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Oxford AQA History for A Level: The American Dream: Reality and Illusion 1945-1980 by Mark Stacey 9780198354550
$71.76Please note this title is suitable for any student studying: Exam Board: AQA Level/Subject: AS and A Level History First teaching: 2015 First exams: June 2017 Retaining all the well-loved features from the previous editions, The American Dream has... -
1493: How Europe's Discovery of the Americas Revolutionized Trade, Ecology and Life on Earth by Charles C. Mann
RRP: $27.28$18.19Two hundred million years ago the earth consisted of a single vast continent, Pangea, surrounded by a great planetary sea. Continental drift tore apart Pangaea, and for millennia the hemispheres were separate, evolving almost entirely different suites of... -
How to Survive a Plague: The Story of How Activists and Scientists Tamed AIDS by David France
RRP: $31.48$23.37The riveting, powerful and profoundly moving story of the AIDS epidemic.Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-FictionWinner of The Green Carnation Prize for LGBTQ literatureWinner of the Lambda Literary Award for LGBT non-fictionShortlisted for the... -
The Last Days of Detroit: Motor Cars, Motown and the Collapse of an Industrial Giant by Mark Binelli 9780099553885 [USED COPY]
RRP: $35.68$5.57Once America's capitalist dream town, the Silicon Valley of the Jazz Age, Detroit became the country's greatest urban failure, having fallen the longest and the furthest. The city of Henry Ford, modernity, and Motown found itself blighted by riots,... -
The Last Days of Detroit: Motor Cars, Motown and the Collapse of an Industrial Giant by Mark Binelli
RRP: $35.68$25.79Once America's capitalist dream town, the Silicon Valley of the Jazz Age, Detroit became the country's greatest urban failure, having fallen the longest and the furthest. The city of Henry Ford, modernity, and Motown found itself blighted by riots,... -
The Island That Disappeared: Old Providence and the Making of the Western World by Tom Feiling
RRP: $31.48$21.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911184041Author Tom FeilingFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Explore Books (London)Publisher Explore Books (London)Weight(grams) 620g -
Conquistadors by Michael Wood
RRP: $31.48$23.00The Spanish conquest of the Americas in the 16th century was one of the most important and cataclysmic events in history. Spanish expeditions endured incredible hardships in order to open up the lands of the 'New World', and few stories in history can... -
Empire, Incorporated: The Corporations That Built British Colonialism by Philip J. Stern 9780674988125
RRP: $62.90$51.30"A landmark book...[a] bold reframing of the history of the British Empire."-Caroline Elkins, Foreign AffairsAn award-winning historian places the corporation-more than the Crown-at the heart of British colonialism, arguing that companies built and... -
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: The Black History Classic Frederick Douglass 9780857089106
RRP: $20.98$14.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857089106Author Frederick DouglassFormat HardbackImprint Capstone Publishing LtdPublisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd -
The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777 by Rick Atkinson
RRP: $39.88$26.69'To say that Atkinson can tell a story is like saying Sinatra can sing ... A powerful new voice has been added to the dialogue about [America's] origins as a people and a nation. It is difficult to imagine any reader putting this beguiling... -
When Britain Burned the White House: The 1814 Invasion of Washington by Peter Snow
RRP: $27.28$15.98As heard on BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week.Shortlisted for the Paddy Power Political History Book of the Year Award 2014.In August 1814 the United States' army is defeated in battle by an invading force just outside Washington DC. The US president and... -
A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca by Andre Resendez
$36.62In 1528, a mission set out from Spain to colonize Florida. But the expedition went horribly wrong: Delayed by a hurricane, knocked off course by a colossal error of navigation, and ultimately doomed by a disastrous decision to separate the men from their... -
Titanic: Minute by Minute by Jonathan Mayo 9781780726342
RRP: $23.08$15.982.20am on 15th April 1912, the Titanic is plunging 12,000 feet to the ocean floor. Machinery, coal, crystal goblets, pianos and jewellery all tumbled through the dark water. Hundreds of passengers and crew remained trapped below decks - hundreds more... -
