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The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Philosophers in America
For scholars working on almost any aspect of American thought, The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia to Philosophers in America presents an indispensable reference work. Selecting over 700 figures from the Dictionary of Early American Philosophers and the Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers, this condensed edition includes key contributors to philosophical thought. From 1600 to the present day, entries cover psychology, pedagogy, sociology, anthropology, education, theology and political science, before these disciplines came to be considered distinct from philosophy. Clear and accessible, each entry contains a short biography of the writer, an exposition and analysis of his or her doctrines an...
Hitlerland
In this work, Nagorski chronicles Hitler's rise to power and Germany's march to the abyss, as seen by Americans--diplomats, military, expats, visiting authors, Olympic athletes--who watched horrified and up close.
The Ghost at the Feast
An NPR Book of the Year At the dawn of the twentieth century, the United States was one of the world's richest, most populous, most technologically advanced nations. It was also a nation divided along numerous fault lines, with conflicting aspirations and concerns pulling it in different directions. And it was a nation unsure about the role it wanted to play in the world, if any. Americans were the beneficiaries of a global order they had no responsibility for maintaining. Many preferred to avoid being drawn into what seemed an ever more competitive, conflictual, and militarized international environment. However, many also were eager to see the United States taking a share of international ...
American Big Business in Britain and Germany
While America's relationship with Britain has often been deemed unique, especially during the two world wars when Germany was a common enemy, the American business sector actually had a greater affinity with Germany for most of the twentieth century. American Big Business in Britain and Germany examines the triangular relationship between the American, British, and German business communities and how the special relationship that Britain believed it had with the United States was supplanted by one between America and Germany. Volker Berghahn begins with the pre-1914 period and moves through the 1920s, when American investments supported German reconstruction rather than British industry. The...
The Addingtons of Virginia
William Addington was born in about 1750 in London, England. He immigrated to the United States in about 1770 and settled in Culpepper County, Virginia where he married Margaret Cromwell in about 1774. Margaret was born in Maryland. They had five children. William served in the American Revolution. He died 9 Feburary 1805 in Russell County, Virginia. Margared Cromwell Addington died between 1831 and 1840 presumably in Scott County, Virginia. Descendants and relatives lived in Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, Tennessee, California, Arizona, Ohio, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Georgia, Iowa, West Virginia, New Mexico, Idaho, Oregon, Maryland, and elsewhere.
