Americas

It's not the economy, stupid: How liberal politicians' faith in the healing powers of economic growth-and refusal to address racial divisions-fueled reactionary politics across the South.From FDR to Clinton, charismatic Democratic leaders have promised a...

In 1911, a young Peruvian boy led an American explorer and Yale historian named Hiram Bingham into the ancient Incan citadel of Machu Picchu. Hidden amidst the breathtaking heights of the Andes, this settlement of temples, tombs and palaces was the...

The United States has been described by many of its foreign and domestic critics as an empire. Providing a wide-ranging analysis of the United States as a territorial, imperial power from its foundation to the present day, this book explores the United...

The United States was made in Britain. For over a hundred years following independence, a diverse and lively crowd of emigrant Americans left the United States for Britain. From Liverpool and London, they produced Atlantic capitalism and managed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143034940Author Charlie LeDuffFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 352gDimensions(mm) 214mm * 138mm...

Severine Brock's first language was Ga, yet it was not surprising when, in 1842, she married Edward Carstensen. He was the last governor of Christiansborg, the fort that, in the eighteenth century, had been the center of Danish slave trading in West...

By the director of the hit documentary Behind the Burly Q comes the first ever oral history of American Burlesque--as told by the performers who lived it, often speaking out here for the first time. By telling the intimate and surprising stories from its...

Betty Boyd Caroli's engrossing and informative First Ladies is both a captivating read and an essential resource for anyone interested in the role of America's First Ladies. Caroli observes the role as it has shifted and evolved from ceremonial backdrop...

Winner of the 2015 LGBT Studies Award presented by the Lambda Literary Foundation Unearths connections between homoeroticism, cannibalism, and cultures of consumption in the context of American literature and US slave culture that has largely been...

Like the bestselling Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas, this book is a brilliant reinvention of the traditional atlas, one that provides a vivid, complex look at the multi-faceted nature of New Orleans, a city replete with contradictions. More than...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593198957Author Peter VronskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams)...

"David Blight has produced a fine edition of Douglass' second autobiography. This is an essential work in African-American and American history, and displays Douglass' developing strength as a writer and political leader."-Richard Slotkin, Wesleyan...

A renowned historian offers novel perspectives on slavery and abolition in eighteenth-century Jamaica Between the start of the Seven Years' War in 1756 and the onset of the French Revolution in 1789, Jamaica was the richest and most important colony in...

In ancient Colombia, people did not use gold as currency or desire it for its economic value. Gold was revered instead for its symbolic association and transformative properties. This sacred metal was used to create some of the most visually dramatic and...

Despite its modest size, the republic of Suriname is today the site of many distinctive processes of globalization. This intersectional study teases out the complex relationships among class, gender, and ethnic identity over the course of Suriname's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788722063Author John BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint Counted FaithfulPublisher Counted Faithful

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781578633715Format PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Red Wheel/WeiserPublisher Red Wheel/Weiser

Drive critical, engaged, high level learning and skills. Developed with the IB, this Course Book equips learners to analyze and articulate complex historical concepts and contexts, strengthening performance and potential. Enabling advanced understanding,...

"Quite impressive. I doubt if there has been or will be a moredeeply researched and convincing account." --Evan Connell, authorSon of the Morning Star: Custer and the Little Bighorn "The book to end all Earp books--the most complete, and...

For over half a century the US granted Cubans, one of the largest immigrant groups in the country, unique entitlements. While other unauthorized immigrants faced detention, deportation, and no legal rights, Cuban immigrants were able to enter the country...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637161890Author Captivating HistoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805069051Author Garry WillsFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Henry Holt & Company IncPublisher Henry Holt & Company Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780395925690Author William Least-Heat MoonFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)Publisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 858g

In September 1781, the captain of the British slave ship Zong ordered 133 slaves thrown overboard, enabling the ship's owners to file an insurance claim for their lost "cargo." Accounts of this horrific event quickly became a staple of abolitionist...

An update of a popular work that takes on the myths of the Spanish Conquest of the Americas, featuring a new afterword. Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest reveals how the Spanish invasions in the Americas have been conceived and presented,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780893707217Author George PadmoreFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Borgo PressPublisher Wildside PressWeight(grams) 362gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

In the mid-eighteenth century, colonial Americans became enamored with the rich colors and silky surface of mahogany. This exotic wood, imported from the West Indies and Central America, quickly displaced local furniture woods as the height of fashion...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781735287522Author Conrad Jay BladeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 462Imprint Hutman ProductionsPublisher Hutman ProductionsWeight(grams) 1061gDimensions(mm)...

How can you achieve victory in war if you don't have a clear idea of your political aims and a vision of what victory means? In this provocative challenge to US political aims and strategy, Donald Stoker argues that America endures endless wars because...

Winner of the Frederick Jackson Turner AwardWinner of the John Hope Franklin PrizeWinner of the Avery O. Craven AwardSoul by Soul tells the story of slavery in antebellum America by moving away from the cotton plantations and into the slave market...

Reissued for the 40th anniversary of the Falklands conflictThe most in-depth and powerful account yet published of the first crucial clash of the Falklands war - told from both sides.'Thorough and exhaustive' Daily Telegraph'An excellent and fast paced...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250035509Author Chris WestFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 490gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 148mm * 27mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805088601Author Silvana PaternostroFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint St. Martins Press-3PLPublisher St. Martins Press-3PLWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780966531022Author Sandra RileyFormat PaperbackPage Count 326Imprint Riley Hall PartnersPublisher Riley Hall PartnersWeight(grams) 490gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

In the middle of the Caribbean, there sits a small island called Redonda. But what at first appears to be an uninhabited rock turns out to also be the site of a fragmented, fiercely contested kingdom that dates back more than a century-a kingdom of...

From the earliest times, people have told stories of allpowerful gods and goddesses, mighty spirits and fabulous creatures to explain the mysteries of life. This book explores the rich diversity of these legendary themes within North America, Mesoamerica...

As the second son of the most famous Wisconsin progressive, Philip La Follette's own political journey was incontrovertibly marked by his father's legacy. Growing up in the shadow of a major political figure like "Fighting Bob" La Follette made for a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789878841328Author Juan Manuel Herrera TraybelFormat PaperbackPage Count 282Imprint Juan Manuel Herrera TraybelPublisher Juan Manuel Herrera...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Reviews"Here is a book which deals with clashes between economic and political factors in the American Revolution as realistically as if its author were dealing with a...

An obsessive genealogist and descendent of one of the most prominent Jewish families since the American Revolution, Blanche Moses firmly believed her maternal ancestors were Sephardic grandees. Yet she found herself at a dead end when it came to her...