How the Gringos Stole Tequila: The Modern Age of Mexico's Most Traditional Spirit by Chantal Martineau 9781595348807
RRP: $29.38$19.95Once little more than party fuel, tequila has graduated to the status of fine sipping spirit. How the Gringos Stole Tequila traces the spirit's evolution in America from frat-house firewater to luxury good. But there's more to the story than tequila as... -
The West: A New History of an Old Idea by Naoíse Mac Sweeney 9780753558935
RRP: $27.28$19.61*A BBC RADIO 4 Book of the Week*'A fantastic achievement' Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads'Bright, expansive, and iconoclastic, this deliciously witty book has the potential to upset the applecart of "Western Civilisation" itself... Magnificent'... -
The Kingdom of Redonda: The Curious History of the Kingdom of Redonda by Michael Hingston
RRP: $29.38$19.95In 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... -
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples: One Volume Abridged Edition Sir Sir Winston S. Churchill 9781350042940
RRP: $50.38$44.46'This history will endure; not only because Sir Winston has written it, but also because of its own inherent virtues - its narrative power, its fine judgment of war and politics, of soldiers and statesmen, and even more because it reflects a tradition of... -
The Accidental Guerrilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One by David Kilcullen
RRP: $33.58$30.39War in the post-9/11 world is far different from what we expected it be. Counterinsurgency and protracted guerrilla warfare, not shock and awe, are the order of the day. David Kilcullen is the world's foremost expert on this way of war, and in The... -
How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish by Ilan Stavans
RRP: $33.58$23.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632062260Author Ilan StavansFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Restless BooksPublisher Restless Books -
Evita: The Life of Eva Perón by Jill Hedges 9781350452022
RRP: $31.48$29.00Eva Peron remains Argentina's best-known and most iconic personality, far outlasting her own husband, President Juan Domingo Peron, himself a remarkable and charismatic political leader without whom she, as an uneducated woman in an elitist and... -
Founding Fathers: The Essential Guide to the Men Who Made America by Encyclopaedia Britannica
$28.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780470117927Author Encyclopaedia BritannicaFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint John Wiley & Sons LtdPublisher Turner Publishing CompanyWeight(grams)... -
The Atlas of Boston History by Nancy S Seasholes
$67.14Few American cities possess a history as long, rich, and fascinating as Boston's. A site of momentous national political events from the Revolutionary War through the civil rights movement, Boston has also been an influential literary and cultural... -
Hell's Gorge: The Battle to Build the Panama Canal by Matthew Parker 9780099484332
RRP: $35.68$25.792014 is the 100-year-anniversary of the panama canal: one of the most extraordinary engineering feats in world history.Hell's Gorge traces a heroic dream that spanned four centuries: to build a canal linking the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.The human cost... -
A Future in Ruins: UNESCO, World Heritage, and the Dream of Peace by Lynn Meskell
RRP: $79.78$49.81Best known for its World Heritage program committed to "the identification, protection and preservation of cultural and natural heritage around the world considered to be of outstanding value to humanity," the United Nations Educational, Scientific and... -
Norse America: The Story of a Founding Myth by Gordon Campbell
RRP: $55.63$39.71The story of the Vikings in North America as both fact and fiction, from the westward expansion of the Norse across the North Atlantic in the tenth and eleventh centuries to the myths and fabrications about their presence there that have developed in... -
Columbus: The Four Voyages, 1492-1504 by Laurence Bergreen
RRP: $23.08$16.78He knew nothing of celestial navigation or of the existence of the Pacific Ocean. He was a self-promoting and ambitious entrepreneur. His maps were a hybrid of fantasy and delusion. When he did make land, he enslaved the populace he found, encouraged... -
1491 (Second Edition): New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C Mann
