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Ancestors of Garrett Michael Ziegler by Diana Muir 9781008926721
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £43.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781008926721Author Diana MuirFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 216g -
Myths and Milestones in the History of Sport by Stephen Wagg 9780230241251
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £44.97The conventional history of sport, as conveyed by television and the sports press, has thrown up a great many apparent turning points, but knowledge of these apparently defining moments is often slight. This book offers readable, in-depth studies of a... -
A Survey of the Roads of the United States of America, 1789 by Christopher Colles 9780674497382
RRP: £54.95Booksplease Price: £54.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674497382Author Christopher CollesFormat HardbackPage Count 239Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 522g -
Broken Arrow: History, Myths & Legends by Brian D Ratty 9780578934686
RRP: £10.84Booksplease Price: £10.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578934686Author Brian D RattyFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint Sunset Lake Publishing LLCPublisher Sunset Lake Publishing LLCWeight(grams) 186g -
An Economic History of Twentieth-Century Latin America: Volume 2: Latin America in the 1930s. The Role of the Periphery in World Crisis by Rosemary Thorp 9780333633410
Booksplease Price: £90.27This is the new edition of the highly acclaimed Latin America in the 1930s , a text which has proved invaluable for teachers, researchers and students alike. The second edition has been revised and updated, including a new preface and updated statistical... -
The Continental Harmony by William Billings 9780674188303
RRP: £54.95Booksplease Price: £54.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674188303Author William BillingsFormat HardbackPage Count 220Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 812g -
The Chattel Principle: Internal Slave Trades in the Americas by Walter Johnson 9780300103557
Booksplease Price: £34.00This wide-ranging book presents the first comprehensive and comparative account of the slave trade within the nations and colonial systems of the Americas. While most scholarly attention to slavery in the Americas has concentrated on international... -
Great Britain and Argentina by Klaus Gallo 9780333920992
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £44.97Klaus Gallo examines the early nineteenth century relationship between Great Britain and the Rio de la Plata, a period that represents a crucial point in the transformation of this area of South America into the independent state of Argentina. He... -
John F. Kennedy and the New Pacific Community, 1961-63 by Timothy P. Maga 9780333524916
RRP: £89.99Booksplease Price: £89.87Charismatic and committed, John F. Kennedy remains one of the most revered, and most disliked, of US Presidents. Dedicated to changing 'the look' of the American Presidency, Kennedy was also pledged to changing the nature of US foreign policy-making... -
Puritans at Play: Leisure and Recreation in Colonial New England by Bruce C. Daniels 9780312161248
Booksplease Price: £35.22'It is rare for a book to be both erudite and amusing at the same time, and this book has succeeded. It has changed the common but unacceptable image of the Puritans as dull, solemn, melancholy misanthropes' - Horton Davies, author of The Worship of the... -
Black Woman's Burden: Commodifying Black Reproduction by N. Rousseau 9780230615304
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £44.97Black Woman's Burden examines the historical endeavors to regulate Black female sexuality and reproduction in the United States through methods of exploitation, control, repression, and coercion. The myth of the "angry Black woman" has been... -
Unequal Partnerships: Political Economy of Urban Redevelopment in Postwar America by Gregory D. Squires 9780813514529
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £23.85Unequal Partnerships explores urban development in American cities since World War II. Gregory D. Squires and other contributors examine what has long been a highly inequitable and destructive process of urban development. They look at the political and... -
An Economic History of Twentieth-Century Latin America: Volume I: The Export Age by Enrique Cardenas 9780333913048
Booksplease Price: £90.27This book explores the impact on Latin America of the extraordinary transformation of the international economy that took place in the half century or so that preceded the world depression of the 1930s. The authors show how the response varied in terms... -
Once a Warrior: Captain Thomas Price Mission - Alaska! by Tony Boyd Priest 9780692401262
RRP: £9.35Booksplease Price: £8.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692401262Author Tony Boyd PriestFormat PaperbackPage Count 266Imprint Atc Publishing, LLCPublisher Atc Publishing, LLCWeight(grams) 313g -
FDR and the Holocaust by Verne W. Newton 9780312122263
