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When in the Course of Human Events: Arguing the Case for Southern Secession by Charles Adams
RRP: £19.99£14.69"When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with one another, and to assume among the Powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature... -
Tomorrow, the World: The Birth of U.S. Global Supremacy by Stephen Wertheim 9780674248663
RRP: £26.95£21.37A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the YearA new history explains how and why, as it prepared to enter World War II, the United States decided to lead the postwar world.For most of its history, the United States avoided making political and military... -
The Ground Breaking: An American City and its Search for Justice by Scott Ellsworth
RRP: £16.99£11.58** Chosen by Oprah Daily as one of the Best Books to Pick Up in May 2021 **'Fast-paced but nuanced ... impeccably researched ... a much-needed book' The Guardian''[S]o dystopian and apocalyptic that you can hardly believe what you are reading. ... But... -
Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America by Pekka Hamalainen
RRP: £31.99£29.39American history and self-understanding have long depended on the notion of a "colonial America", an era that-according to prevailing accounts-laid the foundation for the modern United States. In Indigenous Continent, the acclaimed historian Pekka... -
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... -
Daily Life of the Aztecs: People of the Sun and Earth by David Carrasco 9780872209336
RRP: £16.99£13.81Based on the most recent archaeological discoveries, this volume offers a balanced interpretation of the complex relationships between Aztec cultural practices, social order, and religious myths and symbols. In addition to examining such topics as the... -
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples: One Volume Abridged Edition by Sir Sir Winston S. Churchill
RRP: £23.99£22.37'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... -
Garibaldi in South America: An Exploration by Richard Bourne 9781787383135
RRP: £25.00£21.58For over twelve years in the first half of the nineteenth century, Giuseppe Garibaldi, the hero of Italian unification, lived, learned and fought in South America. He was tortured, escaped death on countless occasions, and met his Brazilian wife, Anita,... -
Norse America: The Story of a Founding Myth by Gordon Campbell
RRP: £25.00£17.62The 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... -
The Uranium Club: Unearthing Lost Relics of the Nazi Nuclear Program by Miriam E Hiebert
RRP: £26.95£20.31Tim Koeth peered into the crumpled brown paper lunch bag; inside was a surprisingly heavy black metal cube. He recognized the mysterious object instantly-he had one just like it sitting on his desk at home. It was uranium metal, taken from the nuclear... -
The Human Factor: Gorbachev, Reagan, and Thatcher and the End of the Cold War by Archie Brown
RRP: £13.99£10.15How the Cold War ended - and the people who made it happen In 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... -
Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution by Simon Schama
RRP: £16.99£12.28Rough Crossings is the astonishing story of the struggle to freedom by thousands of African-American slaves who fled the plantations to fight behind British lines in the American War of Independence. With gripping, powerfully vivid story-telling, Simon... -
American Business History: A Very Short Introduction by Walter A. Friedman 9780190622473
RRP: £8.99£6.45By the early twentieth century, it became common to describe the United States as a "business civilization." President Coolidge in 1925 said, "The chief business of the American people is business." More recently, historian Sven Beckert characterized... -
From Ranji To Rohan: Cricket and Indian Identity in Colonial Guyana 1890s-1960s by Clem Seecharan 9781906190279
RRP: £12.99£8.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906190279Author Clem SeecheramFormat PaperbackPage Count 311Imprint Hansib Publications LimitedPublisher Hansib Publications LimitedWeight(grams) 478g -
The Delectable Negro: Human Consumption and Homoeroticism within US Slave Culture by Vincent Woodard 9780814794623
RRP: £27.99£24.37Winner 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... -
The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books: Young Columbus and the Quest for a Universal Library by Edward Wilson-Lee
RRP: £12.99£8.48WINNER 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 Piri Reis Map of 1513 by Gregory C. McIntosh
£45.91One 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... -
Reconstruction: A Very Short Introduction by Allen C. Guelzo
RRP: £8.99£6.45The era known as Reconstruction is one of the unhappiest times in American history. It succeeded in reuniting the nation politically after the Civil War but in little else. Among its chief failures was the inability to chart a progressive course for race... -
The Civil Rights Movement: A Very Short Introduction by Thomas C. Holt 9780190605421
RRP: £8.99£6.45The 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 Fearless Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Dwarf Who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist by Marcus Rediker 9781786634726
RRP: £14.99£9.70The 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... -
Trujillo: the Last Caesar by Arturo R Espaillat 9781014999054
RRP: £20.95£18.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781014999054Author Arturo R EspaillatFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Hassell Street PressPublisher Hassell Street PressWeight(grams)... -
Naturalists in Paradise: Wallace, Bates and Spruce in the Amazon by John Hemming 9780500252109
RRP: £19.95£13.93Alfred Russel Wallace, Henry Walter Bates and Richard Spruce were English naturalists who went to Amazonia 150 years ago. This book is the first to combine all three young men's experiences of the Amazon, drawing heavily on their own letters and books... -
The Second Creation: Fixing the American Constitution in the Founding Era by Jonathan Gienapp 9780674185043
