Authors:James S. Olson, Heather Olson Beal,
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: history, american, dimension, ethnic
Number of Pages: 392
Published: 2010-04-26
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 1405182512
ISBN-13: 9781405182515

The Ethnic Dimension in American History is a thorough survey of the role that ethnicity has played in shaping the history of the United States.  Considering ethnicity in terms of race, language, religion and national origin, this important text examines its effects on social relations, public policy and economic development. A thorough survey of the role that ethnicity has played in shaping the history of the United States, including the effects of ethnicity on social relations, public policy and economic development Includes histories of a wide range of ethnic gr

Author: James R. Olson
Publisher: PublishAmerica
Keywords: healer, vagabond
Number of Pages: 231
Published: 2007-03-12
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1424169380
ISBN-13: 9781424169382

"Eddy Foster came into my life on one of those special days the mind treasured and kept forever. If I were able to revisit the past I doubt whether I would want to change a single moment of those magical events. Perhaps the joy and sorrow were meant to be just as they happened." "The Vagabond Healer" not only deals with the joy of those cured of terminal illnesses, but also the bitter consequences when Eddy momentarily sees into a person’s inner being and glimpses the dark secrets everyone hides from the world. This dark side effect of Eddy’s touch breeds violenc

Author: James S. Olson
Publisher: Greenwood
Keywords: depression, dictionary, historical
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2001-09-30
List price: $119.95
ISBN-10: 0313306184
ISBN-13: 9780313306181

Today when most Americans think of the Great Depression, they imagine desperate men standing in bread lines, bootleggers hustling illegal booze to secrecy-shrouded speakeasies, FDR smiling, or Judy Garland skipping along the yellow brick road. Hard times have become an abstraction; but this was the era when the federal government became a major player in the national economy and Americans bestowed the responsibility for maintaining full employment and stable prices on Congress and the White House, making the Depression years a major watershed in U.S. history. In more than 500 essays, this read

Author: James S. Olson
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Keywords: history, cancer, women, breast, bathsheba
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2005-01-05
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0801880645
ISBN-13: 9780801880643

"Breast cancer may very well be history’s oldest malaise, known as well to the ancients as it is to us. The women who have endured it share a unique sisterhood. Queen Atossa and Dr. Jerri Nielsen -- separated by era and geography, by culture, religion, politics, economics, and world view -- could hardly have been more different. Born 2,500 years apart, they stand as opposite bookends on the shelf of human history. One was the most powerful woman in the ancient world, the daughter of an emperor, the mother of a god; the other is a twenty-first-century physician with a streak of adventure

Author: James S. Olson
Publisher: Greenwood
Keywords: historical, dictionary, 1960s
Number of Pages: 560
Published: 1999-12-30
List price: $138.95
ISBN-10: 031329271X
ISBN-13: 9780313292712

Few eras in U.S. history have begun with more optimistic promise and ended in more pessimistic despair than the 1960s. When J.F.K. became president in 1960, the U.S. was the hope of the world. Ten years later American power abroad seemed wasted in the jungles of Indochina, and critics at home wondered whether the U.S. was really the "land of the free and the home of the brave." This book takes an encyclopedic look at the decade--at the individuals who shaped the era, the civil rights movement, the antiwar movement, and the youth rebellion. It covers the political, military, social, cultural, r

Author: James S. Olson
Publisher: Greenwood
Keywords: dictionary, ethnohistorical, africa, peoples
Number of Pages: 696
Published: 1996-05-28
List price: $173.95
ISBN-10: 0313279187
ISBN-13: 9780313279188

Recent historical events make it clear that the world is in for a long-term continuation of ethnic rivalries that have been going on for centuries. The short-term hegemony of the European empires, the Soviet Union, and the United States temporarily subdued some of those conflicts, but older identities are now reasserting themselves. The most complicated, diverse ethnic setting is in Africa, where several thousand languages provide powerful identities to as many ethnic groups. The Peoples of Africa provides a brief description of more than 1,800 individual ethnic groups living today in Africa.

Author: James M. Olson
Publisher: Potomac Books Inc.
Keywords: spying, dilemmas, moral, play, fair
Number of Pages: 306
Published: 2007-12-30
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1597971537
ISBN-13: 9781597971539

Revolutionary War officer Nathan Hale, one of America’s first spies, said, “Any kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by being necessary.” A statue of Hale stands outside CIA headquarters, and the agency often cites his statement as one of its guiding principles. But who decides what is necessary for the public good, and is it really true that any kind of service is permissible for the public good? These questions are at the heart of James M. Olson’s book, Fair Play: The Moral Dilemmas of Spying. Olson, a veteran of the CIA’s clandestine service, takes reader