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UNINA9910455378303321 |
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Autore |
Greenberg Karen B. <1964-> |
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The least worst place [[electronic resource] ] : how Guantanamo became the world's most notorious prison / / Karen Greenberg |
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Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2009 |
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1-282-23507-9 |
9786612235078 |
0-19-156786-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (285 p.) |
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War on Terrorism, 2001-2009 - Prisoners and prisons, American |
Prisoners of war - Cuba - Guantánamo Bay Naval Base |
Prisoners of war - United States |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-252) and index. |
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Guide to People; Guide to Acronyms; Preface; 1 World Gone Wrong; 2 The First Team; 3 The Void; 4 Filling the Void; 5 The Bad Guys First; 6 The Petting Zoo; Photos; 7 The Caribbean Hilton; 8 The General and the Chaplain; 9 Missing Pieces; 10 A Political Animal; 11 Towels into Turbans; 12 Bowing Out; Postscript; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
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The tale of how individual officers on the ground at Guantanamo Bay, along with their direct superiors, were unwittingly co-opted into the Pentagon's plan to turn the prison into an interrogation facility operating at the margins of the law and beyond. - ;Ever since its foundation in 2002, the Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility has become the symbol for many people around the world of all that is wrong with the 'war on terror'. Secretive, inhumane, and illegal by most international standards, it has been seen by many as a testament to American hubris in the post-9/11 era. Yet until now no one h |
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UNINA9910955671003321 |
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Higham John <1920-2003.> |
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Hanging together : unity and diversity in American culture / / John Higham ; edited by Carl J. Guarneri |
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New Haven, Conn., : Yale University Press, c2001 |
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9786611730581 |
9781281730589 |
1281730580 |
9780300129823 |
0300129823 |
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[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (336 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Cultural pluralism - United States |
Group identity - United States |
National characteristics, American |
Historiography - United States |
United States Race relations |
United States Ethnic relations |
United States Civilization |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-305) and index. |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Hanging Together -- 2. America in Person -- 3. Rediscovering the Pragmatic American [1986] -- 4. Specialization in a Democracy [1979] -- 5. Integrating America -- 6. Immigration and American Mythology [1991] -- 7. Pluralistic Integration as an American Model [1975] -- 8. Three Postwar Reconstructions [1997] -- 9. From Boundlessness to Consolidation -- 10. America's Utopian Prophets [1984] -- 11. The Reorientation of American Culture in the 1890's [1965] -- 12. The Long Road to the New Deal -- 13. Multiculturalism and Universalism: A History and Critique [1993] -- 14. The Future of American History [1994] -- Notes -- Index |
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This book presents three decades of writings by one of America's most |
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distinguished historians. John Higham, renowned for his influential works on immigration, ethnicity, political symbolism, and the writing of history, here traces the changing contours of American culture since its beginnings, focusing on the ways that an extraordinarily mobile society has allowed divergent ethnic, class, and ideological groups to "hang together" as Americans. The book includes classic essays by Higham and more recent writings, some of which have been substantially revised for this publication. Topics range widely from the evolution of American national symbols and the fate of our national character to new perspectives on the New Deal, on other major turning points, and on changes in race relations after major American wars. Yet they are unified by an underlying theme: that a heterogeneous society and an inclusive national culture need each other. |
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