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Among Empires

Among Empires

Charles S MAIER

Charles S MAIER ... I am indebted to Pauline Maier for this reference. 3. Cited in Anders Stephanson, Manifest Destiny: American Expansion and the Empire of Right (New York: Hill and Wang, 1995), p. 40. 4. Foremost among defenders of the ...
The Kennedys: America's Emerald Kings: A Five-Generation ...

The Kennedys: America's Emerald Kings: A Five-Generation ...

Thomas Maier

Released to coincide with a documentary adapted from the book, this edition features a new preface, in which Maier explores the dynamics of the three brothers, Ted Kennedy’s legacy, and the 2008 presidential elections that have been ...
Once Within Borders

Once Within Borders

Charles S. Maier

At a time when the technologies of globalization are eroding barriers to communication, transportation, and trade, Charles Maier explores the fitful evolution of territories—politically bounded regions whose borders define the ...
The Old Revolutionaries

The Old Revolutionaries

Pauline Maier

" In telling the stories of these men, Pauline Maier shows how the American Revolution was less a collective movement than a committment to an ideal of a republic, which different people interpreted differently, and she describes "not just ...
The Unmasterable Past: History, Holocaust, and German ...

The Unmasterable Past: History, Holocaust, and German ...

Charles S. Maier

Bringing his book up to date with reflections since its first publication a decade ago, Charles Maier writes that the historians' controversy gave Germany a chance to air the issues immediately before unification and, in effect, the ...
Dissolution: The Crisis of Communism and the End of East Germany

Dissolution: The Crisis of Communism and the End of East Germany

Charles S. Maier

This book is further bolstered by Maier's extensive knowledge of European history and the Cold War, his personal observations and conversations with East Germans during the country's dramatic transition, and memoirs and other eyewitness ...
From Resistance to Revolution

From Resistance to Revolution

Pauline Maier

Maintaining that the outbreak of revolution in 1775 was not the result of secret planning by radicals but rather the end product of years of painful evolution, Pauline Maier brilliantly traces the American colonists’ road to independence ...
Challenging Global Capitalism: Labor Migration, Radical ...

Challenging Global Capitalism: Labor Migration, Radical ...

N. Pizzolato

CharlesS.Maier, “The PoliticsofProductivity: FoundationsofAmerican InternationalEconomic Policy afterWorldWarII,” in CharlesS.Maier, InSearch of Stability.Explorations in HistoricalPolitical Economy (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, ...
Leviathan 2.0

Leviathan 2.0

Charles S. Maier

Charles Maier's Leviathan 2.0 updates this classic to explain how modern statehood took shape between the mid-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, before it unraveled into the political uncertainty that persists today.
Masters of Sex: The Life and Times of William Masters and ...

Masters of Sex: The Life and Times of William Masters and ...

Thomas Maier

Highlighting interviews with the notoriously private Masters and the ambitious Johnson, critically acclaimed biographer Maier shows how this unusual team changed the way people thought about sex.
Bottega Veneta: Art of Collaboration

Bottega Veneta: Art of Collaboration

Thomas Maier

This richly illustrated book features some of today's brightest visionaries working in fashion photography, interpreting Bottega Veneta's modernist aesthetic and material elegance. In 2005, Bottega Veneta's creative director, Tomas Maier ...
Ethnicity, Identity, and History: Essays in Memory of Werner ...

Ethnicity, Identity, and History: Essays in Memory of Werner ...

Joseph B. Maier

Werner. J. Cahnman: An. Introduction. to. His. Life. and. Work. Joseph B. Maier and Chaim I. Waxman Many social scientists regard system-building as the chief mark of genuine scholarship. Werner Cahnman's achievement was of a different  ...
Weber and Toennies: Comparative Sociology in Historical ...

Weber and Toennies: Comparative Sociology in Historical ...

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Joseph B. Maier and Chaim I. Waxman, “Werner J. Cahnman: An Introduction to His Life and Work,” in Joseph B. Maier and Chaim I. Waxman, eds., Ethnicity, Identity, and History. Essays in Memory of Werner J. Cahnman (New Brunswick, ...
Protest in Hitler's “National Community”: Popular Unrest and ...

Protest in Hitler's “National Community”: Popular Unrest and ...

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Popular Unrest and the Nazi Response Nathan Stoltzfus, Birgit Maier-Katkin ... Nathan Stoltzfus and Birgit Maier-Katkin Nathan Stoltzfus is the Dorothy and Jonathan Rintels Professor of Holocaust Studies at Florida State University and the ...
German Jewry: Its History and Sociology : Selected Essays by ...

German Jewry: Its History and Sociology : Selected Essays by ...

Werner Jacob Cahnman

Its History and Sociology : Selected Essays by Werner J. Cahnman ; Edited and with an Introduction by Joseph B. Maier, Judith Marcus, and Zoltan Tarr Werner Jacob Cahnman Joseph Ben Maier, Judith Marcus, Zoltán Tarr ...
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Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation

... in Christina Rossetti's Poetry BEVERLY BLOW MACK University of Wisconsin African Literature The Praisesongs of the "Zabiyoyi" of the Kano and Katsina Courts (Nigeria) JOHN MARCUS MAIER Cornell University Sociology Changing Sex ...
Gilgamesh: A Reader

Gilgamesh: A Reader

John R. Maier

WILFRED. G. LAMBERT. "Gilgamesh. in. Literature. and. Art: The. Second. and. First. Millennia". With the evolution of the literary Gilgamesh traced by Jeffrey H. Tigay, W. G. Lambert turns to the difficult task of identifying Gilgamesh in art.
Plasmonics: Fundamentals and Applications

Plasmonics: Fundamentals and Applications

Stefan Alexander Maier

This book combines a comprehensive introduction with an extensive overview of the current state of the art.
Character Counts: Freemasonry Is a National Treasure and a ...

Character Counts: Freemasonry Is a National Treasure and a ...

Michael Glenn Maness

Freemasonry Is a National Treasure and a Source of Our Founders' Constitutional Original Intent Michael Glenn Maness .... 259 Maier, Pauline, 364 Malden, Henry Elliot, 264 Malkavich, John, 142 Mancini, Henry, 93 Maness, Michael G., xv, ...
Dr. Spock

Dr. Spock

Thomas Maier

Benjamin Spock raised a generation of American children--and almost destroyed his family and his career.
Inventing America: A History of the United States

Inventing America: A History of the United States

Pauline Maier

A textbook that describes American history, culture, and innovations.
Newhouse: All the Glitter, Power & Glory of America's ...

Newhouse: All the Glitter, Power & Glory of America's ...

Thomas Maier

Reveals the story behind intensely secretive Si Newhouse's powerful thirteen-billion-dollar media empire
American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence

American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence

Pauline Maier

Finally, she shows how by the very act of venerating the Declaration as we do -- by holding it as sacrosanct, akin to holy writ -- we may actually be betraying its purpose and its power. From the Hardcover edition.
The Politics of Inflation and Economic Stagnation

The Politics of Inflation and Economic Stagnation

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Charles S. Maier This volume seeks the reasons for the difficulties of the industrial economies that persisted from the late 1960s at least through the early 1980s. It presents not primarily the views of economists but incorporates the approaches ...

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