RRP: $39.90$27.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400032051Author Charles C. MannFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 527gDimensions(mm) 203mm... -
Mass Uprisings in the USSR: Protest and Rebellion in the Post-Stalin Years V. A. Kozlov 9780765606686
RRP: $92.38$80.72Until recent times, incidents of mass unrest in the USSR were shrouded in official secrecy. Now this pioneering work by historian Vladimir A. Kozlov has opened up these hidden chapters of Soviet history. It details an astonishing variety of widespread... -
Beyond El Dorado: Power and Gold in Ancient Colombia Elisenda Vila Llonch 9780714125411
RRP: $41.98$27.74In 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... -
Caribbean Irish, The: How the Slave Myth was Made Miki Garcia 9781789042689
RRP: $31.48$27.36The Caribbean Irish explores the little known fact that the Irish were amongst the earliest settlers in the Caribbean. They became colonisers, planters and merchants living in the British West Indies between 1620 and 1800 but the majority of them arrived... -
The Oxford Handbook of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe and Colonial America by Brian P. Levack
$88.05The essays in this Handbook, written by leading scholars working in the rapidly developing field of witchcraft studies, explore the historical literature regarding witch beliefs and witch trials in Europe and colonial America between the early fifteenth... -
A True and Exact History of the Island of Barbados by Richard Ligon
RRP: $35.68$31.73Ligon's True and Exact History of the Island of Barbados is the most significant book-length English text written about the Caribbean in the seventeenth century. [It] allows one to see the contested process behind the making of the Caribbean... -
How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America by Heather Cox Richardson 9780197581797
RRP: $33.58$24.38Named one of The Washington Post's 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction While the North prevailed in the Civil War, ending slavery and giving the country a "new birth of freedom," Heather Cox Richardson argues in this provocative work that democracy's... -
Peru: a journey in time Cecilia Pardo 9780714124919
RRP: $63.00$43.47'The exhibition is now over, but the splendid book lives on.' 'A delightful, very readable eyecandy dive in the history of the cultures of Peru' 'An excellent book as you would expect from the British Museum, and a delight to dive into.' -- Sacred Hoop... -
The Civil Rights Movement: A Very Short Introduction by Thomas C. Holt 9780190605421
RRP: $18.88$13.97The Civil Rights Movement was among the most important historical developments of the twentieth century and one of the most remarkable mass movements in American history. Not only did it decisively change the legal and political status of African... -
The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books: Young Columbus and the Quest for a Universal Library by Edward Wilson-Lee
RRP: $27.28$18.29WINNER OF THE 2019 PEN HESSELL-TILTMAN PRIZE The fascinating history of Christopher Columbus's illegitimate son Hernando, guardian of his father's flame, courtier, bibliophile and catalogue supreme, whose travels took him to the... -
The Mexican Revolution: A Very Short Introduction by Alan Knight
RRP: $18.88$13.97The Mexican Revolution defined the sociopolitical experience of those living in Mexico in the twentieth century. Its subsequent legacy has provoked debate between those who interpret the ongoing myth of the Revolution and those who adopt the more... -
Black Experience and the Empire by Philip D. Morgan 9780199290673
RRP: $100.78$86.06This work explores the lives of people of sub-Saharan Africa and their descendants, how they were shaped by empire, and how they in turn influenced the empire in everything from material goods to cultural style. The black experience varied greatly across... -
Letters concerning the English Nation by Voltaire 9780199555321
RRP: $20.98$13.88Inspired by Voltaire's two-year stay in England (1726-8), this is one of the key works of the Enlightment. Exactly contemporary with Gulliver's Travels and The Beggar's Opera, Voltaire's controversial pronouncements on politics, philosophy, religion, and... -
Surviving Slavery in the British Caribbean by Randy M. Browne 9780812224634
RRP: $50.38$44.44A groundbreaking study of slavery and power in the British Caribbean that foregrounds the struggle for survival Atlantic slave societies were notorious deathtraps. In Surviving Slavery in the British Caribbean, Randy M. Browne looks past the familiar...