Lotte Lehmann ranks among the most celebrated singers of the twentieth century. She was a favorite of Richard Strauss, and over her lifetime became the friend of other famous men: Bruno Walter, Arturo Toscanini and Thomas Mann.
In the long eighteenth century, new consumer aspirations combined with a new industrious behavior to fundamentally alter the material cultures of northwest Europe and North America.
This book considers the Vietnam war in light of U.S. foreign policy in Vietnam, concluding that the war was a direct result of failed state-building efforts.
Protest, Politics, and the Making of the American Penal State, 1776-1941
Rebecca McLennan
In the Age of Jackson, private enterprise set up shop in the American penal system. Working hand in glove with state government, contractors in both the North and the South would go on to put more than half a million imprisoned men, women, and youth to hard, sweated toil for private gain by 1900.
A groundbreaking study of cultural life during a turbulent and formative decade in contemporary China, this book seeks to explode several myths about the Cultural Revolution (officially 1966–1976).
This book examines how it was possible and what it meant for ordinary factory workers to become effective unionists and national political participants by the mid-1930s.
Professor Joan Hoff’s A Faustian Foreign Policy: Woodrow Wilson to George W. Bush critiques U.S. foreign policy during this period by showing how moralistic diplomacy has increasingly taken on Faustian overtones.
For the first time, a book tells the story of John F. Kennedy's spectacular visit to Berlin in 1963. It solves the riddle of why Kennedy uttered “Ich bin ein Berliner” and explains why the Germans venerated the American President more than anyone else after Adolf Hitler.
This book describes American ideas about and policies toward the relationship between government and religion from the founding of Virginia in 1607 to the presidency of Andrew Jackson, 1829-1837.
Guyatt offers a completely new understanding of a central question in American history: How did Americans come to think that God favored the United States above other nations?
This book offers a bold new interpretation of American business history during the formative years 1870–1920, which mark the dawn of modern big business.
Consumers, the Modern Corporation, and the Making of the United States Automobile Market
Sally H. Clarke
By examining the three major phases of the automobile market, argues that corporations have faced conflicts with the very consumers whose loyalty they sought.
