Picasso's War: The Year the Art World Came to America 9780451498502, 9780451498489, 045149850X

Picasso's War: How Modern Art Came to America 9780451498489

A riveting story of how dueling ambitions and the power of prodigy made America the cultural center of the world—and Pic

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The Great Chinese Art Transfer : How So Much of China's Art Came to America 9781611479119, 9781611479102

This book tells the story of how and why millions of Chinese works of art got exported to collectors and institutions in

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America as Overlord: From World War Two to the Vietnam War 1642598488, 9781642598483

From 1932 until his death in 1990, Hal Draper was a prolific Marxist writer and socialist organizer who successfully com

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The Doughboys: America and the First World War

First World War. Of these, over 50,000 were killed on European soil. These were the Doughboys, the young men recruited

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Adventures in the orgasmatron: how the sexual revolution came to America [First edition] 9781429967488, 142996748X

One ofThe Economist's 2011 Books of the Year ABoston GlobeBest Nonfiction Book of 2011 Well before the 1960s, a se

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How Books Came to America: The Rise of the American Book Trade 9780271072272

Anyone who pays attention to the popular press knows that the new media will soon make books obsolete. But predicting th

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The Columbia History of Post-World War II America 9780231511803

x Beginning with an analysis of cultural themes and ending with a discussion of evolving and expanding political and c

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When the War Came Home: The Ottomans' Great War and the Devastation of an Empire 9781503604995

The Ottoman Empire was unprepared for the massive conflict of World War I. Lacking the infrastructure and resources nece

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Crusade and Jihad: The Thousand-Year War Between the Muslim World and the Global North 9780300231908

Crusade and Jihad is the first book to encompass, in one volume, the entire history of the catastrophic encounter betwee

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The Devil Came to St. Louis 9781735270685

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