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The Age of Jackson by Arthur M. Schlesinger 9780316773430
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £21.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316773430Author Arthur M. SchlesingerFormat PaperbackPage Count 578Imprint Back Bay BooksPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams) 672g -
Shrinking the Earth: The Rise and Decline of American Abundance by Donald Worster
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £14.87The discovery of the Americas around 1500 AD was an extraordinary watershed in human experience. It gave rise to the modern period of human ecology, a phenomenon global in scope that set in motion profound changes in almost every society on earth. This... -
In America: Travels with John Steinbeck by Geert Mak 9780099578734 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £2.65In 1960 John Steinbeck and his dog Charley set out in their green pickup truck to rediscover the soul of America, visiting small towns and cities from New York to New Orleans.The trip became Travels With Charley, one of his best-loved books.Half a... -
In America: Travels with John Steinbeck by Geert Mak
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.95In 1960 John Steinbeck and his dog Charley set out in their green pickup truck to rediscover the soul of America, visiting small towns and cities from New York to New Orleans.The trip became Travels With Charley, one of his best-loved books.Half a... -
Very Crazy, G.I! by Jorgenson Kregg
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £8.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804115988Author Kregg P. JorgensonFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint FawcettPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 147gDimensions(mm) 170mm *... -
The Art of Return: The Sixties and Contemporary Culture by James Meyer
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £35.46More than any other decade, the Sixties captures our collective cultural imagination. And while many Americans can immediately imagine the sound of Martin Luther King, Jr. declaring, "I Have A Dream," or envision hippies placing flowers in gun barrels... -
Fossil-Fuel Faulkner: Energy, Modernity, and the US South by Jay Watson 9780192855619
RRP: £91.00Booksplease Price: £81.16Fossil-Fuel Faulkner is the first book-length study of a single writer in the emerging field of the energy humanities. As we try to imagine our way beyond a deeply problematic fossil energy regime that depletes and degrades the planet and sharpens the... -
Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980 by Rick Perlstein 9781476793061
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.38A 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... -
Indian Givers: How Native Americans Transformed the World by Jack Weatherford 9780307717153
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £12.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307717153Author Jack WeatherfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 261gDimensions(mm)... -
Down the Great Unknown: John Wesley Powell's 1869 Journey of Discovery and Tragedy Through the Grand Canyon by Edward Dolnick 9780060955861
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060955861Author Edward DolnickFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 331gDimensions(mm) 204mm *... -
Inventing Elvis: An American Icon in a Cold War World by Mathias Haeussler 9781350107656
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.27Elvis Presley stands tall as perhaps the supreme icon of 20th-century U.S. culture. But he was perceived to be deeply un-American in his early years as his controversial adaptation of rhythm and blues music and gyrating on-stage performances sent... -
The Island That Disappeared: Old Providence and the Making of the Western World by Tom Feiling
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.32Apologies 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 -
Canada: A Very Short Introduction by Donald Wright 9780198755241
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.33Canada is not one nation, but three: English Canada, Quebec, and First Nations. Yet as a country Canada is very successful, in part because it maintains national diversity through bilingualism, multiculturalism, and federalism. Alongside this... -
Louis Armstrong's Hot Five and Hot Seven Recordings by Brian Harker 9780195388404
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £16.18For jazz historians, Louis Armstrong's Hot Five and Hot Seven recordings mark the first revolution in the history of a music riven by upheaval. Yet few traces of this revolution can be found in the historical record of the late 1920s, when the records... -
Twelve Years a Slave: The Black History Classic Solomon Northup 9780857089069
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.32DISCOVER A TALE OF UNIMAGINABLE ADVERSITY Twelve Years a Slave tells the story of Solomon Northup, a free-born man of colour who was kidnapped and sold into slavery in the American South in 1841. His true tale of captivity, torture and abuse brings to... -
The Last Days of Detroit: Motor Cars, Motown and the Collapse of an Industrial Giant by Mark Binelli
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.28Once 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 Slave Trade Hugh Thomas 9780753820568
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.15The rise and fall of the business of slave trading - by a bestselling historianThe Atlantic slave trade was one of the largest and most elaborate maritime and commercial ventures. Between 1492 and about 1870, ten million or more black slaves were carried... -
Titanic: Minute by Minute by Jonathan Mayo 9781780726342
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.622.20am 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... -
Letters concerning the English Nation by Voltaire 9780199555321
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.33Inspired 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... -
