Americans In Europe

Author : Esi Edugyan
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781443433495

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Half-Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan Pdf

The brilliant, bestselling, Giller Prize–winning novel Esi Edugyan’s Half-Blood Blues took the literary world by storm when it was first published, captivating readers and reviewers with its audacity, power, and sheer brilliance. The novel won or was nominated for every literary prize in Canada—and many international ones, too, including the prestigious Man Booker Prize. It was hailed as one of the best books of the year by Oprah, The Globe and Mail, Amazon, The San Francisco Chronicle and The Vancouver Sun, and it was named a New York Times Editor’s Choice. From the smoky bars of pre-war Berlin to the salons of Paris, the narrator of Half-Blood Blues, musician Sid Griffiths, leads the reader through a fascinating, little-known world and into the heart of his own guilty conscience. The bestselling, award-winning Half-Blood Blues is an entrancing, electric story about jazz, race, love and loyalty, and the sacrifices we ask of ourselves—and demand of others—in the name of art.

Author : Jack D. Forbes
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780252091254

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The American Discovery of Europe by Jack D. Forbes Pdf

The American Discovery of Europe investigates the voyages of America's Native peoples to the European continent before Columbus's 1492 arrival in the "New World." The product of over twenty years of exhaustive research in libraries throughout Europe and the United States, the book paints a clear picture of the diverse and complex societies that constituted the Americas before 1492 and reveals the surprising Native American involvements in maritime trade and exploration. Starting with an encounter by Columbus himself with mysterious people who had apparently been carried across the Atlantic on favorable currents, Jack D. Forbes proceeds to explore the seagoing expertise of early Americans, theories of ancient migrations, the evidence for human origins in the Americas, and other early visitors coming from Europe to America, including the Norse. The provocative, extensively documented, and heartfelt conclusions of The American Discovery of Europe present an open challenge to received historical wisdom.

Author : Amanda Klekowski von Koppenfels
Publisher : Springer
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137316301

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Migrants or Expatriates? by Amanda Klekowski von Koppenfels Pdf

This book examines the migration, integration and transnational activity of overseas Americans – American migrants – in France, Germany and the UK. It examines the reasons for their migration, introduces the concept of 'accidental migrant' and explores the question of overseas Americans' integration and identity formation.

Author : Dennis J. Stanford,Bruce A. Bradley
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520949676

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Across Atlantic Ice by Dennis J. Stanford,Bruce A. Bradley Pdf

Who were the first humans to inhabit North America? According to the now familiar story, mammal hunters entered the continent some 12,000 years ago via a land bridge that spanned the Bering Sea. Distinctive stone tools belonging to the Clovis culture established the presence of these early New World people. But are the Clovis tools Asian in origin? Drawing from original archaeological analysis, paleoclimatic research, and genetic studies, noted archaeologists Dennis J. Stanford and Bruce A. Bradley challenge the old narrative and, in the process, counter traditional—and often subjective—approaches to archaeological testing for historical relatedness. The authors apply rigorous scholarship to a hypothesis that places the technological antecedents of Clovis in Europe and posits that the first Americans crossed the Atlantic by boat and arrived earlier than previously thought. Supplying archaeological and oceanographic evidence to support this assertion, the book dismantles the old paradigm while persuasively linking Clovis technology with the culture of the Solutrean people who occupied France and Spain more than 20,000 years ago.

Author : R. Daniel Kelemen
Publisher : CQ Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781483343730

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Lessons from Europe? by R. Daniel Kelemen Pdf

What can American policymakers learn from the experiences of European democracies? While we can look to our own history and to the ideas emanating from our own public sphere, by looking abroad we can also learn lessons from European policies – from both those that have proven successful and those that have failed. The contributors in this volume examine the ways our European allies have dealt with issues such as rising healthcare and pension costs, large-scale immigration, childcare and work-life balance, and climate change, and ask whether such policies might prove effective in the U.S. context. Brief and engaging, R. Daniel Kelemen’s Lessons from Europe? What Americans Can Learn from European Public Policies is an ideal supplement for comparative public policy courses and would add a provocative comparative component to U.S. public policy courses.

Author : Dennis Bark
Publisher : Hoover Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780817948030

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Americans and Europeans—Dancing in the Dark by Dennis Bark Pdf

Dennis Bark offers an in-depth examination of the deteriorating relationship between America and Europe: our differences and similarities, the reasons behind our conflicts, and the future of our alliance. He shows that, by learning what our essential difference teaches us about ourselves and drawing on our shared affinities, we might repair our fading relationship.

