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|  | Reclaiming San Francisco by Chris Carlsson, James Brook, Nancy J. Peters
San Francisco's history, politics, and culture here receive fresh appraisals: Popular resistance to the corporate agenda, waterfront labor struggles that reshaped the City and set the stage for economic globalization, the need to preserve the library (and the book) as a public resource, the dynamics of Presido redevelopment, the gay leather scene, the role of tycoons in imperial city building, and the new Civic Center as a symbolic emblem....[T]his fascinating unearthing of lost, forgotten, and obscured histories is profusely illustrated and includes useful bibliographies. AUTHOR: Chris Carlsson, James Brook, Nancy J. Peters
PUBLISHER: City Lights Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History 
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 | German Order of Battle by George F. Nafziger
This reference work details the exact composition of German panzer and artillery forces in WW II, including the formation and organization of these units throughout the conflict. George F. Nafziger, is a foremost historian specializing in WW II and Napoleonic military organization. His previous books include Imperial Bayonets and Napoleon`s Invasion of Russia. A Greenhill Books publication. AUTHOR: George F. Nafziger
PUBLISHER: Stackpole Books
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: History
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 | The Strange Death of American Liberalism by H. W. Brands
In this provocative book, H. W. Brands confronts the vital question of why an ever-increasing number of Americans do not trust the federal government to improve their lives and to heal major social ills. How is it that government has come to be seen as the source of many of our problems, rather than the potential means of their solution? How has the word liberal become a term of abuse in American political discourse? From the Revolution on, argues Brands, Americans have been chronically skeptical of their government. This book succinctly traces this skepticism, demonstrating that it is only during periods of war that Americans have set aside their distrust and looked to their government to defend them. The Cold War, Brands shows, created an extended--and historically anomalous--period of dependence, thereby allowing for the massive expansion of the American welfare state. Since the 1970s, and the devastating blow dealt to Cold War ideology by America?s defeat in Vietnam, Americans have returned to their characteristic distrust of government. With the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Brands contends, the fate of American liberalism was sealed--and we continue to live with the consequences of its demise. AUTHOR: H. W. Brands
PUBLISHER: Yale University Press
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: History
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 | The Cavalryman by Peter Connolly
Description not available.Follows the career of a Roman soldier as he becines a cavalry officer in Mesopotamia around 100 AD AUTHOR: Peter Connolly
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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 | India's Emerging Nuclear Posture by Ashley J. Tellis
On May 11, 1998, after a hiatus of more than two decades, India conducted a series of nuclear tests that signaled a critical shift in its strategic thinking. Once content to embrace a nuclear posture consisting largely of maintaining the option --i.e., neither creating a nuclear arsenal nor renouncing its right to do so--India is now on the threshold of adopting a posture that, while stopping short of creating a ready arsenal, will take as its goal the establishment of a minimum but credible deterrent, known as a force-in-being. This book examines the forces--political, strategic, technological, and ideational--that led to this dramatic policy shift and describes how New Delhi's force-in-being will be fashioned, particularly in light of the threat India faces from its two most salient adversaries, China and Pakistan. The book evaluates in detail the material, infrastructural, and procedural capabilities India currently possesses as well as those it is likely to acquire in its efforts to meet the needs of its evolving force-in-being. Finally, the volume concludes by assessing the strategic implications of India's posture both on the South Asian region in particular and on the global nonproliferation regime in general. AUTHOR: Ashley J. Tellis
PUBLISHER: Rand Corporation, The
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: History
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 | Japan by W. Scott Morton
Description not available.Surveys each period of Japanese history, and discusses Japanese art, agriculture, religion, geography, military traditions, social life, and economic conditions AUTHOR: W. Scott Morton
PUBLISHER: McGraw-Hill
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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