Wyatt Earp: The Life Behind the Legend Casey Tefertiller (San Bruno, California) 9780471283621
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.29"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... -
How the Gringos Stole Tequila: The Modern Age of Mexico's Most Traditional Spirit by Chantal Martineau 9781595348807
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £11.87Once 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... -
97 Orchard: An Edible History of Five Immigrant Families in One New York Tenement by Jane Ziegelman 9780061288517
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061288517Author Jane ZiegelmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 200gDimensions(mm) 204mm *... -
A Concise History of the Caribbean by B. W. Higman
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.41A 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 Oxford Handbook of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe and Colonial America by Brian P. Levack
Booksplease Price: £39.65The 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 Wyatt Earp Anthology: Long May His Story Be Told by Roy B Young 9781574417739
RRP: £44.95Booksplease Price: £33.04Wyatt Earp is one of the most legendary figures of the nineteenth-century American West, notable for his role in the gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona. He was a product of his time, often walking both sides of the street, sometimes on the... -
Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America 1492-1830 by J. H. Elliott
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.33This epic history compares the empires built by Spain and Britain in the Americas, from Columbus's arrival in the New World to the end of Spanish colonial rule in the early nineteenth century. J. H. Elliott, one of the most distinguished and versatile... -
I Used to Live Here Once: The Haunted Life of Jean Rhys by Miranda Seymour 9780008353254
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £16.73'An absolute belter of a biography' MARINA HYDE A Times Literary Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2022 An LA Times Best Book of the Year 2022 An... -
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples: One Volume Abridged Edition Sir Sir Winston S. Churchill 9781350042940
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £23.68'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 World's Newest Profession: Management Consulting in the Twentieth Century by Christopher D. McKenna 9780521810395
RRP: £37.00Booksplease Price: £33.60In The World's Newest Profession Christopher McKenna offers a history of management consulting in the twentieth century. Although management consulting may not yet be a recognized profession, the leading consulting firms have been advising and reshaping... -
Prohibition: A Very Short Introduction by W. J. Rorabaugh 9780190280109
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.33Americans have always been a hard-drinking people, but from 1920 to 1933 the country went dry. After decades of pressure from rural Protestants such as the hatchet-wielding Carry A. Nation and organizations such as the Women's Christian Temperance Union... -
Pearl: December 7, 1941 by Daniel Allen Butler
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.99What happened at Pearl Harbor?What really happened?The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor is one of those rare moments where, in the space of a few hours, the "hinge of Fate" turned and the course of history was utterly changed. Nearly eight decades later,... -
The Inca Empire: An Illustrated History by David Jones
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £16.69The history of the Incas fascinates the modern world. This groundbreaking book separates fact from fiction, exploring the native peoples of Peru and the Andes, their mythologies and ancient belief systems, and the amazing beauty of Inca art and... -
Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade by David Eltis
RRP: £27.50Booksplease Price: £23.69A extraordinary work, decades in the making: the first atlas to illustrate the entire scope of the transatlantic slave trade Winner of the Association of American Publishers' 2010 R.R. Hawkins Award and PROSE Award "A monumental chronicle of this... -
The West: A New History of an Old Idea by Naoíse Mac Sweeney 9780753558935
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.31*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 Company: The Rise and Fall of the Hudson's Bay Empire by Stephen Bown
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £12.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385694094Author Stephen BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Random House USAPublisher Random House USA Inc -
Surviving Slavery in the British Caribbean by Randy M. Browne 9780812224634
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £20.84A 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... -
When Britain Burned the White House: The 1814 Invasion of Washington by Peter Snow 9781848546134 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £2.54As 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... -
When Britain Burned the White House: The 1814 Invasion of Washington by Peter Snow
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £7.26As 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 Fearless Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Dwarf Who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist by Marcus Rediker 9781786634726
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.55The Fearless Benjamin Lay chronicles the transatlantic life and times of a singular and astonishing man-a Quaker dwarf who became one of the first ever to demand the total, unconditional emancipation of all enslaved Africans around the world. He... -
How to Survive a Plague: The Story of How Activists and Scientists Tamed AIDS by David France
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.13The 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...