RRP: £29.95£23.19A stunning revision of our founding document's evolving history that forces us to confront anew the question that animated the founders so long ago: What is our Constitution?Americans widely believe that the United States Constitution was created when it... -
Founding Fathers: The Essential Guide to the Men Who Made America by Encyclopaedia Britannica
£13.56Apologies 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 Lost Tomb: And Other Real-Life Stories of Bones, Burials, and Murder by Douglas Preston 9781538741221
RRP: £30.00£16.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538741221Author Douglas PrestonFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Grand Central PublishingPublisher Grand Central PublishingWeight(grams)... -
Fighting for Honor: The History of African Martial Arts in the Atlantic World by T. J. Desch-Obi
RRP: £25.95£21.04The presence of African influence and tradition in the Americas has long been recognized in art, music, language, agriculture, and religion. T. J. Desch Obi explores another cultural continuity that is as old as eighteenth-century slave settlements in... -
How to Study History by Norman F. Cantor
RRP: £20.95£19.36We have set down in this book the basic rules and principles of historical study that a student should bear in mind as he enters upon his first college history course. In our experience as college teachers of history, we have found that students need to... -
The End of Two Illusions: Islam after the West by Hamid Dabashi
RRP: £25.00£19.18Dismantling the myths that divide Islam and the West, this cutting-edge work of critical thinking proposes new ways to reread Islamic and world histories. Extending from the front-page news coverage of our daily lives back into the deepest and most... -
The Slave Master of Trinidad: William Hardin Burnley and the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World by Selwyn R. Cudjoe 9781625343703
RRP: £28.95£23.36William Hardin Burnley (1780-1850) was the largest slave owner in Trinidad during the nineteenth century. Born in the United States to English parents, he settled on the island in 1802 and became one of its most influential citizens and a prominent agent... -
Tenochtitlan 1519-21: Clash of Civilizations by Si Sheppard
RRP: £15.99£11.61In 1519, the Conquistador Hernan Cortes landed on the mainland of the Americas. His quest to serve God, win gold, and achieve glory drove him into the heartland of what is now Mexico, where no European had ever set foot before. He marched towards to the... -
A Staggering Revolution: A Cultural History of Thirties Photography by John Raeburn
RRP: £35.00£30.56During the 1930s, the world of photography was unsettled, exciting, and boisterous. John Raeburn's A Staggering Revolution recreates the energy of the era by surveying photography's rich variety of innovation, exploring the aesthetic and cultural... -
All Our Relations: Indigenous trauma in the shadow of colonialism by Tanya Talaga 9781912854530
RRP: £9.99£7.11The world's Indigenous communities are fighting to live and dying too young. In this vital and incisive work, Tanya Talaga explores intergenerational trauma and the alarming rise of youth suicide. From Northern Ontario to Nunavut, Norway, Brazil,... -
Last Stand of Tin Can Soldiers: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the US Navy's Finest Hour by James D. Hornfischer
RRP: £21.00£16.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Samuel Eliot Morison Prize 2004.Book InformationISBN 9780553381481Author James D. HornfischerFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Presidio PressPublisher Random... -
Restless Giant: The United States from Watergate to Bush vs. Gore by James T. Patterson 9780195305227
RRP: £19.99£14.68James Patterson's Bancroft Prize-winning Grand Expectations, the penultimate volume in the Oxford History of the United States, was hailed by The New York Times as "a spirited, sprawling narrative of American life" and by The Wall Street Journal as "a... -
Mesoamerica Ancient Origins: Stories Of People & Civilisation by Dr Robert Bircher 9781804176146
RRP: £10.99£7.19Gorgeous Collector's Edition. Mesoamerican culture is rooted in the region of modern Mexico where some 3500 years ago ancient peoples called the Olmecs farmed and created beautiful art and pottery at roughly the same time as the Middle Kingdom Ancient... -
Guru to the World: The Life and Legacy of Vivekananda by Ruth Harris
RRP: £33.95£26.89From the Wolfson History Prize-winning author of The Man on Devil's Island, the definitive biography of Vivekananda, the Indian monk who shaped the intellectual and spiritual history of both East and West.Few thinkers have had so enduring an impact on... -
Who Discovered America?: The Untold History of the Peopling of the Americas by Gavin Menzies 9780062236784
£13.45Greatly expanding on his blockbuster 1421, distinguished historian Gavin Menzies uncovers the complete untold history of how mankind came to the Americas-offering new revelations and a radical rethinking of the accepted historical record in Who... -
The Unwinding: Thirty Years of American Decline by George Packer
RRP: £12.99£8.56America is in crisis. In the space of a generation, it has become more than ever a country of winners and losers, as industries have failed, institutions have disappeared and the country's focus has shifted to idolise celebrity and wealth. George Packer... -
The Americanization of the Apocalypse: Creating America's Own Bible by Donald Harman Akenson
RRP: £89.00£80.69In the early twentieth century, a new, American scripture appeared on the scene. It was the product of a school of theological thinking known as Dispensationalism, which offered a striking new way of reading the Bible, one that focused attention squarely... -
The Tenochca Empire of Ancient Mexico: The Triple Alliance of Tenochtitlan, Tetzcoco, and Tlacopan by Pedro Carrasco 9780806141992
RRP: £33.95£28.39The most important political entity in pre-Spanish Mesoamerica was the Tenochca Empire, founded in 1428 when the three kingdoms of Tenochtitlan, Tetzcoco, and Tlacopan formed an alliance that controlled the Basin of Mexico and other extensive areas of...