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Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980 by Rick Perlstein 9781476793061
£18.80A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2020 From the bestselling author of Nixonland and The Invisible Bridge comes the dramatic conclusion of how conservatism took control of American political power.Over two decades, Rick Perlstein has published three... -
American Military History: A Very Short Introduction by Joseph T. Glatthaar
RRP: £8.99£6.45Since the first English settlers landed at Jamestown with the legacy of centuries of European warfare in tow, the military has been an omnipresent part of America. In American Military History: A Very Short Introduction, Joseph T. Glatthaar explores this... -
The Jerusalem Files: The Secret Journey of the Menorah to Oak Island by Corjan Mol 9781786788368
RRP: £16.99£11.54The Jewish Menorah is one of the world's most sacred artefacts, a man-size lampstand with seven arms, made from a single block of gold, that is an iconic symbol for the Jewish people. King Solomon placed it in the inner sanctum of the Temple of... -
When Britain Burned the White House: The 1814 Invasion of Washington by Peter Snow
RRP: £12.99£7.51As 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... -
The Accidental Guerrilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One by David Kilcullen
RRP: £15.99£14.47War 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... -
Evita: The Life of Eva Perón by Jill Hedges 9781350452022
RRP: £14.99£11.75Eva 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... -
A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam by Neil Sheehan
RRP: £30.00£21.95'Superb. If you ever read just one history of the Vietnam war, read and admire and celebrate this one ' John le CarreWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD AND THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR NON-FICTIONOutspoken, professional and fearless, Lt. Col. John Paul Vann... -
American Caesars: Lives of the US Presidents, from Franklin D. Roosevelt to George W. Bush by Nigel Hamilton
RRP: £16.99£12.28The twentieth century has been called 'the American Century'. Not since the days of the Roman emperors has there been such a succession of rulers holding the fate of the world in their hands. Now, award-winning biographer Nigel Hamilton gives us the... -
Caribbean Irish, The: How the Slave Myth was Made by Miki Garcia 9781789042689
RRP: £14.99£13.03The 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 Age of Revolution by Charles Kovacs 9780863153952
RRP: £10.99£7.27An overview of world history from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries, including the French, American and Industrial Revolutions. Kovacs chooses pertinent stories which create a tapestry showing the development of humankind from medieval times, when... -
Oxford AQA History for A Level: The American Dream: Reality and Illusion 1945-1980 by Mark Stacey 9780198354550
£34.17Please 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... -
American Colonies: The Settlement of North America to 1800 by Alan Taylor 9780142002100
RRP: £16.99£12.28AMERICAN COLONIES starts with the earliest years of human colonization of the American continent and environs with the Siberian migrations across the Bering Strait 15,000 years ago. It ends in around 1800 when the rough outline of the contemporary North... -
Barracoon: The Story of the Last Slave by Zora Neale Hurston
RRP: £9.99£5.82Abducted from Africa, sold in America. "A deeply affecting record of an extraordinary life"- Daily Telegraph A major literary event: a newly published... -
A Brutal Reckoning: The Creek Indians and the Epic War for the American South by Peter Cozzens
RRP: £25.00£16.53'Cozzens is a master storyteller' The Times'Extremely well researched' Times Literary SupplementFrom the devastating invasion by Spanish conquistadors in the sixteenth century to the relentless pressure from white settlers 150 years later, A Brutal... -
Nimitz at War: Command Leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay by Craig L. Symonds
RRP: £27.49£19.68From America's preeminent naval historian, the first full-length portrait in over fifty years of the man who won the war in the Pacific in World War Two-"destined," says Andrew Roberts, "to be the defining life of Chester Nimitz for a long time to come."... -
A Concise History of the Caribbean by B. W. Higman
RRP: £22.99£20.51A Concise History of the Caribbean offers a comprehensive interpretation of the history of the Caribbean islands from the beginning of human settlement to the present. It narrates processes of early human migration, the disastrous consequences of... -
The Piri Reis Map of 1513 by Gregory C. McIntosh
£45.39One of the most beautiful maps to survive the Great Age of Discoveries, the 1513 world map drawn by Ottoman admiral Piri Reis is also one of the most mysterious. Gregory McIntosh has uncovered new evidence in the map that shows it to be among the most... -
Slave Wales: The Welsh and Atlantic Slavery, 1660-1850 by Chris Evans 9780708323038 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99£10.04Atlantic slavery does not loom large in the traditional telling of Welsh history. Yet Wales, like many regions of Europe, was deeply affected by the forced migration of captive Africans. This book looks at Slave Wales between 1660 and 1850. It casts... -
Slave Wales: The Welsh and Atlantic Slavery, 1660-1850 by Chris Evans
RRP: £14.99£11.66Atlantic slavery does not loom large in the traditional telling of Welsh history. Yet Wales, like many regions of Europe, was deeply affected by the forced migration of captive Africans. This book looks at Slave Wales between 1660 and 1850. It casts... -
