Books of National characteristics, American
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We Still Hold These Truths: Rediscovering Our Principles, Reclaiming Our Future
By William J. Bennett, Matthew SpaldingThe Essential Guide to Rolling Back the Progressive Assault and Putting America Back on Course
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In Search of America
By Peter Jennings, Todd BrewsterThe Moss building has the Greek - columned majesty one used to associate with federal structures and banks — architecture conceived to command the respect of those who enter and put at ease the worries of those who value what is held ...
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The Colonial Experience
By Daniel Joseph BoorstinThis first volume in The Americans trilogy defines the unique qualities of the American nation and rediscovers the American character and way of life as it was shaped in the decisive years between the coming of the Pilgrims and the winning ...
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Histoire des américains: l'aventure coloniale, naissance d'une nation, l'expérience démocratique
By Daniel Joseph BoorstinSommaire :L'aventure coloniale.
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Az amerikaiak: a gyarmatositás kora
By Daniel Joseph BoorstinAz amerikaiak: a gyarmatositás kora
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Barbarian Virtues: The United States Encounters Foreign Peoples at Home and Abroad, 1876-1917
By Matthew Frye Jacobson"In Barbarian Virtues, Matthew Frye Jacobson shows how American conceptions of peoplehood, citizenship, and national identity were transformed in these crucial years by the escalation of economic and military involvement abroad and by the ...
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American Virtues and Cultural Values from the 1820's to 1990's: Virtuous Materialism
By Aloysius Michael... Vijay , 213 Annenberg , Walter , 154 Anthony , Susan B. , 62 Aquinas , Thomas , vii , 8 , 55 Arbitrary choice , 226-31 ... 158 Carroll , Charles , 76 Carroll , John , 76 Carroll , Lewis , 53 Carter , Jimmy , 22 , 218 Eakins , Thomas ...
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The Big Change: America Transforms Itself, 1900-1950
By Frederick Lewis AllenWhen that day came, they said, the automobile would have become "an honor to our mechanical civilization and not a reproach to it." In 1931 those days had not yet arrived. There was still no Merritt Parkway, no Pennsylvania Turnpike; ...
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The Gilded Age: 1870 to 1900
By Rodney P. CarlisleIt is popularly believed that many immigrants had their names changed—simplified, usually—by officials at Ellis Island. Versions of this story vary from the immigrant who has his name “translated” into English, so that Arnold Zimmermann ...
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The American Dream in the Netherlands 1944-1969
By Jan DonkersOverzicht in woord en beeld.
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自由的历程: 美利坚图史
By Joy Hakim, 哈克姆本书是在作者十卷本《美国史》基础上浓缩的一个简明插图本美国史,从美国建国前一直写到“9·11”事件。描写了美国历史上的重要人物及事件 ...
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中国人, 美国人, 日本人
By 山本凯梅尔, 王超伟本书内容包括:美国人,中国人和日本人的行为语法;金钱观体现的三个国家的国民性;履历观体现的差异;体现在组织上的差异;日本人和日本企业怎么办.
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American Averages: Amazing Facts of Everyday Life
By Mike Feinsilber, William B. MeadDowsers search for water ( or sometimes minerals ) with a dowsing rod , a forked stick that dips when the dowser gets close to what he's looking for . According to the American Society of Dowsers , Inc. , “ in any group of 25 adults ...
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The United States: how They Live and Work
By David Marshall Smith, Margaret R. SmithThe United States: how They Live and Work
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The United States - how They Live and Work
By David Marshall Smith, Margaret R. SmithThe United States - how They Live and Work
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Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace
By Robert A. DivineIs there, in short, a distinctive American motive and style of war? Distinguished diplomatic historian Robert A. Divine considers these questions in a thoughtful retrospective of the wars of the twentieth century.
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Ideas that Shape a Nation: A Survey of Historical Ideas Important to the Development of the United States
By James L. SmithIdeas that Shape a Nation: A Survey of Historical Ideas Important to the Development of the United States
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Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont in America: Their Friendship and Their Travels
By Alexis de Tocqueville, Gustave de BeaumontA selection of Tocqueville's writings on America together with letters and sketches from his traveling companion, Gustave de Beaumont.
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Our Common Country: Mutual Good Will in America
By Warren Gamaliel HardingHe was elected by the largest popular majority in the history of the presidency until the triumph of President Franklin D. Roosevelt over Governor Alf ... His administration brought a formal end to the World War , so 4 Our Common Country.
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Only in America
By Matt FreiFor 150 years scientists at the Rothamsted Experimental Station have studied aspects of plant nitrogen nutrition and amino acid biosynthesis. This book is the result of a meeting held to...