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  • Vietnam Wars 1945-1990

    "This is the history of the war in Vietnam we have been waiting for. This is a marvelous achievement--meticulously documented, excitingly narrated, written with grace, wit, and passion."– Howard Zinn"This terrible history is told with such clarity and passion, detail, intelligence it's hard to stop reading. The tension in the writing keeps your sadness in some kind of check as you read about ... Leer más

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  • Bombing Civilians

    A Twentieth-Century History

    Bombing Civilians examines a crucial question: why did military planning in the early twentieth century shift its focus from bombing military targets to bombing civilians? From the British bombing of Iraq in the early 1920s to the most recent policies in Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Lebanon, Bombing Civilians analyzes in detail the history of indiscriminate bombing, examining the fundamental ... Leer más

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  • Iraq and the Lessons of Vietnam

    Or, How Not to Learn from the Past

    Essays by Christian G. Appy, Andrew J. Bacevich, John Prados, and others offer "history at its best, meaning, at its most useful." —Howard ZinnFrom the launch of the "Shock and Awe" invasion in March 2003 through President George W. Bush's declaration of "Mission Accomplished" two months later, the war in Iraq was meant to demonstrate definitively that the United States had learned the lessons of ... Leer más

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  • Bombing Civilians

    A Twentieth-Century History

    Edición de Yuki Tanaka, Marilyn B. Young ...
    "The powerful moral criticisms raised by these searching essays extend from the bombing of civilians to war itself." —Robert Jay Lifton, National Book Award–winning authorBombing Civilians examines a crucial question: why did military planning in the early twentieth century shift its focus from bombing military targets to bombing civilians? From the British bombing of Iraq in the early 1920s to ... Leer más

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  • Making Sense of the Vietnam Wars

    Local, National, and Transnational Perspectives

    Series series Reinterpreting History: How Historical Assessments Change over Time
    Making sense of the wars for Vietnam has had a long history. The question "why Vietnam?" dominated American and Vietnamese political life for much of the length of the wars and has continued to be asked in the decades since they ended. This volume brings together the work of eleven scholars to examine the conceptual and methodological shifts that have marked the contested terrain of Vietnam War ... Leer más

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  • September 11 in History

    A Watershed Moment?

    Series series American Encounters/Global Interactions
    Hours after the collapse of the Twin Towers, the idea that the September 11 attacks had “changed everything” permeated American popular and political discussion. In the period since then, the events of September 11 have been used to justify profound changes in U.S. public policy and foreign relations. Bringing together leading scholars of history, law, literature, and Islam, September 11 in ... Leer más

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  • Howard Zinn on War

    de Howard Zinn ...
    Howard Zinn began work on his first book for his friends at Seven Stories Press in 1996, a big volume collecting all his shorter writings organized by subject. The themes he chose reflected his lifelong concerns: war, history, law, class, means and ends, and race. Throughout his life Zinn had returned again and again to these subjects, continually probing and questioning yet rarely reversing his ... Leer más

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  • War and State Terrorism

    The United States, Japan, and the Asia-Pacific in the Long Twentieth Century

    Series series War and Peace Library
    If the past hundred years will be remembered as a century of war, Asia is surely central to that story. Tracing the course of conflicts throughout the region, this groundbreaking volume is the first to explore systematically the nexus of war and state terrorism. Challenging states' definitions of terrorism, which routinely exclude their own behavior, the book focuses especially on the nature of ... Leer más

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  • Human Rights and Revolutions

    Now in a revised and updated edition with added original chapters, this acclaimed book provides an interdisciplinary perspective on the complex links between revolutionary struggles and human rights discourses and practices. Covering events as far removed from one another in time and space as the English Civil War, the Parisian upheavals of 1789, Latin American independence struggles, and protests ... Leer más

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    Finalist for the 2010 National Book Award in Nonfiction: The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian returns with a groundbreaking comparative study of the dynamics and pathologies of war in modern times.Over recent decades, John W. Dower, one of America’s preeminent historians, has addressed the roots and consequences of war from multiple perspectives. In War Without Mercy (1986), winner of the National ... Leer más

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  • Blood and Ruins

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  • The Second World Wars

    How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won

    A comprehensive account of World War II by America’s preeminent military historian and author of The Dying Citizen**.****“Breathtakingly magisterial.” —**Wall Street JournalWorld War II was the most lethal conflict in human history. Never before had a war been fought on so many diverse landscapes and in so many different ways, from rocket attacks in London to jungle fighting in Burma to armor ... Leer más

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