Author : Daniel Kilbride
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781421408996

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Being American in Europe, 1750–1860 by Daniel Kilbride Pdf

When eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Americans made their Grand Tour of Europe, what did they learn about themselves? While visiting Europe In 1844, Harry McCall of Philadelphia wrote to his cousin back home of his disappointment. He didn’t mind Paris, but he preferred the company of Americans to Parisians. Furthermore, he vowed to be “an American, heart and soul” wherever he traveled, but “particularly in England.” Why was he in Europe if he found it so distasteful? After all, travel in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries was expensive, time consuming, and frequently uncomfortable. Being American in Europe, 1750–1860 tracks the adventures of American travelers while exploring large questions about how these experiences affected national identity. Daniel Kilbride searched the diaries, letters, published accounts, and guidebooks written between the late colonial period and the Civil War. His sources are written by people who, while prominent in their own time, are largely obscure today, making this account fresh and unusual. Exposure to the Old World generated varied and contradictory concepts of American nationality. Travelers often had diverse perspectives because of their region of origin, race, gender, and class. Americans in Europe struggled with the tension between defining the United States as a distinct civilization and situating it within a wider world. Kilbride describes how these travelers defined themselves while they observed the politics, economy, morals, manners, and customs of Europeans. He locates an increasingly articulate and refined sense of simplicity and virtue among these visitors and a gradual disappearance of their feelings of awe and inferiority.

Author : Aurelian Cr_iu_u,Jeffrey C. Isaac
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9780271033907

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America Through European Eyes by Aurelian Cr_iu_u,Jeffrey C. Isaac Pdf

"A collection of essays that discuss representative eighteenth- and nineteenth-century French and English views of American democracy and society, and offer a critical assessment of various narrative constructions of American life, society, and culture"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Foster Rhea Dulles
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : History
ISBN : UCAL:$B748805

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Americans Abroad by Foster Rhea Dulles Pdf

Surveys the varied impressions and reactions of American travelers to life abroad. Based on letters, diaries, journals and travel books.

Author : Steven Hill
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780520944503

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Europe's Promise by Steven Hill Pdf

A quiet revolution has been occurring in post-World War II Europe. A world power has emerged across the Atlantic that is recrafting the rules for how a modern society should provide economic security, environmental sustainability, and global stability. In Europe's Promise, Steven Hill explains Europe's bold new vision. For a decade Hill traveled widely to understand this uniquely European way of life. He shatters myths and shows how Europe's leadership manifests in five major areas: economic strength, with Europe now the world's wealthiest trading bloc, nearly as large as the U.S. and China combined; the best health care and other workfare supports for families and individuals; widespread use of renewable energy technologies and conservation; the world's most advanced democracies; and regional networks of trade, foreign aid, and investment that link one-third of the world to the European Union. Europe's Promise masterfully conveys how Europe has taken the lead in this make-or-break century challenged by a worldwide economic crisis and global warming.

Author : Russell A. Berman
Publisher : Hoover Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Anti-Americanism
ISBN : 9780817945121

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Anti-Americanism in Europe by Russell A. Berman Pdf

"Since September 11, 2001, the attitudes of Europeans toward the United States have grown increasingly more negative. For many in Europe, the terrorist attack on New York City was seen as evidence of how American behavior elicits hostility - and how it would be up to Americans to repent and change their ways. In this revealing look at the deep divide that has emerged, Russell A. Berman explores the various dimensions of contemporary European anti-Americanism."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : E.P. Cheyney
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783734015465

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European Background of American History by E.P. Cheyney Pdf

Reproduction of the original: European Background of American History by E.P. Cheyney

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Department of the Army
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0160945836

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American Armies and Battlefields in Europe by Anonim Pdf

This volume was first published by the American Battle Monuments Commission in 1938 and was republished by CMH in 1992 to commemorate the American Expeditionary Forces' seventy-fifth birthday. American Armies and Battlefields in Europe, a facsimile edition to commemorate the seventy-fifth birthday of the American Expeditionary Forces, is a unique, illustrated volume that captures the AEF's lessons of battle during World War I. Based on the series of battlefield tours conducted for staff officers at General John J. Pershing's headquarters, the operational chapters describe the military situation, giving detailed accounts of actual fighting supported by maps and sketches, and a summary of events and service of combat divisions. Topical chapters on the Services of Supply, the U.S. Navy, military cemeteries and memorials, and other interesting and useful facts conclude the narrative. For scholars and students of the Great War, as well as veterans and their descendants wishing to find battle sites of long ago, this guidebook remains the most authoritative and easily usable source for visitors to the AEF's battlefields. The American Battle Monuments Commission, a small independent agency established by Congress in 1923 at the request of General John J. Pershing, is the guardian of America's overseas commemorative cemeteries and memorials. Its mission is to honor the service, achievements, and sacrifice of the United States armed forces. Related products: Check out our World War I resources collection here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/catalog/world-war-i Other products produced by the U.S. Army, Center of Military History can be found here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/agency/center-military-history-cmh

Author : Kenneth D. Rose
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351805858

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The Great War and Americans in Europe, 1914-1917 by Kenneth D. Rose Pdf

This book examines the experiences of Americans in Europe during the First World War prior to the U.S. declaration of war. Key groups include volunteer soldiers, doctors, nurses, ambulance drivers, reporters, diplomats, peace activists, charitable workers, and long-term American expatriate civilians. What these Americans wrote about the Great War, as published in contemporary books and periodicals, provides the core source material for this volume. Author Kenneth D. Rose argues that these writings served the critical function of preparing the American public for the declaration of war, one of the most important decisions of the twentieth century, and defined the threat and consequences of the European conflict for Americans and American interests at home and abroad.

Author : Hans Vogel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1914208021

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How Europe Became American by Hans Vogel Pdf