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This text offers a reassessment of Dean Acheson's policies toward the former colonial world during his period as secretary of state from 1949 to 1953. The book argues that Acheson inherited a way of understanding the world that encouraged impartial-style international relationships.

This text examines how Updike's views grew out of the defining element of American society in his time - the Cold War. While underscoring how essential history is to the study of literature, Miller demonstrates that Updike's writing relies on the growth of the global conflict that defined the time.

This volume contains the inaugural addresses of President Thomas Jefferson, delivered on March 4th, 1801 and March 4th, 1805. It also explores their dissemination and impact worldwide, providing evidence of the massive extent to which they have been translated and reprinted.

An eye-witness account of the experiences of a city kid moved from urban Chicago to a tiny rural community in Missouri. While the author writes of his relatives and their roots in rural Missouri, he focuses on his fromative years in the late-1940s and early-1950s.

The 12 essays that comprise this work examine the writings of one of American's greatest poets. Robert Frost was dismissed by some critics as a poet without technical or rhetorical complexity. These essays reassess his work from various viewpoints including gender, biography and cultural studies.

This work tells the story of a small group of St Louisans who carried out sustained campaigns that were among the earliest in America, aimed at ending racial segregation in public accommodations. Guided by the principles of non-violence, the Committee conducted demonstrations from 1947 to 1957.

This volume gathers together essays that examine America in the 1960s, covering topics such as the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Civil Rights Movement, the policies of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society, the East-West battles of ideology and arms, and the decade's liberal ascendancy.

An exploration of women's studies from Joan Mandle's perspective as a programme director, feminist activist and scholar. She offers an account of being forced to grapple with fundamental issues of what women's studies is and what it should be, offering a possible avenue of change for feminism.

The first in a five volume series offering a comprehensive history of the state of Missouri. Volume one covers the pre-statehood history, beginning with the arrival in 1673 of the first Europeans in the area, and continues to the first campaign for statehood in 1820.

A study of the evolution of duelling in Missouri, tracing the origins, course, consequences and demise of this deadly art form. By focusing on the history of duelling, the author details an important part of Missouri culture and the impact this form of violence has had on society.

Reuniting readers with the characters from her first collection, ""Small Caucasian Woman"", this collection of 16 stories continues to map the territory of Blue Valley, the fictional locale in the Appalachian foothills of eastern Kentucky.

During the American Civil War, Southern Unionist leaders used their written communication skills to proclaim their opposition to the Confederacy in pamphlets. This collection of their protests includes 18 pamphlets and a discussion of 22 others produced between 1861 and 1865.

Walt Harrington, father of two biracial children, went on a 25,000 mile journey through black America, talking with a variety of black and white people along the way, including a rap star, an old farmer, and a convicted murderer. In this work, he relates what he learned as he listened.

Offering 17 stories written by a culturally diverse group of authors, this volume represents a range of ""letter"" fiction, ranging from the Canadian wilderness, a private school in Geneva, a concentration camp, and from beyond the grave.

Interpreting the Nazi era using the basic diagnostic tools provided by the philosophy of Plato and Aristotle, Judaeo-Christian culture, and contemporary German-language writers, this book provides an alternative approach to the topic of the individual German's entanglement with the Hitler regime.

Examining the emergence of modernity within the philosophical and political debates of the 16th century, this book analyzes the ""great confusion"". It features such thinkers as Calvin, Althusius, Hooker, Bracciolini, Savonarola, Copernicus, Tycho de Brahe, Giordano Bruno and Jean Bodin.

An exploration of the interior life of the American writer James Agee through the different but continuous versions of the Agee personae as they appear in his books. The biography counters the prevalent misconceptions about Agee's work and its confusion with details of his actual life.

William Marion Reedy was editor of the ""Mirror"" from 1891 to 1920, and was instrumental in breaking down the genteel literary tradition in the US, developing a native poetry, and helping to form 50 significant poets. This book studies Reedy's work and his notable contribution to the literary world.

Featuring 12 critical investigations of influential Spanish female essayists, this text illustrates their command of the genre, their incorporation of both the ideological and the aesthetic into one form, and their use of various strategies for influencing their readers.

Spanning the colonial era to the mid-20th century, this book documents women from widely varied social, economic, religious, and ethnic backgrounds from the American South. It examines how they acted outside the accepted gender boundaries of their day.

This volume identifies two distinct beginnings of the movement toward modern political consciousness, the Renaissance and the Reformation. It analyzes the political ideas that first emerged during the Renaissance and Reformation and considers their presence in modern thought.

Beginning with a comprehensive survey of US trade following the Civil War, this text is a detailed examination of the economic and political forces behind the rapid increase in American trade with both Canada and Latin America during the last third of the 19th century.

This text provides an insight into the concerns of 1930s American women, It is a collection of letters and responses from an advice column in the ""Ladies Home Journal"" that addressed mental health issues and reader's questions, such as cheating husbands, problem children and in-laws.

The third volume in the Russian-American dialogue series, this work provides English translations of Russian scholarship on cultural relations. Each essay originally appeared as an article in the former Soviet Union.

This work argues that much of the humour from which the young Mark Twain derived much of his early models had the same sort of arrogance as American Puritan thought. It also considers the work of writers such as Hawthorne, Melville and Howells.

This text provides a historiography of the Truman administration as well as a history of public health. It details the road to comprehensive health care in the USA and the legislative victories and defeats that occurred during the Truman years.

The second volume in the ""Russian-American Dialogues"" series, this collection of essays covers topics pertaining to the American Revolution, the single most important event in American history. Each Russian essay is followed by a commentary from an American historian of the American Revolution.