RRP: £89.99Booksplease Price: £89.87The contributors to this volume take a hard look at Roosevelt's reaction to the Holocaust.Book InformationISBN 9780312122263Author Verne W. NewtonFormat HardbackPage Count 278Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave USAWeight(grams) 521g -
Peace and War on the Anglo-Cherokee Frontier, 1756-63 by John Oliphant 9780333778395
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £44.97While the Seven Years War pushed London towards a protective Native American policy, outcomes were determined by men on the spot. The savage Anglo-Cherokee war was resolved by Cherokee headmen willing to accept a dignified peace; and by the sympathy of... -
Urban Space and National Identity in Early Twentieth Century Sao Paulo, Brazil: Crafting Modernity by Cristina Peixoto-Mehrtens 9780230103023
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £44.97This book focuses on how the political, cultural, and technical networks within the field of engineering provided the space within which an important professional middle class prospered in the city of Sao Paulo and made lasting contributions to the... -
Settling Down: World War II Veterans' Challenge to the Postwar Consensus by Robert Francis Saxe 9780230600607
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £44.97This book examines the lost voices of returning World War II veterans in the immediate postwar years and shows how the developing Cold War silenced or altered dissenting opinions that many vets expressed upon their return.Book InformationISBN... -
The American Conception of Neutrality After 1941 by Jurg Martin Gabriel 9780333762561
Booksplease Price: £90.27The American Conception of Neutrality After 1941 by Jurg Martin Gabriel, is a study of global political history since 1941 with a particular emphasis on America's attitude to neutrality. This important revised and updated edition contains three entirely... -
Puritans At Play: Leisure and Recreation in Early New England by Bruce C. Daniels 9780312125004
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £44.97'It is rare for a book to be both erudite and amusing at the same time, and this book has succeeded. It has changed the common but unacceptable image of the Puritans as dull, solemn, melancholy misanthropes' - Horton Davies, author of The Worship of the... -
From Black Power to Prison Power: The Making of Jones V. North Carolina Prisoners' Labor Union by Donald F. Tibbs 9780230340169
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £44.97This book uses the landmark case Jones v. North Carolina Prisoners' Labor Union to examine the strategies of prison inmates using race and radicalism to inspire the formation of an inmate labor union.Book InformationISBN 9780230340169Author Donald F... -
Investing for Middle America: John Elliott Tappan and the Origins of American Express Financial Services by Kenneth Lipartito 9780312233983
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £44.97In 1892, John Elliott Tappan, a twenty-four year old Minneapolis lawyer, was worried how people saved their money. Out of these concerns, Investors Syndicate was born, one of the first of a new type of financial institution designed to meet the savings... -
Making American Culture: A Social History, 1900-1920 by Patricia Bradley 9780230613324
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £44.97This book offers a social and cultural history of American culture in the formative years of the twentieth century, examining forms such as vaudeville, early film, popular songs, modernist art, and many others in the context of contemporary social... -
Inventing Lima: Baroque Modernity in Peru's South Sea Metropolis by Alejandra B. Osorio 9781349536641
RRP: £99.99Booksplease Price: £99.71This study examines certain key elements of the "making" or "inventing" of Lima as Peru's viceregal capital. Through analysis of seventeenth-century ceremonies of state and local religious rituals, this book asserts that colonial Lima... -
The Trial of the Haymarket Anarchists: Terrorism and Justice in the Gilded Age by Timothy Messer-Kruse 9780230120778
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £44.97The Trial of the Haymarket Anarchists is the culmination of seven years of research into the 1886 Haymarket bombing and subsequent trial. It not only overturns the prevailing consensus on this event, it documents in detail how the basic facts, as far as... -
African Women Immigrants in the United States: Crossing Transnational Borders by J. Arthur 9780230617780
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £44.97This title depicts how immigrant women use international migration as a strategy to challenge existing patriarchal hegemonies operative both in the United States and Africa. It also weaves together the multidimensional strands of how African immigrant... -
Bringing Desegregation Home: Memories of the Struggle toward School Integration in Rural North Carolina by Kate Willink 9780230611351
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £44.97This study collects the oral histories of residents of a single county in North Carolina who lived through the consequences of desegregation, examining the complex social and historical constructions of racial difference in education.Book InformationISBN... -
