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Populism has become a global movement associated with nationalism and strong-man politicians, but its root causes remain elusive. Mud, Blood, and Ghosts exposes one deep root in the soil of the American Great Plains. Julie Carr traces her own family’s...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781550173840Author Dick NorthFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Harbour PublishingPublisher Harbour PublishingWeight(grams) 421g

Frances Peter was one of the eleven children of Dr. Robert Peter, a surgeon for the Union army. The Peter family lived on Gratz Park near downtown Lexington, where nineteen-year-old Frances began recording her impressions of the Civil War. Because of...

This guide follows a trail of places associated with Robert Louis Stevenson. John Cairney, perhaps best known for writing and starring in "The Robert Burns Story", is one of the few people to have visited all the places on the RLS trail.About the...

The death of George Armstrong Custer ended the life of one of the most flamboyant, brave, careless, and fascinating characters to ever wear a United States military uniform. His dramatic rise during the Civil War to the brevet rank of brigadier general...

Over the past 130 years, Elizabeth "Betsy" Patterson Bonaparte has inspired countless books, movies, articles, and fictionalized accounts. None captures the full measure of her fascinating life. The product of thirty years of study, Helen Jean Burn's...

"A treat . . . Insightful . . . Refreshing . . . A must-have . . .Not only is Sajna's work a valuable historical resource, it makesfor a compelling read as well."-American History "There has to be someone left to tell the tale." Little did the...

Praise for H. Paul Jeffers An Honest President: The Life and Presidencies of GroverCleveland "A well-written and timely book that reminds us of GroverCleveland?s courage, commitment, and honesty at a time when thesequalities seem so lacking in so much...

An engaging and comprehensive new edition of this established biography provides students with an understanding of the European Reformation through the life of its key mover, Martin Luther. Working chronologically through Luther's life, Michael A. Mullet...

The reign of Nero is often judged to be the embodiment of the extravagance and the corruption that have, for many, come to symbolise ancient Rome. David Shotter provides a reassessment of this view in this accessible introduction to Nero, emperor of Rome...

Samuel Fanous and Henrietta Leyser present a vivid interdisciplinary study devoted to the life, work and extant vita of Christina of Markyate, which draws on research from a wide range of disciplines. This fascinating and comprehensive collection...

Born into but escaped from slavery, Frederick Douglass-orator, journalist, autobiographer; revolutionary on behalf of a just America-was a towering figure, at once consummately charismatic and flawed. His Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass...

Biographies of two 17th-century female criminals, both celebrated in their day. These are the first editions published since the 17th century.About the Author0Book InformationISBN 9780367875879Author Elizabeth SpearingFormat PaperbackPage Count...

Former slave, orator, journalist, autobiographer; revolutionary on behalf of a just America, Frederick Douglass was a towering figure, at once consummately charismatic and flawed. His Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845) galvanized the...

It begins in Bloomington, Minnesota, with a 13-year-old kid staging his own author photo that he hopes will someday grace the cover of a book jacket. And it ends at a desk in the legendary Time & Life building, with that same boy-now in his early 20s and...

In the voluminous literature on Thomas Jefferson, little has been written about his passionate interest in science. This new and original study of Jefferson presents him as a consummate intellectual whose view of science was central to both his public...

Joseph Farington (1747-1821) was a professional landscape and topographical artist. Through his extensive involvement in the affairs of the Royal Academy and his wide circle of friends he was extraordinarily well-informed about the affairs of his day...

Part biography and part microhistory, Jacob Green's Revolution focuses on two key figures in New Jersey's revolutionary drama-Jacob Green, a radical Presbyterian minister who advocated revolution, and Thomas Bradbury Chandler, a conservative Anglican...

Albion Fellows Bacon Indiana's Municipal Housekeeper Robert G. Barrows Examines the career of a leading Progressive Era reformer. Born in Evansville, Indiana, in 1865, Albion Fellows was reared in the nearby hamlet of McCutchanville and graduated from...

J.R.R. Tolkien was an orphan, a scholar, a soldier, a professor; and the author of what is considered by many to be the finest book of the 20th Century - The Lord of the Rings. In this carefully researched and engagingly written biography, you'll come to...

Jane Addams was the first American woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. Now Citizen, Louise W. Knight's masterful biography, reveals Addams's early development as a political activist and social philosopher. In this book we observe a powerful mind...

This carefully researched study of America's greatest showman, huckster, and impresario is both an inclusive analysis of the historical and cultural forces that were the conditions of P. T. Barnum's success, and, as befits its subject, a richly...

Sharp, resourceful, and with a style all her own, Althea Altemus embodied the spirit of the independent working woman of the Jazz Age. In her memoir, Big Bosses, she vividly recounts her life as a secretary for prominent (but thinly disguised) employers...

Ida Pruitt, born of American missionaries and raised in a rural Chinese village at the end of the nineteenth century, witnessed almost a century of China's revolutionary upheavals. She was the first Director of Social Service at the Peking Union Medical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781932476668Author Benjamin BoginFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Serindia Publications, IncPublisher Serindia Publications, IncWeight(grams) 1367g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906190347Author Paget HenryFormat PaperbackPage Count 231Imprint Hansib Publications LimitedPublisher Hansib Publications LimitedWeight(grams) 398g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906190897Author Necola HallFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Hansib Publications LimitedPublisher Hansib Publications LimitedWeight(grams) 277g

John Aubrey (1626-97) was one of the best-connected scholars and antiquaries in the great decades of the British scientific revolution. Immersed in the intellectual fervour of the era, he is best remembered today for his Brief Lives, a collection of...

On 14 July 1958, with the fall of the Hashemite monarchy in Iraq, a chapter of Iraq's history ended. In the wake of this revolution - a revolution that eventually brought to power the Ba'ath party of Saddam Hussein - the ancien regime of Iraq found...

The Scramble for Africa in the 1880s showed European interest in Africa at its most intense and today evokes a picture of the great European powers engaged in a frantic struggle for supremacy and for control of Africa and its resources. Eve Pollecoff...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781569804520Author Deborah StrobinFormat HardbackPage Count 226Imprint Barricade Books IncPublisher Barricade Books IncWeight(grams) 516g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781440800603Author Robert P. BroadwaterFormat HardbackPage Count 199Imprint Greenwood Publishing Group IncPublisher Greenwood Publishing Group Inc

This is the biography of Hrant Dink, a Turkish-Armenian journalist and political activist. He worked for the democratic rights of all Turkish citizens, including the right to speak freely about the genocide of Anatolia's Armenians in 1915. As a result of...

Who was the real Richard Nixon and why did he behave the way he did? In this innovative work, a distinguished historian, trained in psychoanalysis, unravels the riddle of Nixon's singularly opaque political personality. Neither a political biography, nor...

Over the course of more than six decades as an author, journalist, and professor, Max Lerner studied and assessed many presidents, yet Thomas Jefferson received his most sustained attention. To Lerner, Jefferson came closest in the American context to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789357768559Author Indira VarmaFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Westland Publications LimitedPublisher Westland Publications Limited

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781837914050Author Frank HitchensFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Acorn Books LtdPublisher Andrews UK Limited

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804396513Author Shemal SamuelsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 157Imprint Olympia PublishersPublisher Olympia Publishers

This unique oral history book records the stories told to the author personally by people who witnessed many of history's most famous events. Among many others, the author interviewed: the final three Civil War widows (one Union and two Confederate), the...

A true story of the battered life of a foremast crewman, Two Years Before the Mast is Richard Henry Dana’s classic travel narrative, which inspired canonical works such as Moby Dick and Sailing Alone Around the World. As Rod Scher follows Dana (the...