Americas

The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, in support of a Marxist-Leninist government, and the subsequent nine-year conflict with the indigenous Afghan Mujahedeen was one of the bloodiest conflicts of the Cold War. Key details of the circumstances surrounding...

This is the culmination of years of research into the lives of Scots who were guilty of dastardly deeds after leaving Scotland for America - in some cases they literally got away with murder. These emigrants were rogues, con artists, charlatans and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438245409Author David PietruszaFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781986073141Author Janice Van CleveFormat PaperbackPage Count 94Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

In the middle of the twentieth century, liberal intellectuals and policymakers in the United States came to see poverty as a global problem. Applying Progressive era and Depression insights about the causes of poverty to the post-World War II challenges...

Lost Chicago looks at the cherished places in the city that time, progress and fashion have swept aside. The series from Pavilion Books looks back in loving detail at many of the things that have helped create a city's unique identity that...

According to conventional wisdom, in the sixteenth century, Spain and Portugal served as a model to the English for how to go about establishing colonies in the New World and Africa. By the eighteenth century, however, it was Spain and Portugal that...

The slave revolution that two hundred years ago created the state of Haiti alarmed and excited public opinion on both sides of the Atlantic. Its repercussions ranged from the world commodity markets to the imagination of poets, from the council chambers...

The Winchester Rifle, the iconic gun made in New Haven, Connecticut, and sold in its hundreds of thousands around the world, mirrors American expansion at a key period in the young country's history. The lethal repeating rifle became the defining image...

Now in its second edition, America in the Progressive Era, 1890-1917 provides a readable, analytical narrative of the emergence, influence, and decline of the spirit of progressive reform that animated American politics and culture around the turn of the...

The colorful history of paper money before the Civil War Before Civil War greenbacks and a national bank network established a uniform federal currency in the United States, the proliferation of loosely regulated banks saturated the early American...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637162057Author Captivating HistoryFormat HardbackPage Count 134Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 349gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781534600553Author Hinton Rowan HelperFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Subject of the upcoming film Free State of Jones, this book provides recollections of the man who took on the Confederacy during the Civil War and established the liberated Mississippi county.Soldier, Father, Rebel. Outlaw. A man of deep convictions,...

Lyndon Johnson's Great Society was the most ambitious and controversial American reform effort since the New Deal of Franklin Roosevelt. Conceived in a time of prosperity rather than devastating depression, it sought to forge a consensus that rested on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998473024Author Bryan StevensonFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint FdfiPublisher FdfiWeight(grams) 209gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 8mm

In this narrative analysis, Mr. Andrew examines the underlying ideas and principal objectives of the most ambitious and controversial American reform effort since the New Deal. An acute examination. —Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post. American Ways...

This important new book, which focuses on the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s, but which looks back to the earlier decades of the century and has a conclusion dealing with the 1970s to 1990s, maps the world of those known as 'trade' - ostensibly straight men who...

Mineral wealth from the Americas underwrote and undergirded European colonization of the New World; American gold and silver enriched Spain, funded the slave trade, and spurred Spain's northern European competitors to become Atlantic powers. Building...

The Southern Caribbean was the last frontier in the Atlantic world and the most contested region in the Caribbean during the Age of Revolution. As well as illuminating this little-understood region, the book seeks to complicate our understanding of the...

The sharp and unforgiving suffering of the morally injured veteran cannot be fully understood, much less effectively addressed, without a comprehensive investigation of moral injury's underlying causes in American culture and society. And Then Your...

Looking at the accounts of the time, historian Kristofer Allerfeldt provides a readable and informative analysis of how and why we arrived at our present understanding of organized crime in the Unites States. By going back to the original accounts of the...

During the Cold War, Westerners were obsessed with the military policies of the Soviet Union. Until the demise of the Soviet Union, however, few details of Moscow's thinking on military matters were available. In this book, Andrei Kokoshin reveals how...

The contributors to this volume take a hard look at Roosevelt's reaction to the Holocaust.Book InformationISBN 9780230619487Author Verne W. NewtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 278Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave MacmillanWeight(grams) 375g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781481214063Author Bartolome de Las CasasFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781700043566Author Dinobibi PublishingFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781507797327Author John ReedFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781530984015Author John OgilbyFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

A sweeping look at black athletes through the lens of the black power protests at the Mexico City Olympics-now in paperback!Jesse Owens. Muhammad Ali. Michael Jordan. Tiger Woods. All are iconic black athletes, as are Tommie Smith and John Carlos, the...

How has a game brought together Americans and defined separate ethnic communities? This book tells the first history of mahjong and its meaning in American culture. Click-click-click. The sound of mahjong tiles connects American expatriates in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781095308110Author Charles RiverFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781015594579Author Lady Maria NugentFormat PaperbackPage Count 478Imprint Legare Street PressPublisher Legare Street PressWeight(grams) 662g

In Biography and the Black Atlantic, leading historians in the field of Atlantic studies examine the biographies and autobiographies of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century African-descended people and reflect on the opportunities and limitations these...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781546671947Author George BurderFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

The Art of Defiance is an ethnographic portrait of how graffiti writers see their city and, in turn, how their city sees them. It explores how becoming a graffiti writer helps disenfranchised urban citizens negotiate their cultural identities, build...

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