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  • Vietnam Wars 1945-1990

    by Marilyn B. Young ...
    "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 ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bombing Civilians

    A Twentieth-Century History

    by Yuki Tanaka, Marilyn B. Young ...
    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 ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • September 11 in History

    A Watershed Moment?

    by Gilbert M. Joseph, Emily S. Rosenberg, Marilyn B. Young, Elaine Tyler May ...
    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 ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • The Vietnam Wars 1945-1990

    by Marilyn Young ...
    "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 ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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  • Bombing Civilians

    A Twentieth-Century History

    Edited by 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 ... Read more

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  • Iraq and the Lessons of Vietnam

    Or, How Not to Learn from the Past

    by Christian G. Appy, Andrew J. Bacevich, Alex Danchev, David Elliott, Elizabeth L. Hillman, Gabriel Kolko, Walter LaFeber, Wilfried Mausbach, Alfred W. McCoy, Gareth Porter, John Prados ...
    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 ... Read more

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  • The Routledge Handbook of the Global Sixties

    Between Protest and Nation-Building

    Edited by Chen Jian, Martin Klimke, Masha Kirasirova, Mary Nolan, Marilyn Young, Joanna Waley-Cohen ...
    ‘This extraordinary collection is a game-changer. Featuring the cutting-edge work of over forty scholars from across the globe, The Routledge Handbook of the Global Sixties is breathtaking in its range, incisive in analyses, and revolutionary in method and evidence. Here, fifty years after that iconic "1968," Western Europe and North America are finally de-centered, if not provincialized, and we ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • War and State Terrorism

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

    by Utsumi Aiko, Bruce Cumings, Richard A. Falk, Ben Kiernan, Diana Lary, Peter Dale Scott, Brian Daizen Victoria, Lawrence S. Wittner, Marilyn B. Young ...
    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 ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Human Rights and Revolutions

    Edited by Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom, Greg Grandin, Lynn Hunt, Marilyn B. Young ...
    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 ... Read more

    $42.89 USD

  • Making Sense of the Vietnam Wars

    Local, National, and Transnational Perspectives

    Edited by Mark Philip Bradley, Marilyn B. Young ...
    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 ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • The Happy Hunters

    The Miraculous Life and Healing Ministry of Charles and Frances Hunter

    by Richard Young, Brenda Young ...
    Known as the “Happy Hunters,” Charles and Frances Hunter were nationally recognized both for their powerful healing ministry and for their unbridled, contagious joy. What few people know, however, is that Frances spent years as a “wild sinner,” and Charles was a “dried-up spiritual prune” for most of his early life.God miraculously used these two unlikely candidates to birth one of the most ... Read more

    $15.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Rhetorical Rise and Demise of “Democracy” in Russian Political Discourse Volume Four

    The Demise of “Democracy” after Putin’s Return to Power

    by David Cratis Williams, Marilyn J. Young, Michael K. Launer ...
    In this volume we focus on the years following Putin’s return to the presidency in 2012. This has been a more active period than his first two terms, including the annexation of Crimea and, ultimately, the invasion of Ukraine. Thus, this period may be characterized as the run-up to that war. The core issue discussed in this volume is Putin’s redefinition of “democracy” as the foundation of society ... Read more

    $125.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus