“…What if Adolf Hitler had escaped Berlin for the jungles of Latin America in 1945? Gavriel Rosenfeld's pioneering study explores why such counterfactual questions on the subject of Nazism have proliferated in recent years within Western popular culture. …”

“…Presentación del editor: "What does Brazil's lurch to the hard right under Jair Bolsonaro portend for Latin America's largest country, and how has it come about? …”

“…The era of the Enlightenment, which gave rise to our modern conceptions of freedom and democracy, was also the height of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. America, a nation founded on the principle of liberty, is also a nation built on African slavery, Native American genocide, and systematic racial discrimination. …”

“…This comprehensive documentary reader fills the void in modern Jewish and Ottoman history, presenting a staggering array of primary sources generated by or about Sephardi Jews in the heartland of modern Judeo-Spanish culture (Southeastern Europe and the Levant under Ottoman and post-Ottoman rule) and in its diaspora (the United States, the Caribbean, South America, Europe, and Africa). The approximately 150 sources in this edition - originally written in fifteen languages, including Ladino, Hebrew, Ottoman Turkish, Modern Turkish, French, Greek, Serbian, Croatian, Bulgarian, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Yiddish, and English - have been selected carefully and specifically for students, researchers, and general readers. …”

“…Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: Greek literature History and criticism, Politics and literature United States History 20th century, American fiction 20th century History and criticism, Literature, Comparative Greek and American, Literature, Comparative American and Greek, Political science Greece Athens, American fiction Greek influences, Arendt, Hannah, Human condition, Politics and literature Greece…”
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“…Themes include The Eames Office: Life in Work, At Home with the Eameses, Information Machines, The Seeing Eye, Office USA: Communicating America at Home and Abroad, and The Art of Living. …”

“…These events have brought foreign policy directly into America's living rooms. By transforming complex, distant events into entertaining and compelling human dramas, these images have captured the American public's attention to a far greater extent than printed reports, photographs and tape-delayed videos ever could. …”

“…As Louis' search progresses, the tragicomic story of three generations of Lums in America is revealed through the eyes of Louis, Sonny, and Grandma Esther. …”
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“…Al trazar la trayectoria del exilio argentino de José Ortega y Gasset con sus luces y sombras, este libro analiza todo aquello que queda sepultado bajo la superficie del discurso político y detrás de las propagandas beligerantes entre ambos bandos, propias de una guerra civil que se vivió intensamente en América del Sur. Las interpretaciones de los hechos se recogen desde el filtro de las opiniones y debates internos que circulaban en la prensa y la sociedad argentinas, con sus pasiones y procesamientos sociales peculiares a la visión emocional americana. …”

“…Building on Schmitz's earlier work, Thank God They're On Our Side, this is an examination of American policy toward right-wing dictatorships from the 1960s to the end of the Cold War. …”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Media theory after the fall of European communism: Why the old models from East and West won't do any more / Colin Sparks ; 4. Media in South America: Between the rock of state and the hard place of the market / Silvio Waisbord ; 5. …”

“…The Gilded Age thrived where Reconstruction failed, the template of American modernity. The era was full of paradoxes. …”

“…Il volume accompagna il lettore dentro la storia dell’età moderna (dalla scoperta dell’America alla Rivoluzione industriale) attraverso la presentazione di fonti riguardanti molte aree tematiche, da quelle più tradizionali della storia politica e istituzionale fino alle più innovative, come la storia delle minoranze religiose, dei rapporti familiari, del corpo e della sessualità. …”

“…Ilya Somin mines the depths of the current state of ignorance in America and reveals it as a major problem for democracy. …”

“…"Groundbreaking look at slaves as commodities through every phase of life, from birth to death and beyond, in early America The Price for Their Pound of Flesh is the first book to explore the economic value of enslaved people through every phase of their lives--including from before birth to after death--in the American domestic slave trades. …”

“…Yet he had to battle for shared screenwriting credit on these films, and his struggles yield a new understanding of the secretive screen credit arbitration process-a process that has only become more intense, more litigious, and more public for screenwriters and their union, the Writers Guild of America, since Skaaren's time. His story, told through a wealth of archival material, illuminates crucial issues of film authorship that have seldom been explored…”

“…As a celebrated cultural critic and a writer for national publications such as The Atlantic and Harper's, Alan Jacobs has spent his adult life belonging to communities that often clash in America's culture wars. And in his years of confronting the big issues that divide us-- political, social, religious-- Jacobs has learned that many of our fiercest disputes occur not because we're doomed to be divided but because the people involved simply aren't thinking. …”