1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910153146403321

Autore

Jeffreys-Jones Rhodri

Titolo

The American left : its impact on politics and society since 1900 / / Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh, [Scotland] : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2013

©2013

ISBN

0-7486-9521-4

0-7486-6889-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvii, 338 pages) : 1 illustration (black and white)

Disciplina

320.5130973

Soggetti

Right and left (Political science) - United States

Electronic books.

United States Politics and government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- 1. The Reputation of the American Left -- 2. The Socialist Origins of Social Security -- 3. Early Achievers on the American Left -- 4. Socialists in Congress -- 5. The Identification of America and its Fascist Enemy -- 6. The New Deal’s Undeclared Socialism -- 7. The Republican Re-invention of Socialism -- 8. The New Left Shares the Credit -- 9. The Newer Left -- 10. The Republican Road to Nationalization -- 11. Obama: A President for the Left? -- Appendix: Defining the Left and Adjacent Terms -- Notes -- Abbreviations used in the Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Conservatives argue that left-wing politics has had an excessive influence in the USA, but few others extend that credit. Now, Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones tells the full story of the left's numerous achievements, from effective opposition to militarism to the winning of racial justice.



2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996384957403316

Autore

Watts William <1590?-1649.>

Titolo

The Swedish intelligencer . The first part [[electronic resource] ] : Wherein, out of the truest and choysest informations, are the famous actions of that warlike prince historically led along: from his Majesties first entring into the Empire, vntill his great victory over the Generall Tilly, at the Battell of Leipsich. The times and places of every action being so sufficiently observed and described; that the reader may finde both truth and reason in it

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Printed [by John Dawson] for Nath : Butter and Nicholas Bourne, 1632

Edizione

[Now the third time, revised, corrected, and augmented.]

Descrizione fisica

[16], 124, 121-128, [4] p. : port. (metal cut)

Soggetti

Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

By William Watts.

Printer's name from STC.

The engraved portrait of Gustav II Adolf is signed: Ge· Mountin sculpsit.

Includes index.

The first two quires are reimposed from STC 23522.

Quire 2I² , bound after quire I, appears to have been printed as part of quire S.

Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0113