard the ideas of Kant, Hume, and Mill for their...
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"A unique, revelatory portrait of small-town America: the activities, changes, and events that shape this mostly unseen part of our national landscape, and the issues and concerns that matter to the ordinary Americans who make these towns their home. For the last five years, James and Deborah Fallows have been traveling across America in a single-prop airplane, visiting small cities and meeting civic leaders, factory workers, recent immigrants, and...
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Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2009
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xi, 321 p. ; 25 cm.
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"Bruce Bawer's While Europe Slept sounded the alarm about the dire impact of Muslim immigration on Europe. Now, in Surrender, he reveals that a combination of fear and political correctness has led politicians, intellectuals, religious leaders, and the media--both in the United States and abroad--to appease radical Islam at the cost of our most cherished values: freedom of speech and freedom of the press"--Publisher's blurb.
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Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
2015.
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xxxii, 281 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm.
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"In Famous Works of Art--And How They Got That Way, John B. Nici looks at twenty well-known paintings, sculptures, and photographs that have left lasting impressions on the general public. As Nici notes, there are many reasons why works of art become famous; few have anything to do with quality. The author explains why the reputations of some creations have grown over the years, some disproportionate to their artistic value. Written in a style that...
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Free Press
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c2005
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xviii, 375 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
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For generations, Americans have been taught to view the Revolutionary War as a heroic tale of resistance, exclusively from the perspective of the Continental army and the Founding Fathers. Iron Tears offers an account that examines the war from three divergent and distinct vantage points: the battlefields; the American leadership under George Washington; and - most originally - that of England, embroiled in controversy over the war. Colonial America...
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Debate
Pub. Date
2020.
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367 pages ; 23 cm
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"Los extranjeros han estado escribiendo sobre Estados Unidos desde su fundación. Ahora es mi turno. Pero, por favor, no me reproches esto: Estados Unidos tiene la culpa. Como muchas personas en la tierra, hace mucho que He quedado fascinado por este notable fenómeno que se autodenomina América. Mi destino -o tal vez buena fortuna- ha sido el de un extranjero que durante medio siglo vivió la experiencia americana -como niño, como estudiante, como...
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Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2018.
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296 pages ; 23 cm.
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A book examining the strange terrain of Nazi sympathizers, nonintervention campaigners and other voices in America who advocated on behalf of Nazi Germany in the years before World War II. Americans who remember World War II reminisce about how it brought the country together. The less popular truth behind this warm nostalgia: until the attack on Pearl Harbor, America was deeply, dangerously divided. Bradley W. Hart's Hitler's American Friends exposes...
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Basic Books
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2022.
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vii, 502 pages ; 25 cm
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A deeply researched exploration of the surprising roots of America's long alliance with Israel and its troubling consequences reveals how the American consensus on Israel and Palestine emerged and why, today, it is fracturing.
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University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
2009
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373 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
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Most Americans today are unaware of how revered Grant was in his lifetime. Joan Waugh uncovers the reasons behind the rise and fall of his renown, underscoring as well the fluctuating memory of the Civil War itself.
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W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2022]
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288 pages
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"A leading expert's exploration of the past, present, and future of public monuments in America. An urgent and fractious national debate over public monuments has erupted in America. Some people risk imprisonment to tear down long-ignored hunks of marble;others form armed patrols to defend them. Why do we care so much about statues? And who gets to decide which ones should stay up and which should come down? Erin L. Thompson, the country's leading...
20) Sicko
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Weinstein Co
Pub. Date
c2007
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1 DVD (123 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Michael Moore interviews Americans who have been denied treatment by the United States health care insurance companies -- companies who sacrifice essential health services in order to maximize profits. Sheds light on the how complicated it can become for communities and individuals, and the sacrifices they have made when they are denied health care coverage.
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