The American Future: A History From The Founding Fathers To Barack Obama by Simon Schama 9780099520399 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99£2.40The American Future traces the history of a country whose most enduring trait is its capacity for self-renewal, especially at times of disaster. Examining issues of power, race and immigration, religious fervour and prosperity, this masterful portrait of... -
The American Future: A History From The Founding Fathers To Barack Obama by Simon Schama
RRP: £16.99£12.28The American Future traces the history of a country whose most enduring trait is its capacity for self-renewal, especially at times of disaster. Examining issues of power, race and immigration, religious fervour and prosperity, this masterful portrait of... -
The Island That Disappeared: Old Providence and the Making of the Western World by Tom Feiling
RRP: £14.99£10.20Apologies 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 -
Founding Fathers: The Essential Guide to the Men Who Made America by Encyclopaedia Britannica
£13.48Apologies 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)... -
Crazy Horse: The Lakota Warrior's Life and Legacy by William Matson
RRP: £15.99£9.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781423657972Author William MatsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Gibbs M. Smith IncPublisher Gibbs M. Smith Inc -
The Maya: A Very Short Introduction by Matthew Restall
RRP: £8.99£6.45The Maya forged one of the greatest societies in the history of the ancient Americas - and in all of human history. Long before contact with Europeans, Maya communities built spectacular cities with large, well-fed large populations. They mastered the... -
Enslaved: The Sunken History of the Transatlantic Slave Trade by Sean Kingsley 9781639364589
RRP: £14.99£9.36A riveting and illuminating exploration of the transatlantic slave trade by an intrepid team of divers seeking to reclaim the stories of their ancestors. "For me, Enslaved is an attempt to give a voice to the millions whose voices were silenced."-Samuel... -
The Inca: Lost Civilizations by Kevin Lane 9781789145465
RRP: £18.00£12.96From their mythical origins to astonishing feats of engineering, an expertly informed reassessment of one of the great empires of the Americas: the Inca. In their heyday, the Inca ruled over the largest land empire in the Americas, reaching the pinnacle... -
The Human Factor: Gorbachev, Reagan, and Thatcher, and the End of the Cold War by Archie Brown
RRP: £31.49£22.34In this penetrating analysis of the role of political leadership in the Cold War's ending, Archie Brown shows why the popular view that Western economic and military strength left the Soviet Union with no alternative but to admit defeat is wrong. To... -
The Armada Legacy (Ben Hope, Book 8) by Scott Mariani
RRP: £9.99£7.26A GRIPPING THRILLER FROM THE #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR 'Deadly conspiracies, bone-crunching action and a tormented hero with a heart . . . packs a real punch' Andy McDermott A SUNKEN SECRET. A MISSING WOMAN.A... -
Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs by Camilla Townsend 9780190673062
RRP: £24.49£21.18In November 1519, Hernando Cortes walked along a causeway leading to the capital of the Aztec kingdom and came face to face with Moctezuma. That story--and the story of what happened afterwards--has been told many times, but always following the... -
Titanic: Minute by Minute by Jonathan Mayo 9781780726342
RRP: £10.99£7.122.20am 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... -
1493: How Europe's Discovery of the Americas Revolutionized Trade, Ecology and Life on Earth by Charles C. Mann
RRP: £12.99£8.56Two 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... -
The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777 by Rick Atkinson
RRP: £18.99£12.71'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... -
A Brief History of America by Jeremy Black 9781472147387 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£7.58The next in this series of admirably concise yet nevertheless comprehensive titles looks at the history of all Americans as well as America; its environmental history and its linkage to economic history; the political shaping of America; and America in... -
A Brief History of America by Jeremy Black 9781472147387
RRP: £12.99£9.09The next in this series of admirably concise yet nevertheless comprehensive titles looks at the history of all Americans as well as America; its environmental history and its linkage to economic history; the political shaping of America; and America in... -
The Gold Machine: In the Tracks of the Mule Dancers by Iain Sinclair
RRP: £20.00£13.50A New Statesman Book of the Year, 2021 'Follow Iain Sinclair into the cloud jungles of Peru and emerge questioning all that seemed so solid and immutable.' Barry Miles From the award-winning author of The Last London and Lights Out for the... -
How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish by Ilan Stavans
RRP: £15.99£11.04Apologies 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 -
The Debate on Black Civil Rights in America by Kevern Verney
RRP: £15.99£11.80Once a neglected area, African American history is now the subject of extensive scholarly research. The Debate on Black Civil Rights in America is the first full-length study to examine the changing academic debate on developments in African American... -
Hell's Gorge: The Battle to Build the Panama Canal by Matthew Parker 9780099484332
RRP: £16.99£12.282014 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... -
Healing Haunted Histories: A Settler Discipleship of Decolonization by Elaine Enns 9781725255364
RRP: £41.00£29.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781725255364Author Elaine EnnsFormat HardbackPage Count 420Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams) 735gDimensions(mm)...