Breve historia de Estados Unidos

Nación que suele suscitar las más encontradas reacciones, la imagen de los Estados Unidos de América se compone, sin embargo, en gran medida, de prejuicios y estereotipos. Esta “Breve historia de Estados Unidos” recorre el desarrollo histórico de este país desde los inicios de la ...

EUA

una nación de naciones

Ambas autoras hacen un recuento del fenómeno de la inmigración hacia Estados Unidos y destacan la decisiva influencia de dicho fenómeno en el surgimiento del país moderno y pluricultural que es hoy en día Estados Unidos.

Understanding America

the anatomy of an exceptional nation

Editors, Peter H. Schuck and James Q. Wilson. What is America? Is it a hegemonic superpower, composed of ruthlessly selfish capitalists? Or is it a land of hope and glory, a shelter for the huddled masses, and a beacon of freedom and enlightenment? The definition ...

Historical Atlas of the United States

with original maps

Using more than five hundred historical maps from collections around the world, this stunning book is the first to tell the story of America's past from a unique geographical perspective. Covering more than half a millennium in U.S. history - from conception to colonization ...

Transforming America

politics and culture during the Reagan years

By the end of the 1980s, the "malaise" that had once pervaded American society was replaced by a renewed sense of confidence and national purpose. However, beneath this veneer of optimism was a nation confronting the effects of massive federal deficits, a reckless foreign policy ...

Faut-il avoir peur de l'Amérique?

" Il m'arrive moi aussi de me demander si l'Amérique n'est pas la plaie du monde. Si, tout compte fait, elle n'est pas conforme à l'image dont on l'affuble de ce côté-ci de l'Atlantique : arrogante, violente, inégalitaire, impériale, arc-boutée ...

The rise of american democracy

Jefferson to Lincoln

Liberty and freedom

A stunningly original and inspiring illustrated history of America's founding ideals and how they have been understood from colonial times to the present, by one of America's most gifted historians.

Boardwalk of dreams

Atlantic City and the fate of urban America

During the first half of the twentieth century, Atlantic City was the nation's most popular middle-class resort--the home of the famed Boardwalk, the Miss America Pageant, and the board game Monopoly. By the late 1960s, it had become a symbol of urban decay and ...

Atlas of american military history

Keeping up with the Joneses

envy in American consumer society, 1890-1930

A century ago many Americans condemned envy as a destructive emotion and a sin. Today few Americans expect criticism when they express envy, and some commentators maintain that the emotion drives the economy. This shift in attitude is Susan Matt's central concern. Keeping up ...

La revolución norteamericana

Cuando Abraham Lincoln intentó definir la esencia de los Estados Unidos se remontó a la revolución norteamericana. Sabía que la revolución no solo había sido el origen legal de la joven nación sino también de los valores y esperanzas del pueblo norteamericano. Los ideales y ...

American colonies

the settlement of North America to 1800

Taylor challenges the traditional focus of colonial history by exploring the multitude of cultural influences out of which 'America' ultimately emerged.

The Great Republic

a history of America

En la raíz de América

iluminaciones sobre la historia de un continente

Death of a nation

American culture and the end of exceptionalism

A trenchant examination of epic shifts in American thought by a major scholar in the field. In the 1940s, American thought experienced a cataclysmic paradigm shift. Before then, national ideology was shaped by American exceptionalism and bourgeois nationalism: elites saw themselves as the children of ...

The new world power

American foreign policy, 1898-1917

From the era of the Spanish American war onward, the United States found itself increasingly involved in the affairs of countries beyond North America. The New World Power offers an interpretive framework for understanding U.S. foreign policy during the first two decades of America ...

The state of U.S. history

Historians are very much aware of the variety of national and international trends that have shaped historical inquiry in recent decades. Americanists, in particular, have been conscious of the growing importance of gender issues, the #turn# to questions of language and meaning, the increasing significance ...

Grand expectations

the United States, 1945-1974

Beginning in 1945, America rocketed through a quarter-century of extraordinary economic growth, experiencing an amazing boom that soared to unimaginable heights in the 1960s. At one point, in the late 1940s, American workers produced 57 percent of the planet's steel, 62 percent of the ...

Ese noble sueño

la objetividad y la historia profesional norteamericana: tomo I

INDICE: Como clavar gelatina en la pared. La entronización de la objetividad. La objetividad asediada. Bibliografía.