Accidental Presidents: Death, Assassination, Resignation, and Democratic Succession by P. Abbott 9780230607668
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £44.97Accidental presidents, those who assume office as a result of death, assassination or resignation, struggle to establish their legitimacy. This book examines and evaluates the strategies of nine accidental presidents, from John Tyler to Gerald Ford, to... -
Haunted Nevada City and Grass Valley by Mark Lyon 9780979532771
RRP: £16.13Booksplease Price: £15.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780979532771Author Mark LyonFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Windwhistle PressPublisher Windwhistle PressWeight(grams) 290g -
The Roots of African-American Identity: Memory and History in Antebellum Free Communities by Elizabeth Rauh Bethel 9780312128609
RRP: £89.99Booksplease Price: £89.87Spanning the eight decades between the American Revolution and the Civil War, Bethel focuses on the lives of African Americans living in the nominally free northern and western states. Examining race and the construction of a politicized racial identity,... -
The Gilded Age Construction of Modern American Homophobia by Jay Hatheway 9780312234928
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £44.97The Gilded Age Construction of American Homophobia is an analysis of the negative response to the discovery of the homosexual in late Nineteenth century America. In this period of social distress, many Americans came to doubt the underlying assumptions... -
August Wilson and Black Aesthetics by S. Shannon 9780230113015
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £30.33This book offers new essays and interviews addressing Wilson's work, ranging from examinations of the presence of Wilson's politics in his plays to the limitations of these politics on contemporary interpretations of Black aesthetics. Also includes an... -
International Political Economy and Mass Communication in Chile: National Intellectuals and Transnational Hegemony by Na Na 9780312220013
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £44.97This book develops an approach to international political economy that focuses on culture. It examines Chilean communication scholarship as it developed under shifting political regimes and changing international political economic relations. Also... -
A Critical History of Cuba - Memories by Jorge Besada Ramos 9780979659133
Booksplease Price: £14.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780979659133Author Jorge Besada RamosFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Jorge BesadaPublisher Jorge BesadaWeight(grams) 790g -
The Multi-Talented Mr. Erskine: Shaping Mass Culture through Great Books and Fine Music by Katherine Elise Chaddock 9780230117754
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £44.97This first biography of John Erskine views him in the larger contexts of the mass culture and expanded commercialism that helped propel his fame. It also relates a life narrative that demonstrates perils of academic celebrity along a conceptual path from... -
The Development of Mexico's Tourism Industry: Pyramids by Day, Martinis by Night by D. Berger 9781403966353
RRP: £99.99Booksplease Price: £99.71Berger argues that tourism was forged by Mexico's government in 1928 as the cornerstone of state-led modernization programmes. Berger presents tourism as the leading and influential facet of the post-revolutionary modernization programme. She also... -
Mining Women: Gender in the Development of a Global Industry, 1670 to 2005 by Laurie Mercier 9780230621046
Booksplease Price: £45.37This book explores gender relations and women's work and activism in different parts of the world. It also explores the subject from multiple perspectives and links each of these not only to cultural and domestic arrangements but also to an emerging... -
War and Cold War in American Foreign Policy, 1942-62 by Dale Carter 9780333919408
RRP: £89.99Booksplease Price: £89.87Making use of newly-researched archival material, this collection of original essays on wartime and postwar US foreign policy re-evaluates well-known crises and documents many less familiar aspects of the nation's mid-twentieth century conflicts. Leading... -
What Happened to the Children Who Fled Nazi Persecution by Gerald Holton 9780230609075
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £44.97The result of a four-year, in-depth study of those refugees who came as children or youths from Central Europe to the United States during the 1930s and 1940s, fleeing persecution from the National Socialist regime. This study uses social science... -
Twisting the Lion's Tail: Anglophobia in the United States, 1921-48 by J. Moser 9780333731352
RRP: £89.99Booksplease Price: £89.87Although the years 1921-48 saw a gradual strengthening of the so-called 'special relationship' between the United States and Great Britain, anglophobia remained a potent force in American political life throughout that period. In Twisting the Lion's Tail...